EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — On Tuesday, a new state law will take effect aimed at helping cities that have been dealing with fiscal emergencies for an extended period, and Ohio Auditor Keith Faber said he is requesting the Attorney General's Office to initiate the process of appointing a receiver in East Cleveland to help resolve the city's longstanding financial issues.

“East Cleveland has operated in a state of fiscal emergency for most of the last 40 years, and there has been no meaningful progress to deal with the ongoing problems,” Faber said in a news release on Monday. “This is the only viable option left to protect public resources that have been mismanaged for way too long.”

Faber said that East Cleveland is one of approximately a dozen communities in Ohio currently operating under a

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