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in parentheses following a section heading indicate that those provisions were subsequently adopted, amended or repealed or replaced on the date given.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
§ 1  NAME AND POWERS.
   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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