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...Any person owning, either jointly or severally, and either in his own right or in trust, and having the legal title to any land laid out in town lots, not within the limits or subject to the control of a municipal corporation, may change such lots and the streets and alleys bounding them by making, acknowledging, and having recorded, as provided in sections 711.01 to 711.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code, a new pla...

...After the revision of lot numbers in a municipal corporation is made and recorded as provided by sections 711.28 to 711.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, each person who lays off lots as an addition to such municipal corporation, or who makes a subdivision of lots therein, shall number the lots so divided upon his plat in regular consecutive numbers, commencing with the next number after the highest number of such ...

...The county auditor shall keep a complete record of the proceedings under sections 711.34 to 711.37, inclusive, of the Revised Code, in the journal of the board of county commissioners. The surveyor shall be paid for his services from the county fund, on the order of the auditor, such fees as are allowed by law for similar services.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Tourism development district" means a district designated by a municipal corporation under this section. (2) "Territory of a tourism development district" means all of the area included within the territorial boundaries of a tourism development district. (3) "Business" and "owner" have the same meanings as in section 503.56 of the Revised Code. (4) "Eligible municipal corpora...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Immediate family" means a spouse who resides in the same household, and children. (2) "Nuisance" means a building that is structurally unsafe, unsanitary, or not provided with adequate safe egress; that constitutes a fire hazard, is otherwise dangerous to human life, or is otherwise no longer fit and habitable; or that, in relation to its existing use, constitutes a hazard to the p...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Qualifying remote employee or owner" means an individual who is an employee of a taxpayer or who is a partner or member holding an ownership interest in a taxpayer that is treated as a partnership for federal income tax purposes, provided that the individual meets both of the following criteria: (a) The taxpayer has assigned the individual to a qualifying reporting location. ...

...Nothing in this chapter shall limit the authority of a tax administrator to perform any of the following duties or functions, unless the performance of such duties or functions is expressly limited by a provision of the Revised Code or the charter or ordinances of the municipal corporation: (A) Exercise all powers whatsoever of an inquisitorial nature as provided by law, including, the right to inspect books, accoun...

...(A) A taxpayer aggrieved by an action or omission of a tax administrator, a tax administrator's employee, or an employee of the municipal corporation may bring an action against the municipal corporation for damages in the court of common pleas of the county in which the municipal corporation is located, if all of the following apply: (1) In the action or omission the tax administrator, the tax administrator's emplo...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, on petition by a person owning a lot in the municipal corporation praying that a street or alley in the immediate vicinity of such lot be vacated or narrowed, or the name thereof changed, upon hearing, and upon being satisfied that there is good cause for such change of name, vacation, or narrowing, that it will not be detrimental to the general interest, an...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, when there are two or more streets, avenues, or alleys of the same name in the municipal corporation, by ordinance and without petition therefor, change the name of any such street, avenue, or alley so as to leave only one to be designated by the original name. When, in the opinion of the legislative authority, there is good cause for vacating or narro...

...The legislative authority of a municipality shall designate a municipal official to have responsibility for inspection of all or portions of bridges within such municipality, except for bridges on the state highway system and the county highway system. This section does not prohibit the municipality from inspecting any bridge within its limits. Such inspection shall be made by a professional engineer or other qua...

...Ordinances, resolutions, and bylaws shall be authenticated by the signature of the presiding officer and clerk of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation. A succinct summary of ordinances of a general nature or providing for improvements shall be published as provided by sections 731.21 and 731.22 of the Revised Code before going into operation. No ordinance shall take effect until the expiration...

...Immediately after the expiration of the period of publication of summaries of ordinances required by section 731.22 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall enter on the record of ordinances, in a blank to be left for such purpose under the recorded ordinance, a certificate stating in which manner and on what dates such publication was made, and shall sign the clerk...

...The chief accounting officer of the municipal corporation shall maintain an account, to be known as the "treasury investment account," in which he shall enter all transactions relating to the investment of treasury funds under sections 731.56 and 731.57 of the Revised Code. He shall maintain a record and furnish to the treasurer of the municipal corporation a duplicate of all items entered thereon, showing all bonds ...

...Each city auditor or village clerk who is required to make a certificate under section 733.15 of the Revised Code, and each clerk of the court of common pleas required to record such certificate when it is presented for record, who neglects or refuses to perform such duty, shall pay fifteen dollars to the treasurer of the municipal corporation for each such neglect or refusal, to be recovered in a civil action, at th...

...The mayor, director of public service, and the director of public safety constitute the board of control of a city. The mayor shall be ex officio president. The board shall keep a record of its proceedings. All votes shall be yeas and nays and entered on the record, and the vote of a majority of all the members of the board shall be necessary to adopt any question, motion, or order.

...The director of public service shall manage and supervise all public works and undertakings of the city, except as otherwise provided by law. The director shall supervise the improvement and repair of streets, avenues, alleys, lands, lanes, squares, wharves, docks, landings, market houses, bridges, viaducts, aqueducts, sidewalks, playgrounds sewers, drains, ditches, culverts, ship channels, streams, and watercourses...

...Under the direction of the mayor, the director of public safety shall be the executive head of the police and fire departments and the chief administrative authority of the charity, correction, and building departments. He shall have all powers and duties connected with and incident to the appointment, regulation, and government of such departments except as otherwise provided by law. He shall keep a record of his p...

...The board of tax commissioners shall keep a complete record of all its proceedings. The city auditor shall be clerk of the board, but shall receive no additional salary or compensation for such services. He shall enter in a book, to be provided by the city for that purpose, a full and detailed statement of all proceedings of the board, which shall be signed by the president or vice-president and by such clerk.

...As used in this section, "county" means the county of residence of an individual who signs a nominating petition. Election of the employee members, firefighter retirant member, and police retirant member of the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall be under the supervision and direction of the board in accordance with rules adopted under section 742.045 of the Revised Code. Nominat...

...(A) No person shall knowingly fail to file a complete and accurate campaign finance statement or independent expenditure statement in accordance with section 742.042 of the Revised Code. (B) No person, during the course of a person seeking nomination for, and during any campaign for, election to the board of trustees of the police and fire pension fund, shall knowingly and with intent to affect the nomination or the...

...The proper officers of each taxing district issuing the bonds provided for in section 742.12 of the Revised Code shall, without additional procedure or legislation on their part, comply with this section and with section 742.12 of the Revised Code, except that the proper accounting officers of such taxing district and the secretary of the sinking fund shall make and keep a detailed record of any such changes required...

...(A) As used in this section, "park police officer" means a park police officer appointed or employed pursuant to the Cincinnati municipal code. (B) With approval of the Cincinnati retirement system, a member of the retirement system who is a full-time regular member of the Cincinnati police department and, prior to being reclassified as a member of the police department, served as a full-time park police officer may...

...If an agreement under section 749.16 of the Revised Code concerns or includes participation of a joint township hospital district, or of a county, in the maintenance and operation of a municipal hospital, the municipal corporation may establish a board of governors to exercise, subject to such further limitations as are imposed by the agreement, the powers vested in the board of hospital commissioners, provided that ...

...The board of hospital trustees shall hold meetings at least once a month, and shall adopt all necessary rules for the regulation of its business. It shall keep a complete record of all its proceedings, which record, or copy thereof, certified by the clerk of the board, shall be competent evidence of the transactions of the board in all the courts of this state, and the ayes and nays shall be called upon the passage o...