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Title 7, Title 7. Municipal Corporations

36 chapters · 1,301 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 71,301 Ch 742, Chapter 742 | Police And Fire Pensio…132 Ch 733, Chapter 733 | Officers87 Ch 715, Chapter 715 | General Powers84 Ch 705, Chapter 705 | Plans Of Government68 Ch 718, Chapter 718 | Municipal Income Taxes62 Ch 731, Chapter 731 | Organization62 Ch 709, Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment61 Ch 727, Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally58 Ch 723, Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds53 Ch 759, Chapter 759 | Cemeteries50 Ch 737, Chapter 737 | Public Safety49 Ch 711, Chapter 711 | Plats48 Ch 743, Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; …47 Ch 703, Chapter 703 | Classification43

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.01 Director of public safety
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In each city there shall be a department of public safety, which shall be administered by a director of public safety. The director shall be appointed by the mayor and need not be a resident of the city at the time of his appointment but shall become a resident thereof within six…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.02 General duties - records - contracts
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Under the direction of the mayor, the director of public safety shall be the executive head of the police and fire departments and the chief administrative authority of the charity, correction, and building departments. He shall have all powers and duties connected with and incid…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.021 Division of traffic engineering and safety in department of public safety
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The legislative authority of a city may create and abolish, by ordinance, a division of traffic engineering and safety within the department of public safety. The director of public safety of such city shall be the executive head of such division. He shall have all powers and dut…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.022 Authority of director of public safety to promulgate certain traffic regulations
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(A) As used in this section: (1) "Occupy or use," with respect to a public way, means to create parking spaces and install, repair, maintain, replace, and operate parking meters or other similar devices for the purpose of providing on-street parking.(2) "Public agency" includes a…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.03 Management of certain institutions - contracts and expenditures

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The director of public safety shall manage and make all contracts with reference to police stations, fire houses, reform schools, infirmaries, hospitals other than municipal hospitals operated pursuant to Chapter 749. of the Revised Code, workhouses, farms, pesthouses, and all ot…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.04 Mutual aid contracts for police protection

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The legislative authority of any municipal corporation, in order to obtain police protection or to obtain additional police protection, or to allow its police officers to work in multijurisdictional drug, gang, or career criminal task forces, may enter into contracts with one or …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.041 Providing police service without contract

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The police department of any municipal corporation may provide police protection to any county, municipal corporation, township, township police district, or joint police district of this state, to a park district created pursuant to section 511.18 or 1545.01 of the Revised Code,…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.05 Composition and control of police department

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The police department of each city shall be composed of a chief of police and such other officers, patrolmen, and employees as the legislative authority thereof provides by ordinance.The director of public safety of such city shall have the exclusive management and control of all…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.051 City auxiliary police unit - city parking enforcement unit

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(A) The legislative authority of a city may establish, by ordinance, an auxiliary police unit within the police department of the city, and provide for the regulation of auxiliary police officers. The director of public safety shall be the executive head of the auxiliary police u…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.052 Felony conviction precludes or terminates employment

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(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code.(B)(1) The director of public safety shall not appoint a person as a chief of police, a member of the police department of the municipal corporation, or an auxiliary police office…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.06 Chief of police

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The chief of police shall have exclusive control of the stationing and transfer of all patrolmen, auxiliary police officers, and other officers and employees in the police department, and police auxiliary unit, under such general rules and regulations as the director of public sa…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.061 Prospective officer training school program

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(A) The chief of police of a municipal corporation may conduct training schools for prospective law enforcement officers. The training school programs shall align with Ohio peace officer training academy standards and cadet qualifications. The prospective officers, during the per…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.07 Hours of work for policemen in cities - leave of absence

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In each city, except in case of necessary appearances in court and emergency special duty assignments, not to exceed eight hours constitute a day's work and not to exceed forty-four hours constitute a week's work for policemen. Annually, in each city, each policeman shall be give…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.08 Composition and control of city fire department

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(A) The fire department of each city shall be composed of a chief of the fire department and other officers, firefighters, and employees provided for by ordinance. Neither this section nor any other section of the Revised Code requires, or shall be construed to require, that the …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.081 Criminal records check

