CHAPTER 31: EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY

Section

General Provisions

   31.001   Executive power; where vested

Mayor

   31.015   Term of Mayor; power and duties

   31.016   General duties of the Mayor

   31.017   Communications to the Legislative Authority

   31.018   Protest against excess of expenditures

   31.019   Supervision of conduct of officers

   31.020   Annual report to the Legislative Authority

   31.021   Mayor to file charges against delinquent officers

   31.022   Vacancies in office of Mayor

   31.023   Disposition of fines and other moneys

Clerk

   31.040   Election, term, qualifications of the Clerk

   31.041   Powers and duties of Clerk

   31.042   Books and accounts; merger of offices

   31.043   Seal of Clerk

   31.044   Combined offices of Clerk and Treasurer; Fiscal Officer

Treasurer

   31.060   Election, term, qualifications of the Treasurer

   31.061   Accounts of Treasurer

   31.062   Powers and duties

   31.063   Quarterly account; annual report

   31.064   Receipt and disbursement of funds

   31.065   Duty of delivering money and property

   31.066   Liability for loss of public funds

Street Commissioner

   31.080   Qualifications

   31.081   General duties

   31.082   Assistants

Other Officials

   31.100   Legal counsel

   31.101   Administrator

   31.102   Board of Trustees of Public Affairs

   31.103   Fire Engineer, Engineer and Superintendent of Markets

GENERAL PROVISIONS

§ 31.001 EXECUTIVE POWER; WHERE VESTED.

   The executive power and authority of the municipality shall be vested in the Mayor, Clerk, Treasurer, Marshal, Street Commissioner and such other officers and departments as are created by law.

(R.C. § 733.23)

MAYOR

§ 31.015 TERM OF MAYOR; POWERS AND DUTIES.

   The Mayor shall be elected for a term of four years commencing on the first day of January next after his or her election. He or she shall be an elector of the municipality, and shall have resided in the municipality for at least one year immediately preceding his or her election. He or she shall be the chief conservator of the peace within the municipality, and shall have the powers and duties provided by law. He or she shall be the President of the Legislative Authority, and shall preside at all regular and special meetings thereof, but shall have no vote except in case of a tie.

(R.C. § 733.24)

§ 31.016 GENERAL DUTIES OF THE MAYOR.

   The Mayor shall perform all the duties prescribed by the bylaws and ordinances of the municipality. He or she shall see that all ordinances, bylaws, and resolutions of the Legislative Authority are faithfully obeyed and enforced. He or she shall sign all commissions, licenses, and permits granted by the Legislative Authority, or authorized by Title VII of the Ohio Revised Code, and such other instruments as by law or ordinance require his or her certificate.

(R.C. § 733.30)

§ 31.017 COMMUNICATIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY.

   The Mayor shall communicate to the Legislative Authority from time to time a statement of the finances of the municipality, and other information relating thereto, and the general condition of the affairs of the municipality as he or she deems proper, or as is required by the Legislative Authority.

(R.C. § 733.32)