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...vided in the construction contract, the county may issue its bonds to the necessary amount, under the provisions and limitations of the law with respect to the submission to the voters of the county of the question of issuing bonds for the construction of county bridges, which bonds shall be of such denomination and payable at such places and times as the board of county commissioners determines, and shall bear inter...

...newspaper of general circulation in the county where the improvement provided in such sections is to be made, and such publication shall be complete when published once a week, on the same day of the week, for two consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code.

...of the Revised Code, to be adopted by a county, or to carry out a contract, shall be adopted by a majority of all members elected or appointed to the board of county commissioners.

... of the Revised Code do not authorize a county in the passage of any resolution, approval of any plans or specifications, execution of any contract, or the acceptance of any dedication on account of the construction, use, or maintenance of any joint bridge, to acquire any other right, title, or interest in or to the lands or rights of any railroad or union depot company other than those which are expressly granted in...

...01.49 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall construct and keep in repair necessary bridges over streams and public canals on or connecting state, county, and improved roads. The board may submit to the electors the question of issuing county bonds for the construction of bridges on proposed state or county roads or connecting state or county roads, one or more of which may be proposed, but suc...

...91.21 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall construct and keep in repair, approaches or ways to all bridges named in such section. When the cost of the construction or repair of the approaches or ways to any such bridge does not exceed fifty dollars, such construction or repair shall be performed by the board of township trustees.

...The board of county commissioners shall construct, without unnecessary delay, good and sufficient approaches or ways to bridges erected by it. The board shall contract for such construction in the same manner as for contracting for the construction of such bridges.

...ich such bridge is needed, the board of county commissioners of such interested counties may build or authorize the building of such bridge jointly, to be paid for, with the approaches thereto, in such proportion as the boards agree upon. The expense of keeping such bridge in repair shall be paid by the counties interested, in the same proportion as the expense of building such bridge was paid.

...If a bridge, any state or county road, or any public building, the property of or under the control or supervision of a county, is injured or destroyed, or when any state or county road or public highway has been injured or impaired by placing or continuing therein, without authority, any obstruction, or by the changing of the line, filling up or digging out of the bed thereof, or in any manner rendering it less conv...

... injured by flood or fire, the board of county commissioners may select a new site therefor. Before the change is made, or a contract for that purpose is entered into, the board shall give at least twenty days' notice of the time when the question of change will be considered, and at such hearing, all persons interested may present their views and wishes to the board, either by petition, remonstrance, or orally.

...No person possessed of the right to a water privilege shall be required to erect or keep in repair a bridge over a millrace or watercourse, excavated or constructed by him across a public road or highway for hydraulic purposes.

...The board of county commissioners may contract for and purchase stone, gravel, earth, dirt, or other material necessary for the construction or keeping in repair of approaches or ways to bridges as required by section 5591.24 of the Revised Code. The cost of constructing such approaches and procuring such material shall be paid from the bridge fund of the county on the order of the board.

...The board of county commissioners may provide for the proper lighting of bridges over streams, highway intersections, highway or railroad grade separations or interchange areas erected by it. The cost of such lighting shall be paid from the bridge fund of the county, or from any funds available for highway construction or maintenance and repair, on the order of the board. This section does not apply where the board h...

...The board of county commissioners shall erect and maintain on county roads, where not already done, one or more guardrails on each end of a county bridge, viaduct, or culvert more than five feet high. The board also shall protect, by guardrails, all embankments with a rise of more than eight feet in height and with a downward slope of greater than seventy degrees, where the embankments have an immediate connectio...

...36 of the Revised Code shall render the county liable for all accidents or damages resulting from that failure.

...ich there is a toll bridge, or a bridge owned by a person or corporation authorized by law to charge and collect toll for crossing it, may purchase such bridge, with the approaches, at a price agreed upon by the board and the owners of the bridge. If such board is unable to agree with the owners upon such purchase and sale the board may appropriate the bridge.

...91.38 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall have made an accurate survey and description of the bridge and approaches and the land occupied thereby, and shall proceed in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Upon payment of the agreed price, or payment into court of the compensation assessed, the right to charge or collect toll shall cease.

...When the board of county commissioners appropriates a bridge, as provided in sections 5591.38 and 5591.39 of the Revised Code, and fails to pay for it within three months after the assessment of compensation, the right of the board to make such appropriation on the terms of the assessment so made shall cease and such bridge shall be relieved from all encumbrances on account of the proceedings in such case. The judgme...

...If a county bridge has been destroyed by fire, flood, or any other cause, the board of county commissioners may cause to be established a free ferry in lieu thereof. The board may also cause to be established a free ferry over any of the interior streams of the state where it is not expedient to build a bridge, and may cause it to be maintained and operated. The cost of maintaining and operating such ferry shall not ...

...The board of county commissioners together with the county engineer or an engineer to be selected by the board, or the director of transportation, may ascertain the safe carrying capacity of the bridges on roads or highways under their jurisdiction. Where the safe carrying capacity of any such bridge is ascertained and found to be less than the load limit prescribed by sections 5577.01 to 5577.12 of the Revised Code,...

...A constable of a township, a marshal of a village, or a police officer of a city may arrest upon view, and without process, a person violating section 5591.42 of the Revised Code.

...Code do not take away from the board of county commissioners a right of action for damages, which it may have against a person for injury done to a bridge.

...The board of county commissioners of any county at their June session, annually, may levy a tax not exceeding three mills on each dollar valuation of taxable property within the county, for county purposes other than for roads, bridges, county buildings, sites therefor, and the purchase of lands for infirmary purposes. For the purpose of building county buildings, purchasing sites therefor, and purchasing lands for i...

...The board of county commissioners at their June session, annually, may levy a tax on each dollar of valuation of taxable property within their county, for the purpose of creating a judicial and court fund, as follows: (A) In a county where the amount of such taxable property does not exceed three million dollars, not exceeding two mills; (B) Where the amount exceeds three million dollars and does not exceed five mi...

...Annual taxes are hereby levied on the kinds of intangible property, enumerated in this section, on the intangible property tax list in the office of the treasurer of state at the following rates: (A) On investments, five per cent of income yield or of income as provided by section 5711.10 of the Revised Code for the 1983, 1984, and 1985 return years and no tax for subsequent return years; (B) On unproductive...