CHARTER OF THE CITY OF EAST CLEVELAND
Editor’s note: The East Cleveland Charter was originally adopted on June 6, 1916, and became effective January 1, 1918. Dates appearing in parentheses following a section heading indicate that those provisions were subsequently adopted, amended or repealed or replaced on the date given.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section
Corporate Powers, Rights and Privileges
1 Name and powers
2 Enumerated powers not exclusive
The Commission
3 Powers (5-7-85)
4 Term of office (5-7-85)
5 Qualification of members (5-7-85)
6 Vacancies (5-7-85)
7 Salary (5-7-85)
8 President (5-7-85)
9 Appointees (5-7-85)
10 Time of meeting (5-7-85)
11 Penalty for absence (5-7-85)
12 Legislative procedure (5-7-85)
13 Ordinance enactment (5-7-85)
14 Emergency measures (5-7-85)
15 Record and publication (5-7-85)
16 Price and mode of publication (5-7-85)
17 Salaries and bonds (5-7-85)
18 General disqualifications (5-7-85)
The City Manager
19 Appointment (5-7-85)
20 Powers and duties
21 Vice-Manager (5-7-85)
Administrative Officers and Departments
22 Departments
23 Directors (7-31-12)
24 Mayor as acting department head
Municipal Court
25 (5-6-52)
26 (5-6-52)
27 (5-6-52)
Civil Service
28 The Civil Service Commission
29 Classification
30 Appointments and removals
30-A Residence requirements; officers and employees (11-5-96)
31 Relief of policemen and firemen
Elections
32 Time of holding elections (11-3-31)
33 Ballots (11-7-00)
33-A Voting machines (5-6-52)
34 Nomination by petition (5-7-85)
34-A Balloting for armed forces (11-7-00)
35 Acceptance (6-5-45)
36 Elections (11-7-00)
36-A Women's suffrage (11-7-00)
37 State law provisions (11-7-00)
The Initiative
38 Proposed petition
39 Time of filing
40 Petition for election
41 Time of holding election
42 Ballots
43 Duty of Director of Law (11 -7-00)
The Referendum
44 Petition for referendum
45 Proceedings thereunder
46 Legislation for improvements (11-7-00)
47 Initiated ordinances subject to referendum; conflict
The Recall
48 Application (11-7-00)
49 Recall procedure (11-7-00; 7-19-16)
50 How procured
51 Signatures, requirements of
52 Filing
53 Notice (11-8-77)
54 Recall election
55 Rotary ballots
56 Filling of vacancies
57 Counting the vote
58 Effect of resignations
59 Miscellaneous provisions
Appropriations
60 The estimate
61 Appropriation ordinance
61-F Limitation on rate of taxation (11-4-69)
62 Transfer of funds (4-29-24)
63 Unencumbered balances
64 Payment of claims
65 Certification of funds
66 Money in the funds
67 Financial reports
68 Sinking funds (4-29-24)
Improvements - Contracts
69 Limitation of assessments
70 Sewer, water and gas connections
71 Street sprinkling and cleaning sidewalks
72 Contracts (11-8-77)
73 Time of making contracts
74 Bids in excess of estimate
75 Contracts - when void
Franchises
76 Grants limited
77 Period of grants
78 Assignment
79 Extension by annexation
80 Consents
81 Regulations
82 Forfeitures
83 Paving and sprinkling
84 Accounts and reports
85 Grants not included
85-A City Planning Commission (11-7-72)
85-B Districting or zoning (11-7-72)
86 General provisions
Miscellaneous Provisions
87 General laws to apply (5-6-52)
88 Ordinances continued in force
89 Continuance of present officers
90 Continuance of contracts and vested rights
91 Investigation
92 Oath of office
93 Hours of labor
94 Amendments (11-7-72)
94-A Charter Review Commission (5-7-85)
95 Saving clause
96 When charter takes effect
Abolishment of the Commission and Office of City Manager
97 Abolishment of City Commission and office of City Manager (5-7-85)
The Council
98 The Council; powers; election and term of office (11-7-00)
99 Qualification of members (5-3-88)
100 Vacancy (5-7-85)
101 Salary (5-7-85)
102 Organization of Council (11-7-00)
103 Time of meetings; public meetings; exceptions (11-6-90)
104 Penalty for absence (5-7-85)
105 Legislative procedure (5-7-85)
106 Ordinance enactment (5-7-85)
107 Emergency measures (5-7-85)
108 Record and publication (11-7-00)
109 Price and mode of publication (5-7-85)
110 Salaries and bonds (5-7-85)
111 General disqualifications (5-7-85)
The Mayor
112 Mayor; qualifications and term of office (11-7-00)
113 Powers of the Mayor (11-7-00)
114 Vacancy (11-7-00)
Nominations and Elections
115 Nomination and election procedures (6-6-89; 11-6-90; 11-5-96; 11-5-02; 7-31-12; 7-19-16)
116 First election; recall (5-7-85)
Auditing Procedure
117 Auditing procedures (5-7-85)
Miscellaneous Provisions
118 Charter Review Commission (5-7-85)
119 Acting Mayor and Council; ordinances continued in force (5-7-85)
120 Repealed sections (5-7-85)
121 Savings clause (5-7-85)
122 Effective date of amendments (5-7-85)
123 Effective date of amendments (6-6-89)
Appendix A Repealed Charter Sections
CORPORATE POWERS, RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES
The inhabitants of the City of East Cleveland, as its limits now are, or may hereafter be, shall be a body politic and corporate and by name the City of East Cleveland, and as such shall have perpetual succession; may use a corporate seal; may sue and be sued; may acquire property in fee simple or lesser interests or estate by purchase, gift, devise appropriation, lease, or lease with the privilege to purchase for any municipal purpose; may sell, lease, hold, manage, and control such property, and make any and all rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution which may be required to carry out fully all the provisions of any conveyance, deed, or will, in relation to any gift or bequest or the provisions of any lease by which it may acquire property; may acquire, construct, own, lease and operate and regulate public utilities; may assess, levy and collect taxes for general and special purposes on all the subjects or objects which the city may lawfully tax; may borrow money on the faith and credit of the city by the issue or sale of bonds or notes of the city; may appropriate the money of the city for all lawful purposes; may create, provide for, construct, regulate and maintain all things of the nature of public works and improvements; may levy and collect assessments for local improvements; may define, prohibit, abate, suppress and prevent all things detrimental to the health, morals, comfort, safety, convenience and welfare of the inhabitants of the city, and all nuisances and causes thereof; may regulate the construction, height, and the material used in all buildings, and the maintenance and occupancy thereof; may regulate the construction, location, size, height, and the materials used in all billboards, and the maintenance and use of the same; may regulate and control the use, for whatever purposes, of the streets and other public places; may create, establish, organize and abolish offices and fix the salaries and compensation of all officers and employees; may make and enforce local police, sanitary and other regulations; and may pass such ordinances as may be expedient for maintaining and promoting the peace, good government and welfare of the city, and for the performance of the functions thereof. The city shall have all powers that now are, or hereafter may be granted to municipalities by the Constitution or laws of Ohio; and all such powers, whether expressed or implied, shall be exercised and enforced in the manner prescribed by this Charter, or when not prescribed herein, in such manner as shall be provided by ordinance or resolution of the Council.
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