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...al order on the petition is made by the board of county commissioners. Comments may be made in person at the public hearings on the petition or by filing written comments with the clerk of the board of county commissioners.

...nary reports that in the opinion of the board will serve as a guide to the board and the petitioners in deciding whether to proceed with the proposed improvement. (D) The costs incurred by the engineer in making preliminary reports may be paid from the bond of the petitioners if the petition is dismissed at the first hearing, and any amount in excess of the bond shall be paid from county funds. If the engineer's co...

...The board of county commissioners, on application of owners interested or at its own discretion, may consolidate and treat as a petition for one improvement petitions pending at the same time for two or more separate improvements which connect with each other, or which serve common territory, or which can readily be combined into one system. In case of such consolidation, the board shall enter its action upon its jou...

... compensation or damages awarded by the board of county commissioners, the costs on the hearing as to compensation or damages on appeal shall be taxed against the appellants. If the amount recovered is greater than the amount awarded by the board, the costs shall be taxed against the county. The prosecuting attorney shall represent the county in all appeals on questions of compensation or damages. On appeals of oth...

...e Revised Code shall be approved by the board of county commissioners. Upon the acceptance of any bid for the whole or any part of an improvement, the bidder shall within ten days enter into a contract in writing to perform the work or furnish the material bid for as prepared by the county engineer. The board by an order entered on its journal shall record the time within which the work shall be completed and materia...

...The board of township trustees of a township to which is apportioned by the board of county commissioners a portion of the expenses of the construction of an improvement shall levy annually upon the grand duplicate of the township a tax sufficient to pay said apportionment, but not to exceed five tenths of one mill on a dollar, and shall certify this to the county auditor on or before the fifteenth day of May in each...

...he owner's land is located, against the board of county commissioners in its official capacity, to recover any tax or assessment paid, to enjoin any tax, assessment, or levy upon the owner's lands, to recover for any damages sustained, or for compensation for any property taken. (B) The board may plead and prove the value of any actual benefit to the land by reason of the improvement. (C) The rights granted by t...

...If one or more members of a board of county commissioners are petitioners for an improvement or own land that will be taken, benefited, or damaged by the improvement petitioned for, the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall notify the judge of the court of common pleas of the county who shall within ten days appoint as many disinterested owners of the county as are necessary to take the place of the intere...

...nclusive, of the Revised Code, before a board of county commissioners, at which testimony to determine any fact is to be received, an oath as in trials in the court of common pleas shall be administered to all witnesses before they testify. Such oath may be administered by the president of the board.

...for the location of an improvement, the board of county commissioners may determine whether any ditch or drain described in the petition has ceased to be a public utility, whether the public welfare no longer demands the maintenance thereof, and whether its vacation will be to the advantage of the public welfare. (B) If the board finds that the vacation of the ditch or drain will be conducive to the public welfare,...

...al expenses of the members of the joint board of county commissioners for the performance of their duties at places other than in their own county. (B) If a petition filed under section 6133.02 of the Revised Code is dismissed, the actual expenses shall be paid by the petitioners. (C) If a petition filed under section 6133.02 of the Revised Code is granted, the actual expenses shall be included in the costs of th...

...Without regard to the number of each board of county commissioners present at the meeting referred to in section 6135.03 of the Revised Code, the members from this state shall have the casting of one half of all votes on all questions, which vote shall be represented equally by the different members present of the boards from this state.

...If the boards of county commissioners of the different counties of the state, or a quorum of the board of each county affected fails to meet as provided in section 6135.03 of the Revised Code, they shall adjourn until such time as they shall again receive like notice as provided by section 6135.02 of the Revised Code for their first meeting.

...The joint board of county commissioners shall approve or amend the report filed by the engineers, as required by section 6135.12 of the Revised Code. The report so approved shall be a final division of the estimated costs of construction and the entire costs of location between the states. They shall send a copy of their report, certified by the president and clerk of the joint board, to the proper official of each c...

...The further proceedings of the joint board of county commissioners shall be in conformity with the laws for the location of county or joint county ditches taken at this stage of the proceedings. The boards of county commissioners, at their hearing on the apportionment made, may assess any other owners and lands not mentioned in the first report of the engineers, which they deem to be benefited thereby. The owners sha...

...g the annual report and estimate to the board of county commissioners, the county engineer shall include a schedule containing the name of each owner who has applied for reduction of maintenance assessment under division (A) of this section and the percentage reduction, if any, that the county engineer recommends be granted to each owner. (D) The board of county commissioners shall either confirm or reject the all...

...The board of county commissioners may remove from a river, watercourse, or creek, within the county, drift, timber, piling, or other obstruction placed or negligently allowed to remain therein by a person that obstructs to any extent the free flow of the water or endangers a county or township road, after giving thirty days' notice to the person or an agent thereof, to remove the obstruction within that time. The ex...

...county auditor shall give notice to the board of county commissioners of the filing and pendency of the petition provided for in section 6155.01 of the Revised Code, and the board shall forthwith designate when and where it will meet to hear the petition and complete its proceedings thereon.

...If the board of county commissioners finds that the bond provided for in section 6155.01 of the Revised Code has been filed and notice given as required by section 6155.03 of the Revised Code, it shall hear and determine the petition and view the premises along the proposed improvement and the lands of the petitioners and others affected by the milldam. If it finds that such improvement and removal of the milldam wil...

...The board of county commissioners shall forthwith negotiate for the purchase of the milldam sought to be removed under section 6155.01 of the Revised Code and of all the right, title, and interest the owner has to or in it, and all franchises pertaining thereto. The board shall receive in writing the terms on which the owner will grant the absolute right to remove such milldam and for the free passage of water in the...

...ection 6155.06 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall fix a day for further hearing, and order that notice of the time and place of said hearing be served in writing by the principal petitioner upon each of the petitioners or any other person interested in the improvement or the removal of the milldam. If on the hearing it appears to the board that such notice has not been given, it shall adjour...

...A board of county commissioners may appoint an advisory committee on workforce development. A committee appointed under this section may do both of the following: (A) Work to further cooperation between the county and other workforce development and economic development related entities including the state, local area workforce development systems, and private businesses; (B) Advise the board and other interested p...

... day of January of each year, the state board shall comprehensively review the performance of the OhioMeansJobs web site and prepare a report including at least the following data for the preceding calendar year: (A) The number of referrals and placements to jobs displayed on the web site; (B) The number of jobs posted to the web site by employers based in this state; (C) The number of resumes displayed on the ...

...ction 703.09 of the Revised Code to the board of county commissioners, such board shall forthwith appoint five resident electors of such city as enumerators, who shall perform the duties provided in sections 703.11 and 703.12 of the Revised Code. Such enumerators shall take an oath or affirmation to take the census of the city accurately to the best of their ability.

...turn their books, duly verified, to the board of county commissioners. Such board shall then canvass the result of such census, and the county auditor shall make a transcript thereof and transmit a certified copy of such transcript to the legislative authority of the city for which the enumeration was taken. A copy of such transcript shall be spread upon the journal of the legislative authority and if the census show...