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...Every cemetery company or association shall cause a plat of its grounds and of the lots laid out by it to be made and to be recorded or filed in the office of the county recorder of the county in which they are situated, numbering the lots by regular consecutive numbers. It may inclose, improve, and adorn the grounds and avenues, erect buildings for its use, prescribe rules for inclosing and adorning lots and for ere...

...Except as otherwise provided in this section, lands appropriated and set apart as burial grounds, either for public or for private use, and recorded or filed as such in the office of the county recorder of the county where they are situated, and any burial ground that has been used as such for fifteen years are exempt from sale on execution on a judgment, dower, and compulsory partition; but land appropriated and set...

...A cemetery company or association may act either as a soldiers' monumental association or as a cemetery association, and, as it elects, may take charge of the management of cemetery grounds, or monuments especially erected in honor of soldiers or seamen who have died in the service of the state or of the United States or both.

...Every cemetery company or association may take, hold, possess, use, enjoy, and occupy such property of any kind as is given, granted, or devised to it for the purpose of building, repairing, maintaining, adorning, and beautifying fences, graves, vaults, mausoleums, monuments, walks, cemetery lots, drives, or avenues in its cemeteries, and may appropriate such property, or the proceeds thereof, to any of such purposes...

...Any association of persons who are acting as a cemetery association, who have purchased and improved lands for cemetery purposes by subscriptions of lot holders and the sale of lots, and who are acting through a board of trustees chosen by members of the association may, when the lands thus occupied have been brought or held within the corporate limits of a village subsequently to the time of their purchase and impro...

...The trustees, directors, or other officers of a cemetery company or association, whether it is incorporated or unincorporated, and a board of township trustees having charge of township cemeteries, may appoint day and night watchmen for their grounds. All such watchmen, and all superintendents, gardeners, and agents of such company or association or of such board, who are stationed on the cemetery grounds may take a...

...The trustees of a cemetery association whose cemetery is within the limits of a municipal corporation which by ordinance has prohibited interments in such municipal corporations, whose cemetery is abandoned as a place for the burial of the dead, or which is involved in debt it is unable to pay, may apply, by petition to the court of common pleas of the county in which such cemetery is located, for the sale of the who...

...A cemetery association may create a sinking fund, either out of surplus money on hand, or out of money which has been given to the association by will, deed, or otherwise. The association may invest money appropriated to such sinking fund in bonds of the United States, of the state of Ohio, or of a city therein, or may loan such money upon first mortgage of real estate in this state worth double the loan or upon col...

...When, in the judgment of the trustees of any association of persons who are acting as a cemetery association, whether incorporated or unincorporated, and have purchased and improved land for cemetery purposes, the welfare of all concerned in the lands purchased and improved would be subserved by transferring such lands and improvements and other assets of such association to another association incorporated under the...

...Any company or association incorporated for the erection and maintenance of a crematory may exercise all the rights and powers conferred by sections 1721.01 to 1721.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code, subject to the conditions provided in such sections. No building shall be erected for such a purpose within two hundred yards of a dwelling house unless the owner of the dwelling house gives his consent. No person, comp...

...(A) No person shall violate a bylaw, rule, or regulation adopted by the trustees, directors, or other officers of a cemetery company or association, or by a board of township trustees having charge of township cemeteries, with reference to the protection, good order, and preservation of cemeteries, and the trees, shrubbery, structures, and adornments therein. (B)(1) A watchperson, superintendent, gardener, or agent ...

...No person, partnership, association, or corporation or officers, agents, or employees thereof, shall directly or indirectly make or collect any charge pertaining to the delivery or installation of a burial receptacle in a cemetery for human remains, except when such charge is for service actually performed, or expense actually incurred in aid of said installation. Charges under this exception shall be equal for simi...

...(A) As used in this section, "preneed cemetery merchandise and services contract" means a written agreement, contract, or series of contracts to sell or otherwise provide an outer burial container, monument, marker, urn, other type of merchandise customarily sold by cemeteries, or opening and closing services to be used or provided in connection with the final disposition of a dead human body, where payment for the c...

.... The options shall include, but not be limited to, providing entombment in a temporary space. (C) If a contract is canceled pursuant to division (A) of this section, the seller shall, within thirty days of cancellation, refund all moneys paid by the purchaser under the contract.

...(A) Whoever violates section 1721.19 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars. (B) Whoever violates section 1721.20 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. (C) Whoever violates section 1721.21 or 1721.211 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

...If a company is organized for the purpose of erecting or building dams across rivers or streams in this state to raise and maintain a head of water; for constructing and maintaining canals, locks, and raceways to regulate and carry such head of water to any plant or powerhouse where electricity is to be generated; for erecting and maintaining lines of poles on which to string wires or cables to carry and transmit ele...

...The appropriation referred to in section 1732.01 of the Revised Code shall be made in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code. So far as the rights of the public therein are concerned, the director of transportation or other state official having supervision or control as to state roads, the board of county commissioners as to county roads, the board of township trustees as to township roa...

...Sections 1723.01 to 1723.02 of the Revised Code do not confer power to appropriate any portion of, or confer any right in, any street, alley, highway, or other public way or land situated within any municipal corporation without such municipal corporation's consent.

...No reservoirs for the storage or transportation of water shall be constructed by any company described in section 1723.01 of the Revised Code, within the corporate limits of any municipal corporation or within any public park, and all excavations made by such company, except reservoirs for storage and transportation of water, shall be well filled, and kept well filled, by it.

...A company described in section 1723.01 of the Revised Code may transport, store, insure, and ship natural gas, petroleum, coal or its derivatives, or water, and may transport and store water for the purpose of furnishing it to engineers employed in developing for petroleum, or to engineers employed in the production and transportation of petroleum; and for such purpose such company may lay down, construct, and mainta...

...A company described in section 1723.01 of the Revised Code may take, by purchase or otherwise, and hold such real and personal estate, and may erect or purchase the necessary buildings and machinery for carrying on the business, including all the necessary equipment and appendages of the business, such as tubing, pumps, tanks, telegraph apparatus, and engines, as may be necessary to transport oils, coal or its deriva...

... of the Revised Code includes any firm, partnership, voluntary association, joint-stock association, company, or corporation, wherever organized or incorporated, when engaged in the business of transporting petroleum through tubing, pipes, or conduits as a common carrier.

...poration is being organized, but not limited to the purposes described in division (B)(2) of this section; (b) Efficiently holding and managing vacant, abandoned, or tax-foreclosed real property pending its reclamation, rehabilitation, and reutilization; (c) Assisting governmental entities and other nonprofit or for-profit persons to assemble, clear, and clear the title of property described in thi...

...(A) After the articles of incorporation have been filed, and at the first meeting of the board of directors of a county land reutilization corporation, the board shall adopt regulations for the government of the corporation, the conduct of its affairs, and the management of its property, consistent with law and the articles. The content of the regulations shall be governed by section 1702.11 of the Revised Code...

...A county that elects under section 5722.02 of the Revised Code to adopt and implement the procedures set forth in sections 5722.02 to 5722.15 of the Revised Code may organize a county land reutilization corporation under this chapter and Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code for the purpose of exercising the powers granted to a county under Chapter 5722. of the Revised Code. The county treasurer of the county for the ben...