Ohio Revised Code Search

...and ends on a public road, the board of county commissioners may determine the suitability of the road for public nonmotorized vehicular recreational use. Such uses include, but are not limited to, hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, and ski touring. They do not include use by motorcycles, snowmobiles, all purpose vehicles, or any other form of motorized vehicle. If the board finds that such uses will not unreasonab...

...The board of county commissioners, acting in accordance with sections 5553.04 to 5553.07, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may determine to proceed with the proposed improvement with such modifications and changes in the route and termini as in its judgment the public convenience and welfare require. In making such modifications or changes, the board shall cause an accurate and detailed description thereof to be enter...

...the vacation of a road and the board of county commissioners, at its final hearing on the proposed improvement, orders the improvement established, it shall proceed in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code.

...53.23 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners may hear evidence for or against changing the road, and if it is satisfied that the proposed change will not cause serious injury or disadvantage to the public, it may make a finding of such fact in its journal and authorize the petitioner to change such road in conformity with the prayer of the petition. The board may grant the change as prayed for in the ...

...mproved as required by it, the board of county commissioners shall declare such new road a public highway and cause a record thereof to be made and at the same time vacate so much of the old road as is rendered unnecessary by the new road. The person petitioning for such change shall in all cases pay all costs and expenses in connection with the proceedings, as found and determined by the board, and the expense of ma...

...y may file a petition with the board of county commissioners describing the road so desired and giving the respective names and places of residence of the owners of all the land through which the proposed road will pass.

...If the board of county commissioners finds the road petitioned for will serve the public convenience or welfare, it shall establish such road; or it may establish a road for the use of the public, with such changes or alterations in the route or course thereof as it deems necessary for the protection of the rights of other owners. The amounts of compensation due the owner shall be determined in accordance with sectio...

...The board of county commissioners may construct, improve, maintain, or repair the berm of any road under its jurisdiction, in order to provide a hard surface or other improved approach to rural mail boxes located on public highways.

..., to be paid by the township, or by the county as a whole, shall not be considered as specially taxed or assessed for said improvement, and such persons shall not be counted either for or against the improvement in determining whether the required number of persons have signed the petition for said improvement.

... for the improvement as reported by the county engineer or with such modifications as the joint board and the engineer agree upon.

...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...

...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.

...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.

...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...

...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.

...Code, which remains in the hands of the county treasurer, unexpended and unappropriated, for a period of six months after the annual September settlement for the fiscal year during which the tax was collected, shall be paid to the township or treasurer of the municipal corporation from which it was collected. Such funds shall be expended on the public roads under the direction of the board of township trustees of the...

...ised Code, "road" includes any state or county roads, or the streets of any municipal corporation, or any part of such roads or streets, which forms a continuous road improvement.

...The board of county commissioners may construct a proposed road improvement into, within, or through a municipal corporation, when the consent of the legislative authority of such municipal corporation has been first obtained. Such consent shall be evidenced by the proper action of the legislative authority, entered upon its records, and the legislative authority may assume and pay such proportion of the cost of that...

...the municipal corporation, the board of county commissioners, after the approval by it of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications, shall cause a copy of the surveys, profiles, and the proposed proportion of cost to be paid by the municipal corporation, to be filed with the legislative authority. The legislative authority shall examine the surveys, profiles, and the proposed proport...

...The board of county commissioners may, as provided in sections 5559.03 to 5559.16, inclusive, of the Revised Code, improve by grading, draining, paving, constructing storm sewers, sidewalks, curbs, and gutters, any road, street, alley, or portion thereof lying within or bounded on both sides by any platted lands, and situated outside a municipal corporation.

...o those conferred by law upon boards of county commissioners, with respect to the improvement of public highways, and the authority of the board in such respect, under existing laws, shall be in no way altered or abridged by such sections.

...1.15 of the Revised Code, by a board of county commissioners, such board shall transmit to the director of transportation a full written description of the grade crossing which it is proposed to abolish, showing its location, the reasons which tend to make necessary its elimination, the names of the railroads or interurban railways owning the tracks crossing such state or intercounty highway, and the manner in which ...

...rade crossing improvement, the board of county commissioners shall, by resolution, require notice of its intention to make such improvement, in accordance with the plans and specifications agreed upon or ordered, to be given to the owner of each piece of property abutting on any road, the grade of which will be changed by the proposed improvement.

...The board of county commissioners may, by resolution, prescribe the manner and time of payment by a railroad company of the proportion of the cost of the proposed grade crossing improvement which such company shall pay.