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...Either the municipal corporation or the railroad company, after the expiration of three months from the passage of the ordinance referred to by section 4957.12 of the Revised Code, may apply to the court of common pleas by petition accompanied by the necessary plans prepared by the municipal corporation or company, asking that any grade crossing be abolished. Such plans must show the grades to be established for such...

...The cost of constructing a crossing improvement authorized, including the making of ways, crossings, or viaducts, above or below the railroad tracks, and the raising or lowering of the grades of the railroad tracks and sidetracks for such distance as is required by such municipal corporation and made necessary by such improvement, together with the cost of land or property purchased or appropriated, and damages to ow...

...In case of the rebuilding of bridges or the other structures provided for in section 4957.35 of the Revised Code, if the structure is at or in line with a public street or highway and a cross street, the cost of making such streets or highways conform to a new grade, with all damages to owners of property abutting on them because of such change, the railroad company or its assigns shall pay all costs or damages resul...

...When a railroad company, the line of whose railroad has not been finally located in whole or in part, finds it necessary, in order to avoid dangerous or difficult curves, grades, or dangerous or unsubstantial grounds or foundations, or for other reasonable cause, to pass through a county not named in the articles of incorporation, or to avoid passing into or through a county named in them, other than a county in whic...

...For the purpose of avoiding annoyance to public travel, dangerous or difficult curves or grades, or unsafe or unsubstantial grounds or foundations, or when the roadbed has been injured or destroyed by the current of a river, watercourse, or other unavoidable or reasonable cause, a railroad company may change the location or grade of any portion of its railroad, but shall not depart from the general route prescribed i...

...For the purpose of making any change provided by section 4961.09 of the Revised Code, the railroad company shall have all rights, powers, and privileges to enter upon and appropriate lands in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...As soon as convenient after a consolidation of railroad companies resulting in the formation of a new company, the new company shall establish a principal office at some point in this state on the line of its railroad, but may change it at pleasure. Public notice of such establishment or change shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the state, and by filing a written notice thereof wit...

...(A) The Ohio rail development commission, from time to time, may issue bonds in such principal amounts as the commission finds necessary to finance one or more rail service projects. Sections 9.98 to 9.983 of the Revised Code are hereby made applicable in their entirety to any bonds authorized to be issued under this chapter except as otherwise provided herein. (B) The commission, from time to time, may issue ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the board of county commissioners may change the boundaries of any civil township, or partition any township among other townships within the county, by attaching a part of one township to another, by dividing one township and attaching the parts to other townships, or by laying off and designating a new township from the territory of one or more townships of th...

...After a change of boundaries is made as provided by section 503.07 of the Revised Code, any township not having a municipal corporation remaining within its limits may be partitioned as provided in section 503.02 of the Revised Code. Unless and until a partition is made under that section, the remaining township territory shall remain intact. If the changes made under section 503.07 of the Revised Code require the re...

...The board of county commissioners, on petition of a majority of the electors of an incorporated township, for good cause shown, may alter the name of such township. Thirty days' previous notice of such intended application must be given by advertisement, at three public places in the township. Such change shall not affect the right of property or the internal concerns of the township.

...In case of a division or change of a township which has retained its original name, the board of township trustees, in levying a tax for the payment of any legal or just claims against such township contracted prior to the change, shall procure a certified abstract from the county auditor, or, in case parcels of such township have been attached to townships of different counties, from the county auditors of the count...

...(A) A township that adopts a limited home rule government may do all of the following by resolution, provided that any of these resolutions, other than a resolution to supply water or sewer services in accordance with sections 504.18 to 504.20 of the Revised Code, may be enforced only by the imposition of civil fines as authorized in this chapter: (1) Exercise all powers of local self-government within the unincorp...

...(A) The board of township trustees may prepare and adopt a general plan of water supply or sewer services. After the general plan has been approved by the board, the board immediately shall notify the board of county commissioners if territory served by a county water supply facility or a county sewer district includes territory to be covered by the plan, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation that ope...

...(A) In calendar year 2018, each township trustee is entitled to compensation in an amount for each day of service in the business of the township, to be paid from the township treasury as follows: (1) In townships having a budget of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or less, forty dollars and forty-one cents per day for not more than two hundred days; (2) In townships having a budget of more than two hundred fifty...

...(A) As provided in this section and section 505.601 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees of any township may procure and pay all or any part of the cost of insurance policies that may provide benefits for hospitalization, surgical care, major medical care, disability, dental care, eye care, medical care, hearing aids, prescription drugs, or sickness and accident insurance, or a combination of any of th...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 5101.161 and 5101.162 of the Revised Code: (1) "Disability financial assistance" means the financial assistance program established under former Chapter 5115. of the Revised Code. (2) "Supplemental nutrition assistance program" means the program administered by the department of job and family services pursuant to section 5101.54 of the Revised Code. (3) "Ohio works first" ...

...(A) Upon petition by the county department of job and family services, the department's designee, or the county prosecutor, the court may issue an order authorizing the provision of protective services on an emergency basis to an adult. The petition for any emergency order shall include all of the following: (1) The name, age, and address of the adult in need of protective services; (2) The nature of the emergency;...

...The department of job and family services, in consultation with the Ohio child welfare training program steering committee, shall designate training regions in the state. The department of children and youth, at times it selects, shall review the composition of the training regions. The committee, at times it selects, shall also review the training regions' composition and provide the department recommendations on ch...

...(A) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing a procedure for monitoring the expenditures for publicly funded child care to ensure that expenditures do not exceed the available federal and state funds for publicly funded child care. The department of children and youth, with the assistance of the office of budget and management, shall monitor...

...(A) The department of mental health and addiction services shall maintain, operate, manage, and govern state institutions and other services for the care and treatment of persons with mental illnesses. (B)(1) The department of mental health and addiction services may, with the approval of the governor, designate the name and purpose of any institutions under its jurisdiction and may change, with the approval of th...

...(A) Subject to division (C) of this section, the director of rehabilitation and correction may change the purpose for which any institution or place under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction is being used. The director may designate a new or another use for such institution, if the change of use and new designation has for its objective, improvement in the classification, segregation, care,...

...(A) A patient, patient's estate, or liable relative may apply for a discount by completing an application form prescribed by the director of mental health and addiction services. The department of mental health and addiction services may require a patient, estate, or relative to furnish any of the following with an application form: (1) A copy of the patient's, estate's, or liable relative's federal income ta...

...After a patient's admittance to a hospital, the department of mental health and addiction services shall conduct a financial assessment to determine whether the patient, patient's estate, or liable relative will be charged an amount discounted from the amount the department charges under section 5121.33 of the Revised Code. The department shall make the determination in accordance with sections 5121.40 and 5121...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Chief medical officer" means the licensed physician appointed by the managing officer of an institution for persons with intellectual disabilities with the approval of the director of developmental disabilities to provide medical treatment for residents of the institution. (B) "Chief program director" means a person with special training and experience in the diagnosis and management...