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The salary of members of Council shall be five hundred dollars per year, except that the salary of the Mayor shall be seven hundred fifty dollars per year, provided the Council may change the salaries of members of Council and the Mayor by ordinance adopted by a vote of not less than five members of the Council. Any ordinance changing the salary of members of Council or the Mayor shall be adopted at least ninety days prior to the next ensuing election at which members of the Council are to be elected, and shall be effective on the first day of December following such election. The compensation of all other officers and employees of the Municipality may be increased or decreased at any time by ordinance.
A vacancy shall be deemed to occur in the Council upon: the presentation of a written resignation to the Clerk of Council, which resignation shall be effective immediately unless a later time is specified therein; the death of a Councilman; or the determination by the Council that a member of Council ceases to possess or has violated any of the qualifications of the office of Council member, and the removal of such Councilman as provided in Section 11.04 of this Charter. Any vacancy in the Council shall be initially filled by a vote of not less than four members of the Council. If the vacancy is not filled within thirty days after it shall have occurred, the power of Council to fill the vacancy shall lapse and the Mayor shall fill it by appointment immediately following the expiration of said thirty days. Any appointee under this section shall qualify under the provisions of this Charter and shall hold office and serve as a member of Council until whichever of the following occurs first, at which time the appointee’s term in office shall expire and terminate:
A. November 30, following the next regular Municipal election after the vacancy in Council to which he was appointed is deemed to occur under this Charter, provided that if the vacancy occurs within ninety days of the next regular Municipal election this subsection shall not apply.
B. The expiration of his predecessor’s term under this Charter as if the vacancy to which the appointee’s appointment was made had not occurred.
If an appointee’s term in office will terminate in accordance with subsection A. of this section, the balance of his predecessor’s term shall be filled by election at the next regular Municipal election after the vacancy has occurred. Such elected Councilman shall take office on December 1, of the same year of his election and shall serve for a term of two years and until his successor is elected and qualified.
(Amended November 6, 1984)
ARTICLE IV: LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE
Action of Council shall be by ordinance, resolution, or motion. Every action of a general and permanent nature, or granting a franchise; or levying a tax; or appropriating money; or contracting an indebtedness, to be evidenced by the issuance of bonds or notes; or for the purchase, lease or transfer of public property; or establishing an offense and fixing the penalty therefor shall be taken by ordinance or resolution in the manner hereinafter provided. All other action may be by motion.
Each ordinance shall contain an enacting clause as follows: “Be It Ordained By The Council Of The Municipality of Mason, State of Ohio,:” and each resolution shall contain an enacting clause as follows: “Be It Resolved by the Council of the Municipality of Mason, State of Ohio.”
Each ordinance or resolution shall contain only one subject which shall be expressed in its title, provided however, that appropriation ordinances may contain the various subjects, accounts, and amounts for which monies are appropriated, and that ordinances and resolutions which are codified or recodified are not subject to the limitation of containing one subject.
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