There is hereby established a Department of Law, a Department of Finance, a Department of Public Safety, a Department of Public Service, a Department of Public Utilities and a Department of Parks and Recreation. The Department of Public Safety may include but need not be limited to a Division of Police and a Division of Fire which are hereby established; provided that the Division of Police and Division of Fire may be combined by ordinance of Council as the Division of Police and Fire. Each department shall be administered by a Director thereof and the Council shall by ordinance provide for the organization thereof. The Council may by ordinance create additional departments or divisions of departments, abolish existing departments or divisions of departments and combine departments and divisions as it may deem necessary; provided that the Department of Public Safety may not be abolished and that the Departments of Finance and Law may not be abolished or combined. Council may authorize the City Manager to be the head of any one or more departments, except the Department of Law unless admitted to the practice of law in the State of Ohio, and may authorize one person to be the head of two or more such departments.
(Amended November 2, 2010)