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25th September 2017, 02:50 PM
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Re: Municipal Corporation Ohio

The administrative divisions of Ohio are counties, municipalities (cities and villages), townships, special districts and school districts. Elections for county officials are held in even-numbered years, while elections for officials in municipalities, townships, and local boards of education are held in odd-numbered years.

Municipalities

In Ohio, there are two kinds of incorporated municipalities: cities and villages. Population is the sole distinguishing point between cities and villages; in general, municipalities with fewer than 5000 residents at the last federal census are villages and with more than 5000 are cities. 2 exceptions exist:
A municipality with at least five thousand registered voters is a city
A municipality with more than five thousand residents is a village if its population falls below five thousand after subtracting out-of-town students and prisoners

When the boundaries of a township are common with the boundaries of a city or village, the township ceases to exist as a separate government.

To incorporate as a city, the territory to be included must meet the following conditions per section 707.29 of the Ohio Revised Code:

1. It shall consist of minimum 4 square miles.
2. It shall have a population of minimum 25000 and a population density of minimum 1000 persons per square mile.
3. It shall have a consider valuation of real, personal, and public utility property subject, except as otherwise provided in division (A)(3) of this section, to general property taxation of minimum 2500 dollars per capita.
4. It shall not completely surround an existing municipal corporation.
5. It shall be contiguous.

Municipalities have full home rule powers, may adopt a charter, ordinances and resolutions for self-government. Each municipality chooses its own form of government, but most have elected mayors and city councils or city commissions.

City governments provide much more extensive services than county governments, such as police forces and professional (as opposed to volunteer) fire departments.

Additional municipal services are often financed by local income taxes that townships cannot impose except in a Joint Economic Development District with a municipality.

Not all municipalities levy income taxes; those that do range from 0.3% in the Village of Indian Hill to 3.0% in Parma Heights.

Municipality names are not unique: there is a village of Centerville and a city of Centerville; also a city of Oakwood and two similarly named villages: Oakwood, Cuyahoga County, Ohio and Oakwood, Paulding County, Ohio.


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