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...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.

...mited to, hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, and ski touring. They do not include use by motorcycles, snowmobiles, all purpose vehicles, or any other form of motorized vehicle. If the board finds that such uses will not unreasonably interfere with current land uses along the road, it may vacate the road subject to the preservation of a public right of way at least thirty feet wide within such roadway for such uses.

...ode. The failure of the engineer to provide this report does not affect the actions required under this section and does not invalidate the vacation of a road or portion of a road under this section. (C) Upon receipt of the copy of the township's resolution, the board of county commissioners shall set a date for a public hearing on the vacation of the road or portion of the road that is not more than forty-five days...

...e such improvement is located or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. Such notice, in addition to the date and place of such view and place and time of the final hearing, shall state briefly the character of such improvement. (B) If the board adopts a resolution to vacate a public road as provided in section 5553.04 of the Revised Code, or if a petition to vacate a public road is filed, the board sh...

... actual costs the county incurs in providing published notice and mailed notice as required by section 5553.05 of the Revised Code. The board may require an initial deposit to be paid at the time a petition for vacation of a road is filed under section 5553.04 of the Revised Code or promptly thereafter. The clerk of the board shall maintain an accurate and detailed accounting of all funds received under this s...

...r viewing the proposed improvement, considers such improvement of sufficient public importance, it shall instruct the county engineer to make an accurate survey and plat of such improvement and furnish an accurate and detailed description describing therein the center line and right of way lines. The engineer shall also furnish an accurate and detailed description of each tract of land which he believes it is necessa...

...The board of county commissioners shall at the date of the final hearing on the proposed improvement read the report of the county engineer, and it shall hear any testimony bearing upon the necessity of the improvement for the public convenience or welfare and offered either for or against proceeding with the improvement by any interested persons. If the board finds such improvement will serve the public convenience...

...The board of county commissioners, acting in accordance with sections 5553.04 to 5553.07, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may determine to proceed with the proposed improvement with such modifications and changes in the route and termini as in its judgment the public convenience and welfare require. In making such modifications or changes, the board shall cause an accurate and detailed description thereof to be enter...

... and damages on account thereof to be paid to the persons entitled thereto out of the county treasury, it may so order If the board is of the opinion that such improvement is not of sufficient importance to cause the compensation and damages to be paid from the treasury, it may determine to proceed with the improvement only upon the condition that the compensation and damages, or such part thereof as it deems reasona...

...t open, maintained, and improved as provided by law. If the proceeding is for the vacation of a road, the board shall order the road vacated and it shall cease to be a public road. The board shall furnish the director of natural resources with a full and accurate description or map of any right of way retained for public nonmotorized vehicular recreational use. If the proceeding is for the alteration, widening, stra...