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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)
SECTION 130.   SAVING CLAUSE
   If any section or part of a section of this amendment proves to be invalid or unconstitutional, the same shall not be held to invalidate or impair the validity, force or effect of any other section or part of a section of this amendment, unless it clearly appear that such other section or part of a section is wholly or necessarily dependent for its operation upon the section or part of a section so held unconstitutional or invalid.
WHEN CHARTER TAKES EFFECT
SECTION 131.   EFFECTIVE DATE
   For the purpose of nominating and electing officers the provisions of this Charter shall be in effect for any regular Municipal election held not more than eighty (80) days from and after their approval by the electors of the City. For all other purposes this Charter shall be in effect on the first Monday following the first election of officers thereunder, on which day Sections 1 to 131, both inclusive, of the existing Charter of the City of Lima shall be deemed repealed.
   If, however, the provisions of this Charter are approved at an election held in an even numbered year or at an election held in odd numbered year on a day which is more than eighty (80) days before the regular Municipal election of that year, the foregoing provisions in this section as to the time the provisions of this Charter shall take effect shall be held for naught and the following provisions shall apply, namely - the provisions of this Charter shall be in effect for all purposes on the first Monday following their approval by the electors of the City and Sections 1 to 131, both inclusive, of the existing Charter of the City of Lima shall be deemed repealed on that day, the provisions of this Charter shall be in effect for any regular Municipal election held not less than eighty (80) days from and after their approval by the electors of the City.
SECTION 132.   CHARTER REVIEW COMMISSION
   Commencing in year 2016, and every five years thereafter, a review and report as to the adequacy of the Charter of the City of Lima shall be submitted to the Council by a Charter Review Commission. The Charter Review Commission shall be comprised of one elector from each ward, plus three electors from the City at-large. All members shall be appointed by the President of Council. (Amended 11-8-11)