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...The director of public service shall be the platting commissioner of the city, and shall provide regulations governing the platting of all lands to require all streets and alleys to be the proper width and coterminous with adjoining streets and alleys. Whenever the legislative authority of such city deems it expedient to plat any portion of the territory within the city in which the necessary or convenient streets o...

...When acting as the platting commissioner, the director of public service may employ an engineer and such assistants as he finds necessary, and fix their salaries within limits to be prescribed by the legislative authority of the city.

...The platting commissioner shall cause a plat to be made of the territory which he is ordered to lay out, as soon as it can be conveniently done, showing the location of the streets and alleys already dedicated, and those proposed. For the purpose of making the necessary surveys, such commissioner may enter upon all property within the limits of the city.

...When a whole plan, or any portion thereof, as provided in section 735.19 of the Revised Code is completed, or when the location of any avenue, street, roadway, or alley has been finally determined by the platting commissioner of a city, a plat of the plan, avenue, street, roadway, or alley shall be placed in the office of the city engineer for the inspection of persons interested, and notice that it is ready fo...

...The platting commissioner of a city, at least once each week during the six-weeks period provided under section 735.20 of the Revised Code, at the time and place stated in the advertisement, and at such other times and places as he deems proper, shall hear any objections that are made against any portion of the plat, or the location of any avenue, street, roadway, or alley, and such alterations may be made as he deem...

...At the end of the six-weeks period provided by section 735.20 of the Revised Code, the platting commissioner shall cause copies of the plat as finally adopted to be prepared and such monuments or marks as he thinks proper to be placed on the grounds. He shall deposit one copy, certified to by him, in the office of the county recorder, and another in the office of the city engineer, and such plan shall be deemed to be...

...No streets or alleys, except those laid out on a plan made by the platting commissioner pursuant to sections 735.19 to 735.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall subsequently be in any way accepted as public streets or alleys by the city, nor shall any of the public funds be expended in the improvement or repair of streets or alleys subsequently laid out and not on such plat, but any city may exercise the power of...

...The owners of any portion of the ground platted under section 735.19 to 735.23, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by a declaration of their intention to do so, properly acknowledged and recorded in the county recorder's office, may at any time accept such plan so far as it concerns their property. Such acceptance, or the selling of lots referring to the plan or to the streets and alleys therein laid out, shall be a st...

...When municipal corporations adjoin each other, the legislative authorities thereof may agree, in any manner they determine, upon the appointment of a joint commission for the purposes of sections 735.17 to 735.24, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Such commission, when appointed, shall have all the power over the territory of the municipal corporations described in the resolutions of the legislative authorities thereof...

...Plans made under sections 735.19 to 735.24, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may be amended after adoption, by like proceedings by which they were originally adopted.

...The legislative authority of a village shall provide by resolution or ordinance for the care, supervision, and management of all public parks, baths, libraries, market houses, crematories, sewage disposal plants, houses of refuge and correction, workhouses, infirmaries, hospitals, pesthouses, or any of such institutions owned, maintained, or established by such village. When the legislative authority determines to pl...

...The legislative authority of the village may establish the position of village administrator by ordinance. The village administrator established under this section shall have those powers provided by section 735.273 of the Revised Code. The village administrator shall be appointed by the mayor, but shall not take office unless his appointment has been approved by a majority vote of the members elected to the legislat...

...Upon the establishment of the position of village administrator, his appointment by the mayor and confirmation by the legislative authority of the village, as provided by section 735.271 of the Revised Code, the board of trustees of public affairs, if such a board has been created in accordance with section 735.28 of the Revised Code, shall be abolished and the term of office of members of such board shall terminate....

...The village administrator appointed under section 735.271 of the Revised Code shall manage, conduct, and control the water works, electric light plants, artificial or natural gas plants, or other similar public utilities, furnish supplies of water, electricity, or gas, and collect all water, electric, and gas rents. The village administrator may make such bylaws and regulations as it deems necessary for the safe, ec...

...In each village in which a water works, electric light plant, artificial or natural gas plant, or other similar public utility is situated, or when the legislative authority thereof orders a water works, electric light plant, natural or artificial gas plant, or other similar public utility, to be constructed, or to be leased or purchased from any individual, company, or corporation, or when such legislative authority...

...The board of trustees of public affairs appointed under section 735.28 of the Revised Code shall manage, conduct, and control the waterworks, electric light plants, artificial or natural gas plants, or other similar public utilities, furnish supplies of water, electricity, or gas, collect all water, electric, and gas rents or charges, and appoint necessary officers, employees, and agents. The board may make such by...

...When water works and electric light plants, or either of them, are owned and operated by a village which receives its street lighting and fire protection therefrom, and the proceeds from the operation of such plants are insufficient to pay the expenses of their operation, the legislative authority thereof may levy a tax not to exceed five mills on each dollar valuation of the taxable property, real and personal, list...

