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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ORDINANCE NO. 2020 — 87 BY: Mayor Kennedy and Councilmembers Glassburn & Hemann AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE SUBMISSION OFAN AMENDMENT TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITYOFNORTH OLMSTED TO ARTICLE I OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONFORMING THE CHARTER TO REVISED CODE REQUIREMENTS REGARDING DETACHMENT OF LAND, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, Art. XVIII, §3 of the Ohio Constitution, ("Home Rule Amendment"), empowers the City of North Olmsted, as a chartered city, to exercise powers of local self- government. It reads as follows: [m]unicipalities shall have authority to exercise all powers of local self-government and to adopt and enforce within their limits such local police, sanitary and other similar regulations, as are not in conflict with general laws; and WHEREAS, as an exercise of local self-government, North Olmsted Charter Art. I presently reads as follows: The municipal corporation now existing and known as the City of North Olmsted, in the County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, shall continue to be a body politic and corporate under the same name and with the same boundaries, with power and authority to change its boundaries and annex other territory contiguous thereto in the manner authorized by the general laws of the State of Ohio; but no territory shall be detached therefrom, nor shall the City be annexed to any other municipality without the consent of the Council and of a majority of its electors voting on such question. See North Olmsted Charter Art. I, Name and Boundaries; and WHEREAS, concerning annexation, merger and detachment, the General Assembly of the State of Ohio has passed comprehensive general laws of statewide application governing every form of annexation, merger, and detachment and set those laws out in Chapter 709 of the Ohio Revised Code; and WHEREAS, to the extent that the Charter establishes a process for detachment of land from