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2025 Ohio Revised Code
Title 7 | Municipal Corporations
Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment
Section 709.14 | Preliminary Action by Legislative Authority.
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OH Rev Code § 709.14 (2025)
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Effective: March 27, 2002
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 5 - 124th General Assembly
The legislative authority of a municipal corporation that proposes to annex contiguous territory shall pass, by a vote of not less than a majority of the members elected to the legislative authority, an ordinance authorizing the annexation to be made and directing the village solicitor or city director of law of the municipal corporation, or someone to be named in the ordinance, to prosecute the proceedings necessary to effect it.
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