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...For their services required on appeal the officers and other persons mentioned in sections 5563.01 to 5563.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be entitled to the fees and compensation to which they are entitled for like services in other cases. The persons appointed by the court to show the premises to the jury shall receive such compensation as the court directs, and such compensation shall be taxed with the o...

...If an appeal is taken from the order of the board of county commissioners dismissing or refusing to grant the prayer of a petition for a road improvement, and the jury finds in favor of such improvement, the court shall render judgment establishing such improvement, unless a new trial is granted by the court, and the said improvement shall be established unless the judgment of such court is reversed. The board shall ...

...(A) A board of township trustees may construct, reconstruct, resurface, or improve any public road or part thereof under its jurisdiction, or any county road, intercounty highway, or state highway within its township. In the case of a county road, the plans and specifications for the proposed improvement first shall be submitted to the board of county commissioners of the county and receive its approval. In the case...

...If a person through whose land a public road has been established which is under the jurisdiction of a board of township trustees, desires to turn or change or relocate such road or any part thereof through any part of the person's land, the person may file a petition with such board of township trustees setting forth briefly the particular change desired. Upon receipt of such petition, the board of township trustees...

...The board of township trustees shall have control of the township roads of its township and, except for those township roads the board places on nonmaintained status pursuant to section 5571.20 of the Revised Code, shall keep them in good repair. The board of township trustees, with the approval of the board of county commissioners or the director of transportation, may maintain or repair a county road, or intercount...

...When the board of township trustees determines to proceed in the method provided by division (A) or (B) of section 5571.02 of the Revised Code, the trustee designated to have charge of the maintenance and repair of roads and culverts within the township, or within a road district thereof, shall receive the compensation provided by section 505.24 of the Revised Code for each day of service in the discharge of such dut...

...When the board of township trustees determines to proceed as provided in division (C) of section 5571.02 of the Revised Code and appoints a highway superintendent, except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, the superintendent shall, before entering upon the discharge of the official duties of superintendent, give bond to the state, for the use of the township, in the sum of two thousand dollar...

...In the maintenance and repair of roads, the board of township trustees and any township highway superintendent appointed by it, shall be subject to the general supervision and direction of the county engineer. Such board of township trustees shall follow the direction of the engineer as to methods to be followed in making repairs.

... against the improvement: (A) Resident landowners whose only real estate within the legal assessment distance of such road is located in a municipal corporation; (B) Owners of life and leasehold estates; (C) Minors and other persons under legal disability, unless represented by legal guardians, in which case the action of the guardian shall be binding upon such persons; (D) Lot or landowners who are not otherwise...

...d by at least fifty-one per cent of the land owners or lot owners, residents of the county, who are to be specifically taxed or assessed for such improvement as provided in this section, or signed by the owner of the right to mine coal lying under or adjacent to the proposed improvement, is presented to the board of township trustees asking for the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, or improvement of any publ...

...Except as provided in section 5571.20 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees shall cause all the township roads within the township to be kept free from obstruction by snow. The cost and expense thereof shall be paid from the road funds of the township or from the funds allocated to the township by section 5735.27 of the Revised Code.

...The board of township trustees may bring and maintain all suits involving an injury to any townhsip road, ditch, drain, or watercourse under the jurisdiction of such board and for the prevention of injury thereto. In case such road, ditch, drain, or watercourse is under the jurisdiction of two or more boards of township trustees, such joint board may bring and maintain such action. Such board or joint board may recov...

...rd of township trustees may provide for landscape and beautification projects along the road. Such projects may include planting trees or other plants and installing and maintaining decorative pathways, walls, signage, fencing, banners, fountains, and other similar features. In providing for the projects, the board shall proceed in accordance with Chapter 5575. of the Revised Code. The cost of the projects may be p...

...Except as provided in section 5571.20 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees shall cause the graveled and unimproved public roads of the township to be dragged. At the beginning of each fiscal half year, the board, before making any other appropriations from the township road fund, shall appropriate and set aside a sum sufficient to meet the expense of dragging the graveled and unimproved public roads of...

...ad and located wholly or in part on the land belonging to the road interferes with snow or ice removal from, the maintenance of, or the proper grading, draining, or dragging of the road, causes the drifting of snow on the road, or in any other manner obstructs or endangers the public travel of the road. The board or superintendent then may declare the object to be a public nuisance and order the owner, agent, o...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the board of township trustees, without the presentation of a petition, may take the necessary steps to construct, reconstruct, resurface, or improve a public road or part thereof, upon the passage of a resolution by unanimous vote declaring the necessity for the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, or improvement. The cost thereof may be paid by any of th...

...The board of township trustees, by resolution, may require any person to obtain a permit before installing a driveway culvert or making any excavation in a township highway or highway right-of-way within its jurisdiction, except an excavation to repair, rehabilitate, or replace a pole already installed for the purpose of providing electric or telecommunications service. The board, as a condition to the granting of th...

...olution to that effect. If the owner of land adjoining a road that has been placed on nonmaintained status requests the board to terminate the nonmaintained status of the road, the board, in its resolution that terminates that nonmaintained status, may require the owner to pay the costs of upgrading the road to locally adopted township standards. (2) If the owner of land adjoining a road that has been placed on non...

...Whoever violates section 5571.16 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

...When the board of township trustees has determined that any road shall be constructed, reconstructed, resurfaced, or improved, the board shall determine by resolution, by unanimous vote if acting without a petition, and by a majority vote if acting upon a petition, the route and termini of the road, and the kind and extent of the improvement, and at the same time shall order the county engineer or, if the township ha...

...nstruction or repair of roads, where no land or property is taken, the board shall then publish, once a week for two consecutive weeks, a notice using at least one of the following methods: (A) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation within the township; (B) On the official public notice web site established under section 125.182 of the Revised Code; (C) On the web site and social ...

... compensation and damages on account of land or property taken for any road improvement, the board of township trustees is satisfied that the public convenience and welfare require that such improvement be made, and that the costs of such improvement will not be excessive in view of its public utility, such board shall order, by resolution, that such improvement be proceeded with, and shall adopt the surveys, plans, ...

...The compensation, damages, and costs of township road improvements shall be apportioned and paid in any of the following methods, as set forth in the petition: (A) Any part thereof shall be assessed against: (1) The real estate abutting upon said improvement; (2) The real estate situated within one-half mile of either side thereof; (3) The real estate situated within one mile of either side thereof, according to ...

...erty abutting upon the improvement. The 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 such improvement.

...The board of township trustees, upon a unanimous vote, may, without a petition therefor, order that all compensation, damages, and costs of constructing any road improvement be paid out of the proceeds of any levy for road purposes on the grand duplicate of the township, or out of any road improvement fund available therefor.