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(A) The fire chief of a city fire department may request the superintendent of BCII to conduct a criminal records check with respect to any person who is under consideration for appointment or employment as a permanent, full-time paid firefighter or any person who is under consid…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.082 Employee status of volunteer firefighter

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A volunteer firefighter appointed pursuant to this chapter is a bona fide volunteer and not an employee for purposes of section 513 of the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," 124 Stat. 119 (2010), 26 U.S.C. 4980H, if, for providing those fire protection services, the vo…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.09 Chief of fire department

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The chief of the fire department shall have exclusive control of the stationing and transferring of all firemen and other officers and employees in the department, under such general rules and regulations as the director of public safety prescribes.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.10 Additional patrolmen and firemen in emergency situation

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In case of riot or other like emergency, the mayor may appoint additional patrolmen and officers for temporary service in the police department, or additional firemen and officers for temporary service in the fire department, who need not be in the classified list of such departm…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.11 General duties of police and fire departments

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The police force of a municipal corporation shall preserve the peace, protect persons and property, and obey and enforce all ordinances of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, all criminal laws of the state and the United States, all court orders issued and con…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.111 Fines, rewards and fees of police department credited to general fund

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All fines imposed as discipline or punishment upon members of the police department of a municipal corporation by the authority having charge or control thereof, all rewards, fees, or proceeds of gifts and emoluments allowed by such authority paid and given for or on account of a…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.112 Fines, proceeds and fees of fire department credited to general fund

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All fines imposed as discipline or punishment upon members of the fire department of a municipal corporation by the authority having charge or control thereof, the proceeds of all suits for penalties for the violation of state statutes and municipal ordinances with the execution …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.12 Suspension of police and fire personnel

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Except as provided in section 737.052 of the Revised Code, the chief of police and the chief of the fire department have the exclusive right to suspend any of the deputies, officers, or employees in their respective departments and under their management and control, for incompet…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.13 Classification of service - rules and regulations

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The director of public safety of a city shall classify the service in the police and fire departments in conformity with the ordinance of the legislative authority thereof determining the number of persons to be employed in the departments, and shall make all rules for the regula…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.14 Relief for members of police or fire department

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The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may provide by general ordinance for the relief, out of the police or fire funds, of members of either department temporarily or permanently disabled in the discharge of their duty. This section does not impair, restrict, or re…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.15 Appointment of village marshal

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Each village shall have a marshal, designated chief of police, appointed by the mayor with the advice and consent of the legislative authority of the village, who need not be a resident of the village at the time of appointment but shall become a resident thereof within six month…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.16 Appointment of deputy marshals, police officers, night guards and special police officers

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The mayor shall, when provided for by the legislative authority of a village, and subject to its confirmation, appoint all deputy marshals, police officers, night guards, and special police officers. All such officers shall continue in office until removed therefrom for the cause…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.161 Village auxiliary police unit - parking enforcement unit

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(A) The legislative authority of a village may establish, by ordinance, an auxiliary police unit within the police department of the village, and provide for the regulation of auxiliary police officers. The mayor shall be the executive head of the auxiliary police unit, shall mak…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.162 Felony conviction precludes or terminates employment

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(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code.(B)(1) The mayor shall not appoint a person as a marshal, a deputy marshal, a police officer, a night watchperson, a special police officer, or an auxiliary police officer on a pe…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.17 Probationary period - final appointment

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All appointments made under sections 737.15 and 737.16 of the Revised Code shall be for a probationary period of six months' continuous service, and none shall be finally made until the appointee has satisfactorily served his probationary period. At the end of the probationary pe…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.171 Procedure for removal of village marshal

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Except as provided in section 737.162 of the Revised Code, if the mayor of a village has reason to believe that a duly appointed marshal of the village has been guilty of incompetency, inefficiency, dishonesty, drunkenness, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.18 General powers of village police officers

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The marshal shall be the peace officer of a village and the executive head, under the mayor, of the police force. The marshal, and the deputy marshals, policemen, or nightwatchmen under him shall have the powers conferred by law upon police officers in all villages of the state, …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.19 Powers and duties of village marshal

