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...When the office of township fiscal officer becomes vacant, or when a township fiscal officer is unable to carry out the duties of office because of illness, because of entering the military service of the United States, because of a court ordered suspension as provided for under section 507.13 of the Revised Code, or because the fiscal officer is otherwise incapacitated or disqualified, the board of township trustees...

...township fiscal officer, filed with the county treasurer, and carefully preserved.

...township fiscal officer, filed with the county treasurer, and carefully preserved. The minimum sum of the township fiscal officer's bond shall be as follows: (A) In a township with a budget of fifty thousand dollars or less, ten thousand dollars; (B) In a township with a budget of more than fifty thousand dollars but not more than one hundred thousand dollars, thirty-five thousand dollars; (C) In a township with ...

...(A) The township fiscal officer shall keep an accurate record of the proceedings of the board of township trustees at all of its meetings, and of all its accounts and transactions, including the acceptance of the bonds of township officers. The township fiscal officer shall personally attend at least one meeting of the board during each quarter of every year, unless prevented by the occurrence of an emergency from at...

...The township fiscal officer shall, in addition to the books for the record of the proceedings of the board of township trustees, be provided by the township with a book for the record of township roads and a book for the record of official oaths and bonds of township officers.

...urs, with the board of elections of the county in which the township is located. The fiscal officer of a township shall notify the board of elections of all changes in boundaries of that township. The notification shall be made in writing, contain a plat clearly showing all boundary changes, and be filed, not later than ten days after the change of boundaries becomes effective, with the board of elections of the...

...The township fiscal officer may administer oaths, and take and certify affidavits, that pertain to the business of the township or of the board of education of the fiscal officer's local school district, or are connected with the official business of either the township or the local school district, including the official oaths of township and school officers, and oaths required in the execution, verification, and...

...Official bonds of constables, as soon as approved by the board of township trustees, and before being filed, shall be recorded by the township fiscal officer in the book kept for that purpose. A copy of such a recorded bond, certified by the fiscal officer, shall be admitted in any court in this state, as evidence, the same as the original bond. For recording such a bond, the fiscal officer shall receive the sum...

...(A) In calendar year 2018, the township fiscal officer shall be entitled to compensation as follows: (1) In townships having a budget of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or less, ten thousand nine hundred eighteen dollars; (2) In townships having a budget of more than two hundred fifty thousand but not more than five hundred thousand dollars, fourteen thousand thirty-nine dollars; (3) In townships having a bu...

...On or before the fifteenth day of February and August in each year, each township which receives money as taxes levied and collected for joint cemetery purposes shall pay all such funds to the managing trustee of the joint township cemetery board of directors having charge of such cemetery, and shall accept from the treasurer of such board his receipt for the funds.

...(A) The board of township trustees may authorize, by resolution, township officers and employees to incur obligations of ten thousand dollars or less on behalf of the township, or it may authorize, by resolution, the township administrator to so authorize township officers and employees. The obligations incurred on behalf of the township by a township officer or employee acting pursuant to any such resolution shall b...

...(A) To enhance the background and working knowledge of township fiscal officers in government accounting, budgeting and financing, financial report preparation, cybersecurity, the rules adopted by the auditor of state, bulletins or other information published by the auditor of state, and any other subject deemed appropriate by the auditor of state, the auditor of state shall conduct education programs and continuing ...

...rties. The court of common pleas of the county in which the township fiscal officer holds office has exclusive original jurisdiction of the action. The action shall proceed de novo as in the trial of a civil action. The court is not restricted to the evidence that was presented to the auditor of state and the attorney general before the action was filed. The action is governed by the Rules of Civil Procedure. (b) If...

...A township fiscal officer or deputy fiscal officer shall not be held liable for a loss of public funds when the township fiscal officer or deputy fiscal officer has performed all official duties required of the township fiscal officer or deputy fiscal officer with reasonable care, but shall be liable only when a loss of public funds results from the township fiscal officer's or deputy fiscal officer's negligence or o...

...actory completion of an approved state, county, or municipal police basic training program, as required by section 109.77 of the Revised Code, may be removed or suspended only under the conditions and by the procedures in sections 505.491 to 505.495 of the Revised Code. Any other police constable shall serve at the pleasure of the township trustees. In case of removal or suspension of a police constable by the board ...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, each constable, before entering upon the discharge of official duties, shall give bond to the state in a sum of not less than five hundred nor more than two thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful and diligent discharge of official duties, and with sureties resident of the township. The amount of the bond and its sureties shall be approved by ...

...(A) The board of township trustees may establish, by resolution, a parking enforcement unit within the office of a township constable, and provide for the regulation of parking enforcement officers. The board of township trustees shall appoint a police constable as executive head of the parking enforcement unit, who shall make all appointments and removals of parking enforcement officers, subject to any general rules...

...In addition to the county sheriff, constables shall be ministerial officers of the county court in all cases in their respective townships, and in criminal cases, they shall be such officers within the county. They shall apprehend and bring to justice felons and disturbers of the peace, suppress riots, and keep and preserve the peace within the county. They may execute all writs and process, in criminal cases, throug...

...Constables, marshals, chiefs of police, and other police officers, in discharging their duties, may call the sheriff or a deputy sheriff to their aid in state cases.

...Each constable shall, at the proper office and on the proper return day, make due return of all process directed and delivered to him. If the judgment upon which such constable has an execution is docketed in the court of common pleas, appealed, or stayed, on notice to return the execution, he shall state such fact on the execution.

...Each constable, on the receipt of any writ or other process, except subpoenas, shall note thereon the time of receiving it. He shall also state in his return on such writ or process the time and manner of executing it.

...f such defendant has a residence in the county.

...Each constable shall apprehend, on view or warrant, and bring to justice, all felons, disturbers, and violators of the criminal laws of this state, and shall suppress all riots, affrays, and unlawful assemblies which come to his knowledge, and shall generally keep the peace in his township.

...f the constable to take a person to the county jail, such constable shall deliver to the sheriff or jailer a certified copy of the execution, commitment, or other process, whereby he holds such person in custody, and shall return the original to the judge who issued it. Such copy is sufficient authority to the sheriff or jailer to keep the prisoner in jail until discharged.

...stable shall pay it to the judge of the county court when he returns the writ.