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...ility facilities for responsibility for costs involving removal, relocation, or protection of existing underground utility facilities, or for costs for delays occasioned thereby.

...(A) Each public authority planning to contract for professional design services or design-build services shall encourage professional design firms and design-build firms to submit a statement of qualifications and update the statements at regular intervals. (B) Notwithstanding any contrary requirements in sections 153.65 to 153.70 of the Revised Code, for every design-build contract, each public authority pla...

...Each public authority planning to contract for professional design services or design-build services shall publicly announce all contracts available from it for such services. The announcements shall: (A) Be made in a uniform and consistent manner and shall be made sufficiently in advance of the time that responses must be received from qualified professional design firms or design-build firms for the firms t...

...Any public authority planning to contract for professional design services may institute prequalification requirements for professional design firms seeking to provide services to the public authority and may require that each prequalified firm maintain a current statement of qualifications on file with the public authority. The prequalification requirements shall be based on factors such as those set out in division...

...ssional design services contract, each public authority planning to contract for professional design services shall evaluate the statements of qualifications submitted by professional design firms specifically regarding the project, and may hold discussions with individual firms to explore further the firms' statements of qualifications, the scope and nature of the services the firms would provide, and the var...

...No public authority planning to contract for professional design services under section 153.69 of the Revised Code shall require any form of fee estimate, fee proposal, or other estimate or measure of compensation prior to selecting and ranking professional design firms, except in instances when firms are selected and ranked by a state agency from a list of prequalified firms created under section 153.68 of the Revis...

...For every design-build contract, the public authority planning to contract for design-build services shall first obtain the services of a criteria architect or engineer by doing either of the following: (A) Contracting for the services consistent with sections 153.65 to 153.70 of the Revised Code; (B) Obtaining the services through an architect or engineer who is an employee of the public authority.

...ides professional design services to a public authority to assist that public authority in evaluating the design-build requirements provided to the public authority by a design-build firm pursuant to section 153.692 of the Revised Code, that professional design firm shall not provide any design-build services pursuant to the design-build contract under section 153.693 of the Revised Code for the project for wh...

...ering professional design services to a public authority or to a design-build firm, including a criteria architect or engineer and person performing architect or engineer of record services, shall have and maintain, or be covered by, during the period the services are rendered, a professional liability insurance policy or policies with a company or companies that are authorized to do business in this state and that a...

...(A) Any public authority planning to contract for professional design services or design-build services may adopt, amend, or rescind rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, to implement sections 153.66 to 153.70 of the Revised Code. (B) Sections 153.66 to 153.70 of the Revised Code do not apply to any of the following: (1) Any project with an estimated professional design fee of twenty-five ...

...tracted for design-build services by a public authority may do either of the following: (A) Perform design, construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction work pursuant to such contract; (B) Perform professional design services when contracted by a public authority for design-build services even if the design-build firm is not a professional design firm.

...services or design-build services by a public authority prevail in the event of any conflict with any other provision of this chapter.

... or not more than ten per cent below a cost estimate for the work as published by the contracting authority. (2) In regard to the amount of any funds retained, the contracting authority, in its sole discretion, may reduce the amount of funds retained pursuant to sections 153.12 and 153.14 of the Revised Code for the faithful performance of work by fifty per cent of the amount of funds required to be retained p...

..., including reasonable attorney's fees, costs, and expenses. (4) "Professional design firm," "professional design services," and "public authority" have the same meanings as in section 153.65 of the Revised Code. (5) "Public improvement contract" has the same meaning as in section 153.03 of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in this section, "public improvement" means any of the following: (1) A road, bridge, highway, street, or tunnel; (2) A waste water treatment system or water supply system; (3) A solid waste disposal facility or a storm water and sanitary collection, storage, and treatment facility; (4) Any structure or work constructed by a state agency or by another person on behalf of a state agency pursuant to a c...

...(A) Whoever violates section 153.58 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars. (B) A person who purchases or provides steel products in violation of division (A) of section 153.011 of the Revised Code shall pay a civil penalty equal to one and one-half times the purchase price of the steel products purchased or provided in violation of that section.

...Each commissioner appointed to make partition of lands or to assign dower, for the time so engaged, and in going to and returning from such lands, shall receive not to exceed ten dollars each, per parcel of land, as the court determines. A parcel of personal property is to include all the articles included in one action, execution, replevin, or attachment. Each person called by an officer to appraise real or persona...

...such compensation shall be taxed in the costs of such cause, matter, or proceeding in the same manner as other costs are now taxed.

...The judges of the court of common pleas of any county where two or more such judges hold court at the same time, may, in joint session, appoint assignment commissioners to attend to the assignment of all cases for trial and to discharge such other duties as the court requires. Such assignment commissioners shall be allowed such compensation for their services as the court appointing them determines, and shall be paid...

...When the business of the court of common pleas requires, such court, in any county having not more than one judge of the court of common pleas, may appoint an assignment commissioner whose duty it will be to make assignments of cases to be tried in the court under the direction of the judge holding such court. Such commissioner shall hold office during the pleasure of the court making the appointment and shall receiv...

...epositions, to be taxed in the bill of costs. Each witness shall also receive reimbursement for each mile necessarily traveled to and from the witness's place of residence to the place of giving testimony, to be taxed in the bill of costs. The board of county commissioners of each county shall set the reimbursement rate for each mile necessarily traveled by a witness in a civil case in the common pleas court, ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Coroner" has the same meaning as in section 313.01 of the Revised Code, and includes the following: (a) The coroner of a county other than a county in which the death occurred or the dead human body was found if the coroner of that other county performed services for the county in which the death occurred or the dead human body was found; (b) A medical examiner appointed by th...

...The sheriff or other officer serving a writ or subpoena shall indorse thereon the number of miles to which each witness is entitled as provided by sections 2335.05 and 2335.06 of the Revised Code. Each judicial officer returning witnesses under recognizance to any court for the trial of criminal causes shall indorse on his transcript the number of miles to which each such witness is entitled.

...gment debtor, they shall be paid to the public treasury from which such fees were advanced.

...r witness fees. If the party taxed with costs is indigent, interpreter's fees shall not be taxed as costs, and the county or, if the court is a municipal court that is not a county-operated municipal court, the municipal corporation in which the court is located shall pay the interpreter's fees. This section shall not apply if, by law, an interpreter is otherwise provided.