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...(A) The local transportation improvement program fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of moneys credited to it pursuant to sections 117.16 and 5735.051 of the Revised Code, and, subject to the limitations of section 5735.05 of the Revised Code, shall be used to make grants to local subdivisions for projects that have been approved by district public works integrating committees and the...

...Notwithstanding any other section of the Revised Code, a board of township trustees may enter into a contract with the county engineer under which the board agrees to pay all or any part of the cost of engineering services to be provided to or obtained for the township by the county engineer that are necessary for projects awarded under this chapter.

...In the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, planning, or equipping of appurtenances to roads and bridges to enhance the safety of animal-drawn vehicles, pedestrians, and bicycles, eligible activities include, but are not limited, to the following: (A) Constructing or widening shoulders, including widening of bridges and culverts and purchase of rights-of-way, if necessary; (B) Constructing pull-o...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 164.01 of the Revised Code, as used in sections 164.20 to 164.27 of the Revised Code, "local political subdivision" means a county, municipal corporation, township, conservancy district, soil and water conservation district, lake facilities authority, joint recreation district, park district, or other similar park authority. (B) As used in sections 164.20 to 164.27 of the Revised Code, "...

...ganization representing business, local realtors, or a planning agency, including a port authority, located within the geographical jurisdiction of the appointing integrating committee. No organization, unit of government, or agency that is listed in divisions (A)(1) to (5) of this section shall be represented by more than one member on the council at any given time. The membership of a natural resources assistance ...

...Natural resources assistance councils shall review and approve or disapprove applications in accordance with sections 164.20 to 164.27 of the Revised Code for grants for projects that propose to do any of the following: (A) Provide for open space acquisition, including the acquisition of easements, or the related improvement of open spaces acquired with a grant awarded under sections 164.20 to 164.27 of the Revised...

...e long-term ownership or control of the property that is the subject of the grant application. (C) Prior to submitting an application for a grant for a project under this section, an applicant that is a park district or other similar park authority shall consult with the legislative authority of each county, township, and municipal corporation in which the proposed project will be located. (D) Upon receipt of a...

...(A) A natural resources assistance council shall review each application for a grant submitted under section 164.23 of the Revised Code. In reviewing an application for the purpose of determining whether to approve or disapprove the application, a council shall consider all of the following criteria: (1) Whether the project emphasizes the factors specified in division (A) or (B) of section 164.22 of the Revised Co...

...The director of the Ohio public works commission shall approve applications for grants submitted under sections 164.20 to 164.27 of the Revised Code if all of the following apply: (A) The approval of the application by the applicable natural resources assistance council was reasonably based on the criteria specified in divisions (A)(1) to (11) of section 164.24 of the Revised Code. (B) The application for a grant a...

...gh the purchase of an easement, of real property that is the subject of an application for a grant under sections 164.20 to 164.27 of the Revised Code and establish requirements for documentation to be submitted by grant applicants that is necessary for the proper administration of this division. The policies shall provide for proper liquidated damages and grant repayment for entities that fail to comply with the lon...

...All of the following apply to any repayment of a grant awarded under sections 164.20 to 164.27 of the Revised Code: (A) The Ohio public works commission shall deposit the grant repayment into the clean Ohio conservation fund created in section 164.27 of the Revised Code. (B) The commission shall return the grant repayment to the natural resource assistance council that approved the grant application. (C) Th...

...(A) The clean Ohio conservation fund is hereby created in the state treasury. Seventy-five per cent of the net proceeds of obligations issued and sold by the issuing authority pursuant to sections 151.01 and 151.09 of the Revised Code shall be deposited into the fund. Investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund and may be used to pay costs incurred by the Ohio public works commission in administerin...

...tion, equipping, and improvement of any real or personal property used for the purpose of creating a solar photovoltaic project, a solar thermal energy project, a geothermal energy project, a customer-generated energy project, or an energy efficiency improvement, whether such real or personal property is publicly or privately owned. (J)(1) Except as provided in division (J)(2) of this section, "existing" qualified...

...Any owner of an interest in real property that is located within a proposed or existing special improvement district who enters into a contract to transfer the interest shall give to the transferee of the interest within the specified period of time both of the following: (A) Within five days after entering into the contract, each notice that the owner received under this chapter within ninety days prior to entering...

...ed in this division, each owner of real property within a special improvement district other than the state or federal government is a member of the district, and the real property of each member of the district is subject to special assessment under division (C) of section 1710.06 of the Revised Code. A church is not a member of the district unless the church specifically requested in writing that its property be in...

...(A) A special improvement district created under this chapter shall be governed by the board of directors of the special improvement district. The board shall consist of at least five directors. The board shall include a person appointed by the legislative authority of each participating political subdivision and the municipal executive of each municipal corporation with territory within the boundaries of the spe...

...Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the articles of incorporation or the code of regulations governing the nonprofit corporation shall provide for the method by which notice for meetings of the membership of the special improvement district is to be given and the method for voting by the membership of the district.

...tory. (B) A mercantile customer that realizes energy efficiency savings or reduction in demand produced by a special energy improvement project that it owns may elect to commit the savings or reduction to the electric distribution utility in exchange for an exemption from an energy efficiency cost recovery mechanism permitted under section 4928.66 of the Revised Code, approved by the public utilities commiss...

...Any public improvements or public services provided to a special improvement district through a public improvements or public services plan shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any public improvements or public services provided by any participating political subdivision. A participating political subdivision may not substitute or rely in any manner upon the public improvements or public services provided to...

...permit any member of the district whose property may be assessed for the costs of any improvements or services under the plan to provide for that portion of the improvement or service that is on that member's property at a cost to the district no greater than what the district determines to be the lowest cost allocable to the improvement or service to be performed on that property. However, the board of directors may...

...The board of directors of a special improvement district shall adopt written rules prescribing competitive bidding procedures for contracts awarded under this chapter. The procedures may differ from competitive bidding procedures applicable to the participating political subdivisions of the district or those provided in Chapter 735. of the Revised Code. The rules shall provide for advertising for bids and specify the...

...Any participating political subdivision of a special improvement district may issue bonds and notes in anticipation of collection of any special assessments authorized by this chapter. All proceeds of any assessments, bonds, or notes issued to fund any public improvements or public services plan under this chapter shall first be applied by the political subdivision to payment of those bonds or notes and any interest ...

...cent of the appraised value of the real property located in the district, excluding church property or real property owned by the federal government, the state, or a county, township, municipal corporation, or park district, unless the church, county, township, municipal corporation, or park district has specifically requested in writing that the property be included in the district, and filed with the municipal exec...

...The board of directors of a special improvement district in which all or part of a downtown redevelopment district is located may accept contributions from the municipal corporation that created the downtown redevelopment district pursuant to division (E)(2) of section 5709.45 of the Revised Code. The board shall use all such contributions to promote the downtown redevelopment district to potential business patrons, ...

...doned, tax-foreclosed, or other real property within the county for whose benefit the corporation is being organized, but not limited to the purposes described in division (B)(2) of this section; (b) Efficiently holding and managing vacant, abandoned, or tax-foreclosed real property pending its reclamation, rehabilitation, and reutilization; (c) Assisting governmental entities and other nonprofit or ...