...Except in villages that have provided for the appointment of a village administrator under section 735.271 of the Revised Code, a street commissioner shall be appointed by the mayor of a municipal corporation and confirmed by the legislative authority thereof for a term of one year. He need not be a resident of the municipal corporation at the time of his appointment but shall become a resident thereof within six mon...

...Under the direction of the mayor or other chief executive officer of a municipal corporation, the street commissioner, or an engineer, when one is provided by the legislative authority, shall supervise the improvement and repair of streets, avenues, alleys, lands, lanes, squares, wards, landings, market houses, bridges, viaducts, sidewalks, sewers, drains, ditches, culverts, ship channels, streams, and watercourses. ...

...The street commissioner or engineer mentioned in section 735.32 of the Revised Code shall have such assistants as the legislative authority of the municipal corporation provides, who shall be employed by the street commissioner and serve for such time and compensation as is fixed by the legislative authority.

...In each city there shall be a department of public safety, which shall be administered by a director of public safety. The director shall be appointed by the mayor and need not be a resident of the city at the time of his appointment but shall become a resident thereof within six months after his appointment unless such residence requirement is waived by ordinance.

...Under the direction of the mayor, the director of public safety shall be the executive head of the police and fire departments and the chief administrative authority of the charity, correction, and building departments. He shall have all powers and duties connected with and incident to the appointment, regulation, and government of such departments except as otherwise provided by law. He shall keep a record of his p...

...The legislative authority of a city may create and abolish, by ordinance, a division of traffic engineering and safety within the department of public safety. The director of public safety of such city shall be the executive head of such division. He shall have all powers and duties connected with and incident to the appointment, regulation, and government of such division, and shall make such rules and regulations a...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Occupy or use," with respect to a public way, means to create parking spaces and install, repair, maintain, replace, and operate parking meters or other similar devices for the purpose of providing on-street parking. (2) "Public agency" includes any county, municipal corporation, port authority, regional transit authority, airport authority, or transportation improvement dist...

...The director of public safety shall manage and make all contracts with reference to police stations, fire houses, reform schools, infirmaries, hospitals other than municipal hospitals operated pursuant to Chapter 749. of the Revised Code, workhouses, farms, pesthouses, and all other charitable and reformatory institutions. In the control and supervision of those institutions, the director shall be governed by the pro...

...If a person is convicted of any violation of Title XLIII of the Revised Code that involves the sale of intoxicating liquors at or within twelve hundred yards of the administration or main central building of the Columbus state hospital, Dayton state hospital, Athens state hospital, or Toledo state hospital, within two miles of the place at which an agricultural fair is being held, or within one mile of a county child...

...No provision contained in Title XLIII of the Revised Code that prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquors in any of the circumstances described in section 4399.11 of the Revised Code extends to or prevents the holder of an A, B, C-2, D-2, D-3, D-3a, D-4, D-4a, D-5, D-5a, D-5b, D-5e, D-5f, D-5g, D-5h, D-5i, D-5j, D-5k, D-5l, D-5m, G, or I permit issued by the division of liquor control from distributing or selling i...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, no person who is the proprietor of or who conducts, manages, or is in charge of any public dance hall shall allow the use of any intoxicating liquor or the presence of intoxicated persons in the public dance hall or on the premises on which it is located. (B) The prohibition against the use of any intoxicating liquor contained in division (A) of this ...

...No person, for the purpose of sale, shall adulterate spirituous liquor, alcoholic liquor, or beer used or intended for drink or medicinal or mechanical purposes, with cocculus indicus, vitriol, opium, alum, capsicum, copperas, laurel water, logwood, Brazilwood, cochineal, sugar of lead, aloes, glucose, tannic acid, or any other substance that is poisonous or injurious to health, or with a substance not a necessary in...

...No tavern keeper shall permit rioting, reveling, intoxication, or drunkenness in his house or on his premises.

...No person shall use an active poison in the manufacture or preparation of intoxicating liquor or sell intoxicating liquor so manufactured or prepared.

...Notwithstanding division (A) of section 2307.60 of the Revised Code and except as otherwise provided in this section, no person, and no executor or administrator of the person, who suffers personal injury, death, or property damage as a result of the actions of an intoxicated person has a cause of action against any liquor permit holder or an employee of a liquor permit holder who sold beer or intoxicating liquor to...

...(A) Whoever violates section 4399.16 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars. (B) Whoever violates section 4399.09 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars on a first offense and shall be fined not less than two hundred nor more than five hundred dollars on each subsequent offense. (C) Whoever violates section 439...

...(A) No person while operating a motor vehicle shall fail to slow down and stop the vehicle when signalled to do so upon meeting or overtaking a horse-drawn vehicle or person on horseback and to remain stationary until the vehicle or person has passed, provided the signal to stop is given in good faith, under circumstances of necessity, and only as often and for that length of time as is required for the vehicle ...

