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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)
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