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 Cincinnati
 Code of Ordinances
 Title I. COUNCIL AND CORPORATION MISCELLANY
 Chapter 101. COUNCIL

§ 101-1. Qualifications of Members of Council.  

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  • Each member of council shall be an elector of the city and shall not hold any other public office except that of notary public or member of the state militia. A member of council shall not be interested in any contract with the city and shall not hold employment with the city.

    A member who ceases to possess any of the above qualifications or removes from the city shall forthwith forfeit the office of council member.

    An officer, director, stockholder, employee, or owner of any interest in a financial institution or public depository receiving inactive, interim, or active deposits pursuant to the Uniform Depository Act of the Ohio Revised Code shall not be deemed to hold public office or be interested, either directly or indirectly, as a result of such relationship, in the deposit of such inactive, interim, or active deposits of public moneys for the purpose of any law prohibiting a member of council from holding other office or being interested in any contract of the city of Cincinnati.

    A member of council shall not be deemed to hold other public office when appointed by the mayor or designated by council or selected by a governmental or quasi-governmental body to represent the city on the board or commission of any governmental or quasi-governmental body, including, but not limited to, the OKI, District 13 Council of Governments on Law Enforcement, the Port Authority, the Transit Authority, and the Community Mental Health and Mental Retardation Board of Hamilton County. A member of council shall not be deemed to hold public office when appointed a director of the Federal Home Loan Bank, nor considered as having an interest, directly or indirectly, in the purchase or sale by the city or the Federal Home Loan Bank System of securities issued by the Federal Home Loan Bank System or the city.

    (C.O. 101-1; a. Ord. No. 36-1970, eff. Feb. 11, 1970; reordained as C.M.C. 101-1, eff. Jan. 1, 1972; a. Ord. No. 249-1979, eff. July 13, 1979)

    Ordinance No. 36-1970 declared Section 731.02 of the Ohio Revised Code inoperative in the City of Cincinnati.