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..., and maintenance of the Ohio turnpike system by the Ohio turnpike and infrastructure commission constitute the performance of essential governmental functions, the commission, except as provided in division (D) of section 5537.05 of the Revised Code, shall not be required to pay any state or local taxes or assessments upon any turnpike project or infrastructure project funded by it, or upon revenues or any pr...

...mmission as a part of the Ohio turnpike system and as a toll road, and all revenues received by the commission relating to that project shall be applied as provided in division (B) of this section. (B) Subject to the bond proceedings for bonds relating to any turnpike project or infrastructure project, tolls relating to a turnpike project as referred to in division (A) of this section shall be so fixed and ad...

... shall be open to the inspection of the public at all reasonable times.

...This chapter, being necessary for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.

...r of the staff of any public officer or employee listed in this section, the president of the United States, or any federal officer or employee; (2) Legislation pending in this state or any other state, a subdivision of this state or any other state, or the federal government, including the executive approval or veto of any such pending legislation. (B) This section shall not be interpreted to prohibit the co...

...ase or expansion; (2) Commence holding public hearings on the proposed increase in the toll rate structure or the proposed action. If the commission is proposing an increase in the toll rate structure that is applicable to vehicles operating on a turnpike project, it shall hold not less than three public hearings in three geographically diverse locations in this state that are in the immediate vicinity of the ...

...The Ohio turnpike and infrastructure commission, the director of transportation or the director's designee, and another person designated by the governor shall establish a procedure whereby a political subdivision or other government agency or agencies may submit a written application to the commission, requesting the commission to construct and operate a turnpike project within the boundaries of the subdivision, age...

... the cost of any turnpike project, the Ohio turnpike and infrastructure commission may issue bonds and bond anticipation notes as permitted by this chapter, and may accept moneys from any source to pay the cost of any portion of the turnpike project, including, but not limited to, the federal government, any department or agency of this state, and any political subdivision or other government agency. Each such...

...g information between other private and public toll transportation facilities; (7) For any use not otherwise identified in divisions (C)(1) to (6) of this section that is in response to a request for personal information, if the individual whose personal information is requested completes and submits to the commission a form prescribed by the commission by rule giving express consent to such disclosure; (8) For u...

...) Not later than December 31, 2009, the Ohio turnpike and infrastructure commission shall establish a program for the placement of business logos for identification purposes on directional signs within the turnpike right-of-way. (B)(1) The commission shall establish, and may revise at any time, a fee for participation in the business logo sign program. All direct and indirect costs of the business logo sign pr...

...(A) The Ohio turnpike commission shall display the following flags at each service facility that is along the turnpike: (1) The flag of the United States; (2) The flag of Ohio; (3) The flag that depicts the profile of a prisoner of war against the background of a prisoner of war camp watchtower, commonly known as the POW/MIA flag. (B) In purchasing flags to comply with division (A) of this section, the turnpike c...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, whoever violates division (C) of section 5537.16 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on each subsequent offense such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B)(1) Whoever violates division (C) of section 5537.16 of the Revised Code when the violation is a civil violation for ...

...eated in each county within the state a system of county highways, which system shall be selected and determined in the following manner: The board of township trustees shall, upon request and under the direction of the board of county commissioners of the county within which such township is located and upon such forms as are prescribed by the board of county commissioners, make a report to the board of county comm...

... shall select and designate a connected system of county highways, of the mileage it deems proper and expedient, connecting with the intercounty and state highways of the county all of the villages and centers of rural population within the county. The system of highways, when selected and designated by the board of county commissioners, shall be known as the system of county highways of the county, and all of th...

...of any section of highway in the county system. If the board of county commissioners approves such application, it shall direct the county engineer to make the necessary plans for the construction, reconstruction, or improvement of such section of highway, together with an estimate of the cost thereof. The engineer shall promptly prepare such plans and estimates and file them with the board of county commissioners.

...(A) The board of county commissioners of any county, on its own motion or on petition by a person owning a lot in the unincorporated area of said county praying that the name of a county or township road in the immediate vicinity of such lot be changed, upon hearing, and upon being satisfied that there is good cause for such a change of name, that it will not be detrimental to the general interest, and that it should...

...gular meetings, shall hold at least two public hearings to allow for public comment on the proposed resolution. The board shall publicize the times and places of the hearings by causing a notice to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the road is located at least ten days prior to the date of the first meeting. If the county maintains a web site on the internet, the same notice al...

... the Revised Code; (5) Energy storage system. (O) "Energy conversion equipment" means tangible personal property connected to a wind turbine tower, connected to and behind solar radiation collector areas and designed to convert the radiant energy of the sun into electricity or heat, or connected to any other property used to generate or store and release electricity from an energy resource, through which electric...

...As used in this chapter, "public utility," "electric company," "natural gas company," "pipe-line company," "water-works company," "water transportation company," or "heating company" does not include any of the following: (A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, any person that is engaged in some other primary business to which the supplying of electricity, heat, natural gas, water, water trans...

...on 5727.31 of the Revised Code for each public utility activity subject to the excise tax imposed by section 5727.30 of the Revised Code. The tax commissioner shall exclude from the assessment issued by the tax commissioner on or before the first Monday in November 2002, and thereafter, the taxable gross receipts directly attributable to the activity of an electric company or a rural electric company. In addition, th...

...(A) A person that is engaged in some other primary business to which the supplying of electricity to others is incidental shall file a report under section 5727.08 of the Revised Code as an electric company but shall only report therein as taxable property the amounts required in divisions (B) and (C) of this section. All time limits and other procedural requirements of this chapter for the reporting and assessment o...

...sions of this chapter do not exempt any public utility or interexchange telecommunications company from the assessment and taxation of its property in the manner provided by law.

...Sections 5727.01 to 5727.61 of the Revised Code do not apply to either of the following: (A) Nonprofit corporations as defined in division (C) of section 1702.01 of the Revised Code that are engaged exclusively in the treatment, distribution, and sale of water to consumers; (B) Municipal corporations within this state.

...g constitutes the taxable property of a public utility, interexchange telecommunications company, or public utility property lessor that shall be assessed by the tax commissioner: (1) For tax years before tax year 2006: (a) In the case of a railroad company, all real property and tangible personal property owned or operated by the railroad company in this state on the thirty-first day of December of the prec...

... the first day of March, annually, each public utility and interexchange telecommunications company, and, for tax years 2009 and thereafter, each public utility property lessor, shall file a report with the tax commissioner, on a form prescribed by the tax commissioner. The report shall include such information as the tax commissioner requires to enable the tax commissioner to make any assessment or apportionment re...