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...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...

...bmitted. The ordinance authorizing such contracts shall: (A) Designate the officer, commission, board, or other contracting authority authorized to make such contract; (B) Set forth the maximum amount that may be bid as the purchase price for such used equipment or supplies; (C) Describe the type of used equipment or supplies that may be purchased; (D) Appropriate sufficient funds to meet the maximum amount that ...

...ed Code. The ordinance authorizing such contracts shall: (A) Designate the officer, commission, board, or other contracting authority authorized to make such contract; (B) Set forth the maximum amount that may be paid as the purchase price for such services, materiel, equipment, or supplies; (C) Describe the type of services, materiel, equipment, or supplies that may be purchased; (D) Appropriate sufficient funds...

...on that may be required by law to award contracts in the manner set forth in such sections may comply with section 9.29 of the Revised Code regarding any contract for the engineering, repair, sustainability, water quality management, and maintenance of a water storage tank and appurtenant facilities.

...The amounts and time of payments of any contract made by a city or village, or any board, commission, or agency thereof, shall be governed by sections 153.13 and 153.14 of the Revised Code.

...ights. For the purpose of carrying such contracts or leases into effect the director may enter into such contracts for any term of years, and sections 735.05 to 735.07, inclusive, of the Revised Code, do not apply.

...All contracts made by the director of public service shall be executed by him in the name of the city, one copy of which shall be filed in his office and one with the city auditor. No liability shall be created against the city as to any matters under the supervision of such director except by his express authority. No director of public service or officer or employee of his department shall be interested in any co...

...urnishing, a city hall, the director of public service may employ five citizens of such city, to be named by him, not more than three of whom shall belong to the same political party, who shall constitute a commission, under his supervision and direction, to procure the necessary land for the construction or to furnish such city hall. The members of the commission shall each receive such compensation, not to exceed ...

...hall make, in the name of the city, all contracts necessary for the construction and furnishing of such city hall, which shall be made after advertisement and bidding as provided by sections 735.05 to 735.09, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and shall be subject to the approval of the director. The commission shall keep a full record of its proceedings.

...When a city has a market house or public hall in connection therewith in contemplation or in process of construction, the director of public service may employ three citizens of the city, to be named by him, who shall constitute a commission. Each person so appointed shall receive such compensation, not to exceed five dollars for each meeting attended by him, as the director fixes, which shall in no case exceed twe...

...ject to the approval of the director of public service, the commission appointed under section 735.12 of the Revised Code may contract in the name of the city for and supervise the building and furnishing of a market house or public hall in connection therewith, and acquire the necessary lands for such purpose, by purchase or appropriation, in the name of the city. The commission shall adopt plans and specifications ...

... process of construction, buildings for public, municipal, or county purposes within the boundaries of such city, the director of public service may employ three persons, to be named by him, at least two of whom shall be architects. Such persons shall be employed at a salary not to exceed five thousand dollars per annum each, to be fixed by the director and paid by the city from the general fund.

...nder the supervision of the director of public service, persons under section 735.14 of the Revised Code shall have control of the location of public, municipal, or county buildings to be erected on ground acquired within the limits of the city, and of the size, height, style, and general appearance of such buildings. All plans and specifications for the erection thereof shall be submitted to and approved by them bef...

...section, the making of and terms of all contracts for the construction, furnishing, and equipping of such public hall, municipal water-works system, municipal electric lighting system, or the rebuilding in whole or in part and combining of any municipal water-works system with a municipal electric lighting system, shall be governed by the laws relating to public buildings in cities.

...The director of public service shall be the platting commissioner of the city, and shall provide regulations governing the platting of all lands to require all streets and alleys to be the proper width and coterminous with adjoining streets and alleys. Whenever the legislative authority of such city deems it expedient to plat any portion of the territory within the city in which the necessary or convenient streets o...

... platting commissioner, the director of public service may employ an engineer and such assistants as he finds necessary, and fix their salaries within limits to be prescribed by the legislative authority of the city.

...The platting commissioner shall cause a plat to be made of the territory which he is ordered to lay out, as soon as it can be conveniently done, showing the location of the streets and alleys already dedicated, and those proposed. For the purpose of making the necessary surveys, such commissioner may enter upon all property within the limits of the city.

...When a whole plan, or any portion thereof, as provided in section 735.19 of the Revised Code is completed, or when the location of any avenue, street, roadway, or alley has been finally determined by the platting commissioner of a city, a plat of the plan, avenue, street, roadway, or alley shall be placed in the office of the city engineer for the inspection of persons interested, and notice that it is ready fo...

...The platting commissioner of a city, at least once each week during the six-weeks period provided under section 735.20 of the Revised Code, at the time and place stated in the advertisement, and at such other times and places as he deems proper, shall hear any objections that are made against any portion of the plat, or the location of any avenue, street, roadway, or alley, and such alterations may be made as he deem...

...At the end of the six-weeks period provided by section 735.20 of the Revised Code, the platting commissioner shall cause copies of the plat as finally adopted to be prepared and such monuments or marks as he thinks proper to be placed on the grounds. He shall deposit one copy, certified to by him, in the office of the county recorder, and another in the office of the city engineer, and such plan shall be deemed to be...

... of the public funds be expended in the improvement or repair of streets or alleys subsequently laid out and not on such plat, but any city may exercise the power of condemnation in any case in which it may condemn and appropriate property to public use, although it is not shown as a street on such plat.

...The owners of any portion of the ground platted under section 735.19 to 735.23, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by a declaration of their intention to do so, properly acknowledged and recorded in the county recorder's office, may at any time accept such plan so far as it concerns their property. Such acceptance, or the selling of lots referring to the plan or to the streets and alleys therein laid out, shall be a st...

...When municipal corporations adjoin each other, the legislative authorities thereof may agree, in any manner they determine, upon the appointment of a joint commission for the purposes of sections 735.17 to 735.24, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Such commission, when appointed, shall have all the power over the territory of the municipal corporations described in the resolutions of the legislative authorities thereof...