Ohio Revised Code

Ohio Rev. Code § 705.11 (2026)

Village solicitor or city director of law - duties

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Effective:

November 1, 1977

Latest Legislation:

House Bill 219 - 112th General Assembly

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The village solicitor or city director of law shall act as the legal advisor to and attorney for the municipal corporation, and for all officers of the municipal corporation in matters relating to their official duties. He shall prepare all contracts, bonds, and other instruments in writing in which the municipal corporation is concerned, and shall indorse on each his approval of the form and the correctness thereof. No contract with the municipal corporation shall take effect until the approval of the village solicitor or city director of law is indorsed thereon. He or his assistants shall be the prosecutor in any police or municipal court, and shall perform such other duties and have such assistants and clerks as are required or provided.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 6 cases, 1993–2019 · leading case: Union Stock Yards Co. v. City of Hillsboro, 2010 Ohio 5975 (Ohio Ct. App. 2010).

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Union Stock Yards Co. v. City of Hillsboro, 2010 Ohio 5975 (Ohio Ct. App. 2010). · cites it 8× “On appeal, we affirmed the trial court’s judgment. We stated: R.C.”

State ex rel. Donaldson v. Alfred, 612 N.E.2d 717 (Ohio 1993). “The city does not seriously contend at this stage that the director of law, who serves at the pleasure of respondent, the mayor of Shaker Heights, could have represented relator zealously and without at least the appearance of a conflict.”

Mack v. Toledo, 2019 Ohio 5427 (Ohio Ct. App. 2019). · cites it 2× “51; R.C. 705.11. TMC Chap. XIII, Section 229 further provides that “[n]o contract shall be executed or purchase made involving an expenditure of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) or more unless the same shall have been first authorized by appropriate legislation.”

Lograsso v. Frey, 2014 Ohio 2054 (Ohio Ct. App. 2014). “11, a law director is charged as follows: The village solicitor or city director of law shall act as the legal advisor to and attorney for the municipal corporation, and for all officers of the municipal corporation in matters relating to their official duties. He shall prepare…”

State v. Jones, 2016 Ohio 7413 (Ohio Ct. App. 2016). “{¶ 43} R.C. 705.11 provides that the “city director of law shall act as the legal advisor to and attorney for the municipal corporation in matters relating to their official -35- duties.”

Colon v. City of Cleveland, 842 N.E.2d 116 (Ohio Ct. App. 2005). “R.C. 705.11 states that the city law director shall prepare all the municipality’s contracts in writing and no contract can take effect until the law director signs that contract.”

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