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...Any access management regulations adopted under section 5552.02 of the Revised Code become effective on the thirty-first day following the date of their adoption unless otherwise indicated in the regulations. The board adopting the regulations shall publish notice of their adoption, and of their availability at the board's office, in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the county or township, as applicab...

...As used in sections 5553.02 to 5553.16, inclusive, of the Revised Code, "improvement" means any location, establishment, alteration, widening, straightening, vacation, or change in the direction of a public road, or part thereof, as determined upon by a board of county commissioners or joint board of county commissioners by resolution.

...The board of county commissioners may establish a fee to cover the actual costs the county incurs in providing published notice and mailed notice as required by section 5553.05 of the Revised Code. The board may require an initial deposit to be paid at the time a petition for vacation of a road is filed under section 5553.04 of the Revised Code or promptly thereafter. The clerk of the board shall maintain an a...

...The board of county commissioners shall at the date of the final hearing on the proposed improvement read the report of the county engineer, and it shall hear any testimony bearing upon the necessity of the improvement for the public convenience or welfare and offered either for or against proceeding with the improvement by any interested persons. If the board finds such improvement will serve the public convenience...

...If the board of county commissioners is of the opinion that the proposed improvement is of sufficient importance to the public to cause the compensation and damages on account thereof to be paid to the persons entitled thereto out of the county treasury, it may so order If the board is of the opinion that such improvement is not of sufficient importance to cause the compensation and damages to be paid from the treasu...

...When the county engineer is unable to ascertain with certainty the true course and boundary line of a road, the board of county commissioners may prosecute a civil action against the owners of the land abutting upon such road to ascertain and have the boundaries of such road judicially established in one action. Any road, the true course of which is surveyed and fixed as provided in this section and sections 5553.18 ...

...In all hearings before a joint board of county commissioners under sections 5553.01 to 5553.27, inclusive, of the Revised Code, a majority vote of the board of each county shall be necessary to establish any improvement.

...Any person may, with the approval of the board of county commissioners, dedicate lands for road purposes. A definite description of the lands to be dedicated with a plat of such lands thereto attached and signed by the party dedicating such lands, with the approval and acceptance of the board indorsed thereon, shall be placed upon the proper road records of the county in which such road is situated. The board shall n...

...When a petition is presented to the board of county commissioners asking for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, or repair of any public road or part thereof and signed by at least fifty-one per cent of the land or lot owners, residents of such county, who are to be specially taxed or assessed for said improvement, the board shall, within thirty days after such petition is presented, go upon the line of th...

...In determining whether the required number of persons necessary to give the board of county commissioners jurisdiction of the improvement have signed the petition described in section 5555.03 of the Revised Code asking for such improvement, the following persons shall not be counted either for or against the improvement: (A) Resident landowners whose only real estate within the legal assessment distance of the impro...

...If the surveys, plans, profiles, and cross sections prepared by the county engineer pursuant to section 5555.07 of the Revised Code show that lands will be required for the improvement, the board of county commissioners shall proceed in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...After the determination of claims for compensation for lands taken, if the board of county commissioners is still satisfied that the public convenience and welfare require that such improvement be made, and that the cost of such improvement will not be excessive in view of the public utility thereof, the board shall order by resolution that it proceed with such improvement. The board shall adopt the surveys, plans, p...

...If bonds are issued in anticipation of the collection of taxes and assessments on account of the improvement, such bonds as are required shall be issued separately by each county to cover its proportion of the costs and expenses of such improvement.

...All assessments, with interest accrued on them, made under sections 5555.01 to 5555.72 of 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 assessmen...

...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 ...

...In addition to the estimates provided for by 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 ...

...Each contract let under section 5555.61 of the Revised Code, shall contain a provision to the effect that if such contract is not completed 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 improv...

...When it is desired to construct, improve, or repair a road on or along the line between this state 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 ...

...A municipal corporation shall pay to the county treasurer its estimated proportion of the cost and expense of the proposed road improvement, as fixed in the agreement between the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and the board of county commissioners, out of any funds available therefor. In anticipation of the collection of assessments to be made against abutting property, as provided in section 5557...

...The board of county commissioners may provide for a road improvement within a municipal corporation by levying against the property benefited by such improvement in the same manner as provided in sections 5555.41, 5555.45, 5555.46, and 5555.47 of the Revised Code. The municipal corporation shall pay to the county treasurer its estimated portion of the cost of such an improvement, to be borne by the municipal corporat...

...The board of county commissioners shall receive bids and let the contract for improving such portion of a road as lies within the municipal corporation, in connection with the remainder of a proposed road improvement or separately, as the board determines. The total cost of such work shall be paid on the allowance of the board, by the warrant of the county auditor, and after completion of such work and the payment of...

...Whenever any portion of a road to be improved by the board of county commissioners lies within the corporate limits of a municipal corporation, and the legislative authority of such municipal corporation desires to improve any part of the road within such municipal corporation to a greater width than is contemplated by the proceedings for the improvement by the board, such legislative authority shall, at any time bef...

...Whenever any territory outside the limits of a municipal corporation having a planning commission or a platting commissioner, and within three miles of the corporate limits of such municipal corporation, has been platted into building lots and the plan of the streets approved by such commission or commissioner, and the plat of such addition has been regularly filed in the office of the county recorder, all streets in...

...When a petition is presented to the board of county commissioners asking for the improvement as provided by section 5559.02 of the Revised Code, and specifying the general character of the improvement desired, signed by at least fifty-one per cent of the land or lot owners, residents of such county, who are to be specially assessed for such improvement, the board shall, within thirty days after such petition is prese...

...In determining whether the required number of persons have signed the petition asking for a road improvement, necessary to give the board of county commissioners jurisdiction thereof, the following persons shall not be counted, either for or against the improvement: (A) Owners of life and leasehold estates; (B) Minors and other persons under legal disability, unless represented by legal guardians, in which case the...