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No candidate for any elective office shall promise any money, office, employment or other thing of value to secure a nomination or election. A violation of this provision shall disqualify the candidate from holding office, if elected, and the person receiving the next highest number of votes, who has observed this provision, shall be entitled to the office.
(a) Each elected official of the Municipality shall be a qualified elector of the Municipality and shall be a resident therein.
(b) Each member of each appointed board and each appointed commission shall be a qualified elector of the Municipality and shall be a resident therein, and shall have resided continuously in the City for not less than two (2) years next preceding the person's appointment.
(Adopted November 8, 1988; Amended November 7, 2006)
No officer or employee of the City shall receive, other than as a representative of the City, and for the purpose of paying the same share therein, for official services, other than the regular salary or compensation, and any officer or employee violating this provision shall thereby forfeit his or her office.
Where reference is made in the Charter to a definite population figure necessary for the passage of certain legislation, such population may be determined either by the official returns of a Federal census, or by a census taken by Council or other public body and certified to by Council.
The City shall not use any traffic law photo-monitoring device for the enforcement of a qualified traffic law violation, unless a law enforcement officer is present at the location of the device and personally issues the ticket to the alleged violator at the time and location of the violation; and that the City shall not enter into, renew, amend, modify, or make any payment under a contract with a vendor for traffic law photo-monitoring devices or services if the contract involves payment to the vendor that is contingent upon the number of tickets issued or the amount of fines levied or; and that qualified traffic violations shall be tried only before a judge in either a municipal or common pleas court, and the accused will be afforded all rights then generally afforded to defendants in criminal cases under the constitutions and laws of the United States and the State of Ohio.
(Adopted November 4, 2014)
Amendments to this Charter may be submitted to the electors of the Municipality by vote of two-thirds (2/3) of the members of the Council; or upon petition signed by ten (10) percent of the electors of the Municipality, setting forth any such proposed amendment, submitted by the Council. The submission of any proposed amendment to the electors shall be governed by the requirements of the Constitution of Ohio, and, to such extent as said Constitution shall fail to provide therefor, the Council shall determine the manner for such submission.
If any such amendment is approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, it shall become a part of the Charter of the Municipality.
A copy of said Charter, or any amendment thereto, shall be certified to the Secretary of State within thirty (30) days after adoption.
(Adopted November 2, 1971)
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