Ohio Revised Code Search

...No railroad company owning or operating a railroad wholly or partly within this state shall, directly or indirectly, issue or give a free ticket, free pass, or free transportation for passengers, except to: (A) Its employees and their families, its officers, agents, surgeons, physicians, and attorneys at law; (B) Ministers of religion, traveling secretaries of railroad young men's or young women's Christian a...

...Section 4907.30 of the Revised Code does not prohibit the interchange of passes for the officers, agents, and employees and their families. Such section does not prohibit any railroad company from carrying passengers free in order to provide relief in cases of general epidemics, pestilence, or other calamitous visitation.

...No railroad company shall violate sections 4907.30, 4907.31, and 4907.34 of the Revised Code. No person, other than the persons excepted in such sections, shall use a free ticket, free pass, or free transportation.

...The classification of freight in this state shall be uniform on all railroads.

...Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4925. of the Revised Code do not prevent the carriage, storage, or handling of freight free or at reduced rates, for the United States, this state, any political subdivision thereof, for charitable purposes, to and from fairs and expositions for exhibition thereat, or the property of railroad employees for their own exclusive use or consumption or that of...

...If a railroad, or an agent or officer of a railroad, by special rate, rebate, drawback, or by means of false billing, false classification, false weighing, or other device, charges, demands, collects, or receives, either directly or indirectly, from any person, firm, or corporation, a greater or less compensation for service rendered or to be rendered by such railroad for the transportation of persons or proper...

...No railroad shall demand, charge, collect, or receive from a person, firm, or corporation a less compensation for the transportation of property or for a service rendered or to be rendered by such railroad in consideration of such person, firm, or corporation furnishing a part of the facilities incident thereto. This section does not prohibit a railroad from procuring facilities or service incident to transportation ...

...No common carrier subject to Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code shall make or give undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to a particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or to any particular description of traffic, or subject any particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or any particular description of traffic, to any undue or unreasonab...

...No person, firm, or corporation, shall knowingly accept or receive a rebate, concession, or discrimination in respect to transportation of property wholly within this state or for service in connection therewith, whereby such property, by false billing, false classification, false weighing, or other device, is transported at a less rate than that named in the published tariffs in force, or whereby any service or adva...

...Each railroad shall provide and maintain adequate depots and depot buildings at its regular stations for the accomodation of passengers. Such depot buildings shall be kept clean, well-lighted, and warmed, for the comfort and accomodation of the traveling public. Each railroad shall provide and maintain adequate and suitable freight depots, buildings, switches, and sidetracks for receiving, handling, and delivering f...

...The public utilities commission has the same control over private tracks, so far as such tracks are used by common carriers in connection with a railroad for the transportation of freight, as it has over the tracks of such railroad.

...ishable property. The public utilities commission may enforce reasonable regulations for furnishing cars to shippers, switching, loading, and unloading cars, and the weighing of cars and freight offered for shipment over any railroad.

...Railroad companies as between themselves, and interurban railroads and electric railways as between themselves, shall afford reasonable and proper facilities for interchange of traffic between their respective lines, for forwarding and delivering passengers and property, and shall transfer and deliver, without unreasonable delay or discrimination, loaded or empty cars, freight, or passengers, destined to a point on i...

...o file complaint, the public utilities commission shall proceed to hear and determine the same in a manner provided for making investigations upon complaint. If upon such hearing the commission finds that it is practicable and reasonably necessary to accommodate the public, to connect such tracks and that when so connected it will be practicable to transport cars over such railroad without endangering the equi...

...or railroad crews, the railroad shall immediately report the condition of the bridge to the public utilities commission. When the bridge passes over a public highway, such report shall also be given to the public authority having jurisdiction over such highway. The railroad shall file the annual inspection report with the commission on forms furnished by the commission or in a form acceptable to the commission. The c...

... who receives from the public utilities commission notice of a prescribed rate of speed for trains passing over a defective track, bridge, or other structure, or notice forbidding the running of passenger trains over such defective track, bridge, or other structure, shall neglect, within two days after receiving such notice, to direct the proper subordinate officers to run the passenger trains over such defective tra...

