CHARTER
OF THE
CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO

We, the people of the City of Springfield, Ohio, in order to obtain the benefits of local self-government, to incorporate more direct and businesslike methods in the transaction of our municipal affairs, and otherwise to promote our common welfare, do adopt the following Charter of our City.

ARTICLE I - INCORPORATION; FORM OF GOVERNMENT; POWERS

SECTION 1.   INCORPORATION.
The inhabitants of the City of Springfield, Ohio, within the corporate limits as now established or as hereafter established in the manner provided by law, shall continue to be a body politic and corporate in perpetuity under the name of "The City of Springfield, Ohio."

SECTION 2.   FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
The municipal government provided by this Charter shall be known as the "city commission-manager government." Pursuant to its provisions and subject only to the limitations imposed by the state constitution and by this Charter, all powers of the City shall be vested in an elective city commission, hereinafter referred to as "the city commission," which shall enact local legislation, adopt budgets, determine policies, and appoint the city manager, law director and finance director. The city manager shall execute the laws and administer the government of the city. The powers of this municipality shall be exercised in the manner prescribed in this Charter, or to the extent not prescribed herein, then in such manner as the commission may by ordinance determine, and when not prescribed in this Charter or determined by the Commission, such powers shall be exercised in such manner as may now or hereafter be provided by the general laws of the State of Ohio. No member of the city commission shall directly interfere with the conduct of any departments, except at the express direction of the commission.

SECTION 3.   POWERS OF THE CITY.
The municipality shall have all the powers, general or special, governmental or proprietary, that may now or hereafter lawfully be possessed or exercised by municipal corporations under the constitution and laws of the State of Ohio.

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