The City Council shall consist of seven members, elected at large, for four year overlapping terms. Except as provided in Section 2.03, all members of Council shall be elected to a full term of office. All elections of Council members shall be on a non-partisan ballot.
Any qualified elector who has lived in the municipality for one year prior to filing a petition of candidacy shall be eligible to serve as a member of Council, when elected as hereinafter provided.
The Council shall be the judge of the election and qualifications of its own members. The seat of any member may be declared vacant by resolution of Council, five (5) members concurring.
Council shall declare vacant a seat of any member for the following reasons:
1. One who persistently fails to abide by the rules of Council.
2. One who is absent without justifiable excuses for three (3) consecutive regular meetings.
3. One who shall cease to be a qualified elector and resident of the municipality as required by the Charter unless special circumstances have been approved by five (5) members of Council concurring.
4. One who enters upon the performance of the duties of an incompatible public office.
5. One who shall hold any appointed office or employment with the municipality for which compensation is authorized.
6. One who shall violate any expressed provisions of this Charter.
7. One who shall be convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude or any felony.
8. One who shall be convicted of any other provision of the State laws as applicable to public officials for which the penalty includes forfeiture of office.
Vacancies in the office of Council members shall be filled within thirty (30) days by vote of a majority of the remaining members of Council, by the selection of a qualified elector who has resided in the municipality for at least one year immediately preceding such appointment. If Council fails to make this selection within thirty (30) days, the Mayor shall make the appointment. Such person so chosen shall serve until the next regular City Council election, occurring not less than 100 days after selection. At such election, a successor shall be elected to serve for the unexpired term, if any; if not, for a full term.
The term of office of Council members shall begin on the third Monday following the regular City Council election. City Council election shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in the odd numbered years. No member of Council shall serve more than two consecutive terms.
Following each municipal election Council shall meet within five days after the beginning of the term of office of the newly-elected members of Council for the purpose of organizing. At such meeting, the newly-elected members of Council shall take the oath of office and the Council shall proceed to elect a Mayor and a Vice-Mayor and may transact such other business as may come before it. Thereafter, regular or special meetings shall be held as prescribed in the Council rules, and regular meetings shall occur not less frequently than once each month. All meetings of Council and its Boards and Commissions shall be open to the public except Executive Sessions as provided for by Ohio statute. A majority of the members elected shall constitute a quorum at all meetings.
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