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Section 5555.01 | County road improvement definitions.
...tion, damages, and expenses that are incident to an improvement covered by this chapter and all items of cost described in division (B) of section 133.15 of the Revised Code that are incident to an improvement covered by this chapter. (B) "Public obligations" has the same meaning as in section 133.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Road" includes any state or county road or part of any state or county road, or any state ... |
Section 5555.02 | General powers of board of county commissioners relating to public roads.
...isting public road by grading, paving, widening, altering, straightening, vacating, changing the direction, draining, dragging, graveling, macadamizing, resurfacing, applying dust preventives, or otherwise improving the same, and, where an established road has been relocated, the board may construct and maintain connecting roads between the old and new locations as will provide reasonable access thereto. The board al... |
Section 5555.021 | Improving approaches to rural mail boxes.
...under its jurisdiction, in order to provide a hard surface or other improved approach to rural mail boxes located on public highways. |
Section 5555.022 | Improving roads where no special assessment levied.
..., or parts of any public road or roads, identified in that resolution in a manner provided in section 5555.06 of the Revised Code and may fix the route and termini of the improvement. If the board determines, in that resolution or in a subsequent resolution, that special assessments are not to be levied and collected to pay any part of the county's costs of the improvement, the board, in that resolution or in a subse... |
Section 5555.03 | Petition to board by fifty-one per cent of landowners.
... per cent of the land or lot owners, residents of such county, who are to be specially taxed or assessed for said improvement, the board shall, within thirty days after such petition is presented, go upon the line of the proposed improvement and, after viewing it, determine whether the public convenience and welfare require that such improvement be made. The petition shall state the method of paying the compensation,... |
Section 5555.04 | Landowners must be specially taxed to be counted as petitioners.
...on 5555.03 of the Revised Code, to be paid by the township, or by the county as a whole, shall not be considered as specially taxed or assessed for said improvement, and such persons shall not be counted either for or against the improvement in determining whether the required number of persons have signed the petition for said improvement. |
Section 5555.05 | Certain persons shall not be counted as petitioners.
...for or against the improvement: (A) Resident landowners whose only real estate within the legal assessment distance of the improvement is located in a municipal corporation shall not be counted. (B) Owners of life and leasehold estates shall not be counted. (C) Minors and other persons under legal disability shall not be counted unless represented by legal guardians, in which case the action of such guardian shall... |
Section 5555.06 | Resolution by board - plans by county engineer.
...g, draining, paving, straightening, or widening such road and constructing or reconstructing any bridges and culverts necessary for such improvement. The resolution shall fix the route and termini of such improvement, and shall apportion the cost thereof, which apportionment may be made upon different bases for various portions of any road to be improved. Such cost shall be apportioned and paid in any one of the meth... |
Section 5555.07 | Copies of surveys, plans, and estimates transmitted to board - notice, hearing.
... for the period of two weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, notice that a resolution has been adopted providing for said improvement, and that copies of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications, together with estimated assessments upon the lands benefited by such improvement for the proportion of the cost thereof to be assessed therefor, are on file in th... |
Section 5555.08 | Confirmation of estimated assessments - certification to county auditor.
... county commissioners may defer its consideration, adjustment, approval, and confirmation of the estimated assessments until all questions of compensation and damages have been determined and until the contract for the improvement has been let and the exact cost of the improvement, including compensation and damages, has been ascertained. If a board approves and confirms the estimated assessments, as made by the coun... |
Section 5555.09 | Appropriation of land for improvements.
...If the surveys, plans, profiles, and cross sections prepared by the county engineer pursuant to section 5555.07 of the Revised Code show that lands will be required for the improvement, the board of county commissioners shall proceed in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. |
Section 5555.13 | Order after determination.
...an assessment upon lands benefited by said improvement in accordance with such report of estimated assessments, or in accordance with any modification thereof made by the board or by the court on appeal. If, in view of the amount of compensation and damages allowed by the court, the board is of the opinion that said improvement should not be made, the board shall so order. |
Section 5555.21 | Petition relating to improvement in more than one county.
