64-12 Repeal Certain Boards and Commissions

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Placed on first reading and referred to the ad hoc Committee on Boards and Commis- sions November 19, 2012, second reading December 3, 2012. Please substitute £orDEFERRED 4/15/13 the original. REFERRED baclt:.to Cmte 7/1/13. ORDINANCE NO. 64 -12 BY: Anderson, Bullock, Juris, Madigan, Nowlin, Powers, Smith. AN ORDINANCE repealing Section 135.12, SAVE Rewards Program, Section 137.16, Emergency Medical Services Commission, Chapter 141, Boxing and Wrestling Commission, Section 149.20, Incentive Awards, Chapter 151, Sundry Claims, Chapter 158, Child Care Services Advisory Board, and Chapter 159, Lakewood Youth Commis- sion, and amending Section 109.01, Open Meetings, and Section 127.02, Settlement Au- thorization, of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances, to eliminate instances of outmoded or unused committees, commissions or boards from the Code. WHEREAS, the Code currently contains several provisions establishing unused or outmoded boards, committees and commissions, such that the Code should be revised to repeal the same; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Constitution of the State of Ohio and the Ohio Re- vised Code, municipalities have the power of local self - government; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Constitution of the State of Ohio and the Ohio Re- vised Code, municipalities have the power to enact laws that are for the health, safety, welfare, comfort and peace of the citizens of the municipality; now, therefore BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. Section 135.12, SAVE Rewards Program, of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances, currently reading as follows: 135.12 SAVE REWARDS PROGRAM. (a) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized and directed to establish a rewards program within the City to be known as SAVE (Stop A Vandal Easily). (b) The program shall be administered and conducted in the manner and form as shall be set forth and described in the rules and regulations of such program as shall be established by the Division of Police. (c) The Mayor, the Chief and the Chairman of the Traffic and Safety Committee of Council shall constitute a Rewards Committee and shall be solely responsible for determining when a reward is appropriate and determining the amount of such reward. (d) There is hereby established a special account in the Trust and Agency Fund to be identified as the SAVE Account, and such Account shall be used solely for the purpose of receiving and dispersing funds