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...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Qualifying regional transit authority" means a regional transit authority whose territory includes a county having a population of more than seven hundred fifty thousand but less than nine hundred thousand as of the most recent federal decennial census. (2) "Qualifying project" means the general construction or maintenance of roads or bridges related to the provision of service b...

...(A) As used in this section, "metropolitan planning organization" has the same meaning as in section 5552.01 of the Revised Code. (B) This section applies to a regional transit authority the territory of which includes a county having a population of more than one million three hundred thousand. (C) A regional transit authority to which this section applies may do any of the following: (1) In addition to the pu...

...h property is located in the tax year immediately prior to the removal of such acquired property from the tax duplicate, and either: (a) The total revenue which would be produced by the tax rate of each such taxing district in the tax year immediately prior to the removal of such acquired property from the tax duplicate, applied to the real estate tax duplicate of each of such taxing districts in each tax year...

...A regional transit authority which proposes to acquire by purchase or otherwise, or proposes to construct, replace, improve, extend, enlarge, maintain, or operate any transit facility, and desires to raise money for any one or more of such purposes or for the purpose of repaying or refunding any outstanding issue of bonds of the regional transit authority or pay any obligation assumed by it or of repaying or refundin...

...At the discretion of the board of trustees of a regional transit authority, the revenue bonds of the regional transit authority may be secured by a trust agreement between the board of trustees on behalf of the regional transit authority and a corporate trustee, which trustee may be any trust company or bank having powers of a trust company, within or without the state. Such trust agreement may provide for the pledg...

...Revenue bonds issued by a regional transit authority shall bear interest at the rate or rates approved by the board of trustees, shall mature within forty years following the date of issuance, and in such amount, at such times, and in such number of installments as may be provided in the resolution authorizing their issuance. Such resolution shall also provide for the execution and sealing of the bonds and the use of...

...The regional transit authority may submit to the electors within its territorial boundaries the question of issuing bonds of such authority and also the necessity of a tax outside the limitation imposed by Section 2 of Article XII, Ohio Constitution, to pay the interest on and to retire the bonds. Such bonds when so approved by the electors may be issued by the regional transit authority to purchase, acquire, constru...

...Bonds issued under sections 306.37 to 306.40, inclusive, of the Revised Code, their transfer, and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at all times be free from taxation within the state.

...(A) The secretary-treasurer of the regional transit authority shall be the fiscal officer of the regional transit authority and the custodian of its funds and records and shall assist the board of directors in such particulars as it directs in the performance of its duties. (B) Before receiving any moneys, the secretary-treasurer shall furnish bond in such amount as is determined by the board of trustees of the regi...

...(A) The board of trustees of a regional transit authority or any officer or employee designated by such board may make any contract for the purchase of goods or services, the cost of which does not exceed one hundred thousand dollars. When an expenditure, other than for the acquisition of real estate, the discharge of claims, or the acquisition of goods or services under the circumstances described in division ...

...The board of trustees of a regional transit authority may enter into such contracts or other arrangements with the United States government or any department thereof, with the state government of this or other states, with counties, municipalities, townships, or other governmental agencies created by or under the authority of the laws of the state or other states, with persons, with public corporations and private co...

...All officers and employees of a regional transit authority shall be considered as public employees within the meaning of section 145.01 of the Revised Code and a regional transit authority, its officers, and employees shall be subject to Chapter 145. of the Revised Code.

...Nothing in sections 306.30 to 306.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall limit the exercise of the power or authority granted to counties or municipal corporations by sections 307.20, 717.01, and 719.01 of the Revised Code.

...The board of county commissioners of any county included within a regional transit authority may appropriate annually, from moneys to the credit of the general fund of the county and not otherwise appropriated, that portion of the expense of the regional transit authority to be paid by such county as provided in the resolution creating or enlarging the regional transit authority adopted under section 306.32 or 306.32...

... regional transit authority and their immediate dependents, whether issued by an insurance company or a health insuring corporation duly authorized to do business in this state.

...(A) Upon the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the qualified electors within the territorial boundaries of the regional transit authority voting on the question at an election held for the purpose of authorizing it, the regional transit authority may levy upon the property within its territorial boundaries a tax, for all purposes other than bond debt charges, not in excess of five mills annually on the total...

... director of transportation and the tax commissioner that specifies the total amount of local spending during the previous state fiscal year for capital costs, operating costs, and any costs for activities related to each of the following: (A) Local airports; (B) Local airport systems; (C) Any other local facility that is directly and substantially related to the air transportation of passengers or property and is...

...The legislative authority of any municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision or taxing district, may convey or lease to, or exchange with, any regional transit authority or any such authority may convey or lease to, or exchange with, a municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision or taxing district, without competitive bidding an...

...(A) A regional transit authority created under sections 306.30 to 306.53 of the Revised Code, shall be exempt from and shall not be required to pay any taxes on property, both real and personal, belonging to any such authority, which is used exclusively for any public purpose. However, except as provided in division (B) of this section, such exemption shall not apply to any property belonging to any authority while ...

...A regional transit authority may cooperate with other governmental agencies of this state, or of the United States, to carry out the purposes set forth in section 306.31 of the Revised Code.

...Subject to making due provisions for the payment and performance of its obligations, the resolution or ordinance creating the regional transit authority may provide for its dissolution or modification in membership under circumstances described therein, or a regional transit authority may be dissolved or its membership modified by its board of trustees with the consent of the subdivision or subdivisions creating such...

...Beginning July 1, 2011 and until November 5, 2013, the legislative authority of any municipal corporation or the board of township trustees of any township that has created or joined a regional transit authority that levies a property tax and that includes in its membership political subdivisions that are located in a county having a population of at least four hundred thousand according to the most recent fede...

...Any municipal corporation or township that withdraws from a regional transit authority under section 306.55 of the Revised Code may enter into a contract with a regional transit authority or other provider of transit services to provide transportation service for persons who are elderly or who have disabilities and for any other service the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or township may determine ...

...posed to be levied by a board of county commissioners or by the board of trustees of a regional transit authority pursuant to sections 5739.023 and 5741.022 of the Revised Code shall not become effective until it is submitted to the electors residing within the county or within the territorial boundaries of the regional transit authority and approved by a majority of the electors voting on it. Such question shall be ...

...The question of the decrease of the rate of a tax approved for a continuing period of time by the voters of a county or regional transit authority pursuant to sections 5739.023 and 5741.022 of the Revised Code may be initiated by the filing of a petition with the board of elections of the county, or in the case of a regional transit authority with the board of elections as determined pursuant to section 3505.07...