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...legislative authority of a municipal corporation has determined to issue bonds for the purpose of constructing or repairing any viaduct over any street, stream, railway tracks, or other place where an overhead roadway or footway is deemed necessary as provided by law, or when such legislative authority has determined to purchase or condemn, or when a municipal corporation has purchased or condemned, land for the purp...

...or repair of viaducts of a municipal corporation, or for the purchase or condemnation of land for such purpose, shall be paid into the treasury of the municipal corporation and paid out and expended upon the vouchers of the board or officer having charge of the repair of public roads or streets. Contracts for such improvements shall be made in the same manner as other contracts are required to be made. Vouchers to pa...

...When the voters of a municipal corporation determine to issue bonds for the construction or repair of viaducts, or for the purchase or condemnation of the land necessary therefor, the authority to make the improvement is hereby conferred and the money arising from the sale of the bonds shall be expended in the same manner as provided in section 723.14 of the Revised Code.

..."Owner," as used in sections 723.17 to 723.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, includes the legal or equitable owner, the person in whose name the property may be assessed for taxation on the tax duplicate, a tenant giving satisfactory guaranty that the assessment against the property signed for will be paid, or the board of education having the control of any school property.

...legislative authority of a municipal corporation, upon the petition of thirty-five per cent of the electors in such municipal corporation, certified by the mayor thereof to the legislative authority, may, by ordinance, provided for sprinkling with water any part of the streets, avenues, squares, and public places within the municipal corporation in the manner provided by sections 723.18 to 723.20, inclusive, of the R...

...The ordinance of a municipal corporation under section 723.17 of the Revised Code, to provide for sprinkling, shall not become operative unless it has received the affirmative votes of two thirds of the members elected to the legislative authority of such municipal corporation.

...Upon the certification of the petition and the passage of the ordinance as provided in sections 723.17 and 723.18 of the Revised Code, the board or officer having charge of the repair of streets in the municipal corporation may purchase the appliances and materials and employ the labor necessary to provide for sprinkling, or make contracts for all or any part thereof for periods not exceeding five years.

...e repair of streets in the municipal corporation, each year, may estimate the cost thereof and cause a tax to be levied for such purpose upon the general tax duplicate of the municipal corporation, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as other levies for municipal purposes, except that the levy may be in addition to the amount authorized for municipal purposes. Upon such estimate, the levy shall be m...

...legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, by resolution, require any interurban or street railway company to sprinkle with water its right of way on any street, alley, or public highway, or any portion thereof lying within the limits of the municipal corporation.

...Upon failure of any interurban or street railway company after sixty days' notice to the person having charge or management of such company in such municipal corporation to comply with the resolution referred to by section 723.21 of the Revised Code, a municipal corporation may sprinkle or contract therefor through its proper officials in accordance with the laws relating to contracts, and the cost thereof shall be c...

...Municipal corporations may treat the surface of streets, alleys, squares, and public roadways with calcium chloride, road oil, light coal tar products, light asphalts, or any other suitable light bituminous substances for the purpose of providing a temporary improvement in laying the dust on and preserving such surface. If it is desired by the legislative authority of a city to have such work performed by contract, s...

...treets and alleys, and the municipal corporation's portion of the cost thereof may be paid from any fund available for the cleaning and repairing of streets or alleys. When the roadways of a public park are ordered to be so treated, the cost thereof may be paid from any fund available for the care or maintenance of such parks.

...Any board of education may provide by private contract for sprinkling with water, or treatment with any of the substances mentioned in section 723.23 of the Revised Code, of the surface of any street abutting on school property, and pay for such work the same as other contingent expenses.

...legislative authority of a municipal corporation, when it deems it necessary to have a bridge or railways, or any part thereof, located in whole or in part in the municipal corporation, and owned, possessed, or operated by an individual, company, association, or corporation, lighted, shall pass an ordinance for that purpose requiring such individual, company, association, or corporation to light such bridge or railwa...

...e lighted, the number and style of lamp posts, gas posts, electric lights, or other lights and fixtures, and the time such lights shall be kept burning in each twenty-four hours. No such lights, poles, or fixtures, or any lights, poles, or fixtures located by any municipal corporation on its streets, alleys, or public grounds shall be required to be so placed as to interfere with a clear view of any fixed signal used...

...ys before any forfeiture or charge is imposed for default, and such notice may be given by delivering a written or printed copy of the ordinance to an owner or part owner, or any person having possession, charge or management of such bridge or railway. When such ordinance requires the lighting of a railway, service of such written or printed copy of the ordinance upon a ticket or freight agent of the railway company ...

...If the person, company, or corporation, owning, possessing, or operating a railway or bridge, neglects or fails to provide lighting in conformity with the ordinance under section 723.34 of the Revised Code for twenty days after notice under section 723.35 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation may immediately cause the lighting to be done at the expense of such person, company, or...

...legislative authority of a municipal corporation may direct the manner in which the expense of lighting a bridge or railway shall be assessed and collected. When so assessed, the amount shall be a debt due against and payable by the person, company, or corporation owning, possessing, or operating such bridge or railway, and shall be a lien, to be enforced as any other lien, on such bridge and the land on which it is ...

...No corporation or individual shall perform any work in the construction of a street railway until application for permission is made in writing to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, and until such legislative authority, by ordinance, has granted permission and prescribed the terms upon and the manner in which such railway shall be constructed and operated, and the streets and alleys to be used an...

... shall be passed, no action inviting proposals to construct and operate such railway shall be taken by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, and no ordinance for the purpose specified in such section shall be passed, until public notice of the application therefor has been given by the clerk of such legislative authority, once a week for at least three consecutive weeks in one or more of the daily pap...

...ed Code shall be made, except to the corporation or individual that agrees to carry passengers upon such proposed railway at the lowest rates of fare, and has previously obtained the written consent of a majority of the property holders upon each street or part thereof, on the line of the proposed railway, as represented by the foot frontage of the property abutting on the several streets along which such railway is ...

... or general ordinance, the municipal corporation shall not, during the term of the grant or renewal, release the grantee from any obligation or liability imposed by the terms of such grant or renewal.

...legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall provide that the crown of the street shall be made a nearly flat uniform curve from curb to curb, without ditch gutters, and in such manner as to give wheeled vehicles the full use of the roadway up to the face of the curb. When the tracks of two street railways, or of a street railway and a railroad, cross each other at a convenient grade on a street, such cross...

...legislative authority of a municipal corporation may require any part of the track between the rails of any street railway constructed within the municipal corporation limits to be paved with stone, gravel, boulders, or wooden or asphaltic pavement, but beyond such limits paving between the rails with stone, boulders, or wooden or asphaltic pavement shall not be required.

...legislative authority of a municipal corporation of a resolution declaring it necessary to improve, pave, repave, surface, or resurface a street or other public thoroughfare, in which are located rails, ties, roadbed, or tracks owned or operated by a street railway company which have become worn out or defective, such legislative authority may by resolution declare the necessity of requiring such company, at the time...