...(A)(1) In the case of a motor vehicle accident or collision with persons or property on a public road or highway, the operator of the motor vehicle, having knowledge of the accident or collision, immediately shall stop the operator's motor vehicle at the scene of the accident or collision. The operator shall remain at the scene of the accident or collision until the operator has given the operator's name and address ...

...(A)(1) In the case of a motor vehicle accident or collision resulting in injury or damage to persons or property on any public or private property other than a public road or highway, the operator of the motor vehicle, having knowledge of the accident or collision, shall stop at the scene of the accident or collision. Upon request of any person who is injured or damaged, or any other person, the operator shall give t...

...(A) The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in damage to real property, or personal property attached to real property, legally upon or adjacent to a public road or highway immediately shall stop and take reasonable steps to locate and notify the owner or person in charge of the property of that fact, of the driver's name and address, and of the registration number of the vehicle the driver ...

...(A)(1) No person shall sell or otherwise dispose of a master key designed to fit more than one motor vehicle, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe the key will be used to commit a crime. (2) No person shall buy, receive, or have in the person's possession a master key designed to fit more than one motor vehicle, for the purpose of using the key to commit a crime. (B) Whoever violates division (A)(1) or ...

...A law enforcement officer may remove the ignition key left in the ignition switch of an unlocked and unattended motor vehicle parked on a street or highway. The officer removing said key shall place notification upon the vehicle detailing his name and badge number, the place where said key may be reclaimed, and the procedure for reclaiming said key. The key shall be returned to the owner of the motor vehicle upon pre...

...(A) No person shall operate or drive a motor vehicle upon the public roads and highways in this state if it displays a license plate or a distinctive number or identification mark that meets any of the following criteria: (1) Is fictitious; (2) Is a counterfeit or an unlawfully made copy of any distinctive number or identification mark; (3) Belongs to another motor vehicle, provided that this section does not appl...

...(A) The superintendent of the state highway patrol shall adopt rules governing the use of an electronic clearance device that enables an operator of a commercial motor vehicle, in accordance with division (B) of section 4511.121 of the Revised Code, to bypass a scale location established for the purpose of determining the weight of the vehicle and its load. The superintendent shall establish the acceptable types and ...

...(A) No person shall operate or cause to be operated upon a public road or highway a motor vehicle of a manufacturer or dealer unless the vehicle carries and displays a placard, except as provided in section 4503.21 of the Revised Code, issued by the director of public safety that displays the registration number of its manufacturer or dealer. (B) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of illegal ope...

...(A) No person shall operate or drive upon the highways of this state a motor vehicle acquired from a former owner who has registered the motor vehicle, while the motor vehicle displays the distinctive number or identification mark assigned to it upon its original registration. (B) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of operation of a motor vehicle bearing license plates or an identification mar...

...(A) No person who is the owner of a motor vehicle and a resident of this state shall operate or drive the motor vehicle upon the highways of this state, while it displays a distinctive number or identification mark issued by or under the authority of another state, without complying with the laws of this state relating to the registration and identification of motor vehicles. (B) Whoever violates division (A) of th...

...Any motor vehicle used by a member of the state highway patrol or by any other peace officer, while said officer is on duty for the exclusive or main purpose of enforcing the motor vehicle or traffic laws of this state, provided the offense is punishable as a misdemeanor, shall be marked in some distinctive manner or color and shall be equipped with, but need not necessarily have in operation at all times, at least o...

...Any officer arresting, or participating or assisting in the arrest of, a person charged with violating the motor vehicle or traffic laws of this state, provided the offense is punishable as a misdemeanor, such officer being on duty exclusively or for the main purpose of enforcing such laws, is incompetent to testify as a witness in any prosecution against such arrested person if such officer at the time of the arrest...

...Every member of the state highway patrol and every other peace officer, while such officer is on duty for the exclusive or main purpose of enforcing motor vehicle or traffic laws of this state, provided the offense is punishable as a misdemeanor, shall wear a distinctive uniform. The superintendent of the patrol shall specify what constitutes such a distinctive uniform for the state highway patrol.

...Any officer arresting, or participating or assisting in the arrest of, a person charged with violating the motor vehicle or traffic laws of this state, provided the offense is punishable as a misdemeanor, such officer being on duty exclusively or for the main purpose of enforcing such laws is incompetent to testify as a witness in any prosecution against such arrested person if such officer at the time of the arrest ...

...(A) No law enforcement officer employed by a law enforcement agency of a municipal corporation, township, or joint police district shall issue any citation, summons, or ticket for a violation of section 4511.21 of the Revised Code or a substantially similar municipal ordinance or for a violation of section 5577.04 of the Revised Code or a substantially similar municipal ordinance, if all of the following apply:...

...(A) The operator of a "commercial car," as defined in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code, when the commercial car is required to be registered under the Revised Code, shall, when operating the commercial car, trailer, or semitrailer on the streets, roads, or highways of this state, display inside or on the vehicle the certificate of registration for the commercial car, trailer, or semitrailer provided for in sect...