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Section 5517.01 | Filing plans of proposed projects - right of entry.
Effective:
September 28, 1973
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly
The director of transportation shall make a map in outline and profile, and plans, specifications, profiles, and estimates covering proposed projects. When completed the director shall indorse upon such maps, profiles, plans, specifications, and estimates of quantities his approval of the same and cause one copy thereof to be placed on file in his office and another in the office of the district deputy director of transportation, for public inspection on or before starting the publication of notice to bidders. The director may sell prints or copies of any plans, specifications, or contracts for a charge not to exceed the cost of such prints or copies. The money received from such sale shall be deposited with the state treasury to the credit of the appropriate fund. In the execution of any survey authorized by the director any person, firm, or corporation, without doing unnecessary injury thereto, may enter upon any lands within the state for the purpose of inspecting, surveying, leveling, or doing any work deemed necessary to carry out Chapters 5501., 5503., 5511., 5512., 5513., 5515., 5516., 5517., 5519., 5521., 5523., 5525., 5527., 5528., 5529., 5531., 5533. and 5535. of the Revised Code. If the person, firm, or corporation, whose premises are entered upon for this purpose, makes any claim for compensation or damages for injury thereto, and the parties cannot agree as to the amount to be paid, either party may petition the probate court of the county in which such land is situated. The court shall appoint a time for a preliminary hearing in such petition, notify the parties interested, fix a time for hearing of the matter in controversy, and the court may view the premises if it sees fit, hear evidence relating thereto, and assess such compensation or damages as the court deems just. When a petition is filed with the probate court it shall require the party filing such petition to give bond in such sum as it may fix to cover costs of proceedings on appeal. If either party is not satisfied with the judgment of the court, he may ask for a jury trial, and the court shall thereupon summon a jury and the trial shall proceed as provided by law relating to appeals in road cases. The director may in the preparation of plans for any improvement include a designation of the unloading points for materials to be used in such improvement, and he may also include in the plans a designation of the routes over which materials for use in such improvement shall be transported. Any designation of unloading points or routes for the transportation of materials so made shall be clearly and conspicuously shown upon the plans for such improvement, and any person awarded the contract for constructing such improvement shall, in such event, be required to unload all materials at the points designated on the plans and transport the same over the routes thereupon designated.
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Section 5517.011 | Design/build contracts for highways and bridges.
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 23 - 135th General Assembly
(A) Notwithstanding section 5517.01 of the Revised Code, the director of transportation may establish a program to expedite the sale and construction of special projects by combining the design and construction elements of projects for transportation facilities as defined in section 5501.01 of the Revised Code into a single contract. The director shall prepare and distribute a scope of work document upon which the bidders shall base their bids. Except in regard to those requirements relating to providing plans, the director shall award contracts under this section in accordance with Chapter 5525. of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 5525. of the Revised Code, the director may use a value-based selection process, combining technical qualifications and competitive bidding elements, including consideration for minority or disadvantaged businesses that may include joint ventures, when letting special projects that contain both design and construction elements of a transportation project into a single contract. If award of a contract to the best-value bidder is not in the best interest of the state, the director may do either of the following after requesting and obtaining the approval of the controlling board: (1) Accept another bid; (2) Reject all bids and then advertise for other bids. (C) The total dollar value of contracts made under this section shall not exceed one billion dollars per fiscal year. The director may provide compensation for preparation of a responsive preliminary design concept to not more than two bidders who, after the successful bidder, submitted the next best bids. The director may establish policies or procedures necessary to determine the amount of compensation to be provided for each project and the method of evaluating the value of the preliminary design concept submitted, but in no instance may the compensation exceed the value of such concept. (D)(1) Notwithstanding division (C) of this section, the director may award contracts under this section for a bridge project that spans the Ohio river for an amount not to exceed one billion five hundred million dollars. The project may include both of the following: (a) The replacement, addition, improvement, or rehabilitation of a bridge or a system of bridges over the Ohio river; (b) The replacement, addition, improvement, or rehabilitation of roadways providing for ingress to and egress from the bridge or system of bridges over the Ohio river within this state and any adjoining state. (2) If the amount of the contracts entered into under division (D)(1) of this section exceeds one billion five hundred million dollars, the director shall appear before the controlling board to request additional contracting authority beyond the one billion five hundred million dollar threshold. The controlling board may approve the request at its discretion. (3) The director may provide compensation for preparation of a responsive preliminary design concept under division (D) of this section to not more than three bidders. The director may establish policies or procedures necessary to determine the amount of compensation to be provided for the project and the method of evaluating the value of the preliminary design concept submitted, but in no instance may the compensation exceed the cost to develop such concept. (4) The authority granted under division (D) of this section is granted for the purposes of any application for available federal funding. Any such federal funding awarded shall be expended only pursuant to appropriations made by the general assembly after August 31, 2022.
