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...e required to erect or keep in repair a bridge over a millrace or watercourse, excavated or constructed by him across a public road or highway for hydraulic purposes.

...ping in repair of approaches or ways to bridges as required by section 5591.24 of the Revised Code. The cost of constructing such approaches and procuring such material shall be paid from the bridge fund of the county on the order of the board.

... may provide for the proper lighting of bridges over streams, highway intersections, highway or railroad grade separations or interchange areas erected by it. The cost of such lighting shall be paid from the bridge fund of the county, or from any funds available for highway construction or maintenance and repair, on the order of the board. This section does not apply where the board has constructed three or more brid...

...more guardrails on each end of a county bridge, viaduct, or culvert more than five feet high. The board also shall protect, by guardrails, all embankments with a rise of more than eight feet in height and with a downward slope of greater than seventy degrees, where the embankments have an immediate connection with a county road. The expense for a guardrail required under this section shall be paid out of the c...

...Negligent failure to comply with section 5591.36 of the Revised Code shall render the county liable for all accidents or damages resulting from that failure.

...rs of a county in which there is a toll bridge, or a bridge owned by a person or corporation authorized by law to charge and collect toll for crossing it, may purchase such bridge, with the approaches, at a price agreed upon by the board and the owners of the bridge. If such board is unable to agree with the owners upon such purchase and sale the board may appropriate the bridge.

...For the purpose of appropriating a bridge as authorized by section 5591.38 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall have made an accurate survey and description of the bridge and approaches and the land occupied thereby, and shall proceed in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Upon payment of the agreed price, or payment into court of the compensation assesse...

... of county commissioners appropriates a bridge, as provided in sections 5591.38 and 5591.39 of the Revised Code, and fails to pay for it within three months after the assessment of compensation, the right of the board to make such appropriation on the terms of the assessment so made shall cease and such bridge shall be relieved from all encumbrances on account of the proceedings in such case. The judgment or order of...

...If a county bridge has been destroyed by fire, flood, or any other cause, the board of county commissioners may cause to be established a free ferry in lieu thereof. The board may also cause to be established a free ferry over any of the interior streams of the state where it is not expedient to build a bridge, and may cause it to be maintained and operated. The cost of maintaining and operating such ferry shall not ...

...A constable of a township, a marshal of a village, or a police officer of a city may arrest upon view, and without process, a person violating section 5591.42 of the Revised Code.

...e against a person for injury done to a bridge.

...hapter 5593. of the Revised Code: (A) "Bridge" includes all property, rights, easements, and franchises relating thereto including approaches. (B) "Improvements" means such repairs, replacements, reconstructions, additions, and betterments of and to a bridge acquired or constructed under such chapter, including such approach facilities thereto, as such commission determines necessary to place it in a safe and effic...

...Any county or city bridge commission may: (A) Construct, acquire by purchase or condemnation, and improve, operate, and maintain bridges entirely within the state or such county or city, or over rivers and navigable waters which form a boundary of the state, or such county or city, notwithstanding that the waters of such river or navigable water may not at all times extend to or reach said boundary line, whenever th...

...at the construction or acquisition of a bridge, or the partial acquisition and partial construction, together with adequate repairs and rehabilitation if such bridge is already completed, or adequate completion of construction if such bridge is in process of construction, will be a convenience, necessity, and benefit to such county or city.

... three persons who shall constitute the bridge commission of such county or city, not more than two of whom shall belong to the same political party. The bridge commissioners shall immediately enter upon their duties and hold office until the expiration of two, four, and six years, respectively, from the date of their appointment, the term of each to be designated by the board or the legislative authority of the city...

...on of the members of any county or city bridge commission, they shall at once proceed to organize. Each such commission shall appoint a vice-chairman and secretary-treasurer, and the commission of any county or city shall elect a chairman. Each member of a county or city bridge commission shall receive such salary as may be fixed by the board of county commissioners or the legislative authority of the city appointing...

...rovement, repair, or maintenance of any bridge constructed or acquired by the county or city bridge commission, or who is pecuniarily interested therein as a stockholder or otherwise shall be a member of the county or city bridge commission. No such commission shall appoint any person as engineer, superintendent, or foreman sustaining such relation to such person, firm, or corporation. No such engineer, superintenden...

