Any officer, employee or other person who issues an order contrary to Ohio R. C. 5705.41 or Sections 256.07 et seq. of this chapter, or who expends or authorizes the expenditure of any public funds, or who authorizes or executes any contract contrary to Ohio R. C. 5705.01 through 5705.47, or contrary to Sections 256.07 et seq. of this chapter, unless payments thereon are subsequently ordered as provided in Ohio R. C. 5705.41 and as also provided for in Sections 256.07 et seq. of this chapter, or expends or authorizes the expenditure of any public funds on any such void contract, obligation or order, unless subsequently approved as provided in Ohio R. C. 5705.41 or in Sections 256.07 et seq. of this chapter, or issues a certificate under the provisions thereof which contains any false statement, shall be liable to the City for the full amount paid from the funds of the City on any such order, contract or obligation. Such officer, employee or other person shall be jointly and severally liable in person and upon any official bond that he or she has given to the City, to the extent of any payment of such void claim. The Director of Law shall enforce this liability by civil action brought in any court of appropriate jurisdiction in the name of and on behalf of the City. If the Director fails, upon the written request of any taxpayer to institute an action for the enforcement of the liability, the taxpayer may institute suit in his or her own name on behalf of the City.
(Ord. 81-52. Passed 6-15-81. )