Last updated April 27, 2023 at 12:19 PM
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Section 5517.02 | Estimates - force account projects.
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 51 - 130th General Assembly
(A) Before undertaking the construction, reconstruction by widening or resurfacing, or improvement of a state highway, or a bridge or culvert thereon, or the installation of a traffic control signal on a state highway, the director of transportation, except as provided in section 5517.021 of the Revised Code, shall make an estimate of the cost of the work using the force account project assessment form developed by the auditor of state under section 117.16 of the Revised Code. When a force account project assessment form is required, the estimate shall include costs for subcontracted work and any competitively bid component costs. (B)(1) After complying with division (A) of this section, the director may proceed without competitive bidding with maintenance or repair work by employing labor, purchasing materials, and furnishing equipment, if the total estimated cost of the completed operation, or series of connected operations, does not exceed the following, as adjusted under division (B)(2) of this section: (a) Thirty thousand dollars per centerline mile of highway, exclusive of structures and traffic control signals; (b) Sixty thousand dollars for any single traffic control signal or any other single project. (2) On the first day of July of every odd-numbered year beginning in 2015, the director shall increase the amounts established in division (B)(1) of this section by an amount not to exceed the lesser of three per cent, or the percentage amount of any increase in the department of transportation's construction cost index as annualized and totaled for the prior two calendar years. The director shall publish the applicable amounts on the department's internet web site. (C) The director may proceed by furnishing equipment, purchasing materials, and employing labor in the erection of temporary bridges or the making of temporary repairs to a highway or bridge rendered necessary by flood, landslide, or other extraordinary emergency. If the director determines inability to complete such emergency work by force account, the director may contract for any part of the work, with or without advertising for bids, as the director considers for the best interest of the department of transportation. (D) When a project proceeds by force account under this section or section 5517.021 of the Revised Code, the department of transportation shall perform the work in compliance with any project requirements and specifications that would have applied if a contract for the work had been let by competitive bidding. The department shall retain in the project record all records documenting materials testing compliance, materials placement compliance, actual personnel and equipment hours usage, and all other documentation that would have been required if a contract for the work had been let by competitive bidding. (E) The director shall proceed by competitive bidding to let work to the lowest competent and responsible bidder after advertisement as provided in section 5525.01 of the Revised Code in both of the following situations: (1) When the scope of work exceeds the limits established in section 5517.021 of the Revised Code; (2) When the estimated cost for a project, other than work described in section 5517.021 of the Revised Code, exceeds the amounts established in division (B) of this section, as adjusted.
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Section 5517.021 | Work not requiring competitive bidding.
