Legal Opinion
Buckeye Community Hope Foundation v. City of Cuyahoga Falls
Ohio Supreme Court
Decided May 6, 1998No. 97-137PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDouglas, J.
The trial court and court of appeals determined that the citizens of Cuyahoga Falls were entitled, by virtue of their city charter, to vote on the passage of Ordinance No. 48-1996. We agree. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.
Cuyahoga Falls, as a charter municipality, derives its sovereign power from Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution. Before 1912, the time of the adoption of Article XVIII, municipalities could exercise only those powers delegated to them by the General Assembly. Geauga Cty. Bd. of Commrs. v. Munn Rd. Sand & Gravel (1993), 67 Ohio St.3d 579, 582,…
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