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...on (B) of this section, employees of a county transit board or a board of county commissioners operating a transit system are employees of the county. If the system is operated by the board of county commissioners, the board shall appoint an executive director, who shall be in the unclassified service. (B) Any county transit board that established its own civil service organization and procedure prior to Octo...

...The county commissioners may advance funds from any available fund of the county for purchase or acquisition of a transit system, surveys, planning, and mass transportation studies. The amount advanced may be reimbursed from any funds of the county transit board including the proceeds of the sale of bonds for the purchase, acquisition, construction, enlargement, improvement, or equipment of the county transit system.

...his section and regardless of whether a county transit system is operated by a county transit board or board of county commissioners, funds that are appropriated by a board of county commissioners and expended for social services in the county served by the board may be used as the local match needed to obtain state or federal funds available for the county transit system. (C) Funds raised by a county tax levy may b...

...The county transit board or board of county commissioners operating a transit system may enter into an agreement with any municipal corporation, township, or other county, whereby the board undertakes to provide transportation service for the movement of persons within, from, or to that municipal corporation, township, or county, to make payments or transfer real estate or interests therein or a combination thereof, ...

...erations, revenues, and property of the county transit system and all obligations secured by the real estate or interests therein or revenues of the system, or the income derived therefrom, are exempt from the levy of any excise or other tax by the county or any political subdivision of the state, unless and to the extent such exemption is prohibited by the constitution or other laws of this state.

...Any county transit board or board of county commissioners operating a transit system, that acquires, leases as lessee, or receives a right to use a publicly or privately owned transit system may enter into an agreement with the operator thereof transferring that transit system, and that operator may enter into an agreement with the county transit board or board of county commissioners operating a transit system provi...

...(A) The board of county commissioners, on its own initiative if it operates a county transit system or at the request of the county transit board if one is appointed, may issue bonds of the county pursuant to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, for the purpose of purchasing, acquiring, constructing, enlarging, and improving the county transit system. (B) The board of county commissioners operating a transit system or ...

...The county transit board or a board of county commissioners operating a transit system may issue refunding bonds of the county to refund any bonds previously issued under division (B) of section 306.09 of the Revised Code for any of the following purposes: (A) Refunding bonds which have matured or are about to mature when the rentals, revenues, and other income, charges, and moneys pledged for the payment of such bo...

...In counties that have a county transit board, that transit board shall have exclusive control over the county transit system's budgets, appropriations, collections, custody, and application of its revenues or other funds received by it and shall have jurisdiction of all purchases and contracts entered into in connection with the county transit system pursuant to sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code. In those...

...Any board of county commissioners operating a transit system or any county transit board shall, if it acquires any existing transit system, assume all the employer's obligations under any existing labor contract between the employees and management of the system. The board shall, if it acquires, constructs, controls, or operates any such facilities, negotiate arrangements to protect the interests of employees affecte...

...A board of county commissioners operating a transit system or a county transit board created under sections 306.01 to 306.13 of the Revised Code shall be exempt from and shall not be required to pay any taxes on property, both real and personal, belonging to the board, which is used exclusively for any public purpose; provided, such exemption shall not apply to any property belonging to the board while a private ente...

...(A) If a board of county commissioners awards a franchise to a franchisee on behalf of a county transit board, the county transit board shall submit an annual written report to the board of county commissioners not later than a date designated by the board of county commissioners and in a form prescribed by that board. The board of county commissioners shall make the report available on the general web site of ...

...As used in sections 306.30 to 306.53, inclusive, of the Revised Code, "transit facility" means any: (A) Street railway, motor bus, tramline, subway, monorail, rapid transit, aeroplane, helicopter, ferry, or other ground or water transportation system having as its primary purpose the regularly scheduled mass movement of passengers between locations within the territorial boundaries of a regional transit authority, ...

...(A) As used in sections 306.30 to 306.71 of the Revised Code, "township" means either of the following: (1) An entire township; (2) Township territory that is designated as a township under division (B) of this section for the purpose of joining a regional transit authority. (B) A board of township trustees may adopt a resolution designating as a township, for the purpose of joining a regional transit authority, t...

...ombination thereof, provided, that each county, municipal corporation, or township included within a regional transit authority shall be a county which is, or be located in a county which is or is contiguous to a county which is, or in which a municipal corporation or township is located which is, included in such regional transit authority.

...Any county, or any two or more counties, municipal corporations, or townships, or any combination of these, may create a regional transit authority by the adoption of a resolution or ordinance by the board of county commissioners of each county, the legislative authority of each municipal corporation, and the board of township trustees of each township which is to create or to join in the creation of the regional tra...

...option of an amendment by the board of county commissioners of each county, the legislative authority of each municipal corporation, and the board of township trustees of each township which has created or, prior to the adoption of the amendment, joined or proposes to join the regional transit authority. After each county, municipal corporation, and township which has created or, prior to the adoption of the ...

... (1) "Political subdivision" means a county, a municipal corporation, or a township. (2) "Governing body" means a board of county commissioners of a county, a legislative authority of a municipal corporation, or a board of trustees of a township. (B) For any regional transit authority that levies a property tax and that includes in its membership political subdivisions that are located in a county having a p...

...ty created by the exclusive action of a county shall be appointed by the county commissioners of such county. A board of trustees of an authority created by two or more political subdivisions shall consist of such number of members, who shall have such qualifications and who shall be appointed by such public officers as shall be provided in the resolutions or ordinances creating such authority or any amendments there...

...gional transit authority created by one county and two municipal corporations, with the county having a population of at least five hundred thousand according to the most recent federal census, shall be appointed and governed as provided in this section. The board of trustees of such a regional transit authority shall consist of nine members, six of whom shall be appointed by the board of county commissioners, two o...

...All the power and authority granted to a regional transit authority shall be vested in and exercised by its board of trustees which shall manage and conduct its affairs. The board shall, within the limitations of sections 306.30 to 306.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by its rules and regulations provide the procedure for its actions, the manner of selection of its president, vice-president, secretary-treasurer, a...

... (L) May provide by agreement with any county, including the counties within its territorial boundaries, or any municipal corporation or any combination of counties or municipal corporations for the making of necessary surveys, appraisals, and examinations preliminary to the acquisition or construction of any transit facility and the amount of the expense for the surveys, appraisals, and examinations to be paid by e...

...A regional transit authority may purchase an articulated bus only if the regional transit authority establishes and follows a preference system for buses that are manufactured or assembled within this state, or, if none, within the United States.

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) In the exercise of its authority under division (Y) of section 306.35 of the Revised Code, a regional transit authority shall not employ a person as a regional transit authority police officer on a permanent basis, on a temporary basis, for a probationary term, or on other than a permanent basis if the person...

...it authority whose territory includes a county having a population of more than seven hundred fifty thousand but less than nine hundred thousand as of the most recent federal decennial census. (2) "Qualifying project" means the general construction or maintenance of roads or bridges related to the provision of service by a qualifying regional transit authority. (3) "Qualifying bonds" means bonds or similar obliga...