State ex rel. Regetz v. Cleveland Civil Service Commission

Appellants assert in their sole proposition of law that a municipal corporation may not vary state civil service law by delegation in its charter of authority to a civil service commission to promulgate rules, where the delegation does not clearly and expressly evince an intent to supersede state civil service law and affords the civil service commission discretion to either permit the state civil service law to control or to nullify that law by adopting a conflicting rule.

The Home Rule Amendment to the Ohio Constitution authorizes municipalities to “exercise all powers of local…