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...Resolutions for the adoption or alteration of plans or specifications, awards of contracts, hiring of engineers, superintendents, or other employees and the fixing of their compensation, the approval of bonds, and the allowance of estimates shall be in writing and require for their adoption the votes of five members of the commission provided for in section 5545.01 of the Revised Code taken by yeas and nays and recor...

...Full and accurate records of all proceedings of the commission provided for in section 5545.01 of the Revised Code shall be kept by the county auditor upon the journal of the board of county commissioners. He shall carefully preserve in his office all plans, drawings, profiles, bills of materials, specifications of work, and estimates of costs, in detail and in the aggregate, pertaining to such improvement or constru...

...draining, curbing, and improving county roads and state highways by the use of gravel, macadam, stone, brick, slag, or other material, or for improving, maintaining, and repairing such highways from the public funds under its charge and control, applicable for the construction, maintenance, or repair of public highways, may, without the necessity of petition being presented by property owners or of advertising for co...

...ich passes a state, county, or township road or public highway, with the consent of the board of county commissioners if state or county roads, or with the consent of the board of township trustees if township roads, may excavate, mine, and quarry through or under such road. Before the work is commenced such person, partnership, or corporation shall execute and deliver to the board of county commissioners a bond, wi...

...A person owning land abutting a public road, not within a municipal corporation, when approved by the director of transportation if upon a state highway, board of county commissioners if upon a county road, or the board of township trustees if upon a township road, may lay a pipe line, within the line of the road, for the purpose of conveying water for public and other purposes. The laying of such pipe line shall in ...

...lines, steam, electrical, or industrial railways, oil, gas, water, or other pipes, mains, conduits, or any object or structure, other than by virtue of a franchise legally granted, shall remove from the bounds of such highway, bridge, or culvert, their poles and wires connected therewith, or any and all tracks, switches, spurs, or oil, gas, or water pipes, mains, conduits, or other objects or structures when, in the ...

... Code, at the crossings of highways and railroads. The board shall enforce this section and, in so doing, may avail itself of section 5547.03 of the Revised Code.

...The board of county commissioners of any county may convey the fee simple estate or any lesser estate or interest in, or permit the use of, for such period as it shall determine, any lands owned by such county and acquired or used for highways, bridges, or culverts, or owned by such county in connection with highways or as incidental to the acquisition of land for highways, provided that said board shall determine an...

..., or enter into an agreement with a railroad company to construct, one switch or spur track from the right of way of such railroad company to land or storage house owned by the county. All expenditures authorized by this section shall be paid out of any available road funds of the county. Purchases, hiring, or leasing made by the board pursuant to this section shall be governed by sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Re...

...onstructing, maintaining, and repairing roads, may make such purchases upon the following terms: not less than one-fourth of the purchase price shall be paid in cash, and the remainder of the purchase price shall be paid in not more than five equal annual installments, except that if the board sells, as authorized by law, used vehicles, machinery, tools, or equipment owned by the county to the person or other entity ...

...onstructing, maintaining, and repairing roads and, subject to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, may issue for that purpose general obligation bonds of the township for which the full faith and credit of the township shall be pledged. (B) A board of township trustees may enter into a lease for machinery, tools, trucks, and other equipment for use in constructing, maintaining, and repairing roads, including a lease wi...

...public institution within the state any road material, machinery, tools, or equipment, quarried, mined, prepared, or manufactured by such institution.

...The board of county commissioners or board of township trustees may contract for and purchase such material as is necessary for the purpose of constructing, improving, maintaining, or repairing any highways, bridges, or culverts within the county, and may also appropriate additional land necessary for cuts and fills together with a right of way to or from such land for the removal of material. If the board of county ...

...onstructing, maintaining, and repairing roads and culverts within the township, and shall provide suitable places for housing and storing machinery and tools owned by the township. It may purchase such material and employ such labor as is necessary for carrying into effect this section, or it may authorize the purchase or employment of such material and labor by one of its number, or by the township highway superinte...

...containing suitable stone or gravel for road materials, and the necessary machinery for operating such property, as provided in this section and section 5549.24 of the Revised Code. When one or more townships have so joined together the property purchased by them shall be held and owned by the townships in common, for the use and benefit of all. They shall, at a meeting of all the trustees of such townships after suc...

... repair of a public schoolhouse, public road or any other public improvement, located in such counties. Such materials shall be sold at prices fixed by the board or joint board of township trustees in control thereof, which prices shall not be less than the full cost of producing such materials. The moneys arising from such sales, in excess of the actual cost of production, shall be placed in the road maintenance and...

...containing suitable stone or gravel for road materials and the necessary machinery for operating the same, unless such tax is approved by a vote of the people in the manner provided by law.

... purposes and any lessee thereof. (B) "Road" includes any state or county road, or the street of any municipal corporation, or any part of such road or street, which forms a continuous road improvement.

...or estate, are contiguous to any public road outside a municipal corporation, other than roads upon the state highway system, or are so located that, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, they interfere or may interfere with any proposed location, establishment, alteration, widening, straightening, vacation, or change in direction of such road, or with the construction of a road as provided in section ...

...thin or contiguous to the bounds of the road to be improved or constructed. After passage of the resolution all subsequent proceedings of the board with respect to such matters may be had by a majority vote. When a petition, signed by at least fifty-one per cent of the land or lot owners who are to be specially assessed, praying for the acquisition of any part of such right of way or other lands and the removal, rel...

...improvement or construction of a public road. If and to the extent that lands proposed to be conveyed by the board of county commissioners to such company, in exchange for the right of way or lands to be acquired from it by the board, are located outside the bounds of the road to be improved or constructed, all proceedings for the appropriation thereof by the board may be had separately, either during or after procee...

...other lands of the street or interurban railway company which it is proposed to acquire and the location of lands proposed to be exchanged therefor, to the extent that the lands to be exchanged are located within or contiguous to the bounds of such road.

...agreement with any street or interurban railway company for the conveyance and transfer by such company to the board, in fee simple or such lesser estate or interest therein as the company may have, of such part or all of the right of way and other lands of the company as the board believes it for the public convenience and welfare to acquire, and for the removal, relocation, or both, of tracks, sidings, and other fa...

...ny lies within the bounds of any public road outside a municipal corporation, other than roads on the state highway system, the board may so appropriate the title, estate, interest, and right of abutting owners or others therein, to acquire and perfect their title thereto in fee simple. After such appropriation the board may, in pursuance and performance of the agreement between it and the company, execute and deliv...

...r other lands of a street or interurban railway company, including the appropriation of lands to be exchanged therefor, as provided in section 5551.07 of the Revised Code, and the cost and expense of removal, relocation, or both, of the tracks, sidings, and other facilities located thereon, may be apportioned and paid in any one of the methods provided in section 5555.41 of the Revised Code, as set forth in the petit...