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...e care, supervision, and control of the public highways, streets, avenues, alleys, sidewalks, public grounds, bridges, aqueducts, and viaducts within the municipal corporation. The liability or immunity from liability of a municipal corporation for injury, death, or loss to person or property allegedly caused by a failure to perform the responsibilities imposed by this section shall be determined pursuant to division...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, in addition to the powers conferred by sections 729.01 to 729.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may require, by ordinance, by the imposition of suitable penalties or otherwise, that the owners and occupants of abutting lots and lands shall keep the sidewalks, curbs, and gutters in repair and free from snow or any nuisance.

...be installed that comes in physical contact, or is likely to come in physical contact, with overhead wiring. A municipal corporation may require the issuance of a permit for installation of flagpoles but shall not charge the property owner a permit fee or an inspection fee in excess of one dollar per installation.

... narrow, or widen any street, alley, or public highway within the limits of the municipal corporation. The legislative authority shall provide for such improvement by ordinance, which shall briefly and in general terms describe the part of the street, alley, or public highway to be abandoned by reason of such change, and the property to be appropriated for such purposes. The proceeding for such appropriation shall be...

...A street or alley, dedicated to public use by the proprietor of ground in any municipal corporation, shall not be a public street or alley, or under the care or control of the legislative authority of such municipal corporation, unless the dedication is accepted and confirmed by an ordinance specially passed for such purpose.

...reof shall be recorded in the official records of the county recorder.

...When any street, alley, or public highway, or a portion thereof, is vacated or narrowed by a municipality pursuant to the provisions of any section of Chapter 723. of the Revised Code, and the relocation of any conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles, sewer lines, steam lines, pipelines, gas and water lines, tracks, or other equipment or appliances of any railroad or public utility, whether owned privately or by any g...

...ereof shall be recorded in the official records of the county recorder.

...Notice of the intention of the legislative authority of a municipal corporation to vacate any street, alley, avenue, or part thereof shall be given as provided in section 723.07 of the Revised Code, except when written consent to such vacation is filed with the legislative authority by the owners of the property abutting the part of the street or alley proposed to be vacated, in which case such notice shall not be re...

...e given by posting the notice in three public places therein six weeks preceding such action. Action thereon shall take place within three months after the completion of the notice.

...et or alley which has been dedicated to public use by the proprietor thereof, shall, to the extent to which it is vacated or narrowed, operate as a revocation of the acceptance thereof by the legislative authority, but the right of way and easement therein of any lot owner shall not be impaired by such order.

...The court of common pleas may, upon petition filed in such court by any person owning a lot in a municipal corporation, for the establishment or vacation of a street or alley in the immediate vicinity of such lot, upon hearing, and upon being satisfied that it will conduce to the general interests of such municipal corporation, declare such street or alley established or vacated, but this method shall be in addition ...

...ervice of summons and shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which such street or alley is located, for four consecutive weeks, on the same day of the week. The cause may be heard and determined at any time after the expiration of ten days from the date of last publication.

...If a person, other than a petitioner under section 723.09 of the Revised Code, owning a lot in the immediate vicinity of a street or alley prayed to be vacated or established, claims that he will sustain damage thereby, the court of common pleas may proceed to hear proof in reference thereto and may render judgment against the petitioners for such damages as it thinks just, which damages shall be assessed ratably aga...

...A street or alley declared vacated under section 723.09 of the Revised Code, shall not be closed or obstructed until the damages assessed under section 723.11 of the Revised Code have been fully paid to the persons entitled to them.

...al corporation and acquired or used for public highways, streets, avenues, sidewalks, public grounds, bridges, aqueducts, and viaducts, or in connection with any such purposes or as incidental to the acquisition of land for any of such purposes, provided that it shall determine, and enter its determination in the minutes of its proceedings, that the property or interest so to be conveyed or be permitted to be used is...

...When the legislative authority of a municipal corporation has determined to issue bonds for the purpose of constructing or repairing any viaduct over any street, stream, railway tracks, or other place where an overhead roadway or footway is deemed necessary as provided by law, or when such legislative authority has determined to purchase or condemn, or when a municipal corporation has purchased or condemned, land for...

...repair of public roads or streets. Contracts for such improvements shall be made in the same manner as other contracts are required to be made. Vouchers to pay such contracts or any portion of the cost of such improvements shall be drawn by such board or officer upon the auditor or clerk of the municipal corporation, who shall keep an accurate account of moneys so expended. The funds created by the sale of bonds for...

...When the voters of a municipal corporation determine to issue bonds for the construction or repair of viaducts, or for the purchase or condemnation of the land necessary therefor, the authority to make the improvement is hereby conferred and the money arising from the sale of the bonds shall be expended in the same manner as provided in section 723.14 of the Revised Code.

...he tax duplicate, a tenant giving satisfactory guaranty that the assessment against the property signed for will be paid, or the board of education having the control of any school property.

...t of the streets, avenues, squares, and public places within the municipal corporation in the manner provided by sections 723.18 to 723.20, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...The ordinance of a municipal corporation under section 723.17 of the Revised Code, to provide for sprinkling, shall not become operative unless it has received the affirmative votes of two thirds of the members elected to the legislative authority of such municipal corporation.

...to provide for sprinkling, or make contracts for all or any part thereof for periods not exceeding five years.

...To provide a fund to pay the cost of the sprinkling under sections 723.17 to 723.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board or officer having charge of the repair of streets in the municipal corporation, each year, may estimate the cost thereof and cause a tax to be levied for such purpose upon the general tax duplicate of the municipal corporation, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as other le...

...s right of way on any street, alley, or public highway, or any portion thereof lying within the limits of the municipal corporation.