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...When a municipal court consists of more than one judge: (A) The several municipal judges may sit separately or otherwise, as the presiding judge directs, and shall meet at least once each month, and at such other times as are determined, for consideration of the business of the court. (B) Any order made by the presiding judge under the special powers conferred upon him may be vacated, amended, or modified by th...

...A municipal court shall have original jurisdiction only in those cases in which the amount claimed by any party, or the appraised value of the personal property sought to be recovered, does not exceed fifteen thousand dollars, except that this limit does not apply to the housing division or environmental division of a municipal court. Judgment may be rendered in excess of the jurisdictional amount, when the excess c...

...on to all other jurisdictions granted a municipal court in this chapter, except as provided in division (C) of this section, the Tiffin-Fostoria municipal court has concurrent jurisdiction with the Seneca county court of common pleas in all criminal actions or proceedings to which both of the following apply: (1) The court finds that the offender's addiction to a drug of abuse was the primary factor leading to the ...

...The records of a municipal court may be proved by a transcript certified by the clerk of the municipal court under its official seal, which seal shall consist of the coat of arms of the state within a circle one and one-fourth inches in diameter, and shall be surrounded by the name of the municipal court.

... to division (E) of this section, each municipal court, by rule, may order the destruction or other disposition of the files of cases that have been finally disposed of by the court for at least five years as follows: (1) If a case has been finally disposed of for at least five years, but less than fifteen years prior to the adoption of the rule of court for destruction or other disposition of the files, the ...

...(A) The mayor of a municipal corporation who conducts a mayor's court shall register annually with the supreme court as provided in this division. The mayor shall file the registration on a form prescribed by the supreme court and not later than the fifteenth day of January in any year in which the mayor conducts a mayor's court or at least fifteen days before the mayor first conducts a mayor's court in a particular ...

...ases of violations of ordinances of the municipal corporation. In serving such writs and process and taxing costs on them, the chief of police, other police officer, or marshal shall be governed by the laws pertaining to constables. The fees of the mayor are the same as those allowed in the municipal or county court within whose jurisdiction the municipal corporation is located. There shall be allowed and taxed for s...

... forms a part of the boundary line of a municipal corporation, such municipal corporation has jurisdiction over the entire width of the right of way of the line of such railroad for the punishment of the violation of the ordinances of such municipal corporation.

...which the territorial jurisdiction of a municipal court or municipal courts is not coextensive with the boundaries of the county, a court to be known as the county court. The county court shall have jurisdiction throughout a county court district that shall consist of all territory within the county not subject to the territorial jurisdiction of any municipal court. County courts are courts of record for all purpose...

... per diem compensation of a judge of a municipal court compensated as described in division (A)(5) of section 141.04 of the Revised Code, less the per diem compensation of the assigned judge, each calculated on the basis of two hundred fifty working days per year; (3) If the assigned judge is a retired judge of a municipal or county court or a court of common pleas, the established per diem compensation for a...

...rest-bearing obligations of any county, municipal corporation, school district, or other legally constituted political taxing subdivision within the state, provided that the county, municipal corporation, school district, or other subdivision has not defaulted in the payment of the interest on any of its bonds or interest-bearing obligations, for more than one hundred twenty days during the ten years immediately prec...

...f a county court, a mayor, a judge of a municipal court, or a judge of a court of common pleas other than a juvenile court, the judge of the county court, mayor, judge of the municipal court, or judge of the court of common pleas shall transfer the case to the juvenile court, and, upon the transfer, the proceedings shall be in accordance with this chapter. Upon the transfer, all further proceedings under the charge, ...

...nto an agreement with the judges of any municipal court located in such county for the participation by such municipal judges in the services made available by the employment of such psychiatrists, psychologists, or other examiners or investigators upon such terms as are mutually agreed upon.

...out and shown on the recorded plat of a municipal corporation, has not been opened to the public use and occupancy of the citizens thereof, or other persons, and has been enclosed with a fence by the owners of the inlots, lots, or outlots lying on, adjacent to, or along such street or alley, or part thereof, and has remained in the open, uninterrupted use, adverse possession, and occupancy of such owners for the peri...

...ularly serves persons located outside a municipal corporation nor a regional water and sewer district organized under Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code is liable in damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property that allegedly arises from the failure of a hydrant controlled by the corporation or district to provide a sufficient quantity of water or sufficient water pressure to adequately s...

...s, and the county or, if the court is a municipal court that is not a county-operated municipal court, the municipal corporation in which the court is located shall pay the interpreter's fees. (D) As used in this section, " developmental disability" has the same meaning as in section 5123.01 of the Revised Code.

...nstitution or in a county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse, the court, if practicable, may hold the hearing by telephone or, in the alternative, at the institution, jail, or workhouse in which the party or counsel is confined. (3) The amount of an award made pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section that represents reasonable attorney's fees shall not exceed, an...