...The bridge commission of any county or city may: (A) Adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (B) Adopt an official seal, which shall not be the seal of Ohio; (C) Maintain a principal office and suboffices at such places within the county or city as it designates; (D) Sue and be sued in its own name, and plead and be impleaded. Any actions against a bridge commission s...

...The bridge commission of any county or city may provide by resolution, at one time or from time to time, for the issuance of bridge revenue bonds of such county or city for the purpose of paying all or any part of the cost of a bridge. The principal and interest on such bonds shall be payable solely from the funds provided by sections 5593.01 to 5593.24 of the Revised Code, for such payment. The bonds of each issue s...

...Bridge revenue bonds issued under this chapter do not constitute a debt, or a pledge of the faith and credit, of the state or of any political subdivision thereof, but such bonds are payable solely from the funds pledged for their payment as authorized by this chapter, or by funds derived from the issuance of refunding bonds as authorized under this chapter, which refunding bonds are payable solely from funds pledged...

...In the discretion of the bridge commission of any county or city, any bonds issued under sections 5593.01 to 5593.24 of the Revised Code may be secured by a trust agreement between the commission and a corporate trustee, which trustee may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state. Any such trust agreement may pledge or assign the fees and other revenue to be receive...

...The bridge commission of any county or city may fix, revise, charge, and collect tolls for the use of each bridge acquired or constructed by it. Tolls shall be so fixed and adjusted in respect to the aggregate of tolls from the bridge or bridges for which a single issue of bonds is issued, as to provide a fund sufficient, with other revenue from such bridge or bridges to pay: (A) The cost of maintaining, repairing, ...

...kept in depositories as selected by the bridge commission of any county or city in the manner provided in sections 135.01 to 135.21 of the Revised Code, insofar as such sections are applicable, and the deposits shall be secured as provided in sections 135.01 to 135.21 of the Revised Code. The resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds of any issue or the trust agreement securing such bonds shall provide that any of...

...The bridge commission of any county or city may provide by resolution for the issuance of bridge revenue refunding bonds of such county or city, payable solely from revenues, for the purpose of refunding any bonds then outstanding which have been issued under Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code, including the payment of any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of redemption of su...

...The issuance of bridge revenue bonds or bridge revenue refunding bonds under Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code need not comply with any other law applicable to the issuance of bonds. Any holder of bonds issued under Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code, or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under any trust agreement, except to the extent the rights given by such chapter may be restricted by suc...

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the portion of the road known as state route number eighty-seven, running in an easterly and westerly direction, between the intersection of that route and state route number forty-four and the intersection of that route and Sperry road, in Geauga county only, shall be known as the "Dr. Steven Takacs Veteran Memorial Highway." The director o...

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the eastbound and westbound lanes of state route number thirty-two between Glen Este-Withamsville road and the western border of Batavia township, in Clermont county, shall be known as the "Richard "Dick" Mallon Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the eastbound and westbound lanes of interstate route number seventy between the eastern and western borders of Etna township, in Licking County, shall be known as the "Tuscarawas Valley Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the northeastbound and southwestbound lanes of Chillicothe Lancaster road between Amanda Clearport road southwest and United States route number twenty-two, in Fairfield county, shall be known as the "MSGT Norman Michael Kilbarger Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its na...

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the portion of state route number seventy-three, running in an easterly and westerly direction between the intersection of state route number seventy-three and state route number seven hundred forty-one and the intersection of state route number seventy-three and interstate route number seventy-five in Warren county only, shall be known as the...

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the eastbound lanes of interstate route number seventy between Brice road and state route two hundred fifty-six in Franklin and Fairfield counties shall be known as the "CPL Lindsey William Mitchell Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, interstate route number seventy-five, running in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction in Butler county, shall be known as the "Patrolman Ernest E. Cole Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...The northbound and southbound lanes of state route number seven between the intersection of that route and state route number eighty-two and the intersection of state route number seven and state route number sixty-two, in Trumbull county, shall be known as the "Virginia E. "Ginny" Kirsch Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the portion of the road known as state route number three hundred forty-eight, running in an easterly and westerly direction, between the intersection of that route and state route number one hundred four and the intersection of that route and state route number seventy-three, in Scioto county only, shall be known as the "Roy Rogers Happy Trai...

