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...After the annual estimate for the county has been filed with the board of county commissioners by the county engineer, and the board has made such changes and modifications in the estimate as it deems proper, the board shall then make its levy, for the purposes set forth in the estimate, upon all taxable property of the county, not exceeding in the aggregate two mills upon each dollar of the taxable property of said ...

...The board of county commissioners shall provide annually by taxation an adequate fund for the maintenance and repair of improved county highways. Such fund shall be provided by levies made under sections 5555.48, 5555.49, and 5555.91 of the Revised Code and sections amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. The maintenance and repair fund shall not be less than one hundred dollars for each mile of improved county ...

...Whenever the board of county commissioners or the board of township trustees may levy on the general duplicate of the county or of any township therein any portion of the cost and expense of the construction or improvement of any public road, and such levy is, in pursuance of such authority, made upon property already assessed for payment of the total cost and expenses of construction of a public road, and such asses...

...The board of county commissioners shall repair all substantial damage caused to county or township roads by the transportation of materials or equipment over such roads for use in constructing or repairing any road by such board. Such repairs shall be made immediately upon the completion of the work for which such materials and equipment were transported, or as soon thereafter as weather conditions will permit. The w...

...he laws relating to levies for road and bridge purposes.

... of roads, and in building or repairing bridges.

...The board of county commissioners of a county in which there is located municipal corporations or a part thereof, may, by resolution, create that portion of the county not included within the corporate limits of such municipal corporations 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...

...As used in sections 5557.02 to 5557.07, inclusive, of the Revised Code, "road" includes any state or county roads, or the streets of any municipal corporation, or any part of such roads or streets, which forms a continuous road improvement.

...The board of county commissioners may construct a proposed road improvement into, within, or through a municipal corporation, when the consent of the legislative authority of such municipal corporation has been first obtained. Such consent shall be evidenced by the proper action of the legislative authority, entered upon its records, and the legislative authority may assume and pay such proportion of the cost of that...

...If any part of the cost of the proposed road improvement is assumed by the municipal corporation, the board of county commissioners, after the approval by it of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications, shall cause a copy of the surveys, profiles, and the proposed proportion of cost to be paid by the municipal corporation, to be filed with the legislative authority. The legislative ...

...A municipal corporation shall pay to the county treasurer its estimated proportion of the cost and expense of the proposed road improvement, as fixed in the agreement between the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and the board of county commissioners, out of any funds available therefor. In anticipation of the collection of assessments to be made against abutting property, as provided in section 5557...

...The board of county commissioners may provide for a road improvement within a municipal corporation by levying against the property benefited by such improvement in the same manner as provided in sections 5555.41, 5555.45, 5555.46, and 5555.47 of the Revised Code. The municipal corporation shall pay to the county treasurer its estimated portion of the cost of such an improvement, to be borne by the municipal corporat...

...The board of county commissioners shall receive bids and let the contract for improving such portion of a road as lies within the municipal corporation, in connection with the remainder of a proposed road improvement or separately, as the board determines. The total cost of such work shall be paid on the allowance of the board, by the warrant of the county auditor, and after completion of such work and the payment of...

...Whenever any portion of a road to be improved by the board of county commissioners lies within the corporate limits of a municipal corporation, and the legislative authority of such municipal corporation desires to improve any part of the road within such municipal corporation to a greater width than is contemplated by the proceedings for the improvement by the board, such legislative authority shall, at any time bef...

...The board of county commissioners may repair that portion of a county road extending into or through a municipal corporation, or a part of a county road and a municipal corporation's streets extending into or through a municipal corporation and forming a continuous road improvement, when the consent of the legislative authority of said municipal corporation has been first obtained, and such consent shall be evidenced...

...ewalks, drainage ditches, storm sewers, bridges, and culverts.

...Whenever any territory outside the limits of a municipal corporation having a planning commission or a platting commissioner, and within three miles of the corporate limits of such municipal corporation, has been platted into building lots and the plan of the streets approved by such commission or commissioner, and the plat of such addition has been regularly filed in the office of the county recorder, all streets in...

...The board of county commissioners may, as provided in sections 5559.03 to 5559.16, inclusive, of the Revised Code, improve by grading, draining, paving, constructing storm sewers, sidewalks, curbs, and gutters, any road, street, alley, or portion thereof lying within or bounded on both sides by any platted lands, and situated outside a municipal corporation.

...When a petition is presented to the board of county commissioners asking for the improvement as provided by section 5559.02 of the Revised Code, and specifying the general character of the improvement desired, signed by at least fifty-one per cent of the land or lot owners, residents of such county, who are to be specially assessed for such improvement, the board shall, within thirty days after such petition is prese...

...In determining whether the required number of persons have signed the petition asking for a road improvement, necessary to give the board of county commissioners jurisdiction thereof, the following persons shall not be counted, either for or against the improvement: (A) Owners of life and leasehold estates; (B) Minors and other persons under legal disability, unless represented by legal guardians, in which case the...

...When the board of county commissioners has determined that any road, street, or alley, or portion thereof shall be improved as provided for in section 5559.02 to 5559.16, inclusive, of the Revised Code, such board shall, by a majority vote, determine the route and termini of such improvement, the kind and extent thereof, and at the same time order the county engineer to make such surveys, plans, profiles, cross secti...

...Upon the completion of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for an improvement under section 5559.02 of the Revised Code by the county engineer, the engineer shall transmit to the board of county commissioners copies of such surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications. The board shall then publish, in a newspaper of general circulation within th...

...If, after determination of all claims for compensation and damages on account of land or property taken for an improvement under section 5559.02 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners is still satisfied that the public convenience and welfare require that such improvement be made, and that the cost will not be excessive, in view of the public utility thereof, such board shall order, by resolution, tha...

...The entire compensation, damages, and costs of the improvement, including the expense of engineering and inspection, shall be assessed against the real estate abutting upon an improvement under section 5559.02 of the Revised Code according to the benefits accruing to such real estate.

...As soon as all questions of compensation and damages have been determined in a road improvement case, the county engineer shall make, upon actual view, an estimated assessment upon the real estate to be charged therewith, of the compensation, damages, and costs of an improvement as provided by section 5559.02 of the Revised Code. Such estimated assessment shall be according to the benefit which will result to t...