..., and the county or, if the court is a municipal court that is not a county-operated municipal court, the municipal corporation in which the court is located shall pay the interpreter's fees. This section shall not apply if, by law, an interpreter is otherwise provided.

...al law of the state involving a felony, municipal police officers shall be allowed the same fees for attendance as are allowed by section 2335.06 of the Revised Code. Such fees shall be taxed in the bill of costs and deposited, by municipal police officers, with the treasurer of the municipal corporation, to the credit of the general fund.

...ion 4511.19 of the Revised Code, of any municipal ordinance prohibiting the operation of a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or a combination of them, or of any municipal ordinance prohibiting the operation of a vehicle with a prohibited concentration of alcohol, a controlled substance, or a metabolite of a controlled substance in the whole blood, blood serum or plasma, breath, or urine; ...

...ny other applicable provision of law, a municipal court shall tax as costs or otherwise require the payment of fees for the following services or as compensation for the following persons: (A) The fees and costs provided for in section 1901.26 of the Revised Code; (B) Additional fees to computerize the court, make available computerized legal research services, and computerize the office of the clerk of the ...

...1 of the Revised Code, a violation of a municipal ordinance that is substantially similar to one of those sections, or a sexually oriented offense and if the person, at the time of the alleged violation, was subject to the terms of any order issued pursuant to section 2903.213, 2933.08, or 2945.04 of the Revised Code or previously had been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of section 2903.21, 2903.211, 29...

... highway patrol retirement system, or a municipal retirement system of a municipal corporation of this state. (2) "Government deferred compensation program" means such a program offered by the public employees retirement board; a municipal corporation; or a government unit, as defined in section 148.06 of the Revised Code. (3) "Deferred compensation program participant" means a "participating employee" or "contin...

...e, a violation of an existing or former municipal ordinance or law of this or any other state or the United States that is substantially similar to domestic violence, a violation of section 2903.14, 2909.06, 2909.07, 2911.12, 2911.211, or 2919.22 of the Revised Code if the victim of the violation was a family or household member at the time of the violation, a violation of an existing or former municipal ordinance or...

...rder the defendant to pay to the state, municipal, or county law enforcement agencies that handled the investigation and litigation the costs of investigation and litigation that reasonably are incurred and that are not ordered to be paid pursuant to division (B)(2) of section 2923.32 of the Revised Code or division (H) of this section. (G) Upon application, based on the evidence presented in the case by the plainti...

...After the board of county commissioners decides to proceed with the improvement, it shall do so in accordance with sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code. No contract for any improvement shall be awarded at a price more than twenty per cent in excess of the estimated cost.

...In addition to the estimates provided for by section 153.13 of the Revised Code, the county engineer may, under such conditions as he prescribes, allow and pay to a contractor a sum not exceeding ninety per cent of the value of material delivered by such contractor, and safely stored at a railroad station or siding or other point in the vicinity of the work. When such estimate is allowed, the material on which it is ...

...Each contract let under section 5555.61 of the Revised Code, shall contain a provision to the effect that if such contract is not completed within the time therein fixed, the county engineer shall, after the expiration of the time fixed for the completion of such contract, keep an accurate account of all expenditures for inspection, supervision, and all other similar engineering services in connection with the improv...

...If, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, the contractor has not commenced his work within a reasonable time, does not carry such work forward with reasonable progress, is improperly performing his work, or has abandoned or failed to complete a contract entered into, the board shall make a finding to that effect, enter such finding on its journal, and so notify the contractor in writing, and the right ...

...(A) In case of an unforeseen contingency not contemplated by a contract, allowances for extra work may be made by a board of county commissioners, but the board must first enter into a new contract in writing for the extra work. In all cases in which the amount of the original contract price is less than twenty-five thousand dollars for any particular line item listed in the new contract and the overall total estimat...

...When the board of county commissioners constructs, reconstructs, widens, resurfaces, repairs, or improves a road by force account, and the estimated cost of the work, as defined in section 5543.19 of the Revised Code, exceeds three thousand dollars per mile, such board shall cause to be kept by the county engineer a complete and accurate account in detail of the cost of doing such work. Such account shall include lab...

...When it is desired to construct, improve, or repair a road on or along the line between this state and an adjoining state, the board of county commissioners of any county of this state may join with the proper authorities of any adjoining state, or subdivision thereof, in such construction or improvement. Each party to such agreement shall pay such proportion of the costs of said improvement as is agreed upon by the ...

...The proportion of the cost and expense of a road improvement on or along the line between this state and an adjoining state to be paid by any county in this state may be assessed or levied upon the property of this state by the board of county commissioners of such county in any of the ways provided in sections 5555.01 to 5555.72 of the Revised Code, in the case of an improvement wholly within this state. Such board ...

