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...The board of county commissioners shall provide annually by taxation an adequate fund for the maintenance and repair of improved county highways. Such fund shall be provided by levies made under sections 5555.48, 5555.49, and 5555.91 of the Revised Code and sections amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. The maintenance and repair fund shall not be less than one hundred dollars for each mile of improved county ...

...vided in the construction contract, the county may issue its bonds to the necessary amount, under the provisions and limitations of the law with respect to the submission to the voters of the county of the question of issuing bonds for the construction of county bridges, which bonds shall be of such denomination and payable at such places and times as the board of county commissioners determines, and shall bear inter...

...If a bridge, any state or county road, or any public building, the property of or under the control or supervision of a county, is injured or destroyed, or when any state or county road or public highway has been injured or impaired by placing or continuing therein, without authority, any obstruction, or by the changing of the line, filling up or digging out of the bed thereof, or in any manner rendering it less conv...

...The bridge commission of any county or city may: (A) Adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (B) Adopt an official seal, which shall not be the seal of Ohio; (C) Maintain a principal office and suboffices at such places within the county or city as it designates; (D) Sue and be sued in its own name, and plead and be impleaded. Any actions against a bridge commission s...

...to the board of elections of the proper county in the manner provided by division (A) of section 5705.251 of the Revised Code, and that division shall govern the arrangements for the submission of the question and other matters concerning the election to which that section refers. The election shall be held on the date specified in the resolution. If a majority of the electors voting on the question so submitted in a...

...to the board of elections of the proper county not less than ninety days before the general election in any year, and the board shall submit the proposal to the electors of the subdivision at the succeeding November election. In the case of a qualifying library levy, the board shall submit the question to the electors of the library district or association library district. (2) Except as otherwise provided in this...

...shall be allowed as compensation to the county auditor for his service in assessing the taxes, and two per cent shall be allowed as compensation to the county treasurer for the services he renders as a result of the tax levied by this section. Such amounts shall be paid into the county treasury, to the credit of the county's general fund, on the warrant of the county auditor. The balance of the taxes collected shall ...

... board of township trustees, a board of county commissioners may, in the manner set forth in section 5709.62 of the Revised Code, designate one or more areas in one or more municipal corporations or in unincorporated areas of the county as proposed urban jobs and enterprise zones, except that a board of county commissioners may designate no more than one area within a township, or within adjacent townships, as a prop...

...(A) A board of county commissioners that adopts a resolution under section 5709.78 of the Revised Code shall in the resolution require that the owner of the improvement make annual service payments in lieu of taxes to the county treasurer on or before the final dates for payment of real property taxes. Each such payment shall be charged and collected in the same manner and in the same amount as the real property taxe...

.... (B) The legislative authority of any county or municipal corporation within which is located property that is the subject of a certification under division (B) of section 5709.87 of the Revised Code may enter into an agreement with an enterprise under division (D) of this section, provided that the legislative authority of a county may enter into such agreements with respect only to property located within the uni...

...er recording of the instrument with the county recorder, the covenant is fully binding on behalf of and enforceable by the county, township, or municipal corporation against the property owner and any person acquiring an interest in the land and all successors and assigns. If any such minimum service payment obligation becomes delinquent according to such covenant or agreement, the county, township, or municipal corp...

...sand dollars shall make a return to the county auditor of each county in which any taxable property the taxpayer must return is required by this chapter to be listed. The taxpayer shall truly and correctly list on the return all taxable property so required to be listed, including property exempt under division (C)(3) of section 5709.01 of the Revised Code. Such returns shall be made on the blanks prescribed by the ...

...t the time such return is filed, file a county supplemental return with the county auditor of each county in which: (A) The taxable value of that taxpayer's tangible personal property within any taxing district of the county has increased or decreased in excess of five hundred thousand dollars from that reported by that taxpayer in such taxing district for the preceding tax year; or (B) The taxpayer, with its retur...

...en to the board of tax appeals: (1) A county auditor may appeal any determination of change in the abstract of real property of a taxing district in the auditor's county that is made by the tax commissioner under section 5715.24 of the Revised Code. (2) The commissioner may appeal an auditor's determination of the sales included in the representative sampling of sales required to be used by the commissioner in m...

... case of an appeal from a decision of a county board of revision, the board of tax appeals shall determine the taxable value of the property whose valuation or assessment by the county board of revision is complained of, or in the event the complaint and appeal is against a discriminatory valuation, shall determine a valuation which shall correct such discrimination, and shall determine the liability of the property ...

...linquent land taxes by action in rem. County treasurer of __________ county, Ohio, Plaintiff vs. Parcels of land encumbered with delinquent tax liens, defendants" (B) Form of notice of foreclosure and forfeiture: "__________ court __________ county, Ohio Notice of foreclosure of liens and forfeiture of property for delinquent land taxes, by action in rem by county treasurer of __________ county, Ohio ...

