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...Each state agency and any county, township, or municipal corporation owning, leasing, or controlling the operation of parking spaces for use by its employees may provide preferential parking for those vehicles used in carpools, vanpools, and buspools. The department of administrative services shall coordinate the efforts of the state agencies in providing preferential parking for such vehicles.

...The director of administrative services shall appoint such forepersons, patrol officers, lock tenders, inspectors, engineers, and all other employees as are necessary for the maintenance and operation of the public works. They shall be assigned to duty under the supervision of the director, under rules and regulations prescribed by the director. Any such employee, when deemed necessary by the director, shall gi...

...All claims against the state for the repair, maintenance, and operation of the public works of Ohio, including salary and expenses of all employees engaged in such work, shall be paid upon the order of the director of administrative services.

...(A) As used in this section and section 123.11 of the Revised Code, "public exigency" means an injury or obstruction that occurs in any public works of the state and that materially impairs its immediate use or places in jeopardy property adjacent to it; an immediate danger of such an injury or obstruction; or an injury or obstruction, or an immediate danger of an injury or obstruction, that occurs in any public work...

...When a public exigency, as defined in division (A) of section 123.10 of the Revised Code, exists, the executive director of the Ohio facilities construction commission may take possession of lands and use them, or materials and other property necessary for the maintenance, protection, or repair of the public works, in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code.

...No land lease or sale of state lands shall be made by the director of administrative services except upon the written approval of the governor and the attorney general.

...Except as otherwise provided by law, the director of administrative services shall have the custody and control of the books, records, papers, surveys, maps, plats, and documents that pertain to any of the public works of this state.

...(A) Every two years, the department of administrative services shall issue a report on all real property owned or leased by the state or a state agency. The director of administrative services shall deliver the report to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, and the governor not later than the thirty-first day of January of every odd-numbered year. The study shall include all of th...

...The department of administrative services may adopt, amend, and rescind rules pertaining to lands under the supervision of the department in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

...All bids, proposals, and contracts received by the director of administrative services shall be indorsed, filed, and preserved in his office. Copies of contracts for work or materials, water privileges or lands on which such privileges are to be used, leases, and all other contracts entered into by the director shall be filed and recorded in his office within thirty days from their execution.

...The department of administrative services may lease land belonging to or under the control or jurisdiction of a state university, not required nor to be required for use of the university, to a developer in accordance with this section. "Developer," as used in this section, means a person, partnership, association, corporation, or community improvement corporation established pursuant to Chapter 1724. of the Re...

...The director of administrative services may administer oaths to persons required by law to file affidavits or statements in the department of administrative services and to witnesses who are examined in matters pertaining to the administration of the public works.

...There is hereby established in the state treasury the theater equipment maintenance fund. All appropriate theater-related revenues of the department of administrative services, as determined by the department, shall be credited to that fund and to any accounts created in that fund with the department's approval. All appropriate theater-related expenses of the department, as determined by the department, includi...

...(A) There is hereby created the Ohio facilities construction commission. The commission shall administer the design and construction of improvements to public facilities of the state in accordance with this chapter, the provision of financial assistance to school districts for the acquisition or construction of classroom facilities in accordance with Chapter 3318. of the Revised Code, and any other applicable provisi...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio facilities construction commission fund, consisting of transfers of moneys authorized by the general assembly and revenues received by the Ohio facilities construction commission under section 123.21 of the Revised Code. Investment earnings on moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund. Moneys in the fund may be used by the commission, in performing its...

...(A) The Ohio facilities construction commission may perform any act and ensure the performance of any function necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of, and exercise the powers granted under this chapter or any other provision of the Revised Code, including any of the following: (1) Except as otherwise provided in section 123.211 of the Revised Code, prepare, or contract to be prepared, by licensed eng...

...(A) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of section 123.21 of the Revised Code, the executive director of the Ohio facilities construction commission may authorize any of the following agencies to administer any capital facilities project, the estimated cost of which, including design fees, construction, equipment, and contingency amounts, is less than three million dollars: (1) The department of mental health a...

...d. (5) "Political subdivision" means a county, township, municipal corporation, board of education of any school district, or any other body corporate and politic that is responsible for government activities in a geographic area smaller than that of the state. (6) "State funded" means funded in whole or in part through appropriation by the general assembly or through the use of any guarantee provided by this state...

