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...If any part of the cost of the proposed 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 ...

...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 5557.03 of the Revised Code, and in anticipation of the collection of taxes levied for ...

... county commissioners may 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 who...

...ontract for improving such 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 mun...

...Whenever any portion of a road to be improved by the board of county commissioners 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 bef...

...ers may repair that portion of a 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 ...

...ong the side lines of a street, avenue, road, or other public highway and adjoins unincorporated territory, such municipal corporation may enter into an agreement with the board of county commissioners for the improvement of such street, avenue, road, or other public highway in such manner as the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and the board of county commissioners may determine. The agreement may ...

... year as taxes from such territory, for road or highway purposes.

...ers, sidewalks, curbs, and gutters, any road, street, alley, or portion thereof lying within or bounded on both sides by any platted lands, and situated outside a municipal corporation.

...When a petition is presented to the board of county commissioners asking for the improvement as provided by section 5559.02 of the Revised Code, and specifying the general character of the improvement desired, signed by at least fifty-one per cent of the land or lot owners, residents of such county, who are to be specially assessed for such improvement, the board shall, within thirty days after such petition is prese...

...disability, unless represented by legal guardians, in which case the action of such guardian shall be binding upon such persons; (C) All tenants in common of any undivided estate, resident within the county, shall be counted as a unit, and if all are not united, either for or against the improvement, none of such tenants in common shall be counted in determining whether the requisite number of persons have signed su...

...y commissioners has determined that any road, street, or alley, or portion thereof shall be improved as provided for in section 5559.02 to 5559.16, inclusive, of the Revised Code, such board shall, by a majority vote, determine the route and termini of such improvement, the kind and extent thereof, and at the same time order the county engineer to make such surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and spe...

...Upon the completion of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for an improvement under section 5559.02 of the Revised Code by the county engineer, the engineer shall transmit to the board of county commissioners copies of such surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications. The board shall then publish, in a newspaper of general circulation within th...

...If, after determination of all claims for compensation and damages on account of land or property taken for an improvement under section 5559.02 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners is still satisfied that the public convenience and welfare require that such improvement be made, and that the cost will not be excessive, in view of the public utility thereof, such board shall order, by resolution, tha...

...The entire compensation, damages, and costs of the improvement, including the expense of engineering and inspection, shall be assessed against the real estate abutting upon an improvement under section 5559.02 of the Revised Code according to the benefits accruing to such real estate.

... and damages have been determined in a road improvement case, the county engineer shall make, upon actual view, an estimated assessment upon the real estate to be charged therewith, of the compensation, damages, and costs of an improvement as provided by section 5559.02 of the Revised Code. Such estimated assessment shall be according to the benefit which will result to the real estate. In making such assessme...

...All assessments, with interest accrued thereon, made under sections 5559.02 to 5559.16, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be placed by the county auditor upon a special duplicate, to be collected as other taxes, and the principal shall be payable in not more than twenty semiannual installments, extending over a period of not more than ten years, as determined by the board of county commissioners. In the event tha...

...After the board of county commissioners has decided to proceed with an improvement as provided by section 5559.02 of the Revised Code, it shall advertise for bids once, not later than two weeks prior to the date fixed for the letting of the contract, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. Such notice shall state that copies of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specificat...

...Before entering into a contract, the board of county commissioners shall require a bond indemnifying the county against the damages that may be suffered by failure to perform such contract according to the provisions thereof and in accordance with the specifications for an improvement as provided by section 5559.02 of the Revised Code, and also against damages for personal or other injuries resulting from any neglige...

...ed on the site of the work, or at a railroad station or siding, or other point in the general vicinity thereof, but not yet incorporated therein, provided such material has been inspected and found to meet the specifications. When an estimate is allowed on account of material delivered on the site of the work or in the vicinity thereof, but not yet incorporated therein, such material shall become the property of the ...

...e Revised Code, include the paving of a road, street, or alley in which there is a sanitary sewer, water, or gas main, such plans shall include the extension to the curb of all necessary and proper service connections with such sewer or main. After any improvement is laid under such sections, any future installation of mains or public utility lines shall, so far as possible, be made between the curb and property lin...

...The powers conferred by sections 5559.02 to 5559.15, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be supplementary to those conferred by law upon boards of county commissioners, with respect to the improvement of public highways, and the authority of the board in such respect, under existing laws, shall be in no way altered or abridged by such sections.

...ighway above or below the tracks of railroads and parallel and adjacent interurban railways within the county, and require any railroad company operating a railroad in such county, and any interurban railway company operating an interurban railway parallel and adjacent to the railroad, to raise or lower the grade of its tracks, above or below any state or intercounty highway, and may construct ways or crossings for s...

...When the board of county commissioners deems it necessary, in the abolishment of grade crossings, to change the location of any state or intercounty highway in the county, such board may, with the approval of the director of transportation, relocate such highway or any part thereof, vacate the whole or any portion of such highway abandoned by relocation, and cause the improvements contemplated to be placed in such re...

...y its elimination, the names of the railroads or interurban railways owning the tracks crossing such state or intercounty highway, and the manner in which the improvement proposed should be accomplished. On receipt of such description the director shall conduct a hearing as to the necessity and the expediency of the proposed improvement, after thirty days' notice in writing of the time and place of holding such hear...