Washington Township (Belmont County, Ohio)

Belmont County

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Washington Township is one of 16 townships of Belmont County in the U.S. state of Ohio. According to the census in 2000 537 inhabitants were registered here.

Geography

Washington Township is located in the south of Belmont County in eastern Ohio, is in the East about 8 km from the Ohio River, the Ohio separates here from West Virginia and borders clockwise to the townships: Smith Township, Mead Township, York Township, Switzerland Township in Monroe County, Sullivan Township ( Monroe County) and Wayne 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 (Secretary), who is also elected in the year before the presidential election to a four -year term. Whose term of office begins on April 1.