...(A) As used in this section, "institution of higher education" means a state university or college, as defined in section 3345.12 of the Revised Code, or a state community college. (B) The Ohio facilities construction commission shall establish a local administration competency certification program to certify institutions of higher education to administer capital facilities projects pursuant to section 3345....

...(A) The executive director of the Ohio facilities construction commission shall regulate the rate of tolls to be collected on the construction or improvement of the public works of the state, and shall fix all rentals and collect all tolls, rents, fines, commissions, fees, and other revenues arising from any source in the construction or improvement of the public works of the state. (B) Deposits made to the c...

... Revised Code, a municipal corporation, county, township, or school district, a port authority created under Chapter 4582. of the Revised Code, any other political subdivision or special district in this state established by or pursuant to law, or any combination of these entities; except where otherwise indicated, the United States or any department, division, or agency of the United States, or any agency, commissio...

...truction commission, and any applicable county or municipal offices to ensure each requirement in this division is met. (f) Every record owner of a parcel of real property located in the proposed transformational major sports facility mixed-use project district shall be required to comply with, and will cause every person that enters into a lease, license, use, or operating agreement for all or a portion of the bui...

...The Ohio cultural and sports facility performance grant fund is created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of all money remitted by the director of commerce under division (I) of section 169.08 of the Revised Code and amounts appropriated by the general assembly. The money in the fund shall be used as performance grants for Ohio cultural facility, Ohio sports facility, and major sports facility projects in...

...strument that is duly recorded with the county recorder. (D) The office of budget and management, Ohio facilities construction commission, and department of taxation, as applicable, may develop forms necessary to implement and administer this section.

...The theater in the Vern Riffe center for government and the arts in Columbus, formerly known as the capitol theatre, shall be known as the Speaker Jo Ann Davidson theatre.

...oposed improvement is wholly within one county but within less than the legal assessment distance of the county line, and a petition is filed asking for such improvement, signed by fifty-one per cent of the persons to be specially assessed therefor, such improvement shall be regarded as joint county improvement, and shall be made in accordance with sections 5555.21 to 5555.30, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...A joint board of county commissioners has jurisdiction to provide for the construction of a portion a road improvement wholly within one county when it is necessary to avoid some place on the county line where the construction thereof would be unusually expensive or difficult.

...ired shall be issued separately by each county to cover its proportion of the costs and expenses of such improvement.

...ating to improvements wholly within one county shall when applicable apply to improvements authorized by a joint board of county commissioners.

...uplicate of all taxable property in the county, or out of any funds available therefor. Not less than twenty-five nor more than forty per cent thereof shall be paid out of the proceeds of any levies for road purposes upon the taxable property of any township in which said improvement is situated in whole or in part. The balance thereof, which shall not be less than twenty nor more than thirty-five per cent, shall be ...

...A board of county commissioners desiring to construct a county road improvement, and finding that no equitable method of apportioning the compensation, damages, and expenses thereof is provided by section 5555.41 of the Revised Code, or finding that an equitable assessment cannot be made by the use of any of the several assessment areas authorized by said section, may order the county engineer to make a tentati...

...The board of county commissioners, unless acting pursuant to section 5555.022 of the Revised Code, or the joint board of county commissioners, upon a unanimous vote, may order, without a petition, that all of a county's costs for constructing any improvement be paid out of the proceeds of any tax levies for road purposes on the grand duplicate of the county or out of any road improvement fund available for the paym...

...l estate, are to be paid in part by the county and in part by the townships in which such improvement is situated, under an agreement between the board of county commissioners and the boards of township trustees entered into under section 5555.41 or 5555.43 of the Revised Code, the part of such compensation, damages, and expenses to be paid by the interested townships may be paid from the proceeds of any levy made by...

...If property is separated from an improvement by a canal, street or interurban railway, steam railway, or in any other similar manner, such property shall be regarded for the purpose of assessment under the road improvement laws as property abutting upon said improvement. Land owned or occupied by such street or interurban railway or steam railroad and the land lying back thereof shall be assessed on account of said i...

