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No money shall be drawn from the treasury of the City, nor shall any obligation for expenditure of money be incurred, except pursuant to appropriations made by the Council. At the end of each year all unexpended balances of appropriations shall revert to the respective funds from which the same were appropriated, and shall then be subject to future appropriation; but fixed appropriations for longer periods may be made in furtherance of improvements or other objects or work of the City which will not be completed within the current year.
Money appropriated as hereinbefore provided shall not be used for purposes other than those designated in the appropriation ordinance without authority from Council and a certificate of the Finance Director that such money is not encumbered by prior appropriations.
All ordinances or resolutions upon their final passage shall be recorded in a book kept for the purpose and shall be authenticated by the signatures of the presiding officer, Clerk of the Council and the Mayor, unless a certificate of the Clerk is attached thereto showing such signature of the Mayor is unnecessary under the provision hereof.
The annual appropriation ordinance and all other ordinances or resolutions embracing the subjects of salaries, the necessity for and intention to install public improvements which contain provisions for assessments against abutting properties, grants of public utility franchises, shall, at the option of the Council, within ten (10) days after their final passage, be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Maple Heights, or be posted in five (5) public places in the City, said places to be designated by the Council; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to change or modify the provisions of law now existing requiring the publication of certain ordinances, or which may hereafter be required to be published according to the laws of the State.
The Council shall fix by ordinance the amount of bond to be given by each officer, clerk and employee in each department of the City government; which bond shall be given by such officer, clerk or employee with surety to the approval of the Mayor. Premiums on such official bonds shall be paid by the City.
(Amended November 7, 2006)
The Council may, by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the members elected thereto, pass emergency measures to take effect at the time indicated therein. Any measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health or safety, or providing for the usual daily operation of a municipal department, in which the emergency is set forth and defined in a preamble thereto, may be an emergency.
Ordinances appropriating money may be passed as emergency measures, but no measure making a grant, renewal, extension or amendment of a franchise or other special privilege, or regulating the rate to be charged for its service by any public utility, shall ever be so passed.
Commencing with the levy on the 1958 tax duplicate for the fiscal year 1959, and each year thereafter, the aggregate amount of taxes that may be levied by the taxing authority of the City, without a vote of the people, on any taxable property assessed and listed for taxation according to value for all the purposes of the City shall not in any one (1) year exceed ten and five-tenths (10.5) mills for each dollar of assessed valuation. Of said total maximum levy, an amount shall annually be levied sufficient to pay the interest, sinking fund, and retirement charges on all bonds and notes of the City heretofore or hereafter authorized to be issued without the authority of the electors, which levy shall be placed before and in preference to all other levies and for the full amount thereof. Of the remaining portions of said total maximum levy, an amount shall be levied annually sufficient to provide the amounts required by law for police and firemen's pensions; and the balance thereof may be levied annually for the purpose of paying the current operating expenses of the City. In addition to the aforesaid ten and five-tenths (10.5) mill levy, the taxing authority of the City may, without a vote of the people, levy a tax for street lighting purposes not to exceed one (1) mill for each dollar of assessed valuation on any taxable property assessed and listed for taxation according to value.
(Adopted May 6, 1958)
The Council may, without notice, cause the affairs of any department or the conduct of any officer or employee to be examined. Any person or persons appointed by the Council to examine the affairs of any department or the conduct of any officer or employee, shall have the same power to compel the attendance of witnesses, and the production of books and papers and other evidence, and to cause witnesses to be punished for contempt, as is conferred upon the Mayor, Council or committee thereof by this Charter or by law.
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