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...As soon as possible after the appointment of the initial members, a county transit board shall organize for the transaction of business, elect a vice-chairman and secretary and prescribe their duties, designate a fiscal officer who need not be a member of the board, and adopt bylaws, rules, and regulations to govern its proceedings. Thereafter the board shall hold regular meetings at least once every month. Sp...

...nty transit board or a board of county commissioners operating a transit system are employees of the county. If the system is operated by the board of county commissioners, the board shall appoint an executive director, who shall be in the unclassified service. (B) Any county transit board that established its own civil service organization and procedure prior to October 25, 1995, shall continue to operate un...

...The county commissioners may advance funds from any available fund of the county for purchase or acquisition of a transit system, surveys, planning, and mass transportation studies. The amount advanced may be reimbursed from any funds of the county transit board including the proceeds of the sale of bonds for the purchase, acquisition, construction, enlargement, improvement, or equipment of the county transit system.

...county transit board or board of county commissioners, funds that are appropriated by a board of county commissioners and expended for social services in the county served by the board may be used as the local match needed to obtain state or federal funds available for the county transit system. (C) Funds raised by a county tax levy may be used as local matching funds under division (B) of this section only to the e...

...county transit board or board of county commissioners operating a transit system may enter into an agreement with any municipal corporation, township, or other county, whereby the board undertakes to provide transportation service for the movement of persons within, from, or to that municipal corporation, township, or county, to make payments or transfer real estate or interests therein or a combination thereof, as t...

...The operations, revenues, and property of the county transit system and all obligations secured by the real estate or interests therein or revenues of the system, or the income derived therefrom, are exempt from the levy of any excise or other tax by the county or any political subdivision of the state, unless and to the extent such exemption is prohibited by the constitution or other laws of this state.

...county transit board or board of county commissioners operating a transit system, that acquires, leases as lessee, or receives a right to use a publicly or privately owned transit system may enter into an agreement with the operator thereof transferring that transit system, and that operator may enter into an agreement with the county transit board or board of county commissioners operating a transit system providing...

...(A) The board of county commissioners, on its own initiative if it operates a county transit system or at the request of the county transit board if one is appointed, may issue bonds of the county pursuant to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, for the purpose of purchasing, acquiring, constructing, enlarging, and improving the county transit system. (B) The board of county commissioners operating a transit system or ...

...unty transit board or a board of county commissioners operating a transit system may issue refunding bonds of the county to refund any bonds previously issued under division (B) of section 306.09 of the Revised Code for any of the following purposes: (A) Refunding bonds which have matured or are about to mature when the rentals, revenues, and other income, charges, and moneys pledged for the payment of such bonds ar...

...ontrol over the county transit system's budgets, appropriations, collections, custody, and application of its revenues or other funds received by it and shall have jurisdiction of all purchases and contracts entered into in connection with the county transit system pursuant to sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code. In those counties, the officers and employees of the county transit system shall be under the s...

...Any board of county commissioners operating a transit system or any county transit board shall, if it acquires any existing transit system, assume all the employer's obligations under any existing labor contract between the employees and management of the system. The board shall, if it acquires, constructs, controls, or operates any such facilities, negotiate arrangements to protect the interests of employees affecte...

...A board of county commissioners operating a transit system or a county transit board created under sections 306.01 to 306.13 of the Revised Code shall be exempt from and shall not be required to pay any taxes on property, both real and personal, belonging to the board, which is used exclusively for any public purpose; provided, such exemption shall not apply to any property belonging to the board while a private ente...

...(A) If a board of county commissioners awards a franchise to a franchisee on behalf of a county transit board, the county transit board shall submit an annual written report to the board of county commissioners not later than a date designated by the board of county commissioners and in a form prescribed by that board. The board of county commissioners shall make the report available on the general web site of ...

...As used in sections 306.30 to 306.53, inclusive, of the Revised Code, "transit facility" means any: (A) Street railway, motor bus, tramline, subway, monorail, rapid transit, aeroplane, helicopter, ferry, or other ground or water transportation system having as its primary purpose the regularly scheduled mass movement of passengers between locations within the territorial boundaries of a regional transit authority, ...

...(A) As used in sections 306.30 to 306.71 of the Revised Code, "township" means either of the following: (1) An entire township; (2) Township territory that is designated as a township under division (B) of this section for the purpose of joining a regional transit authority. (B) A board of township trustees may adopt a resolution designating as a township, for the purpose of joining a regional transit authority, t...

...A regional transit authority may be created in the manner provided in section 306.32 of the Revised Code, for any one or more of the following purposes: acquiring, constructing, operating, maintaining, replacing, improving, and extending transit facilities; controlling and administering the public utilities franchise of such transit facilities; entering into and supervising franchise agreements; accepting assignment ...

...egional transit authority may amend its budget and resolution adopted pursuant to section 5705.34 of the Revised Code, and the levy shall be placed on the current tax list and duplicate and collected as other taxes are collected from all taxable property within the territorial boundaries of the regional transit authority, including the territory within each political subdivision added as a result of the election. T...

...gional transit authority may amend its budget for its next fiscal year and its resolution adopted pursuant to section 5705.34 of the Revised Code or adopt such resolution, and the levy shall be placed on the current tax list and duplicate and collected as all other taxes are collected from all taxable property within the enlarged territory of the regional transit authority including the territory within each p...

...egional transit authority may amend its budget and resolution adopted pursuant to section 5705.34 of the Revised Code, and the levy shall be placed on the current tax list and duplicate and collected as other taxes are collected from all taxable property within the territorial boundaries of the regional transit authority, including the territory within the political subdivision added as a result of the election. If t...

...county shall be appointed by the county commissioners of such county. A board of trustees of an authority created by two or more political subdivisions shall consist of such number of members, who shall have such qualifications and who shall be appointed by such public officers as shall be provided in the resolutions or ordinances creating such authority or any amendments thereto. If the resolutions or ordinances cre...

...all be appointed by the board of county commissioners, two of whom shall be appointed by the most populous municipal corporation that is included in the regional transit authority, and one of whom shall be appointed by the second most populous municipal corporation in the county, regardless of whether the second most populous municipal corporation in the county is a member of the regional transit authority. A trustee...

...All the power and authority granted to a regional transit authority shall be vested in and exercised by its board of trustees which shall manage and conduct its affairs. The board shall, within the limitations of sections 306.30 to 306.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by its rules and regulations provide the procedure for its actions, the manner of selection of its president, vice-president, secretary-treasurer, a...

...ired by the Ohio peace officer training commission as authorized in section 109.77 of the Revised Code, or be otherwise qualified. The cost of the training shall be provided by the regional transit authority. (Z) May procure a policy or policies insuring members of its board of trustees against liability on account of damages or injury to persons and property resulting from any act or omission of a member in the mem...

...A regional transit authority may purchase an articulated bus only if the regional transit authority establishes and follows a preference system for buses that are manufactured or assembled within this state, or, if none, within the United States.

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) In the exercise of its authority under division (Y) of section 306.35 of the Revised Code, a regional transit authority shall not employ a person as a regional transit authority police officer on a permanent basis, on a temporary basis, for a probationary term, or on other than a permanent basis if the person...