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...red by the county for approaches to the bridge, for making alterations in any highway shown on the plan or required by the specifications or contract, or necessary to be purchased or appropriated by the county, and any land required for establishing, altering, widening, or changing the location or grade of any highway, or slope rights for any highway or approaches, required by the terms of said contract.

...uction, use, and maintenance of a joint bridge, the company shall dedicated for public use a highway of such width and at such elevation as is fixed and determined in the contract. Dedication shall be by plat prepared, signed, acknowledged, and recorded in the same manner and form as that prescribed for the dedication of other public highways, and the board of county commissioners of any county may accept such dedica...

...In the establishment or making of any change in the location of any highway as shown on the plan or required by the construction contract, or any relocation or vacation of the whole or any part of such highway by the board of county commissioners, the same proceeding shall be had by it as is provided for the establishment, change of location, relocation, widening, vacation, or establishing or re-establishing a grade ...

...The land or property required to make the alteration in a street or highway necessitated by a proposed improvement as provided in sections 5591.03 to 5591.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and as shown in the plan, specifications, and contract, or required to make any alteration in the railroad necessitated by the proposed improvement shall be purchased or appropriated by the county or the railroad in the manner as...

...ng bonds for the construction of county bridges, which bonds shall be of such denomination and payable at such places and times as the board of county commissioners determines, and shall bear interest not exceeding the rate provided in section 9.95 of the Revised Code, but not be sold for less than their par value. A tax on the taxable property of the county, not exceeding one-half mill in each year, may be levied to...

...All resolutions and notices provided for in sections 5591.03 to 5591.17 of the Revised Code shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the improvement provided in such sections is to be made, and such publication shall be complete when published once a week, on the same day of the week, for two consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code.

...All resolutions required in sections 5591.03 to 5591.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to be adopted by a county, or to carry out a contract, shall be adopted by a majority of all members elected or appointed to the board of county commissioners.

...ction, use, or maintenance of any joint bridge, to acquire any other right, title, or interest in or to the lands or rights of any railroad or union depot company other than those which are expressly granted in such contract, and shown upon the dedication plat.

... construct and keep in repair necessary bridges over streams and public canals on or connecting state, county, and improved roads. The board may submit to the electors the question of issuing county bonds for the construction of bridges on proposed state or county roads or connecting state or county roads, one or more of which may be proposed, but such bonds shall not be issued or sold until the proposed roads are a...

...ep in repair, approaches or ways to all bridges named in such section. When the cost of the construction or repair of the approaches or ways to any such bridge does not exceed fifty dollars, such construction or repair shall be performed by the board of township trustees.

...od and sufficient approaches or ways to bridges erected by it. The board shall contract for such construction in the same manner as for contracting for the construction of such bridges.

...necessary for the public convenience to bridge a stream of water which is on or near the lines of two or more counties, which are traversed by, or lie on or near the road on which such bridge is needed, the board of county commissioners of such interested counties may build or authorize the building of such bridge jointly, to be paid for, with the approaches thereto, in such proportion as the boards agree upon. The e...

...If a bridge, any state or county road, or any public building, the property of or under the control or supervision of a county, is injured or destroyed, or when any state or county road or public highway has been injured or impaired by placing or continuing therein, without authority, any obstruction, or by the changing of the line, filling up or digging out of the bed thereof, or in any manner rendering it less conv...

...In rebuilding a bridge destroyed or injured by flood or fire, the board of county commissioners may select a new site therefor. Before the change is made, or a contract for that purpose is entered into, the board shall give at least twenty days' notice of the time when the question of change will be considered, and at such hearing, all persons interested may present their views and wishes to the board, either by peti...

...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.