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Cleves council adopts “Clean Court” to hear local nuisance and code cases
Summary
Cleves council voted 6-0 to adopt Ordinance 18-2025, establishing a local civil “Clean Court” to hear code, livability and nuisance ordinance cases immediately as an emergency ordinance; the measure creates a five-member citizen panel and a magistrate to preside over hearings.
Cleves Village Council voted unanimously to adopt Ordinance 18-2025, establishing a local civil venue the council is calling the “Clean Court” to hear code, livability, enforcement and nuisance cases and declaring the ordinance an emergency so it takes effect immediately.
The Clean Court is intended to provide a local forum for noncriminal ordinance violations — examples cited at the meeting included tall grass, junk vehicles and nuisance properties — and to add a formal, local adjudication step before municipal judgments are appealed to Hamilton County Common Pleas. Village Administrator Justin described the panel as “a quasi jury” of five citizens who will be appointed to hear cases, with a neutral magistrate…
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