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RECORD OF ORDINANCES
Dayton Legal Blank Co. Form No. 30043
Ordinance No.__ . _29__93_ Passed.- . . ._- n _19_._ I
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AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER
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t COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE FOR DEFENSE
OF INDIGENT MISDEMEANTS, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
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WHEREAS, the Franklin County Public Defender's Office is not willing to
provide its services to the City's Mayors Court; and,
WHEREAS, the City has a constitutional duty to provide some mechanism
whereby indigent defendants may obtain court appointed counsel; and,
WHEREAS, the public defender's office is willing to enter into a contract with
the City to provide defense services to indigent defendants whose cases are
transferred from the City of Dublin Mayor's Court to the Franklin County
Municipal Court.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, by the Council for the City of Dublin,
State of Ohio, 7 of the elected members concurring that:
Section 1. The City Manager is hereby authorized to execute the contract
attached hereto as Exhibit "A" with the Franklin County Public Defender
Commission, wherein said commission shall provide legal defense services to
defendants whose cases have been transferred from the City of Dublin Mayor's
........... Court to the Franklin County Municipal Court.
Section 2. This ordinance be, and the same hereby is, declared to be an
.......- emergency measure for the preservation of public peace, health or welfare of
the residents of this City, and therefore this ordinance shall take effect and be
in force immediately upon its passage.
Passed this 3yA. day of tn;r- , 1993.
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CONTRACT
This Agreement, beginning on Januarv 1, 1993, by and between
the Franklin county Public Defender Commission, pursuant to Ohio
Rev. Code, section 120.14(E) (Page 1990), and the city of Dublin,
Ohio, for the defense of indigent defendants before the Franklin
county Municipal Court; the parties agree as follows:
The Franklin County Public Defender commission hereby agrees
to represent, through the personnel employed by the Franklin county
few' Public Defender Commission, all indigent persons, coming before the
Franklin County Municipal Court, criminal Division, charged with a
violation of an ordinance of the city of DUblin, Ohio, which occur
If;, within the limits of Dublin, Ohio; provided that the Franklin
County ~ublic Defender commission, reserves the right to decline
representation if a conflict of interest exists in any specif ic
case filed in or coming before the Franklin county Municipal Court;
and, provided further, that the city Solicitor of DUblin, Ohio,
reserves the right to appoint other counsel to represent defendants
charged with a violation of an ordinance of DUblin, Ohio, or
traffic and/or criminal statutes of the State of Ohio, which occur
within the jurisdictional limits of DUblin, Ohio in any specific
case filed in or coming before the Franklin County Municipal Court.
The City of DUblin, Ohio, agrees to pay the sum of $50.00 per
case. said sum due to be stated by invoice from the Franklin
County Public Defender at quarterly intervals. Checks or warrants
should be made payable to the Columbus city Treasurer - Public
Defender Service.
This contract may be terminated by either party at any time
before the expiration of the contract, by giving thirty (30) days
written notice to the other party, of its intention to terminate.
The parties further agree that this Contract shall be in full
fill"" force and effect from the date first written above through December
. 31, 1993, unless terminated earlier, as provided herein.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Contract,
this day of , 1993.
city of Dublin
BY:
city Manager of Dublin
Franklin County Public Defender commission
BY:
Richard F. Swope
Chairman
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