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...When the board of township trustees has determined that any road shall be constructed, reconstructed, resurfaced, or improved, the board shall determine by resolution, by unanimous vote if acting without a petition, and by a majority vote if acting upon a petition, the route and termini of the road, and the kind and extent of the improvement, and at the same time shall order the county engineer or, if the township ha...

...Upon the completion of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for a road improvement by the county engineer, the engineer shall transmit to the board of township trustees copies of the same. Except in cases of reconstruction or repair of roads, where no land or property is taken, the board shall then publish, once a week for two consecutive weeks, a notice using at least one of th...

...If, after determination of all claims for compensation and damages on account of land or property taken for any road improvement, the board of township trustees is satisfied that the public convenience and welfare require that such improvement be made, and that the costs of such improvement will not be excessive in view of its public utility, such board shall order, by resolution, that such improvement be proceeded w...

...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 ...

...When property is separated from a road improvement by a canal, street or interurban railway, steam railroad, or in any similar manner, such property shall be regarded, for the purpose of assessment under the township road improvement laws as property abutting upon the improvement. The land owned or occupied by such street or interurban railway or steam railroad and the land lying back thereof shall be assessed, on ac...

...The board of township trustees, upon a unanimous vote, may, without a petition therefor, order that all compensation, damages, and costs of constructing any road improvement be paid out of the proceeds of any levy for road purposes on the grand duplicate of the township, or out of any road improvement fund available therefor.

...As soon as all questions of compensation and damages have been determined for any road improvement, the county engineer shall make, upon actual view, an estimated assessment, upon the real estate to be charged, of such part of the compensation, damages, and costs of such improvement as is to be specially assessed. Such assessment shall be according to the benefits which will result to the real estate. In making such ...

...All assessments, with interest accrued thereon, made as provided by sections 5573.07 to 5573.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be certified to the county auditor and by him placed upon a special duplicate, to be collected as other taxes. The principal shall be payable in not more than twenty semiannual installments, extending over a period of not more than ten years, as determined by the board of township tru...

...If any lands to be assessed for road improvement are subject to a life estate, the assessments shall, upon application of the life tenant to the board of township trustees, be apportioned between the owner of the life estate and the owner of the fee, in proportion to the value of their respective estates. Upon filing of the application the board shall fix a date for hearing the same and cause notice of such hearing t...

...The proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of any road improvement to be paid by the township shall be paid out of any road improvement fund available for it. For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of the township's proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing, or improving roads under sections 5571.01, 5571.06, 5571.07, 5571.15,...

...The board of township trustees, in anticipation of the collection, for road improvements, of taxes and assessments or any part thereof, may, whenever in its judgment it is necessary, sell the bonds of the township in any amount not greater than the aggregate sum necessary to pay the estimated compensation, damages, and costs of such improvement.

...The boards of township trustees of two or more townships may construct, reconstruct, resurface, or improve a township road or part thereof, along the line between such townships, extending into or through all such townships, or wholly within the township but within less than the legal assessment distance of the township line. In such case the several boards, when acting as a joint board and when acting separately, in...

...The board of township trustees of a township in which there is located a municipal corporation or a part thereof, may, by resolution, erect that portion of the township not included within the corporate limits of the municipal corporation into a road district, whenever in its opinion it is expedient and necessary and for the public convenience and welfare, for the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing...

...The proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of any road improvement to be paid by a township road district shall be paid out of any road improvement fund available for it. For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of a township road district's proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing, improving, maintaining, repairing, and draggi...

...The board of township trustees of a township in which there is located a municipal corporation or a part of a municipal corporation, and in which that portion of the township not included within the limits of such municipal corporation has been erected into a road district, may enter into an agreement with the board of county commissioners of the county within which such township is situated, providing for the constr...

...(A) In the maintenance and repair of roads, the board of township trustees may proceed either by contract or force account, but, unless the exemption specified in division (C) of this section applies, if the board wishes to proceed by force account, it first shall cause the county engineer to complete the force account assessment form developed by the auditor of state under section 117.16 of the Revised Code. Except ...

...After the board of township trustees has decided to proceed with a road improvement, it shall advertise for bids once, not later than two weeks prior to the date fixed for the letting of contracts, using at least one of the following methods: (A) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation within the township; (B) On the official public notice web site established under section 125.182 o...

...No contract for any road improvement shall be awarded at a price more than ten per cent in excess of the estimated cost. The bids received shall be opened at the time stated in the notice. If no bids are made that equal one hundred ten per cent of the estimate or less, the board of township trustees shall either readvertise based upon the original estimate, or request an amended estimate from the county engineer, who...

...Before entering into a contract, the board of township trustees shall require a bond indemnifying the township against damages that may be suffered by failure to perform the contract according to the contract's provisions and in accordance with the specifications for the improvement. The township fiscal officer shall not draw a warrant in favor of any contractor for estimates, on account of a contract let under s...

...(A) In case of an unforeseen contingency not contemplated by a road improvement contract, allowances for extra work may be made by a board of township trustees, but the board must first enter into a new contract in writing for the extra work. If the estimate for extra work is less than twenty-five thousand dollars for any particular line item listed in the new contract and the overall total estimate for the extra wor...

...The board of township trustees may accept donations of labor or material for a proposed road improvement, and in determining which road shall first be improved it may, when acting by unanimous vote and without a petition, take into consideration the amount of such donations. The board may require the persons donating labor or material to enter into a contract that such labor will be performed and material furnished a...

...The work of road improvement shall be done under the general supervision and direction of the county engineer and he may appoint some competent person to act as inspector during the construction of such improvement. The person appointed as inspector shall receive, for each day actually employed at such work, a sum not to exceed four dollars, to be fixed by the engineer and paid out of any fund available for the const...

...The board of township trustees shall provide the township fiscal officer with a suitable book in which the fiscal officer shall keep a complete record of proceedings for the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, or improvement of public roads. For making the record, the fiscal officer shall receive ten cents for each one hundred words, and, for all other services in connection with keeping the record, the fi...

...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...

...sed Code: (1) "Axle" means one or more load-carrying wheels mounted in a single transverse vertical plane. (2) "Spacing between axles" means the distance between any two successive such planes. (3) "Maximum axle load" means the gross weight of vehicle and load imposed by any axle upon the road surface. (4) "Maximum wheel load" means the proportionate gross weight of vehicle and load imposed by any wheel upon the ...