(a) Except as otherwise provided herein, all employees of the City are required to reside within Henry County, Ohio, or within an adjacent county thereto within this State.
(b) All paid part-time employees of the City, regardless of paid part-time class, are exempt from the residency requirements of the City. Nothing herein shall be construed as to provide for grandfathering as it relates to residency should a part-time employee obtain full-time employee status; further, dual employees, meaning for the purpose of this provision, employees working in two (2) capacities of the City, one full-time and one paid part-time, shall meet the most restrictive residency requirement.
(c) Unless otherwise exempted, any employee of the City shall meet residency requirements within 365 days of employment with the City, except that the City Manager, City Finance Director and City Law Director shall meet residency requirements within 180 days of employment with the City.
(d) The appointing authority as appropriate, shall suspend from service any employee who fails to meet residency requirements as required by this section, until such time as the employee has met City residency requirements. In the event the suspension exceeds two (2) weeks in duration, the employee may be dismissed from the City service.
(e) Unless otherwise prohibited by law, this section shall not be construed as to limit the enforceability of any residency provision found in a collective bargaining agreement between the City and a collective bargaining unit; further, nothing herein shall be construed as to limit the ability of an appointing authority of the City to require residency of its volunteers. (Ord. 035-22. Passed 7-18-22.)