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As Passed by the Senate
123rd General Assembly
Regular Session
1999-2000 | Am. H. B. No. 216 |
REPRESENTATIVES BUCHY-NETZLEY-EVANS-OLMAN-OGG-KREBS-
GARDNER-HOOPS-CORBIN-
SENATOR SGARDNER-CUPP-CARNES
A BILL
To amend section 755.14 of the Revised Code to change the residency
requirements of the representatives that a board of education appoints to a
recreation board.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 755.14 of the Revised Code be amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 755.14. (A) If the legislative authority of a
municipal corporation determines that the power to equip,
operate, and maintain parks, playgrounds, playfields, gymnasiums,
public baths, swimming pools, or recreation centers shall be
exercised by a recreation board, it may establish such a board,
which shall possess all the powers and be subject to all the
responsibilities of the respective local authorities under
sections 755.12 to 755.18 of the Revised Code. The board shall
consist of five persons, two of whom shall be members of the
board of education of the city or village school district or
members SHALL BE appointed by such THAT board
OF EDUCATION. The other members of the RECREATION board
shall be appointed by the mayor or manager as executive of such
municipal corporation with the consent of its council. THE MEMBERS WHO ARE
BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBERS AND MEMBERS APPOINTED BY A BOARD OF EDUCATION SHALL
BE RESIDENTS OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT MAKING THE APPOINTMENT BUT NEED NOT BE
RESIDENTS OF THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION. All OTHER
members of the board shall be residents of the municipal
corporation and. ALL MEMBERS OF THE BOARD shall serve
for terms of five years, except that
the members first appointed shall be appointed for such terms
that the term of one member shall expire annually thereafter.
Members of the board shall serve without pay. Vacancies in the
board, occurring otherwise than by expiration of term, shall be
for the unexpired term and shall be filled in the same manner as
original appointments.
(B)(1) The legislative authorities of the municipal
corporations, boards of township trustees of the townships,
boards of township park commissioners, boards of county
commissioners of the counties, and boards of education of the
school districts joined in the operation and maintenance of parks
or recreation facilities under section 755.16 of the Revised Code
may, by resolution, establish a joint recreation board which may
possess all the powers and be subject to all the responsibilities
of the respective local authorities under sections 755.12 to
755.18 of the Revised Code. The resolutions shall specify the
number of members of the joint recreation board, other than any
members who may be appointed under division (B)(2) of this
section, and the method of appointing members and filling
vacancies. Members of the board shall serve without pay.
(2) If a park or recreational facility owned, operated, or
maintained by a joint recreation board created under division
(B)(1) of this section is the site where an exhibition sanctioned
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is being or has been held and the exhibition is or was sponsored
by an organization that is also sponsoring or has sponsored an
exhibition sanctioned by the international association of
horticulture producers, then the governor, speaker of the house
of representatives, and president of the senate shall each
appoint one member to the board. The members appointed by the
speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the
senate may be members of the general assembly, but any members of
the general assembly appointed to the board shall be nonvoting
members and shall serve only while they remain members of the
general assembly. Members appointed under division (B)(2) of
this section shall serve terms of three years and serve without
pay, and all vacancies in their positions on the board, whether
for an unexpired term or at the end of a term, shall be filled in
the same manner as the original appointments.
(C) The legislative authorities of the several
subdivisions joined in the operation and maintenance of
recreation facilities under section 755.16 of the Revised Code
may, by resolution, establish a joint recreation district,
consisting of all the territory of the subdivisions so joined.
The joint recreation district board of trustees shall be the
governing body of a district and shall possess all the powers of
a legislative authority of an individual subdivision under
sections 755.12 to 755.18 of the Revised Code. The number of
trustees shall be fixed by the resolutions creating the district
and may be any number so long as there is representation of all
participating subdivisions.
Section 2. That existing section 755.14 of the Revised Code is hereby
repealed.
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