Ohio Revised Code Chapter 731 - Organization

• Section 731.01 - Members Of Legislative Authority.
  (A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (D) of this section, the legislative power of each city shall be vested in, and exercised...
• Section 731.02 - Qualifications Of Members Of Legislative Authority.
  Members of the legislative authority at large shall have resided in their respective cities, and members from wards shall have resided in their respective...
• Section 731.03 - Election And Term Of Members Of Legislative Authority.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, one member of the legislative authority of a city from each ward and...
• Section 731.04 - Officers Of Legislative Authority.
  Within ten days from the commencement of their term, the members of the legislative authority of a city shall elect a president pro tempore,...
• Section 731.05 - Powers Of Legislative Authority.
  The powers of the legislative authority of a city shall be legislative only, it shall perform no administrative duties, and it shall neither appoint...
• Section 731.06 - Division Of City Into Wards.
  (A) The legislative authority of a city shall subdivide the city into wards, equal in number to the members of the legislative authority to...
• Section 731.07 - Salaries Shall Not Be Changed During Term.
  The salary of any officer of a city shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which he was elected or appointed....
• Section 731.08 - Power Of Legislative Authority As To Salaries And Bonds.
  Except as otherwise provided in Title VII [7] of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of a city, by ordinance or resolution, shall determine...
• Section 731.09 - Members Of Village Legislative Authority - Election - Terms Of Office.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) or (C) of this section, the legislative power of each village shall be vested in, and...
• Section 731.091 - Elimination Of Staggered Terms Of Office.
  (A) The legislative authority of a village may, by the adoption of an ordinance or resolution to eliminate staggered terms of office, determine that...
• Section 731.10 - President Pro Tempore Of The Legislative Authority - Employees.
  At the first meeting in January of each year, the legislative authority of a village shall immediately proceed to elect a president pro tempore...
• Section 731.11 - Vacancy When President Pro Tempore Becomes Mayor.
  When the president pro tempore of the legislative authority of a village becomes the mayor, the vacancy thus created shall be filled as provided...
• Section 731.12 - Qualifications Of Members Of Village Legislative Authority.
  Each member of the legislative authority of a village shall have resided in the village one year immediately preceding the member's election, and shall...
• Section 731.13 - Compensation And Bonds Of Village Officers, Clerks And Employees.
  The legislative authority of a village shall fix the compensation and bonds of all officers, clerks, and employees of the village except as otherwise...
• Section 731.14 - Contracts By Legislative Authority Of A Village - Exception.
  All contracts made by the legislative authority of a village shall be executed in the name of the village and signed on its behalf...
• Section 731.141 - Village Administrator To Make Contracts And Purchases.
  In those villages that have established the position of village administrator, as provided by section 735.271 of the Revised Code, the village administrator shall...
• Section 731.15 - Bids And Proceedings.
  Each bid on any contract under section 731.14 or 731.141 of the Revised Code shall contain the full name of every person interested in...
• Section 731.16 - Alterations Or Modifications Of Contracts.
  When it becomes necessary in the opinion of the legislative authority of a village, or, in the event a village administrator has been appointed...
• Section 731.17 - Passage Of Ordinances And Resolutions.
  (A) The following procedures shall apply to the passage of ordinances and resolutions of a municipal corporation: (1) Each ordinance and resolution shall be...
• Section 731.18 - Style Of Ordinances.
  The style of all ordinances shall be, "Be it ordained by the . . . . . . . . . . (filling the...
• Section 731.19 - Subject And Amendment Of Bylaws, Ordinances, And Resolutions.
  No ordinance, resolution, or bylaw shall contain more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title. No bylaw or ordinance, or...
• Section 731.20 - Authentication And Recording.
  Ordinances, resolutions, and bylaws shall be authenticated by the signature of the presiding officer and clerk of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation....
• Section 731.21 - Publication Of Ordinances And Resolutions.
  (A) A succinct summary of each municipal ordinance or resolution and all statements, orders, proclamations, notices, and reports required by law or ordinance to...
• Section 731.211 - Method Of Giving Notice Of Proposed Charter Amendments.
  In accordance with Section 9 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution, notice of proposed amendments to municipal charters shall be given in one of the...
• Section 731.22 - Times Of Publication Required.
  The publication required in section 731.21 of the Revised Code shall be for the following times: (A) Summaries of ordinances or resolutions, and proclamations...
• Section 731.23 - Publication And Certification Of Ordinances In Book Form.
  When ordinances are revised, codified, rearranged, published in book form, and certified as correct by the clerk of the legislative authority of a municipal...
• Section 731.231 - Adopting Standard Or Technical Ordinances And Codes.
  The legislative authority of a municipality may adopt standard ordinances and codes, prepared and promulgated by the state, or any department, board, or other...
• Section 731.24 - Certificate Of Clerk As To Publication.
  Immediately after the expiration of the period of publication of summaries of ordinances required by section 731.22 of the Revised Code, the clerk of...
• Section 731.25 - Publication When No Newspaper In Municipal Corporation.
  In municipal corporations in which no newspaper is generally circulated, publication of summaries of ordinances and resolutions, and publication of all statements, orders, proclamations,...
• Section 731.26 - Effect Of Not Making Publication.
  It is a sufficient defense to any suit or prosecution under an ordinance, to show that no publication or posting was made as required...
