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CITY OF CLEVELAND, OHIO CODE OF ORDINANCES
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CLEVELAND
PART ONE: ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS
TITLE III: LEGISLATIVE
TITLE V: ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION
TITLE VII: JUDICIAL
TITLE IX: BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS
TITLE XI: EMPLOYMENT AND COMPENSATION
CHAPTER 171 - EMPLOYMENT PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 173 - COMPENSATION
§ 173.01 Payment of Salaries and Wages
§ 173.02 Soliciting, Receiving and/or Depositing Contributions from City Employees
§ 173.03 Fixing of Compensation
§ 173.04 Civil Service Commission Resolutions
§ 173.05 Unclassified Service Positions
§ 173.06 Mayor
§ 173.07 Members of Council
§ 173.071 Reimbursement of Expense for Members of Council
§ 173.08 President of Council
§ 173.081 President of Council’s Ward Executive Assistant
§ 173.09 Chief Justice and Judges of Municipal Court
§ 173.10 Clerk of Municipal Court
§ 173.11 Reserved
§ 173.12 Reserved
§ 173.13 Landmarks Commission
§ 173.14 Community Relations Board
§ 173.15 Civil Service Commission
§ 173.16 Board of Zoning Appeals
§ 173.17 Board of Building Standards and Building Appeals
§ 173.18 Cleveland Commission on Black Women and Girls
§ 173.19 Board of Examiners of Plumbers - Repealed
§ 173.20 Boxing and Wrestling Commission
§ 173.21 Police Review Board
§ 173.22 Reserved
§ 173.23 Prosecuting Attorney and Staff from Cuyahoga County
§§ 173.24 to 173.27 Reserved
§ 173.28 Department of Public Safety Medical Coordinator
§ 173.29 Reserved
§ 173.30 Junior Assistant Secretary of Fire
§ 173.31 Superintendent of Motorized Fire Equipment
§ 173.32 Office of Civil Defense
§§ 173.33 to 173.35 Reserved
§ 173.36 Consultant-Water Pollution Control
§§ 173.37 to 173.54 Reserved
§ 173.55 Assistant Coordinator of Recreation with Joint Recreation Council
§§ 173.56 to 173.62 Reserved
§ 173.63 Additional Hourly Employees
§ 173.64 Unskilled Laborers
§ 173.65 City Planning Commission
§ 173.66 Civil Service Examinations; Lunches
§ 173.67 Fair Housing Board
TITLE XIII: FISCAL MANAGEMENT
TITLE XV: PURCHASES AND CONTRACTS
TITLE XVII: TAXATION
PART TWO: HEALTH CODE
PART THREE: LAND USE CODE
PART FOUR: TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE: MUNICIPAL UTILITIES AND SERVICES CODE
PART SIX: OFFENSES AND BUSINESS ACTIVITIES CODE
TITLE VIIA: CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD FORM-BASED CODE
CHAPTER 173 – COMPENSATION
173.01   Payment of Salaries and Wages
173.02   Soliciting, Receiving and/or Depositing Contributions from City Employees
173.03   Fixing of Compensation
173.04   Civil Service Commission Resolutions
173.05   Unclassified Service Positions
173.06   Mayor
173.07   Members of Council
173.071   Reimbursement of Expense for Members of Council
173.08   President of Council
173.081   President of Council’s Ward Executive Assistant
173.09   Chief Justice and Judges of Municipal Court
173.10   Clerk of Municipal Court
173.11   Reserved
173.12   Reserved
173.13   Landmarks Commission
173.14   Community Relations Board
173.15   Civil Service Commission
173.16   Board of Zoning Appeals
173.17   Board of Building Standards and Building Appeals
173.18   Cleveland Commission on Black Women and Girls
173.19   Board of Examiners of Plumbers – Repealed
173.20   Boxing and Wrestling Commission
173.21   Police Review Board
173.22   Reserved
173.23   Prosecuting Attorney and Staff from Cuyahoga County
173.24 to 173.27   Reserved
173.28   Department of Public Safety Medical Coordinator
173.29   Reserved
173.30   Junior Assistant Secretary of Fire
173.31   Superintendent of Motorized Fire Equipment
173.32   Office of Civil Defense
173.33 to 173.35   Reserved
173.36   Consultant-Water Pollution Control
173.37 to 173.54   Reserved
173.55   Assistant Coordinator of Recreation with Joint Recreation Council
173.56 to 173.62   Reserved
173.63   Additional Hourly Employees
173.64   Unskilled Laborers
173.65   City Planning Commission
173.66   Civil Service Examinations; Lunches
173.67   Fair Housing Board
   Note: Section 3 of Ordinance No. 2040-99, passed October 30, 2000, effective November 7, 2000, reads as follows: “That, pursuant to Charter Section 191, the salaries of any current officer or member of a board or commission shall not be increased during the term for which he or she was elected or appointed and those current officers or members shall continue to be paid at the rate established when they were elected or appointed.”
