(A) Election; term; qualifications; powers and duties. The Mayor shall be elected for a term of four years commencing on the first day of January next after his or her election. He or she shall be an elector of the municipality, and shall have resided in the municipality for at least one year immediately preceding his or her election. He or she shall be the chief conservator of the peace within the municipality, and shall have the powers and duties provided by law. He or she shall be the President of the Legislative Authority, and shall preside at all regular and special meetings thereof, but shall have no vote except in case of a tie.
(R.C. § 733.24)
(B) Vacancy in Office of Mayor; how filled. When the Mayor is absent from the municipality, or is unable for any cause to perform his or her duties, the President Pro Tem of the Legislative Authority shall be acting Mayor. In case of the death, resignation, or removal of the Mayor, the President Pro Tem shall become the Mayor and shall hold office until his or her successor is elected and qualified. The successor shall be elected to the office for the unexpired term at the first regular municipal election that occurs more than 40 days after the vacancy has occurred, except that when the unexpired term ends within one year immediately following the date of such election, an election to fill the unexpired term shall not be held and the President of the Legislative Authority shall hold the office for the unexpired term.
(R.C. § 733.25)
(C) Cordoning of emergency areas.
(1) The Mayor and Vice-Mayor of the village when engaged in suppressing riot or civil commotion in the village, when there is a clear and present danger of riot or civil commotion, or in case of fire, accident, disaster, or emergency of any kind, shall have the authority to cordon the area or areas within the village, in which any riot or civil commotion is taking place or in which any fire or other emergency exists and any area or areas, within the village relative to which the danger of riot or civil commotion exists or in which any such accident or disaster has occurred, to prohibit persons from entering or leaving any such cordoned area except persons seeking to enter or leave for the purpose of carrying on necessary and lawful pursuits, and to prohibit the selling, offering for sale, dispensing, carrying, or transporting of firearms or other dangerous weapons, or of ammunition, dynamite, or dangerous explosives of any kind, or intoxicating beverages, into, within, or from any such cordoned area, and may exercise that authority through any sheriff, police officer, deputy, or other law enforcement officer on duty in the village.
(2) No person shall willfully fail to promptly obey a lawful order of the Mayor, or Vice- Mayor, or of any sheriff, police officer, deputy, or other law enforcement officer, given under the authority of or pursuant to this division (C).
(3) Whoever violates this division (C) shall be fined as set forth in § 10.99.
(Ord. 15-68, passed 7-3-1968)
Cross-reference:
Access to Town Hall keys, see § 40.02
Licenses for commercial amusements issued by Mayor, see § 113.04
Responsibility of Mayor to enforce air pollution regulations, see § 90.03