Members of the Council at large shall have resided in the City, and members from wards shall have resided in their respective wards, for at least one year next preceding their election. Each member of the Council shall be an elector of the City, shall not hold any other public office except that of notary public or member of the State Militia, and shall not be interested in any contract with the City. No such member may hold employment with the City. A member who ceases to possess any of such qualifications, or removes from his or her ward, if elected from a ward, or from the City, if elected from the City at large, shall forthwith forfeit his or her office.
(ORC 731.02; 1978 Code § 31.02)