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...shall act by resolution of the township trustees, and a county shall act by resolution of the county commissioners, in authorizing the creation of a port authority. A port authority created pursuant to this section is a body corporate and politic that may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and has the powers and jurisdiction enumerated in sections 4582.01 to 4582.20 of the Revised Code. The exercise by the port...

...shall act by resolution of the township trustees, a county shall act by resolution of the county commissioners, and any other political subdivision shall act by resolution of its legislative authority, in authorizing the creation of a port authority. A port authority created pursuant to this section is a body corporate and politic which may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and has the powers and jurisdiction ...

...A board of township trustees shall determine its own rules and order of business and keep a journal of its proceedings. Notwithstanding section 507.04 of the Revised Code and anything to the contrary in section 504.04 of the Revised Code, the board may designate, by majority vote, any person to keep its journal and take the minutes of board meetings. A majority of the members of the board constitutes a quorum.

...The board of township trustees may purchase for its use one copy of the Revised Code, and such other standard works containing all the sections of the Revised Code applicable to township officers, with forms and citations for the guidance of such officers, as are necessary, to be paid for from unappropriated funds in the township treasury when there are sufficient unappropriated funds in the treasury.

...A board of township trustees may authorize its elected officers to join an association or nonprofit organization formed for the improvement of township government. Such board may appropriate from its general fund an amount sufficient to pay the dues, subscription costs, or membership charges of such association or nonprofit organization.

...township police district, the board of trustees of the township police district may levy a tax upon all of the taxable property in the township police district pursuant to sections 5705.19 and 5705.25 of the Revised Code to defray all or a portion of expenses of the township police district in providing police protection. (B) In the case of a joint police district, the joint police district board may levy a t...

...ll be approved by the board of township trustees. The bond shall be deposited with the township fiscal officer.

... petition for it, the board of township trustees shall provide a public road to any township cemetery over which it has control, in the same manner as provided by section 517.01 of the Revised Code for establishing cemeteries and obtaining the land therefor.

...The board of township trustees may appoint three directors to take charge of any cemetery in the township, the control of which is vested in such board. The first appointments shall be for one, two, and three years respectively. The order appointing a director shall designate, by name, the cemeteries over which he shall have supervision. Each year one director shall be appointed to serve for three years from the sec...

...e therefor. When the board of township trustees acts by unanimous vote without the filing of a petition, as permitted by division (A) of section 5571.15 of the Revised Code, the board shall set forth in its resolution that declares the necessity for the improvement the method of apportioning and paying the compensation, damages, and costs of the improvement, which may be any one of the methods provided in this secti...

...s been filed with the board of township trustees by the county engineer, such board may increase or reduce the amount of any items contained in the estimate, and at its first meeting after such estimate is filed the board shall make its levies for the purposes set forth in the estimate and for creating a fund for dragging, maintenance, and repair of roads, upon all the taxable property of the township outside of any ...

...ipal corporation, the board of township trustees of such adjoining townships and legislative authority of such municipal corporation, shall meet at a convenient place as soon after the first Monday of March as convenient, and apportion such road between the townships, or township and municipal corporation, as justice and equity require. The boards of the respective townships and legislative authority of the municipal...

...scal officer and the board of township trustees for making the assignment set forth in section 971.09 of the Revised Code shall be taxed equally against each of the persons and, if not paid to the fiscal officer within thirty days from the date of the assignment, shall be certified by the fiscal officer to the county auditor, with a correct description of the lands and the amount charged against each portio...

...tive authority or the board of township trustees, may enter into and carry out agreements with the director for the purpose of constructing and maintaining projects to control shore erosion. In providing the funds for the municipal corporation's or township's proportionate share of the cost of constructing and maintaining the projects referred to in this section, a municipal corporation or township may issue an...

...ards of county commissioners, boards of township trustees, or other boards, commissions, committees, authorities, councils, boards of trustees, task forces, and other such entities created by law, by the supreme court or courts of appeals, by county courts consisting of more than one judge, courts of common pleas consisting of more than one judge, or municipal courts consisting of more than one judge, or by a divisio...

...f two members appointed by the board of trustees of the township, one member appointed by the township law director, one member appointed by the township zoning commission or, if the township has not established such a commission, the county planning commission, and one member appointed by the board of county commissioners of the county where the area is located. (3) When the area is designated by a county, the cou...

... commissioners or the board of township trustees may adopt such resolutions as may be necessary to enable the county or township to utilize traffic law photo-monitoring devices. (B) The use of a traffic law photo-monitoring device is subject to the following conditions: (1) A local authority shall use a traffic law photo-monitoring device to detect and enforce traffic law violations only if a law enforcement offi...

...y ordinance, resolution of the township trustees, or resolution of the county commissioners, respectively, which is contiguous to such port authority, or to any municipal corporation, township, or county which proposes to join such port authority at the same time and is contiguous to such port authority, or any county within which such port authority is situated, may join such port authority and thereupon the jurisdi...

...If a board of township trustees or board of county commissioners seeks to adopt a resolution to intervene in a power siting board case for which it is entitled to have a voting ad hoc member under section 4906.02 of the Revised Code, the member shall not vote on the resolution to intervene, unless the member designates another individual to serve as the ad hoc member. A designee under this section shall meet the re...

...ts original name, the board of township trustees, in levying a tax for the payment of any legal or just claims against such township contracted prior to the change, shall procure a certified abstract from the county auditor, or, in case parcels of such township have been attached to townships of different counties, from the county auditors of the counties to which any portion of such township has been attached, of al...

...A board of township trustees may procure and pay all or any part of the cost of group life insurance to insure the lives of officers and employees of the township. The amount of group life insurance coverage provided by the board to insure the lives of officers of the township shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars per officer.

...A board of township trustees may purchase a policy or policies of insurance to indemnify township constables appointed under Chapter 509. of the Revised Code or the chief of police, patrol officers, and other employees of a township police district established under sections 505.48 to 505.55 of the Revised Code against liability arising from the performance of their official duties. A joint police district bo...

...A board of township trustees may enter into a contract with, and may appropriate township general revenue fund moneys for the services of, an attorney to represent the township, expert witnesses, and other consultants as the board determines are necessary for any potential or pending annexation action, including proceedings before a board of county commissioners or any court. The board also may appropriate general re...

...on as approved by the board of township trustees, and before being filed, shall be recorded by the township fiscal officer in the book kept for that purpose. A copy of such a recorded bond, certified by the fiscal officer, shall be admitted in any court in this state, as evidence, the same as the original bond. For recording such a bond, the fiscal officer shall receive the sum of fifty cents from the party givi...

...f the commission, the board of township trustees by resolution may designate appropriate properties as registered properties; (C) Protect the unique historical and architectural character of registered properties and promote the conservation of the registered properties by considering applications, and issuing certificates, for exterior alterations at registered properties.