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... 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...

...Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code shall provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized by such chapter and shall be regarded as supplementary and additional to powers conferred by other laws, and shall not be regarded as in derogation of any powers now existing.

...The bridge commission of any county or city may adopt such bylaws and rules as it determines advisable for the control and regulation of each bridge constructed or acquired by it, for the protection and preservation of property under its jurisdiction and control, and for the maintenance and preservation of good order within the property under its control. Such bylaws and rules shall be published in a newspaper of gen...