CHARTER OF GRANVILLE, OHIO

ARTICLE VIII   BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS

SECTION 8.01. PLANNING COMMISSION.

There shall be a Municipal Planning Commission consisting of five (5) members.  Four members shall be electors who hold no other public office or employment, appointed by the Council to serve for overlapping terms of three (3) years; and one (1) shall be either a member of the Board of Education who is a resident of the Municipality or its designee, appointed annually by the Board as the Board shall determine; and a member of Council, designated annually by Council shall serve as an ex-officio member.  Minutes of all Planning Commission meetings shall be available for public examination during regular office hours.  The Commission shall adopt its own rules and elect its officers annually.  It shall have all the power and authority conferred upon planning commissions by State law and such other duties as may be imposed upon it by ordinance.  Its members shall serve as such without compensation.
(Amended 11-7-89)

SECTION 8.02. BOARD OF ZONING AND BUILDING APPEALS.

There shall be a Board of Zoning and Building Appeals consisting of five electors who hold no other public office or employment, appointed by Council, for overlapping terms of three (3) years, to be determined by Council.  The Board shall adopt its own rules and elect its officers annually.  It shall have the power to hear and decide applications for exceptions to, and variances in the application of resolutions, ordinances, regulations governing zoning and building in the Municipality, and to hear and decide appeals from orders of administrative officials or agencies governing zoning and building in the Municipality, all as may be required for justice and avoid unreasonable hardship, subject to such reasonable standards and procedures as shall be prescribed by ordinance.  Its members shall serve as such without compensation.
(Amended 11-5-91)

SECTION 8.03. OTHER BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.

Whenever the municipality shall become a city under the State law, the Council shall establish by ordinance whatever additional boards and commissions may be required by State law in municipalities which attain city status, unless the Council shall make other provision for the performance of such functions as are customarily performed by a Board of Health, a Civil Service Commission and a Board of Trustees of the Police Relief and Pension Fund.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Granville Charter was approved by the voters on May 5, 1964.  Dates appearing in parentheses following section headings indicate those sections were subsequently amended, added or repealed on the date given.