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...The surveys, plans, profiles, and cross sections required by the board of county commissioners to be prepared by the county engineer, in connection with a proposed road improvement or construction, shall show the right of way or other lands of the street or interurban railway company which it is proposed to acquire and the location of lands proposed to be exchanged therefor, to the extent that the lands to be exchang...

...moval, relocation, or both, of tracks, sidings, and other facilities of the company located thereon. Such agreement shall be conditioned upon the final determination of the board to proceed with such acquisition and removal after the determination by the courts pursuant to sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, of the compensation for such taking. The agreement may: (A) Stipulate the value of the...

... be acquired from it, in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. If any part or all of the lands proposed to be conveyed to such company lies within the bounds of any public road outside a municipal corporation, other than roads on the state highway system, the board may so appropriate the title, estate, interest, and right of abutting owners or others therein, to acquir...

... lands to be exchanged therefor, as provided in section 5551.07 of the Revised Code, and the cost and expense of removal, relocation, or both, of the tracks, sidings, and other facilities located thereon, may be apportioned and paid in any one of the methods provided in section 5555.41 of the Revised Code, as set forth in the petition therefor or, if no petition is filed, in the resolution of the board of county comm...

...ty commissioners may issue bonds as provided in sections 5555.44 and 5555.51 of the Revised Code in anticipation of the collection of taxes and assessments or any part thereof, for such compensation, damages, costs, and expenses specified in section 5551.08 of the Revised Code, which bonds may be issued separately from or included in any issue of bonds for improvement or construction of a public road in other respect...

...Sections 5551.01 to 5551.09, inclusive, of the Revised Code, do not limit or impair the jurisdiction or control, which is or may be conferred upon the public utilities commission over the abandonment or change of route, termini, facilities, or service of any street or interurban railway company.

...ted under section 9(a) of the "Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962," 76 Stat. 1148, 23 U.S.C. 134, as amended. (B) "Urban township" means a township that has a population in the unincorporated area of the township of fifteen thousand or more and that has adopted a limited home rule government under section 504.02 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (C) and (D) of this section, for the purposes of promoting traffic safety and efficiency and maintaining proper traffic capacity and traffic flow, a board of township trustees may adopt, by resolution, regulations for the management of access onto township roads in the unincorporated area of the township in accordance with sections 5552.05 and 5552.06 of the Revised Code. As ...

...ions for subdivision regulations to provide for the proper arrangement of streets or other highways in relation to existing or planned streets or highways or to the county or regional plan. (B) Regulations adopted under this chapter do apply to subdivisions subject to approval without plat under section 711.131 of the Revised Code, and to any parcel of property that is not subject to regulations adopted under Chapte...

...ounty access management regulations provided for in division (B) of section 5552.02 of the Revised Code may be initiated in any of the following ways: (1) The board of county commissioners may adopt a resolution proposing the consideration of access management regulations on its own initiative. (2) The board of county commissioners shall adopt a resolution proposing the consideration of access management regulation...

...nship access management regulations provided for in division (A) of section 5552.02 of the Revised Code may be initiated in any of the following ways: (1) The board of township trustees may adopt a resolution proposing the consideration of access management regulations on its own initiative. (2) The board of township trustees shall adopt a resolution proposing the consideration of access management regulations if t...

...ions of the board. The board shall consider the county engineer's proposed regulations prepared under division (B) of section 5552.04 or 5552.05 of the Revised Code and all comments on those regulations. The board, in its discretion, may, but need not, adopt any or all of those proposed regulations. After the public hearings, the board may decide not to adopt any access management regulations. The board shall...

...e designation of a board to hear and decide appeals when it is alleged that there is error in any order, requirement, decision, or determination made by an administrative official in the enforcement of the regulations. This appellate board may be the board itself acting in an administrative capacity, or some other board appointed by the board of county commissioners or board of township trustees, whichever is applica...

...(A) A permit issued under access management regulations adopted under section 5552.02 of the Revised Code shall prescribe the limitations on, as well as the permitted uses of, the permit. No modifications or amendments to the permit shall be made once it is issued. To be subject to a different permit, a person shall apply for a new permit that specifically supersedes the existing permit. (B) A board of county commis...

...heir adoption. The board also shall provide a copy of the regulations to the department of transportation district deputy director for the district in which the county or township is located.

...The board of county commissioners shall designate the county engineer to administer county access management regulations, except that if the engineer declines to administer the regulations, the board may designate another person, or a planning commission, to administer them. If a board of township trustees adopts access management regulations, the board may administer the regulations or may appoint the township fisc...

...(A) No access management regulation, or amendment to an access management regulation, adopted under section 5552.02 of the Revised Code shall be construed to affect any access point that exists, or on which construction has begun, before the effective date of the regulation or amendment. (B) Division (A) of this section does not prohibit access management regulations adopted under section 5552.02 of the Revised Code...

...Whoever violates an access management regulation adopted under section 5552.02 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars for each offense. Each day of violation is a separate offense.

...y location, establishment, alteration, widening, straightening, vacation, or change in the direction of a public road, or part thereof, as determined upon by a board of county commissioners or joint board of county commissioners by resolution.

...ssioners may locate, establish, alter, widen, straighten, vacate, or change the direction of roads as provided in sections 5553.03 to 5553.16 of the Revised Code. This power extends to all roads within the county, except that as to roads on the state highway system the approval of the director of transportation shall be had. However, no public road shall be located or established, by the board of county commissioners...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, all public roads located and established by the board of county commissioners subsequent to September 6, 1915, shall be of such width, not less than thirty feet, as is determined by the board. If a public road is established upon a county or state line, the board may determine the width of the strip of land in the county to be used for such purposes, but such wi...

...r welfare to locate, establish, alter, widen, straighten, vacate, or change the direction of a public road, it shall so declare by resolution, which resolution shall set forth the general route and termini of the road, or part of the road, to be located, established, or vacated, or the general manner in which the road is to be altered, widened, or straightened, or the direction of the road is to be changed. Subject...

...sdiction of the county commissioners, said director may petition the county commissioners to vacate or close such highway in the same manner the freeholders may petition under sections 5553.04 to 5553.11 of the Revised Code. The county commissioners shall act upon said petition within thirty days and in the event they refuse to vacate or close said highways as requested shall show such action by a proper resolution....

... formal proceedings for vacation as provided in sections 5553.04 to 5553.11 of the Revised Code have been taken. Upon petition for vacation of such a public road, highway, street, or alley filed with the board of county commissioners by any abutting landowner, if the board finds that the public road, highway, street, or alley has been abandoned and not used for a period of twenty-one years as alleged in the petition,...

... electric cooperative facilities as provided in this chapter or Chapter 5571. of the Revised Code. As used in this section, "electric cooperative" has the same meaning as in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code.