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Appointments and promotions in the Civil Service of the City shall be made according to merit and fitness, to be ascertained, as far as practicable, by competitive examinations. Ordinances may be passed to enforce this provision, to fix the powers and duties of the Commission, and to prescribe rules and regulations governing the Civil Service and determining the method by which persons in the Civil Service may be promoted, transferred, reduced or discharged; provided that all persons holding positions in the Civil Service of the City at the time of the adoption of this Charter, shall retain their positions until promoted, transferred, reduced, or discharged according to law or in accordance with such ordinances.
Those persons appointed as members of the Civil Service Commission shall be electors of the City. At its first meeting each year the members of the Commission shall elect a chairman of said Commission who shall preside at all meetings and hearings of the Commission. The Commission shall approach Council with a tentative budget each July 1st outlining anticipated expenses in the coming year. Each September 1st Council shall notify the Commission of the intended amount that they will approve when the amended certificate arrives. The effective date of this amendment shall be December 1, 1983.
(Amended 6-8-82)
ELECTIONS
The nomination of candidates for elective offices of the City shall be made in the manner provided by the general laws of the State of Ohio now in force or as hereafter amended, except that primary elections for the nomination of such candidates shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May in the odd-numbered years. Declaration of candidacy and petitions and nominating petitions for such offices shall be filed not later than 4:00 p.m. of the 75th day before the day of such primary election.
(Amended 5-2-95)
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