6.01 Qualifications and Duties of Law Director.

   The Director of Law shall be an attorney at law who shall have practiced in the State of Ohio for at least five years. He or she shall be the chief legal adviser of and attorney for the city and all departments and offices of the city in matters relating to their official powers and duties. It shall be the Law Director's duty, either personally or by assistants as he or she may designate, to perform all services incident to the Department of Law; to attend all meetings of the Council; to give advice in writing when requested, to the Council, the City Manager, the director of any department or the head of any office not connected with a department; to prosecute or defend, as the case may be, all suites or cases to which the City may be a party; to prosecute for all offenses against the ordinances or resolutions of the City and for offenses against the laws of the State as may be required of him or her by law; to prepare all contracts, bonds and other instruments in writing in which the City is concerned, and to endorse on each his or her approval of the form and correctness thereof; and to perform other duties of a legal nature as the Council may by ordinance or resolution require. In addition to the duties imposed upon the Director of Law by this Charter or required by ordinance or resolution, the Law Director shall perform any duties imposed upon the chief legal officers of municipalities by the general laws of the State other than the representation of the City's school districts and other non-municipal agencies.