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...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...

...If the proceeding is for an improvement other than the vacation of a road and the board of county commissioners, at its final hearing on the proposed improvement, orders the improvement established, it shall proceed in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code.

...When the proposed improvement is along or upon a county line or crosses such county line or extends as a continuous road from one county into or through one or more adjoining counties, the boards of county commissioners of the counties interested shall sit as a joint board.

...erefor by resolution at the meeting provided for in section 5553.13 of the Revised Code. Such resolution shall set forth generally the route and termini of the road, or part thereof, to be located, established, or vacated, or the general manner in which such road is to be altered, widened, straightened, or the direction thereof changed. Such resolution shall fix a date when the joint board will view the proposed imp...

...The board of county commissioners of the county having the greatest population of any of the interested counties participating in the proposed improvement shall keep a full and accurate record of the proceedings. At the conclusion of the proceedings, it shall certify a copy thereof to each county interested, to be placed upon the proper road record of such county.

... with the expenses thereof, shall be divided among the counties interested, as the joint board of county commissioners agrees and determines. In case of failure to agree on the proportion which each county is to pay, the joint board shall certify that fact to the director of transportation who shall thereupon make such apportionment.

...ast twelve freeholders of the county residing in the vicinity of such road, shall cause the county engineer to view and find the true line of such road.

... shall view and survey the road as provided in section 5553.18 of the Revised Code, and shall make a return of the survey and plat of the road to the board of county commissioners. Upon the filing of the report of the engineer, the board shall give notice of the filing of such report by publication as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code or once each week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of g...

...e of which is surveyed and fixed as provided in this section and sections 5553.18 and 5553.19 of the Revised Code, shall to the limits of such boundaries be a public highway. The engineer and board may not change the line of any road under sections 5553.18 and 5553.19 of the Revised Code from that which has been opened and used by the public for a period of seven years immediately preceding the application provided f...

...Whenever the place of beginning, true course, or boundaries of a road are uncertain by reason of the removal of any monument or witness by which such road was originally designated, or the destruction of any record, or from any other cause, and the adjacent landowners are able to agree on the true course and boundaries of such road, they may call upon the county engineer to make a true plat and description thereof. S...

... two or more counties, the petition provided for in section 5553.18 of the Revised Code shall be filed with the board of county commissioners of either county interested. The board of such county shall file within ten days a certified copy of said petition with the boards of the other counties interested, and the board of the county where the original petition is filed shall call a joint meeting of the boards of the ...

... newspaper of general circulation in said county, stating that such petition has been filed and setting forth the change desired in such road and the date and place for the hearing on said petition. If a public road was once established for public convenience through private lands, but has not been improved by public funds and for more than twenty-one years has not been used, the owner of such land may petition...

...Upon the receipt of the petition provided for in section 5553.23 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall order the county engineer to make a survey of the ground over which the road is proposed to be changed and to make a report in writing, together with a plat and survey of the proposed change and his opinion as to its advantage or disadvantage. The report of such engineer shall be filed with th...

...t the hearing had upon the petition provided for in section 5553.23 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners may hear evidence for or against changing the road, and if it is satisfied that the proposed change will not cause serious injury or disadvantage to the public, it may make a finding of such fact in its journal and authorize the petitioner to change such road in conformity with the prayer of the ...

...Upon receiving satisfactory evidence that the road has been changed as authorized by it under section 5553.25 of the Revised Code, and opened to the legal width and improved as required by it, the board of county commissioners shall declare such new road a public highway and cause a record thereof to be made and at the same time vacate so much of the old road as is rendered unnecessary by the new road. The person pet...

...owner proposes to turn or change as provided in section 5553.23 of the Revised Code is located in two or more counties, he may file his petition with the board of county commissioners of either county. Such board shall within ten days thereafter cause a copy of said petition to be certified to the boards of the other counties interested and shall at the same time fix a time not later than thirty days for a hearing up...

...In all hearings before a joint board of county commissioners under sections 5553.01 to 5553.27, inclusive, of the Revised Code, a majority vote of the board of each county shall be necessary to establish any improvement.

...The board of county commissioners or the joint board of county commissioners may adjourn any hearings under sections 5553.01 to 5553.27, inclusive, of the Revised Code, as the necessities of the case require. Such adjournment shall be taken to a day certain to be fixed by the board or joint board at the time of such adjournment. The proceedings of the joint board shall be certified to each of the counties interested ...

...peal may be perfected in the manner provided in sections 5563.01 to 5563.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and if the order appealed from is that of a joint board, an appeal may be taken to the probate court of any county in which said improvement or any part thereof is situated.

... the lands for such purpose, as are provided in cases where the board by unanimous vote declares its intention to locate, establish, widen, straighten, vacate, or change the direction of a road without a petition therefor, but otherwise the proposal to dedicate lands for road purposes, together with the acceptance of the grant by the board, constitutes the lands so dedicated a public road without any further proceedi...

...a road leading from any land owned by said person, firm, or corporation through the land of another person to a public highway may file a petition with the board of county commissioners describing the road so desired and giving the respective names and places of residence of the owners of all the land through which the proposed road will pass.

... pass of the filing of the petition provided for in section 5553.41 of the Revised Code and the date and place of the hearing thereon. Such notice shall be served on such owners personally, or by leaving a copy of such notice at the usual place of residence of such owners at least five days before the date of the hearing on said petition. Proof of service of such notice shall be made by affidavit of the person ...

...evised Code. When the petitioner for said road has paid to the owners of lands through which said road will pass the amount found due them for compensation or damages, he may enter upon the premises and open up the road.