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(A) The marshal of a village has exclusive authority over the stationing and transfer of all deputies, officers, and employees within the police department of the village, under the general rules that the mayor prescribes.(B) Except as provided in section 737.162 of the Revised C…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.20 Disposition of fines and penalties

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All fees, costs, fines, and penalties collected by the marshal shall immediately be paid to the mayor, who shall report to the legislative authority of the village monthly the amount thereof, from whom, and for what purpose collected, and when paid to the mayor.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.21 Municipal fire regulations, department, companies, and rescue units

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The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may establish all necessary regulations to guard against the occurrence of fires, protect the property and lives of its citizens against damage and accidents resulting therefrom, and for such purpose may establish and maintain …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.22 Appointment of fire chief or fire prevention officer and firefighters

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(A) Each village establishing a fire department shall have a fire chief as the department's head, appointed by the mayor with the advice and consent of the legislative authority of the village, who shall continue in office until removed from office as provided by sections 733.35 …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.221 Criminal records check

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(A) The fire chief of a village fire department may request the superintendent of BCII to conduct a criminal records check with respect to any person who is under consideration for appointment or employment as a permanent, full-time paid firefighter or any person who is under con…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.222 Employee status of volunteer firefighter

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A volunteer firefighter appointed pursuant to this chapter is a bona fide volunteer and not an employee for purposes of section 513 of the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," 124 Stat. 119 (2010), 26 U.S.C. 4980H, if, for providing those fire protection services, the vo…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.23 Schooling of officers and firemen of fire department

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The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may send any of the officers and firemen of its fire department to schools of instruction designed to promote the efficiency of firemen, and, if authorized in advance, may pay their necessary expenses from the funds used for th…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.24 Legislative authority may purchase engines and equipment

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The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may purchase the necessary fire engines and such other equipment as is necessary for the extinguishment of fires and the saving of lives, and may establish lines of fire alarm telegraph within the limits of the municipal corpor…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.25 Buildings for department

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The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may provide or erect necessary and suitable buildings containing rooms for fire engines, and other equipment, and provide for the meetings of the fire and hose companies.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.27 Investigation of fires

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The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may invest any officer of the fire or police department with the power, and impose on him the duty, to be present at all fires, investigate the cause thereof, examine witnesses, compel the attendance of witnesses and the produc…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.28 Erection of houses and business structures - removal

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The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may regulate the erection of houses and business structures and prohibit the erection of buildings within such limits as it deems proper, unless the outer walls are constructed of noncombustible material, and, on the petition o…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.29 Property recovered by police

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Stolen or other property recovered by members of the police force of a municipal corporation shall be deposited and kept in a place designated by the mayor. Each such article shall be entered in a book kept for that purpose, with the name of the owner, if ascertained, the person …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.31 Disposition to claimant

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If, within thirty days, the money or property recovered under section 737.29 of the Revised Code is claimed by any other person, it shall be retained by the custodian thereof until after the discharge or conviction of the person from whom it was taken and so long as it is require…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.32 Sale or donation of unclaimed property

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Except as otherwise provided in this section and unless the property involved is required to be disposed of pursuant to another section of the Revised Code, property that is unclaimed for ninety days or more shall be sold by the chief of police of the municipal corporation, marsh…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.33 Expenses of storage and sale - notice

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Upon the sale of any unclaimed or impounded property as provided in section 737.32 of the Revised Code, if any such unclaimed or impounded property was ordered removed to a place of storage or stored, or both, by or under the direction of a chief of police of municipal corporatio…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.37 Power of legislative authority to regulate

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The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may make such regulations pertaining to public buildings as it considers necessary for the public safety.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.40 Voluntary motor vehicle decal registration program

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(A) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may establish, by ordinance or resolution, a voluntary motor vehicle decal registration program to be controlled by the director of public safety of the municipal corporation and conducted by the police department of the mu…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 737.41 Municipal probation services fund

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(A) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation in which is established a municipal court, other than a county-operated municipal court, that has a department of probation shall establish in the municipal treasury a municipal probation services fund. The fund shall conta…