(a) The City shall hire an attorney licensed in and in good standing with the State of Ohio to act as the Magistrate who presides over the City's Mayor's Court.
(b) The Magistrate shall hear and determine prosecutions and criminal causes in the City's Mayor's Court that are within the jurisdiction of the Court; shall issue all writs and process that are necessary to enforce the administration of justice through the Court; shall have all the same powers, duties and authority as does the Mayor to hear and determine prosecutions and causes in general, including, but not limited to, the power and authority to decide the prosecutions or cause, enter judgment, and impose sentence; shall have the power, duties, and authority granted to the Mayor by the laws of the State of Ohio in relation to issuing writs and process, and hearing and determining prosecutions and causes in the Mayor's Court; and shall have all the powers, duties, and authority granted to a magistrate of a Mayor's Court by the General Laws of the State of Ohio.
(c) A judgment entered and a sentence imposed by the Magistrate does not have to be reviewed or approved by the Mayor, and it has the same force and effect as if it had been entered or imposed by the Mayor.
(Ord. 2021-19. Passed 6-21-21.)