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...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...

...of a grade crossing improvement to be paid by the state shall be paid by the director of transportation, upon estimates, out of any fund appropriated to the department of transportation available for the establishment, construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance, or repair of highways, funds contributed by the local subdivisions, and funds contributed by the federal government. The portion of the costs to ...

... and is so located that in order to provide for the safety and convenience of the traveling public having occasion to use such road or highway or extension, the director of transportation deems it necessary to relocate and reconstruct the same in whole or in part outside the right-of-way of such road or highway or extension thereof, or when, in the opinion of the director, a separated crossing which was not construct...

...eed with such proposed improvement, providing federal aid highway funds are used to pay costs involved, in whole or in part, including the elimination of the grade crossing over the tracks of such railroad, or the reconstruction of such existing separated crossing over or under such tracks, paying construction costs and acquiring and paying for property and rights therein as provided for in section 5531.02 of the Rev...

...or of transportation may advertise for bids for two consecutive weeks in one newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which the improvement or part thereof is located, but if there is no such newspaper then in one newspaper having general circulation in an adjacent county. In the alternative, the director may advertise for bids as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. The director shall adv...

...hority is required to solicit separate bids or award separate contracts for any branch of work in a contract for the construction or improvement of a road or highway funded in whole or in part by or through the department of transportation. (C) When the director estimates that more than fifty-one per cent of the dollar amount of work to be performed in a contract is to be performed by one branch of work, the directo...

...ualification and classification of all bidders desiring to offer bids for the performance of contracts proposed to be awarded by the director of transportation, and all contracts attempted to be awarded to any person other than a bidder previously qualified in compliance with such sections shall be void, except that bidders submitting bids on environmental remediation and specialty projects for which there are no cla...

...(A) All prospective bidders other than environmental remediators and specialty contractors for which there are no classes of work provided for in the rules adopted by the director of transportation shall apply for qualification on forms prescribed and furnished by the director. The application shall be accompanied by a certificate of compliance with affirmative action programs issued pursuant to section 9.47 of the R...

...No bidder shall be given a certificate of qualification unless the bidder's financial statement and the investigation made by the director of transportation show that the bidder possesses net current assets or working capital sufficient, in the judgment of the director, to render it probable that the bidder can satisfactorily execute the bidder's contracts and meet all contractual obligations. Any applicant desiring ...

...s is made to competent and responsible bidders or the lowest and best bidders for environmental remediation and specialty work for which there are no classes of work set out in the rules adopted by the director, subject to and in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the director of transportation may adopt such rules as the director considers proper. The rules may cover the requirements of the departmen...

...No successful bidder shall enter into a subcontract with any other person, involving the performance of any part of any work upon which the bidder may be engaged for the department of transportation, unless the subcontractor has been properly qualified for the work sublet to the subcontractor or the subcontractor is eligible for participation without previous qualification under rules adopted by the director of trans...

...his chapter unless the subcontract is evidenced in writing and is in conformity with all appllicable state and federal laws and regulations.

...licant may request, in writing, a reconsideration of the application by a prequalification review board, which the director shall create within the department of transportation with the request for reconsideration, the applicant shall submit additional evidence bearing on the applicant's qualifications. The review board shall consider the matter and either may adhere to or modify the director's previous decision. The...

...Except as otherwise provided in this section, the director of transportation shall not consider any bid filed with the director by any person who has not been qualified to bid by the time the contract is awarded. If the director finds, subsequent to the opening of bids, that facts exist that would disqualify the lowest bidder, or that such bidder either is not competent and responsible or has submitted a nonresponsiv...

... shall be disqualified from submitting bids on contracts advertised for letting by the department of transportation for the period of two years following the date of his conviction.

...Except as provided in section 5525.15 of the Revised Code, no contract for any road improvement shall be awarded for a greater sum than the estimated cost thereof plus five per cent. The bids received for an improvement shall be opened at the time and place stated in the notice and the bids shall conform to such other requirements as the director of transportation prescribes. If no acceptable bid is made the director...

...sis, the contractor shall state in his bid the sum for which he offers to perform each unit of each different kind or class of work, and upon completion the quantities of each kind of work shall be measured and the contractor paid only for the quantities of work actually performed by him. Where the director elects to enter into a contract upon a unit price basis he may include in the estimate such reasonable sums as ...