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 ADOPTED MAY 5, 1914 
 With Amendments to October 1, 1923. 
 
 ~ Published by Order of the City Council, 
 
 HARRY H. TURNER, 
 CITY CLERK 
 
 1923 
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Following is the resolution granting authority | 
 for the coat of arms and its design: 
 
 Resolved, By the council of the city of Colum- 
 bus, state of Ohio, that said council do adopt, and 
 hereby does adopt as the design of a municipal flag 
 for said city, the design recommended by its special 
 committee appointed, viz: 
 
 On a blue field a half-wreath of buckeye leaves, 
 green, and a half-circle of 16 stars, gold, the whole 
 enclosing a national shield bearing a gilt circle in 
 which appears a gallery, or vessel, of the fleet of 
 Christopher Columbus, after whom said city is 
 named, said shield and vessel to be in proper colors, 
 above and clutching the shield to be an eagle, with 
 outspread wings, proper, guarding a gold star, 
 making the seventeenth and representing Ohio. 
 Above and between the wings of the eagle to ap- 
 pear the cupola of the state capitol, surmounted by 
 the lettering “Columbus, Ohio,” gilt, in old Eng- 
 lish letters. 
 
 And be it further resolved, that the design 
 above described be, and hereby is, adopted as the 
 official coat of arms of the city of Columbus, to be 
 printed, engraved, embossed, or otherwise im- 
 printed on the official stationery of said city of Co- 
 lumbus as may hereafter be directed. 
 
 Said coat of arms to be of the size and style as 
 may be deemed necessary to the various uses to 
 which it may be applied. 
 
CHARTER OF THE City oF CoLUMBUS I 
 
 THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS, OHIO 
 
 Adopted Tuesday, May 5, 1914. 
 With Amendments to October 1, 1923. 
 
 PREAMBLE. 
 
 We, the people of the city of Columbus, in order to secure and 
 exercise the powers of local self government under the constitution 
 of the state of Ohio, do enact and ordain this charter. 
 
 Section 1. Powers of city. The inhabitants of the city of Co- 
 lumbus, as its limits now are, or may hereafter be, shall continue 
 to be a body politic and corporate by name the city of Columbus, 
 and as such shall have perpetual succession. It shall have all powers 
 that now are, or hereafter may be granted to municipalities by the 
 constitution or laws of Ohio; and all such powers whether expressed 
 or implied, shall be exercised and enforced in the manner prescribed 
 by this charter, or when not prescribed herein, in such manner as 
 shall be provided by ordinance or resolution of the council. In the 
 absence of such provision as to any power, such power shall be ex- 
 ercised in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by the general 
 laws of the state applicable to municipalities. 
 
 Sec. 2. The enumeration of particular powers by this charter 
 shall not be held or deemed to be exclusive, but in addition to the 
 powers enumerated herein, implied thereby or appropriate to the 
 exercise thereof the city shall have, and may exercise all other powers 
 which, under the constitution and laws of Ohio, it would be compe- 
 tent for this charter specifically to enumerate. 
 
 THE COUNCIL 
 Sec. 3. Legislative powers. The legislative power of the City, 
 except as reserved to the people by this charter, shall be vested in 
 a council, consisting of seven members elected at large. 
 Sec. 4. Councilmen. All councilmen shall serve for a term of 
 four years; except, that at the first election the four candidates hav- 
 ing the highest number of votes shall serve for four years, and the 
 
 three candidates having the next highest number of votes shall serve 
 for two years. 
 
 Sec. 5. Vacancies. Vacancies in the council shall be filled by 
 the council for the remainder of the unexpired term, but any vacancy 
 resulting from a recall elec.ion shall be filled in the manner herein- 
 after provided. 
 
 See. 6. Qualifications of councilmen. Members of the council 
 shall be residents of the city and have the qualifications of electors 
 therein. Councilmen shall not hold any other public office or em- 
 ployment, except that of notary public or member of the state 
 
 295529 
 
II CHARTER OF THE CrTY¥ oF CoLUmsBUus 
 
 militia and except as provided in section 64 of this charter, and shall 
 not be interested in the profits or emoluments of any contract, job, work 
 or service for the municipality. Any member who shall cease to 
 possess any of the qualifications herein required shall forthwith forfeit 
 his office, and any such contract in which any member is or may 
 become interested may be declared void by the council. 
 
 Sec. 7. Salary and attendance. Each member of the council shall 
 receive a salary of one thousand dollars a year, payable in equal. 
 monthly installments; provided, however, that for each absence of — 
 a councilman from a regular meeting of the council, there shall be 
 deducted a sum equal to two per cent. of his annual salary. Absence 
 from eight consecutive regular meetings shall operate to vacate the 
 seat of a member unless the absence is excused by resolution of council 
 setting forth such excuse and entered upon the journal. 
 
 Sec. 8. Meetings of council. At 8 o’clock p. m. on the first 
 Monday in January, following a regular municipal election, the council 
 shall meet at the usual place for holding meetings, at which time 
 the newly elected councilmen shall assume the duties of their office. 
 Thereafter the council shall meet at such times as may be prescribed 
 by ordinance or resolution; provided that at least fifty regular meet- 
 ings shall be held in each year. The mayor, the president of the 
 council, or any three members thereof may call speciai meetings of 
 the council upon at. least twelve hours’ written notice to each mem- 
 ber of the council, served personally on each member or left at his 
 usual place of residence. Such notice shall state the subject to be 
 considered at the meeting and no other subjects shall be then con- 
 sidered unless all members of council are present. All meetings of 
 the council or committees thereof shall be public and any citizen 
 shall have access to the minutes and records thereof at all reasonable 
 times. 
 
 Sec. 9. Rules and journal. The council shall determine its own 
 rules and order of business and shall keep a journal of its proceed- 
 ings. It may punish or expel any member for disorderly conduct 
 or violation of its rules. No expulsion shall take place without the 
 concurrence of six members, nor until the delinquent member shall 
 have been notified of the charge against him and been given an op- - 
 portunity to be heard. : 
 
 Sec. 10. President of council. At the first meeting in January 
 following a regular municipal election, the council shall elect one of 
 its members president, who shall preside at meetings of the council 
 and perform such duties as presiding officer as may be imposed upon 
 him by the council. In the absence of the president, the council shall 
 elect a president pro tempore. 
 
 Sec. 11. Clerk and employes. The council shall appoint a clerk, 
 
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 who shall be- known as the city clerk, and such other officers and 
 employes of council as may be necessary. The city clerk shall keep 
 the records of the council and perform such other duties as may be~ 
 required by this charter or by the council. Such clerk shall serve 
 during the pleasure of the council. Council shall exercise no power 
 of appointment except as herein expressly provided. 
 
 Sec. 12, Public defender. Council shall have power to appoint a 
 public defender of indigent persons charged with offenses in the mu- 
 nicipal courts. 
 
 Sec. 13. The city treasurer. Council shall appoint a city treasurer 
 who shali hold and administer his office during its pleasure. The 
 treasurer shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as are 
 prescribed in this charter. 
 
 Sec. 14. Officers and employes. Except as herein otherwise pro- 
 vided, council shall by ordinance determine the number of officers and 
 employes in each department of the city government. 
 
 Sec. 15. Compensation of officers and employes. Subject to the 
 provisions of this charter as to the salary of councilmen and mayor, 
 council shall fix by ordinance, the salary or compensation of all 
 officers and employes of the city government; provided, however, 
 that the board of health the board of library trustees and the trustees 
 of the sinking fund shall have the power to fix the salary or com- 
 pensation of the officers and employes in their respective depart- 
 ments. The salary or compensation so fixed shall be uniform for 
 - like service. All such salaries and rates of pay shall be reported to 
 the civil service commission forthwith. The salary of any officer, em- 
 ploye, or member of a board or commission in the unclassified service 
 of the city who was elected or appointed for a definite term shall 
 not be increased or diminished during the term for which he was 
 elected or appointed, and all fees pertaining to any office shall be 
 paid into the city treasury. 
 
 Sec. 16. Official bonds. The council may determine whether any 
 officer or employe shall give a bond, and the amount thereof; which 
 bond shall be given by such officer or employe, and be signed by a 
 surety company authorized to do business in Ohio, to the approval 
 of the mayor; provided that the bond of the mayor, if any, shall be 
 approved by council. Council shall by general ordinance provide for 
 the payment, by the city, of the premiums on such bonds. 
 
 Sec. 17. Legislative procedure. The council shall be the judge 
 of the election and qualification of its members. Four members shall 
 constitute a quorum to do business, but a less number may adjourn 
 from day to day and compel the attendance of absent members in 
 
 such manner and under such penalties as may be prescribed by or- 
 dinance, 
 
IV CHARTER OF THE CiTy or CoLUMEUS 
 
 Sec. 18. The action of council shall be by ordinance or resolu- 
 tion. and the affirmative vote of at least four members of council 
 shall be necessary to adopt any ordinance or resolution. The vote 
 upon the passage of all ordinances, and upon the adoption of such 
 resolution as the council by its rules shall prescribe, shall be taken 
 by “yeas” and “nays” and entered upon the journal. 
 
 Sec. 19. Ordinance enactment. Each proposed ordinance or reso- 
 lution shall be intreduced in written or printed form, and shall not. 
 contain more than one subject which shall be clearly stated in a title; é 
 but general appropriation ordinances may contain the various sub- 
 jects and accounts for which moneys are to be appropriated. The 
 enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the council shall be, 
 “Be it ordained by the council of the city of Columbus.” The enact- 
 ing clause of all ordinances submitted by the initiative shall be, “Be 
 it ordained by the people of the city of Columbus.” 
 
 Sec. 20. No ordinance, unless it be an emergency measure, shall 
 be passed until it has been read at two regular meetings not less 
 than one week apart, or the requirement of such reading has been 
 
 dispensed with by an affirmative vote of at least five members of 
 council. 
 
 Sec 21. No ordinance or resolution or section thereof shall be 
 revised or amended, unless the new ordinance or resolution contains 
 the entire ordinance or resolution or section revised or amended, and 
 a repeal of the original ordinance, resolution, section or sections so 
 amended. 
 
 Sec. 22. Emergency measures. All ordinances and resolutions 
 shall be in effect from and after thirty days from the date of their 
 passage by the council except as otherwise provided in this charter. 
 The council may, by a vote of six of its members, pass emergency 
 measures to take effect at the time indicated therein. An emer- 
 gency measure is an ordinance or resolution for the immediate pres- 
 ervation of the public peace, property, health, or safety, or providing 
 for an emergency in the usual daily operation of a municipal de- 
 partment, in which the emergency is set forth and defined in a preamble 
 thereto. 
 
 Sec. 23. Ordinances appropriating money may be passed as emer- 
 gency measures, but no measure making a grant, renewal or ex- 
 tension of a franchise or other special privilege, or regulating the 
 rate to be charged for its service by any public utility, shall ever be 
 so passed. 
 
 Sec. 24. Approval or disapproval. Any ordinance or resolution 
 passed by the council shall be signed by the president or other pre- 
 siding officer and be presented forthwith to the mayor by the city 
 clerk. If the mayor approve such ordinance or resolution he shall 
 sign it within ten days after its passage or adoption by the council; 
 
CuartTer oF THE Crry or CotumBus V 
 
 but if he do not approve it, he shall within said ten days return 
 it, together with his objections to the city clerk, who shall trans- 
 mit the same to the council at the next regular meeting thereof: 
 which objections the council shall cause to be entered in full on its 
 journal. The mayor may approve or disapprove the whole or any 
 item or part of an ordinance or resolution appropriating money. If 
 the mayor do not sign or veto an ordinance or resolution after its 
 passage or adoption, within the time specified, it shall take effect in 
 the same manner as if he had signed it. 
 
 Sec. 25. When the mayor refuses to sign an ordinance or reso- 
 lution, or part thereof, and returns it to the council with his objec- 
 tions, the council shall, after the expiration of not less than one 
 week, proceed to reconsider it and if upon reconsideration the reso- 
 lution or ordinance or part or item thereof disapproved by the mayor 
 be approved by the council, by as great a majority as required for 
 its original passage, it shall take effect without the signature of the 
 mayor. In all such cases the votes shall be taken by “yeas” and “nays” 
 and entered on the journal. 
 
 Sec. 26. Mayor’s estimate. The fiscal year of the city shall begin 
 on the first day of January. On or before the fifteenth day of No- 
 vember in each year the mayor shall prepare and submit to council 
 an estimate of the expense of conducting the affairs of the city for 
 the following fiscal year. This estimate shall be compiled from de- 
 tailed information obtained from the various departments, on uniform 
 blanks prepared by the city auditor, and shall be set forth: 
 
 (a) An itemized estimate of the expense of conducting each de- 
 partment during the next fiscal year, 
 
 (b) Comparisons of such estimates with the corresponding items 
 of expenditure for the last two complete fiscal years, and with the 
 expenditures of the current fiscal year plus an estimate of expendi- 
 tures necessary to complete the current fiscal year. 
 
 (c) Reasons for proposed increases or decreases in such items 
 of expenditure compared with the current fiscal year. 
 
 (d) A separate schedule for each department showing the things 
 necessary for the department to do during the ensuing year and which 
 of any desirable things it ought to do if possible. 
 
 (e) Items of pay roll increases, either as additional pay to present 
 employes, or pay for more employes. 
 
 (f) A statement from the city auditor of the total probable in- 
 come of the city from taxes for the period covered by the mayor’s 
 estimate. 
 
 (g) An itemization of all anticipated revenue from sources other 
 than the tax levy, including probable balances at end of current fiscal 
 year. 
 
 (h) The amounts required for interest on the city’s debt, and for 
 sinking funds as required by law. ; 
 
VI CyrarTer or THE Crry or Cozuamvs 
 
 (i) The total amount of outstanding city debt with a schedule 
 of maturities of bond issues. a 
 
 (j) Such other information as may be required by the council. 
 
 Upon the filing of such estimate the council shall cause at least 
 two hundred copies thereof to be printed for distribution. Copies 
 of the estimate shall: also be furnished to the newspapers of the city 
 and to the public library and each of its branches. 
 
 Sec. 27. Appropriation ordinance. Upon receipt of the mayor’s: 
 estimate the council shall at once prepare an appropriation ordi- 
 nance, in such manner as may be provided by ordinance or resolu- 
 tion, using the mayor’s estimate as a basis. Such ordinance shall 
 _set forth in detail the several objects for which the city has to pro- 
 vide and the amount appropriated for each, for the ensuing fiscal 
 year. Provision shall be made for public hearings upon such ordi- 
 nance before the council sitting as a committee of the whole. Fol- 
 lowing the public hearings and before the second reading and final. 
 passage, such ordinance shall be published in the manner herein 
 provided for the publication of ordinances, with a separate schedule 
 setting forth the items asked for in the mayor’s estimate which 
 were refused or changed by the council, and the reasons for such 
 change or refusal. The council shall not pass the appropriation or- 
 dinance until fifteen days after its publication nor before the first 
 Monday in January. Upon passage of the appropriation ordinance 
 by the council it shall be published in the manner provided for other 
 ordinances. 
 
 Sec. 28. Transfer of funds. The council may at any time, with 
 the approval of the mayor, transfer money so appropriated for the 
 use of one department, division or purpose, to any other depart- 
 ment, division or purpose; but no such transfer shall be made of 
 money derived from the sale of bonds or of revenues or earnings 
 of any non-tax supported public utility. 
 
 Sec. 29. Supplementary appropriation. Any accruing revenue of 
 the city, not appropriated as hereinbefore provided, may from time 
 to time be appropriated by the council to such authorized uses as 
 it may by ordinance determine. 
 
 Sec. 30. Limitations on appropriations. No money shall be 
 drawn from the treasury of the city, nor shall any obligation for the 
 expenditure of money be incurred, except pursuant to appropriations 
 made by the council; and whenever an appropriation is so made the 
 city clerk shall forthwith give notice to the city auditor. At the end 
 of each fiscal year all unexpended balances of appropriations not cov- 
 ered by outstanding contracts shall revert to the respective funds from 
 which the same were appropriated and shall then be subject to future 
 appropriation. Appropriations may be made in furtherance of im- 
 provements or other objects or work of the city which will not be 
 completed within the current year. 
 
CuarTer or THE Crty or CoLumMBUs VII 
 
 Sec. 31. Limitations on expenditures. Moneys appropriated as 
 hereinbefore provided shall not be used for other purposes than those 
 designated in the appropriation ordinance, and all expenditures within 
 the fiscal year shall be made with and within the appropriations here- 
 inbefore provided for. The mayor and the city auditor shall super- 
 vise all departmental expenditures, and shall keep ‘such expenditures 
 within the appropriations. 
 
 Seemde. Balances of ‘bond ‘iaeues. Any unexpended balance re- 
 maining in a fund which was created by an issue of bonds, the whole 
 or any part of which issue is still outstanding, unpaid and unprovided 
 for, shall, when such balance is no longer needed for the purpose 
 for which said fund was created, be transferred to the trustees of the 
 sinking fund to be applied in the payment of said bonds and the interest 
 thereon. 
 
 Sec. 33. Investigation by council. The council, or any committee 
 thereof duly authorized by the council so to do, may investigate the 
 financial transactions of any office or department of the city govern- 
 ment and the official acts and conduct of any city official, relative 
 to any matter upon which the council may act; and by similar investi- 
 gations may secure information upon any matter within its authority 
 as a legislative body. 
 
 Sec. 34. In conducting such investigations the council, or any 
 committee thereof, may compel the attendance of witnesses and the 
 production of books, papers and other evidence, and for that purpose 
 may issue subpoenas or attachments which shall be signed by the 
 presiding officer of the council or the chairman of such committee, 
 as the case may be, which may be served and executed by any officer 
 authorized by law to serve subpoenas and other process. If any 
 witness shall refuse to testify to any facts within his knowledge or 
 to produce any papers or books in his possession, or under his con- 
 trol, relating to the matter under inquiry, before the council, or any 
 such committee, the council shall have the power to cause the witness 
 to be punished as for contempt. No witness shall be excused from 
 testifying touching his knowledge of the matter under investigation 
 in any such inquiry, but such testimony shall not be used against 
 him in any criminal prosecution except for perjury committed upon 
 such inquiry. 
 
 sec, 35, Ordinances — filing and publication. Every ordinance or 
 resolution, upon its final passage, shall be recorded in a book kept 
 for that purpose, ard shall be authenticated by the signature of the 
 presiding officer and the city clerk. Every ordinance or mesolution 
 shall be published at least once in the City Bulletin within twenty days 
 after its final Passage and no other publication shall be required. 
 
 (As amended by popular vote, August 9, 1921.) 
 
VIII CHARTER OF THE City or ConumsBzs 
 
 INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM 
 
 Sec. 36. The initiative. | Any proposed ordinance may be sub- 
 mitted to the council by a petition signed by at least six per cent. 
 of the registered electors of the city.] All. petition papers, circulated 
 with respect to any proposed ordinance, shall be uniform in char- 
 acter and shall contain the proposed ordinance in full, and have printed 
 thereon the names and addresses of at least five electors who shall 
 be officially regarded as filing the petition and shall constitute a com- — 
 mittee of the petitioners for the purposes hereinafter named. 
 
 Sec. 37. Each signer of a petition shall sign his name in ink or 
 indelible pencil, and shall place on the petition paper after his name 
 his place of residence by street and number. The signatures to any 
 such petition need not all be appended to one paper, but to each 
 such paper there shall be attached an affidavit by the circulator thereof 
 stating the number of signers to such part of the petition and that 
 each signature appended to the paper is the genuine signature of the 
 
 person whose name it purports to be, and was made in the presence 
 of the affiant. 
 
 Sec. 38. All papers comprising a petition shall be assembled and 
 filed with the city clerk as one instrument. Within ten days from 
 the filing of a petition, said clerk shall ascertain whether it is signed 
 by the required number of registered electors. Upon the completion 
 of his examination the city clerk shall endorse upon the petition a cer- 
 tificate of the result thereof. 
 