...In addition to any other name prescribed by the Revised Code or otherwise, the eastbound and westbound lanes of state route number one hundred seventy-two, between the intersection of that route with interstate route number seventy- seven and the intersection of that route with state route number twenty-one, in Stark county only, shall be known as the "Football Heritage Corridor." The director of transportation may...

...In addition to any other name prescribed by the Revised Code or otherwise, the northbound and southbound lanes of state route number three hundred fifteen, between the Broad street exit and the King avenue exit, in Franklin county, shall be known as the "Jesse Owens Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the portion of the road known as state route number thirty-nine, running in a northwesterly and southeasterly direction, between the intersection of that route and state route number four hundred thirty and the intersection of that route and interstate route number seventy-one, in Richland county, shall be known as the "SM1 Cornelius Anthony M...

...The interchange of interstate route number four hundred eighty and west one hundred fiftieth street, located in the municipal corporation of Cleveland in Cuyahoga county, shall be known as the "SPC Louis P. Shuster Memorial Interchange." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers at the interchange indicating its name.

...e route number seventy-seven between Cambridge road and the southernmost intersection of that route and highland ridge road, in Washington county, shall be known as the "Auxiliary Patrolman Earl Ulmer Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the portion of the road known as interstate route number six hundred eighty, running in an easterly and westerly direction, between the intersection of that route and Market street and the intersection of that route and Glenwood avenue, in the municipal corporation of Youngstown only, shall be known as the "Frank Watson Memorial Highway." Th...

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, that portion of interstate route two hundred seventy-five, running in an easterly and westerly direction, between mile marker sixty eight and five tenths and mile marker sixty nine and five tenths, within Hamilton county, shall be known as the "Deputy Larry Henderson, Jr. Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable m...

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the eastbound and westbound lanes of state route number five between state route number fifty-nine and interstate route eighty, in Portage county and Trumbull county, shall be known as the "83rd Ohio Division Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the intersection of the roads known as United States route two hundred fifty and McCauley drive, in the municipal corporation of Uhrichsville, in Tuscarawas county, shall be known as the "Dale McCauley Memorial Intersection." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers in the intersection indicating its name.

...In addition to any other name prescribed by the Revised Code or otherwise, the portion of the road known as state route number six hundred twenty-seven, running in a northerly and southerly direction, between the intersection of that route and Nave road southeast in Perry township and the intersection of that route and Nave street southwest on the border of Perry township and the municipal corporation of Massillon, i...

...The public highways of the state shall be divided into three classes: state roads, county roads, and township roads. (A) State roads include the roads and highways on the state highway system. (B) County roads include all roads which are or may be established as a part of the county system of roads as provided in sections 5541.01 to 5541.03, inclusive, of the Revised Code, which shall be known as the county highway...

...A "limited access highway" or "freeway" is a road, highway, or street, especially designed for through traffic, over which abutters have no easement or right of access by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such highway. Access may be allowed only at highway intersections designated by the director of transportation, board of county commissioners, or municipal authorities on roads within their jurisdict...

...The director of transportation, board of county commissioners, and municipal authorities may lay out, establish, acquire, open, construct, improve, maintain, regulate, vacate, or abandon the use of freeways within this state in the same manner in which they may lay out, establish, acquire, open, construct, improve, maintain, regulate, vacate, or abandon the use of roads, highways, or streets. Such director, board, an...

...As an adjunct of any "limited access highway" or "freeway," the director of transportation, board of county commissioners, and municipal authorities may lay out and construct highways and drives, to be designated as service highways, to provide access from areas adjacent to a limited access highway or freeway, when they are deemed necessary in the public interest.

...Court proceedings to acquire the necessary land for "limited access highways" or "freeways" as provided in sections 5535.02 to 5535.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall take precedence over all other causes not involving the public interest in all courts, and shall be given preference to the end that constructions and reconstructions of highways and freeways may not be unreasonably delayed, but may be expedited.

...In all cases where a county or township has constructed or improved any intercounty road, the director of transportation, upon request, shall, within sixty days, indicate what changes or improvements will be required in the road in order to bring it up to the approved standard of construction of such roads. In any case where such road is about to be constructed, reconstructed, or improved, the director shall, upon ap...