Ohio Revised Code Chapter 703 - Classification

• Section 703.01 - Classification - Federal Census.
  (A) Municipal corporations, which, at the last federal census, had a population of five thousand or more, or five thousand registered resident electors or...
• Section 703.011 - Village With More Than 5,000 Electors Becomes City.
  In addition to the method of determining classifications of municipal corporations set out in section 703.01 of the Revised Code, villages, which at the...
• Section 703.02 - Enumeration After Census.
  When the preliminary federal census report of a city indicates that such city will return to the status of a village, the legislative authority...
• Section 703.03 - Report Of Result Of Enumeration.
  Upon presentation of the resolution as provided in section 703.02 of the Revised Code, the city auditor shall cause an enumeration of the population...
• Section 703.04 - Appointment Of Enumerators - Compensation - Duties.
  Within five days from the time he is directed to cause an enumeration to be taken as provided in section 703.02 of the Revised...
• Section 703.05 - Time For Completion - Oath Of Enumerators.
  Within ten days from the date of their appointment as provided in section 703.04 of the Revised Code, the enumerators shall complete the enumeration...
• Section 703.06 - Proclamation Of Population.
  When the result of any federal census or an enumeration as provided in sections 703.02 to 703.05, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is officially...
• Section 703.07 - Status Of City Or Village Officers.
  Officers of a village advanced to a city, or of a city reduced to a village, shall continue in office until succeeded by the...
• Section 703.08 - Reduction To Village By Action Of Citizens.
  A city, from which territory has been detached since the last federal census, may surrender its corporate rights as such city and be reduced...
• Section 703.09 - Content Of Petition.
  A petition, requesting that the city, from which territory has been detached, surrender its corporate rights and be reduced to a village, signed by...
• Section 703.10 - Resolution To Take Census.
  Upon presentation of a petition as required by section 703.09 of the Revised Code the legislative authority, by resolution, at its next regular meeting,...
• Section 703.11 - Census Enumerators.
  The city auditor shall, within five days from the time he is authorized to take a census as provided by section 703.10 of the...
• Section 703.12 - Certification Of Enumeration.
  Each census enumerator, with the return of the census enumeration to the city auditor, shall return the book containing the list of the names...
• Section 703.13 - Resolution Of Surrender.
  The census enumerators shall, within ten days from the date of their appointment, complete the enumeration and return their books to the city auditor....
• Section 703.14 - Procedure Upon Failure To Act.
  If the legislative authority fails to authorize the city auditor to take the census of a city, or, if the auditor fails to proceed...
• Section 703.15 - Transcript To Be Transmitted To Legislative Authority.
  The census enumerators provided for by section 703.14 of the Revised Code, within ten days from the date of their appointment, shall complete their...
• Section 703.16 - Record Of Resolution - Copy To Secretary Of State.
  The city auditor , upon the passage by the legislative authority of a resolution surrendering the corporate rights of the city, shall make two...
• Section 703.17 - Effect Of Surrender Of Corporate Rights.
  The surrender of corporate rights by a city, as provided by sections 703.08 to 703.16, inclusive, of the Revised Code, does not affect rights...
• Section 703.18 - Collection And Disbursement Of Taxes.
  Taxes which remain due and unpaid at the time of the surrender of corporate rights pursuant to sections 703.08 to 703.16, inclusive, of the...
• Section 703.19 - Payment Of Expenses Incurred By Commissioners.
  When the census of a city desiring to surrender its corporate rights as such city and be reduced to a village is taken pursuant...
• Section 703.20 - Surrender Of Corporate Power By Villages.
  Villages may surrender their corporate powers upon the petition to the legislative authority of the village of at least forty per cent of the...
• Section 703.201 - Dissolution Of Village.
  (A) As used in this section, "condition for surrendering corporate powers" means any of the following: (1) The village has been declared to be...
• Section 703.21 - Rights And Liabilities Not Affected By Surrender Of Corporate Power - Disposition Of Township Assets.
  The surrender of corporate powers by a village under section 703.20 or 703.201 of the Revised Code does not affect vested rights or accrued...
• Section 703.22 - Identical Municipal And Township Boundaries.
  When the limits of a municipal corporation become identical with those of a township, all township offices shall be abolished, and the duties thereof...
• Section 703.23 - Judicial Notice Of Classification.
  All courts shall take judicial notice of the classification of municipal corporations, and of their advancement, reduction, and surrender of powers. Effective Date: 10-01-1953

Last modified: October 10, 2016