...tion prescribed by the public utilities commission within the time limited by it under sections 4907.44 and 4907.45 of the Revised Code, such company shall forfeit to the state one hundred dollars for each day that such repairs or reconstruction is delayed beyond the time prescribed.

... is the opinion of the public utilities commission that the public safety requires a gate, automatic alarm bell, or other mechanical device to be erected and maintained at any place where a public road or street is crossed at the same level by a railroad, and the crossing has been declared by the commission to be so dangerous and hazardous as to require additional protective devices, or the public safety requires tha...

...(A) The public utilities commission shall survey all public crossings of railroads at grade, whether on state, county, or township highways or on streets or ways within municipal corporations. The commission shall devise a formula according to sound highway engineering practice for determining the probability of accident at each such crossing and may include in the formula factors representing volume of vehicular tra...

...tion is ordered by the public utilities commission pursuant to section 4907.47, 4907.471, or 4907.49 of the Revised Code; (2) The costs incurred by the commission in administering sections 4907.47 to 4907.476 of the Revised Code. (B) Moneys for the fund shall be provided from the motor fuel tax levied under section 5735.05 of the Revised Code and any federal funds apportioned and allocated to the state for the redu...

...No person shall unlawfully remove, displace, injure, or deface any sign, signal, gate, or other protective device required to be installed under Chapter 5523. of the Revised Code.

... the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall determine as to each crossing whether there is a demonstrable need for such crossing to exist and whether the crossing could be closed to vehicular traffic, or to pedestrian traffic, or to both, and the travel over the crossing diverted to other crossings. In making this determination, the commission shall consider all of the following: (1) The daily vehicular...

...(A) If the public utilities commission finds that there is not a demonstrable need for the crossing to exist according to the factors listed in divisions (A)(1) to (9) of section 4907.474 of the Revised Code and that the crossing could be closed to vehicular traffic, or to pedestrian traffic, or to both, and the travel over the crossing diverted to other crossings, and if the crossing is on a road or highway other th...

... the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall, to the extent that it uses federal funds in connection with the erection, installation, or maintenance of any grade crossing protective devices or additional grade crossing protective devices, adhere to all pertinent federal laws and regulations. Where such laws or regulations require that the department of transportation make final decisions for the state in ...

...r the direction of the public utilities commission shall be built within the time, in the manner, and of materials approved by the commission. Such devices so authorized shall be located in the highway or street on one or both sides of the railroad tracks, as the commission deems the public safety requires. Such gates shall be so constructed that when closed they obstruct or prevent passage across such railroad from ...

...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...

...ty, shall notify the tax commissioner immediately of any changes in the transit system's territorial boundaries if the board levies a tax under sections 5739.023 and 5741.022 of the Revised Code.

... for the creation of a regional transit commission which will provide services and facilities for a service area within this state and within one or more states adjacent to this state, for the transportation of persons in a manner that will be in the best public interest in view of the geographic, economic, population, and other factors influencing the needs and development of such service area. The exercise by a reg...

...subdivision, taxing district, or board, commission, or authority of either, or the United States or any department, agency, board, commission, authority, or corporation thereof. (B) "Regional transit commission" means a body politic and corporate created pursuant to sections 306.80 to 306.90, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and having territorial boundaries which include the territory of all counties of this state w...

...may, with respect to a regional transit commission created by such agreement, provide for the following: (A) Acquisition, by purchase or donation, or by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, construction, improvement, extension, enlargement, repair, lease as lessee or lessor, sale, operation, maintenance, and management of transit facilities within or without the territorial boundaries of such commission, tog...

...torial boundaries of a regional transit commission may advance or donate moneys to such regional transit commission.

...aries of more than one regional transit commission, nor shall any regional transit authority be created pursuant to sections 306.30 to 306.53, inclusive, of the Revised Code, which includes any territory within the territorial boundaries of a regional transit commission. No regional transit commission shall be created which includes territory theretofore included within the territorial boundaries of a regional transi...

