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SECTION 121.   ASSIGNMENT
   No grant, franchise or privilege shall be leased, assigned or otherwise alienated except with the consent of the Council expressed by an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of its members. (Amended 11-6-84)
SECTION 122.   GENERAL PROVISIONS
   Nothing in this Charter contained shall operate in any way, except as herein specifically stated, to limit the Council in the exercise of any of its lawful powers respecting public utilities, or to prohibit the Council from imposing in any such grant such further restriction and provisions as it may deem to be in the public interest provided only that the same are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter or the Constitution of the State.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 123.   GENERAL LAWS TO APPLY
   All general laws of the State applicable to Municipal corporations, now or hereafter enacted, and which are not in conflict with the provisions of this Charter, or with ordinances or resolutions hereafter enacted by the Council, shall be applicable to this City; provided, however, that nothing contained in this Charter shall be construed as limiting the power of the Council to enact any ordinance or resolution not in conflict with the laws of the Ohio and the Constitution of the State or with express provisions of this Charter.
SECTION 124.   ORDINANCES CONTINUED IN FORCE
   All ordinances and resolutions in force at the time of the taking effect of this Charter, not inconsistent with its provisions, shall continue in full force and effect until amended or repealed.
SECTION 125.   CONTINUANCE OF PRESENT OFFICERS
   All persons holding office at the time this Charter goes into effect shall continue in office and in the performance of their duties until provision shall have been otherwise made in accordance with the provisions of this Charter for the performance of the duties of or the discontinuance of any such office. When such provision shall have been made, the term of any such officer shall expire and the office be abolished. The powers which are conferred and the duties which are imposed upon any officer, board, commission or department of the City under the laws of the State shall, if such officer, board, commission or department is abolished by this Charter, be thereafter exercised and discharged by the officer, board or department upon whom are imposed corresponding functions, duties and powers under the provisions of this Charter.
SECTION 126.   MUNICIPAL COURT, BOARD OF EDUCATION AND BOARD OF HEALTH
   All general laws of the State of Ohio shall apply with reference to the authority, power, election, qualification, term, organization and duties of the Municipal Court and the judge thereof, the Board of Education and the members thereof, and the Board of Health and the members thereof, and their employees and appointees; and which shall in no wise be limited, defined or restricted by this Charter or any resolution or ordinance passed by the Council.
SECTION 127.   CONTINUANCE OF CONTRACTS AND VESTED RIGHTS
   All vested rights of the City shall continue to be vested and shall not in any manner be affected by the adoption of this Charter, unless otherwise herein expressly provided to the contrary. All contracts entered into by the City or for its benefit prior to the taking effect of this Charter shall continue in full force and effect. All public work begun prior to the taking effect of this Charter shall be continued and perfected hereunder. Public improvements for which legislative steps shall have been taken under laws in force at the time this Charter takes effect may be carried to completion in accordance with the provisions of such laws.
SECTION 128.   OATH OF OFFICE
   All officers before taking office shall take an oath of office to uphold the laws and constitution of the United States, the laws and constitution of the State of Ohio, and the ordinances, resolutions, and Charter of the City of Lima, Ohio. (Amended 5-7-13)
AMENDMENTS
SECTION 129.   PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION TO ELECTORS OF PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENTS
   Proposed amendments to this Charter may be submitted to the electors of the City by a two-thirds vote of the members of Council, and upon petition signed by voters equal in number to ten (10) percentum of the total vote cast at the last preceding regular Municipal election of the City, setting forth any such proposed amendment, prepared and filed with the Council, through its Clerk in the manner and form prescribed in this Charter for the preparation and filing with the Clerk of an initiative petition for an ordinance, such proposed amendment shall be submitted to the electors of the City by the Council. When ten (10) days and two regular meetings of the Council have passed after the filing of a petition fulfilling the requirements of this section, then the Council shall forthwith provide by ordinance for the submission to the electors of the proposed amendment to this Charter. The ordinance providing for the submission of any such proposed amendments shall require that such proposed amendment be submitted to the electors at a primary or general election on the day designated by State law and said ordinance shall be passed not less than sixty (60) days prior to the day on which said election is to be held, except that such proposed amendment may be submitted to the electors at a special election when authorized by two-thirds vote of the Council. Such special election shall be held not less than sixty (60) days nor more than one hundred twenty (120) days after the passage of the ordinance providing for the submission of the proposed amendment. The Clerk of the Council shall transmit to the election authorities prescribed by general law a duly authenticated copy of such ordinance forthwith upon its passage. The Clerk of the Council shall give notice of such proposed amendments to the Charter in one of the following ways as may be determined by the Council of the City of Lima, Ohio:
   Not less than thirty days prior to the election at which the amendment is to be submitted to the electors, the Clerk of the Municipality shall mail a copy of the proposed Charter amendment to each elector whose name appears upon the poll of registration books of the last regular or general election held therein.
   The full text of the proposed Charter amendment shall be published once a week for not less than two consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the Municipal corporation, with the first publication being at least fifteen days prior to the election at which the amendment is to be submitted to the electors. If no newspaper is published in the Municipal corporation, then such publication shall be made in a newspaper of general circulation with the Municipal corporation.
   If such proposed amendment is approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon it shall become a part of the Charter of the City at the time fixed in the amendment; and if no time is fixed therein, then it shall become a part of the Charter upon its approval by the electors. Proposed amendments to this Charter may be submitted to the electors by ballot title, which shall be clear, concise statements, without argument, descriptive of the substance of such proposed amendments. If conflicting proposed amendments to this Charter shall be approved at the same election, the one receiving the highest number of affirmative votes shall be the amendment to the Charter.
(Amended 11-2-71)
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