As Reported by House Local Governments & Townships Committee     1            

123rd General Assembly                                             4            

   Regular Session                            Am. H. B. No. 189    5            

      1999-2000                                                    6            


 REPRESENTATIVES TAYLOR-WILLAMOWSKI-OLMAN-VESPER-VAN VYVEN-YOUNG   8            


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                          A   B I L L                                           

             To amend section 703.01 of the Revised Code to        11           

                exclude persons under detention in a detention     12           

                facility from persons counted to determine the     13           

                population of a municipal corporation for                       

                purposes of classifying the municipal corporation  14           

                as a village or a city.                                         




BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:        16           

      Section 1.  That section 703.01 of the Revised Code be       18           

amended to read as follows:                                        19           

      Sec. 703.01.  (A)  Municipal corporations, which, at the     28           

last federal census, had a population of five thousand or more,    30           

or five thousand registered resident electors or resident voters   31           

as provided in section 703.011 of the Revised Code, are cities.    32           

All other municipal corporations are villages.  Cities, which, at  33           

any federal census, have a population of less than five thousand,               

shall become villages.  Villages, which, at any federal census,    34           

have a population of five thousand or more, shall become cities.   35           

No                                                                              

      (B)(1)  NO municipal corporation shall have its              37           

classification as a village changed to that of a city by virtue    39           

of there being counted, in determining the population of such      40           

THAT municipal corporation, college EITHER OF THE FOLLOWING:       41           

      (a)  COLLEGE or university students in attendance at an      43           

educational institution LOCATED within the municipal corporation   44           

where IF the residential addresses of such THOSE students when     47           

not in attendance at the education institution, or the             48           

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residential addresses of the guardians of such THOSE students, as  50           

determined by the records of the institution kept by its                        

registrar, are at a place other than the municipal corporation     51           

wherein such IN WHICH THE institution is located;                  52           

      (b)  PERSONS UNDER DETENTION IN A DETENTION FACILITY         55           

LOCATED WITHIN THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION IF THE RESIDENTIAL                     

ADDRESSES OF THOSE PERSONS WHEN NOT DETAINED IN THAT FACILITY, AS  57           

DETERMINED BY THE RECORDS OF THE FACILITY, ARE AT A PLACE OTHER    58           

THAN THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION IN WHICH THE FACILITY IS LOCATED.   59           

After                                                                           

      (2)  AFTER each decennial census, the secretary of state     62           

shall issue a proclamation certifying the number of permanent                   

residents in such A municipal corporation IN WHICH A COLLEGE OR    63           

UNIVERSITY OR IN WHICH A DETENTION FACILITY IS LOCATED and the     64           

number of students attending a college or university therein OR    65           

THE NUMBER OF PERSONS DETAINED IN A DETENTION FACILITY LOCATED     66           

WITHIN THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION.                                  67           

      (3)  AS USED IN DIVISION (B) OF THIS SECTION, "DETENTION     70           

FACILITY" HAS THE SAME MEANING AS IN SECTION 2921.01 OF THE        71           

REVISED CODE.                                                                   

      Section 2.  That existing section 703.01 of the Revised      73           

Code is hereby repealed.                                           74