Effective: March 23, 1981
Latest Legislation: House Bill 1062 - 113th General Assembly
Any initiative or referendum petition may be presented in separate parts, but each part of any initiative petition shall contain a full and correct copy of the title and text of the proposed ordinance or other measure, and each part of any referendum petition shall contain the number and a full and correct copy of the title of the ordinance or other measure sought to be referred. Each signer of any such petition must be an elector of the municipal corporation in which the election, upon the ordinance or measure proposed by such initiative petition, or the ordinance or measure referred to by such referendum petition, is to be held. Petitions shall be governed in all other respects by the rules set forth in section 3501.38 of the Revised Code. In determining the validity of any such petition, all signatures which are found to be irregular shall be rejected, but no petition shall be declared invalid in its entirety when one or more signatures are found to be invalid except when the number of valid signatures is found to be less than the total number required by this section.
The petitions and signatures upon such petitions shall be prima facie presumed to be in all respects sufficient. No ordinance or other measure submitted to the electors of any municipal corporation, and receiving an affirmative majority of the votes cast thereon, shall be held ineffective or void on account of the insufficiency of the petitions by which such submission of the ordinance or measure was procured, nor shall the rejection, by a majority of the votes cast thereon, of any ordinance or other measure submitted to the electors of such municipal corporation, be held invalid for such insufficiency.
Ordinances proposed by initiative petition and referendums receiving an affirmative majority of the votes cast thereon, shall become effective on the fifth day after the day on which the board of elections certifies the official vote on such question.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 7 | Municipal Corporations
Section 731.01 | Members of Legislative Authority.
Section 731.02 | Qualifications of Members of Legislative Authority.
Section 731.03 | Election and Term of Members of Legislative Authority.
Section 731.04 | Officers of Legislative Authority.
Section 731.05 | Powers of Legislative Authority.
Section 731.06 | Division of City Into Wards.
Section 731.07 | Salaries Shall Not Be Changed During Term.
Section 731.08 | Power of Legislative Authority as to Salaries and Bonds.
Section 731.09 | Members of Village Legislative Authority - Election - Terms of Office.
Section 731.091 | Elimination of Staggered Terms of Office.
Section 731.10 | President Pro Tempore of the Legislative Authority - Employees.
Section 731.11 | Vacancy When President Pro Tempore Becomes Mayor.
Section 731.12 | Qualifications of Members of Village Legislative Authority.
Section 731.13 | Compensation and Bonds of Village Officers, Clerks and Employees.
Section 731.14 | Contracts by Legislative Authority of a Village - Exception.
Section 731.141 | Village Administrator to Make Contracts and Purchases.
Section 731.15 | Bids and Proceedings.
Section 731.16 | Alterations or Modifications of Contracts.
Section 731.17 | Passage of Ordinances and Resolutions.
Section 731.18 | Style of Ordinances.
Section 731.19 | Subject and Amendment of Bylaws, Ordinances, and Resolutions.
Section 731.20 | Authentication and Recording.
Section 731.21 | Publication of Ordinances and Resolutions.
Section 731.211 | Method of Giving Notice of Proposed Charter Amendments.
Section 731.22 | Times of Publication Required.
Section 731.23 | Publication and Certification of Ordinances in Book Form.
Section 731.231 | Adopting Standard or Technical Ordinances and Codes.
Section 731.24 | Certificate of Clerk as to Publication.
Section 731.25 | Publication When No Newspaper in Municipal Corporation.
Section 731.26 | Effect of Not Making Publication.
Section 731.27 | Mayor's Veto in Cities.
Section 731.28 | Ordinances and Measures Proposed by Initiative Petition.
Section 731.29 | Petition for Referendum.
Section 731.30 | Application of Sections.
Section 731.31 | Presentation of Petition.
Section 731.32 | Copy of Proposed Ordinance or Measure Filed With Auditor or Clerk.
Section 731.33 | Words Which Shall Be Printed in Red.
Section 731.34 | Designation of Committee Filing Petition.
Section 731.35 | Itemized Statement by Circulator of Petition.
Section 731.36 | Prohibited Practices Relative to Petitions.
Section 731.38 | Prohibition Against Accepting Premium for Signing.
Section 731.40 | Prohibition Against Threats in Securing Signatures.
Section 731.41 | Charter Municipal Corporations.
Section 731.42 | Bylaws and Ordinances as Evidence.
Section 731.43 | Vacancy in Village Legislative Authority.
Section 731.44 | Judge of Election and Qualification of Members - Quorum and Special Meetings.
Section 731.45 | Rules - Journal - Expulsion of Members.
Section 731.46 | Meetings of Legislative Authority.
Section 731.47 | General Powers.
Section 731.48 | Contract Restrictions.
Section 731.49 | Failure to Take Oath or Give Bond.
Section 731.50 | Notice When New Bond Required.
Section 731.51 | Notice to Owner to Cut Noxious Weeds or Remove Litter - Service.
Section 731.52 | Fees for Service and Return.
Section 731.53 | Procedure When Owner Fails to Comply With Notice.
Section 731.54 | Written Return to County Auditor - Amount a Lien Upon Property.
Section 731.55 | Insurance for City Funds or Securities - Costs.
Section 731.56 | Investment of City Funds.
Section 731.57 | Investment Authorized - Limitations - Procedure.
Section 731.58 | Treasury Investment Account.