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...The area of jurisdiction of a port authority created in accordance with section 4582.02 of the Revised Code shall include all of the territory of the political subdivision or subdivisions creating it, provided that in no case other than as may result from the determination of a port authority under division (C) of section 4582.201 of the Revised Code to change the provisions of Chapter 4582. of the Revised Code that ...

...(A) A port authority created in accordance with section 4582.02 of the Revised Code may: (1) Acquire, construct, furnish, equip, maintain, repair, sell, exchange, lease to or from, lease with an option to purchase, convey other interests in, or operate real or personal property, or any combination thereof, related to, useful for, or in furtherance of any authorized purpose, and make charges for the use of any port ...

...(A) The board of directors of a port authority shall prepare or cause to be prepared a plan for any future development, construction, and improvement of the maritime facilities of the port authority, including such maps, profiles, and other data and descriptions as may be necessary to set forth the location and character of the work to be undertaken by the port authority and a then-current good faith es...

...The board of directors, from time to time after the adoption of an official plan for the maritime facilities of the port authority, shall have the power to modify, amend, or extend the plan; provided, that prior to the making of any modification, amendment or extension of the plan, the board shall cause notice by publication to be given and shall conduct a hearing, all as provided in section 4582.07 of the...

...The plan and any modification, amendment or extension of the plan, when adopted by the board of directors after notice and hearing shall be final and conclusive and its validity shall be conclusively presumed.

...(A) Financial and proprietary information, including trade secrets, submitted by or on behalf of an employer to a port authority or to a nonprofit corporation engaged by contract to provide economic development services for a port authority, in connection with the relocation, location, expansion, improvement, or preservation of the business of that employer is not a public record subject to section 149.43 of the Revi...

...The port authority shall foster and encourage the participation of private enterprise in the development of port authority facilities to the fullest extent it considers practicable in the interest of limiting the necessity of construction and operation of those facilities by the port authority.

...Nothing contained in sections 4582.01 to 4582.16 of the Revised Code shall: (A) Impair the provisions of law or ordinance directing the payment of revenues derived from public property into sinking funds or dedicating those revenues to specific purposes; (B) Impair the powers of any county, township, or municipal corporation to develop or improve port and terminal facilities except as restricted by section 4582.16 ...

...(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (E) of section 307.671 of the Revised Code, division (A) of this section does not apply to a port authority educational and cultural facility acquired, constructed, and equipped pursuant to a cooperative agreement entered into under section 307.671 of the Revised Code. (2) Except as provided in division (C) of this section or except when the port authority elects to co...

...The legislative authority of any municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision or taxing district, may convey or lease to, or exchange with, any port authority or any port authority may convey or lease to, or exchange with, a municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision or taxing district, without competitive bidding and on mutuall...

...The board of directors of a port authority created in accordance with section 4582.02 of the Revised Code shall annually prepare a budget for the port authority. Rents and charges received by the port authority shall be used for the general expenses of the port authority and to pay interest, amortization, and retirement charges on money borrowed. If there remains, at the end of any calendar year, any surplus of such...

...Upon the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the qualified electors in a primary or general election, within the port authority voting at an election held for the purpose of authorizing same, the port authority may levy upon the property within its jurisdiction a tax, for all purposes including bond debt charges, not in excess of one mill annually on the total value of all property as listed and assessed for t...

...Before receiving any moneys, the secretary of a port authority created in accordance with section 4582.02 of the Revised Code shall furnish bond in such amount as shall be determined by the port authority, with sureties satisfactory to it, and all funds coming into the hands of said secretary shall be deposited by him to the account of the port authority in one or more such depositories as shall be qualified to recei...

...No municipal corporation or county, respectively, creating or participating in the creation of a port authority in accordance with section 4582.02 of the Revised Code shall during the time said port authority is in existence have the right to exercise the rights and powers as provided in sections 721.04 to 721.11, inclusive, or section 307.65 of the Revised Code, respectively.

...(A) A port authority created in accordance with section 4582.02 of the Revised Code may enter into such contracts or other arrangements with the United States government, or any department thereof, with persons, railroads, or other corporations, with public corporations, with public utilities, and with the state government of this or other states, with governments of foreign countries, with counties, municipalities, ...

...A port authority may charge, alter, and collect rentals or other charges for the use or services of any port authority facility and contract in the manner provided by this section with one or more persons, one or more governmental agencies, or any combination thereof, desiring the use or services of the facility, and fix the terms, conditions, rentals, or other charges for the use or services. If the services a...

...Bonds of a port authority issued pursuant to sections 4582.01 to 4582.17 of the Revised Code are lawful investments of banks and trust companies with approval of the superintendent of banks, of savings and loan associations, of the bond retirement funds or the sinking funds of municipal corporations, boards of education, port authorities, and counties, of the administrator of workers' compensation, of the retirement ...

...Whenever any action is proposed with respect to the vacation, dedication, narrowing, or widening of any street, avenue, alley, road, or highway, which is located within one-half mile of any navigable waters within the jurisdiction of a port authority, created in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4582. of the Revised Code, notice of the pendency of any such proceeding shall be given to such port authority. Suc...

...A port authority shall be exempt from and shall not be required to pay any taxes on property, both real and personal, or any combination thereof, belonging to any port authority that is used exclusively for any authorized purpose. This exemption shall not apply to any property occupied and used during a tax year by a person who is a lessee of the property as of the tax lien date for that tax year under a written leas...

...(A) Sections 4582.01 to 4582.20 of the Revised Code apply exclusively to a port authority in existence on July 9, 1982, unless the subdivision or subdivisions that created the port authority act pursuant to division (B) of this section. (B) The subdivision or subdivisions that created a port authority in existence on July 9, 1982, may adopt a resolution or ordinance to permit the port authority to operate under sect...

...Sections 4582.21 to 4582.59 of the Revised Code apply exclusively to a port authority created after July 9, 1982, and to a port authority in existence on July 9, 1982, if the subdivision or subdivisions that created the port authority adopt a resolution or ordinance permitted under division (B) of section 4582.201 of the Revised Code but have not adopted a resolution or ordinance under division (C) of that section to...

...As used in sections 4582.22 to 4582.59 of the Revised Code: (A) "Port authority" means a body corporate and politic created pursuant to the authority of section 4582.22 of the Revised Code. (B) "Authorized purposes" or "purpose" means either of the following: (1) Activities that enhance, foster, aid, provide, or promote transportation, economic development, housing, recreation, education, governmental operations, ...

...(A) Any municipal corporation, township, or county not included in a port authority in existence on December 16, 1964, may create, or any combination of a municipal corporation, municipal corporations, township, townships, county, or counties, no one of which has been included in a port authority in existence on December 16, 1964, may create, and any of the foregoing together with any other political subdivision or s...

...The board of directors of a port authority created under section 4582.22 of the Revised Code may contract with the prosecuting attorney of a county, as provided in section 309.09 of the Revised Code, to obtain legal services from the prosecuting attorney.

...(A) Any municipal corporation, township, county, or other political subdivision creating or participating in the creation of a port authority in accordance with section 4582.22 of the Revised Code may appropriate and expend public funds to finance or subsidize the operation and authorized purposes of the port authority. (B) Subject to making due provisions for payment and performance of its obligations, a port autho...