 Sec. 39. If the city clerk’s certificate shows that the petition 
 is insufficient he shall at once notify each member of the committee 
 of the petitioners, hereinbefore provided for, and the petition may be 
 amended at any time within fifteen days from the date of the said 
 clerk’s certificate of examination, by filing with him an additional 
 petition paper or papers in the same manner as provided for the orig- 
 inal petition. 
 
 Sec. 40. Upon the filing of such an amendment the city clerk 
 shall, within ten days thereafter, examine the amended petition and 
 attach thereto his certificate of the result. If still insufficient, or if 
 no amendment shall have been filed, he shall file the petition in his 
 office and shall notify each member of the committee of that fact. 
 The final finding of the insufficiency of a petition shall not prejudice 
 the filing of a new petition for the same purpose. 
 
 Sec. 41. When the certificate of the city clerk shows the peti- 
 tion to be sufficient, he shall submit the proposed ordinance to the 
 council at its next regular meeting and the council shall at once read 
 and refer the same to an appropriate committee, which may be the 
 committee of the whole. Provision shall be made for public hear- 
 ings upon the proposed ordinance before the committee to which it 
 
Cuarter or tHe Crry or Conumsus Ix 
 
 is referred. Thereafter the committee shall report the proposed or- 
 dinance to the council, with its recommendations thereon, not later 
 than the third regular meeting of the council following that at 
 which the proposed ordinance was submitted to the council by the 
 city clerk. 
 
 Sec. 42. Upon receiving the proposed ordinance from the com- 
 mittee, the council shall at once proceed to consider it and shall take 
 final action thereon within thirty days from the date of such commit- 
 tee report. If the council reject the proposed ordinance, or pass it 
 in a form different from that set forth in the petition, or fail within 
 the time above limited to take any action thereon, the committee of 
 the petitioners may require that it be submitted to a vote of the 
 electors in its original form, or that it be submitted to a vote of the 
 electors with any proposed change, addition or amendment, which was 
 presented in writing either at a public hearing before the committee 
 to which such proposed ordinance was referred, or during the con- 
 sideration thereof by the council. 
 
 Sec.. 43. When an ordinance proposed by petition is to be sub- 
 mitted to a vote of the electors, the committee of the petitioner's 
 shall certify that fact and the Proposed ordinance to the city clerk 
 within ten days after the final action on such proposed ordinance by 
 the council. 
 
 Sec. 44. Upon receipt of the certificate and certified copy of the 
 proposéd ordinance, the city clerk shall certify the fact to the council 
 at its next regular meeting. If an election is to be héld not more 
 than six months nor less than thirty days after the receipt of such 
 certificate by the council, such proposed ordinance shall then be sub- 
 mitted to a vote of the electors. If no such election is to be held 
 within the time aforesaid the council may provide for submitting the 
 Proposed ordinance to the electors at a special election. If council 
 do not so provide within fifteen days after the receipt of such cer- 
 tificate, and if within thirty days after the expiration of said fifteen 
 days, a supplemental petition, signed by six percent. of the registered 
 electors, in addition to those who signed the original petition, be filed 
 with the city clerk asking that the proposed ordinance be submitted 
 to the voters at a time indicated in such petition, the council shall pro- 
 vide for a special election at such time. 
 
 Sec. 45. The sufficiency of any such supplemental petition shall 
 be determined, and it may be amended, in the manner provided for 
 original petitions for Proposing ordinances to the council. If no other 
 Provision be made as to the time of submitting a proposed ordinance 
 to a vote of the electors, it shall be submitted at the next regular 
 election. 
 
 Sec. 46. The ballots used when voting upon any such proposed 
 
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 a ¢ Crarter or rHe Crry or Cotumsus 
 
 ordinance shall state the title of the ordinance to be voted on and 
 yelow it the two propositions, “For the ordinance” and “Against the 
 ordinance.” Immediately at the right of each proposition there shall 
 de a square in which by making a cross (X), the voter may vote 
 cor or against the proposed ordinance. If a majority of the electors 
 voting on any such proposed ordinance shall vote in favor thereof, 
 't shall thereupon become an ordinance of the city, provided, how- 
 sver, that if the ordinance submitted is for an issue of bonds or 
 che levying of a tax, the number of votes necessary for adoption of 
 such ordinance shall be the same as that required by the general laws 
 of the state for the adoption of such measures by a vote of the 
 slectors. } 
 
 Sec. 47. Proposed ordinances for repealing any existing ordinance . 
 or ordinances, in whole or in part, may be submitted to the council 
 is provided in the preceding sections for initiating ordinances. In- 
 tiated ordinances adopted by the electors shall be published as in the 
 vase of other ordinances. 
 
 Sec. 48. Amendments and repeals. No ordinance adopted by an 
 alectoral vote shall be repealed or amended within two years aiter 
 its passage, except by an electoral vote. But an ordinance to repeal 
 or amend any such ordinance may, by resolution of the city council, 
 be submitted to an electoral vote at any regular election, or at any 
 special municipal election called for some other purpose, provided 
 notice of the intention so to do be published by the council not more 
 than sixty nor less than thirty days prior to such election, in the man- 
 ner required for the publication of ordinances. If an amendment is 
 so proposed, such notice shall contain the proposed amendments in 
 full. Such submission shall be in the same manner, and the vote shall 
 have the same effect, as in cases of ordinances submitted to an election 
 
 by popular petition. 
 
 Sec. 49. The referendum. No ordinance passed by the council, 
 
 “except as otherwise provided by this charter, shall go into effect until 
 
 thirty days after its final passage by the council. If, at any time 
 
 ‘within said thirty days, a petition signed by at least twelve per cent. 
 
 of the registered electors of the city be filed with the city clerk re- 
 questing that any such ordinance be repealed or submitted to a vote 
 of the electors, it shall. not become operative until the steps indicated 
 herein have been taken. 
 
 Sec. 50. When such a petition is filed with the city clerk he shall 
 determine the sufficiency thereof in the manner provided in this char- 
 ter. If the petition be found sufficient, or be rendered sufficient by 
 amendment as provided in sections 39, 40 and 41 hereof, the city clerk 
 shall certify that fact to the council, which shall proceed to reconsider 
 the ordinance. If, upon such reconsideration, the ordinance be not 
 entirely repealed, the council shall provide for submitting it to a vote 
 
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 of the electors, and in so doing the council shall be governed by the 
 provisions of sections 44, 45 and 46 hereof respecting the time of sub- 
 mission and manner of voting on ordinances proposed to the council 
 by petition. If when submitted to a vote of the electors any such 
 ordinance be not approved by a majority of those voting thereon, it 
 shall be deemed repealed. 
 
 Sec. 51. Referendum petitions need not contain the text of the 
 ordinance, the repeal of which is sought, but shall refer to such ordi- 
 nance by its title, number and date of passage. They shall be sub- 
 ject in all other respects to the requirements for petitions submitting 
 proposed ordinances to the council. Ballots used in referendum elec- 
 tions shall conform in all respects to those provided for in section 46 
 of this charter. 
 
 Sec. 52. Ordinances submitted to the council by initiative peti- 
 tions and passed by the council without change, or passed in an 
 amended form and not required to be submitted to a vote of the 
 electors by the committee of the petitioners, shall be subject to the 
 referendum in the same manner as other ordinances. 
 
 Sec. 53. Conflicting ordinances. If the provisions of two or more 
 ordinances adopted or approved at the same election conflict, the or- 
 dinance receiving the highest affirmative vote shall prevail. 
 
 Sec. 54. Referendum on emergency measures. Ordinances passed 
 as emergency measures shall be subject to referendum in like man- 
 ner as other ordinances, except that they shall go into effect at the 
 time indicated in such ordinance. If, when submitted to a vote of 
 the electors, an emergency measure be not approved by a majority 
 of those voting thereon, it shall be considered repealed as regards 
 any further action thereunder; but such measure so repealed shall 
 be deemed sufficient authority for payment, in accordance with the 
 ordinance, of any expense incurred previous to the referendum vote 
 thereon. 
 
 Sec. 55. When referendum does not apply. The following ordi- 
 nances or measures shall not be subject to the referendum, but shall 
 go into effect at the time indicated therein: 
 
 (a) The annual appropriation ordinance. 
 
 (b) In all cases where council is required to pass more than one 
 ordinance or other méasure to complete the legislaticn necessary to 
 make and pay for any public improvement, the referendum shall apply 
 only to the first ordinance or measure required to be passed and not 
 to any subsequent ordinances or measures relating thereto, and said 
 first ordinance or measure shall clearly state the purpose and general 
 scope of the improvement. 
 
 (c) Ordinances or resolutions providing for the approval or dis- 
 approval of appointments or removals by the mayor, and appointments 
 or removals made by council. 
 
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 (d) Actions by the council on the approval of official bonds. 
 (e) Ordinances or resolutions providing for the submission of any 
 proposition to a vote of the clectors. 
 
 Sec. 56. Referendum —preliminary action. In case a petition be 
 fied requiring that a measure passed by the council providing for 
 an expenditure of money, a bond issue, or a public improvement be 
 submitted to a vote of the electors, all steps preliminary to such actual 
 expenditure, actual issuance of bonds, or actual execution of a con- 
 tract for such improvement, may be taken prior to the election. 
 
 THE EXECUTIVE. 
 
 Sec. 57. Executive and administrative powers. The executive and 
 administrative powers of the city shall be vested in the mayor, di- 
 rectors of departments and other administrative officers and boards 
 provided for in this charter or by ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 58. Term and qualifications of mayor. The mayor shall be 
 the chief executive officer of the city. He shall be elected for a term 
 of four years. The mayor shall be an elector of the city and shall not 
 hold any other public office or employment, except that of notary 
 public or member of the state militia. 
 
 Sec. 59. Salary of mayor. The salary of the mayor shall be five 
 thousand dollars per annum; but said salary may be changed by ordi- 
 nance of council, provided that such ordinance must be passed at 
 least one year prior to the beginning of the term of the mayor to be 
 affected thereby. 
 
 (Amended December 18, 1922, by Ordinance 33,755, raising the salary of the 
 Mayor to $6000, effective January 1, 1924.) 
 Sec. 60. Mayor’s power to appoint and remove. The mayor shall 
 
 appoint and shall have power to remove the following officers: 
 
 1. The director of public safety. 
 
 2. The director of public service. 
 
 3. Any other officers whose positions may be créated by council 
 and for whose appointment no provision is herein made. 
 
 Sec. 61. With the concurrence of council, the mayor shall appoint 
 the sinking fund trustees, the members of the civil service commis- 
 sion, four members of the board of health and the members of any 
 advisory commission provided for by council. The mayor, with the 
 concurrence of council, may at any time remove any member so ap- 
 pointed, for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, having 
 first given to such member a copy of the charges against him and 
 an opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel in his own defense, 
 before the council, and such removal shall be final. 
 
 Sec. 62. General powers and duties of mayor. It shall be the duty 
 of the mayor to act as chief conservator of the peace within the 
 city; to supervise the administration of the affairs of the city; to 
 see that all ordinances of the city are enforced; to recommend to 
 the council for adoption such measures as he may deem necéssary 
 
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 or expedient; to keep the council advised of the financial condition 
 and the needs of the city; to prepare and submit to the council such 
 reports as may be required by that body, and to exercise such powers 
 and perform such duties as are conferred or required by this charter 
 or by the laws of the state in so far as they are consistent with this 
 charter or by such laws of the state as it is beyond the competency 
 of this charter to supersede. 
 
 Sec. 63. Mayor’s investigation. The mayor may without notice, 
 cause the affairs of any department or the conduct of any officer or 
 employe to be examined. Any person or persons appointed by the 
 mayor to examine the affairs of any department or the conduct of 
 any officer, or employe, shall have the same power to compel the 
 attendance of witnesses, and the production of books and papers and 
 other evidence and to cause witnesses to be punished for contempt, 
 as is conferred upon the council by this charter. 
 
 Sec. 64. Succession of mayor—acting mayor. If the mayor die, 
 resign or remove his residence from the city during the term of his 
 office he shall be succeeded in office, until the first day of January 
 following the next regular municipal election, by the president of the 
 council who shall thereby cease to be a member of council. At the 
 next regular municipal election following the death, resignation or 
 removal of the mayor from the city, if such election be the time for 
 the regular election of a mayor, a mayor shall then be elected to 
 serve for a term of four years; otherwise, for the remainder of the 
 unexpired term. If the mayor be temporarily absent from the city, 
 or become temporarily disabled from any cause, his duties shall be 
 performed during such absence or disability by the president of the 
 council, under the title of acting mayor. 
 
 Sec. 65. Mayor’s right in council. The mayor, the directors of 
 public service and public safety, the city attorney and the director 
 of any other department that may hereafter be established by ordi- 
 nance, shall be entitled to seats in the council. Neither the mayor 
 nor the director of any department, nor the city attorney, shall have 
 a vote in the council, but the mayor shall have the right to introduce 
 ordinances and to take part in the discussion of all matters coming 
 before the council; and the directors and city attorney shall be en- 
 
 titled to take part in all discussions in the council relating to their 
 respective departments. 
 
 THE CITY ATTORNEY. 
 
 Sec. 66. Election and qualifications. The city attorney shall be 
 an elector of the city and be elected for a term of four years excepting 
 that at the first election under this charter he shall be elected for a 
 
 term of two years. He shall be an attorney-at-law, admitted to prac- 
 tice in the state of Ohio. 
 
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 Sec. 67. Powers and duties. He an be the legal ae of and 
 attorney and counsel for the city, and for all officers and depart- 
 ments thereof in matters relating to their official duties. He shall 
 prosecute or defend all suits for and in behalf of the city, and shail 
 prepare all contracts, bonds and other instruments in writing in which 
 the city is concerned and shall certify in writing his approval of the 
 form and correctness thereof. He may appoint such assistants, sec- 
 setaries and clerks as council may authorize. " 
 
 Sec. 68. The city attorney shall be the prosecuting attorney of 
 municipal court. He may detail such of his assistants as he may 
 deem proper to assist in such work. He shall prosecute all cases 
 brought before such court and perform the same duties, so far as 
 they are applicable thereto, as are required of the prosecuting attorney 
 of the county. 
 
 Sec. 69. The city attorney shall prosecute or defend for and in 
 behalf of the city, all complaints, suits and controversies in which 
 the city is a party, and such other suits, matters and controversies 
 relating to city affairs as he shall, by resolution or ordinance of coun- 
 cil, be directed to prosecute or defend. 
 
 Sec. 70. The council, the director of any depariment, or any 
 officer, board, or commission not included within a department, may 
 by request in writing, require the opinion of the city attorney upon 
 any question of law involving their respective powers or duties. 
 
 Sec. 71. Actions. The city attorney shall apply, in the name of 
 the city, to a court of competent jurisdiction for an order of in- 
 junction to restrain the misapplication of funds of the city, or the 
 abuse of its corporate powers, or the execution or performance of any 
 contract made in behalf of the city in contravention of law, or which 
 was procured by fraud or corruption. 
 
 Sec. 72. When an obligation or contract made on behalf of the 
 city granting a right or easement, or creating a public duty, is being 
 evaded or violated, the city attorney shall likewise apply for the for- 
 feiture or the specific performance thereof as the nature of the case 
 requires. 
 
 Sec. 73. In case any officer, board, or commission fail to perform 
 any duty required by law, the city attorney shall apply to a court 
 of competent jurisdiction for a writ of mandamus to compel the per- 
 formance of such duty. 
 
 Sec 74. In case the city attorney, upon written request of any 
 taxpayer of the city, fail to make any application provided for in the 
 preceding three sections, such taxpayer may institute suit or pro- 
 ceedings for such purpose in his own name on behalf of the city. No 
 such suit or proceeding shall be entertained by any court until such 
 
CHARTER OF THE Crry or CoLUMBUS XV 
 
 request to the city attorney shall first have been made, nor until 
 the taxpayer shall have given security for the costs of the pro- 
 ceeding. 
 
 Sec. 75. No such action to enjoin the performance of a contract 
 entered into, or the payment of any bonds or notes issued by the 
 city, shall be brought or maintained unless commenced within one 
 year from the date of such contract bonds or notes. 
 
 Sec. 76. If the court hearing any such action be satisfied that 
 the taxpayer had good cause to believe his allegations were well 
 founded, or that they are sufficient in law, it shall make such order 
 as the equity and justice of the case demand. In such case the tax- 
 payer shall be allowed his costs, and if judgment be finally entered 
 in his favor, he may be allowed as part of the costs a reasonable 
 compensation for his attorney. 
 
 Sec. 77. City attorney to act as city solicitor. In addition to the 
 duties imposed upon the city attorney by this charter or required of 
 him by ordinance, he shall perform the duties which are imposed upon 
 city solicitors by the general law of the state, beyond the competence 
 of this charter to alter or require. 
 
 Sec. 78. Successor to city attorney. If the city attorney die, re- 
 sign or remove his residence from the city during the term of his 
 office, his successor in office shall be appointed by the council to 
 serve until the first day of January following the next regular mu- 
 nicipal election. If such election be the time for the regular election 
 of a city attorney, a city attorney shall then be elected to serve 
 for a term of four years; otherwise, for the remainder of the unex- 
 pired term. — 
 
 THE AUDITOR. 
 
 Sec. 79. Election and qualifications. The auditor shall be an 
 elector of the city, and be elected for a term of four years, except- 
 ing that at the first election under this charter he shall be elected 
 for a term of two years. 
 
 Sec. 80. Powers and duties. The auditor shall be the city’s chief 
 accounting officer. He shall keep, in accurate, systematized detail 
 a record of the receipts, disbursements, assets and. liabilities of the 
 city, and the recorded facts shall be presented periodically to 
 officials and to the public in such summaries and analytical 
 schedules as shall be necessary to show the full effect of such trans- 
 actions for each fiscal year upon the finances of the city and in 
 relation to each department of the city government, including dis- 
 tinct summaries and schedules for each public utility owned or op- 
 erated. : 
 
 Sec. 81. He shall prescribe the method of keeping accounts by 
 all departments and the forms of reports to be rendered to him. 
 
 Sec. 82. He shall require that daily reports be made to him by 
 
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 each department, showing the receipt of all moneys by such depart- 
 ment and the disposition thereof. He shall keep an account of all 
 appropriations made by the council and all expenditures made or 
 contracted to be made under such appropriations. 
 
 Sec. 83. The auditor shall, at the end of each fiscal year, or 
 oftener if required by council, examine and audit the accounts of all 
 officers and departments and report such findings to the council. He 
 shall upon the death, resignation, removal or expiration of the term 
 of any officer, examine the accounts of such officer and if such off- 
 cer be found indebted to the city, immediately give notice thereof 
 to the mayor and the city attorney and the latter shall forthwith pro- 
 ceed to collect such indebtedness. 
 
 Sec. 84. The auditor shall draw his warrant on the treasury to 
 the order of the person or persons to whom payment is lawfully 
 due, which warrant shall specify the fund upon which it is drawn. 
 No payment, however, of any claim shall be deemed as lawful and 
 subject to payment by the auditor unless it be pursuant to and in 
 strict compliance with an appropriation by council and written ap- 
 proval by the head of the department in which the obligation was 
 incurred. 
 
 Sec. 85. The head of the department and his sureties shall be 
 liable to the city for all loss or damage sustained by the city by 
 reason of the negligent or corrupt approval of any claim against the 
 city in his department. Whenever any claim shall be presented to 
 the auditor he shall have power to require evidence that the amount 
 claimed is justly due and that such claim is in conformity with law 
 and ordinance. For that purpose he may summon before him any of- 
 ficer, agent, or employe of any department, or any other person, and 
 exxamine him upon oath or affirmation relative thereto, which oath or 
 affirmation he may administer. If the auditor shall draw a warrant 
 for any claim contrary to law or ordinance, he and his sureties shall 
 be individually liable for the amount thereof. 
 
