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Except as otherwise provided in the municipal charter or in R.C. § 3.061, each officer required by law or ordinance to give bond shall do so before entering upon the duties of the office. Except as otherwise provided in the municipal charter or in R.C. § 3.061, the Legislative Authority may at any time require each officer to give a new or additional bond. Each bond, except that of the Auditor or Clerk, upon its approval, shall be delivered to the Auditor or Clerk, who shall immediately record it in a record provided for that purpose and file and carefully preserve it in the Auditor’s or Clerk’s office. The bond of the Auditor or Clerk shall be delivered to the Treasurer, who shall in like manner record and preserve it.
(R.C. § 733.69)
The official bonds of all municipal officers shall be prepared by the Solicitor or Director of Law. Except as otherwise provided in state law, the bonds shall be in a sum as the Legislative Authority prescribes by general or special ordinance, and be subject to the approval of the Mayor, except that the Mayor's bond shall be approved by the Legislative Authority, or, if it is not legally organized, by the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county in which the municipality or the larger part thereof is situated.
(R.C. § 733.70)
In each bond mentioned in § 30.05, the condition that the person elected or appointed shall faithfully perform the duties of the office shall be sufficient. The fact that the instrument is without a seal, that blanks for the date or amount have been filled subsequent to its execution but before its acceptance, without the consent of the sureties, that all the obligees named in the instrument have not signed it, that new duties have been imposed on the officers or that any merely formal objection exists shall not be available in any suit on the instrument.
(R.C. § 733.71)
Unless otherwise provided by law, vacancies arising in appointive and elective offices of the municipality shall be filled by appointment by the Mayor for the remainder of the unexpired term, provided that:
(A) Vacancies in the office of the Mayor shall be filled in the manner provided by R.C. § 733.25, or a substantially similar municipal ordinance;
(B) Vacancies in the membership of the Legislative Authority shall be filled in the manner provided by R.C. § 731.43, or a substantially similar municipal ordinance;
(C) Vacancies in the office of President Pro Tempore of the Legislative Authority shall be filled in the manner provided by R.C. § 731.11, or a substantially similar municipal ordinance;
(D) Vacancies in the office of Clerk or Treasurer may be filled in the following manner: The Mayor may appoint a person to serve as acting officer to perform the duties of the office until a permanent officer is appointed to fill the vacancy.
(R.C. § 733.31(A))
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