Contracts, When Void.

   Section 47.   All contracts, agreements, or other obligations, and all ordinances, resolutions and orders entered into or passed contrary to the provisions of the preceding sections, shall be void, and no person whatever shall have any claim or demand against the city thereunder, nor shall the council or any officer of the city waive or qualify the limits fixed by such ordinance, resolution or order, or fasten upon the city any liability whatever in excess of such limits, or release any party from an exact compliance with his contract under such ordinance, resolution or order.

Establishment of a Police Court and the Appointment of a Police Judge.

   Section 48.   (Section 48 of the city charter was repealed by the voters on November 7, 2000.)

   Section 49.   (Section 49 of the city charter was repealed by the voters on November 7, 2000.)

Public Welfare and Health.

   Section 50.   The mayor as director of public safety shall appoint a director of public welfare who shall be the health officer of the city and shall, under the direction and control of the mayor enforce all ordinances and laws relating to the health of the public, and shall perform all duties and have all powers relative to the public health exercised in municipalities by health officers. He shall have charge of and manage all charitable, correctional and recreational agencies belonging to the municipality. He shall have charge of the inspection and supervision of all public amusements and entertainments. He shall have charge of the sanitary inspection and supervision of the production, transportation, storage and sale of foods and foodstuffs. He shall have charge of the preservation and promotion of the public health, the prevention and restriction of disease, the prevention, abatement and suppression of nuisances, the enforcement of isolation and quarantine regulations. He shall enforce and prosecute all laws, ordinances and regulations, relative to the public welfare for the violation of which penalties are imposed now in force or which may hereafter be established or enacted by council or general law. The mayor shall make all needful rules and regulations for the government of this department of public safety as prescribed by ordinance or the general laws of the State, and in cases of epidemic or other emergency, such additional rules as may be necessary for the public health.

Sinking Fund.

   Section 51.   The mayor, the director of law, and the director of finance and public record shall constitute the sinking fund trustees, but as such trustees, they shall receive no additional compensation. The mayor shall be the president, and the director of finance and public record shall be the secretary of the trustees of the sinking fund. The trustees of the sinking fund shall manage and control the sinking fund in the manner provided by laws of the State of Ohio or by ordinance.