City of Hamilton v. Fairfield Township

Powell, Judge.

This appeal concerns whether R.C. 709.50 violates several provisions of the Ohio Constitution. The General Assembly enacted R.C. 709.50 on May 26, 1994 as Am.Sub.S.B. No. 264. The statute became effective on September 29, 1994 and provides as follows:

“(A) Notwithstanding any other section of the Revised Code, when a township contains at least ninety per cent of the geographic area of a municipal corporation, either that township or the municipal corporation may remove that part of that township that is located within the municipal corporation from that township if all of the…