 Sec. 86. The auditor may appoint a deputy and such other assist- 
 ants and clerks in his department as council may authorize. Said 
 deputy shall have power to perform all the duties of the auditor. 
 
 Sec. 87. Successor to auditor. If the auditor die, resign, or re- 
 move from the city during the term of his office, his successor in 
 office shall be appointed by council to serve until the first day of 
 January following the next regular municipal election. If such 
 election be the time for the regular election of the auditor, an 
 auditor shall then be elected to serve for a term of four years; other- 
 wise, for the unexpired term. 
 
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 THE TREASURER. 
 
 Sec. 88. The treasurer shall be the custodian of all money be- 
 longing to the city and, subject to the provision of any specific trust, 
 of all money held in trust by it. He shall keep, preserve and deposit 
 the same as provided by ordinance of council. 
 
 Sec. 89. The treasurer shall demand and receive from the county 
 treasurer, when due the city, taxes levied and assessments made and 
 certified to the county auditor by authority of council, and by said 
 auidtor placed on the tax list for collection, and from persons au- 
 thorized to collect or required to pay them, moneys accruing to the 
 
 city from judgments, fines, penalties, forfeitures, licenses and other 
 debts due the city. 
 
 Sec. 90. Unless otherwise specifically prescribed bylaw or ordi- 
 nance, all money belonging to or due the city shall be promptly and 
 directly paid to the treasurer and by him placed in the appropriate 
 fund. Notice of sums so due and payable shall be given to the 
 treasurer by the auditor. 
 
 Sec. 91. The treasurer shall disburse the funds in his custody 
 only on warrant of the auditor, unless otherwise directed by the 
 general laws of the state or this charter. 
 
 Sec. 92. The treasurer shall keep an accurate, systematized and 
 detailed account of all money received and disbursed by him. 
 
 Sec. 93. Council shall provide by ordinance for the deposit of 
 all public moneys coming into the hands of the treasurer in such’ 
 bank or banks, or building and loan or savings associations or com- 
 panies, situated within the county, as offer, at competitive bidding, 
 the highest rate of interest and give good and sufficient security. 
 
 (As amended by popular vote November 7, 1921.) 
 
 Sec. 94. The treasurer shall be the custodian of all other public 
 money coming into his hands as city treasurer. He shall keep, pre- 
 serve and disburse such moneys in the manner prescribed by law. 
 
 Sec. 95. At the expiration of his term of office, or on his resig- 
 nation or removal, the treasurer shall deliver to his successor all 
 
 moneys, books, papers and other .property in his possession as 
 treasurer. 
 
 Sec. 96. The treasurer may appoint such assistants and clerks 
 as council may authorize. 
 
 DEPARTMENTS AND DIVISIONS. 
 
 Sec. 97. Departments and divisions established. The following 
 administrative departments and divisions thereof are hereby estab- 
 lished by this charter: 
 
 1. Department of public safety. 
 
 (a) Division of police. 
 (b) Division of fire. 
 
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 (c) Division of public welfare. 
 
 (d) Division of building regulation. 
 
 (e) Division of weights and measures. 
 2. Department of public service. 
 
 (a) Division of engineering and construction. 
 
 (b) Division of water. 
 
 (c) Division of light, heat and power. 
 
 (d) Division of parks and forestry. 
 
 (e) Division of refuse collection and disposal. 
 3. Department of health and sanitation. 4 
 
 Sec. 98. Change in departments and division. The council may 
 by ordinance create new or additional departments or divisions and 
 may combine the functions and duties of divisions. — 
 
 Sec 99. Departmental divisions. The work of the several de- 
 partments shall be distributed among such divisions thereof as are 
 established by this charter or as may be established by the council 
 by ordinance. There shall be a superintendent or chief in charge 
 of each division. 
 
 Sec. 100. Appointments. Subject to the civil service provisions 
 of this charter, the directors and other principal administrative ofh- 
 cers and boards shall have power to appoint and remove all officers, 
 clerks and employes in their respective departments. 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. 
 
 Sec. 101. General Powers and Duties of Director. Under the 
 direction of the mayor, the director of public safety shall be the 
 executive head of the divisions of police, fire, public welfare, build- 
 ing regulation and weights and measures. He shall have all powers 
 and duties connected with and incident to the appointment, regula- 
 tion and government of his department, except as otherwise pro- 
 vided by this charter. He shall keep a record of his proceedings. 
 
 Sec. 102. Division of police. The division of police shall be com- 
 posed of a chief and such officers, patrolmen and other employes as 
 may be provided by ordinance of council. In case of riot or like 
 emergency the mayor may appoint additional patrolmen and officers 
 for temporary service who need not be in the classified service. 
 
 Sec. 103. Under the direction of the director of public safety, 
 the chief of the division of police shall have control of all police 
 stations and sub-stations, and of the stationing and transfer of all 
 patrolmen and other officers and employes constituting the division 
 of police. 
 
 Sec. 104. No person shall act as special policeman, special de- 
 tective, or other special police officer for any purpose whatsoever, 
 except upon written authority from the director of public safety, 
 and when so authorized shall act under the direction and 
 
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CoLumsus XIX 
 
 control of the chief of police and for a specified time, not to exceed 
 six months. 
 
 Sec. 105. Division of fire. The division of fire shall be composed 
 of a chief of the division and such other officers, firemen and em- 
 ployes as may be provided by ordinance or resolution of the council. 
 In case of riot, conflagration, or like emergency, the mayor may ap- 
 point additional firemen and officers for temporary service, who need 
 not be in the classified service. 
 
 Sec. 106. Under the direction of the director of public safety the 
 chief of the division of fire shall have control of the stationing and 
 transfer of all firemen and other officers and employes constituting 
 the division of fire. 
 
 Sec. 107. Removal of chiefs. The director of safety shall have 
 the exclusive right to suspend the chief of the division of police or 
 the chief of the division of fire, for incompetence, gross neglect of 
 duty, gross immorality, habitual drunkenness, failure to obey orders 
 given by the proper authority, or for any other just and reasonable 
 cause. If either of such chiefs be so suspended the director of safety 
 shall forthwith certify the fact, together with the cause of such 
 suspension, to the civil service commission, who within five days 
 from the date of the receipt of such notice shall proceed to hear 
 such charges and render judgment thereon, which judgment may be 
 suspension, reduction in rank or dismissal, and shall be final. 
 
 Sec. 108. Suspension in fire and police division. The chiefs of 
 the divisions of police and fire shall have the exclusive right to sus- 
 pend any of the officers or employes in their respective divisions, 
 for incompetence, gross neglect of duty, gross immorality, habitual 
 drunkenness, failure to obey orders given by the proper authority, 
 or for any other just and reasonable cause. If any officer or em- 
 ploye be suspended, as herein provided, the chief of the division 
 concerned shall forthwith in writing certify the fact, together with 
 the cause for the suspension, to the director of public safety, who, 
 within five days from the receipt thereof shall proceed to inquire 
 into the cause of such suspension and render judgment thereon, 
 which judgment, if the charge be sustained, may be suspension, re- 
 duction in rank or dismissal, and such judgment in the matter shall 
 be final, except as otherwise hereinafter provided. The director of 
 public safety, in any such investigation, shall have the same power 
 to administer oaths and secure the attendance of witnesses, and the 
 production of books arid papers, as is conferred upon the council. 
 
 Sec. 109. Appeal to civil service commission. Any person in the 
 division of police or fire under the exclusive control of the chief 
 thereof, who is suspended, reduced in rank or dismissed from the 
 department by the director of public safety may appeal from the 
 
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 decision of such officer to the civil service commission within ten 
 days from and after the date of such suspension, reduction or dis- 
 missal. In such event said director shall, upon notice from the 
 commission of such appeal, forthwith transmit to the commission a 
 copy of the charges and proceedings thereunder. The commission 
 shall hear such appeal within ten days from and after the filing of 
 the same with the commission and may affirm, disafirm or modify 
 the judgment of the director of public safety, and its judgment in 
 the matter shall be final. 
 
 Sec. 110. Classification of employees in divisions of police and fire. 
 The director of public safety shall classify the service in the divisions 
 of police and fire, in conformity with the ordinance of the councii 
 declaring the number of persons to be employed therein, and shall 
 make rules for the regulation and discipline of such divisions con- 
 sistent with the provisions of this charter. 
 
 Sec. 111. Relief of police and firemen. The council may provide 
 by general ordinance for the relief, out of the police or fire funds, 
 of members of the division of police and fire temporarily cr perma- 
 nently disabled in the discharge of their duty. Nothing herein. shall 
 impair, restrict, or repeal any provision of general law authorizing 
 the levying of taxes to provide for firemen, police, and sanitary police 
 pension funds, and to create and perpetuate boards of trustees for the 
 administration of such funds. 
 
 Sec. 112. Division of public welfare. Under the direction of the 
 director of public safety, the superintendent of the division of pub- 
 lic welfare shall manage and control all charitable, correctional and 
 reformatory institutions and agencies belonging to the city, the. use 
 of recreational facilities of the city, including parks, playgrounds, 
 public gymnasiums, public bath houses, bathing beaches and _ social 
 centers. He shall have charge of the inspection and supervision of 
 all public amusements and entertainments, and shall have supervision 
 of the free employment office. He shall provide for the study of and 
 research into causes of poverty, delinquency, crime and other similar 
 problems in the community, shall serve as a member of the board of 
 health, and shall perform all such other duties relative to the public 
 welfare as council may prescribe. The superintendent of the division 
 of public welfare shall be the deputy to the director of public safety, 
 and shall in the absence or disability of such director have all his 
 powers and perform all his duties. 
 
 Sec. 113. Division of building regulation. Under the direction 
 of the director of public safety the superintendent of building 
 regulation shall enforce and administer all laws and ordinances relating 
 to the erection, manufacture and repair of buildings and other 
 structures. 
 
 Sec. 114. Division of weights and measures. Under the direction 
 
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 of the director of public safety, the sealer of weights and measures 
 shall enforce and administer all laws and ordinances regulating 
 weights and measures. : 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE 
 
 Sec. 115. General powers and duties of director. The director 
 of public service shall have charge of the construction, improvement, 
 repair and maintenance of streets, sidewalks, alleys, lanes, bridges, 
 viaducts, aqueducts, wharves, docks, landings and other public high- 
 ways, sewers, sewage disposal plants and farms, drains, ditches, cul- 
 verts, canals, streams, water courses, all public buildings, except as 
 herein otherwise provided, all parks, playgrounds, boulevards, ceme- 
 teries, squares, and other public places and grounds belonging to 
 the city or dedicated to its use, and of water, heat, light and power 
 plants and all other public utilities of whatsoever character, owned, 
 leased or operated by the city. 
 
 Sec. 116. He shall manage and control cemeteries, market 
 houses, crematories, sewage disposal plants and farms, all public 
 utilities of the city, and except as otherwise provided in this charter, 
 all public improvements, works and undertakings of the city. 
 
 Sec. 117. He shall have charge of the cleaning, sprinkling and 
 lighting of streets and public places, the collection and disposal of 
 waste, the making and preservation of all surveys, maps, plans, 
 drawings and estimates for the public work under his supervision, 
 and the preservation of contracts, papers, plans, tools and appli- 
 ances belonging to the city and pertaining to the functions of his 
 department. 
 
 Sec. 118. He shall enforce all the obligations of privately owned 
 or operated, public utilities enforceable by the city. 
 
 Sec. 119. Council may provide for a deputy to the director of 
 public service, who shall be appointed by the mayor and may be 
 removed by him. The deputy shall perform such duties as the 
 director of public service shall prescribe and shall, in case of the 
 absence or disability of the director, have all the powers and per- 
 form all the duties of said director. In the absence of such provi- 
 sion by council, the head of the division of engineering and con- 
 struction, who shall be known as the chief engineer, shall act as 
 such deputy. 
 
 Sec. 120. Water—rates and charges. For the purpose of paying 
 the expense of conducting, managing and operating the city water 
 works, the director of public service shall, as a condition of supply, 
 charge against and collect from all consumers both public and 
 Private, including the various and several city departments and insti- 
 tutions, a charge for water service rendered. Such rates of charge 
 shall be fixed by ordinance of council. It shall be made in an equita- 
 
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 ble manner and in such amount as will fully cover the cost of 
 service. 
 
 Sec. 121. In determining the cost of water service to be so 
 charged and collected, council shall be governed by the following 
 general rule: 
 
 All water consumers, as stated in the preceding section, shall 
 be charged with and shall pay the current cost of maintenance, 
 operation and supply, interest on outstanding water bonds and losses 
 sustained by depreciation. 
 
 Sec. 122. The director of public service shall, out of the revenues 
 of the water department, cause to be paid and transferred to the 
 trustees of the sinking fund of the city a sufficient amount of money 
 to pay the interest on outstanding water bonds as it matures. 
 
 Sec. 123. Council shall by ordinance cause to be established, out 
 of the revenues of the water department, a depreciation fund which 
 shall as nearly as practicable, equal the annual loss by depreciation 
 sustained by the water plant. This fund shall be applied as follows: 
 
 (a) A sufficient amount shall be transferred to the trustees of the 
 sinking fund at the beginning of each year to provide a sinking fund 
 for the redemption of outstanding water bonds at maturity. 
 
 (b) The residue after making such transfer shall te applied in 
 the making of repairs, extensions or replacements. 
 
 Sec. 124. Council may by ordinance or resolution relieve from 
 the payment of bills for water service, any hospital, asylum or other 
 charitable institution devoted to the relief of the poor, the aged, 
 the infirm or destitute persons or orphan children, but such relief 
 shall only be granted to institutions which are within the city’s 
 limits and not maintained by general taxation, and on the further 
 condition that the bills from which said parties are relieved are 
 promptly paid to the water department out of the general revenue 
 fund of the city. 
 
 Sec. 125. In the administration of the affairs of the water depart- 
 ment, the director of public service shall prescribe such rules and 
 regulations as the just interests of the city and water consumers 
 may demand. Said director may also require from a consumer a 
 cash deposit or other form of security as he may deem necessary to 
 protect the city against loss by reason of non-payment of bills or 
 other breach of contract. Cash deposit so received by the city shall 
 be deemed as money held in trust to be returned to the depositors 
 with interest at the rate of four per centum per annum at the termi- 
 nation of the contract and after there has been a full compliance with 
 its terms. Council shall by ordinance or resolution transfer said 
 deposits to the trustees of the sinking fund to be held in trust for 
 the water department, but subject at all times to draft of the director 
 of public service to meet adjustment with the depositors. The trus- 
 
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 tees of the sinking fund shall invest the money so transferred as 
 other funds under their control are invested, and the net gains re- 
 sulting from the investment shall annually be placed to the credit of 
 said trust account. 
 
 Sec. 126. Rates and charges for service furnished by municipally 
 owned utilities. The general rules prescribed in sections 120, 121, 122, 
 123 and 124, governing the sale and disposition of water, shall apply 
 as far as practicable in the sale and disposition of the service of all 
 other public utility plants owned and operated by the city, except 
 that as to any such service furnished in competition with a privately 
 owned plant, the rate shall be such as in the opinion of council 
 tends best to develop and increase the business, to increase the load 
 factor and to promote in other ways the general success of such 
 utilities. 
 
 (As amended by popular vote August 14, 1917.) 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SANITATION. 
 
 Sec. 127. Board of health. All powers and duties relative to the 
 public health shall be vested in the board of health, which shall be 
 composed of five members, a majority of whom shall constitute a 
 quorum. Four of such members shall be appointed and may be 
 removed as provided in section 61, and shall serve without compen- 
 sation. The superintendent of public welfare shall, by virtue of his 
 office be the fifth member of such board. The mayor shall be presi- 
 dent by virtue of his office but shall have no vote. 
 
 Sec. 128. Terms of office of members. The term of office of 
 members of the board of health, other than the superintendent of 
 public welfare, shall be four years, but the members of the board, 
 as now constituted by law, serving at the time this charter takes 
 effect, shall continue in office for the term for which they were 
 appointed. The superintendent of public welfare shall succeed the 
 member whose term first expires, and thereafter as the respective terms 
 of the remaining members expire their successors shall be -ap- 
 pointed for terms of four years. 
 
 Sec. 129. Powers and Duties. Subject to. the provisions of this 
 charter the board of health. shall -have.all the powers and perform 
 all the duties provided. by general law to be exercised -by boards of 
 health, and shall have power to. provide such further means and 
 agencies as they may deem necesary and proper to protect, preserve 
 and safeguard the public health. 
 
 PUBLIC LIBRARIES. 
 
 Sec. 130. Trustees; appointment and organization. The erection 
 and equipment, and the custody, contro! and administration of free 
 public libraries, branches and _ stations thereof, established by or 
 belonging to the city, shall be vested in six trustees, not more than 
 three of whom shall belong to the same political party. Such trus- 
 
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 tees shall be appointed by the mayor, to serve without compensa- 
 tion, for a term of four years and until their successors are ap- 
 pointed and qualified. Members of the board as now constituted 
 by law, serving at the time this charter takes effect, shall continue as 
 such for the terms for which they were appointed, and thereafter 
 as the respective terms of the trustees expire their successors shall 
 be appointed for terms of four years. Said trustees shall organize 
 as a board of library trustees and shall elect a president, vice 
 president, treasurer, and secretary. The librarian may serve also 
 as secretary. Four trustees shall constitute a quorum, and four 
 votes shall be necessary to pass any measure or to authorize any 
 act, which votes shall be taken by the yeas and nays and entered on 
 the record of their proceedings. In the making of contracts the 
 trustees shall be governed by the provisions of this charter applica- 
 ble thereto. 
 
 Sec. 131. Powers and duties of trustees. The board of library 
 trustees shall establish, maintain and regulate the public library and 
 branches and stations thereof, and may receive donations and be- 
 quests of money or property therefor, in trust or otherwise. The 
 board of library trustees, by its treasurer, shall be the custodian of 
 all trust funds now held by it, or which may hereafter be received 
 by gift, devise, in trust, or otherwise for the public library of Colum- 
 bus, Ohio, and of all other funds acquired for or by reason of the 
 operation and extension of the public library system except funds 
 appropriated by’ council for library purposes. Said treasurer and 
 his successor in office shall carefully preserve, control, and invest 
 the said trust funds as required by the deeds of trust, and shall dis- 
 burse the income of the same as they shall be directed by the board 
 of library trustees in accordance with and subject to the terms and 
 conditions of said deeds of trust. Disbursements from all other 
 funds in the custody of said treasurer shall be made only as the 
 board of library trustees shall direct. Said treasurer shall execute 
 to the board of library trustees, for the use and benefit of said 
 city, a good and sufficient bond in such amount and with such 
 surety or sureties as the said trustees may require, conditioned for 
 the faithful performance of his duties as the custodian of said 
 funds, and the premium, if any, shall be paid from the library funds. 
 
 The board of library trustees shall appoint the librarians and 
 necessary assistants and employes, fix for their compensation, adopt the 
 necessary by-laws and regulations for the protection and govern- 
 ment of the libraries, branches and stations thereof, and all prop- 
 erty belonging thereto, and shall exercise all the powers and duties 
 connected with and incident to the government, operation and 
 maintenance thereof, including the purchase of books, periodicals, 
 stationery, maps, and like requirements. 
 
 Said board of library trustees shall establish and maintain a 
 
CHARTER OF THE Crry or CoLuMBUS XXV 
 ‘merit-service system for the appointment, assignment, and govern- 
 ment of the librarians and assistants and employes. The president 
 and one other member of the board of library trustees, selected by 
 it, together with the librarian, shall constitute an examining board 
 for the examination of librarians and assistants and employes in 
 and for the library service of the said free public library, its 
 branches and stations, and may issue certificates valid for not less 
 than one year, to such persons as are found to possess the requisite 
 attainments, and such certificates shall be renewable by the said 
 examining board. The certificates provided for in this section shall 
 be signed by the said examiners and shall obviate the necessity of 
 any and all other examinations for library service, of the persons 
 holding them, by any board of examiners. 
 
