WORCESTER COUNTY. 5277

1916, oh. 495. 1920, sec. 278. 1927, oh. 446, sec. 278.

221. The Mayor by and with the consent and approval of a majority
of the Council may remove from office or discharge from employment, the
town clerk, the treasurer, any policeman or night watchman or any other
officer or employee that may be elected or appointed under any ordinance
or order of the Mayor and Council, whatever may be the term or service
under which he holds said office or employment, for neglect of duty, for
incompetence or for any other misconduct which in the judgment of the
Mayor and Council constitutes reasonable and sufficient grounds for re-
moving him from office or depriving him of employment. In all cases
where the official or employee has any fixed or definite term of service a
charge or complaint in writing shall be presented to him and evidence
as to the facts alleged in such charge or complaint shall be taken before
the Mayor and Council if he denies the truth of the facts alleged against
him; but where such officer or employee holds his employment at the will
of the Mayor and Council they may discharge him with or without formal
charge or hearing if they consider it just, right and expedient thus to do.

1916, ch. 495, sec. 243. 1920 Code, sec. 279.

222. Besides the power and authority conferred upon the Mayor and
Council in the other sections of this sub-title of this Article, the Mayor
and Council shall have power and authority to make such by-laws, and
to pass such ordinances not contrary to law and in conformity with this
charter as they may deem necessary for the good government of said town,
for the following purposes, to wit: (1) To promote and preserve the
health of the town and the people thereof, and to protect and safeguard
the town generally and every section thereof, and to protect and safe-
guard the property belonging to the town as a corporate body as well as
the property of the residents thereof, and also to protect and safeguard
persons who are non-residents, and the property of such non-residents,
while they or their property are within said town. (2) To forbid and pre-
vent or remove and abate all nuisances and to define and describe what
shall be a nuisance, and to declare any existing thing within said town
to be a nuisance which prejudices or is liable to prejudice the health of
the people thereof, or of any considerable number of the same, and to
prescribe and appoint means for removing any nuisance, and to enforce
the use of such means, and to prescribe penalties for a refusal or failure
to remove any nuisance after the Mayor and Council have ordered the
removal thereof. (3) To open, build or construct and to enclose or keep
open, and to regulate and to keep in repair all necessary and useful drains
and sewers, and to demand and obtain for the policemen, employee, work-
men and laborers in the service of the town the right to enter any private
property and premises for the purpose of improving the condition of any
such drain or sewers; for opening the same when they become closed or
obstructed; to rebuild or repair them when they require rebuilding or
repairing, and also to provide penalties in the case of persons who resist
any employees, workmen, or laborers in the service of the town, and to