State Ex Rel. Brickell v. Frank

Section 7 of Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution provides: “Any municipality may frame and adopt or amend a charter for its government and may, subject to the provisions of Section 3 of this article, exercise thereunder all powers of local self-government. ’ ’

Columbus is a home-rule city under this constitutional provision and has adopted charter provisions relating to the public library as follows:

“Sec. 130. Trustees; appointment and organization. The erection and -equipment, and the custody, control and administration of free public libraries, branches and stations thereof, established…