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Section 731.18 | Style of ordinances.
...The style of all ordinances shall be, "Be it ordained by the __________ filling the blank with the name of the legislative authority of the city or village) of _______________state of Ohio," (filling the blank with the name of the city or village.) |
Section 731.19 | Subject and amendment of bylaws, ordinances, and resolutions.
...gislative authority of a municipal corporation and the yeas and nays shall be entered upon the journal. |
Section 731.20 | Authentication and recording.
...slative authority of the municipal corporation. A succinct summary of ordinances of a general nature or providing for improvements shall be published as provided by sections 731.21 and 731.22 of the Revised Code before going into operation. No ordinance shall take effect until the expiration of ten days after the first publication of such notice. As soon as a bylaw, resolution, or ordinance is passed and signed... |
Section 731.21 | Publication of ordinances and resolutions.
...neral circulation in the municipal corporation; (2) On the official public notice web site established under section 125.182 of the Revised Code; (3) On the web site and social media account of the municipal corporation. Proof of the publication shall be made by affidavit of the proprietor of the newspaper or operator of the official public notice web site, as applicable, and shall be filed with the clerk of... |
Section 731.211 | Method of giving notice of proposed charter amendments.
...ose name appears upon the poll or registration books of the last regular or general election held therein. (B) The full text of the proposed charter amendment shall be published once a week for not less than two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipal corporation or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, with the first publication being at least fifteen days prior to t... |
Section 731.22 | Times of publication required.
...The publication required in section 731.21 of the Revised Code shall be for the following times: (A) Summaries of ordinances or resolutions, and proclamations of elections, once a week for two consecutive weeks; (B) Notices, not less than two nor more than four consecutive weeks; (C) All other matters shall be published once. |
Section 731.23 | Publication and certification of ordinances in book form.
...gislative authority of a municipal corporation and the mayor, such publication shall be a sufficient publication, and the ordinances so published, under appropriate titles, chapters, and sections, shall be held the same in law as though they had been published in accordance with section 731.21 of the Revised Code. A new ordinance so published in book form, a summary of which has not been published as required by sect... |
Section 731.231 | Adopting standard or technical ordinances and codes.
... electrical code, building code, refrigeration machinery code, piping code, boiler code, heating code, or air conditioning code, by incorporation by reference. The publication required by sections 731.21 to 731.24, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall clearly identify such code, shall state the purpose of the code, shall state that a complete copy of such code is on file with the clerk of the legislative authorit... |
Section 731.24 | Certificate of clerk as to publication.
...Immediately after the expiration of the period of publication of summaries of ordinances required by section 731.22 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall enter on the record of ordinances, in a blank to be left for such purpose under the recorded ordinance, a certificate stating in which manner and on what dates such publication was made, and shall sign the clerk... |
Section 731.25 | [Former R.C. 731.26, amended and renumbered by H.B. 33, 135th General Assembly, effective 10/3/2023] Effect of not making publication.
...It is a sufficient defense to any suit or prosecution under an ordinance, to show that no publication or posting was made as required by sections 731.21 to 731.24, inclusive, of the Revised Code. |
Section 731.27 | Mayor's veto in cities.
...resolution, or item, upon such reconsideration, is approved by a two-thirds vote of all the members elected, it shall then take effect as if signed by the mayor. |
Section 731.28 | Ordinances and measures proposed by initiative petition.
...ion or delegated to any municipal corporation by the general assembly may be proposed by initiative petition. Such initiative petition must contain the signatures of not less than ten per cent of the number of electors who voted for governor at the most recent general election for the office of governor in the municipal corporation. When a petition is filed with the city auditor or village clerk, signed by t... |
Section 731.29 | Petition for referendum.
...gislative authority of a municipal corporation shall be subject to the referendum except as provided by section 731.30 of the Revised Code. No ordinance or other measure shall go into effect until thirty days after it is filed with the mayor of a city or passed by the legislative authority in a village, except as provided by such section. When a petition, signed by ten per cent of the number of electors who v... |
Section 731.30 | Application of sections.
...gislative authority of a municipal corporation is required to pass more than one ordinance or other measure to complete the legislation necessary to make and pay for any public improvement, sections 731.28 to 731.41, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall apply only to the first ordinance or other measure required to be passed and not to any subsequent ordinances and other measures relating thereto. Ordinances or other... |
Section 731.31 | Presentation of petition.
...ust be an elector of the municipal corporation in which the election, upon the ordinance or measure proposed by such initiative petition, or the ordinance or measure referred to by such referendum petition, is to be held. Petitions shall be governed in all other respects by the rules set forth in section 3501.38 of the Revised Code. In determining the validity of any such petition, all signatures which are found to b... |
Section 731.32 | Copy of proposed ordinance or measure filed with auditor or clerk.
...rdinance or measure in a municipal corporation by initiative petition or files a referendum petition against any ordinance or measure shall, before circulating such petition, file a certified copy of the proposed ordinance or measure with the city auditor or the village clerk. As used in this section, "certified copy" means a copy containing a written statement attesting that it is a true and exact reproduction of t... |
Section 731.33 | Words which shall be printed in red.
...At the top of each part of the petition mentioned in section 731.32 of the Revised Code, the following words shall be printed in red: NOTICE Whoever knowingly signs this petition more than once, signs a name other than his own, or signs when not a legal voter is liable to prosecution. |
Section 731.34 | Designation of committee filing petition.
...slative authority of the municipal corporation, the majority of the committee shall notify the board of elections in writing and such proposed ordinance or measure shall not be submitted to a vote of the electors. If, after a verified referendum petition has been filed against any ordinance or measure, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation repeals such ordinance or measure, or it is held to be inval... |
Section 731.35 | Itemized statement by circulator of petition.
...irculating a petition than signing declarations to parts of the petition and soliciting signatures to them. (C) Such statement shall be open to public inspection for a period of one year. |
Section 731.36 | Prohibited practices relative to petitions.
...by the ordinances of any municipal corporation, or to any position or employment in the service of the state or any political subdivision thereof as a consideration for obtaining signatures to an initiative or referendum petition; (D) Obtain signatures to any initiative or referendum petition as a consideration for the assistance or promise of assistance of another person in securing an appointment to any office or ... |
Section 731.38 | Prohibition against accepting premium for signing.
...No person shall accept anything of value for signing an initiative or referendum petition. |
Section 731.40 | Prohibition against threats in securing signatures.
...No person shall, directly or indirectly, by intimidation or threats, influence or seek to influence any person to sign or abstain from signing, or to solicit signatures to or abstain from soliciting signatures to an initiative or referendum petition. |
Section 731.41 | Charter municipal corporations.
...Code do not apply to any municipal corporation which adopts its own charter containing an initiative and referendum provision for its own ordinances and other legislative measures. |
Section 731.42 | Bylaws and ordinances as evidence.
...ylaws or ordinances of a municipal corporation, published under its authority, and transcripts of any bylaws, resolutions, or ordinances, or of any act or proceeding of a municipal corporation, recorded in any book or entered on any minutes or journal kept under the direction of such municipal corporation, and certified by its clerk, shall be received in evidence throughout the state for any purpose for which the ori... |
Section 731.43 | Vacancy in city or village legislative authority.
...en the vacancy occurs because of the operation of section 733.25 of the Revised Code, the successor shall hold office only for the period the president pro tempore of the legislative authority holds the office of mayor. (2) When a vacancy occurs in the office of a member of the legislative authority of a village with a population of less than two thousand because of the operation of section 733.25 of the Revised Cod... |