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...The board of township trustees may purchase, appropriate, construct, enlarge, improve, rebuild, repair, furnish, and equip a township hall, a township park, public library buildings, and bridges and viaducts over streets, streams, railroads, or other places where an overhead roadway or footway is necessary, and such board may acquire sites by lease or otherwise for any of such improvements, including lands and buildi...

...A board of township trustees may acquire suitable lands and materials, including landscape planting and other site improvement materials and playground, athletic, and recreational equipment and apparatus, to establish a township park pursuant to section 505.26 of the Revised Code and for those purposes may issue, subject to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, securities and other public obligations as defined in divisi...

...te of this state, the board of township trustees of any township, by unanimous vote, may adopt a resolution allowing the township to contract for the purchase of equipment, buildings, and sites, or for the construction of buildings, for any lawful township purpose. The board may issue, by resolution adopted by unanimous vote, securities of the township to finance purchases and construction made pursuant to this divis...

...The board of township trustees may enter into a contract with the board of county commissioners under which the trustees agree to pay all or any part of the cost of constructing, maintaining, repairing, or operating any water supply improvement established within the limits of the township pursuant to Chapter 6103. of the Revised Code. The contract shall be upon mutually agreed terms. For the purpose of meeting contr...

...eling approved by the board of township trustees as an energy conservation measure. (B) For the purpose of evaluating township buildings for energy conservation measures, a township may contract with an architect, professional engineer, energy services company, contractor, or other person experienced in the design and implementation of energy conservation measures for a report that analyzes the buildings' energy ne...

...ter into an agreement with the board of trustees of the police and firemen's disability and pension fund in accordance with section 742.30 of the Revised Code. The board of township trustees may issue securities under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, including Chapter 133. special obligation securities that pledge taxes, other than ad valorem property taxes, or other revenues for the purpose of providing some or all...

...f this section to the board of township trustees of the township in which a facility is or is to be located: (1) Establish a new major concentrated animal feeding facility; (2) Increase the design capacity of an existing major concentrated animal feeding facility by ten per cent or more in excess of the design capacity set forth in the current permit for construction or modification of the facility or for install...

...y purpose for which a board of township trustees, a joint police district board, a township fire district, a joint fire district, a joint ambulance district, or a fire and ambulance district is authorized to acquire real or personal property, that board may enter into a lease-purchase agreement in accordance with this section to acquire the property. The board's resolution authorizing the lease-purchase agreement may...

...(A)(1) Boards of township trustees, either severally or jointly, may provide, maintain, and operate facilities for the collection, transfer, recycling, and disposal of solid wastes or may enter into written contracts with the proper municipal or county authorities or with independent contractors for such services for the township or for a waste disposal district as provided in section 505.28 of the Revised Code. (2)...

...The board of township trustees may create a waste disposal district under sections 505.27 to 505.33 of the Revised Code, by a unanimous vote of the board and give notice thereof by publication using at least one of the following methods: (A) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation in the township; (B) On the official public notice web site established under section 125.182 of the Rev...

...The board of township trustees may levy, in any year, a sufficient tax within the ten-mill limitation upon all taxable property in a waste disposal district to provide and maintain waste collection, transfer, recycling, and disposal services and to provide for the collection and disposal of tree leaves. In the alternative, the board of township trustees of any township that has provided or contracted for the collect...

...unt acceptable to the board of township trustees, and shall present proper evidence of such insurance to the board.

...es established by the board of township trustees. All of those service charges shall be kept in a separate fund designated as the waste collection fund and shall be appropriated and administered by the board. The fund shall be used for payment of the costs of the management, maintenance, and operation of the garbage and refuse collection, transfer, recycling, and disposal system in the township or several waste dispo...

...nsation fixed by the board of township trustees. The compensation shall be paid semiannually, and shall be charged back, and prorated against each waste disposal district as part of its operating costs. Any increase required by the board in the bond of the fiscal officer, and the costs of any necessary supplies, shall be prorated and charged back to each district.

...Annually, before the first day of October, the township fiscal officer shall certify to the county auditor the names of the property owners and a description of their lands that are delinquent as to waste disposal service charges. The auditor then shall place the charges on the tax duplicate for the ensuing December installment of taxes, for collection.

...The board of township trustees may compound or release, in whole or in part, a debt, obligation, judgment, or claim due the township, from a bank in process of liquidation or operating under a conservatorship, or due the board, except where any member of such board is personally interested as a stockholder of the bank. The board shall enter upon its records a statement of the facts and the reasons for such compoundin...

...n the vouchers of the board of township trustees, or of the officers in the township having charge of the repair of public roads or streets. Contracts for the improvements shall be made in the same manner as other contracts. Vouchers to pay for the contracts, or for any portion of the cost of the improvements, shall be drawn by the board or officers upon the township fiscal officer, who shall keep an accurate ac...

...fit the township, the board of township trustees may, by agreement with such municipal corporation or the board of county commissioners, pay that part of the cost and expense of such improvement, including compensations for land taken and damages, as is deemed just by the board of township trustees. The cost so assumed by the township shall be paid out of any funds in the treasury of such township provided for the co...

...(A) The board of township trustees may establish all necessary rules to guard against the occurrence of fires and to protect the property and lives of the citizens against damage and accidents, and may purchase, lease, lease with an option to purchase, or otherwise provide any fire apparatus, mechanical resuscitators, underwater rescue and recovery equipment, or other fire equipment, appliances, materials, fire hydra...

...(A) The boards of township trustees of one or more townships and the legislative authorities of one or more municipal corporations, or the legislative authorities of two or more municipal corporations, or the boards of township trustees of two or more townships, may, by adoption of a joint resolution by a majority of the members of each board of township trustees and by a majority of the members of the legislative au...

...the clerk of the board of fire district trustees shall execute a bond, in the amount and with surety to be approved by the board of fire district trustees, payable to the state, conditioned for the faithful performance of all the official duties required of him. Such bond shall be deposited with the presiding officer of the board, and a copy thereof, certified by him, shall be filed with the county auditor.

...The board of township trustees may, by resolution, adopt by incorporation by reference a standard code pertaining to fire, fire hazards, and fire prevention prepared and promulgated by the state or any department, board, or other agency of the state, or any such code prepared and promulgated by a public or private organization that publishes a model or standard code. After the adoption of the code by the board, a ...

...No person shall violate a provision of a standard code or regulation adopted under section 505.373 or division (C) of section 505.375 of the Revised Code. Each day of continued violation of this section shall constitute a separate offense.

...ation within the district. The board of trustees of a fire and ambulance district may also cause notice to be inserted in trade papers or other publications designated by it or to be distributed by electronic means, including posting the notice on the board's internet web site. If the board posts the notice on its web site, it may eliminate the second notice otherwise required to be published in a newspaper of genera...

...A volunteer firefighter appointed pursuant to this chapter is a bona fide volunteer and not an employee for purposes of section 513 of the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," 124 Stat. 119 (2010), 26 U.S.C. 4980H, if, for providing those fire protection services, the volunteer receives any of the benefits provided in Chapter 146., 4121., or 4123. or section 9.65, 505.23, 3333.26, 3923.13, or 4113.41 of the ...