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...Upon the entry of the order of the court approving the report of the board of appraisers of a conservancy district, the clerk of said court in which the same is entered shall transmit a certified copy of the decree, and of the appraisals as confirmed by the court, except those parts from which appeals have been perfected but not determined, to the secretary of the conservancy district. Upon the entry of the order of...

...After a certified copy of the entry of the court and of the appraisals as confirmed by the court, except those parts from which appeals have been perfected but not determined, is transmitted to the secretary of the conservancy district as provided by section 6101.37 of the Revised Code, the board of directors of the conservancy district may deposit with the court the amount of any confirmed appraisal of compensation ...

...The board of directors of a conservancy district may, at any time after the conservancy appraisal record is filed, when necessary to fulfill the objects for which the district was created, alter or add to the official plan by amendment. Such alterations or additions may be alterations in or additions to improvements previously provided for in the official plan or may consist of new works or improvements for the acco...

...No appeal under this chapter shall be permitted to interrupt or delay any action or the prosecution of any work under this chapter, except where the party appealing is entitled to a jury under the constitution of the state, and the jury trial has not been had, in which case only so much of the work shall be interrupted or delayed as would constitute a taking of or a damaging of the property of the appellant. The boa...

...If any lands in any conservancy district are not liable for assessment at the time of the execution of the work, but afterwards, during the period when the work is being paid for, become liable to assessment by reason of some change in condition or ownership, the lands then shall be appraised and assessed as other lands in the district receiving equal benefits.

...If any real property or public corporation within or without any conservancy district is benefited and for any reason the benefits were not appraised in the original proceedings or were not appraised to the extent of the benefits received, or if any person or public corporation makes use of or profit by the works of any district to a degree not compensated for in the original appraisal, or if the board of directors o...

...No fault in any notice or other proceedings, whether by reason of noncompliance with the requirements of this chapter or with any applicable constitutional requirements, or otherwise, shall affect the validity of any proceeding under this chapter, except to the extent to which it can be shown that the fault resulted in a material denial of justice to the property owner or public corporation complaining of the fault. ...

...nd other than proceeds derived from the levy of maintenance assessments under section 6101.53 of the Revised Code to provide financial support to a charitable trust or a social welfare trust, as defined in section 6101.47 of the Revised Code. Before levying any assessment to pay the cost of an improvement, the board of directors shall determine the amount expended and to be expended from the preliminary fund for su...

...In the event of the dissolution or disorganization of any conservancy district organized pursuant to this chapter, the board of directors of the district shall determine the amount of funds of the district not needed for the payment of the expenses and indebtedness of the district and shall, upon the dissolution or disorganization, forthwith distribute the funds among the various counties comprising the district in t...

... funds received by the district through levying of assessments, selling of bonds, or borrowing of money. If the district is not organized, the cost shall be collected from the petitioners or their bondspersons. Upon the organization of the district, the court shall make an order indicating a preliminary division of the preliminary expenses between the counties included in the district in approximately the proportions...

...ed, or which the board has authority to levy, under section 6101.45 of the Revised Code, which assessment shall be pledged for the repayment thereof if and when levied. If no preliminary assessment is levied or the proceeds of the assessment levied are found insufficient to pay the interest and retire the notes issued, the same may be paid from the improvement fund. At any time after the levy of a preliminary assessm...

...(A) As used in this section and section 6101.44 of the Revised Code: (1) "Charitable trust" means any entity that meets all of the following: (a) It is exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. (b) At least in part, it benefits a conservancy district that includes all or parts of more than sixteen counties. (c) At least in part, its purposes are consistent with...

...ctors of the conservancy district shall levy on all real property and on all public corporations, upon which benefits have been appraised, an assessment of the portion of the benefits that is found necessary by the board to pay the cost of the execution of the official plan, including superintendence of construction and administration, plus one-ninth of that total to be added for contingencies, but not to exceed in t...

...When the conservancy assessment record is placed on file in the office of the conservancy district, notice by publication shall be given to property owners and public corporations assessed that they may pay their assessments. Any owner of real property or public corporation assessed for the execution of the official plan under this chapter may pay the assessment to the treasurer of the conservancy district within thi...

... indebtedness of the district. (3) The levy of special assessments or other charges for the payment of the debt charges on the previously issued notes or bonds under this chapter, Chapter 5705. of the Revised Code, or other provisions of the Revised Code is not required. (H) The board in making the annual assessment levy shall take into account the maturing bonds and interest on all bonds, and shall make ample prov...

...A conservancy district or a subdistrict of it may issue revenue bonds for the purpose of paying all or part of the cost of acquiring or constructing any improvement that the district or subdistrict is authorized to acquire or construct, and the improvement may include equipment, land or interests in land, and facilities necessary or appropriate to the improvement. The bonds shall be secured only by a pledge of, and l...

...The treasurer of a conservancy district, at the time of taking office, shall execute to the district and deliver to the president of the board of directors of the district, a bond with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the board, conditioned that the treasurer shall account for and pay over as required by law, and as ordered by the board, all money received by the treasurer on the sale of bonds and note...

...Whenever the owner of any coupon bond issued pursuant to this chapter presents the bond to the treasurer of the conservancy district with a request for the conversion of the bond into a bond registered as to principal and interest, the treasurer shall cut off and cancel the coupons of the coupon bond presented, and shall stamp, print, or write upon the coupon bond, either upon the back or the face of it or in blanks ...

...y of September in each year thereafter, levy an assessment upon each tract or parcel of land and upon each public corporation within the district, subject to assessments under this chapter, to be known as a conservancy maintenance assessment. No assessment shall be made with respect to works and improvements acquired or constructed for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, industrial, and public use w...

...f making a more equitable basis for the levy of the maintenance assessment under section 6101.53 of the Revised Code, the clerk shall give notice of the filing and of a hearing of the petition by publication. Upon hearing of the petition, if the court finds there has been a material change in the values of property in the district, or that additional benefits are derived from the works and improvements of the distr...

...t has been levied determine, order, and levy the annual levy, which shall include all assessments, or installments of assessments, together with interest, levied under this chapter, which become due in the ensuing year. The annual levy shall be due and be collected at the same time that state and county taxes are due and collected. After bonds have been sold, in the determination of an annual levy, the rate of intere...

...In anticipation of the collection of assessments for any year levied under sections 6101.53 and 6101.55 of the Revised Code, the board of directors of a conservancy district may borrow money and issue notes therefor; but the aggregate of such loans made in any year shall not exceed one half of the total amount estimated by the county auditors of the several counties in the district to be received from the collection ...

...Each county treasurer charged with collection of assessments shall make due report to the county auditor of the sums collected by the treasurer, and the auditor shall issue a warrant payable to the treasurer of the conservancy district for all sums of money in the hands of the county treasurer, according to the report. The auditor, as soon as the records for collection are closed by the county treasurer according to ...

...Before receiving the assessment record provided for by section 6101.55 of the Revised Code, the county treasurer of each county in which lands or other property of the conservancy district are located shall execute to the district and deliver to the board of directors of the district a bond with a surety company authorized to conduct a surety business in this state as surety, which bond shall be paid for by the distr...

...All conservancy district assessments provided for in this chapter, together with all penalties and interest for default in payment of the assessments, and all costs in collecting the assessments, including a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court and taxed as costs in the action brought to enforce payment, from the date of filing the certificate described in this section in the office of the county audit...