...the Revised Code shall be placed by the county auditor upon a special duplicate to be collected as taxes, and the principal of the assessments shall be payable in not more than forty semiannual installments extending over a period of not more than twenty years, as determined by the board of county commissioners. If any assessment is twenty-five dollars or less, or if the unpaid balance of any assessment is twenty-fiv...

...tion of the life tenant to the board of county commissioners, be apportioned between the owner of the life estate and the owner of the fee in proportion to the value of their respective estates. Upon the filing of the application, the board shall fix a date for hearing it and cause notice of such hearing to be served on the owner of the fee in the manner provided by section 5555.09 of the Revised Code. Either party t...

...es of the improvement to be paid by the county shall be paid out of any road improvement fund available therefor. For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of the county's proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of constructing, reconstructing, improving, maintaining, and repairing roads under sections 5555.01 to 5555.72, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board of county commiss...

...uated in whole or in part, the board of county commissioners may levy a tax not exceeding three mills in any one year upon all the taxable property of such townships. Such levy shall be in addition to all other levies authorized by law for township purposes, and subject only to the limitation on the combined maximum rate for all taxes.

...es of any improvement to be paid by any county or township if such improvement is authorized and constructed by any joint board of county commissioners, or by agreement entered into between such joint board and the board of township trustees of one or more townships.

...The board of county commissioners, in anticipation of the collection of taxes, or taxes and assessments, for a road improvement or any part of a road improvement may issue and sell, or incur, public obligations of the county under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code to pay the estimated costs of the improvement. The making of any special assessments referred to in sections 5555.41 to 5555.50 of the Revised Code shall ...

...After the board of county commissioners decides to proceed with the improvement, it shall do so in accordance with sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code. No contract for any improvement shall be awarded at a price more than twenty per cent in excess of the estimated cost.

...section 153.13 of the Revised Code, the county engineer may, under such conditions as he prescribes, allow and pay to a contractor a sum not exceeding ninety per cent of the value of material delivered by such contractor, and safely stored at a railroad station or siding or other point in the vicinity of the work. When such estimate is allowed, the material on which it is allowed shall thereupon become the property o...

...eted within the time therein fixed, the county engineer shall, after the expiration of the time fixed for the completion of such contract, keep an accurate account of all expenditures for inspection, supervision, and all other similar engineering services in connection with the improvement, that the contractor shall pay all such expenses incurred in connection with the improvement after the expiration of the time fix...

...If, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, the contractor has not commenced his work within a reasonable time, does not carry such work forward with reasonable progress, is improperly performing his work, or has abandoned or failed to complete a contract entered into, the board shall make a finding to that effect, enter such finding on its journal, and so notify the contractor in writing, and the right ...

...or extra work may be made by a board of county commissioners, but the board must first enter into a new contract in writing for the extra work. In all cases in which the amount of the original contract price is less than twenty-five thousand dollars for any particular line item listed in the new contract and the overall total estimate for the extra work does not exceed ten per cent of the total of the original contra...

...When the board of county commissioners constructs, reconstructs, widens, resurfaces, repairs, or improves a road by force account, and the estimated cost of the work, as defined in section 5543.19 of the Revised Code, exceeds three thousand dollars per mile, such board shall cause to be kept by the county engineer a complete and accurate account in detail of the cost of doing such work. Such account shall include lab...

...te and an adjoining state, the board of county commissioners of any county of this state may join with the proper authorities of any adjoining state, or subdivision thereof, in such construction or improvement. Each party to such agreement shall pay such proportion of the costs of said improvement as is agreed upon by the parties thereto.

...nd an adjoining state to be paid by any county in this state may be assessed or levied upon the property of this state by the board of county commissioners of such county in any of the ways provided in sections 5555.01 to 5555.72 of the Revised Code, in the case of an improvement wholly within this state. Such board may also join with the department of transportation of this or other states in the construction of suc...

...82 of the Revised Code, joint boards of county commissioners shall be governed and act in accordance with sections 5555.01 to 5555.72, inclusive, of the Revised Code, in so far as such sections are applicable.

...After the annual estimate for the county has been filed with the board of county commissioners by the county engineer, and the board has made such changes and modifications in the estimate as it deems proper, the board shall then make its levy, for the purposes set forth in the estimate, upon all taxable property of the county, not exceeding in the aggregate two mills upon each dollar of the taxable property of said ...