...linquent land taxes by action in rem. County treasurer of __________ county, Ohio, Plaintiff vs. Parcels of land encumbered with delinquent tax liens, defendants" (B) Form of notice of foreclosure: "__________ court __________ county, Ohio Notice of foreclosure of liens for delinquent land taxes, by action in rem by county treasurer of __________ county, Ohio Public notice is hereby given that on th...

...s enacted an ordinance or a township or county that has adopted a resolution pursuant to section 5722.02 of the Revised Code for purposes of adopting and implementing the procedures set forth in sections 5722.02 to 5722.15 of the Revised Code. A county land reutilization corporation organized by a county and designated to act on behalf of the county pursuant to division (B) of section 5722.02 of the Revised Cod...

...ction cost of a highway project which a county, township, or municipal corporation normally would be required to pay, but which the director of transportation, pursuant to division (B) of section 5531.08 of the Revised Code, determines instead will be paid from moneys in the highway operating fund; to enable the counties of the state properly to plan, maintain, and repair their roads and to pay principal, interest, a...

...r an educational service center. (3) A county board of developmental disabilities that purchases any motor fuel for county board operations, on which any tax imposed by section 5735.05 of the Revised Code has been paid may, if an application is filed under this section, be reimbursed in the amount of the total tax imposed by that section and paid on motor fuel less twenty-two cents per gallon of such fuel. The reimb...

...oner shall estimate and certify to each county auditor the amount to be distributed from the local government fund to each undivided local government fund during the following calendar year under section 5747.50 of the Revised Code. The estimate shall equal the sum of the separate amounts computed under divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section. (B)(1) The product obtained by multiplying the percentage described in...

...ue fund; (2) The gross casino revenue county fund; (3) The gross casino revenue county student fund; (4) The gross casino revenue host city fund; (5) The Ohio state racing commission fund; (6) The Ohio law enforcement training fund; (7) The problem casino gambling and addictions fund; (8) The casino control commission fund; (9) The casino tax administration fund; (10) The peace officer training acad...

...ve hundred thousand. (B)(1) In any county that is described in division (A) of this section and in which the veterans service commission submits a budget request under section 5901.11 of the Revised Code for the ensuing fiscal year that exceeds twenty-five-thousandths of one per cent of the assessed value of property in the county or the amount appropriated to the...

...ch of whom is a resident of a different county and at least three of whom are residents of counties all or part of which are included within the territorial limits of the district, as a board of directors of the conservancy district. Of the initial appointments made to the board, one shall be for a term of three years, one for a term of four years, one for a term of five years, one for a term of six years, and one fo...

... tax, or otherwise. The amount due each county shall be paid to the treasurer of the county and shall be placed and held in a separate fund to be known as the conservancy district fund. If a petition for the establishment of a new political subdivision whose primary purpose is flood control, water conservation, water supply, or water management, that is authorized under this chapter or other sections of the Revised ...

...egarding assessments may be made to the county board of revision in the same manner as complaints relating to the valuation and assessment of real property. Credits against assessments shall be granted equal to the value of any construction, reconstruction, improvement, alteration, or repair that an owner of a parcel of land or lot makes to an improvement pursuant to an agreement between the owner and the dist...

... application in writing to the board of county commissioners, for the construction, reconstruction, or improvement of any section of highway in the county system. If the board of county commissioners approves such application, it shall direct the county engineer to make the necessary plans for the construction, reconstruction, or improvement of such section of highway, together with an estimate of the cost thereof. T...

...er any portion of which passes a state, county, or township road or public highway, with the consent of the board of county commissioners if state or county roads, or with the consent of the board of township trustees if township roads, may excavate, mine, and quarry through or under such road. Before the work is commenced such person, partnership, or corporation shall execute and deliver to the board of county comm...

...The board of county commissioners shall designate the county engineer to administer county access management regulations, except that if the engineer declines to administer the regulations, the board may designate another person, or a planning commission, to administer them. If a board of township trustees adopts access management regulations, the board may administer the regulations or may appoint the township fisc...

...n thereof under the jurisdiction of the county commissioners, said director may petition the county commissioners to vacate or close such highway in the same manner the freeholders may petition under sections 5553.04 to 5553.11 of the Revised Code. The county commissioners shall act upon said petition within thirty days and in the event they refuse to vacate or close said highways as requested shall show such action...

...es of such road, they may call upon the county engineer to make a true plat and description thereof. Such plat and description shall be signed and acknowledged by such adjacent landowners, and placed upon the proper road records of the county. Thereafter the plat and description contained in the road records shall constitute the true course and boundaries of such road. Such plat and description shall first be approv...

...The county engineer shall prepare and file with the board of county commissioners, by the time fixed therefor by the board, copies of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates of costs, and specifications for the improvement and estimated assessments upon lands benefited thereby. Thereupon such board shall file such copies in its office for the inspection and examination of all persons interested....

...As soon as the county engineer has transmitted to the several boards of county commissioners copies of the engineer's surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for the improvement, the joint board of county commissioners shall, except in cases of reconstruction or repair of roads where no lands or property are taken, fix a time and place for hearing objections to said improvement. ...

