Ohio Revised Code Search

...If the owner or possessor of any lot or land in any municipal corporation digs, or causes to be dug, any cellar, pit, vault, or excavation, to a greater depth than nine feet below the curb of the street or streets on which such lot or land abuts, or, if there is no curb, below the established grade of the street or streets on which such lot or land abuts, or, if there is no curb or established grade, below the surfac...

...The owner or possessor of any lot or land in any municipal corporation may dig, or cause to be dug, any cellar, pit, or excavation, to the full depth of the foundation wall of any building upon adjoining lots, or to the full depth of nine feet below the established grade of the street or streets on which such lot abuts, without reference to the depth of adjoining foundation walls, without incurring the liability pres...

...Any municipal corporation, when it is necessary in the construction and protection of wells, pumps, cisterns, aqueducts, water pipes, dams, reservoirs, reservoir sites, sewers, drains, sewage disposal or water purification plants, and water works, for supplying water to itself and its inhabitants or disposing of sewage, may relocate, straighten, change, or cross a road or stream, but shall, without unnecessary delay,...

...rfacing, or repair of a street or other public way, the director of public service in a city, or the legislative authority in a village, shall make an estimate of the cost of such work using the force account project assessment form developed by the auditor of state under section 117.16 of the Revised Code. In municipal corporations having an engineer, or an officer having a different title but the duties and functio...

...icipal corporation, or other officer or employee of the municipal corporation in charge of such work, a complete and accurate account, in detail, of the cost of doing the work. The account shall include labor, materials, freight, fuel, hauling, overhead expense, workers' compensation premiums, and all other items of cost and expense, including a reasonable allowance for the use of all tools and equipment used on or i...

...except for bridges on the state highway system and the county highway system. This section does not prohibit the municipality from inspecting any bridge within its limits. Such inspection shall be made by a professional engineer or other qualified person under the supervision of a professional engineer on a schedule established by the director of transportation, but at least once every twenty-four months, or more...

...A municipality shall not contract for or undertake construction or repair of a bridge, for which the cost of such work exceeds fifty thousand dollars, unless the plans are prepared or approved by a professional engineer qualified in the designing of bridges.

... facilities. (J) "Urban renewal debt retirement fund" means a fund, created pursuant to section 725.03 of the Revised Code by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation when authorizing a single issue or a series of urban renewal bonds, to be used for payment of the principal of and interest and redemption premium on such urban renewal bonds, trustee's fees, and costs and expenses of providing credit fac...

... development agreement declared to be a public purpose in the development agreement shall be exempt from real property taxation by all political subdivisions and taxing districts. Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the portion of the assessed valuation of improvements declared to be a public purpose and exempted from taxation shall not exceed seventy-five per cent of the assessed valuation ...

...The municipal corporation shall not take any formal action to enter into a development agreement that exempts improvements to real property from taxation in the manner set forth in section 725.02 of the Revised Code until section 5709.83 of the Revised Code has been complied with.

...payment of any loans from the state for public infrastructure capital improvements issued pursuant to Chapter 164. of the Revised Code that were used by the municipal corporation for any urban renewal projects. That fund shall be used to repay such loans. The legislative authority may authorize any urban renewal debt retirement fund to be used for both purposes provided for in this section.

...l be deposited in an urban renewal debt retirement fund established pursuant to section 725.03 of the Revised Code. If the municipal corporation owns the improvements, it may require the lessee of the improvements to make the semiannual urban renewal service payments required under this section. The legislative authority of the municipal corporation may secure the urban renewal service payments by a lien on the imp...

...s pursuant to Article VIII, Section 13, Ohio Constitution, to create and preserve jobs and employment opportunities and to improve the economic welfare of the people of the municipal corporation, which pledge and are payable from revenues as defined in division (D) of section 725.01 of the Revised Code and from any moneys selected by the municipal corporation that are not moneys raised by taxation. For bonds issued ...

...Urban renewal bonds issued under section 725.05 of the Revised Code shall be in such form and shall be sold in such manner and upon such terms and price as determined by ordinance of the municipal corporation issuing such bonds to be in the best interest of such municipal corporation.

... to be expedient, including funding and retirement and advance refunding with or without payment or redemption prior to maturity, may refund any urban renewal bonds by the issuance of urban renewal refunding bonds, and issue bonds partly to refund bonds then outstanding and partly for any other authorized purpose for urban renewal bonds. The refunding bonds may be issued in amounts sufficient for the payment of the p...

...The proceeds of each issue of urban renewal bonds issued pursuant to sections 725.01 to 725.11 of the Revised Code shall be used for the urban renewal project or projects or any parts thereof designated in the ordinance authorizing such issue and the necessary expenses of preparing, printing, and selling said bonds, legal services, and transfer expense, or to advance the payment of interest on such bonds during the f...

...(A) Urban renewal bonds issued pursuant to divisions (A) and (C) of section 725.05 of the Revised Code do not constitute a debt, or a pledge of the faith and credit of the issuing municipal corporation. All such urban renewal bonds described in this division shall contain on the face thereof a statement to the effect that the bonds, as to both principal and interest, are not a general obligation of the issuing munic...

...ficers having charge of sinking or bond retirement funds of municipal corporations and other subdivisions of this state, and of domestic insurance companies.

...s deposited into the urban renewal debt retirement fund established for such bonds pursuant to section 725.03 of the Revised Code and may provide for the holding in trust by the trustee to the extent provided for in the ordinance authorizing such bonds, of all such revenues and moneys. Any such trust agreement, or any ordinance providing for the issuance of such bonds, may contain such provisions for protecting and ...

...ach city there shall be a department of public service which shall be administered by a director of public service. The director shall be appointed by the mayor and need not be a resident of the city at the time of his appointment but shall become a resident thereof within six months after his appointment unless such residence requirement is waived by ordinance. He shall make rules and regulations for the administr...

...The director of public service shall manage and supervise all public works and undertakings of the city, except as otherwise provided by law. The director shall supervise the improvement and repair of streets, avenues, alleys, lands, lanes, squares, wharves, docks, landings, market houses, bridges, viaducts, aqueducts, sidewalks, playgrounds sewers, drains, ditches, culverts, ship channels, streams, and watercourses...

...ment and operation of municipally owned public utilities conferred upon the director of public service by sections 735.02 and 743.03 of the Revised Code shall be vested in a board composed of three members. The mayor, with the consent of the legislative authority, shall appoint one member for a term of two years, one for a term of four years, and one for a term of six years. At the expiration of each term of office a...

...The director of public service may establish such subdepartment as is necessary and determine the number of superintendents, deputies, inspectors, engineers, harbor masters, clerks, laborers, and other persons necessary for the execution of the work and the performance of the duties of this subdepartment.

...The director of public service may make any contract, purchase supplies or material, or provide labor for any work under the supervision of the department of public service involving not more than the amount specified in section 9.17 of the Revised Code. When an expenditure within the department, other than the compensation of persons employed in the department, exceeds the amount specified in section 9.17 of the Rev...

...on and maintenance of the department of public service, including all municipally owned utilities, the department of public safety, or any other department, division, commission, bureau, or board of the municipality, the legislative authority of the municipality may by a two-thirds vote of all the members elected thereto, authorize the director of public service, director of public safety, city manager, board of publ...