...Bonds of a regional transit commission are lawful investments of banks, savings banks, mutual savings banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, deposit guaranty associations, bond retirement funds or sinking funds of municipal corporations, boards of education, regional transit commissions, counties, the administrator of workers' compensation, state teachers retirement system, school employees retirement...

...ical subdivision or taxing district, or commission, board, or authority of this state, may convey or lease to, or exchange with, any regional transit commission, or such commission may convey or lease to, or exchange with, any political subdivision, taxing district, or board, commission, or authority of this state or any other state having territory within the territorial boundaries of the regional transit commission...

...A regional transit commission authorized under sections 306.80 to 306.90, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is exempt from and is not required to pay any taxes on property, both real and personal, belonging to such commission, which is used exclusively for any public purpose; provided, such exemption does not apply to any property belonging to any commission while a private enterprise is a lessee of such property under...

...A certified copy of any agreement made pursuant to sections 306.80 to 306.90, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be filed with the recorder of each county of this state which is party to the agreement or in which any other public agency which is party to such agreement has located, and with the secretary of state of Ohio. Such agreement has the status of an interstate compact, but in any case or controversy involv...

...rial boundaries of the regional transit commission and has received the consent of the Congress of the United States.

...rial boundaries of the regional transit commission, and the United States. If any such agreement or any law pursuant to which such an agreement is entered into or any part of such an agreement or law is held unconstitutional, void, or ineffective for any cause, such holding shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of any other law or agreement or any other part of such agreement.

...(A) No person shall violate any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to division (N) of section 306.04 of the Revised Code and whoever violates such a rule or regulation shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than ninety days or both. (B) Whoever violates division (D)(4) of section 306.35 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars on a first offense and not ...

...be provided by the board of county commissioners when, in its judgment, any of them are needed. The buildings and offices shall be of such style, dimensions, and expense as the board determines. All new jails and renovations to existing jails shall be designed, and all existing jails shall be operated in such a manner as to comply substantially with the minimum standards for jails in O...

... the bids, and shall publicly proceed immediately to tabulate the bids. No such lease agreement shall be entered into until the bureau of workers' compensation has certified that the corporation, partnership, or person to be awarded the lease agreement has complied with Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code, and until, if the builder submitting the lowest and best bid is a foreign corporation, the secretary of state has ...

...nt of rent owed. The county treasurer immediately shall pay the amount of such reductions to the treasurer of state. (F) Any lease of capital facilities authorized by this section, the rentals of which are payable in whole or in part from appropriations made by the general assembly, is governed by Chapter 154. of the Revised Code. Such rentals constitute available receipts as defined in section 154.24 of the Re...

... Code; (c) On the web site and social media account of the county. The notice shall state the date before which the proposals are required to be submitted in order to be considered by the board. (2) Subject to compliance with this section, grant leases, easements, and licenses with respect to, or sell, real property owned by the county if the real property is to be leased back by the county for use as correcti...

...A board of county commissioners may acquire, construct, improve, maintain, operate, lease, or otherwise contract for the acquisition or use of sports facilities, as defined in section 307.696 of the Revised Code. The authority granted by this section is not subject to the limitations imposed under sections 307.02 and 307.09 of the Revised Code.

...The board of county commissioners may, by resolution, permit the use of public grounds or buildings under its control for a public library or any other public purpose, upon such terms as it prescribes.

...The board of county commissioners may, at any time before or after the completion of any county building, award contracts for supplying such building with light, heat, or power for any period of time not exceeding ten years, except a contract entered into under section 9.48 of the Revised Code may exceed ten years. Sections 5705.41 and 5705.44 of the Revised Code shall not apply to any such contracts.

...ode; (iii) On the web site and social media account of the county. The notice shall state that the county intends to request proposals for the installation of energy conservation measures; indicate the date, which shall be at least ten days after the publication, on which the request for proposals will be mailed to installers of energy conservation measures; and state that any installer of energy conservation me...

...Unless provided for by contract between a county and a municipal corporation, a county may not regulate the utility rates of users of a municipal utility.