Lafayette Township (Coshocton County, Ohio)

Coshocton County

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Lafayette Township is one of 22 townships of Coshocton County in the U.S. state of Ohio. According to the census in 2000 4285 inhabitants were registered here.

Geography

Lafayette Township is located in the central south-east of Coshocton counties in east-central Ohio and bordered clockwise to the townships: White Eyes Township, Adams Township, Oxford Township, Linton Township, Franklin Township, Tuscarawas Township and Keene Township.

Management

The township is administered by a Board of Trustees consisting of three elected members. Two persons are elected in the year after the presidential election and one each in the previous year. The term of office lasts four years, beginning on 1 January. There is also a Township Clerk ( responsible for finance and budget), which is also elected in the year before the presidential election to a four -year term. Whose term of office begins on April 1.