Ohio Revised Code Search

...Any fees or fines collected under this chapter shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the highway operating fund created in section 5735.051 of the Revised Code to be used by the director of transportation solely for purposes of enforcing and administering the requirements established under this chapter.

...A sign may be displayed adjacent to an interstate highway system that uses light-emitting diode lighting if the sign is located within the boundaries of a tourism development district designated by a township under section 503.56 of the Revised Code or a municipal corporation under section 715.014 of the Revised Code except to the extent limited or prohibited by this chapter, any rule adopted under this chapter, or a...

...Whoever erects or maintains an advertising device in violation of sections 5516.01 to 5516.14 of the Revised Code, or rules adopted thereunder, shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five thousand dollars.

...The director of transportation shall make a map in outline and profile, and plans, specifications, profiles, and estimates covering proposed projects. When completed the director shall indorse upon such maps, profiles, plans, specifications, and estimates of quantities his approval of the same and cause one copy thereof to be placed on file in his office and another in the office of the district deputy director of tr...

...ward contracts under this section for a bridge project that spans the Ohio river for an amount not to exceed one billion five hundred million dollars. The project may include both of the following: (a) The replacement, addition, improvement, or rehabilitation of a bridge or a system of bridges over the Ohio river; (b) The replacement, addition, improvement, or rehabilitation of roadways providing for ingress to a...

...(A) As used in this section, "indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract" means a contract for an unspecified quantity, within stated limits, of supplies or services that will be delivered by the awarded bidder over a defined period. (B) Notwithstanding section 5517.01 of the Revised Code, the director of transportation may enter into indefinite delivery indefinite quantity construction contracts for highway ...

...r improvement of a state highway, or a bridge or culvert thereon, or the installation of a traffic control signal on a state highway, the director of transportation, except as provided in section 5517.021 of the Revised Code, shall make an estimate of the cost of the work using the force account project assessment form developed by the auditor of state under section 117.16 of the Revised Code. When a force acc...

...ng work: (a) Replace any single span bridge in its substantial entirety or widen any single span bridge, including necessary modifications to accommodate widening the existing substructure and wing walls. The director shall proceed under division (A)(1)(a) of this section only if the deck area of the new or widened bridge does not exceed seven hundred square feet as measured around the outside perimeter of t...

... the closing to traffic of the highway, bridge, or culvert involved and, if the director finds it necessary to close the same to traffic, the extent to which the same shall be closed. Such finding shall be indorsed on the plans. Plans and specifications for the construction of any project, whenever practicable, shall be prepared so as to avoid closing to traffic at any time the entire width of the highway, bridge, o...

...The director of transportation shall repair all substantial damage done to county and township roads or to streets in municipal corporations resulting from the transportation of materials or equipment over such roads for use in constructing, reconstructing, or repairing, either by force account or contract, any road, street, or highway project of the department. Temporary repairs on such roads made necessary by reaso...

...(A) Whenever any proposed project of the department of transportation includes the construction of a sound barrier, the director of transportation shall notify the appropriate local legislative authority of the proposed construction. The director shall conduct at least one public hearing on the proposed sound barrier in the county in which it is to be located. Once a week for two successive weeks, the director ...

...(A) If not already present, the department of transportation shall install signs and other traffic control devices designed to slow down the flow of traffic in construction and similar work zones. The signs and devices may include arrow boards, channelizing devices, temporary raise pavement markers, portable changeable message signs, temporary traffic barriers, screens, rumble strips, and any other signs or devices t...

...(A) As used in this section, "start date" means one of the following, as applicable: (1) The date that the department of transportation will advertise for competitive bids related to the chip sealing or fog sealing of an asphalt surface on a state highway project; (2) The date that the department will begin chip sealing or fog sealing an asphalt surface on a state highway project through force account in accordan...

... purpose related to highways, roads, or bridges authorized by Chapters 5501., 5503., 5511., 5513., 5515., 5516., 5517., 5519., 5521., 5523., 5525., 5527., 5528., 5529., 5531., 5533., and 5535. of the Revised Code, or, if the Ohio rail development commission is unable to purchase property for any purpose necessary for the implementation of rail service under Chapter 4981. of the Revised Code, the director shall issue,...

...The costs and expenses in connection with the purchase and appropriation of property for highway purposes shall be payable by the director of transportation out of any funds of the department of transportation available for the establishment, construction, improvement, maintenance, and repair of highways.

...The director of transportation, when he acquires property for highway purposes, either by purchase or appropriation, shall promptly monument the right-of-way line of the property acquired. The director, as soon as practicable in view of the availability of the funds and forces of his department , shall definitely and accurately ascertain and monument the roads and highways on the state highway system. At the discre...

...The director of transportation, upon the request by and the approval of the legislative authority of a village, shall maintain, repair, and apply standard longitudinal pavement marking lines as the director considers appropriate, or may establish, construct, reconstruct, improve, or widen any section of a state highway within the limits of a village. The director also may erect regulatory and warning signs, as define...

...In determining new highway locations the director shall consider the following factors, wherever applicable, and include such considerations in the record of his proceedings: national defense; economic activity; employment; open spaces; existing park lands; recreation; fire protection; esthetics; public utilities; safety; residential character and location; religious institutions and practices; rights and freedoms o...

...n the construction or reconstruction of bridges and viaducts, together with the approaches thereto, and may pay such portion of the cost of any such work as is agreed upon between the board and the director. Such board may co-operate with the director in the preparation of comprehensive transportation and land use studies and major thoroughfare reports and in establishing, constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing, o...

...Where the board of county commissioners, under authority of section 5521.02 of the Revised Code, co-operate with the director of transportation in any work within a municipal corporation, such board and the legislative authority of the municipal corporation may co-operate with respect to such work, and the legislative authority of the municipal corporation may assume and pay such portion of that part of the entire co...

...If the director of transportation approves the proposal to co-operate, the director shall certify such approval to the board of county commissioners or the municipal authorities so offering to co-operate. The director shall cause to be transmitted to the board or municipal authority copies of such maps, plans, profiles, specifications, and estimates as the director may prepare for the construction of the work covered...

...The director of transportation, after receipt of a resolution providing for cooperation in a project as provided in section 5521.04 of the Revised Code, shall not approve a change order or extra work contract relating to that project until he first gives notice, in writing, of the change order or extra work contract to the affected board of county commissioners or municipal authorities.

...If the board of county commissioners or municipal authority, after adopting the maps, plans, profiles, specifications, and estimates, are still of the opinion that the work should be constructed, and that they should co-operate upon the basis set forth in the proposal, such board or municipal authority shall adopt a resolution requesting the director of transportation to proceed with the work, and shall enter into a ...

...vation of state highways, including the bridges, culverts, and viaducts thereon, and the approaches thereto, and may purchase or appropriate the right to make waste dumps, borrow pits, and to relocate, alter, widen, clean out, deepen, straighten, or change the channel of any watercourse necessary for any of the above purposes, and the board or municipal authority shall follow the procedure specified for the director ...

...In all cases in which the director of transportation desires to cooperate with the board of county commissioners or with any municipal corporation in the establishment, construction, reconstruction, widening, maintenance, repair, railway grade crossing elimination, or other improvement of any section or portion of a state highway, the director may, as a condition precedent to his extending such cooperation, require s...