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...nter into a contract with the state providing for the payment by such county or municipal corporation of the agreed proportion of the cost and expense. The form of such contract shall be prescribed by the attorney general, and all such contracts shall be submitted to the attorney general and approved by him before the director may advertise for bids. All improvements upon which any county or municipal corporation may...

...ith the department of transportation, said board or municipal authority may purchase or appropriate such property as is needed, or pay damages, in the establishment, construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, widening, maintenance, repair, or preservation of state highways, including the bridges, culverts, and viaducts thereon, and the approaches thereto, and may purchase or appropriate the right to make waste dumps,...

...ishment, construction, reconstruction, widening, maintenance, repair, railway grade crossing elimination, or other improvement of any section or portion of a state highway, the director may, as a condition precedent to his extending such cooperation, require such county or municipal corporation to provide the portion of the cost of such improvement which it proposes to furnish, and to pay the cost into the state trea...

... municipal corporation has been fully paid shall be returned to the county or municipal corporation.

...For the purpose of providing a fund for the payment of the county's proportion of the cost and expense of co-operating with the department of transportation, the board of county commissioners may levy a tax, not exceeding one and one-half mills, upon all taxable property of the county. The proceeds of such levy shall be used for the purpose of paying the county's proportion of the cost and expense of any work conduc...

...tion of the collection of the taxes provided for by section 5521.09 of the Revised Code, and in anticipation of the assessments which it is authorized to levy, may, whenever in its judgment it is deemed necessary, sell the bonds of said county in any amount not greater than the aggregate sum necessary to pay the share of the estimated compensation, damages, cost, and expense payable by the county, and by the owners o...

...t of the state highway system, or the bridges and culverts thereon, within such county, municipal corporation, or township. The plans and specifications covering any such proposed construction by the board of county commissioners, municipal authorities, or the board of township trustees shall be first submitted to the director of transportation and receive his approval. Any such construction shall be under the superv...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may submit preliminary plans to the director of transportation for any project wherein co-operation between the municipal corporation and the state is contemplated ultimately under Chapter 5521. of the Revised Code. The director may give conditional approval to such project by the issuance of a letter of intent directed to the municipal corporation, and thereupon t...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, whenever a political subdivision submits to the director of transportation any documents, reports, plans, or other materials relating to a proposed highway improvement project on the state highway system or relating to a road construction or improvement in accordance with section 5535.15 of the Revised Code, the director shall review and approve such documents, ...

...For the purpose of eliminating one or more existing grade crossings on any road or highway on the state highway system or any extension thereof, the director of transportation may relocate any portion of a road or highway on the system or any portion of any extension thereof; or the director may raise or lower the grade of any road or highway on the system or of any extension thereof, above or below the existing trac...

...When it is necessary, in the elimination of existing grade crossings, to change the location of any highway on the state highway system or any extension of the system, the director of transportation may relocate the highway or any part thereof, or the extension or any part thereof, and may vacate the whole or any portion of such highway or extension no longer needed by reason of such relocation, and cause the improve...

...s located, in the same manner as is provided for the service of summons in civil actions, or by registered mail as determined by the director. If, when the hearing is held, the director is of the opinion that the proposed improvement is or is not reasonably necessary and expedient, the director shall so find and order and issue such a finding and order. A finding and order that the proposed improvement is not reaso...

...If the director of transportation enters a finding and determination for a proposed grade crossing improvement the railroad companies involved in such proceedings shall co-operate with the director in the preparation of plans and specifications covering the construction of the proposed project. Such companies shall furnish such plans, specifications, and approximate estimates as the director directs. In changing the ...

... made in any railroad tracks including sidetracks and switches.

...presented to it and after hearing the evidence, the court shall make a finding as to whether such plans or any of them are reasonable and practicable.

...per cent or other agreed proportion provided by section 5523.08 of the Revised Code to be paid by such companies, and when making such apportionment the court shall take into consideration the difference in cost of construction and the benefits derived as between companies. If the court finds that none of the plans are reasonable or practicable or that none of them can be modified or changed in such manner as to make...

...rface chargeable to the improvement outside the limits of the right-of-way of the railroad company, the costs of which are to be shared by such company, shall not exceed in cost the costs of a traffic bond surface of sufficient thickness to sustain highway traffic. If the improvement replaces a portion of the highway or extension which has an improved surface, the cost of a new pavement, of equivalent width and of su...

...rtation may enter into any contract provided for in section 5523.08 of the Revised Code, such contract shall be submitted to and receive the approval of the attorney general as to its form.

...iated, and damages resulting shall be paid or determined by the railroad company involved after the manner provided for the appropriation of private property by such companies. Such company and the director may agree that the land or property may be purchased or appropriated and damages resulting may be settled or determined by the director, but he shall not appropriate land held or owned by a company and necessary f...

...d out. Upon the filing of plans as provided in this section, the director shall issue a finding and determination of the director's intention to make the proposed improvement in accordance with such plans. The director then shall cause to be published, in a newspaper published and of general circulation in each county, or if there is no such newspaper, then in one of general circulation in such county in which any p...

...The director of transportation may prescribe the manner and time of payment by a railroad company of the proportion of the cost of the proposed grade crossing improvement that the company shall pay.

...Any way, crossing, or viaduct constructed over the tracks of any railroad company under sections 5523.01 to 5523.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be of such height as not to be less than twenty-one feet in the clear, from the top surface of the rails of the railroad track to the lowest point or projection of such overhead way, crossing, or viaduct, unless such company consents to or the court orders a less h...

...the construction or reconstruction of bridges and viaducts within such municipal corporation, and may pay such portion of the cost of any of such work as is agreed upon between the legislative authority of such municipal corporation and the director of transportation. The legislative authority of any municipal corporation desiring to co-operate as above, may, by resolution, propose such co-operation to the director, ...

...sportation that such improvement as provided for in section 5523.02 of the Revised Code is reasonably necessary and expedient, any railroad company or any interurban railway company may, upon the question of such necessity and expediency, take an appeal to the public utilities commission. A party desiring to take an appeal shall file with the director written notice of its intention to do so within thirty days after ...

... work of constructing, reconstructing, widening, or realigning a separated crossing by the director of transportation, in accordance with sections 5523.01 to 5523.20 of the Revised Code, the separated crossing and approaches thereto shall be kept in repair as follows: (A) When the public way crosses the tracks of any railroad company by a structure carrying the highway over such tracks the responsibility for inspect...