 Sec. 132. The board of library trustees shall report annually to 
 the council covering the operation of the public library including 
 detailed statements of the receipts and disbursements of the funds in 
 its custody. 
 
 No other provisions of this charter shall be held to impair or 
 restrict the powers and duties of the board of library trustees as speci- 
 fied herein or as now provided by general law. 
 
 TRUSTEES OF THE SINKING FUND. 
 
 Sec. 133. Appointment of. The custody, control and adminis- 
 tration of the sinking fund shall be vested in four trustees not more 
 than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. 
 The members of the existing board of sinking fund trustees shall 
 continue in office for the terms for which they were appointed. 
 Thereafter members of the board of sinking fund trustees shall be 
 appointed to serve for terms of four years and until their successors 
 have been appointed and qualified. A vacancy shall be filled for the 
 unexpired term in the manner provided for original appointments. 
 
 Sec. 134. Compensation and bond. Said trustees shall serve 
 without compensation and shall give such bond as council may require, 
 and the cost thereof together with all other incidental and neces- 
 Sary expenses of such trustees, shall be paid by them from the 
 funds under their control. 
 
 Sec. 135. Organization of board. The trustees of the sinking 
 fund shall elect one of their number as president and another as 
 vice-president, who in the absence or disability of the president, 
 shall perform his duties and exercise his powers, and such secretary, 
 clerks or employes as council may provide by ordinance. Meetings 
 shall be open to the public, and all questions relating to the pur- 
 chase or sale of securities, payment of bonds, interest or judgments 
 or involving the payment or appropriation of money shall be de- 
 cided by a yea and nay vote with the name of each member voting 
 
XXVI CxHarTER oF THE Crry or Co_tuMEUS 
 
 recorded on the journal, and no question shall be decided unless 
 approved by a majority of the whole board. 
 
 Sec. 136. Powers and duties. The trustees of the sinking fund 
 shall have charge of and provide for the payment of all bonds issued 
 by the city, the interest maturing thereon and the payment of all final 
 judgments against the city, except in condemnation of property cases. 
 They shall receive from the auditor all taxes, assessments and moneys 
 collected for such purposes and invest and disburse them in the man- 
 ner provided in this charter. For the satisfaction of any obligation 
 under their supervision, the trustees of the sinking fund may sell or 
 use any of the securities or money in their possession. 
 
 Whenever, in the opinion of the trustees of the sinking fund, it 
 is for the best interests of the municipal corporation, the said the trus- 
 tees may purchase bonds of said municipal corporation and pay for the 
 same at the time of acceptance and delivery thereof, or said bonds 
 may be delivered and paid for in installments as the proceeds of said 
 sale are needed by the municipality, and when so accepted shall, for 
 all purposes, be considered as having been sold by the corporation; 
 bonds so purchased may be paid for out of all moneys received by 
 said trustees of the sinking fund, and for the purpose of paying for 
 . bonds so purchased the trustees may sell and use any securities in 
 their possession, provided, however, that such securities shall not be 
 sold for less than par for the purpose of paying for bonds of the 
 corporation. : 
 
 (As amended by popular vote November 8, 1921.) 
 
 Sec. 137. On or before the first Monday in May of each year, 
 the trustees of the sinking fund shall certify to council the amount 
 of money necessary to provide a sinking fund for the future payment 
 of bonds issued by the city, for the payment of final judgments, except 
 in condemnation of property cases, for the payment of interest on 
 the bonded indebtedness and the expenses incident to the manage- 
 ment of the sinking fund. The council shall place the several amounts 
 so certified in the tax ordinance before and in preference to any other 
 item and for the full amount certified. 
 
 Sec. 138. The trustees of the sinking fund shall invest all moneys 
 received by them in bonds of the United States, of the state of 
 Ohio, or of any municipal corporation, school district, township or 
 county, in such state, and hold in reserve only such sums as may be 
 needed for the payment of maturing obligations. All interest and 
 gains received by them shall be re-invested in like manner. 
 
 Sec. 139. Money shall be drawn by check only, signed by the 
 president and at least two members of the board, and the secretary. 
 All securities or evidences of debt held by the trustees for the city 
 shall be deposited with the treasurer or with a safety deposit com- 
 pany or companies within the city, and when so deposited they shall 
 be drawn only pursuant to a resolution of the board, and in the pres- 
 ence of at least two trustees. 
 
CHaRTER OF THE Crry or CoLUMBUS XXVII 
 
 Sec. 140. Powers as to investigation. The trustees of the sinking 
 fund may investigate all the transactions of any branch or depart- 
 ment of the city government involving or affecting the sinking fund, 
 and they shall have such other powers and perform such other duties, 
 not inconsistent with the nature of the duties prescribed for them by 
 this charter, as may be conferred or required by council. 
 
 Sec. 141. Recording of bonds. Before they become valid in the 
 hands of any purchaser, all bonds issued by the city shall be recorded 
 in the office of the sinking fund trustees, and shall bear the stamp 
 of the board of sinking fund trustees, containing the words “Recorded 
 in the office of the sinking fund trustees,” signed by the secretary. 
 
 Sec. 142. Board of purchase. The diirectors of public service and 
 public safety together with the treasurer shall constitute the board 
 of purchase, and as such shall, except as otherwise provided in this 
 charter, make all purchases for the city in the manner provided by 
 ordinance, and shall, under such regulations as may be provided by 
 ordinance, sell all property, real and personal, of the city not needed 
 for public use or that may have become unsuitable for use or that 
 may have been condemned as useless by the director or head of a 
 department; provided, however, that no real estate shall be so sold 
 until specifically directed by council. It shall have charge of such 
 store rooms and warehouses of the city as the council may by ordi- 
 nance provide. Said board shall elect one of its members as presi- 
 dent, and shall keep a record of its proceedings. 
 
 Sec. 143. Before making any purchase or sale, the board of pur- 
 chase shall give opportunity for competition, under such, rules and 
 regulations as the council shall establish. Supplies required by any 
 department shall be furnished upon requisition from the stores under 
 the control of said board of purchase, and whenever so furnished shall 
 be paid for by the department furnished therewith, by warrant made 
 payable to the credit of the stores account of the board of purchase. 
 The board of purchase shall not furnish any supplies to any depart- 
 ment unless there be to the credit of such department an available 
 appropriation balance in excess of all unpaid obligations sufficient to 
 pay for such supplies. 
 
 Sec. 144. If authorized by council the mayor may appoint a sec- 
 retary and such other assistants as he may deem necessary. to assist 
 the board of purchase in the performance of. its duties. 
 
 Sec. 145. Bureau of information and publicity. There shall be 
 established by council a bureau of information and publicity under 
 the supervision and control of the city clerk, who shall, in addition 
 to his other duties, compile an annual report giving a summary of 
 the council proceedings and a summary of the operations of the ad- 
 ministrative departments for the previous fiscal year; have charge of 
 the editing, printing and distribution of all municipal records, reports 
 and documents; collect and compile information and satistics con- 
 
XXVIII CHARTER OF THE CiTY or Co~tuMBUs 
 
 cerning all departments and offices of the city, and other municipal- 
 ities; and publish weekly the City Bulletin, which shall contain the 
 transactions and proceedings of the council, the legal advertising of 
 the city and such other information relating to the affairs of the city 
 as shall be determined by ordinance. The City Bulletin shall be pub- 
 lished, distributed or sold in such manner and on such terms as the 
 council may determine. No unofficial advertisements shall be published 
 in the City Bulletin, nor shall the City Bulletin be used to promote the 
 candidacy of any person, or be used as a medium for any personal 
 controversy. 
 
 THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION 
 
 Sec. 146. Commissioners. The mayor, with the concurrence of 
 council, shall appoint three electors of the city as civil service com- 
 missioners. The members of the existing civil service commission shall 
 continue in office for the terms for which they were appointed. There- 
 after members of the civil service commission shall be appointed to 
 serve for terms of six years and until their successors have been 
 appointed and have qualified. A vacancy shall be filled in like man- 
 ner for the unexpired term. 
 
 Sec. 147. Officers of commission. The commission shall desig- 
 nate one of its members as president, shall appoint a secretary, and 
 such other officers and employes as council may provide. 
 
 Sec. 148. Classification. The civil service of the city is hereby 
 divided into the unclassified and the classified service. 
 
 (1) The unclassified service shall include: 
 
 (a) All officers elected by the people. 
 
 (b) All directors of departments. 
 
 (c) The trustees of the public library, and all officers and 
 members of boards or commissions whose appointment 
 is subject to concurrence by council. 
 
 (d) One secretary to each elective officer and the various 
 directors of departments, and one secretary and one as- 
 sistant or clerk for each board or commission appointed 
 by the mayor; and the deputy auditor. 
 
 (e) The treasurer. 
 
 (f) The city clerk. 
 
 (g) The legal assistants to the city attorney. 
 
 (h) The staff of the public library. 
 
 (i) The public defender. 
 
 (j) All unskilled laborers. 
 
 (2) The classified service shall comprise all positions not spe- 
 cifically included by this charter in the unclassified service. 
 There shall be in the classified service two classes, to be 
 known as the competitive class and the non-competitive 
 class. 
 
CHARTER OF THE City or CoLumMBUS XXIX 
 
 (a) The competitive class shall include all positions and em- 
 ployments for which it is practicable to determine the 
 merit and fitness of applicants by competitive exam- 
 inations. 
 
 (b) The non-competitive class shall consist of all positions 
 requiring peculiar and exceptional qualifications of a sci- 
 entific, managerial, professional or educational character, 
 as may be determined by the rules of the commission. 
 
 Sec. 149. Rules. The commission shall prescribe, amend and en- 
 force rules for the classified service, shall keep minutes of its proceed- 
 ings and records of its examinations and shall make investigations 
 concerning the enforcement and effect of the civil service provisions 
 and of the rules thereunder. It shall make an annual report to the 
 mayor. The rules shall provide: 
 
 (a) For the classification and standardization of all positions in 
 the classified service. 
 
 (b) For open competitive examination in the competitive class, 
 to test the relative fitness of applicants for such positions. Employes 
 of any public utility taken over by the city, who are in the service 
 of said utility at the time of such acquisition, shall come under the 
 provisions of the merit system without examination; but vacancies 
 thereafter occurring in such service shall be filled from eligible lists 
 in the manner herein provided. 
 
 (c) For public notice in the City Bulletin or otherwise of the 
 time and place of all competitive examinations. 
 
 (d) For the creation of eligible lists upon which shall be entered 
 the names of successful candidates in the order of their standing in 
 such examinations or tests. 
 
 (e) For the rejection of candidates or eligibles who fail to com- 
 ply with reasonable requirements as to age, sex, physical conditions 
 and moral character, or who have attempted deception or fraud in 
 connection with any examination. 
 
 (f) For the certification to the appointing authority, from the 
 appropriate eligible list to fill a vacancy in the competitive class, of 
 the three persons standing highest on such list, or of the person or 
 persons on such list when it contains three names or less. 
 
 (g) For temporary employment without examination, in the ab- 
 sence of an eligible list. But no such temporary employment shall 
 continue after the establishment of a suitable eligible list. 
 
 (h) For temporary employment for periods not to exceed thirty 
 days. 
 
 (i) For non- competitive examinations for appointments to posi- 
 tions requiring peculiar and exceptional qualifications of a scientific, 
 managerial, professional or educational character. 
 
 (j) For promotion based on competitive examinations and records 
 of efficiency, character, conduct and seniority. Lists shall be created 
 
xXxxxX CHaArTER OF THE Crry or CoLumBUS 
 
 and promotions made therefrom of candidates in the same manner 
 as in original. appointments. Any advancement in the rank or an 
 increase in salary beyond the limit fixed for the grade by the rules 
 shall constitute proraotion. Whenever practicable vacancies shall be 
 filled by promotion. 
 
 (k) For transfer from a position to a similar position in the 
 same class and grade and for reinstatement on the eligible list within 
 one year of persons who, without fault or delinquency on their part, .. 
 are separated from the service or reduced in rank. 
 
 (1) For suspension, by the appointing authority, for purposes of 
 discipline, for a period not to exceed thirty days at any one time. 
 
 (m) For discharge or reduction in rank or compensation, only 
 after the person to be discharged or reduced has been presented with 
 the reasons for such discharge or reduction, specifically stated in 
 writing, and has been given an opportunity to be heard in his own 
 defense. The reason for such discharge or reduction and any reply in 
 writing thereto by such employe shall be filed with the commission. 
 
 (n) For investigating and keeping a record of the efficiency of 
 officers and employes in the classified service, and for requiring mark- 
 ings and reports relative thereto from appointing officers. 
 
 (o) For the publication of the rules and amendments thereto in 
 the City Bulletin. The commission shall adopt such other rules, not 
 inconsistent with the foregoing provisions of this section, as may be 
 necessary and proper- for the enforcement of the merit system. 
 
 Sec. 150. Examinations. All examinations shall be practical and 
 impartial and shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the 
 relative capacity of the persons examined to discharge the duties of 
 the position for which appointment is sought. 
 
 Sec. 151. Appointments. When a position in the competitive 
 classified service is to be filled, the appointing authority shall notify 
 the commission of that fact and the commission shall certify to such 
 authority the names and addresses of three candidates standing highest 
 on the eligible list for the class or grade to which such position be- 
 longs. The appointing authority shall appoint one of the three persons 
 certified to him, to such position. When the eligible list contains less 
 than three names then such names shall be certified, from which num- 
 ber the appointing authority may appoint one for such position. When 
 no eligible list for such position exists, or when the eligible list ‘has 
 become exhausted and until a new list can be created, the appointing 
 authority may make a temporary appointment. A person certified from 
 an eligible list more than three times to the same or similar position 
 may be omitted from future certifications to such appointing authority. 
 
 Sec. 152. Present civil service employes. All persons holding 
 positions in the service of the city pursuant to appointment from 
 eligible lists at the time this charter takes effect, or who have been 
 continuously in the service of the city in the same position for the 
 
CuarrTer oF THE Crry oF CoLumBUS XXXI 
 
 five years next preceding, shall retain their position until discharged, 
 reduced, promoted, or transferred in accordance with the provisions 
 hereof. The commission shall maintain a list of all persons in the 
 service, showing in connection with each name, the position held, the 
 date and character of each appointment and of every subsequent change 
 in status. Each appointing officer shall promptly transmit to the 
 commission all information required for the establishment and main- 
 tenance of the list. 
 
 Sec. 153. Payrolls certified. It shall be unlawful for the treas- 
 urer or other public disbursing officer to pay any salary or com- 
 pensation for service to any person holding a position in the classi- 
 fied service unless the payroll or account for such salary or com- 
 pensation shall bear the certificate of the commission that the per- 
 sons named therein have been appointed or employed in accordance 
 with the civil service provisions of this charter and of the rules estab- 
 lished thereunder. 
 
 Sec. 154. Investigations and hearings. In any investigation or 
 hearing conducted by the commission it shall have the power to sub- 
 poena and require the attendance of witnesses and the production 
 of books and papers pertinent to the investigation and to administer 
 oaths to such witnesses. 
 
 Sec. 155. Political beliefs. No person in the classified service or 
 seeking admission thereto, shall be appointed, reduced, laid off, dis- 
 charged or in any way favored or discriminated against because of 
 his political opinions or affiliations. 
 
 Sec. 156. Political activity. No person in the classified service 
 shall directly or indirectly, solicit or receive, or be in any manner 
 concerned in soliciting or receiving any assessment, subscription or 
 contribution for any political party or political purpose whatever. No 
 person shall orally, or by letter, solicit, or be in any manner concerned 
 in soliciting any assessment, subscription or contribution for any po- 
 litical party or for any candidacy, from any person holding 2 position 
 in the classified service. | lees 
 
 Sec. 157. Abuse of political influence.. No person who holds any 
 public office, or who has been nominated. for, or who seeks a nomi- 
 nation or appointment to any public office, shall. use or promise to - 
 use either directly or indirectly, any official authority or. influence 
 in order to secure or aid any person in securing for himself or ant 
 other, any office or employment in the classified service, or any pro- 
 motion or increase of salary therein, as a reward for political influ- 
 ence or service, or for service in behalf of any candidacy. 
 
 Sec. 158. Violations and penalties. Any person or officer who, 
 by himself, or in co-operation with one or more persons, wilfully or 
 corruptly deceives or obstructs any person in respect to his right 
 to be examined for admission to the service of the city; or falsely 
 or corruptly marks, grades or reports upon the examination or proper 
 
XXXII CHARTER OF THE City or CoLUMBUS 
 
 standing of any person examined for appointment in the civil service, 
 or aids in so doing; or wilfully or corruptly makes any false repre- 
 sentation as to the results of such examination or concerning the 
 person so examined; or wilfully or corruptly furnishes to any person 
 special or secret information for the purpose of either improving or 
 injuring the prospects or chances of any person so examined or to 
 be examined or to be appointed, employed or promoted; or wilfully 
 impersonates any other person or permits or aids, in any manner, 
 any other person to impersonate him in connection with any exam- 
 ination or registration, application or appointment, or request to be 
 examined or registered; or who makes known or assists in making 
 ' known to any applicant for examination, any question to be asked 
 on such examination; or wilfully violates any of the civil service pro- 
 visions of this charter shall, for such offense be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before the municipal court, 
 shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred 
 dollars, or imprisoned not more than ten days, or both. 
 
 CONTRACTS 
 
 Sec. 159. Certificate of auditor. No contract, agreement, or other 
 obligation, involving the expenditure of money, shall be entered into, 
 nor shall any ordinance, resolution, or order for the expenditure of 
 money be passed by the council, or be authorized by any: officer of 
 the city, unless the auditor first certify to the council or the proper 
 officer, as the case may be, that the money required for such con- 
 tract, agreement, obligation or expenditure, is in the treasury, to the 
 credit of the fund from which it is to be drawn, and not appropriated 
 for any other purpose, which certificate shall be filed and immediately 
 recorded. The sum so certified shall not thereafter be considered 
 unappropriated until the city is discharged from the contract agree- 
 ment or obligation. 
 
 Sec. 160. All moneys actually in the treasury to the credit of the 
 fund from which they are to be drawn, and all moneys applicable 
 to the payment of the obligation or appropriation involved, that are 
 anticipated to come into the treasury before the maturity of such 
 contract, agreement or obligation, from taxes or assessments, accounts 
 and bills receivable or other credits which are undisputed and in pro- 
 cess of collection; and all moneys applicable to the payment of such 
 obligation or appropriation, which are to be paid into the treasury 
 prior to the maturity thereof, arising from the sale or lease of lands 
 or other property, and moneys to be derived from lawfully authorized 
 bonds sold and in process of delivery, shall, for the purposes of such 
 certificate, be deemed in the treasury to the credit of the appropriate 
 fund and subject to such certification. 
 
 Sec. 161. Contracts—when void. All contracts, agreements or 
 other obligations entered into and all ordinances passed, resolutions 
 
CuHarrTer oF THE City or CoLumMBUS XX XIII 
 
 and orders adopted, contrary to the provisions of the preceding sec- 
 tions, shall be void, and no person whatever shall have any claim 
 or demand against the city thereunder, nor shall the council, or any 
 officer of the city, waive or qualify the limits fixed by any ordinance, 
 resolution or order, as provided in section 159, or fasten upon the 
 city any liability whatever, in excess of such limits, or release any 
 party from an exact compliance with his contract under such ordi- 
 nance, resolution, or order. 
 
