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The inhabitants of the City of Lima, Ohio, as its limits now are, or may be hereafter, shall be a body politic and corporate by the name The City of Lima, Ohio, and as such shall have perpetual succession; may use a corporate seal; may sue and be sued; may acquire property, lease, or lease with privilege to purchase; 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 under the provisions of this Charter; may levy and collect assessments for local improvements; 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 purposes lawful under the provisions of this Charter and laws of Ohio; may create, provide for, construct, regulate and maintain all things of the nature of public works and improvements; may license and regulate persons, corporations and associations engaged in any business, occupation, profession or trade; may by ordinance passed by the Council, 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 do all things necessary to promote the health, convenience, comfort and welfare of its citizens and advance the moral, social, physical and intellectual standard of its citizenship, and for such purposes it may exercise any or all of the powers conferred in this section; may regulate and limit the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected, and may regulate and prescribe the construction and the material used in all buildings and the maintenance and occupancy thereof, and regulate and determine the area of yards, courts, and other open places, and may divide the City into districts of such number, space and area as may be deemed best suited to carry out these purposes; may regulate and restrict the location of trades and industries, and the location of buildings designed for specified uses, and may divide the City into districts of such number, shape and area as may be deemed best suited to carry out these purposes; may regulate and control the use, for whatever purposes, of the streets and other public places; may create, establish, abolish and organize offices and fix the salaries and compensations of all officers and employees of the City of Lima; may make and enforce local police, sanitary and other regulations; 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 and authority of Home Rule governance as permitted in the laws and constitution of the State of Ohio, and shall have all other powers and authority that now are or hereafter may be granted to municipalities by the Constitution or laws of Ohio, and all such Home Rule and other powers and authority, whether expressed or implied, may 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, and when not prescribed by this Charter, or by ordinance or resolution of the Council, then said powers may be exercised in the manner prescribed by the laws of the State of Ohio. (Amended 5-7-13)
The total tax rate which may be levied without a vote of the people for the current operating expenses of the City of Lima upon the tax list and duplicate of property assessed and listed for taxation according to value for the tax year 1965 and each year thereafter shall not exceed 3.90 mills per dollar of assessed valuation, provided that said 3.90 mills shall be reduced in each year by that number of mills, including fractional parts thereof, which are levied in the respective year by the City within the ten mill limitation imposed by Article XII, Section 2, of the Ohio Constitution, for the purpose of paying interest on and principal of obligations issued without a vote of the people.
The limitation of this section of the Charter shall not operate as a limitation upon the power of the Council to levy taxes upon such other subjects and for such other purposes as may be lawful under the Constitution and laws of the State of Ohio, nor shall this section be deemed to be a limitation upon the power of the Council to incur indebtedness for all lawful purposes within applicable constitutional and statutory limitations. (Amended 5-4-65)
The enumeration of particular powers by this Charter shall not be held or deemed to be exclusive, but, in addition to the powers enumerated herein, implied thereby or appropriate to the exercise thereof, the City shall have and may exercise all other powers which, under the Constitution and laws of Ohio, it would be competent for this Charter specifically to enumerate.
NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS
An election for the choice of elective officers provided for in this Charter shall be held in odd numbered years on the date established by the State of Ohio for the general election. Elections so held shall be known as regular municipal elections. Such other elections shall be held as may be required by law, or provided for in this Charter. (Amended 5-7-13)
Candidates for all offices to be voted for at any regular municipal election under the provisions of this Charter shall be nominated at a non-partisan primary election to be held at the time provided by the election laws of the State for primary elections. Any matters which by the terms of the Charter may be submitted to the electors of the City at any special election may be submitted at a primary election or at a regular municipal election. (Amended 5-7-13)
The name of any candidate for election to any office of the City shall be printed upon the ballot when a petition in the form hereinafter prescribed shall have been filed on the candidate’s behalf with the election authorities. Such petition shall be signed by at least fifty (50) electors of the City, if for the nomination of a candidate for an office filled by election from the City at large, and by at least twenty-five (25) electors of the ward if for the nomination of a candidate for an office to be filled by election from a ward. (Amended 5-7-13)
The signatures to a nominating petition need not all be appended to one paper, but to each separate paper there shall be attached an affidavit of the circulator stating that each signature was made in the circulator’s presence and that the circulator believes it is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. All signers of petitions shall sign their names in ink, write their place of residence by street and number, or other description sufficient to identify the place, and write the date when their signatures were made. (Amended 5-7-13)
The form of the nominating petition papers shall be as required by ordinance of Council. Each nominating petition shall contain a statement of candidacy that shall be signed by the candidate. Such statement of candidacy shall contain a declaration made under penalty of election falsification that the candidate desires to be a candidate for the office named in it, and that the candidate is an elector qualified to vote for the office the candidate seeks. (Amended 5-7-13)
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