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...The legislative authorities of two or more municipal corporations, or of one or more municipal corporations and the boards of township trustees of one or more townships, when conveniently located for that purpose, may unite in the establishment and management of a cemetery, by the purchase or appropriation of land therefor not exceeding one hundred acres, to be paid for as provided by section 759.30 of the Revised Co...

...The boards of township trustees of townships or the legislative authorities of municipal corporations which have a cemetery owned in common as provided in section 759.27 of the Revised Code may at any time call a joint meeting of such legislative authorities and boards on a reasonable notice given by either, for the purpose of making joint rules and regulations for the government of the cemetery, or changing them, an...

...In joint meetings mentioned in sections 759.34 and 759.35 of the Revised Code, each member of the legislative authorities of municipal corporations and each member of the boards of township trustees shall have one vote in determining all questions. The proceedings of joint meetings shall be recorded by the clerk of the municipal corporation having the greatest number of inhabitants.

...A municipal corporation or township united with other municipal corporations or townships in the establishment or control of a union cemetery, or both, may, by a resolution of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or of the board of township trustees and with the consent of the legislative authorities of the remaining municipal corporations and the boards of the remaining townships, withdraw from the...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation and the board of township trustees may transfer to an incorporated cemetery association the lands, lots, and improvements of a cemetery owned and controlled by the municipal corporation or township for cemetery purposes. The association shall assume all legal debts on the cemeteries so transferred.

...As used in this section and section 9.39 of the Revised Code: (1) "Color of office," "public office," and "public official" have the same meanings as in section 117.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Legislative authority" means a board of county commissioners a board of township trustees, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, or the board of education of a school district. A person who is a state offi...

...The director of agriculture may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that do all of the following: (A) Establish all of the following concerning permits to install and permits to operate: (1) A description of what constitutes a modification of a concentrated animal feeding facility; (2) A description of what constitutes a major operational change at a concentrated animal feeding facility...

...The board of county commissioners, board of township trustees, or legislative authority of a municipal corporation may authorize an agent to enter upon any lands in a quarantined area within the subdivisions for the sole purpose of inspecting such lands for the existence of the pest for which the quarantined area has been established. Such powers of inspection may be exercised by any such subdivision, through its age...

...Upon request, the director of agriculture or the director's authorized representative shall provide guidance and technical assistance to owners of land who are seeking enrollment in agricultural security areas and to boards of township trustees and boards of county commissioners who receive applications requesting the establishment of agricultural security areas.

...When the work authorized in section 971.34 of the Revised Code is completed, the board of township trustees shall certify to the county auditor the amount of the cost of the work with the expense thereto attached, and a correct description of the land upon which the work was performed. The auditor shall place the amount upon the tax duplicate to be collected as other taxes. The county treasurer shall pay the amount, ...

...The board of township trustees may anticipate the collection, and refund the cost of the work authorized in section 971.34 of the Revised Code, to the township fiscal officer for the amount, payable out of any township funds that may be in the fiscal officer's hands.

...(A) At least ninety days, but not more than three hundred days, prior to applying for a certificate from the power siting board, or a material amendment to an existing certificate, for a utility facility, to be located in whole or in part in the unincorporated area of a county, the person intending to apply shall hold a public meeting in each county where the utility facility is to be located. (B) The applicant sh...

...For the purpose of levying any tax which may be found necessary to meet fiscal obligations under any agreement authorized by section 3349.23 or section 3349.241 of the Revised Code, that portion of said county lying outside of the corporate limits of such municipality in which the university is situated, when the county enters into such an agreement, or any township, municipal corporation, or school district which en...

...(A) As used in this section, "local authority" means the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, the board of trustees of a township, or the board of county commissioners of a county. (B) The board of education or the chief administrative officer operating or in charge of any school may submit a written complaint to the director of transportation alleging that a local authority is not complying with sectio...

...(A) The state highway patrol and sheriffs or their deputies shall exercise, to the exclusion of all other peace officers, except within municipal corporations and except as specified in divisions (B) and (C) of this section and division (E) of section 2935.03 of the Revised Code, the power to make arrests for violations on all state highways, of sections 4503.11, 4503.21, 4511.14 to 4511.16, 4511.20 to 4511.23, 4511....

...The board of trustees of a township police district or a joint police district board may issue notes for a period not to exceed three years for the purpose of buying police equipment or a building or site to house police equipment. One-third of the purchase price of the equipment, building, or site shall be paid at the time of purchase, and the remainder of the purchase price shall be covered by notes maturing ...

...The board of trustees of any township may participate in and contribute to a nonprofit organization that is incorporated under Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code, that consists of units of government, and that has as its purpose regional cooperation and improvement. The board may appropriate contributions to the organization from the township's general fund. As used in this section, "organization" does not include any...

...(A) If the legislative authority of a municipal corporation adopts a resolution for the purposes provided in section 306.55 of the Revised Code and division (XX) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code and certifies the resolution to the board of elections as a combined question, the question appearing on the ballot shall read: "Shall the territory within the ______ (name of municipal corporation) be withdrawn from ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Abandoned school property" means improvements to a parcel of land, the parcel on which such improvements are situated, and adjacent parcels owned, or owned prior to a declaration under this section, by a school district, county, township, or municipal corporation that have been used for school purposes for not less than ten years but that are not currently used for school purposes. ...

...Within any rank, the municipal council or board of trustees of a civil service township may establish such special positions having special duties with preferential pay as the council or board deems necessary, but the holding of any such special positions shall not establish eligibility to the next higher rank to the exclusion of other persons in the same rank who do not hold such special positions. No special positi...

...(A) The board of trustees of an eligible township that has designated a tourism development district under section 503.56 of the Revised Code may enter into and enforce agreements with one or more owners of property located within the district by which the owner or owners agree to pay a development charge for the purpose of fostering and developing tourism within the district. The amount of the development charge sha...

...(A) Subject to the terms and conditions of the joint resolution creating it, each joint emergency medical services district may furnish ambulance services and emergency medical services by one of the following methods: (1) By operating an emergency medical service organization as defined in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code; (2) By contracting for the operation of one or more facilities pursuant to division...

...On the fifteenth day of each month, the county treasurer shall distribute the balance in the county public library fund among the county, boards of public library trustees, municipal corporations, and boards of township park commissioners for which the county budget commission has fixed an allocation from the fund in that year in accordance with section 5705.32 of the Revised Code in the same proportions th...

...The board of library trustees of any county, municipal corporation, school district, or township public library by a vote of two-thirds of all its members may at any time declare by resolution that the amount of taxes which may be raised within the ten-mill limitation by levies on the current tax duplicate will be insufficient to provide an adequate amount for the necessary requirements of the public library, t...

...During the transition period, the dissolved village's real and personal property shall be disposed of by the receiver-trustee as follows: (A) The receiver-trustee shall dispose of the village's liquidable assets, as necessary, to use the proceeds to pay the outstanding debts, obligations, and liabilities of the dissolved village. (B) The receiver-trustee shall transfer real or personal property related to utility...