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The Clerk of Council, who may hold other employment in the Municipal government, shall be appointed by Council and may be removed by Council. The Clerk of Council shall keep an accurate and complete journal of the proceedings of Council and perform such other duties as Council may require. Council may employ such other employees as it deems necessary for the proper discharge of its duties.
Council shall, by ordinance, make provision for the time and place of regular meetings of Council and the method of calling special meetings of Council. A majority of the members of Council, excluding the President of Council, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting, but a lesser number may adjourn the meeting from time to time and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance. At any meeting at which a quorum is present, any ordinance or resolution may be passed or adopted, or any other action may be taken, by the affirmative vote of five (5) members of Council unless a larger number be required by the provisions of this Charter. The Clerk of Council shall keep a record of its proceedings in a journal in which the yea and nay vote of each Councilman voting on an ordinance, resolution, or other measure shall be recorded. All meetings of Council shall be open to the public as provided in Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code or otherwise by general law, and its journal shall be available for public inspection at all reasonable times. (Nov. 8, 1988; Nov. 6, 1990; Nov. 5, 1996; Nov. 4, 1997; Nov. 8, 2005)
All legislative action of Council shall be by resolution or ordinance introduced in written or printed form, each of which shall contain no more than one subject, which subject shall be clearly expressed in its title.
No resolution or ordinance shall be revised or amended unless the resolution or ordinance superseding it contains the entire resolution or ordinance so revised or amended; or the section or sections so revised or amended, and, having been revised or amended, the original resolution or ordinance, or section or sections, shall be considered to be repealed.
An affirmative vote of at least five (5) members of Council shall be required for the enactment of every resolution or ordinance, unless a larger number be required by the provisions of this Charter.
Every resolution or ordinance shall be read at three (3) different, regular Council meetings, unless Council votes to suspend the rule requiring separate readings, which reading or readings shall be by title only unless otherwise directed by a majority vote of Council. Such suspension of the rule shall require the affirmative vote of at least six (6) members of Council if all members are present, or the affirmative vote of at least five (5) members if one or more members are absent.
Public notice, as required by law, or by this Charter, or by resolution or ordinance, shall be given resolutions, ordinances, statements, measures, orders, proclamations, and reports in the manner determined by Council; except that if public posting be selected as the medium, then not less than six (6) public places in the Municipality shall be established for such public posting.
Council shall cause each resolution and ordinance to be given public notice commencing not later than seven (7) days after its first reading in the event that the rule requiring three (3) readings is not suspended; and within seven (7) days, like public notice shall also be given each resolution and ordinance after its adoption and approval by the Mayor, or upon the expiration of the time within which it may be vetoed by the Mayor, or upon its passage after veto by the Mayor, as the case may be.
Each resolution or ordinance providing for the appropriation of money, or for an annual tax levy, or for improvements petitioned for by the owners of a majority of the front footage of property to be benefitted and specially assessed therefor, and any emergency resolution or ordinance necessary for the immediate preservation of public peace, health or safety, shall take effect, unless a later date be specified therein, upon its approval by the Mayor, or upon the expiration of the time within which it may be vetoed by the Mayor, or upon its passage after veto by the Mayor, as the case may be. Such legislative action is subject to the referendum provisions of Section 8.02 of this Charter.
No other resolution or ordinance shall become effective until thirty (30) days after its approval by the Mayor, or upon the expiration of the time within which it may be vetoed by the Mayor, or upon its passage after veto by the Mayor, as the case may be.
Each emergency resolution or ordinance shall contain a statement of the necessity for such emergency action, and its enactment shall require the affirmative vote of at least six (6) members of Council if all members are present, or the affirmative vote of at least five (5) members if one or more members are absent.
No action of Council authorizing the surrender of joint exercise of any of its powers or in granting any franchise, or in the enactment, amendment, or repeal of any zoning or building resolution or ordinance, or in the changing of any ward boundaries, or in authorizing any change in the boundaries of the Municipality shall be enacted as an emergency measure.
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