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...A surety of a constable, township fiscal officer, or other township officer, may notify the board of township trustees, by giving at least five days' notice in writing, that the surety is unwilling to continue as surety for the officer and, at a time named in the notice, will make application to the board to be released from further liability upon the bond. The surety also shall give at least three days' notice...

...Any municipal corporation, township, county, or any combination of a municipal corporation, municipal corporations, township, townships, county, or counties, none of which was included in a port authority in existence on December 16, 1964, may create a port authority. A municipal corporation shall act by ordinance, a township shall act by resolution of the township trustees, and a county shall act by resolution of th...

...(A) Any municipal corporation, township, or county not included in a port authority in existence on December 16, 1964, may create, or any combination of a municipal corporation, municipal corporations, township, townships, county, or counties, no one of which has been included in a port authority in existence on December 16, 1964, may create, and any of the foregoing together with any other political subdivision or s...

...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.

...(A) In the case of a 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 distri...

...(A) To enhance the background and working knowledge of township fiscal officers in government accounting, budgeting and financing, financial report preparation, cybersecurity, the rules adopted by the auditor of state, bulletins or other information published by the auditor of state, and any other subject deemed appropriate by the auditor of state, the auditor of state shall conduct education programs and continuing ...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, each constable, before entering upon the discharge of official duties, shall give bond to the state in a sum of not less than five hundred nor more than two thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful and diligent discharge of official duties, and with sureties resident of the township. The amount of the bond and its sureties shall be approved by ...

...When twenty-five interested persons 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...

...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 ...

...After the annual estimate for each township has 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 ta...

...If a road is established as a part of the line or boundary of a township or municipal 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 cost due the township fiscal 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...

...The state, acting through the director of natural resources, subject to section 1506.46 of the Revised Code, may enter into agreements with counties, townships, municipal corporations, park boards, and conservancy districts, other political subdivisions, or any state departments or divisions for the purpose of constructing and maintaining projects to control erosion along the Ohio shoreline of Lake Erie and in ...

...(A)(1) No campaign committee of a statewide candidate shall fail to file a complete and accurate statement required under division (A)(1) of section 3517.10 of the Revised Code. (2) No campaign committee of a statewide candidate shall fail to file a complete and accurate monthly statement, and no campaign committee of a statewide candidate or a candidate for the office of chief justice or justice of the supreme co...

...(A) A community reinvestment area housing council shall be appointed for each community reinvestment area, as follows: (1) When the area is designated by a municipal corporation, the council shall be composed of two members appointed by the mayor of the municipal corporation, two members appointed by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, and one member appointed by the planning commission of the m...

...After a port authority has been created, any municipal corporation, township, or county, acting by 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 wit...

...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...

...In case of a division or change of a township which has retained its 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 count...

...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...

...Official bonds of constables, as soon 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...