 Sec. 162. Contracts—how let. When any expenditure in any de- 
 ‘partment other than the compensation of persons employed therein, 
 exceeds five hundred dollars, it shall first be authorized and directed 
 by ordinance of the council. When so authorized and directed, the 
 proper board or oflicer shall make a written contract in strict accord- 
 ance with the terms and conditions of the ordinance, with the lowest 
 and best bidder, after advertisement once a week for at least two 
 weeks in the City Bulletin, and no other advertisement shall be re- 
 quired. The bids shall be opened at twelve o'clock, noon, on the last 
 day for filing the same, by the proper board or officer or its or his 
 clerk, in the presence of the auditor, and publicly read. Each bid 
 shall contain the full name of every person or company interested in 
 the same, and shall be accompanied by sufficient bonds or certified 
 check on a solvent bank of the city, as required by the contract or 
 specifications, that if the bid is accepted a contract will be entered 
 into and an acceptable bond in the sum of not less than fifty per cent 
 of the contract price given to properly secure the performance of the 
 same within the contract time. If the work bid for embraces both 
 labor and material they shall be separately stated with the price 
 therefor. Such board or officer may reject any or all bids. .The con- 
 tract shall be between the city and the bidder and the city shall pay 
 the contract price in money. When there is reason to believe that 
 there is collusion or combination among bidders, the bids of those 
 concerned therein shall be rejected. All contracts shall be in writing, 
 signed by the director or head of department, and a copy thereof filed 
 with the auditor. 
 
 Sec. 163. Alterations or modifications in contract. When it be- 
 comes necessary, in the opinion of the director or head of the appro- 
 priate department, in the prosecution of any work, or improvement 
 under contract, to make alterations or modifications in such contract, 
 such alterations or modifications shall be made only upon the order 
 of such director or head, in writing and upon the approval of council. 
 No such order shall be effective until the price to be paid for the 
 work and material, or both, under the altered or modified contract, 
 shall have been agreed upon in writing and signed by the contractor 
 and the director or head of department in behalf of the city. 
 
XXXIV CHARTER OF THE CiTy orf CoLuMEUS 
 
 IMPROVEMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS 
 
 Sec. 164. Local improvements. The council shall have power by 
 ordinance to provide for the construction, reconstruction, repair and 
 maintenance by contract or directly by the employment of labor, of all 
 local improvements, and to provide for the payment of any part of 
 any such improvement by levying and collecting special assessments 
 upon abutting, adjacent and contiguous or other specially benefited 
 property. The amount assessed against any property shall not ex- 
 ceed the amount of benefits accruing to such property. ‘ 
 
 Sec. 165. Methods of special assessments. Special assessments 
 upon the property deemed benefited by a public improvement shall be 
 by any one of the following methods: 
 
 (a) By a percentage of the tax value of the property assessed. 
 
 (b) In proportion to the benefits which may result from the im- 
 provement. : 
 
 (c) By the foot frontage of the property bounding or abutting 
 upon the improvement. 
 
 Sec. 166. Preliminary resolution. When it is deemed necessary 
 to make a public improvement to be paid for in whole or in part by 
 special assessment, the council shall declare the necessity therefor by 
 resolution, and such resolution shall state the method of assessments, 
 the mode of payment, the number of annual installments, and the por- 
 tion of the cost to be borne by the city. Such resolution shall contain 
 a description of the lots and lands to be assessed and it shall be suffi- 
 cient to describe the lots and lands abutting upon the improvement 
 and to be assessed therefor, as all the lots and lands bounding and 
 abutting upon such improvement between and including the termini of 
 the improvement; and in describing lands which do not abut, it shall 
 be sufficient to describe the lots by their appropriate lot numbers, 
 and the lands by metes and bounds; and this rule of description shall 
 apply in all proceedings in which lots and lands-are to be charged with 
 special assessments. Such resolution shall also determine the general 
 nature of the improvement, what shall be the grade of the street, or 
 other public place to be improved, the grade or elevation of the curbs 
 and shall approve the plans, specifications, estimates and profiles for 
 the proposed improvement. . i Tags 
 
 Sec. 167. Plans of proposed improvements. At the time of the: 
 passage of the resolution hereinbefore provided there shall be on file 
 in the office of the director of public service, plans, specifications, esti- 
 mates and profiles of the proposed improvements, giving all informa- 
 tion necessary; and such plans, specifications, estimates and profiles, 
 shall be open to the inspection of all interested persons. 
 
 Sec. 168. Estimated assessment. Upon the passage of said reso- 
 lution it shall be certified to the chief engineer who shall thereupon 
 proceed to make and file with the city clerk an assessment report, in 
 accordance with the method of assessment provided in the resolution, - 
 which report shall contain the following: : 
 
Carter or THE City or Cotumsus XXXV 
 
 (a) The estimated amount of the assessment against each lot 
 or parcel of land, not exceeding in any case the special benefits 
 thereto. 
 
 (b) The deduction or credits, if any, to which each lot or parcel 
 of land is entitled by reason of the provisions of sections 180 and 182. 
 
 (c) The estimated amount of the city’s portion including the por- 
 tion assumed in the preliminary resolution and the deductions and 
 credits above mentioned. 
 
 Sec. 169. Lands unallotted or not on duplicate. When special 
 assessments are to be levied by the percentage of tax value of the 
 property assessed or by the foot frontage of the property bounding 
 or abutting upon all the improvement, and there are lands subject to 
 such assessment which are not assessed for taxation, the chief engi- 
 need shall fix, in said report, for the purpose of such assessment, the 
 value of such lots as they stand and of such lands at such depths 
 as the chief engineer considers a fair average of the depths of lots 
 in the neighborhood, so that it will be a fair average of the assessed 
 value of other lots in the neighborhood. Where lands are not sub- 
 divided into lots but are assessed for taxation, the chief engineer 
 shall fix the value and the depth in the same manner; but the above 
 rule shall not apply in making a special assessment according to 
 benefits. 
 
 Sec. 170. Notice—how served. A notice of the passage of such 
 resolution and of the fact that such estimated assessment has been 
 filed, and of the time within which objections may be made, shall 
 be served by the city clerk, or an assistant, upon the owner of each 
 piece of property to be assessed, in the manner provided by law-for 
 the service of summons in civil actions. If any such owners or per- 
 sons are not residents of the county, or if it appears by the return 
 in any case, of the notice, that such owner cannot be found, they 
 shall be notified by publishing such notice at least twice in the City 
 Bulletin. Whether by actual service or publication, such notice shall 
 be completed at least twenty days before the improvement is com- 
 menced, and the return of the officer or person serving the notice, or 
 a certified copy of the return shall be prima facie evidence of the service 
 of the notice as herein required. 
 
 Sec. 171. Objections to assessments. An owner of any lot or par- 
 cel so to be assessed, who objects to the amount or apportionment 
 of such estimated assessments, shall file his objections in writing with 
 the city clerk, within two weeks after the service of notice or com- 
 pletion of the publication hereinbefore provided. Any owner who fails 
 to do so, shall be deemed to have waived any objection to such as- 
 sessment, to the extent of the amount estimated. 
 
 Sec. 172. Board of revision. When objections to such assessment 
 have been filed as provided in the next preceding section, the council 
 
XXXVI CuHarTer oF THE City or CotumeEvs 
 
 shall appoint a board of revision, consisting of three disinterested free 
 holders of the city, residents of the city, and shall fix the time and 
 place for the hearing by such board of such objections, of which at 
 least one week’s notice shall be given in the City Bulletin. 
 
 Sec. 173. Hearing on objections. At the time so appointed said 
 board of revision, after taking an oath faithfully and impartially to 
 discharge its duties, shall proceed to hear all objections to such esti- 
 mated assessment, and shall report to council its findings, together . 
 with its amendments, if any, of the estimated assessment as reported 
 by the chief engineer. Upon the filing of such report of the board 
 of revision, or in case no objections have been filed, then upon the 
 expiration of the time for filing the same, council shall, if it determines 
 to proceed with such improvement, so declare by ordinance, which 
 ordinance shall require for its passage, the votes of at least five mem- 
 bers of council. 
 
 Sec. 174. Claims. An owner of a lot or of land bounding or abut- 
 ting upon a proposed improvement, claiming that he will sustain dam- 
 age by reason of the improvement, shall file such claim with the city 
 clerk within two weeks after the service of notice or the completion 
 of the publication hereinbefore provided. Such claim shall be in 
 writing and shall set forth the amount of damages claimed, with a 
 general description of the property with respect to which it is claimed 
 the damage will accrue. Any owner who fails so to do shall be deemed 
 to have waived such damages, and shall be barred from filing a claim. 
 or receiving damages therefor. This provision shall apply to all dam- 
 age which will obviously result from the improvement, but shall not 
 deprive the owner of his right to recover damages arising, without 
 his fault, from acts of the city or of its agents. If subsequent to the 
 filing of such claim, the owner sell the property, or any part thereof, 
 the right of damages, if any, shall follow the ownership of the land 
 without other transference of the claim. 
 
 Sec. 175. Damages assessed. At or before the time of the pas- 
 sage of the ordinance determining to proceed with the improvement 
 as hereinbefore provided, the council shall determine whether the claims 
 for damages so filed shall be judicially inquired into before commenc- 
 ing or after the completion of the proposed improvement. If it decide 
 that the damages shall be assessed before commencing the improve- 
 ment, the city attorney shall then make such application and such 
 proceedings shall be had thereon as are provided by the general law 
 relating to the assessment of damages on such claims. 
 
 Sec. 176. When the council determines to assess the damages 
 after the completion of the improvement for which a claim for dam- 
 ages has been filed as hereinbefore provided, the city attorney shall 
 within ten days after the completion of the improvement make written 
 application as hereinbefore provided in the case of the ascertainment 
 
CHARTER OF THE City or CoLUMBUS XXXVII 
 
 of damages before the improvement is made, and the same proceedings 
 shall be had as provided in the next preceding section. 
 
 Sec. 177. No person who claims damages arising from any cause, 
 shall commence a suit therefor against the city until he shall have 
 filed a claim for such damages with the city clerk and sixty days shall 
 have elapsed thereafter. This provision shall not apply to an appli- 
 cation for an injunction or other proceeding to which it may be neces- 
 sary for such applicant to resort in case of urgent necessity. 
 
 Sec. 178. Assessment of cost. After any such improvement is 
 completed and the cost ascertained, council shall, by ordinance, assess 
 upon the property mentioned, and in the manner provided, in the 
 preliminary resolution, the entire cost and expense thereof, except- 
 ing the portion to be paid by the city. Such assessment as to each 
 lot or parcel shall be in the proportions fixed in the estimated assess- 
 ment as reported by the chief engineer, or as revised by the board 
 of revision, and such ordinance shall also state the credits or deduc- 
 tions to which any lot or parcel is entitled, as: fixed in such report 
 or revision. The remainder of the cost, together with such credits 
 and deductions, shall be the city’s share, and if it exceed the amount 
 originally appropriated, a supplementary appropriation shall be made 
 to cover such excess. Such cost shall include the cost of preliminary 
 and other surveys, the cost of construction, the expense of printing 
 and serving notices, interest on bonds issued to provide funds for such 
 improvement, and any other necessary expenditures connected with 
 said improvement. 
 
 Sec. 179. Collection of assessments. Special assessments shall be 
 payable by the owners of the property assessed at the time stipulated 
 in the ordinance, levying or confirming the assessment, and shall be 
 a lien from the date of the passage of said ordinance upon the re-' 
 spective lots and parcels of land assessed, enforcible in the manner 
 provided by general law. 
 
 Sec. 180. Limitation on assessments. The council shall limit all 
 assessments to the special benefits conferred upon the property as- 
 sessed; and in no case shall there be levied on any lot or parcel off 
 land assessments for any or all Purposes, within a period of five years, 
 in excess of thirty-three and one-third per cent. of the actual value 
 thereof after the improvement is made. Assessments levied for the 
 construction of main sewers shall not exceed the sum that, in the 
 opinion of the council, would be required to construct an ordinary 
 street sewer or drain of sufficient capacity to drain or sewer the lots 
 or lands to be assessed for such improvement, nor shall any lots or 
 
 lands be assessed that do not need local drainage, or which are pro- 
 vided therewith. 
 
 Sec. 181. City’s portion of cost.. The city shall pay such part of 
 the cost and expense of improvements for which special assessments 
 
XXXVIII Carter oF THE CiTY OF Céipibios 
 
 are levied as the council deems just, which part shall not be less 
 than one-fiftieth of all such cost and expense; and in addition thereto 
 the city shall pay the cost of intersections. The council may provide 
 for the payment of the city’s portion of all such improvements by the 
 issuance of bonds or notes therefor, and may levy taxes, in addition 
 to all other taxes authorized by law, to pay such bonds or notes and 
 the interest thereon; but the above provision as to the payment by 
 the city of not less than one-fiftieth of the cost, shall not apply to 
 the construction or repair, in the manner hereinafter provided, of side- « 
 walks, or the laying of sewer or water connections. 
 
 Sec. 182. Assessments for replacing improvements. Whenever an 
 assessment is levied for the replacement of any street improvement 
 for which an assessment has theretofore been made, there shall be de- 
 ducted from the assessment, that might otherwise be made for such 
 replacement, one-half of the amount paid on the highest prior assess- 
 ment, but in no case shall the assessment for such replacement be 
 reduced to less than fifty per cent. of what it would have been as a 
 full assessment, unless council deems a greater reduction equitable, 
 and that all amounts deducted under this section shall be paid as part 
 of the city’s portion of the cost of the improvement; and no provision 
 of the general law limiting the assessments for such replacement shall 
 be operative. 
 
 (As amended by popular vote, November 2, 1915.) 
 
 Sec. 183. Sewer and water connections. The director of public 
 service shall have authority to compel the making of sewer and water 
 connections in any street or other highway, the improvement of which 
 has been determined upon by ordinance. He shall cause written no- 
 tice of his determination thereof to be given to the owner of each 
 lot or parcel of land to which such connections are to be made, which 
 notice shall state the number and character of connections required. 
 Such notice shall be served by a person designated by the director 
 of public service, in the manner provided for the service of summons 
 in civil actions. Non-residents of the city, or persons who cannot 
 be. found, may be served by one publication of such notice in the City 
 Bulletin... The notice shall state the time, which shall not be less 
 than ten days, within which such connections shall be constructed,~ 
 and. if they. be not constructed within the said time, the work may be 
 done by the city and the cost thereof assessed by council against the 
 lots and: lands for which such connections. are made. Said assess- 
 ments shall be certified and collected as other assessments for street 
 improvements. 
 
 Sec. 184. Sidewlks. The council may, by resolution, declare that 
 certain specified sidewalks shall be constructed or repaired. Upon 
 the passage of such a resolution the city clerk shall cause written 
 notice of the passage thereof to be served upon the owner, or agent 
 of the owner, of each parcel of land abutting upon such sidewalk, 
 who is a pecident of the city, in the manner provided by law for 
 
CuarTer oF THE Crry or CoLUMBUS XXXIX 
 
 the service of summons in civil action. He shall preserve a copy of 
 the notice with the time and manner of service endorsed thereon, 
 signed by the person serving it. For the purpose of such service, if 
 the owner of any such property be not a resident of the city, any 
 person charged with the collection of rent, or the payment of taxes 
 on such property, or having control thereof in any way, shall be 
 regarded as the agent of the owner, and service upon such person 
 shall have the like force and effect as though personal service were 
 made upon the owner thereof. If it appear in any such return, how- 
 ever, that the owner is a non-resident, or that neither such owner or 
 agent could be found, one publication of a copy of the resolution in 
 the City Bulletin shall be deemed sufficient notice to such owner. 
 
 Sec. 185. If such sidewalks be not constructed or repaired within 
 thirty days after the service of the notice provided for in the pre- 
 ceding section, or the completion of the publication thereof, the director 
 of public service may proceed by direct employment of labor, or by 
 contract, to carry out the said construction or repair at the expense 
 of the owner, as in the case of other improvements, and all such ex- 
 pense shall be reported by the director of public service to the council. 
 The council shall thereupon by ordinance assess the cost and expense 
 thereof upon the property bounding or abutting thereon, and such 
 assessment, with interest, shall be collected in the same manner as 
 other assessments. 
 
 Sec. 186. Public improvements by contract or direct labor. Public 
 improvements of all kinds may be made by the appropriate depart- 
 ment, either by direct employment of the necessary labor and the 
 purchase of the necessary supplies and materials, with separate ac- 
 counting as to each improvement so made, or by contract duly let 
 after competitive bidding, either for a gross price, or upon a unit 
 basis for the improvement, or by contract containing a guaranteed 
 maximum and stipulating that the city shall pay within such maxi- 
 mum the cost of labor and materials, plus a fixed percentage of 
 profit to the contractor. The council shall by ordinance determine 
 by which of the foregoing methods any improvement shall be made. 
 Contracts may provide a bonus per day for completion of the con- 
 tract prior to a specified date, and liquidated damages to the city 
 to be exacted in like sum for every day of delay beyond a specified 
 date. 
 
 Sec. 187. Streets and public grounds. The council shall provide 
 for the care, supervision, control and improvement of public highways, 
 streets, avenues, alleys, sidewalks, public grounds, bridges, aqueducts 
 and viaducts, within the city, and shall cause them to be kept open, 
 in repair and free from nuisance. 
 
 Sec. 188. Alteration of streets. When it deems it necessary the 
 
XL CuarTer oF THE Crry cr Cotumsus 
 
 council may cause any street, alley or public highway to be opened, 
 straightened, altered, diverted, narrowed, widened or vacated, and 
 shall assess such portion of the cost thereof, not exceeding fifty 
 per cent., as it may determine, upon the property benefited thereby, 
 but not in excess of the special benefit conferred upon such property 
 by such improvement. 
 
 Sec. 189. Assessment bonds and notes. The council nay at any 
 time borrow money and authorize the issuance of bonds or notes in 
 anticipation of the levy or collection of assessments. Such bonds — 
 or notes may be in sufficient amount to pay the estimated cost and 
 expense of the improvement for which the assessments are levied. 
 In the issuance and sale of such bonds or notes the city shall be gov- 
 erned by the provisions of the general law applying to the issuance 
 and sale of bonds and notes by municipalities. 
 
 Sec. 190. Unexpended balances and assessments. All assessments 
 collected for the improvement for which bonds or notes were issued, 
 and all unexpended balances remaining in the fund after the cost 
 and expenses of the improvement have been paid, shall be applied 
 in the payment of said bonds or notes and the interest thereon. 
 
 Sec. 191. Dedication of streets. No street or alley dedicated to 
 public use by the proprietor of ground in the city shall be deemed 
 a public street or alley, or under the care or control of the council, 
 unless the dedication be accepted and confirmed by ordinance passed 
 for such purpose, and unless the provisions of general law, or any 
 ordinance superseding the same, relating to platting and sub-divisions 
 shall have been complied with. 
 
 FRANCHISES 
 
 Sec. 192. Grant. The council may by ordinance grant permission 
 to any individual, company or corporation to construct and operate 
 a public utility in the streets and public grounds of the city; sub- 
 ject, however, to the provisions of the general law requiring con- 
 sents of abutting owners. It shall prescribe in the ordinance the kind 
 and quality of service or product to be furnished, and shall provide 
 for fixing the rate or rates to be charged therefor, and prescribe the 
 manner in which the streets and public grounds shall be used and 
 occupied, and any other terms and conditions conducive to the public 
 interest. 
 
 Sec. 193. Period of grants. No such grant shall be exclusive, 
 nor shall it be made for a longer period than twenty-five years. No 
 such grant shall be renewed earlier than two years prior to its ex- 
 piration unless the city council shall by a vote of at least five of its 
 members first declare by ordinance its intention of considering a re- 
 newal thereof. All grants of the right to make extensions of any public 
 utility shall be subject as far as practicable to the terms of the original 
 grant and shall expire therewith. 
 