Charter reference:
   Mayor’s salary, Charter § 69
Cross-reference:
   Deductions from wages, CO 171.22 et seq.
   Longevity pay, CO 171.07
   Pay for shift differential, CO 171.06
   Soliciting or receiving improper compensation, CO 615.11
Statutory reference:
   Power to fix salaries, RC 731.04, 731.08
   Salaries not to be changed during term, O Const Art II § 20; RC 731.07
§ 173.01 Payment of Salaries and Wages
   (a)   All officers and employees of the City, except as may be otherwise provided in the Charter or ordinances of the City, shall be entitled to receive their respective wages every two (2) weeks, twenty-six (26) or twenty-seven (27) times per year, and the Director of Finance and the City Treasurer shall take all necessary steps toward this pay procedure.
   (b)   For the purpose of calculating the amount of pay to be received each two (2) week period, annual salaries shall be divided by two thousand and eighty (2,080) hours to establish the hourly rate. The regular two (2) week pay period shall then consist of eighty (80) hours times the hourly rate.
   (c)   Payments made pursuant to the method of computation set forth in division (b) of this section in years containing twenty-seven (27) pay periods shall not be deemed to be in excess of authorized annual compensation.
(Ord. No. 1669-85. Passed 10-21-85, eff. 10-23-85)
§ 173.02 Soliciting, Receiving and/or Depositing Contributions from City Employees
   (a)   Notwithstanding any other ordinances or resolutions of the City to the contrary, no person, in the classified or unclassified service of the City, whether elected or appointed, shall solicit, receive and/or deposit, in any City or other account for the use of the City, either directly or indirectly, any contribution of money from any person in the classified or unclassified service of the City, except the directors of the several departments where such contribution is for the use of the City, as a donation, gift or otherwise, without having first obtained the approval of Council.
   (b)   Any contributions of money collected or on deposit in violation of this section shall forthwith be returned to the persons entitled thereto.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00).
(Ord. No. 2320-76. Passed 10-4-76, eff. 10-14-76)
§ 173.03 Fixing of Compensation
   (a)   Salaries and compensation of officers and employees of the City, except those required to be fixed by Council, shall be fixed by the appointing authority within the schedule of compensation established by Council pursuant to Charter Section 191, in accordance with ability, fitness, seniority and efficiency.
   (b)   On and after January 1, 1977, no change in the schedule of compensation so established shall be made except in the following manner:
      (1)   In case of classified positions an ordinance shall be introduced in Council subsequent to November 15 of any given year and passed not later than the effective date of the annual appropriation ordinance for the year following such November date, which ordinance, when so passed, shall be in effect for not less than one (1) year thereafter.
   (c)   No change in the rate of any person fixed in accordance with such schedule of compensation shall be made more often than once in any twelve (12) month period except as the result of the change of position of such person.
   (d)   Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to operate as a prohibition against the subsequent passage of any legislation relating to the schedules of compensation pending in Council at the effective date of this section or introduced in Council prior to December 31, 1976.
(Ord. No. 1295-77. Passed 5-2-77, eff. 5-3-77)
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