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 51 - 130th General Assembly
(A)(1) The director of transportation may proceed without competitive bidding by employing labor, purchasing materials, and furnishing equipment to do any of the following work: (a) Replace any single span bridge in its substantial entirety or widen any single span bridge, including necessary modifications to accommodate widening the existing substructure and wing walls. The director shall proceed under division (A)(1)(a) of this section only if the deck area of the new or widened bridge does not exceed seven hundred square feet as measured around the outside perimeter of the deck. (b) Replace the bearings, beams, and deck of any bridge on that bridge's existing foundation if the deck area of the rehabilitated structure does not exceed eight hundred square feet; (c) Construct or replace any single cell or multi-cell culvert whose total waterway opening does not exceed fifty-two square feet; (d) Pave or patch an asphalt surface if the operation does not exceed one hundred twenty tons of asphalt per lane-mile of roadway length, except that the department shall not perform a continuous resurfacing operation under this section if the cost of the work exceeds the amount established in division (B)(1)(a) of section 5517.02 of the Revised Code, as adjusted. (2) Work performed in accordance with division (A)(1) of this section may include approach roadway work, extending not more than one hundred fifty feet as measured from the back side of the bridge abutment wall or outside edge of the culvert, as applicable. The length of an approach guardrail shall be in accordance with department of transportation design requirements and shall not be included in the approach work size limitation. (B) The requirements of section 117.16 of the Revised Code shall not apply to work described in division (A) of this section and the work shall be exempt from audit for force account purposes except to determine compliance with the applicable size or tonnage restrictions.
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Section 5517.03 | Closing highways or bridges.
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 67 - 127th General Assembly
The director of transportation shall, at the time the director indorses the director's approval upon the surveys, plans, profiles, and specifications covering any proposed project, determine whether the making of the improvement will require the closing to traffic of the highway, bridge, or culvert involved and, if the director finds it necessary to close the same to traffic, the extent to which the same shall be closed. Such finding shall be indorsed on the plans. Plans and specifications for the construction of any project, whenever practicable, shall be prepared so as to avoid closing to traffic at any time the entire width of the highway, bridge, or culvert being improved. Upon receipt of written notice from the director ordering the highway, bridge, or culvert, or any part thereof, to be opened for travel, the contractor shall remove all barriers and obstructions and put the highway, bridge, or culvert or such portions thereof as the director orders, in such condition for travel as the director orders. No contractor or other persons shall close a highway or bridge being improved by the state, unless that action has first been determined to be necessary by the director. If the director determines that the making of the improvement will require the closing to traffic of the highway, bridge, or culvert, the director shall further determine whether it is practicable to construct within the limits of the highway or to provide a new location for and construct a temporary highway, bridge, or culvert to be used by travelers in lieu of the closed highway, bridge, or culvert. The director's determination in respect to all matters set forth in this section shall be indorsed in writing upon the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications. If the director determines that it is impracticable to construct a temporary highway or bridge the director shall cause to be included as a part of the plans for improvement, plans, specifications, and estimates for all necessary and proper barriers and uniform detour signs. Signs must be so placed and maintained as to conspicuously indicate the points at which it is necessary for traffic to leave the closed highway, and plainly mark the most direct and practicable route to be followed, indicating the road to be followed by the detoured traffic at all road crossings and forks. The costs and expenses of constructing temporary highways or bridges or placing barriers and detour signs shall be included in and regarded as a part of the costs and expenses of the improvement, and shall be paid accordingly. No contractor or employee of the department of transportation, when the state is proceeding by force account, shall close any highway, bridge, or culvert until such temporary highway or bridge has been constructed or such barriers and detour signs have been placed. Immediately upon the reopening of the highway, bridge, or culvert, the contractor or employee of the department in charge of the work, in case the state is proceeding by force account, shall immediately remove all barriers and detour signs. Only that portion of any highway shall be closed at any one time as is considered reasonably necessary by the director. The right-of-way for temporary highways and bridges shall, where a private right-of-way is necessary, be provided by the director, and all temporary highways, bridges, and culverts and detour signs shall be maintained by the contractor until the permanent highway, bridge, or culvert is completed and reopened for traffic. For the purpose of locating, constructing, and erecting temporary highways or bridges the director, or any persons acting under the director's authority, may enter upon lands adjoining or near to a highway to be closed and agree with the owners of the lands as to damages caused thereby. If the director is unable to agree with the owners as to the amount of damages sustained, the amount thereof shall be ascertained, determined, and paid as set out in the case of the condemnation of highway right-of-way. If the director determines that it is impracticable to construct, either within the limits of the highway or upon a new location over private lands, a temporary highway, bridge, or culvert to be used by travelers, in lieu of the closed highway, bridge, or culvert, the director shall, before closing to traffic the highway, bridge, or culvert to be constructed, improved, or repaired, select the most practicable direct detour route over existing highways and cause detour signs to be placed and maintained along that route. The director shall, before the closing to traffic of the highway, bridge, or culvert to be constructed, improved, or repaired, place in passable condition for traffic the detour route so selected and marked by the director and maintain it in a passable condition for traffic during the entire time that the highway, bridge, or culvert under construction is closed to traffic. The director shall, at the time of the opening to traffic of the highway, bridge, or culvert so constructed, restore the detour route to as good condition as it was at the time of its selection by the director as a detour route. In instances where traffic from the closed highway, bridge, or culvert causes damage by using a route other than the selected detour, the director shall maintain such other route in a passable condition and restore it in the same manner as if it were the selected detour route. The director is not required to maintain and restore more than one such additional detour route, except that upon petition from the appropriate local legislative authority the director shall maintain and restore more than one additional detour route if the director finds that traffic from the closed highway, bridge, or culvert caused damage to the additional detour routes that are the subject of the petition.