...In exercising the powers enumerated and granted in sections 5555.81 and 5555.82 of the Revised Code, joint boards of county commissioners shall be governed and act in accordance with sections 5555.01 to 5555.72, inclusive, of the Revised Code, in so far as such sections are applicable.

...After the annual estimate for the county has been filed with the board of county commissioners by the county engineer, and the board has made such changes and modifications in the estimate as it deems proper, the board shall then make its levy, for the purposes set forth in the estimate, upon all taxable property of the county, not exceeding in the aggregate two mills upon each dollar of the taxable property of said ...

...The board of county commissioners shall provide annually by taxation an adequate fund for the maintenance and repair of improved county highways. Such fund shall be provided by levies made under sections 5555.48, 5555.49, and 5555.91 of the Revised Code and sections amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. The maintenance and repair fund shall not be less than one hundred dollars for each mile of improved county ...

...Whenever the board of county commissioners or the board of township trustees may levy on the general duplicate of the county or of any township therein any portion of the cost and expense of the construction or improvement of any public road, and such levy is, in pursuance of such authority, made upon property already assessed for payment of the total cost and expenses of construction of a public road, and such asses...

...The board of county commissioners shall repair all substantial damage caused to county or township roads by the transportation of materials or equipment over such roads for use in constructing or repairing any road by such board. Such repairs shall be made immediately upon the completion of the work for which such materials and equipment were transported, or as soon thereafter as weather conditions will permit. The w...

...When one or more of the principal highways of a county, or part thereof, have been destroyed or damaged by freshet, landslide, wear of watercourses, or other casualty, or, by reason of the large amount of traffic or from neglect or inattention to repair, they have become unfit for travel or cause difficulty, danger, or delay to traffic passing thereon, and the board of county commissioners is satisfied that the ordin...

...aid to the township or treasurer of the municipal corporation from which it was collected. Such funds shall be expended on the public roads under the direction of the board of township trustees of the proper township or legislative authority of the municipal corporation, in such manner as seems to them most advantageous to the interest of the township or municipal corporation for the construction, reconstruction, or ...

...s of a county in which there is located municipal corporations or a part thereof, may, by resolution, create that portion of the county not included within the corporate limits of such municipal corporations into a road district, whenever in its opinion it is expedient and necessary and for the public convenience and welfare, for the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing, or improving, the public roads...

... or county roads, or the streets of any municipal corporation, or any part of such roads or streets, which forms a continuous road improvement.

... improvement into, within, or through a municipal corporation, when the consent of the legislative authority of such municipal corporation has been first obtained. Such consent shall be evidenced by the proper action of the legislative authority, entered upon its records, and the legislative authority may assume and pay such proportion of the cost of that part of the proposed improvement within the municipal corporat...

...osed road improvement is assumed by the municipal corporation, the board of county commissioners, after the approval by it of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications, shall cause a copy of the surveys, profiles, and the proposed proportion of cost to be paid by the municipal corporation, to be filed with the legislative authority. The legislative authority shall examine the surveys...

...A municipal corporation shall pay to the county treasurer its estimated proportion of the cost and expense of the proposed road improvement, as fixed in the agreement between the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and the board of county commissioners, out of any funds available therefor. In anticipation of the collection of assessments to be made against abutting property, as provided in section 5557...

...provide for a road improvement within a municipal corporation by levying against the property benefited by such improvement in the same manner as provided in sections 5555.41, 5555.45, 5555.46, and 5555.47 of the Revised Code. The municipal corporation shall pay to the county treasurer its estimated portion of the cost of such an improvement, to be borne by the municipal corporation as a whole, as fixed in the agreem...

...ch portion of a road as lies within the municipal corporation, in connection with the remainder of a proposed road improvement or separately, as the board determines. The total cost of such work shall be paid on the allowance of the board, by the warrant of the county auditor, and after completion of such work and the payment of the cost thereof, any balance of the funds contributed by the municipal corporation shall...

...s lies within the corporate limits of a municipal corporation, and the legislative authority of such municipal corporation desires to improve any part of the road within such municipal corporation to a greater width than is contemplated by the proceedings for the improvement by the board, such legislative authority shall, at any time before it approves the surveys and profiles for such improvement, determine by resol...

...county road extending into or through a municipal corporation, or a part of a county road and a municipal corporation's streets extending into or through a municipal corporation and forming a continuous road improvement, when the consent of the legislative authority of said municipal corporation has been first obtained, and such consent shall be evidenced by the proper legislation of the legislative authority of the ...

...r any territory outside the limits of a municipal corporation having a planning commission or a platting commissioner, and within three miles of the corporate limits of such municipal corporation, has been platted into building lots and the plan of the streets approved by such commission or commissioner, and the plat of such addition has been regularly filed in the office of the county recorder, all streets in the ne...