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Section II – General Powers and Duties of Council
The government and control of the City shall be vested in a Council of seven citizens who shall be elected at large, in the manner provided by law for the election of municipal officers, nominated by petition and elected on a nonpartisan ballot. Municipal elections shall be in odd numbered years for the election of three or four Council Members, respectively, for four-year terms as the existing term expires.

The Council shall constitute the governing body of the City, and shall have full power to pass ordinances, adopt resolutions and otherwise exercise all legislative power and executive authority now or hereafter vested in municipal officers by law, and in the Council by this Charter. Except as otherwise provided by this Charter or by the Constitution of the State of Ohio, the Council may by ordinance or resolution prescribe the manner in which any power of the City shall be exercised. In the absence of such provision as to any power, such power shall be exercised in the manner prescribed by the general laws of the state applicable to municipalities. The Council shall have authority to fix by ordinance the compensation of its Members.

A majority of all current Council Members shall constitute a quorum to do business, and shall be necessary to adopt any ordinance or resolution, but a less number may adjourn from time to time and compel the attendance of absent Members in such manner and under such penalties as shall be prescribed by ordinance. The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be, “Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Upper Arlington, Ohio.” The Council may, by ordinance, prescribe the manner of giving public notice of the passage of ordinances, resolutions or other acts or procedures.