CHARTER OF THE CiTy oF CoLUMBUS XLI 
 
 Sec. 194. Reports to city by grantee. No ordinance making such 
 grant, renewal or extension shall be valid unless it shall expressly 
 provide therein, that the grantee shall make to the city, at prescribed 
 semi-annual periods, a statement of the assets, liabilities, receipts and 
 disbursements of the public utility operating such grant, renewal or 
 extension. Said statement shall be in detail adequate for determining 
 the cost of the service rendered, and shall be signed and sworn to 
 by the grantee or its proper officer or officers. Said ordinance shall 
 also reserve to the city the right of verifying such statements by ex- 
 amination of the books and records of the grantee. 
 
 Sec. 195. Right of city to lease or purchase. All such grants and 
 renewals thereof shall reserve to the city the right to terminate the 
 same and to purchase or lease all the property of the utility in the 
 streets and highways in the city and elsewhere, as may be provided 
 in the ordinance making the grant or renewal, used in or useful for 
 the operation of the utility, at a price either fixed in the ordinance, 
 or to be fixed in the manner provided by the ordinance making the 
 grant or renewal of the grant. Nothing in such ordinance shall pre- 
 vent the city from acquiring the property of any such utility by 
 condemnation proceedings or in any other lawful mode; but all such 
 methods of acquisition shall be alternative to the power to purchase, 
 reserved in the grant or renewal as hereinbefore provided. Upon the 
 acquisition by the city of the property of any utility, by purchase, 
 condemnation or otherwise, all grants or renewals shall at once ter- 
 minate. 
 
 Sec. 196. Exclusion of franchise value. No ordinance making such 
 grant or renewal shall be valid unless it shall expressly provide therein 
 that the price to be paid by the city for the property that may be 
 acquired by it from such utility by lease, purchase, condemnation or 
 otherwise, shall excludé all value of such grant or renewal. 
 
 Sec. 197. Extension by annexation. It shall be provided in every 
 such grant that upon the annexation of any territory to the city the 
 portion of any such utility that may be located within such annexed 
 territory and upon the streets, alleys or public grounds thereof, shall 
 thereafter be subject to all the terms of the grant as though it were 
 an extension made hereunder. 
 
 Sec. 198. Regulations. The council shall at all times control the 
 distribution of space in, over or across all streets or public grounds 
 occupied by public utility fixtures. All rights granted for the con- 
 struction and opefation of public utilities shall be subject to the con- 
 tinuing right of the council to require such re- construction, re-location, 
 change or discontinuance of the appliances used by the weiliey in the 
 streets, alleys, avenues and highways, of the city, as shall in the 
 opinion of the council be necessary in the public interest. 
 
 Sec. 199. Forfeitures. If any action shall be instituted or prose- 
 
> AE Ri CHARTER OF THE CiTy oF CoLuMBUS 
 
 cuted directly or indirectly by the grantee of any such grant, or by 
 any of its stockholders, to set aside or have declared void any of the 
 terms of any. such grant, the whole of such grant may be thereupon 
 forfeited and annulled at the option of the city council to be ex- 
 pressed by ordinance. All such grants shall make provision for the 
 declaration of a forfeiture by the city council for the violation by the 
 grantee of any of the terms thereof. 
 
 NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS 
 
 Sec. 200. Time of holding elections. Regular municipal elections 
 shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem- 
 ber in the odd numbered years. Primary elections shall be held at 
 the time provided by the general laws of the state. Any matter 
 which, by the terms of this charter, may be submitted to the electors 
 of the city at any special election, may be submitted at the time of 
 a primary election or of a regular election. Except as otherwise 
 provided in this charter, all elections shall be held and conducted 
 and the results thereof ascertained and certified as provided by the 
 general laws of the state and by the election authorities therein pro- 
 vided for. 
 
 Sec. 200-A. Woman’s suffrage. Every woman, born in the United 
 States, or who is the wife or daughter of a citizen of the United States, 
 or who is a naturalized citizen of the United States, who is over 
 twenty-one years of age, and possesses the necessary qualifications 
 in regard to residence provided for men, shall be entitled to vote for 
 all municipal elective officers and shall be eligible to be appointed 
 to, to be elected to, and to hold any municipal office. All women 
 having the aforesaid qualifications shall also be deemed electors and 
 shall be entitled to vote at all municipal elections except as other- 
 wise provided by the constitution of the state of Ohio. This section 
 
 shall be in force and effect from and after October 1, 1917. 
 (As amended by popular vote, August 14, 1917.) : : 
 Sec. 201. Ballots. The ballots used in all elections provided for 
 
 in this charter shall be without party marks or designations. The 
 whole number of ballots to be printed for any primary or regular 
 election for the nomination or election of candidates for any office, 
 shall be divided by the number of such candidates, and the quotient 
 so obtained shall be the number of ballots in each series of ballots 
 to be printed. The names of the candidates shall be arranged in 
 alphabetical order and the first series of ballots printed. The first 
 name shall then be placed last and the next series ‘of ballots printed, 
 and this process shall be repeated until each name shail have been 
 first. These ballots shall then be combined into tablets with no two 
 of the same order of names together. One space shall be left be- 
 low the printed names of the candidates for each office to be voted 
 for, wherein the voter may write the name of any person for whom 
 he may wish to vote. 
 
CHarTerR OF THE Crry ofr CoLUMBUS XLIII 
 
 Sec. 202. Nomination of councilmen. Candidates for the office 
 of city councilman shall be nominated only by a non-partisan pri- 
 mary election. The name of any elector of the city shall be printed 
 upon the primary ballot if there is filed with the election authorities 
 a petition in accordance with the following provisions, to-wit: 
 
 (a) Such petitions shall state the name and place of. residence 
 of each person whose name is presented for a place upon the ballot 
 and that he is a candidate for the office of city councilman for the 
 city of Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 (b) Such petitions shall be signed by electors of the city not less 
 in number than one per cent. of the total number of registered electors 
 in the city. 
 
 (c) Such petitions shall contain a provision that each signer 
 thereto thereby pledges himself to support and vote for the candi- 
 date or candidates whose names are therein presented for a place 
 upon the ballot, and each elector signing a petition shall add to his 
 signature his place of residence, with street and number, and date 
 of signing, and may subscribe to one nomination for each of the places 
 to be filled and no more. All signatures shall be made with ink or 
 indelible pencil. 
 
 (d) The signatures of all the petitioners need not be appended 
 
 to one paper, but to each separate paper there shall be attached an 
 affidavit of the circulator thereof stating the number of signers 
 thereto, that each person signed in his presence on the date men- 
 tioned, and that the signature is that of the person whose name it 
 purports to be. 
 
 (e) Such petitions shall be filed with the election authorities not 
 less than thirty days previous to the day of such election. 
 
 Sec. 203. Acceptance. Any person whose name has ‘been sub- 
 mitted for candidacy by such petition shall file his acceptance of such 
 candidacy with the election authorities not later than twenty-five 
 days previous to such election; otherwise his name shall not appear 
 upon the ballot. 
 
 Sec. 204. Form of primary ballot. Except that the crosses here 
 shown shall be omitted and that in place of the names of candidates 
 and number of places to be filled, as here shown, there shall appear 
 the names of candidates, actually seeking nomination, and the num- 
 ber of places to be filled, the ballots shall be printed substantially as 
 follows : 
 
 Primary Election. Nomination of Councilmen 
 
 Instructions to Voters:—Vote for not more than the number of 
 persons to be elected to office of councilmen by making cross in the 
 square opposite and to the right of their names. 
 
 If you wrongly mark, tear or deface this ballot, return it to the 
 judge and obtain another. 
 
XLIV CHARTER OF THE CrTy oF CoLUMBUS 
 
 Names of Candidates 
 (Four to be nominated) 
 
 WILLIAM DOE | 
 JOHN DOE 
 
 ARTHUR LOE 
 
 JAMES ROE 
 
 LAWRENCE ZOE 
 
 ——————SSSeSFSeeSeeSeSSMSMSSSSFhFeFe 
 
 sak 
 
 ——————————eeeeeeeee 
 
 Sec. 205. Election of councilmen. The candidates for nomina- 
 tion to the office of city councilman who shall receive the greatest 
 vote in such primary election shall be placed on the ballot at the 
 next regular municipal election, in number not to exceed twice the 
 number of vacancies in the city council to be filled, and the candi- 
 dates at the regular municipal election, equal in number to the 
 places to be filled, who shall receive the highest number of votes at 
 such regular municipal election, shall be declared elected. A tie 
 between two or more candidates for the office of city councilman 
 shall be decided by lot under the direction of the election authori- 
 ties, as provided by the general election laws of the state. 
 
 Sec. 206. Nomination of other officers. The mode of nomina- 
 tion of the mayor, city attorney and auditor provided for by this 
 charter shall be by petition. The name of any elector of this city 
 shall be printed upon the ballot, when a petition in the form here- 
 inafter described shall have been filed in his behalf with the election 
 authorities. Such petition shall be signed by at least two per cent. 
 of the registered electors in the city. 
 
 Sec. 207. The signature to a nominating petition need not all 
 be appended to one paper; but to each separate paper there shall be 
 attached an affidavit of the circular thereof, stating the number 
 of signers of such paper and that each signature appended thereto 
 was made in his presence and is the genuine signature of the person 
 whose name it purports to be. Each signer of a petition shall sign 
 his name in ink or indelible pencil, and shall place on the petition 
 after his name his place of residence by street and number and the 
 date of signing. 
 
 Sec. 208. All nominating papers comprising a petition shall be 
 assembled and filed with the election authorities, as one instrument, 
 at least sixty days prior to the date of holding the election with 
 respect to which such petition is filed. 
 
 Sec. 209. Any person whose name has been submitted for can- 
 didacy by such petition shall file his acceptance of such candidacy 
 
CrarTEerR oF THE Crry or CoLumBUS XLV 
 
 with the election authorities not later than fifty-five days previous 
 to such election; otherwise his name shall not appear upon the 
 ballot. 
 
 Sec. 210. Form of ballots. Ballots used for the election of can- 
 didates shall contain a complete list of the offices to be filled, and 
 the names of candidates for each office shall be arranged under the 
 title thereof as hereinbefore provided. The ballots shall be so 
 printed, as to the election of councilmen, that the voter may desig- 
 nate the candidates, to the number to be elected, for whom he desires 
 to vote, and shall be so printed, as to the election of mayor, city 
 attorney and auditor, that the voter may designate for each of said 
 offices, the candidate of his first choice, the candidate of his second 
 choice and such other candidates as he may desire to support. 5 
 
 Sec. 211. Except that the crosses here shown shall be omitted, 
 and that in place of the titles of offices and names of candidates here 
 shown, there shall appear the titles of offices actually to be filled 
 and the names of candidates nominated therefor, the ballots shall be 
 printed substantially as follows: 
 
 FORM OF BALLOT. 
 
 Instructions to Voters. 
 
 (1) As to councilmen: Vote for the candidate or candidates 
 you wish to support by making a cross (X) in the square opposite 
 and to the right of their names. You must not vote for more than 
 the number to be elected. 
 
 (2) As to other officers: You may vote your first, second and 
 other choices for any candidate by making a cross (X )in the appro- 
 priate column, in the square opposite and to the right of the name 
 voted for. Vote your first choice in the first column. Vote your 
 second choice in the second column. Vote in the third column for 
 all the other candidates whom you wish to support. Do not vote for 
 more than one first choice and one second choice for any office. Do 
 not vote more than one choice for any candidate. 
 
 (3) If you wrongly mark, or tear or deface this ballot, return it 
 to the judges and obtain another. 
 
XLVI Carrer oF THE City or CoLumBUs 
 
 FOR COUNCILMEN 
 
 (Four to be elected) 
 
 JOHN COE 4 
 KARL DOE 
 MICHAEL HOE xX 
 LOUIS POE XxX 
 pe. 
 
 RICHARD ROE 
 
 FOR MAYOR Hoe, | Se |_ SBE 
 EDWARD DALTON BS 
 THOMAS DEAN 
 MARTIN EVANS | X 
 JOHN JACKSON SEY EOS Sr es 
 JAMES SMITH ai nee 
 
 Sec. 212. Counting of votes. In counting the ballots cast at any 
 election for officers other than councilmen, held under the authority 
 of this charter, the precinct officers shall enter the total number of 
 ballots on a tally sheet provided therefor. They shall also carefully 
 enter on such tally sheet the number of first-choice, second-choice 
 and other-choice votes for each candidate, and make return thereof 
 to the election authorities provided by general law. Only one vote 
 shall be counted for any one candidate on any one ballot, all but 
 the highest choice of two or more choices on one ballot for the same 
 candidate being void. 
 
 If but one choice is voted on a ballot it. shall be counted as a 
 first choice. 
 
 If more than one choice for the same office is voted in the first- 
 choice column on any ballot, all such first choice votes shall be 
 counted as other-choices. 
 
 If more than one choice for the same office is voted in the sec- 
 ond-choice column on any ballot, all such second-choice votes shall 
 be counted as other-choices. 
 
 Except as hereinbefore provided all choices shall be counted as 
 marked on the ballot. 
 
Carter oF THE Crry ofr CoLuMBUS XLVII 
 
 Sec. 213. The candidate for any office receiving a majority of 
 first-choice votes cast for candidates for that office shall be declared 
 elected. If no candidate shall receive a majority of the first-choice 
 votes for such office, then the second-choice votes received by each 
 candidate for such office shall be added to the first-choice votes for 
 each such candidate and the candidate receiving the largest number 
 of first-choice and second-choice votes combined, if such votes con- 
 stitute a majority, shall be declared elected. If no candidate shall 
 have a majority, after adding the first-choice and second-choice 
 votes, the other-choice votes received by each candidate shall be 
 added to the combined first-choice and second-choice votes received 
 by each such candidate and the candidate having the largest number 
 of first-choice, second-choice and other-choice votes combined shall 
 be elected to such office. 
 
 A tie between two or more candidates shall be decided in favor 
 of the one having the largest number of first-choice votes. If two 
 or more are equal in that respect the candidate among them having 
 the largest number of second-choice votes shall be declared elected. 
 In case all such candidates have an equal number of first-choice, sec- 
 ond-choice and other-choice votes, respectively, the result shall be 
 determined by lot under the direction of the election authorities pro- 
 vided by general law. Whenever the word “majority” is used in the 
 preceding section, it shall mean more than one-half of the total 
 number of first-choice votes cast at such election for the office in 
 question. 
 
 Sec. 214.. Nomination and election of clerk of municipal court. 
 The clerk of the municipal court shall be nominated and elected in 
 the manner provided for the nomination and. election of the mayor, 
 city attorney and auditor. 
 
 THE RECALL. 
 
 Sec. 215. Recall petition. Any elective officer provided for in 
 this charter may be removed from office by the electors, by the fol- 
 lowing procedure: . 
 
 A petition for the recall of the officer or officers designated, 
 signed by at least one thousand of the electors of the city, and con- 
 taining a statement in not more than two hundred words of the 
 grounds of the recall, shall be filed with the city clerk, who shall 
 forthwith notify the officer or officers sought to be removed, and 
 he or they, within five days after such notice, may file with such city 
 clerk a defensive statement in not exceeding five hundred words. 
 The city clerk shall at once, upon the expiration of said five days, 
 cause sufficient printed or typewritten copies of such petition, without 
 the signatures, to be made, and to each of them he shall attach 
 a printed or typewritten copy of such defensive statement, if one 
 is furnished him within the time provided. He shall cause one copy 
 
XLVIII CrarTer oF THE Crry or Cotumsus 
 
 of such petition to be placed on file in his office, and provide facili- 
 ties for there signing the same, and he shall cause one copy to be 
 placed in each of the several fire engine houses of the city, where 
 the same shall be in the custody of the captain of the house, who 
 shall provide facilities for there signing the same. The city clerk 
 shall immediately cause notice to be published in the City Bulletin 
 of the placing of such copies of such petition, together with a com- 
 plete copy of the petition, without the signatures, and of the defen- 
 sive statement. 
 
 Such copies of such petition shall remain on file in the several 
 places designated, for the period of thirty days, during which time 
 any of them may be signed by any elector of the city in person; 
 but not by agent or attorney. Each signer of any of such copies 
 shall sign his name in ink or indelible pencil, and shall place there- 
 after his residence by street and number. 
 
 Sec. 216. Notice. At the expiration of said period of thirty days 
 the city clerk shall assemble all of said copies in his office as one 
 instrument, and shall examine the same and ascertain and certify 
 thereon whether the signatures thereto amount to at least fifteen 
 per cent. of the registered voters of the city. If such signatures do 
 amount to such per cent. he shall at once serve notice of that fact 
 upon the officer or officers designated in the petition, and also de- 
 liver to the election authorities a copy of the original petition, with 
 his certificate as to the percentage of registered voters who signed 
 the same and a certificate as to the date of his last mentioned notice 
 to the officer or offiters designated in the petition. 
 
 Sec. 217, Recall election. If the officer or officers, -or any of 
 them, designated in the petition, file with the city clerk within five 
 days after the last mentioned notice from the city clerk, his or their 
 written resignation, the said clerk shall at once notify the election 
 authorities of that fact and such resignation shall be irrevocable, 
 and the vacancy shall be filled in the manner of filling vacancies 
 provided in this charter. In the absence of such resignation, the 
 election authorities shall forthwith order and fix a day for holding 
 a recall election for the removal of those not resigning. Any such 
 election shall be held not less than fifty days nor more than ninety 
 days after the expiration of the period of five days last mentioned, 
 and at the same time as any other general or special election held 
 within such period; but if no such election be held within such 
 period the election authorities shall call a special recall election to 
 be held within the period aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 218. Ballots. The ballots at such recall election shall con- 
 form to the following requirements. With respect to each person 
 whose removal is sought, the question shall be submitted: “Shall 
 (name of person) be removed from the office of (title of office) by 
 
CuHartTer of THE Crtry or CoLumsEus - = XEEX 
 
 recall?” Immediately following each ‘such question there shall be 
 printed on the ballots the two propositions in the order here set 
 forth: 
 
 “For the recall of (name of person).” 
 
 “Against the recall of (name of person).” 
 
 Immediately to the right of each of the propositions shall be 
 
 placed a-square in which the voters, by making a cross mark (X), 
 may vote for either of such propositions. 
 
 Sec. 219. Filling of vacancies. In any such election if a majority 
 of the votes cast on the question of removal of any officer are affirm- 
 ative, the person whose removal is sought shall thereupon be 
 deemed removed from office upon the announcement of the official 
 . canvass of that election and the vacancy caused by such recall shall 
 be filled in the manner provided in this charter for filling vacancies 
 caused by death or resignation. 
 
 If, however, an electin is held for the recall of more than three 
 councilmen, candidates to succeed them for their unexpired terms 
 shall be voted upon at the same election, and shall be nominated 
 without primary election, by petitions signed, dated and verified in 
 the manner required for petitions presenting names of candidates 
 for nomination at a primary election, and similar in form to such 
 petitions, but signed by electors equal in number to at least two 
 per cent. of the registered voters of the city, and filed with the elec- 
 tion authorities at least thirty days prior to such recall election. But 
 no such nominating petition shall be signed or circulated until after 
 the time has expired for signing the copies of the petition for the 
 recall, and any signatures thereon antedating such time shall not 
 be counted. 
 
 Candidates shall not be nominated to succeed any particular 
 councilman; but if only one councilman is removed at such election, 
 the candidate at such election receiving the highest number of votes 
 shall be declared elected to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term; 
 and if more than one councilman is removed at such election, such 
 candidates equal in number to the number of councilmen removed 
 shall be declared elected to fill the vacanicies; and among the success- 
 ful candidates, those recéiving the greater number of votes shall be 
 declared elected for the longer terms. Cases of ties, and all other 
 matters not herein specially provided for, shall be determined by ‘the 
 rulés governing elections generally. 
 
