Editing Loveland, Ohio (section)

==Government==
[[File:Loveland City Hall 2019.jpg|thumb|The rear of Loveland City Hall]]

Loveland uses a [[Council–manager government|council–manager]] form of government. The Loveland City Council has seven at-large seats, elected to four-year terms in non-partisan elections held every two years. {{As of|2017}}, they are held by Mayor Kathy Bailey, Vice-Mayor Rob Weisgerber, and councilmembers Neal Oury, Kent Blair, Ted Phelps, Angie Settell and Tim Butler.<ref name="Council">{{cite web|title=Meet Your Council|publisher=City of Loveland|year=2013|access-date=January 29, 2014|url=http://www.lovelandoh.com/meet-your-council|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201231221/http://www.lovelandoh.com/meet-your-council|archive-date=February 1, 2014|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Dave Kennedy is [[City Manager]].<ref name="City manager" /> Traffic cases and other misdemeanors are heard in Loveland [[Ohio Mayor's Courts|Mayor's Court]], which is presided over by a [[magistrate]].<ref name="Mayor's Court">{{cite news|title=Loveland Mayor's Court|publisher=Loveland Police Division|date=October 16, 2009|access-date=March 2, 2010|url=http://lovelandpolice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78&Itemid=145|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713234332/http://lovelandpolice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78&Itemid=145|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 13, 2011}}</ref>

At the federal level, Loveland is located within Ohio's [[Ohio's 2nd congressional district|2nd]] congressional district.<ref name="SOS Congress">{{cite web|title=Ohio Congressional Districts 2012–2022|publisher=[[Ohio Secretary of State]]|date=September 25, 2012|access-date=January 8, 2015|url=http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/upload/reshape/congressional/Congressional-Statewide.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512032647/http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/upload/reshape/congressional/congressional-statewide.pdf|archive-date=May 12, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> At the state level, it is also served by the [[Ohio's 27th house district|27th]], [[Ohio's 62nd house district|62nd]], and [[Ohio's 65th house district|65th]] House districts;<ref name="SOS House">{{cite web|title=Hamilton County House Districts|publisher=Ohio Secretary of State|date=September 30, 2011|access-date=January 8, 2015|url=http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/upload/reshape/GA/Adopted-Hamilton.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924115735/http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/upload/reshape/GA/Adopted-Hamilton.pdf|archive-date=September 24, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> the [[Ohio's 7th senatorial district|7th]] and [[Ohio's 14th senatorial district|14th]] Senate districts;<ref name="SOS Senate">{{cite web|title=Senate District Maps|publisher=Ohio Secretary of State|date=October 11, 2011|pages=7, 14|access-date=January 8, 2015|url=http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/upload/reshape/GA/SenateDistrictMaps.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141114055739/http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/upload/reshape/GA/SenateDistrictMaps.pdf|archive-date=November 14, 2014|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> and the 1st and 12th [[Ohio District Courts of Appeals|appellate court]] districts.<ref name="SOS appeals">{{cite web|title=Ohio Court of Appeals Districts|publisher=Ohio Secretary of State|date=September 28, 2012|access-date=January 8, 2015|url=http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/upload/elections/maps/OEappealsDist.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080522000628/http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/upload/elections/maps/OEappealsDist.pdf|archive-date=May 22, 2008|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> See [[Ohio House of Representatives]] and [[Ohio Senate]] for the current representatives of the respective state districts.

According to the Loveland Code of Ordinances, the city's [[Company seal|corporate seal]] consists of "the [[Great Seal of Ohio|coat of arms of the state]] engraved in the center and the words 'City of Loveland' engraved around the edge".<ref name="Ord 105.01">[http://www.conwaygreene.com/Loveland/lpext.dll/Infobase/848/873/936/93f Loveland City Ordinance 105.01] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928004844/http://www.conwaygreene.com/Loveland/lpext.dll/Infobase/848/873/936/93f |date=September 28, 2007 }}: "Corporate Seal". Walter H. Drane Company.</ref>

The city flag was adopted on August 27, 1974. It was designed by Howard A. Miller, a retired Air Force captain and [[vexillologist]] who lived in Loveland. Its diagonally divided field represents the three counties in which Loveland is located. A red heart in the center is a pun on the name of founder James Loveland; the city's year of settlement is inscribed on the heart. A [[Aesculus glabra|buckeye]] leaf surmounts the heart, representing Ohio.<ref>{{cite news|title=Loveland Gets Gift: A New Flag|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|date=August 30, 1974|page=11|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78524157/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>