• Section 731.27 - Mayor's Veto In Cities.
  Every ordinance or resolution of a legislative authority of a city shall, before it goes into effect, be presented to the mayor for approval....
• Section 731.28 - Ordinances And Measures Proposed By Initiative Petition.
  Ordinances and other measures providing for the exercise of any powers of government granted by the constitution or delegated to any municipal corporation by...
• Section 731.29 - Petition For Referendum.
  Any ordinance or other measure passed by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall be subject to the referendum except as provided by...
• Section 731.30 - Application Of Sections.
  Whenever the legislative authority of a municipal corporation is required to pass more than one ordinance or other measure to complete the legislation necessary...
• Section 731.31 - Presentation Of Petition.
  Any initiative or referendum petition may be presented in separate parts, but each part of any initiative petition shall contain a full and correct...
• Section 731.32 - Copy Of Proposed Ordinance Or Measure Filed With Auditor Or Clerk.
  Whoever seeks to propose an ordinance or measure in a municipal corporation by initiative petition or files a referendum petition against any ordinance or...
• Section 731.33 - Words Which Shall Be Printed In Red.
  At the top of each part of the petition mentioned in section 731.32 of the Revised Code, the following words shall be printed in...
• Section 731.34 - Designation Of Committee Filing Petition.
  The petitioners may designate in any initiative or referendum petition a committee of not less than three of their number, who shall be regarded...
• Section 731.35 - Itemized Statement By Circulator Of Petition.
  (A) The circulator of an initiative or referendum petition, or his agent, shall, within five days after such petition is filed with the city...
• Section 731.36 - Prohibited Practices Relative To Petitions.
  No person shall, directly or indirectly: (A) Willfully misrepresent the contents of any initiative or referendum petition; (B) Pay or offer to pay any...
• Section 731.37 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-23-1981
• Section 731.38 - Prohibition Against Accepting Premium For Signing.
  No person shall accept anything of value for signing an initiative or referendum petition. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 731.39 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1996
• Section 731.40 - Prohibition Against Threats In Securing Signatures.
  No person shall, directly or indirectly, by intimidation or threats, influence or seek to influence any person to sign or abstain from signing, or...
• Section 731.41 - Charter Municipal Corporations.
  Sections 731.28 to 731.41, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not apply to any municipal corporation which adopts its own charter containing an initiative...
• Section 731.42 - Bylaws And Ordinances As Evidence.
  The printed copies of the bylaws or ordinances of a municipal corporation, published under its authority, and transcripts of any bylaws, resolutions, or ordinances,...
• Section 731.43 - Vacancy In Village Legislative Authority.
  (A) (1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, when the office of a member of the legislative authority of a...
• Section 731.44 - Judge Of Election And Qualification Of Members - Quorum And Special Meetings.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall be the judge of the election and qualification of its members. A majority of all the...
• Section 731.45 - Rules - Journal - Expulsion Of Members.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall determine its own rules and keep a journal of its proceedings. It may punish or expel...
• Section 731.46 - Meetings Of Legislative Authority.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall not be required to hold more than one regular meeting in each week. The meetings may...
• Section 731.47 - General Powers.
  The legislative authority shall have the management and control of the finances and property of the municipal corporation, except as otherwise provided. Effective Date:
• Section 731.48 - Contract Restrictions.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall not enter into any contract which is not to go into full operation during the term...
• Section 731.49 - Failure To Take Oath Or Give Bond.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may declare vacant the office of any person elected or appointed to such office who, within ten...
• Section 731.50 - Notice When New Bond Required.
  When the legislative authority of a municipal corporation declares by resolution that an officer shall give a new bond, written notice shall be served...
• Section 731.51 - Notice To Owner To Cut Noxious Weeds Or Remove Litter - Service.
  (A) Upon written information that noxious weeds are growing on lands in a municipal corporation, and are about to spread or mature seeds, the...
• Section 731.52 - Fees For Service And Return.
  A marshal, police officer, clerk of the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, or a deputy, may make service and return of the notice...
• Section 731.53 - Procedure When Owner Fails To Comply With Notice.
  If the owner, lessee, agent or tenant having charge of the lands mentioned in section 731.51 of the Revised Code, fails to comply with...
• Section 731.54 - Written Return To County Auditor - Amount A Lien Upon Property.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall make a written return to the county auditor of its action under sections 731.51 to 731.53,...
• Section 731.55 - Insurance For City Funds Or Securities - Costs.
  All funds or securities in the possession or custody of any city official in his official capacity, or any funds or securities the possession...
• Section 731.56 - Investment Of City Funds.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, by ordinance, provide that whenever there are moneys in the treasury of such municipal corporation which...
• Section 731.57 - Investment Authorized - Limitations - Procedure.
  Whenever the money in the treasury of any municipal corporation is to be invested as provided for in section 731.56 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 731.58 - Treasury Investment Account.
  The chief accounting officer of the municipal corporation shall maintain an account, to be known as the "treasury investment account," in which he shall...
• Section 731.59 - Custody Of Municipal Securities.
  All securities belonging to the treasury of any municipal corporation or to any fund thereof, other than the sinking fund, may be placed in...
• Section 731.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 731.36 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. (B)...

Last modified: October 10, 2016