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...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.

...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...

...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.

...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.

...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.

... 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...

..., damages, and expenses thereof is provided by section 5555.41 of the Revised Code, or finding that an equitable assessment cannot be made by the use of any of the several assessment areas authorized by said section, may order the county engineer to make a tentative plan for such improvement and an approximate estimate of the cost. Such board may thereupon file an application in the court of common pleas descr...

...s for constructing any improvement be paid out of the proceeds of any tax levies for road purposes on the grand duplicate of the county or out of any road improvement fund available for the payment of those costs, or may enter, by a similar vote and without a petition, into an agreement with the boards of township trustees of the townships in which the improvement is situated in whole or in part, whereby the entire ...

...inst benefited real estate, are to be paid in part by the county and in part by the townships in which such improvement is situated, under an agreement between the board of county commissioners and the boards of township trustees entered into under section 5555.41 or 5555.43 of the Revised Code, the part of such compensation, damages, and expenses to be paid by the interested townships may be paid from the proceeds o...

...vement laws as property abutting upon said improvement. Land owned or occupied by such street or interurban railway or steam railroad and the land lying back thereof shall be assessed on account of said improvement in the manner provided by law.

...nty-five dollars or less, or if the unpaid balance of any assessment is twenty-five dollars or less, it shall be paid in full, and not in installments, at the time the first or next installment would otherwise become due and payable. If public obligations are issued or incurred to pay the costs of the improvement, the principal sum of the assessments shall be payable in a number of semiannual installments that will...

... the owner of the fee in the manner provided by section 5555.09 of the Revised Code. Either party to such apportionment may appeal to the probate court from the decision of the board relating to the apportionment of such assessment by giving the notice provided for in section 5563.02 of the Revised Code and by filing the bond provided for in such section. Thereafter, such proceedings shall be had upon such appeal as ...

...and expenses of the improvement to be paid by the county shall be paid out of any road improvement fund available therefor. For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of the county's proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of constructing, reconstructing, improving, maintaining, and repairing roads under sections 5555.01 to 5555.72, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board of coun...

...For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of the proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement to be paid by the townships in which such improvement is situated in whole or in part, the board of county commissioners may levy a tax not exceeding three mills in any one year upon all the taxable property of such townships. Such levy shall be in addition to all other levie...

...and expenses of any improvement to be paid by any county or township if such improvement is authorized and constructed by any joint board of county commissioners, or by agreement entered into between such joint board and the board of township trustees of one or more townships.

...The board of county commissioners, in anticipation of the collection of taxes, or taxes and assessments, for a road improvement or any part of a road improvement may issue and sell, or incur, public obligations of the county under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code to pay the estimated costs of the improvement. The making of any special assessments referred to in sections 5555.41 to 5555.50 of the Revised Code shall ...

...er the board of county commissioners decides to proceed with the improvement, it shall do so in accordance with sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code. No contract for any improvement shall be awarded at a price more than twenty per cent in excess of the estimated cost.

...In addition to the estimates provided for by section 153.13 of the Revised Code, the county engineer may, under such conditions as he prescribes, allow and pay to a contractor a sum not exceeding ninety per cent of the value of material delivered by such contractor, and safely stored at a railroad station or siding or other point in the vicinity of the work. When such estimate is allowed, the material on which it is ...

...Each contract let under section 5555.61 of the Revised Code, shall contain a provision to the effect that if such contract is not completed within the time therein fixed, the county engineer shall, after the expiration of the time fixed for the completion of such contract, keep an accurate account of all expenditures for inspection, supervision, and all other similar engineering services in connection with the improv...

...all complete the work in the manner provided in this section. If, after receiving notice of the action of the board in terminating the control of the contractor over the work covered by his contract, the sureties on such contractor's bond do not within ten days give the board the written notice provided in this section, the board shall complete the work. The board shall first advertise the work for letting as provid...

...tor shall agree as to the price to be paid. The contractor shall submit a bid in writing, and if the board accepts the bid, the board immediately shall enter its acceptance on the journal. The costs of the extra work shall be paid by the board out of any funds available therefor, and shall be charged to the cost of construction of the improvement and apportioned as the original contract price for the improvement.

...ommissioners constructs, reconstructs, widens, resurfaces, repairs, or improves a road by force account, and the estimated cost of the work, as defined in section 5543.19 of the Revised Code, exceeds three thousand dollars per mile, such board shall cause to be kept by the county engineer a complete and accurate account in detail of the cost of doing such work. Such account shall include labor, materials, freight, ha...

...l pay such proportion of the costs of said improvement as is agreed upon by the parties thereto.

...is state and an adjoining state to be paid by any county in this state may be assessed or levied upon the property of this state by the board of county commissioners of such county in any of the ways provided in sections 5555.01 to 5555.72 of the Revised Code, in the case of an improvement wholly within this state. Such board may also join with the department of transportation of this or other states in the construct...

...In exercising the powers enumerated and granted in sections 5555.81 and 5555.82 of the Revised Code, joint boards of county commissioners shall be governed and act in accordance with sections 5555.01 to 5555.72, inclusive, of the Revised Code, in so far as such sections are applicable.