(A) The Council shall consist of seven members to be elected from the municipality at large, to serve overlapping four (4) year terms of office. Members of Council shall take office on the first day of January of the year following their election.
(B) The two (2) persons elected as members of the Council at the election held in November, 1975, or any successor thereto, under the general statutory plan of government for villages shall be members of the Council under this Charter until January l, 1980, and they shall exercise all powers, duties and functions of Council members under this Charter. At the regular municioal election to be held in 1977 four (4) members of Council shall be elected for four (4) year terms of office and one (1) member of Council shall be elected for a two (2) year term of office. At the regular municipal election to be held in 1979 three (3) members of Council shall be elected for four (4) year terms of office.
(C) Members of Council shall have been qualified electors of the municipality for at least eighteen (18) months prior to taking office and during their term of office. Except as otherwise provided under this Charter or the general laws of Ohio, members of Council shall not hold any other public office with any other unit of government; except office in a political party, notary public, service in the national guard or the armed forces of the United States. Members of Council may be officers or members in a volunteer fire department, but they may receive no additional compensation for service in the department. Except as authorized under this Charter or the general laws of Ohio, no member of Council shall hold any other office or employment with the municipality during the term for which he was elected to the Council, and no former Council member shall hold any compensated appointive office or employment with the municipality until one year after the expiration of the term for which he was elected or appointed to the Council.