 Sec. 220. Effect of resignations. No proceedings for the recall 
 of all of the members of the city council at the same election shall 
 be defeated in whole or in part by the resignation of any or all of 
 them, but upon the resignation of any of them, the city council shall 
 have power to fill the vacancy until a successor is elected and the 
 Proceedings for the recall and the election of successors shall con- 
 
L Cwarter oF THE City or CoL_umsus 
 
 tinue, and have the same effect as though there had been no resig- 
 nation. 
 
 Sec. 221, Miscellaneous provisions. Except as herein otherwise 
 provided, no petition to recall any officer shall be filed within six 
 months after he takes office. No person removed by recall shall be 
 éligible to be elected or appointed to any city office during a period 
 of two years after the date of such recall. The city clerk shall pre- 
 serve in his office all papers comprising or connected with a petition 
 for a recall. The method of removal herein provided is in addition * 
 ‘to such other methods other than recall as are, or may be, provided 
 by general law. 
 
 Sec. 222. Offenses relating to petitions. No person shall falsely 
 impersonate another, or purposely write his name or _ residence 
 falsely, in signing of any petition for initiative, referendum or 
 recall, or forge any name thereto, or sign any such paper with 
 knowledge that he is not a. qualified elector of the city. No person 
 shall sign, or knowingly permit to be signed, any petition for recall 
 at any place other than one of the places hereinbefore designated 
 for the signing of such petitions. 
 
 Sec. 223. No person shall, either in or within one hundred feet of 
 any place so designated, either solicit any elector to sign such peti- 
 tion or attempt to prevent or dissuade him from signing the same. 
 Nor shall any person employ or pay another, or accept employment 
 or payment, for circulating any initiative or referendum petition 
 upon the basis of the number of signatures procured thereto. Any 
 person violating any of the provisions of this section or the next 
 preceding section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, 
 upon conviction, be fined in any sum not to exceed one hundred 
 dollars and the costs of prosecution. The foregoing provisions shall 
 not be held to be exclusive of, but in addition to, all laws of the 
 state prescribing penalties for the same offenses or for other of- 
 fenses relating to the same matter. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 
 
 Sec. 224. Continuance of present officers. All persons holding 
 office at the time this charter goes into effect shall continue in office 
 and in the performance of their duties until provision shall have 
 been otherwise made in accordance with this charter for the per- 
 formance of the duties of any such office. When such provision shall 
 have been made, the term of any such officer shall expire and the 
 office be deemed abolished. The powers which are conferred and 
 the duties which are imposed upon any officer, commission, board or 
 department of the city under the laws of the state shall, if such office 
 or department is abolished by this charter, be thereafter exercised 
 and discharged by the officer, board or department upon whom are 
 ‘mposed corresponding functions, powers and duties hereunder. | 
 
Carter or THE Crry or Cotumsus LI 
 
 Sec. 225. Commencement of terms of officers. All officers whose 
 election is provided for herein shall be first elected at the regular 
 municipal election in the year 1915; the terms of all elective officers 
 shall begin on the first day of January next following their election. 
 The term of office of all members of boards and commissions herein 
 provided for shall commence on the first day of February of the year 
 wherein the terms of the present members expire, and the terms of 
 such present members shall be regarded for the purpose of this 
 charter as expiring on such first day of February, regardless of the 
 precise time of their original appointment. Officers shall hold their 
 respective offices until their successors are chosen and qualified. 
 
 Sec. 226. Oath of office. Every officer of the city shall, before 
 entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe to an oath 
 or affirmation as required by general law, which oath or affirmation 
 shall be filed and kept in the office of the auditor. 
 
 Sec. 227, Interest in contracts or supplies. No officer or em- 
 ploye of the city shall have any interest, direct or indirect, in any 
 contract with the city or be interested directly or indirectly, in the 
 sale to the city of any supplies, material, service or land, except on 
 behalf of the city as an officer or employe. Any wilful violation of 
 this section shall constitute malfeasance in office, and any such officer 
 or employe shall thereby forfeit his office or employment. 
 
 Sec. 228. Continuance of contracts. All contracts entered into 
 by the city, for its benefit, prior to the taking effect of this 
 charter, shall continue in full force and effect. All public work 
 begun prior to the taking effect of this charter shall be continued 
 and perfected hereunder. Public improvements for which legisla- 
 tive steps have been taken under laws in force at the time this 
 
 charter takes effect, may be carried to een in accordance 
 with the provisions of such laws. 
 
 Sec. 229. Ratification of ordinances. All ordinances and resolu- 
 tions in force at the time of the taking effect of this charter, not in- 
 
 consistent with its provisions, shall continue in force until amended 
 or repealed. 
 
 Sec. 230. Hours of labor. Except in case of extraordinary emer- 
 gencies, not to exceed eight hours shall constitute a day’s work, for 
 workmen engaged on any public work carried on or aided by the 
 municipality, whether done by contract or otherwise. The council 
 
 shall, by ordinance, provide for the enforcement of the provisions 
 of this section. 
 
 Sec. 231. Annual reports. The various officers, boards and heads 
 of departments shall annually report to council in comprehensive 
 and systematized detail, the financial and other transactions of the 
 departments or iMisons thereof under their supervision or control. 
 ‘uch reports shall cover such period of time and be made in the 
 
LII CHARTER OF THE Crry or CoLumEus 
 
 manner and at the time that council shall by ordinance prescribe. 
 Such reports shall, when so made, be grouped and published in book 
 form as the annual report of the city. 
 
 Sec. 232. General laws to apply. All general laws of the state 
 applicable to municipal corporations, now or hereafter enacted, and 
 which are not in conflict with the provisions of this charter, or with 
 ordinances or resolutions hereafter enacted by the city council, shall 
 be applicable to this city; provided, however, that nothing contained 
 in this charter shall be construed as limiting the power of the city 
 council to enact any ordinance or resolution not in conflict with the 
 constitution of the state or with the express provisions of this 
 charter. 
 
 Sec. 233. Saving clause. If any section or part of a section of 
 this charter proves to be invalid or unconstitutional, the same shall 
 not be held to invalidate or impair the validity, force or effect of 
 any other section or part of a section of this charter, unless it clearly 
 appear that such other section or part of a section is wholly or 
 necessarily dependent for its operation upon the section or part of 
 a section so held unconstitutional or invalid. 
 
 Sec. 234. Amendments. Amendments to this charter may ‘be 
 submitted to the electors of the city by a two-thirds vote of the 
 council, and shall be submitted by the council upon a petition signed 
 by ten per cent. of the electors of the city, setting forth any such 
 proposed amendment. The ordinance providing for the submission 
 of any such amendment shall be submitted to the electors at the 
 next regular municipal election if one shall occur not less than sixty 
 nor more than one hundred and twenty days after its passage; 
 otherwise it shall provide for the submission of the amendment at 
 a special election to be called and held within the time aforesaid. 
 Not less than thirty days prior to such election the city clerk shall 
 mail a copy of the proposed amendment to each elector whose name 
 appears upon the registration books of the Jast regular municipal 
 or general election. If such proposed amendment be approved by a 
 majority of the electors voting thereon, it shall become a part of the 
 charter at the time fixed therein. 
 
 Sec. 235. When charter takes effect. For the purpose of nom- 
 inating and electing officers and all purposes connected therewith, 
 and for the purpose of exercising such legislative powers as are 
 necessary to be exercised by the present council preliminary to the 
 organization of departments, divisions and offices herein provided, 
 this charter shall take effect on the first day of January, 1915. For 
 the purpose of establishing departments, divisions and officers, and 
 distributing the function thereof, and for all other purposes it shall 
 take effect on the first day of January, 1916. 
 
CHARTER OF THE City or CoLUMBUS LIII 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Sec. No 
 NRE TEE eGiir COGAN AEP NO Gi y.sgecccwecaccnscezsi those -foce Svscctnesannnotcen Reamoniedehntoden ecbazoans 80, 194 
 Patios. to-be. brought. by. city attorney ........-.2..scc cs sccscssesesecorcecteiguennses 71 
 BS AS CY ee os a cee ener e oer me eee eos 234 
 Administrative departments and divisions 22...............ccececeseecessesseseceeeeeee 97 
 Peavertrecmsentsin. Gity- Ballet tat igi esscsscaceceso-ionsescvacnckcsncidsedsmiesenes 35, 145 
 SN Te iN ANAND a ego Saco Me laine tne nn aeidngen thc acssculbeaesveses 61 
 Amusements and entertainments, supervision Of —..0......ceene 112 
 AaBpeals tO. civil. service COMMISSIONS . .... 2s. icccseccscccacsicevecthssnceentecccommsconse 109 
 AE ee Se ie 0 cS a REE aah eine tinal ene 100 
 
 Appropriations— 
 UM Re 8 oss oe ine can 5s cl vi on tin detpnnse NESE 27 
 aR RMA MM a canst oh seasipabp ionnc sks onodsadhy sc iccadenbocdknoomeoenade Meares 30 
 Pi AUN: Saccsmsd trnobnied Pa cecan esis wesc tasny2uteeccaavevsesbdorcesasunllonpnsaes 26 
 Peet De Sed 108 Other Purposes: ico ccceeeanscceccdenicessccteseesve <eheded 31 
 ET RRS nae py ae hay le ORO Ne Che ee eae eee 29 
 Pee RR ATG OG. an cirstecntoy 02. dred Acgedsessts olde. oycasen eta ee 32, 190 
 Rare e a SF COP CU ANCE oo State coc cack Seacy ws cyeseadechew as artaMan ae 27 
 
 Approval or disapproval of ordinances ............:cc:cssssesseccesssssecesssesseseesseeee 24 
 
 Assessments for replacing improvements ....c...-.cccccscsccsessesecesesecesesseesese 182 
 I SORA L LGM ASC PAUEL LOGE. acsnt cass sosaccs. ovxids carccdostsbvs.g coeae wade cee 189 
 RM NN lice GIN CAMs reset tesscctricnions deviansiczciich oor sige onysvecsediobaet cedasastuctoowa eee 164-185 
 I ee AR MIE hat chen cians fen ac carcino bose dan toe ota cea Rove 172 
 Bete SELMA. OE CORE i tiaienizicgsiecen-e cise eee. ca 181 
 ERNST OL adapts Sin Mena ont se a catcvus Doar tg lecvnedonsea sage 179 
 (SNE, SGC EE GER ete A tot DA Meet SEM A ON PREM) ORS. cea 174-177 
 PAU MEC Gd MOE OBEER OIE Ge cece ccie cen oe nceconeonucacsce'tédageasdaieasiy aancccscieactans 168 
 aE bee nleta Loans oscaiy We consmcilerinsg ale EE pte. a oe 173 
 SEES SAE EY: Spee ee ne een Rea Me gt Be ER 169 
 RETEST RES AR al SSSI Se Sc a RO 180 
 © one “ete altace Saale a ee las AEE Bi later NE ce V pe 165 
 POOR iki ge ROW BOB VIOG 55 co sess ossccaresscec plea idinc AiteP ics: 170 
 Rc tie, So a se ee a a 171 
 Memreacupnroremonts 006 yo ek 167 
 RIMM eS GUIs ams ce ee eR 166 
 LASERS IIS capa ie RE RC eW er 79-87 
 (ON ERECT sl NEE a tee eo 82 
 RU MIMD ARISTA Sl sce ae a peels 86 
 OETA TRY, OU TRES Fpg art tae a tna ace Se ees Se 79 
 RN Ter, SET ae cea SL NLR BO ae Ee eine 80 
 PECL SIG WDE SS OS i aes shin hedonic eos collec. ce 85 
 To audit accounts of all city OfFCETS oocceccccccccccssscscssseccosesossseccssnece 83 
 
 To certify funds on contracts and appropriations cscs: _ 159 
 
LIV CuarTer oF THE City or Cotumsvus 
 
 Sec. No. 
 SUE CESBOF £0 22S Fae tor new iin ee ee 87 
 Balances-Of bond issues’: ...c.ae CCE eee a 32 
 Hotmie ars heal tlt «3 apiesc aon cep decaetinect eee 127-129 
 POwers- and: dutiee a2. s: sidan: wake gee ee 129 
 berms -of .meémbersas, 2" 3 eae a emae Ven, oat 128 
 To fix certain salaiies!. > .5; gee so) ee 15 
 Board of parchasé’ 1s 2s... Ante a: eal ke a ee eee 142 
 Bond-issues, bulances-of ctu. ay ee oe gee 32 
 Bohaecot icity Oiicials es cise ct ee, oe 16 
 Budget (See mayor’s estimate and appropriation ordinance)........ 26 
 Ruaditie regulation. 35.2 ic nia Doteasy See 113 
 Bureau of information and publicity: oie. cok ae 145 
 CWarities atid corrections! 20.2 2706S.) corso ae a 112 
 Charter—= 
 Amendments: 40 io. dace at a hee 234 
 Pec eiket elicet gs Sek Yok on eg ir ln te eo £235 
 
 To have control of stations and officers... 106 
 
 Remora On wae ak Ss Sele casebe cde tae’ Sea ea 107 
 Chief of police— 
 To have control of stations and OffCers oocccccc-cceesos cece 103 
 SEI 2) MG enn eee Sean aap” Se Sg Ch 107 
 OIC ys ota ee so aie ee, See ae 66-78: 
 eens. on “behalf Of city. 2 St ee 71 
 plecten and’ Qualifications Svc... //0. <1. 70> oe eae 66 
 Meawcanins, when to apply for ...-....'... tease ee 1k) 
 RES E ek g 70 
 Pers and Cities sg ae es oe ke 67 
 RECESSOL LO he cgresscta eae ane 78 
 Deact.25 city: solicitor Ji.) 42 oe ee ee res 
 Pemeeeiiletigy. coy oe co oe a ee ee ee 35, 145 
 Wry Clerk. to Lee ee ERS ees RRM cf SP 11 
 Ho-authenticate «ordinayces 2 ee ee 35 
 Pi OWES OF 2 sk, oe ee ee Ne 4 12 
 City feeasurer (See treasurer) <i... c.anau 4 ee 13, 88, 96 
 Rawk Bet yice COnpmssiOn <2. ......cis 0 sake Sec ee 146-158 
 XD GALS! ioae idsehetac needs Nase cle axashcss eka eee 109 
 Appointments .hcc-ccescvesece (nas, oi onycleaaastvt sae Stic Ree ee aa la 151 
 Sodassifications by. scsecck veces n ety ee 148 
 Commission,.appointment \Of x... kaya ae 146 
 Examinations. DY. <i. smear? ccct otek Ae eee ee ee ee 150 
 investigations and hearings... <.000. gee een 154 
 Pay rolls, cértification, Gf main ee 153 
 Political activity of civil service EMplOYeS eescesceccccscccscseeccececeesses 185.157 
 
 Present. employes under. utc. jee 2 ee ee 152 
 
-Cranter or THE Crry or CoLumMBUS LV 
 
 Sec. No 
 DRE ABR (GWE Sa ee SE Se eee ye RRO ret een Ee 149 
 PUTTS AIG (PENALTIES o.oo ccaccc nunca ssadenanaptepeunibipten eeaatotantwenenesentnees 158 
 PaNgTS EC A TFISE. CILY (DAV NCTE OL | isnot. ocean seq oan -napenveceseaa poesiieaanbasscsiceeecmuoens 84 
 TS Sass Dei ote paler GY) ay Co ai ete ane noo Sen CEE Soho ee op 110 
 RRM IC COLT CEL Ye cs costae ocosccaccdenccnopasecu se ctetnepeceusnasangnivgnsEtonied S donnpantos 148 
 CO MSUISIGETT cet ST fea) oe 1 RS ee, 1g ane aa Rees ap ORM ie See. Rae 214 
 ompercation Of Oficers. and «Employes: os... --cncecpqectenqnesunnececndbcten 15 
 Competitive bids, board of purchase ....secscsccsossscscvsessessnsscssnseeseeccsssenssees 143 
 ae PONG UN TmOyITEd OT1 A SVS Oe recs cee ceees cha laceh casas csnsecendegee sgidcchabtrunnovoniieoncoverodetnes 53 
 OEE Seino SRN int aie SR aN Tc Ist Ae 0 1 eC 159-163 
 PTET APTI OL. TUOGINCATION OF * ooicencecsccuccnsnencceceveuat veda ttcemmnundonbews Suaeue 163 
 Met  IC ODORS UTED CHAT LOL eras. cong esta ceraccr toast enrec eal cancdentoneey 228 
 C5 SAR py), Sakae eat RN a RE me Sa aa AR Re, SUE Re a SU 162 
 Lo Se Gs Uae W259 PEG ca (iy EE ae IR aR ne ge Be ks NAR oar 227 
 metas 370 bO De 10 teTeStO: 110 yoo oc as ccdeas canna avarice eosisieestemgues 6, 227 
 (gia SY aR SG 6s Da ne ne a ae eae YAS Sr 161 
 NRE rR a crass at eran ao caveigs one needa om bveasihgnsnvvnenseroocb sural odhuabenth deoted 186 
 Council— 
 MME NEE CTS IN cag teen Be eSetpa eae pcs hccopcospeenoeensnens aasiss hoe eae 33, 34 
 BMT CC SLO WUE Eh or ah csteda daceyot conc ay edcu goo oneciskandoattenvaces ahaz tout teeasis et 3 
 ot Lon. 8 (PYG Sn alae aN aE LR SU as Re OR RI 8 
 Praniber-o1 members dnd election oo. cccin seciestesonsadiscanaysrrnopeacbns 3 
 OO SSE OR ee See nO RR RRA MRR, SOUS SPEARS Yd 17 
 “SE as GU ay CT ga a ete ele ii Re ETD cRNA Ai 8 9 
 To provide for deposit of public money in banks ue 93 
 Councilmen— 
 re eR ace a aoc alns ceca sien aducngiptn ede anieeeteaacndeee Fae cctah 205 
 Se Sy NEMS 93 lO Sls SENSE i eae a Wale ob ee Pe An NR ca al 9 
 LESTER C/o igen ae a oa fo REE OR a et haemo an, Mee 202 
 EER NS econ casi ank cts ee econ Fase a atte tne rca tnaas reacts Netcom eae 6 
 renee iti Cet aCe es 855 Tt a Scenctaevcastee) meen etch melas 7 
 DST Stee Sau gl eker: 2s SP ede a NER Ree ae? a PE Ue ee 215 
 (0 Sai, esis oa aegis ee OR MRO ee Ne 4 
 AMES SIV EELI OT 3/26 facies orga tase. dastecin cdacpabasumn nbn opaalgedie toa 3 
 tee AMC ASSRSSI ENE Of resco iect case scodectestaed nets eapbevsin ticaecertiogeeesca 174, 175 
 Damage claims on account of improvements .0.........ccescccsscccececeseeseeeses 174, 177 
 MePrEnarIr Ie SUP Ce a te fa ee ed a 191 
 Peparments and division established a..5 00a 97 
 POMS ITE CG er es ccc aman eee eee ec day op aeety 100 
 Ot SECS aaa aR alge Tir ece Oa el Ne aS ee li eRe Se TE cc A 98 
 Ppa Mrer Or UEbNC Safety: net a ce 101 
 ie ereecnirer public Service. yoo d .,/-ncsmatoleenniy ciara le 115, 118 
 Deposits to secure payment of water bills .....cc.c0 coscccecccssccssccssosesceeecescose 125 
 Pepreciation fund: division. of ‘water vc. a.cccccciuccecedh een aans % 123 
 
