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...Upon completing the written project selection process for the prioritization of new transportation capacity projects, the director of transportation shall submit it to the transportation review advisory council. The council shall review the process, and approve it or make revisions.

...e every two years, the director of transportation shall prepare a fiscal forecast predicting or indicating the amount of funding expected to be available for construction of new transportation capacity projects during the period of the forecast. The forecast shall be consistent with the biennial budget approved by the general assembly. The transportation review advisory council shall develop and approve a list of pr...

...process, and list of projects, the transportation review advisory council shall conduct no more than six public hearings per year at various locations around the state. At the hearings, the council shall accept public comment related to the project selection process, and on the merits of major new transportation projects. Members of the council shall attend the hearings in person.

...The director of transportation, with the approval of the transportation review advisory council, shall submit biennial reports to the governor and the general assembly on the conduct of the project selection process for prioritizing transportation capacity projects, and on the progress of those projects undertaken.

...(A) There is hereby created the transportation review advisory council. No member of the general assembly shall be a member of the council. The council shall consist of nine members, one of whom is the director of transportation. Six members shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. One member shall be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and one member shall be...

...Members of the transportation review advisory council, except the director of transportation, shall be compensated at the rate of seven thousand five hundred dollars for service on the council from July 1, 1997, through June 30, 1998, and five thousand dollars for each subsequent year beginning on July 1, 1998. In addition, members shall receive necessary travel and other expenses related to their service on the coun...

...At the request of the transportation review advisory council, the department of transportation shall provide staff assistance and office space for the council.

...This section applies if a political subdivision outside the jurisdiction of a metropolitan planning organization submits a request to the department of transportation for an interchange to be constructed on an interstate highway or a multi-lane, fully controlled-access highway under the jurisdiction of the department. When reviewing such a request, the department or the transportation review advisory council shall co...

...of the following apply: (1) It has a population between one million one hundred thousand and one million three hundred thousand as of the most recent federal decennial census; (2) As of the effective date of this section, an existing public passenger commuter rail service is operated in that county and does not operate in any other county. (B) The director of transportation shall include in the process devel...

...The director of transportation shall make a map in outline and profile, and plans, specifications, profiles, and estimates covering proposed projects. When completed the director shall indorse upon such maps, profiles, plans, specifications, and estimates of quantities his approval of the same and cause one copy thereof to be placed on file in his office and another in the office of the district deputy director of tr...

... the Revised Code, the director of transportation may establish a program to expedite the sale and construction of special projects by combining the design and construction elements of projects for transportation facilities as defined in section 5501.01 of the Revised Code into a single contract. The director shall prepare and distribute a scope of work document upon which the bidders shall base their bids. Except in...

... the Revised Code, the director of transportation may enter into indefinite delivery indefinite quantity construction contracts for highway maintenance limited to guardrail, highway lighting, and traffic signal maintenance. (C) The total value of a contract entered into under this section shall not exceed two million dollars per project. (D) Each district of the department of transportation is limited to two inde...

...n a state highway, the director of transportation, except as provided in section 5517.021 of the Revised Code, shall make an estimate of the cost of the work using the force account project assessment form developed by the auditor of state under section 117.16 of the Revised Code. When a force account project assessment form is required, the estimate shall include costs for subcontracted work and any competitively bi...

...(A)(1) The director of transportation may proceed without competitive bidding by employing labor, purchasing materials, and furnishing equipment to do any of the following work: (a) Replace any single span bridge in its substantial entirety or widen any single span bridge, including necessary modifications to accommodate widening the existing substructure and wing walls. The director shall proceed under division (...

...The director of transportation shall, at the time the director indorses the director's approval upon the surveys, plans, profiles, and specifications covering any proposed project, determine whether the making of the improvement will require the closing to traffic of the highway, bridge, or culvert involved and, if the director finds it necessary to close the same to traffic, the extent to which the same shall be ...

...The director of transportation shall repair all substantial damage done to county and township roads or to streets in municipal corporations resulting from the transportation of materials or equipment over such roads for use in constructing, reconstructing, or repairing, either by force account or contract, any road, street, or highway project of the department. Temporary repairs on such roads made necessary by reaso...

...(A) Whenever any proposed project of the department of transportation includes the construction of a sound barrier, the director of transportation shall notify the appropriate local legislative authority of the proposed construction. The director shall conduct at least one public hearing on the proposed sound barrier in the county in which it is to be located. Once a week for two successive weeks, the director ...

...already present, the department of transportation shall install signs and other traffic control devices designed to slow down the flow of traffic in construction and similar work zones. The signs and devices may include arrow boards, channelizing devices, temporary raise pavement markers, portable changeable message signs, temporary traffic barriers, screens, rumble strips, and any other signs or devices the director...

...1) The date that the department of transportation will advertise for competitive bids related to the chip sealing or fog sealing of an asphalt surface on a state highway project; (2) The date that the department will begin chip sealing or fog sealing an asphalt surface on a state highway project through force account in accordance with division (A)(1)(e) of section 5517.021 of the Revised Code. (B) Not less than ...

...nt to Section 515.03 of H.B. 66 of the 126th general assembly, Section 555.10 of H.B. 67 of the 127th general assembly, or Section 755.20 of H.B. 153 of the 129th general assembly, any gift or grant received with respect to a project, tolls, special assessments levied by the district, sales and use taxes received from a qualifying regional transit authority for any purpose authorized by section 306.353 of the Revised...

...(A) A transportation improvement district may be created by the board of county commissioners of a county. The board, by resolution, shall determine the structure of the board of trustees of the transportation improvement district it creates by adopting the structure contained either in division (C)(1) or (2) of this section. (B) A transportation improvement district is a body both corporate and politic, and the e...

...(A) A transportation improvement district may: (1) Adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (2) Adopt an official seal; (3) Sue and be sued in its own name, plead and be impleaded, provided any actions against the district shall be brought in the court of common pleas of the county in which the principal office of the district is located, or in the court of common pleas o...

...(A) The board of trustees of a transportation improvement district may provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, alteration, or repair of any road, highway, public place, building, or other infrastructure and levy special assessments, if the board determines that the public improvement will benefit the area where it will be constructed, reconstructed, improved, altered, or repaired. However, if...

...(A) A transportation improvement district may acquire by purchase, lease, lease-purchase, lease with option to purchase, appropriation, or otherwise and in such manner and for such consideration as it considers proper, any public or private property necessary, convenient, or proper for the construction, maintenance, repair, or operation of a project. The district may pledge net revenues, to the extent permitted by th...

...The board of trustees of a district may acquire real property in fee simple in the name of the district in connection with, but in excess of that needed for, a project by any method other than appropriation and hold the property for such period of time as the board determines. All right, title, and interest of the district in the property may be sold at public auction or otherwise, as the board considers in the...