CHARTER
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section
POWERS OF THE VILLAGE
1. Powers of the Village
THE VILLAGE COMMISSION
2. Creation and Powers
3. Qualification of Members
4. Vacancies
5. Salary and Bonds
6. President
7. Time of the Meeting
8. Penalty for Absence
9. Legislative Procedure
10. Ordinance Enactment
11. Emergency Measures
12. Record and Publication
13. Price and Mode of Publication
THE VILLAGE COMMISSION
14. Appointment
15. Powers and Duties
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS
16. Village Clerk
17. Village Treasurer & Solicitor
18. Trustees of the Sinking Fund
19. Other Officers and Boards
20. Salaries and Bonds
21. General Disqualifications
22. Political Activity
23. Penalties
APPROPRIATIONS
24. Fiscal Year
25. General
26. Transfer of Funds
27. Unencumbered Balances
PAYMENTS - REPORTS
28. Payment of Claims
29. Certificate of Funds
30. Money in the Fund
31. Financial Reports
IMPROVEMENTS - CONTRACTS
32. Limitation of Assessments
33. Improvement by Direct Labor
34. Sewer, Water and Gas Connections
35. Expenditures
36. Time of Making Contracts
37. Modification of Contracts
38. Bids in Excess of Estimate
39. Contracts - When Void
ELECTIONS
40. Time for Holding Elections
41. Ballots
42. Petitions for Place on Ballot
43. Election
44. General Laws to Apply
THE INITIATIVE
45. Proposed Petition
46. Time of Filing
47. Petitions for Election
48. Time of Holding Election
49. Ballots
50. Amendments and Repeals
THE REFERENDUM
51. Petition for Referendum
52. Proceedings Thereunder
53. Referendum on Initiated Ordinances - Conflict
54. Emergency Measures
55. Preliminary Action
56. Improvement Ordinances
57. Resolutions Included
THE RECALL
58. Recall Petition
59. Notice
60. Recall Election
61. Ballots
62. Filling of Vacancies
63. Counting the Vote
64. Miscellaneous Provisions
65. Offenses Relating to Petitions
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
66. General Laws to Apply
67. Ordinance Continued in Force
68. Continuance of Present Officers
69. Continuance of Contracts and Vested Rights
70. Investigations
71. Amendment of Charter
72. Saving Clause
73. When Charter Takes Effect
CHARTER OF THE VILLAGE OF SOUTH CHARLESTON
To the Voters of South Charleston, Ohio:
You are now afforded the opportunity, by the adoption of the attached charter, to put the administration of our village affairs upon a modern businesslike basis. A special election upon the question of the adoption of the charter will be held on Tuesday, October 16, 1917.
We earnestly urge you the duty of adopting the charter for the following reasons:
It enables our village to regulate its own affairs as it chooses, free from control of the state legislature except as to matters of tax limitations, bond and debt limitations, and police and sanitary regulations.
It substitutes a commission of three men, elected on a non-partisan independent ballot, for the nine men composing the present council and board of public affairs. The president of the commission will take the place of mayor. Other offices may be abolished by the commission and their duties be imposed upon the village manager. In other words the village affairs will be conducted by three elected commissioners and by such other persons as they may appoint to the act as clerk, treasurer and manager, and for the performance of other duties.
The three members of the Village Commission, if they prove unsatisfactory, will be subject to recall by the voters of the village at any time after six months from their election, and all persons appointed or employed by the commission, including the village manager, may be discharged by the commission at any time that their services prove unsatisfactory to the commission.
There are many other provisions of the charter, as will appear from the reading of same, which afford the means of securing a more efficient, economical and progressive administration of village affairs, and we unanimously urge its adoption in the interest of our splendid town.
THE COMMISSION TO FRAME A CHARTER
W.D. Sprague, President
H.O. Core, Secretary
STATEMENT OF THE CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE
To the members of the South Charleston Village Commission:
We, the undersigned members of the 2010 Charter Review Committee do hereby recommend to the Village Commissioners that no changes need to be made to the Charter at this time.
2010 CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE
Larry Tillman, Chair
Jane Steen
Larry Durfey
Michael Garringer
Amy Alduino
Carole Sue Neff
David Finchum
Tom Rutschilling
REPRINTED IN 2006
PRESENT VILLAGE COMMISSION AND VILLAGE OFFICERS
RUSSELL A. WHITE, President
LARRY TILLMAN, Vice-President
DONALD T. HINES, Member
JOSHUA L. RICE, Village Manager
CHERYL A. SPEARS, Clerk
DAVID BINGMAN, Treasurer
JAMES PEIFER, Solicitor