 Deputy director of service 
 
LVI Carter oF THE City or Cotumsus 
 
 Sec. No. 
 SPIE CCE AB OE 5 xnconiscnnsen wives orterncensicsacsec abineame od co Lae ee 186 
 Pirecters-af departments ....:..1.0,.:..cmes ccd 60, 97 
 Claws to be-approved: by ccs Qh ee ee 84 
 Batght “Hotter chery: ccsisatoscitees-cvinycine nh estas cao a 230 
 MSF CCLOEIS = ap dces cn cme senna ata sche dais Oa 200-214 
 Balbots: for 22a eda. ase ee oe 201, 219, 211 
 Of “eounéihmen® cc5 Human ee ee eee 205 
 Primary, nomination of candidates 2. -oo.c.ccecccscsscchccccsoncssc- 204 .. 
 TRE Eisen. cee ils sc cntcandovavecs.. saat aie en 217 
 si Rh cs: Se oe ee a AMR kee OS 200 
 Wremnen’s~serftramte 20... saccade ee ee 200A 
 PANGI SORE Y st OR SUITES = stains tensed oss 22 
 heheh rant 00 sess ncsseace fan issn Seve soot cas eect ee 54 
 Pngineering-and construction 2.2.4.0. cc. en ee 97,119 
 putimated--assesamients 4.0.05, .cicednscusane. al alee eee 168 
 ECORV Ge 5200 cons castal yd heat ieee hea 57 
 PED SOWIRES 5 5a So ats di8- ho eorssdgan easing ae igs 31, 84 
 BSP MOn Ol COUNCIME sco mcienassstite an doe ee ee 9 
 MIT, CIVISIOR MOE snails csccsncseisecnethccvsccsssetsdlioes wash fAavilan ogee aioe ena 105, 106 
 TASCA) PORE eps ck nasa oskascn TRU. Anda aoa a Oe 26 
 5 oye ge ee ere OE SEN EEE Rm eal ah — 23, 192-199 
 Extensions by ‘ammexation £.2c0l... lessen soseecdaenlenalcae ‘197 
 POT OHMAI CS issih dado Renee tihs Sates ARI gn 199 
 Leese-or purchase by ~City: 66sec ssh asad eng 196 
 a aa! het ay 21g Age, el a EMOTE ie. Pepe ve.) Os yy 193 
 PePUIALIONS OF by COUNCIL ie eecsaccccenscnccn anal e 1 Se 198 
 Reportssby-rrantee to-city -..csececcisisc...-snsssutinduasatnie eee 194 
 Pree-ermploymvent Oe; osc. 5 jects csaccac aes Bonne coe 112 
 General tews-wihen to-apply 2as.cc.cc ccc. ccsssscccsscanseschelcacchueansot ek eR 232 
 Health -and sanitation, department of ...2...0.c.ccccscc.ccesesces-s0a sols peiernenees 127 
 Hospitals, asylums, etc., free water fOr ...........0..sccessscesssessceesessrssneeeess 124 
 2 Ce i oy og.) ee ae eR Te eM MSDE Ne rhe Py | 230 
 Improvements and -assesoments \o.:...:s.c.ceccsctsensseeeacssasuocsavaesdbensovetuannocdoes 164-186 
 Assessments for replacing improvements ..........0.:ccc:ccse0e escneeeesoeseee 182 
 fmaprovements by comtract  ..5..:c0iciccietcdsiniessieehnsseibonvonsmbentcoaeaen 186 
 Raproeventent reeolation ......62 oss kocné nnn eel eee 166 
 information and-publicity, bureat Of oon c.cc..csccarsecsescse seladscberctsoeveamiel 145 
 Bhitiatwve; thre -:segoi oe entices msde inde doe odiadh Sipe eanadas ea 36-47 
 Aetion “by -ecowsedl sent iispiseiesd etssenicsesdecesienndivansengu dine beeen nie 42 
 Amendments ¢0-petitaet = i5.0cic8ssctcsndennssccisanadeanteg Ea apa 40 
 Battots; -etybe Ot 6s ctiaclovicivw.ssiackwisbabnats nee em ae aetaes 46 
 ertiheate by ehenke occ. isiscuieinccdhtcinrn. cee ae oes 39 
 Committee of petitioners o...0.lcc.. .c.nhessinataip mee ee 43 
 RdCe thon Mee o.com nceasessunzumnyss ed eiee eae Mio at gi ee 44 
 
Carter oF THE City oF CoLUMBUS LVII 
 
 Sec. No 
 Paablication OF OTGINANCE ..occcie.cecececccecceceenceneneysececssssdasemeoreeteyeirere temmmers 47 
 Public hearings OM .........sccccccecccnecsessssscesersospennsweasannaepes sanemevpemmercerceeroes 41 
 Repeals and amendiments -... .--------s-ceeceeeeeneeseeeeneeenenrneneasecenvenmenmnneens 48 
 EE a take tnceecgrcencremepnonpeavened Ge bic LccbopiasieinPsaee eel sapemair 47 
 Signatures to petitions -.......-.-cceccccceccececceeeeeeeeeceesneceeenseeseeennremieneenennmanes 37 
 Sufficiency Of petition -...-......-------s-ccecscecseesseeseeeeeeseeceneneeceemrenemenepecenenere 45 
 Investigations by civil service COMMISSION -......--.---..-ceeneersseerneeenneeneeee 154 
 Investigations by council ........--.----.------+ eee. aoe emyle ne eae mere 33, 34 
 Investigations by Mayor ......---...-.-.-225 ssesecececsseceeeeceees tees cneeenecteteeeeanennmneannann 63 
 Investigations by trustees of sinking fund —.....2--.----.---sseeee ee 140 
 Labor, Hours Of -.cn......c-nenecececssesc-cescecnecessnseseesnsencansassneatennesepunennonsenponmadeniese 230 
 Legislative DOWEYLS 1.0 --ccceecscseesessetieeeeneesenneensnneenrenennstenennsatennenntaresnanaing 3 
 Legislative Procedure ......-.---.----ccccecsecsecceeceeseeccesecseceesseneeneenenseencaseaaneaneenmaion 17 
 Libraries (See public library) -.........----:s----cccecseceseecceesseeeeenseneenenmnneanansnans 130-132 
 Library trustees to fix salaries ~......--+ -----se-c-cecs-so-cmeenscesneeneemensennmnnrmnre 15 
 Light, heat and power. rates ............-..---s----s:-+-c-pesemneonenmemunemmnnestuone rem onemmmeitens = £120 
 MUERTE RULOIIS Olt vk SSESSTIICINS oon oo o<nny nese conenscnrnneancesatineersnsnie ihn aeae NA 180 
 TigetritatioNS- ON APPLOPFiatiONS. ....---..n.c1a.-.0--.:cgeerem wee: pe eT 30 
 PEVIMETNSL ON -EXDENGICULES. <n. .0.ice son .c— onassn-ppommenanmatianesn creme enabpare 31 
 MERION OF CETtamt aCHONS .2..:..---ceciseeeeieened eee -beee aie 75 
 UAE MRSEESAYICYY GITIC TICS onan enen een econ ne nipein oa nae repro «abaya vsblnccn rpm er 164 
 a al tail Ny ecrrsigyy «binicnn- sarie Seplrs operas aye 116 
 Mayor— 
 RTI SERIES Nera Sse Ess aang dnc uta msg gente neon speaatni ea 61 
 NASR Tg SE RRA Se ace ae agen eet ee de RA AB Rm me 26 
 (CCEA SSE SET Ck gai 01S GC? [boo See ce ec 57, 59, 62 
 NN i ERED ceo Pg ace a dip iw canegh adden beiniowchiad “aniepeleeted 63 
 May-call special nieetings of council on... csc-ncorserme-sanpnen 8 
 Pernt a DpOMt did TeMOVE (c....-.........10-2-.caeperbieewey nue oipences 60 
 peememerit. OF bard Or liealth 22... ce- 254-0. soxacinceee Lannea ater 127 
 (SU RTSTEST 7 ES, = a a ee a ED 65 
 EL Seale ESS lll easel eens hanna 9 OR ean fa 59 
 SUT AIRES a SONG ea a a a 64 
 BICC A NCAEIOUS «5. Sos nsnnsninnscics «soansces-s-evessecinondivey-sdlpianaciane= 58 
 TS ae eee ATE Ree) 8 peat ti minane a Lae 24,25 
 I COUN i once cin nekeneitbden penta 8 
 MENETESIMEE, DOGVISIONS) 2.0.5, ssn. detaesstemcteternss Case deonnwarssnecubunsbovenchcdanke 224 
 MNS ABE ELE Br Ree a re ameniiecd 214 
 Nominations and elections (See elections) ..2........s:.ss-s:-sesseenvenereseneeses 200-214 
 RUEMMER ICE COL TOUS MACLONS ceccse cn ea. os osname cecpdcsanncne cause facedeptt ~ \ 208 
 Eh oS SRAM eo a lee et AO 202 
 NEAENRNOTT CADW OMICETS g2 ee sso secs teersvoermmamegeobe 206-209 
 POM ee ae DECIAL ASSESTIENES Ses. -<seepreenevrechsise--asciestomrporrancdvioncycervarcuse 170 
 I » 226 
 
 MPINPEC RING 00 ASSESSIIC LES 5...55:65saccsdc-.0:c:c--.:ccanaspanesaoomen rmmeceacciecaces daeeake > Lee 
 
LVIII CuiarTer oF THE City or CoLtumats 
 Sec. No. 
 Officers semdvemploy es :incs,.«d-aci.n chaise A, a 14 
 Commencement ofterms'-of -..ass.20.0Slgroatidawetale We 225 
 Continuance of present @iiter's ’..4...1ncee sae eee 224 
 PRUEKESD-IN CONTACTS Wy: Bas migiacscnssttancneca ba cacte eee 6,227 
 ath ok office sii gitivevese:...cina..cpiiniecsh nau ttccl Cake eh a 226 
 Ofitetal bonds ccieet Bis teniscico. tad kk RES eee ea 16 
 Sdlaries:and feegsts.d.i4....0.. eee a pee ee ee eh 15 
 Officers, nomination: of by=petition G0... .2......4scitneen s. Sel eee 206-209 
 ORNS BOG oie acca ee, dn. 2th asian CIN Se 16 
 Ordinances— 
 Appropriation ordinance « f:is.0..0, se dloes ayer 27 
 Appropriation ordinance as emergency ceece-ceccccceccsesssedeessesseeeccc... 23 
 COTTE MRE” winnncttns RON isha Agate eeu ay. oy OH Oe ena 53 
 PERO AC Ys aises peek chon hades erage Oe 22 
 Eiacting clauserof-,itesdon oe scsi oe ee 19 
 puibintive and reherendu ny 40.45.10 ta cee Pe ee ee 36-52 
 rnc TIOT COL enc 8) oct um aie ce peepee OLN NY Uh ee 35 
 RaAtiication of existing ic. cisiis.ic Mone LE ee eee 229 
 Revision -and ginenement: <6. ...skGecaks os aoe Oo. ea 21 
 be be read twice before. passages.cs..:.-.00k..a. eee ee ee :- 20 
 Vores necessary: for enactment iio... decicsen unk ee ee 18, 25 
 Payrolls to be certified by civil service commission ................)........... 153 
 iiagerounaes, mwiaintenance of 5s busses kine. oe. ee 15 
 PAPDCE VISION CATIO USED OT cociadhccekunc adage cape cciehaa Se 112 
 Pension ‘funds ........:...-... Cer eR: ET ae ET MOON SH MAS 111 
 Petitions— , 
 Nominating candidates for city OffCES ...c.cecccscscsoscssssen ccessseseveseeses: 206-209 
 CRT BUSES TELAT AD, <csscsisoverdeecnandde. che ee 222, 228 
 Peesigne-tor elerenduym «nsec cixagarns Okt aR ee 49 
 PROCS CIN GS: OTF 9. leslie pac ckadesraycens i enh ee 50 
 Elpueation of Ordinances caisson si. ne eee 35 
 eM) CUES OR (Ol 52. cst. sche eat saan gene 102-104 
 PCE SOC IA ios 2006 thetccaaat hdlignaistcapc Oe ans ae, Vee 104 
 POWERES WOT “CITY tasssnnsceeeuscaditaaced so saute eee 1,2 
 Prererential> ballet: — 25 occ nos eon ah 210-213 
 President: of coumell ick. csc gk nie eee ee ee 10, 24, 64 
 Primaries for nomination of Councilmen ...c.-..csccccsccccsscesceecresescecseeecsesseos 202-204 
 Biimary. ballots form of cciscz..sscica.tte ase ee 204 
 P Piety? CLECtION? gale ceet isc en ee 204 
 PG at HS 55 Ss ectechanc apc cntinsesesdecas Beare) Dead eee a 112; 15 
 SDI INES: |<. focpetcs cskctosctettcip ca testttesteks. bac ee ee 115) 132 
 PPSDRe MMCTONM OL 6. choca ncitensd So secihncs Su eosdace es, 12; 
 Public health and sanitation, department Of c.scsscscsccssssesessssssessseeeeeree 127 
 Public hearings on initiated ordimances o.se.-cs:.scsccecsssescescsnssseessessuesseeeennee 41 
 On-appropriation ordinance: <2 /.cscspsccti ces nce ae 27 
 
CuanrTer oF THE City or CoLUMBUS LIX 
 
 Sec. No 
 
 Publicity and information, bureau Of -..n.......ecicceeeceeestcecceeneenconentenenesoee 145 
 Public Library 2...0..22cc...csceccesceesccececeecenecsceeeeceeesseecesccsnsnsdecsscsnrcnseassasesanersen soees 130-132 
 Ny Ci Ee a nr ee ea oe ae 132 
 eS Feehan ac nnacen erect cde eho naccenomepntoverocecnone at ctatectenradtoee 131 
 
 Pa Wers ANGMALTICS OL TEST COSFic.4 esc cie-c.nczaph noon nowadeanocsteeeestectnads 131 
 ETS ees aa acne toto Sok er ea dae osct radiata dhgeehecintettackantexts 130 
 PrP CEY  CEDAT UNIO OF es ocacn ct en nan cotennncntup ncbuiive donatectoneomnmerenen sears 101 
 PUA IIBCE VICE, “CG OAL CINCH thr Era neat can ca lcagclnnta-nnencesutdenenanetonca corneas 115 
 Ppl wisiities trates Of City OWN: Wissen cece coin ann cance tent 126 
 Ce I SS I Eee, no: Sapo ee a 120, 126, 192 
 EMM RMU ONL AY CY LIW 1 SION” OD" xsscere chase Se aah Bo eae eh dan ceceeitee an nesaecteceed cube 112 
 AIPGHASES AVC ASIP PHESS OOAT OOF siecle lesa andra cdacce nega nctemenseetcn sec acdesd 142 
 MOM eA EVONTS "OE CORRIAG ITN oe oe a: orate ioe snstin te aan an coda waattaadancatesromacastens 6 
 SP EG 1 ia GR es ice = RD SE REDS a EER Pl didir BO, Lo RT 215-221 
 LEN NGL SY oe ae SO ek ea ed Ae ane RP NA AEP aan ae 218 
 
 Led CEVSIDKO U7) OCs Rae eh sei ey et pobre eet: eee a iar eee AS RAE 217 
 aime vor VaCameies Caused Dy. 3c scsi asain noe titeceeccstceanesteuen teas 219 
 proce of to officer i2cc05.....3 aE ES tae Ae amet Se Be Rn 216 
 1 ewe yupalate ise 2 RSE aa let San: 02 Aone aE SSP id ge Rar en Ac 215 
 eo CSAC Re ala) SSR Se eS CR RRS ie i ee eb ed 220 
 
 Rit aA Te VISION MOL fies ie Or cota) Bt kn es cee ee 112 
 ag) secu) gets 1 AM Bea Te apt ae er ec ES RS oct eS 49-52 
 NOT EEN CY INCAS ULES) es. sik te sas lasiee scent ovateccncnsdantpetnatucecasoaaee 54 
 MORRMECISOEAE EEN OF EIPLATICES> apees See tell wpm ncccaes sgecucocertinc ecdkmesokeo tee ve 
 (EONS 9 SRC (39 0 i ae ERP othe of ath 56 
 
 ToL hcoroh ig ited 6 BSTC LS) (ieee eae ee a ae A RS, SS SoD 55 
 Perm eet ION AIG CiSPOSAl. eps laclaatosde ina cieledeccseoece een crnassececece 97 
 TSS We i] ee ON Bre, SARE 2 I Wg 9 (oa Fea Re 111 
 Pee atm se ICIAUEG OF CINANICES,. <a._.c2e.cacise cane cnncads'ks ncccscbitasetatur kere 48 
 Pipe MEDI OL TOI. eet.) a tec cts i tole sme Ge 231 
 fe ier DAreTCHts 2! Re re ae 26, 231 
 (0 SEG RG 2 Re alk ane tl ie ea eae ee, 172 
 Perle ceemmtepOteriva OL: COUCH ooo ciec ca seledoecnechectoes ecdeccscceecccheonceleca cd 9 
 EIS ac) 0M (ee rh ne eae ee eZ 7 
 merece ee eres eh Se ee oh Ae 15 
 8 eS CCS) a a RI tee eee SSM re Shey Zs 
 Bemeesey ee board°of purchases. 6 144 
 eM WaAtel CONNECTIONS (icici dota cd. seem ce eet 183 
 I to Se I eee 184 
 Po tmbermemeN ONT ECUSECCS: Sms cnc cenastscc ene 8 cose eee sl 133-141 
 RAPT a ee eg 133 
 co AOS 2 SER tan na 134 
 SI e SVE con hse ee a 140 
 Renee torr, funidee en  O eB 138 
 
 7 ERTL RES a Ca ee one 135 
 
Lx Cuarren or THE Ciry oF CoLumaus 
 
 Sec. No 
 Powers. and duti¢s (0... ale aoele 4 (een ee 136 
 tpegording of bonds... soi....:.csm Menu aeee eee. ae ae eee 141 
 ax levy, certificate: to:conncil ut oe ee 
 To fix salaries of employes ............. J vinhicopticel cenigiteeneiet is eae, apes ae 15 
 menses laws, when tovapply 2220052 2: ee ee eRe eh ieee 232 
 PER IA) POLICE. io Shae iv nt acs pac ai gg ee ee ee 104 
 Stagets; dedication Gfx. 2... pales on ee 191 
 Sirects-and. public @pounds ..cicitole A eee 115, 164 
 Pulberasion “OF oy coy media stalin 2 eee ea ee 188 
 Gene aed controlcby comicil «oe eee ee 187, 198 
 PO OOTION OF Tdi ccles ene cincates cass sab aie gee a en 191 
 Segeet opening and widening. .\.2..;....0-00 cine deepens Cae 188 
 Swopletientary appropriations. ..:...5 >. sas ue eee 29 
 Suspension and removal— 
 ispolice-and fire ‘divisions’... ee 108 
 Romer Civil SOrViOG 5. ssn dicsc.<s. gape ee Oe 149 
 daeepayer, may institute suit. ee ee ee ee 74 
 PRMMSAGSUOL EntndS oka dis ey eer tk as 28 
 (0 TS SA Se Re TO SID, NE TMRE a Rit 2 13, 88-96 
 Peciat Ot City smoney oe ee ee cain, 88 
 etseOOINe absustants 4. fa. o eee ame cade 96 
 movneep detailed accounts’ <ui:4...24.. 0 eee eee 92 
 morecn) money an banks 02.4.0... 5. Lees 93 
 Papey.onl warrant Only 20 ee 91 
 io tecetve taxes from county: o.oo 89 
 Wier Obed lands, assessments -Of -.s..02....w et, ng ee ee 169 
 Ree SETViCe Of CIV oc 20 ce ee ee ee ee 148 
 AOE LCR DAIBNOES 2 cancion cnecea seu avec Sie 32, 190 
 Vacancies— 
 Saused by recall election; how filled: x... 2 .oogee eee 219 
 Parecunes, how Billed ss. 6 0. Sa eo ee 5-7 
 BSE MOONE. 2.00 tno ea Joa a, a RR Pe 24, 25 
 MMR COREE OE i. cdo ncuc ats asa ae ee 212 
 Wedter fates and chapm@es co. et ae tr 120-126 
 WeRrhts atid Measures, «ccc cin. catenneee | ok ue 114. 
 Miafare, division of .c-.. ee 112 ¥ 
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