Ohio Revised Code Search

...Any municipal corporation may prescribe the width of the tires of wagons, carts, drays, and other vehicles used in the transportation of persons from one part of such municipal corporation to another, or used in the transportation of coal, wood, stone, lumber, iron, or other articles in the municipal corporation. Such municipal corporation may: (A) Establish stands for hackney coaches, cabs, or omnibuses; (B) Enfo...

...Any municipal corporation may: (A) Regulate the erection of buildings or other structures and the sanitary condition thereof, the repair of, alteration in, and addition to buildings or other structures; (B) Provide for the inspection of buildings or other structures and for the removal and repair of insecure, unsafe, or structurally defective buildings or other structures under this section or section...

...immediate family; (ii) A person with a power of attorney appointed by that owner who subsequently transfers the land to the owner; (iii) A sole proprietorship owned by that owner or a member of that owner's immediate family; (iv) A partnership, trust, business trust, corporation, or association of which the owner or a member of the owner's immediate family owns or controls directly or indirectly more than fif...

...In an appeal from an order made under authority of division (A) or (B) of section 715.26 of the Revised Code, a provision of a municipal charter which has the same or a similar purpose as such divisions, or an ordinance or regulation adopted under such authorities, and in any appeal relating to violation of an ordinance or regulation adopted under authority of such divisions or provision of a municipal charter, the c...

...ner's immediate family, a person with a power of attorney appointed by the owner who subsequently transfers the parcel to the owner, a sole proprietorship consisting of the owner or a member of the owner's immediate family, or a partnership, trust, business trust, corporation, or association in which the owner or a member of the owner's immediate family owns or controls directly or indirectly more than fifty per cent...

...(A) Any municipal corporation may: (1) Regulate the erection of fences, billboards, signs, and other structures, within the municipal corporation, and provide for the removal and repair of insecure billboards, signs, and other structures; (2) Regulate the construction and repair of wires, poles, plants, and all equipment to be used for the generation and application of electricity; (3) Provide for the licensing...

...Any municipal corporation may: (A) Establish, erect, maintain, protect, and regulate public halls, public buildings, and market houses; (B) Establish, maintain, protect, and regulate a market place, by and with the consent of the abutting property owner, or his lessee , on any street, square, or public grounds or part thereof, within such municipal corporation.

...Any municipal corporation may: (A) Regulate by ordinance the use, control, repair, and maintenance of buildings used for human occupancy or habitation, the number of occupants, and the mode and manner of occupancy, for the purpose of insuring the healthful, safe, and sanitary environment of the occupants thereof; (B) Compel the owners of such buildings to alter, reconstruct, or modify them, or any room, store, comp...

...No person shall erect, construct, alter, repair, or maintain any residential building, office, mercantile building, workshop, or factory, including a public or private garage, or other structure, within any municipal corporation wherein ordinances or regulations have been enacted pursuant to sections 715.26 to 715.29, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or Section 3 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution, unless said ordina...

...Any municipal corporation may: (A) Regulate public landings, public wharves, public docks, public piers, and public basins; (B) Fix the rates of landing, wharfage, dockage, and the use of such facilities.

...al corporation shall have the exclusive power to: (A) Establish, regulate, and license ferries from such municipal corporation, or any landing therein, to the opposite shore, or from one part of the municipal corporation to another; (B) Impose such reasonable terms and restrictions, in relation to the keeping of such ferries, and as to the time, manner, and rates of the carriage and transportation of persons and pr...

...Any municipal corporation may require the employment of conductors on all streetcars within such municipal corporation.

...team or hot water, or both, for heat or power purposes, or both. In all such grants the municipal corporations shall reserve the right to regulate, at intervals of not less than five years, the prices which the grantee may charge for such heat or power.

...Any municipal corporation may use or grant, for periods not exceeding twenty-five years, the use of its streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, and public places for the construction of inclined movable or rolling roads, for the conveying or moving of freight, vehicles, animals, and other property, and those in charge thereof, upon such terms as the legislative authority of such municipal corporation deems proper, but in al...

...Any municipal corporation may, use, or by ordinance grant to any person, company, or corporation, for periods not exceeding twenty-five years, the use of its streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, and public places for the purpose of constructing, laying, maintaining, and operating subways and underground conduits, together with manholes and all other necessary appliances, for transmitting United States mail under such str...

...Any municipal corporation may: (A) Provide for the public health; (B) Secure the inhabitants of the municipal corporation from the evils of contagious, malignant, and infectious diseases; (C) Purchase or lease property or buildings for pesthouses; (D) Erect, maintain, and regulate pesthouses, hospitals, and infirmaries.

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation which, for any reason, is inaccessible from the mainland at some time of the year, may provide for the maintenance of a physician when, in the opinion of a majority of the members of the legislative authority, it is necessary for the preservation of the public health and welfare. An additional tax may be levied upon all the taxable property in the municipal corpor...

...Upon the appointment by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation of a resident physician as authorized by section 715.38 of the Revised Code to act as the physician, the board of county commissioners may pay to the treasurer of such municipal corporation a sum not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum to defray the cost of the services performed by such physician.

...Any municipal corporation may open, construct, and keep in repair, sewage disposal works, treatment plants, and sewage pumping stations, together with facilities and appurtenances necessary and proper therefor, sewers, drains, and ditches, and establish, repair, and regulate water closets and privies.

...Any municipal corporation may drain by artificial means, at the expense of the municipal corporation, any lot or land within such municipal corporation on which water at any time accumulates and becomes stagnant, in a way prejudicial to the public health, convenience, or welfare by reason of not having a natural drainage outlet, or which cannot be drained by natural channels. In case such drainage is beneficial to th...

...Any municipal corporation may establish, maintain, and regulate public baths and bathhouses, drinking fountains, water troughs, public toilet stations, and municipal lodging houses.

...Any municipal corporation may provide for the collection and disposition of sewage, garbage, ashes, animal and vegetable refuse, dead animals, and animal offal, and may establish, maintain, and regulate plants for the disposal thereof.

...A municipal corporation may: (A) Abate any nuisance and prosecute in any court of competent jurisdiction, any person who creates, continues, contributes to, or suffers such nuisance to exist; (B) Regulate and prevent the emission of dense smoke, prohibit the careless or negligent emission of dense smoke from locomotive engines, declare each of such acts a nuisance, and prescribe and enforce regulations for the prev...

...Any municipal corporation may regulate the weighing and measuring of hay, wood, coal, and other articles exposed for sale, and provide for the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of weights, measures, implements, and appliances for measuring and weighing, which are imperfect or liable to indicate false or inaccurate weight or measure, or which do not conform to the standards established by law, and which are known, ...

...Any municipal corporation may provide for the inspection of spirits, oils, milk, breadstuffs, meats, fish, cattle, milk cows, sheep, hogs, goats, poultry, game, vegetables, and all food products.