ARTICLE X
GENERAL PROVISIONS

SECTION 10.01 OFFICIAL BONDS.

   All officers and employees of the City whose duties require them to handle municipal and other public money or property shall furnish a corporate surety bond issued by a company authorized to do business in Ohio, to protect the City against loss due to their acts. The amount of the bond in each case shall be determined by Council and the premium on such bonds shall be paid from the funds of the City. All such bonds shall be filed with the Clerk of Council.

SECTION 10.02 PERSONAL INTEREST.

   No member of the Council or any officer or employee of the City shall have any financial interest, direct or indirect, in any contract with or sale to the City of any materials, supplies or services, or any land or interest in land. A person who knowingly and willfully violates this section shall be guilty of malfeasance in office and upon conviction thereof shall be removed from office.

   Any contract or agreement made in violation of this section shall be voidable at the election of the Council.

SECTION 10.03 REMOVAL FROM OFFICE; DISQUALIFICATION.

   Whenever, in this Charter certain acts on the part of City officials are described as constituting malfeasance in office, the procedure for complaint, trial and judgment thereon shall be that prescribed in the Ohio Revised Code.

SECTION 10.04 AMENDMENTS TO THE CHARTER.

   This Charter may be amended as provided in Article XVIII, Section 9, of the Ohio Constitution, by submission of a proposed amendment to the electors of the municipality and approved by a majority of those voting on the question of its adoption.

Such amendment may be initiated by either a vote of at least five (5) members of Council, or by petition to the Council signed by ten (10) percent of the voters who voted at the preceding election for the office of Governor.

   At the first meeting of the Council in January 1996 and every ten (10) years thereafter, Council shall appoint a commission of not less than five (5), nor more than nine (9) electors of the municipality, to include one (1) but no more than two (2) current City Council members. It shall be the duty of the commission to review the existing Charter and make such recommendations for revision as it may see fit. The City Solicitor shall provide advice and counsel as needed by the Commission. The Commission shall submit its written report to Council at an open meeting not later than December 31 of the same year. Thereupon, the Council may take such action as it deems warranted with respect to such recommendations.

   In the event two (2) conflicting amendments to the Charter are approved at the same election by a majority of the total number of votes cast, the one receiving the highest number of affirmative votes shall be the amendment to the Charter.