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...An elected officer or an employee of a county, township, or municipal corporation may simultaneously serve as a member or officer of the board of trustees of a transportation improvement district created under Chapter 5540. of the Revised Code. Neither the simultaneous holding of the two positions nor the financial or contractual relationship between a county, township, or municipal corporation and the transportation...

...ble at some convenient place in the new county. Twenty days' notice of the time, place, and purpose of such meeting shall be given using at least one of the following methods: (A) By publication in the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation in the county; (B) On the official public notice web site established under section 125.182 of the Revised Code; (C) On the web site and social media...

...ourt of common pleas to be held in such county, if it has been organized. If the county has not been organized, such report shall be made to the court of common pleas of any county to which such new county, or any part thereof, is attached for judicial purposes.

...ged in such duties, to be paid from the county treasury of the county where such proceedings are returned, and to which the new county is attached, the amount of which, with the interest thereon, shall be refunded by the new county as soon as it is organized.

...iscontinuance of an alternative form of county government in any county as provided in sections 302.01 to 302.24, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall not affect any act done, ratified, or affirmed, or any contract or other right or obligation other than contracts for personal services, accrued or established, or any action, prosecution, or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending at the time such change in form of go...

...An alternative form of county government shall include a board of county commissioners, elected either at large as provided in sections 302.04 and 302.08 of the Revised Code, or by districts as provided in sections 302.041 and 302.082 of the Revised Code, and in all those provisions of sections 302.01 to 302.24 of the Revised Code, which have not been specifically designated as applicable only in the case whereby the...

...n and correction administration for the county. Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 341. of the Revised Code, the department of detention and correction shall assume all responsibility for county jails assigned by that chapter to the county sheriff and shall make and promulgate rules and regulations for the care and custody of prisoners and the maintenance and operation of the county jail. Such rules and regula...

...certification of a zoning plan from the county rural zoning commission, and before adoption of any such zoning resolution, the board of county commissioners shall hold a public hearing on the resolution. The board shall provide at least thirty days' notice of the time and place of the hearing by one publication using at least one of the following methods: (A) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of genera...

...The board of county commissioners may create an architectural review board to enforce compliance with any zoning standards it may adopt pertaining to landscaping or architectural elements. The board of county commissioners shall adopt the standards and procedures for the architectural review board to use in reviewing zoning permit applications for compliance with those landscaping or architectural standards. If the b...

...f the Revised Code do not confer on any county rural zoning commission, board of county commissioners, or board of zoning appeals the authority to prohibit or restrict the location of a permanently sited manufactured home, as defined in division (C)(6) of section 3781.06 of the Revised Code, in any district or zone in which a single-family home is permitted. (B) Division (A) of this section does not limit the author...

...on or provision adopted by any board of county commissioners under such sections, such board, the prosecuting attorney of the county, the county zoning inspector, the county building inspector, or any adjacent or neighboring property owner who would be specially damaged by such violation, in addition to other remedies provided by law, may institute injunction, mandamus, abatement, or any other appropriate action or p...

...p in which there is in force a plan of county zoning, the plan may be repealed by the board of county commissioners, as to such township, in the following manner: (A) The board may adopt a resolution upon its own initiative. (B) The board shall adopt a resolution, if there is presented to it a petition, similar in all relevant aspects to that prescribed in section 303.12 of the Revised Code, signed by a numb...

...No board of county commissioners shall exercise the authority conferred upon counties by sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, until after it has adopted a resolution finding that one or more slum or blighted areas exist in the county; and the rehabilitation, conservation, redevelopment, or combination thereof, of such slum or blighted area or areas is necessary in the interest of the public heal...

...Every board of county commissioners may acquire by eminent domain any interest in real property, whether owned privately or publicly, including a fee simple title thereto, which it determines necessary for or in connection with a county renewal project within the county, and this power may be exercised in the manner provided in section 307.08 of the Revised Code, or it may be exercised in the manner now or which may ...

...All property of a county, including funds owned or held by it for the purposes of sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution, and no execution or other judicial process shall issue against the same, nor shall judgment against a county be a charge or lien upon such property. The provisions of this section shall not apply to or limit the right...

...The property of a county, acquired or held for the purposes of sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is declared to be public property used for essential public and governmental purposes and such property shall be exempt from all taxes of the county, any municipality, the state, or any political subdivision thereof. The tax exemption provided for in this section shall terminate when the county se...

...Any county availing itself of any of the provisions of sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, in order to fully effectuate the purposes and objectives of said sections in respect of any planning or project activities thereunder by such county, may, by its board of county commissioners, prescribe such reasonable rules and regulations not inconsistent with said sections, as such board of county comm...

...e, for a utility facility, the board of county commissioners may adopt a resolution that does either of the following: (1) Prohibits the construction of the utility facility that is the subject of the certificate; (2) Limits the boundaries of the proposed utility facility to a smaller geographic area of the county, completely within what was proposed by the applicant. (B) If no resolution is adopted within th...

...n, or other document or record with any county office, a filing made by an electronic record shall have the same force and effect as a filing made on paper in all cases where the county office has authorized or agreed to the electronic filing and the filing is made in accordance with applicable rules or an applicable agreement. (B) Nothing in this section authorizes or shall be construed to authorize the use of a fi...

...(A) Special sessions of the board of county commissioners may be held as often as the commissioners deem it necessary. At a regular or special session, the board may make any necessary order or contract in relation to the building, furnishing, repairing, or insuring of public buildings or bridges; the employment of janitors; the improvements or enclosure of public grounds; the maintenance or support of persons with d...

... of each day's session of the board of county commissioners, the records of the proceedings of the session of the previous day shall be read, or provided to each commissioner in written form, by the clerk of the board and, if correct, approved and signed by the commissioners. In the alternative, if the clerk maintains the full record of the proceedings by electronic means as authorized by division (B) of secti...

...The board of county commissioners shall compare the annual reports and statements made to it by the prosecuting attorney, clerk of the court of common pleas, sheriff, and county treasurer, take all necessary measures to rectify errors in such reports and to trace and correct any discrepancies between them, and place on its journal the result of such examination. All such reports shall be recorded by the county audito...

...No county commissioner shall be concerned, directly or indirectly, in any contract for work to be done or material to be furnished for the county. For a violation of this section, a commissioner shall forfeit not less than two hundred nor more than two thousand dollars, to be recovered by a civil action, in the name of the state, for use of the county. Such commissioner shall also forfeit, in like manner, any compens...

...uing period of time by the voters of a county or regional transit authority pursuant to sections 5739.023 and 5741.022 of the Revised Code may be initiated by the filing of a petition with the board of elections of the county, or in the case of a regional transit authority with the board of elections as determined pursuant to section 3505.071 of the Revised Code, prior to the ninetieth day before the general el...

...e district shall be treated the same as county employees for the purposes of Chapter 124. of the Revised Code and any other provisions of state law applicable to county employees. Instead of or in addition to appointing employees of the district, the board of trustees may contract with one or more of the participating counties for county employees to serve the district and for the district to share in their com...