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...t or resolution, to be performed by the commission or any officer thereof, including the fixing, charging, and collecting of tolls.

...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...

... and maintenance of bridges by a bridge commission constitutes the performance of essential governmental functions, the commission shall not be required to pay any taxes or assessments upon any bridge or upon any property acquired or used by the commission under Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code, or upon the income therefrom, and the bonds issued under such chapter, their transfer, and the income therefrom, including...

...When all bridge bonds issued under sections 5593.01 to 5593.24 of the Revised Code, in connection with any bridge and the interest thereon have been paid, or a sufficient amount for the payment of all such bonds and the interest thereon, to the maturity thereof has been set aside in trust for the benefit of the bondholders, such bridge shall become part of the state highway system, shall thereafter be maintained by t...

...All final actions of a bridge commission shall be journalized and such journal shall be open to the inspection of the public at all reasonable times.

...Whoever violates section 5593.20 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for a first offense; for each subsequent offense such person shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars.

...As used in sections 5901.01 to 5901.37 of the Revised Code: (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, "veteran" means either of the following: (1) A former member of the armed forces of the United States who served on active military duty and received an honorable discharge or honorable separation, a member of the armed forces of the United States who died on active military duty, or a membe...

...In each county there shall be a commission known as "the veterans service commission." Except as provided in section 5901.021 of the Revised Code, the commission shall be composed of five residents of the county appointed to five-year terms by a judge of the court of common pleas. At the time of appointment or reappointment to the commission, no commission member appointed under this section shall be an employee of t...

...itemized statement, the board of county commissioners shall allow the persons composing the veterans service commission their reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of their duties, and shall fix a fair compensation for their services. The county auditor shall issue a warrant upon the county treasurer for the amount so allowed.

...uary in each year, the veterans service commission may appoint for the county a veterans service committee, consisting of at least three persons who are residents of the county, whose duties shall be set forth by the commission. Such persons shall be veterans, one of whom shall be designated as chairperson of the county veterans service committee. The commission shall fill all vacancies that occur in any such committ...

...The veterans service commission may employ an executive director, who shall be a veteran and shall be employed in the unclassified service, and such investigators and clerks as are necessary to perform the duties of the commission. Each investigator and clerk shall be a veteran or, if a qualified veteran is not available, the spouse, surviving spouse, child, or parent of a veteran. Each shall be employed in the class...

...The veterans service commission shall employ one or more county veterans service officers, one of whom may act as executive director. Each service officer shall be a veteran. Within sixty days after the date of initial employment, each service officer shall file a copy of the officer's form DD214 with the department of veterans services in accordance with guidelines established by the director of that department. Eac...

...Each applicant for financial assistance under sections 5901.02 to 5901.15 of the Revised Code shall be a veteran, an active-duty member of the armed forces of the United States, or the spouse, surviving spouse, dependent parent, minor child, or ward of a veteran or active-duty member of the armed forces of the United States, who has been a bona fide resident of the county in which application is being made for at lea...

...e shall provide the veterans service commission with a statement concerning the applicant's household income and the amount of real and personal taxable property, stocks, bonds, moneys on hand loaned or deposited in any bank or elsewhere, shares in building associations, mortgages, notes, or other articles of value from which the applicant derives an income or revenue. The statement ...

...erson certified by the veterans service commission to the county auditor, the auditor shall issue a warrant upon the county treasurer for the allowance awarded to that person by the commission. Upon proper cause shown, the commission may appoint a suitable person to draw, receipt for, and properly expend the allowance made to any person under sections 5901.02 to 5901.15 of the Revised Code, after the voucher or certi...

...The veterans service commission shall adopt and implement rules to grant immediate assistance, financial or otherwise, to any person entitled to it under sections 5901.02 to 5901.14 of the Revised Code, and to any member, spouse, or dependent of any member of the Ohio national guard, the Ohio military reserve, the Ohio naval militia, or a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States serving active milit...

...ganization exists, the veterans service commission of any county shall purchase or provide a veterans plot in any cemetery in such county or municipal corporation where no burial plot is provided, for the burial, removal, and reinterment of the bodies of neglected and indigent veterans. The expense of such purchase shall be filed with and audited by the county auditor, who shall issue a warrant for it upon the count...

...On and after the interment of the remains of one or more deceased veterans in a veterans plot, the reasonable expenses of the care of the grave shall be annually provided for by the municipal corporation or township in which the remains are buried, and shall be paid annually to the cemetery association in which the remains may be interred, removed, or reinterred.

...resented to the county veterans service commission signed by the officers of a local or state veterans organization, or by a majority of a memorial committee of any municipal corporation in which one or more such organizations exist, or by veterans in townships or villages in which no veterans organization exists. Such petition shall contain: (A) The name of the deceased veteran or veterans whose remains are sought ...

...g regular meeting, the veterans service commission shall act upon any petition presented as provided by section 5901.18 of the Revised Code, and, if true, it shall issue an order to maintain a dignified burial site with the agreement of the petitioners, or direct the removal of the remains of the deceased veteran or veterans to the cemetery designated in the petition, within the municipal corporation or township, in ...

...uch statement with the veterans service commission, which shall, at the next regular meeting, act upon such expense account and file it with the county auditor forthwith, at which time it shall become a charge upon the county in which the interment or reinterment is made. Such expense shall be audited and the auditor shall issue a warrant for it on the county treasurer, who shall pay such warrant out of the general ...

...If it becomes necessary to purchase additional plots of ground in any cemetery in which a veterans plot has been filled with graves to its capacity, sections 5901.16 to 5901.24 of the Revised Code do not prevent the purchase of such additional plots.

...The board of county commissioners, the board of townships trustees, or the legislative authority of a municipal corporation may enter into contracts with cemetery associations providing for the purchase and maintenance, in cemeteries within the county, of plots of ground for the burial of deceased veterans and the deceased spouses of veterans. Any such purchase may be made either by cash or by installment payments. T...

...Any veterans plot owned or maintained by any county, township, or municipal corporation shall be open for the burial of the body of any deceased veteran on application by a relative of the decedent or other proper person responsible for the disposition of the remains to the county, township, or municipal corporation owning or maintaining the plot.