SECTION 19 . POSITIONS CREATED; COMPENSATION.

   The Council shall create by ordinance such officers, clerks and employees in each department of the City government as are necessary for the transaction of the City's business. Such positions as are in the department of the Director of Law shall be filled by appointment by him; such positions as are in the department of the Director of Finance and Public Record shall be filled by appointment by him; all other such positions shall be filled by the Mayor. Further, the Council shall fix the compensation of each officer, clerk and employee so created. All fees pertaining to any office shall be paid into the City Treasury by the incumbent thereof.

(Approved by Voters 11-5-63)

SECTION 20 . DEPOSIT OF MONEYS.

   The Council shall provide by ordinance for the deposit by the Director of Finance and Public Record of all moneys coming into his hands as City Treasurer in such financial institutions authorized by Revised Code Chapter 135: Uniform Depository Act as are named in said ordinance except for such funds as are required to be trusted or deposited to comply with bond funding requirements. To secure such deposits such financial institutions shall be required to give good and sufficient bond or bonds, subject to the approval of the Mayor. The total moneys on deposit in any financial institution shall not exceed its paid-up capital stock and surplus.

(Approved by voters 11-4-14)

SECTION 21 . EMERGENCY ORDINANCES.

   The Council may, by a two-thirds vote of the members elected thereto, pass emergency measures to take effect at the time indicated therein. An emergency measure is an ordinance or resolution for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health or safety, or providing for the usual daily operation of a Municipal department, in which the emergency is set forth and defined in a preamble thereto. Ordinances appropriating money may be passed as emergency measures, but no measure making a grant, renewal or extension of a franchise or other special privilege, or regulating the rate to be charged for its services by any public utility, and no measure levying a tax on or measured by income, payroll, earnings or profits, shall ever be so passed. (Approved by Voters 11-5-63 )

SECTION 22 . POWERS OF COUNCIL.

   Any power or function now or hereafter committed to the City of Ashland, which is not in this Charter specifically provided for shall be vested in the Council and it shall be the duty of the Council by appropriate legislation to make provision for the exercise thereof.

SECTION 23 . ADMINISTRATIVE POWERS OF THE CITY.

   The executive and administrative powers of the City shall be vested in the Mayor, Director of Law, Director of Finance and Public Record, and such other executive and administrative officers as are provided for in this Charter or may be fixed by ordinance of Council.

THE MAYOR

SECTION 24 . TERM AND QUALIFICATIONS.

   The executive and administrative powers of the City of Ashland, except as herein otherwise provided for, shall be vested in a Mayor, who shall be a resident elector of the City. He shall not hold any other public office or public employment, except that of notary public or member of the State militia, and shall not be interested in the profits or emoluments of any contract, job, work or service for the Municipality.

(Approved by Voters 11-5-63)

SECTION 25 . SALARY.

   The salary of the Mayor shall be fixed by the Council and it shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which he was chosen nor at any other time except in an even numbered year. The salary of the Mayor first elected under this charter shall be fixed by the outgoing Council; and shall not be more than $1,500.00 and not less than $1,000.00 per annum.

SECTION 26 . SUCCESSION OF MAYOR.

   If the Mayor shall die, resign or move his residence from the City during the term of his office, Council shall, within thirty (30) days, appoint a successor to serve as Mayor for the unexpired term. If the President of Council succeeds to the office of Mayor, the Council shall promptly elect one of its members as President. If the Mayor shall be absent from the City or unable to perform his duties for reasons other than death, resignation or removal of his residence from the City, then the Director of Law shall become the acting Mayor and during such periods shall have the same powers and perform the same duties as the Mayor. If the Director of Law shall be absent from the City or unable to perform the duties of acting Mayor, then the Director of Finance and Public Record shall become the acting Mayor for the period during which the Director of Law is absent from the City or unable to perform said duties or until the Mayor shall resume his duties, whichever shall first occur, and the said Director of Finance and Public Record shall have the same powers and perform the same duties as the Mayor. Performance of the duties as acting Mayor shall not cause either the Director of Law or Director of Finance and Public Record to vacate his respective office.

(Amended November 7, 1989)

SECTION 27 . POWERS AND DUTIES.

   The Mayor shall be the chief executive officer of the City, the chief conservator of the peace therein, and the Director of Public Safety and the Director of Public Service as hereinafter prescribed. It shall be his duty to see that the laws of the State of Ohio and the ordinances of the City are faithfully obeyed and enforced within the City, and to appoint all officers and employees of the City whose election or appointment is not otherwise expressly provided for by law by this Charter, or by ordinance, and he shall have such other powers and duties, not in conflict with the provisions of this Charter, as are provided by law for mayors of cities.

(Amended November 7, 1989)