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...The commission provided for in section 5545.01 of the Revised Code shall employ a competent surveyor who shall go upon the line of the road proposed to be improved and make such surveys as are necessary, and shall also make an estimate of the cost and expense of such improvement and transmit such estimate to the commission, together with a copy of the plat, profile, cross section, plans, and specifications.

...After adopting plans, specifications, and estimates for a proposed road improvement the commission provided for in section 5545.01 of the Revised Code shall invite bids for construction and award the contracts therefor. Until the construction and improvement is completed and accepted by it, the commission may determine all questions connected therewith and shall be governed by the laws relating to the construction an...

...The commission provided for in section 5545.01 of the Revised Code may employ engineers, superintendents, and other necessary employees during construction and improvement and fix their compensation and bond.

...When approved by the commission provided for in section 5545.01 of the Revised Code, plans, drawings, profiles, bills of material, specifications of work, and estimates of cost thereof, shall be filed by the county auditor in his office, and shall not be altered, unless such alteration is first drawn, specified, and estimated as required for the original plans and approved by the commission. No such change shall be m...

...Resolutions for the adoption or alteration of plans or specifications, awards of contracts, hiring of engineers, superintendents, or other employees and the fixing of their compensation, the approval of bonds, and the allowance of estimates shall be in writing and require for their adoption the votes of five members of the commission provided for in section 5545.01 of the Revised Code taken by yeas and nays and recor...

...Full and accurate records of all proceedings of the commission provided for in section 5545.01 of the Revised Code shall be kept by the county auditor upon the journal of the board of county commissioners. He shall carefully preserve in his office all plans, drawings, profiles, bills of materials, specifications of work, and estimates of costs, in detail and in the aggregate, pertaining to such improvement or constru...

...ke payments therefor out of any road or bridge funds, in the treasury, or levied for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and improving the public highways in such county, under the control of the commission or board of county commissioners.

...Any person, partnership, or corporation owning land or an interest therein in fee or otherwise, containing coal, clay, or stone, and over any portion of which passes a state, county, or township road or public highway, with the consent of the board of county commissioners if state or county roads, or with the consent of the board of township trustees if township roads, may excavate, mine, and quarry through or under ...

...A person owning land abutting a public road, not within a municipal corporation, when approved by the director of transportation if upon a state highway, board of county commissioners if upon a county road, or the board of township trustees if upon a township road, may lay a pipe line, within the line of the road, for the purpose of conveying water for public and other purposes. The laying of such pipe line shall in ...

...ing or occupying any part of a highway, bridge, or culvert with telegraph or telephone lines, steam, electrical, or industrial railways, oil, gas, water, or other pipes, mains, conduits, or any object or structure, other than by virtue of a franchise legally granted, shall remove from the bounds of such highway, bridge, or culvert, their poles and wires connected therewith, or any and all tracks, switches, spurs, or ...

...highways on the state highway system or bridges or culverts thereon, may be permitted to remain, upon such conditions as the officials may impose, provided such obstructions do not interfere with traffic or with the construction or repair of such highways. No person, partnership, or corporation shall erect, within the bounds of any highway or on the bridges or culverts thereon, any obstruction without first obtainin...

...unty and acquired or used for highways, bridges, or culverts, or owned by such county in connection with highways or as incidental to the acquisition of land for highways, provided that said board shall determine and enter its determination on its journal, that the property or interest so to be conveyed or made subject to a permit to use, is not needed by the county for highway purposes. Such conveyance or permit to ...

...maintenance, or repair of the highways, bridges, and culverts under its jurisdiction as it deems necessary. The board may also purchase, hire, or lease automobiles, motorcycles, or other conveyances and maintain them for the use of the county engineer and the engineer's assistants when on official business. All such machinery, tools, and equipment, including special wearing apparel, and conveyances belonging to the c...

...(A) Boards of county commissioners, in the purchase of machinery, tools, trucks, and other equipment for use in constructing, maintaining, and repairing roads, may make such purchases upon the following terms: not less than one-fourth of the purchase price shall be paid in cash, and the remainder of the purchase price shall be paid in not more than five equal annual installments, except that if the board sells, as au...

...(A) A board of township trustees may purchase machinery, tools, trucks, and other equipment for use in constructing, maintaining, and repairing roads and, subject to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, may issue for that purpose general obligation bonds of the township for which the full faith and credit of the township shall be pledged. (B) A board of township trustees may enter into a lease for machinery, tools, tru...

...The board of county commissioners or the county engineer, when authorized by the board of county commissioners or the board of township trustees, may purchase from any public institution within the state any road material, machinery, tools, or equipment, quarried, mined, prepared, or manufactured by such institution.

...maintaining, or repairing any highways, bridges, or culverts within the county, and may also appropriate additional land necessary for cuts and fills together with a right of way to or from such land for the removal of material. If the board of county commissioners or board of township trustees, and the owner of such material or land, cannot agree on the price therefor, the board of county commissioners or board of t...

...The board of township trustees may purchase or lease such machinery and tools as are necessary for use in constructing, reconstructing, maintaining, and repairing roads and culverts within the township, and shall provide suitable places for housing and storing machinery and tools owned by the township. It may purchase such material and employ such labor as is necessary for carrying into effect this section, or it may...

...The board of township trustees may join with the boards of other townships of the same county or an adjoining county for the purpose of purchasing real property containing suitable stone or gravel for road materials, and the necessary machinery for operating such property, as provided in this section and section 5549.24 of the Revised Code. When one or more townships have so joined together the property purchased by ...

...From any real estate purchased and controlled as provided by sections 5549.22 and 5549.24 of the Revised Code, stone, crushed stone, stone screenings, dirt, gravel, sand, or other similar material may be sold by the board of township trustees in control thereof to residents of the counties in which are situated the townships owning such real estate, and for use in the construction, reconstruction, improvement, mainte...

...No tax shall be levied or bonds issued by the board of township trustees to purchase real property, containing suitable stone or gravel for road materials and the necessary machinery for operating the same, unless such tax is approved by a vote of the people in the manner provided by law.

...As used in sections 5551.01 to 5551.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Street or interurban railway company" includes any person, association, firm, or corporation owning any lands or property used for street or interurban railway purposes and any lessee thereof. (B) "Road" includes any state or county road, or the street of any municipal corporation, or any part of such road or street, which forms a continuo...

...Whenever the right of way or other lands of any street or interurban railway company, owned by it in fee simple or in which it has a lesser title or estate, are contiguous to any public road outside a municipal corporation, other than roads upon the state highway system, or are so located that, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, they interfere or may interfere with any proposed location, establishme...

...The board of county commissioners may, by resolution adopted by unanimous vote, find that the public convenience and welfare require the acquisition of right of way or lands and the removal, relocation, or both, of tracks, sidings, and other facilities of a street or interurban railway company in connection with a proposed improvement or construction. The resolution shall state the location and extent of lands to be ...

...Proceedings for the acquisition of the right of way or other lands of a street or interurban railway company, and removal, relocation, or both, of tracks, sidings, and other facilities located thereon, shall be had as provided in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The assessment of any part of the cost thereof shall be had as provided in section 5555.02 of the Revised Code. Such proceedings ma...