125.01 Director’s Powers and Duties
125.02 Legal Counsel for Board of Appeals; Building, Housing and Health Commissioners
125.03 Director’s Responsibilities when City is Debtor or Creditor
125.04 Employment of Associate Counsel
125.05 Legal Services for the Cleveland Board of Education
125.06 Employment of Experts
125.07 Registration Fee Payment
125.08 Continuing Legal Education Programs; Fees
125.09 Computer Assisted Research Agreements
125.10 Legislative Service Division
125.11 Law Student Internship Agreements
(a) The work of the Department of Law shall be distributed between a civil branch and a criminal branch. The Director of Law shall supervise and control the Department. He or she may appoint such number of Assistant Directors of Law as he or she deems necessary for the proper conduct of the work of the civil branch, whose appointments shall be subject to the approval of Council, three (3) of whom he or she may designate as Chief Counsel, Chief Trial Counsel and Chief Corporate Counsel, and not to exceed eight (8) of whom he or she may designate as Chief Assistant Director of Law.
(b) The Director shall be the Prosecuting Attorney of the Municipal Court, pursuant to the provisions of Charter Section 84. He or she may also designate not more than twenty-three (23) assistant prosecutors, whose appointments shall be subject to the approval of Council. Two (2) of whom may be designated, respectively, as Chief Assistant Prosecutor and First Assistant Prosecutor; and three (3) of whom may be designated as Deputy Assistant Prosecutor.
(c) The Director is authorized to employ such number of clerks, stenographers and persons in other classifications as he or she may deem necessary.
(Ord. No. 443-2019. Passed 4-22-19, eff. 4-24-19)
The Director of Law shall assign an assistant director of law to serve as legal counsel for the Board of Appeals established pursuant to Charter Section 76-6 and for the Building, Housing and Health Commissioners. The person so assigned shall be under the immediate supervision and direction of the Director, and shall prosecute in the Municipal Court all violations of the provisions of the Building Code, Housing Code and Health Code, or with reference to the type, design, construction, materials used, use or occupancy of any structure in the City. He or she shall perform such other and further duties as may be required of him or her by the Director or by ordinance. He or she shall have an office in the City Hall and issue therefrom summons in the name of the Director, hold hearings thereon, prepare affidavits for warrants and see to it that warrants are issued thereunder and have charge of the conduct of all prosecutions arising thereunder.
(Ord. No. 1742-46. Passed 2-3-47)
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