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...after the docketing of the cause as provided by section 5563.03 of the Revised Code for the hearing of all preliminary questions and motions on an appeal and the examination of the papers and proceedings. On the day fixed all preliminary motions and questions arising upon the appeal shall be heard and determined, and if the court finds that the proceedings are irregular, or that the appeal is not perfected according ...

...If the probate judge or common pleas judge finds that an appeal in a road improvement case has been properly perfected, and that the proceedings are substantially regular, the judge shall fix a day, not more than twenty days after the finding, for the trial of the case by jury. The jury shall be selected from the jurors drawn as prescribed in Chapter 2313. of the Revised Code.

...court shall order the cases to be consolidated and tried together, but the rights of each person, firm, or corporation, as to compensation or damages, shall be separately determined by the jury in its verdict.

...nder a true verdict, according to the evidence, under the charge of the court.

...eturned the parties shall offer their evidence to it, under the direction of the court, upon the matters appealed from. The rules of law and procedure governing civil cases in the court of common pleas apply to the trial of the cause in the probate court.

...At the conclusion of a trial under section 5563.05 of the Revised Code, the judge shall charge the jury and the jury shall determine in its verdict whether the improvement petitioned for or granted will be conducive to the public convenience and welfare, if an order establishing the proposed improvement or dismissing or refusing to grant the prayer of the petition is appealed. The court shall make a finding for or ag...

...uance and the like shall be taxed and paid as the court directs. If there are several persons upon the side taxed with costs, the court shall apportion the costs equitably among them. In case several persons are interested on one side of the case and part of them fail, the court shall make such order as to costs as is just and equitable. In cases not specifically provided for, the court shall render such judgment in ...

...e instance of the persons entitled to said judgment or a part thereof, and the money, when collected, shall be paid to the persons respectively entitled thereto.

...The probate judge or the common pleas judge shall make a record of all proceedings had in the court on appeal in a road improvement case, and after the termination of such proceedings, or at the conclusion of an appeal, if an appeal is prosecuted, shall certify the record to the county auditor, together with all of the original papers filed with the court on appeal.

...For their services required on appeal the officers and other persons mentioned in sections 5563.01 to 5563.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be entitled to the fees and compensation to which they are entitled for like services in other cases. The persons appointed by the court to show the premises to the jury shall receive such compensation as the court directs, and such compensation shall be taxed with the o...

...rial is granted by the court, and the said improvement shall be established unless the judgment of such court is reversed. The board shall thereupon take the necessary steps to have the improvement platted and surveyed, and shall proceed to have the compensation and damages, on account of such improvement, determined.

...al. The board of township trustees may widen, straighten, or change the direction of any part of a road in connection with the proceedings for its improvement. (B) The board of township trustees may construct, improve, maintain, or repair the berm of any road under its jurisdiction, in order to provide a hard surface or other improved approach to rural mail boxes located on public highways. (C) A board of townshi...

...a newspaper of general circulation in said township; (B) On the official public notice web site established under section 125.182 of the Revised Code; (C) On the web site and social media account of the township. The notice shall state that such petition has been filed and setting forth the change desired in such road and the date and place of such hearing. Upon receipt of such a petition the board of townsh...

...ads within the township. (B) It may divide the township into three road districts, in which event each trustee shall have charge of the maintenance and repair of roads within one of those districts. (C) It may appoint some competent person, not a member of the board of township trustees, to have charge of maintenance and repair of roads within the township, who shall be known as "township highway superintendent" an...

...determines to proceed in the method provided by division (A) or (B) of section 5571.02 of the Revised Code, the trustee designated to have charge of the maintenance and repair of roads and culverts within the township, or within a road district thereof, shall receive the compensation provided by section 505.24 of the Revised Code for each day of service in the discharge of such duties, but the total compensation of a...

...p trustees determines to proceed as provided in division (C) of section 5571.02 of the Revised Code and appoints a highway superintendent, except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, the superintendent shall, before entering upon the discharge of the official duties of superintendent, give bond to the state, for the use of the township, in the sum of two thousand dollars, conditioned upon the f...

...In the maintenance and repair of roads, the board of township trustees and any township highway superintendent appointed by it, shall be subject to the general supervision and direction of the county engineer. Such board of township trustees shall follow the direction of the engineer as to methods to be followed in making repairs.

...for or against the improvement: (A) Resident landowners whose only real estate within the legal assessment distance of such road is located in a municipal corporation; (B) Owners of life and leasehold estates; (C) Minors and other persons under legal disability, unless represented by legal guardians, in which case the action of the guardian shall be binding upon such persons; (D) Lot or landowners who are not oth...

...nt of the land owners or lot owners, residents of the county, who are to be specifically taxed or assessed for such improvement as provided in this section, or signed by the owner of the right to mine coal lying under or adjacent to the proposed improvement, is presented to the board of township trustees asking for the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, or improvement of any public road or part thereof, the b...

...Except as provided in section 5571.20 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees shall cause all the township roads within the township to be kept free from obstruction by snow. The cost and expense thereof shall be paid from the road funds of the township or from the funds allocated to the township by section 5735.27 of the Revised Code.

...The board of township trustees may bring and maintain all suits involving an injury to any townhsip road, ditch, drain, or watercourse under the jurisdiction of such board and for the prevention of injury thereto. In case such road, ditch, drain, or watercourse is under the jurisdiction of two or more boards of township trustees, such joint board may bring and maintain such action. Such board or joint board may recov...

... the board of township trustees may provide for landscape and beautification projects along the road. Such projects may include planting trees or other plants and installing and maintaining decorative pathways, walls, signage, fencing, banners, fountains, and other similar features. In providing for the projects, the board shall proceed in accordance with Chapter 5575. of the Revised Code. The cost of the projects ...

...Except as provided in section 5571.20 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees shall cause the graveled and unimproved public roads of the township to be dragged. At the beginning of each fiscal half year, the board, before making any other appropriations from the township road fund, shall appropriate and set aside a sum sufficient to meet the expense of dragging the graveled and unimproved public roads of...

...rm, any vegetation, or any other object identified by the board or superintendent as interfering with or obstructing the township road under division (A) of this section. (C) The authority granted in this section does not apply to an object that is lawfully entitled to be maintained on land belonging to a township road pursuant to a franchise or other grant of public authority.

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the board of township trustees, without the presentation of a petition, may take the necessary steps to construct, reconstruct, resurface, or improve a public road or part thereof, upon the passage of a resolution by unanimous vote declaring the necessity for the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, or improvement. The cost thereof may be paid by any of th...