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Section 5517.04 | Director to repair damage to county or township roads.
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 201 - 119th General Assembly
The director of transportation shall repair all substantial damage done to county and township roads or to streets in municipal corporations resulting from the transportation of materials or equipment over such roads for use in constructing, reconstructing, or repairing, either by force account or contract, any road, street, or highway project of the department. Temporary repairs on such roads made necessary by reason of such transportation of materials or equipment shall be made during the construction period so as to assure normal conditions for the general public. Final repairs shall be made immediately upon the completion of the work on such road, street, or highway project, or as soon thereafter as weather conditions permit, and may be by contract or by the purchase of materials and employment of labor by the department of transportation.
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Section 5517.05 | Sound barrier notice and hearing.
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 107 - 121st General Assembly
(A) Whenever any proposed project of the department of transportation includes the construction of a sound barrier, the director of transportation shall notify the appropriate local legislative authority of the proposed construction. The director shall conduct at least one public hearing on the proposed sound barrier in the county in which it is to be located. Once a week for two successive weeks, the director shall publish notice of all hearings on the proposed sound barrier in one or more newspapers of general circulation in the county in which the proposed sound barrier is to be located. The notice shall state the time and place of all hearings. The director or his designee and at least one representative of the appropriate local legislative authority shall attend and hear any discussion on the matter. At the hearings, the director or the director's designee shall present the design options available for the proposed sound barrier, including, when physically feasible, at least one design consisting of natural barriers such as trees, shrubs, mounds, and other similar elements. (B) Upon the completion of all hearings, the director shall notify the appropriate local legislative authority in writing of the available design options for the sound barrier. Within thirty days after the date on the notice, the local legislative authority shall make a determination of the preferred option, giving foremost consideration to the views of the impacted residents as expressed at the hearings conducted by the department or otherwise communicated to the legislative authority, and shall notify the director in writing of its decision. The department shall construct the sound barrier in accordance with the determination of the local authority. (C) As used in this section: (1) "Appropriate local legislative authority" means the board of county commissioners or the legislative authority of a municipal corporation within whose jurisdiction the majority of impacted residents are located. (2) "Impacted residents" means those persons residing in the immediate area of the proposed location of the sound barrier.
Last updated April 19, 2022 at 5:18 PM
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Section 5517.07 | Signs to slow traffic in work zones.
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 62 - 133rd General Assembly
(A) If not already present, the department of transportation shall install signs and other traffic control devices designed to slow down the flow of traffic in construction and similar work zones. The signs and devices may include arrow boards, channelizing devices, temporary raise pavement markers, portable changeable message signs, temporary traffic barriers, screens, rumble strips, and any other signs or devices the director of transportation determines are appropriate for the highway and local conditions. (B) The department shall ensure that the placement and specifications for the signs and devices conform to the department's manual of uniform traffic control devices as adopted under section 4511.09 of the Revised Code.
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