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...lusive, of the Revised Code relating to improvements wholly within one county shall when applicable apply to improvements authorized by a joint board of county commissioners.

...pensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement shall be apportioned and paid in any one of the following methods, as set forth in the petition described in section 5555.03 of the Revised Code: (A) Not less than thirty-five nor more than fifty per cent thereof shall be paid out of the proceeds of any levies for road purposes upon the grand duplicate of all taxable property in the county, or out of any funds avai...

...ce a week for four consecutive weeks by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in such county or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. Such notice shall describe the route and termini of the improvement and set forth the estimated cost and the proposed method of apportionment and assessment area. After such notice has been given, the court or a judge thereof shall fix a time for a hearing ...

...f a county's costs for constructing any improvement be paid out of the proceeds of any tax levies for road purposes on the grand duplicate of the county or out of any road improvement fund available for the payment of those costs, or may enter, by a similar vote and without a petition, into an agreement with the boards of township trustees of the townships in which the improvement is situated in whole or in part, wh...

...mpensation, damages, and expenses of an improvement, other than the portion thereof to be specially assessed against benefited real estate, are to be paid in part by the county and in part by the townships in which such improvement is situated, under an agreement between the board of county commissioners and the boards of township trustees entered into under section 5555.41 or 5555.43 of the Revised Code, the part of...

...If property is separated from an improvement by a canal, street or interurban railway, steam railway, or in any other similar manner, such property shall be regarded for the purpose of assessment under the road improvement laws as property abutting upon said improvement. Land owned or occupied by such street or interurban railway or steam railroad and the land lying back thereof shall be assessed on account of said i...

...ued or incurred to pay the costs of the improvement, the principal sum of the assessments shall be payable in a number of semiannual installments that will provide a fund for the redemption of the public obligations so issued or incurred. The assessments shall bear interest from the date of the issuance of the public obligations and at the same rate or rates as the public obligations, and the interest shall be col...

...If any lands to be assessed are subject to a life estate, the assessment made therein shall, upon application of the life tenant to the board of county commissioners, be apportioned between the owner of the life estate and the owner of the fee in proportion to the value of their respective estates. Upon the filing of the application, the board shall fix a date for hearing it and cause notice of such hearing to be ser...

...pensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement to be paid by the county shall be paid out of any road improvement fund available therefor. For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of the county's proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of constructing, reconstructing, improving, maintaining, and repairing roads under sections 5555.01 to 5555.72, inclusive, of the Revised Cod...

...pensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement to be paid by the townships in which such improvement is situated in whole or in part, the board of county commissioners may levy a tax not exceeding three mills in any one year upon all the taxable property of such townships. Such levy shall be in addition to all other levies authorized by law for township purposes, and subject only to the limitation on the combine...

...pensation, damages, and expenses of any improvement to be paid by any county or township if such improvement is authorized and constructed by any joint board of county commissioners, or by agreement entered into between such joint board and the board of township trustees of one or more townships.

...provement may issue and sell, or incur, public obligations of the county under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code to pay the estimated costs of the improvement. The making of any special assessments referred to in sections 5555.41 to 5555.50 of the Revised Code shall not be a condition precedent to the issuance or incurrence of public obligations under this section, and the special assessments may be made either befor...

...mmissioners 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 ...

...neering services in connection with the improvement, that the contractor shall pay all such expenses incurred in connection with the improvement after the expiration of the time fixed for the completion of such contract, and that the amount of such expenditures shall be retained out of any estimates due or to become due to such contractor. When the engineer allows an estimate to any contractor after the time fixed in...

...s for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance, or repair of highways. When the estimated cost of completing a defaulted contract does not exceed five thousand dollars, the board may complete it by force account, or by contract let without advertising.

...rged to the cost of construction of the improvement and apportioned as the original contract price for the improvement.

...ess than two years and shall be open to public inspection.

...vision 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 parties thereto.

...rtion 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 may also ...

...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 ...

... 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 assessments or any portion thereof remain unpaid at the time of the making of the general levy, the board of county commissioners in case such levy is upon the grand duplicate of the entire count...

...und created for the construction of the improvement for which such materials and equipment were transported. If there is no balance in such fund, payment shall be made from any fund in the county treasury created by general taxation for county road purposes and against which no contractual obligations exist. Immediately upon the completion of any road work carried forward by the county, an inspection of the county an...