THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF OHIO, etc. INCLUDING THE ACT OF OCTOBER 22 1902 WITH ALL AMENDMENTS BY WADE H. ELLIS, LL.D. FOURTH EDITION BY CHALLEN B. ELLIS Of the Cincinnati Bar CINCINNATI THE W. H. ANDERSON CO. 1909 7.35 Nw. 2, 1911 Bureau for Research in Municipal Government COPYRIGHT 1905 THE W. H. ANDERSON CO. CINCINNATI, O COPYRIGHT 1906 THE W. H. ANDERSON CO. CINCINNATI, O. COPYRIGHT 1909 THE W. H. ANDERSON CO. CINCINNNATI, O. PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION. In this edition of the Annotated Ohio Municipal Code are contained all the sections of the municipal code and all related statutes, as amended and supplemented by the General Assembly at its sessions in 1908 and 1909. There were included the provisions of the Paine law, passed in 1908, incorporated in their proper places in the municipal code. The forms and orders of procedure have been changed where necessary to make them conform to the new laws. The annotations have been revised and brought up to date and include all Ohio decisions relating to municipal law, more than two hundred and fifty in number, rendered since the publication of the last edition. CHALLEN B. ELLIS. Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1, 1909. PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. The purpose of this publication is to present in convenient form all the laws of Ohio affecting municipal corporations, together with annotations of the decisions thereon, compiled to April 1st, 1903, and all forms of ordinances, resolutions and procedure in conformity with the statutes as they exist since the enactment of the new municipal code. Part I. consists of the new code proper, and all sections of the Revised Statutes re-enacted by it, incorporated at the places where such statutes should appear if made a part of the code itself. The sections of the new code are double leaded and those of the old statutes are set in solid type. The sectional numbers at the top of each page in Part I. refer to the sections of the new code. Part II. consists of all related statutes on the subject of municipal corporations not incorporated in the new code, nor expressly repealed by it. Many of these are doubtless repealed by implication; many others are unconstitutional, being of special application, but they are nevertheless contained herein in order that the entire body of statutes affecting the municipalities of the state may be found together. The desirability of presenting this work for such service as it may render to the new city and village officials and to the bar of the state, at or before the time when the new municipal code goes into effect, has necessitated much haste in its preparation, and this fact is relied upon to secure a pardon for errors and imperfections. In compiling this work the editor has been assisted by Mr. Ellis G. Kinkead and Mr. Challen B. Ellis, of the Cincinnati bar. |