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...A resolution designating a restricted area prohibiting the construction of utility facilities, if adopted by the board of county commissioners, becomes effective thirty days after the date of its adoption, unless, within thirty days after the adoption, there is presented to the board of county commissioners a petition, signed by a number of registered electors residing in the county equal to not less than eight per c...

...(A) At least ninety days, but not more than three hundred days, prior to applying for a certificate from the power siting board, or a material amendment to an existing certificate, for a utility facility, to be located in whole or in part in the unincorporated area of a county, the person intending to apply shall hold a public meeting in each county where the utility facility is to be located. (B) The applicant sh...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Agreement" means the bargain of the parties in fact, as found in their language or inferred from other circumstances and from rules, regulations, and procedures given the effect of agreements under laws otherwise applicable to a particular transaction. (B) "County office" means any officer, department, board, commission, agency, court, or other instrumentality of a county. (C) "Electr...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall keep a full written record of the proceedings of the board, and a written general index of those proceedings, entering each motion with the name of the person making it on the record. The clerk shall call and record the yeas and nays on each motion. The clerk shall state fully and clearly i...

...Immediately upon the opening of each day's session of the board of county commissioners, the records of the proceedings of the session of the previous day shall be read, or provided to each commissioner in written form, by the clerk of the board and, if correct, approved and signed by the commissioners. In the alternative, if the clerk maintains the full record of the proceedings by electronic means as authoriz...

...(A) The board of county commissioners of any county may contract for, purchase, or otherwise procure and pay all or any part of the cost of any of the following insurance, coverage, or benefits issued by an insurance company or administered by a board of county commissioners or a contractor, for county officers and employees and their immediate dependents from the funds or budgets from which the county officers...

...At the top of each part of the petition mentioned in section 305.33 of the Revised Code, the following words shall be printed in red: NOTICE Whoever knowingly signs this petition more than once, signs a name other than his own, or signs when not a legal voter is liable to prosecution.

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, employees of a county transit board or a board of county commissioners operating a transit system are employees of the county. If the system is operated by the board of county commissioners, the board shall appoint an executive director, who shall be in the unclassified service. (B) Any county transit board that established its own civil servic...

...eneration systems that produce steam or forms of energy such as heat, as well as electricity, for use primarily within a building or complex of buildings; (9) Acquiring, constructing, furnishing, equipping, improving the site of, and otherwise improving a central utility plant to provide heating and cooling services to a building or buildings together with distribution piping and ancillary distribution controls, eq...

...Upon notification by the board of trustees of a joint emergency medical services district to the board of county commissioners of each county located in whole or in part within the district that taxes need to be levied pursuant to Chapter 5705. of the Revised Code or that bonds or other evidences of indebtedness need to be issued pursuant to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code in order to provide the services and equipm...

...(A) Once a joint emergency medical services district is formed, any joint ambulance district located in a county that is a participant in the joint emergency medical services district may join that joint emergency medical services district by adopting a resolution requesting inclusion and presenting it to the board of trustees of the joint emergency medical services district. Upon the board's approval of this request...

...make loans or grants and provide other forms of financial assistance for the purpose of economic development, including financial assistance for permanent public improvements, in compliance with applicable laws of this state, and fix the rate of interest and charges to be made for such financial assistance; (6) With the approval of the board, receive and accept grants, gifts, and contributions of money, proper...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (D), (E), and (G) of this section, when the board of county commissioners finds, by resolution, that the county has personal property, including motor vehicles acquired for the use of county officers and departments, and road machinery, equipment, tools, or supplies, that is not needed for public use, is obsolete, or is unfit for the use for which it was acquired, and whe...

...(A)(1) Subject to division (C) of this section, the board of county commissioners may enter into an agreement with the legislative authority of any municipal corporation, township, port authority, water or sewer district, school district, library district, health district, park district, soil and water conservation district, water conservancy district, or other taxing district, or with the board of any other county, ...

...The board of county commissioners of any county may appropriate, out of the revenue fund not otherwise appropriated, money to be paid to the historical society of the county or to local societies for the preservation and restoration of historic and archaeological sites located in the county. The money may be used for the promotion of historical work within the borders of the county, for the restoration or reconst...

...(A) The board of county commissioners of each county may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring the county recorder and the clerk of the court of common pleas and their deputies against liability on account of errors or omissions unknowingly made by them and for which they may be held liable. The policy or policies of insurance shall be in an amount of not less than fifty thousand dollars. (B) The...

...(A) Upon the recommendation of the county law library resources boards of two or more adjacent counties, the boards of county commissioners of those counties may enter into a contract to form a multi-county law library resources commission for the purpose of collaborating on behalf of the member counties in carrying out any or all of the duties and responsibilities conferred upon a county law librar...

...This section applies only in a county in which a tax is levied under section 307.697, 4301.421, 5743.024, or 5743.323 of the Revised Code on July 19, 1995. (A) As used in this section: (1) "County taxes" means taxes levied by a board of county commissioners under divisions (D) and (E) of section 307.697, divisions (B) and (C) of section 4301.421, divisions (C) and (D) of section 5743.024, and sections 5743.323, ...

...The question of repeal of a county sediment control rule adopted under section 307.79 of the Revised Code may be initiated by filing with the board of elections of the county not less than ninety days before the general or primary election in any year a petition requesting that an election be held on such question. Such petition shall be signed by qualified electors residing in the county equal in number to ten per c...

...(A) Bids submitted pursuant to sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code shall be in a form prescribed by the contracting authority and filed in the manner and at the time and place mentioned in the notice. The bids received shall be opened and tabulated at the time stated in the notice. Each bid shall contain the full name of each person submitting the bid. If the bid is in excess of the amount specified in sect...

...(A) A corrections commission formed under section 307.93 of the Revised Code may issue securities of the commission, in an amount determined by the commission, to pay for all or part of the cost of the acquisition, construction, enlargement, modification, or repair of any improvements for a multicounty, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal correctional center that is provided for in section 307.93 of the ...

...Electors of a county, equal in number to ten per cent of the number who voted for governor in the county at the most recent gubernatorial election, may file, not later than one hundred fifteen days before the date of a general election, a petition with the board of county commissioners asking that the question of the adoption of a county charter in the form attached to the petition be submitted to the electors of th...

...(A) The board of trustees of a regional airport authority, the board of directors of a port authority, or the legislative authority of a municipal corporation that owns, operates, or maintains a qualifying airport may, by resolution adopted before January 1, 2024, create an airport development district for the purpose of developing and implementing plans for public infrastructure improvements that benefit the qualify...

...The prosecuting attorney shall prepare, in legal form, the official bonds for all county officers, and shall see that the acceptance of such bonds by the proper authorities, the signing thereof, and all the indorsements thereon, are in conformity to law, and that they are deposited with the proper officer. No bond shall be accepted or approved for any county officer by the person or tribunal authorized to approve it,...

...(A) The parties to a marriage shall make an application for a marriage license. Each of the persons seeking a marriage license shall personally appear in the probate court within the county where either resides, or, if neither is a resident of this state, where the marriage is expected to be solemnized. If neither party is a resident of this state, the marriage may be solemnized only in the county where the license i...