...Any county may raise or lower the grade of any state or intercounty highway above or below the tracks of railroads and parallel and adjacent interurban railways within the county, and require any railroad company operating a railroad in such county, and any interurban railway company operating an interurban railway parallel and adjacent to the railroad, to raise or lower the grade of its tracks, above or below any st...

...newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the road is located; (2) On the official public notice web site established under section 125.182 of the Revised Code; (3) On the web site and social media account of the township. If the township maintains a web site on the internet, the same notice also shall be posted on the web site at least ten days prior to the date of the first meeting. Upon adopti...

...01.49 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall construct and keep in repair necessary bridges over streams and public canals on or connecting state, county, and improved roads. The board may submit to the electors the question of issuing county bonds for the construction of bridges on proposed state or county roads or connecting state or county roads, one or more of which may be proposed, but suc...

...The board of county commissioners shall erect and maintain on county roads, where not already done, one or more guardrails on each end of a county bridge, viaduct, or culvert more than five feet high. The board also shall protect, by guardrails, all embankments with a rise of more than eight feet in height and with a downward slope of greater than seventy degrees, where the embankments have an immediate connectio...

...Any county or city bridge commission may: (A) Construct, acquire by purchase or condemnation, and improve, operate, and maintain bridges entirely within the state or such county or city, or over rivers and navigable waters which form a boundary of the state, or such county or city, notwithstanding that the waters of such river or navigable water may not at all times extend to or reach said boundary line, whenever th...

...93.04 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners of the county or the legislative authority of the city shall appoint three persons who shall constitute the bridge commission of such county or city, not more than two of whom shall belong to the same political party. The bridge commissioners shall immediately enter upon their duties and hold office until the expiration of two, four, and six years, respecti...

...503.065 of the Revised Code. (B) Each county auditor shall have access to the property tax relief screening system authorized under this section. If a county auditor discovers an error in the system relative to real property or a manufactured or mobile home, the auditor shall notify the department of taxation of the error. (C) If the department of taxation discovers through the property tax relief screening syste...

...xtent authorized; (D) In the case of a county, a levy for the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, and repair of roads and bridges, other than state roads and bridges; (E) In the case of a county, a levy for paying the county's proportion of the cost of the construction, improvement, and maintenance of state highways; (F) In the case of a township, a levy for the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing,...

... certification of the resolution to the county auditor and shall be consistent with the requirements of section 3501.01 of the Revised Code. A resolution adopted under division (C) of this section, or adopted under division (D) of this section to renew a tax levied under that division, shall not be placed on the ballot unless the question is submitted on a date on which a special election may be held under division (...

...ons in the district for the election of county officers, provided that in any such election in which only part of the electors of a precinct are qualified to vote, the board of elections may assign voters in such part to an adjoining precinct. Such an assignment may be made to an adjoining precinct in another county with the consent and approval of the board of elections of such other county. Notice of the election s...

...The board of county commissioners of any county, at any time and in any year, after providing the normal and customary percentage of the total general fund appropriations for the support of children services and the care and placement of children, by vote of two-thirds of all the members of said board may declare by resolution that the amount of taxes which may be raised within the ten-mill limitation will be i...

...ubdivision or taxing unit for which the county budget commission has waived the requirement to adopt a tax budget pursuant to section 5705.281 of the Revised Code. The tax budget shall present the following information: (A)(1) A statement of the necessary current operating expenses for the ensuing fiscal year for each department and division of the subdivision, classified as to personal services and other expenses,...

...The board of county commissioners at their June session, annually, may levy a tax on each dollar of valuation of taxable property within their county, for the purpose of creating a judicial and court fund, as follows: (A) In a county where the amount of such taxable property does not exceed three million dollars, not exceeding two mills; (B) Where the amount exceeds three million dollars and does not exceed five mi...

...any municipal corporation, township, or county may accept donations of land suitable for the growth of timber, which lands shall be known as municipal, township, or county forests, and may manage the same on forestry principles. The governing body of any municipal corporation, township, or county, where funds are available or have been levied therefor, may, when authorized by a majority vote of the electorate voting ...

...wner or owners of the parcel and to the county auditor of the county in which the parcel is located. The county auditor shall enter the assessment on the tax list of real property opposite against which it is charged, and certify the assessment to the county treasurer. The assessment shall be charged and collected in the same manner as real property taxes and shall be treated in the same manner as real property taxes...

...thority of any municipal corporation or county that concludes that an enterprise or any predecessor enterprise has closed or reduced employment at a place of business in that municipal corporation or county may appeal to the director to determine whether the enterprise or any predecessor enterprise has done so. Upon receiving such an appeal, the director shall investigate the allegations and determine whether the ent...

...ing to an outstanding obligation of the county. (C) "Housing renovation" means a project carried out for residential purposes. (D) "Improvement" means the increase in the assessed value of real property that would first appear on the tax list and duplicate of real and public utility property after the effective date of a resolution adopted under section 5709.78 of the Revised Code were it not for the exemption gran...