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...(A) The clerk of the board of county commissioners shall maintain a file for the proposed improvement containing a record of the petition, amendments, comments, notices, proceedings, resolutions, orders, and any other record regarding the proposed improvement that is filed with the board. (B) The county engineer shall maintain a file for the proposed improvement that contains a record of the petition, amendments t...

...gs. The words "Legal Notice of Proposed Drainage Improvement" shall be printed in plain view on the face of the envelope. When the owner is not a natural person, the notice shall be mailed to its chief officer or managing agent at the usual place of business in the county. If such an owner is a foreign or domestic railroad company, regardless of whether the charter thereof prescribes the manner or place of service of...

...ment on the proposed improvement at any time before a final order on the petition is made by the board of county commissioners. Comments may be made in person at the public hearings on the petition or by filing written comments with the clerk of the board of county commissioners.

...(A) Upon receiving the notice required under division (A) of section 6131.07 of the Revised Code, the county engineer shall prepare a preliminary report on the proposed improvement, which shall include all of the following: (1) A preliminary estimate of the cost of the proposed improvement; (2) Comments on the feasibility of the project; (3) A statement of the engineer's opinion as to whether benefits from the ...

...proposed improvement's location and the drainage issues intended to be addressed by the proposed improvement. (B) Upon a request made by a commissioner or an owner in the area to be benefited by the proposed improvement, the board of county commissioners shall recess the view and reconvene it at a site along the proposed improvement for the purpose of gaining additional information about the drainage issues intend...

...(A) At the first hearing on a petition for a proposed improvement, the board of county commissioners shall do both of the following: (1) Hear the preliminary report of the county engineer required under section 6131.09 of the Revised Code; (2) Hear any evidence offered by any owner for or against the granting of the proposed improvement or for or against the granting of any laterals, branches, spurs, or change of...

...(A) If the board of county commissioners finds at the conclusion of the first hearing for a proposed improvement that a proposed improvement is not necessary, will not be conducive to the public welfare, or that the estimated cost of the proposed improvement will exceed the benefits to be derived if it is constructed, the board shall dismiss the petition for the proposed improvement and enter its findings upon its jo...

...herwise appropriated to the appropriate drainage improvement fund. The board shall not appropriate an amount that exceeds twenty-five per cent of the engineer's preliminary cost estimate. (E) If the board decides to proceed with a petition for a proposed improvement, and if the improvement is being undertaken through the joint efforts and cooperation of the board and any federal or state agency, and if the federal ...

...provement petitions pending at the same time for two or more separate improvements which connect with each other, or which serve common territory, or which can readily be combined into one system. In case of such consolidation, the board shall enter its action upon its journal, and if necessary, it shall order the county engineer to re-estimate and make such further reports and schedules as are necessary upon its ord...

... of record and parcel numbers along the drainage improvement; (2) The location of the improvement; (3) A statement describing the width of the permanent easement for maintenance as provided for in section 6137.12 of the Revised Code; (4) An affidavit listing the owners of record, complete property descriptions, and parcel numbers subject to the permanent easement. The engineer shall note the property plat in the a...

...essment that is for purposes other than drainage; (4) The benefits accruing to political subdivisions and any department, office, or institution of the state. The engineer shall determine the estimated cost of the improvement that each political subdivision and any department, office, or institution of the state shall be assessed by reason of the benefit to public health, safety, convenience, the environment, wildl...

...ribed in the schedules; (2) The date, time, and location of the final hearing by the board on the report of the engineer and on the proceedings for the improvement; (3) A statement that an owner may file an exception to the assessments or a claim for compensation or damages with the clerk of the board of county commissioners not less than five days before the date fixed for the final hearing; (4) A statement th...

...(A) An owner may file an exception to the county engineer's schedules of assessments or file a claim for damages or compensation with the clerk of the board of county commissioners not less than five days before the date of the final hearing in the proceedings to construct the improvement. (B) An owner shall include with an exception or claim for compensation or damage the nature of the exception or claim, the amou...

...(A) At the final hearing, or at such time the final hearing is adjourned to hear claims for compensation or damages, the board of county commissioners shall hear any competent evidence offered by any affected owner upon the county engineer's estimate of damages and upon any claim filed for compensation or damages. (B) Upon consideration of all the evidence, the county engineer's schedule of estimated damages, and a...

...At the final hearing on a proposed improvement, the board of county commissioners shall hear any application that is filed for a change of the route or course of the proposed improvement, or of either terminus thereof, from that shown in the report of the county engineer. The board may hear any application to make any change in the nature, kind, or extent of the work proposed to be done, as shown in the report of the...

...(A) At the final hearing on a proposed improvement, after hearing all the evidence offered in the proceedings and after receiving and considering all the schedules, plans, and reports filed by the county engineer, the board of county commissioners shall review its former order to proceed with project survey and design for the proposed improvement and shall either affirm its former order and proceed to confirm the ass...

...proposed improvement, and fix the date, time, and place for the receiving of bids, which shall be not less than thirty days after the date of the order; (2) Determine when the assessments must be paid; (3) Determine whether bonds or notes must be issued in anticipation of and payable out of the installments of assessments. (D) The board shall enter the orders approving the assessments, the order requiring the e...

...han two semiannual installments. At the time of the final hearing, in the order approving the levying of the assessments, the board of county commissioners shall determine how long a period of time, in semiannual installments, as taxes are paid, shall be given the owners of land benefited to pay the assessments that are made for an improvement and whether or not bonds or notes shall be issued and sold in anticipation...

... county commissioners shall fix a date, time, and place at the final hearing for the county engineer to receive bids. The county engineer shall prepare the necessary bid documents and legal advertisements as provided in sections 307.87 and 307.88 of the Revised Code. (B) If an appeal has been taken to the court of common pleas, as provided in section 6131.25 of the Revised Code, the bids may be received and tabulat...

...(A) Any affected owner may appeal to the court of common pleas within thirty days of the date that any order was issued by the board of county commissioners under this chapter, and may appeal any one or more of the following questions: (1) Is the improvement necessary? (2) Will the improvement be conducive to the public welfare? (3) Is the cost of the improvement greater than the benefits conferred? (4) Is th...

...If an appeal is filed pursuant to section 6131.25 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall promptly prepare a transcript of the orders made by the board of county commissioners, and shall file such transcript with the clerk of the court of common pleas, together with the permanent files of records of the proceedings maintained by the board of county commissioners and county engineer a...

...Several owners may appeal from the orders in the same improvement. If several owners appeal, only one transcript need be made by the clerk of the board of county commissioners. All the appeals shall be filed in one action in the court of common pleas, which court, on any appeal, may separate for hearing or trial the issues appealed to said court, and render its order, judgment, or decree upon the issues as the same a...

...enue funds of the county to the general drainage improvement fund a sum of not more than twenty-five per cent of the engineer's preliminary estimate.

...hat the notice shall state the date and time of the hearing in the court of common pleas, and proof of the notice shall be made by the certificate of the clerk of the court. If from the evidence adduced and the schedules filed the court finds that the improvement is necessary and will be conducive to the public welfare and that the cost of the improvement is less than the benefits that will be derived by the construc...

...On appeal from an order made by the board of county commissioners allowing or refusing to allow compensation or damages, the owners interested shall have the right of trial by jury. The jury may view the premises, as in other civil cases.