...rested counties. The board with which said petition is filed shall cause a certified copy thereof to be filed with the board of each of the other counties in which some part of the proposed improvement is situated. |
Section 5555.22 | Action by joint board on petition.
...The boards of county commissioners shall meet as a joint board at the time and place designated by the board of the county where the original petition is filed pursuant to section 5555.21 of the Revised Code. The time so designated for the joint meeting shall be within thirty days from the date of the filing of the petition. Such joint board shall determine whether the petition has been signed by the requisite number... |
Section 5555.23 | Improvement by joint board without petition.
...ent, or repair of any road located in said counties, or extending from one of said counties into or through adjoining counties, or along the line between said counties, and the joint board shall thereupon proceed with the improvement as if it were constructed upon a petition filed therefor. |
Section 5555.24 | Appointment of county engineer by joint board - copies of surveys transmitted to each board.
...s of them to each board interested in said improvement. If a majority of the joint board is unable to agree as to the appointment of an engineer, the joint board shall thereupon certify that fact to the director of transportation who shall designate a county engineer of one of the interested counties. |
Section 5555.25 | Method of payment and proportion of costs - notice of assessments - apportionment by director of transportation.
... improvement shall be apportioned and paid in the method specified in the petition, which may be any one of the methods provided by section 5555.41 of the Revised Code. When a joint board acts by unanimous vote and without the filing of a petition, it shall set forth in its resolution declaring the necessity for the improvement the method of apportioning and paying the compensation, damages, and expenses of the impro... |
Section 5555.26 | Each county may choose different method of apportionment.
...of county commissioners of any one of said counties, the petitioners are not limited to the statement of a single method of paying the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement, but may request in the petition that the share of each interested county be apportioned by a different method, subject to the limitation that as to each county the method requested must be one of the methods provided by section 5... |
Section 5555.27 | Hearing for objections by joint board - notice.
... and place for hearing objections to said improvement. The joint board shall thereupon, except in cases of reconstruction or repair of roads where no lands or property are taken, publish in a newspaper of general circulation within each interested county, once a week for two consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, a notice that such improvement is to be made and that copies of the... |
Section 5555.30 | Decision of joint board as to improvement.
...n disposed of, the joint board shall decide whether it will proceed with the improvement, and if it decides to proceed therewith, it shall adopt the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for the improvement as reported by the county engineer or with such modifications as the joint board and the engineer agree upon. |
Section 5555.31 | Procedure when improvement is in one county but within assessment distance of another.
...When the proposed improvement is wholly within one county but within less than the legal assessment distance of the county line, and a petition is filed asking for such improvement, signed by fifty-one per cent of the persons to be specially assessed therefor, such improvement shall be regarded as joint county improvement, and shall be made in accordance with sections 5555.21 to 5555.30, inclusive, of the Revised Cod... |
Section 5555.32 | Joint board may place portion of improvement wholly within one county.
...y commissioners has jurisdiction to provide for the construction of a portion a road improvement wholly within one county when it is necessary to avoid some place on the county line where the construction thereof would be unusually expensive or difficult. |
Section 5555.33 | Bond issue by each county.
...If bonds are issued in anticipation of the collection of taxes and assessments on account of the improvement, such bonds as are required shall be issued separately by each county to cover its proportion of the costs and expenses of such improvement. |
Section 5555.34 | Single county procedure applicable to joint board.
...Sections 5555.01 to 5555.72, inclusive, of the Revised Code relating to improvements wholly within one county shall when applicable apply to improvements authorized by a joint board of county commissioners. |
Section 5555.41 | Apportionment of costs.
... improvement shall be apportioned and paid in any one of the following methods, as set forth in the petition described in section 5555.03 of the Revised Code: (A) Not less than thirty-five nor more than fifty per cent thereof shall be paid out of the proceeds of any levies for road purposes upon the grand duplicate of all taxable property in the county, or out of any funds available therefor. Not less than twenty-fi... |