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...When a municipal corporation determines to acquire the property of a public utility by condemnation, the compensation therefor shall be determined in the manner provided by sections 719.01 to 719.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...When a municipal corporation desires, as expressed in an ordinance determining to acquire the property of a public utility, to have the compensation for such property determined by the public utilities commission, such municipal corporation shall make a request in writing to the commission in accordance with section 4909.04 of the Revised Code. Thereupon the commission shall proceed to make an inventory and valuation...

...Any municipal corporation may, contemporaneously with or at any time after the grant of an indeterminate permit as provided in sections 745.02 and 745.03 of the Revised Code, agree with a public utility upon the compensation to be paid for its property and the times for the exercise of the privilege of purchase, but no period between the times fixed for such purchase shall exceed five years. Upon the determination of...

...ed to the electors of the municipal corporation, at a special or general election held in the municipal corporation at such time as the legislative authority determines, and approved by a majority of the electors voting on it. The ordinance shall be passed by an affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the members of the legislative authority and shall be subject to the approval of the mayor as provided...

...rce until such time as the municipal corporation acquires the property of the public utility as provided in sections 745.01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or until otherwise terminated according to the terms of the permit. The acceptance of an indeterminate permit deprives the public utility of all rights under any license, permit, grant, or franchise, or granted in any municipal ordinance or resolution e...

...e of agreement between the municipal corporation and a public utility as to rates, fares, or charges, as provided in section 745.06 of the Revised Code, all rates, fares, tolls, and charges for services rendered and commodities furnished by such public utility shall be sufficient to yield a reasonable compensation to the public utility operating under an indeterminate permit, and in the ascertainment of what shall co...

...If any municipal corporation establishes a department to exercise any of the powers conferred by sections 745.01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, such department is hereby granted such powers of supervision and regulation of any public utility operating under an indeterminate grant as are provided by such sections and the ordinance granting the permit, and as are prescribed by any ordinance not inconsistent...

...ncerning the orders of the municipal corporation, the utility may appeal to the public utilities commission from any order of the municipal corporation which is in violation of law or of the permit, or from any unreasonable order concerning matters upon which the parties have not agreed in the permit itself. Such appeal shall be by petition filed within thirty days from the issuance of the order. The filing of any su...

...eview of the actions of the commission upon such appeals or arbitration. Except as provided in this section and section 745.11 of the Revised Code, the law relating to appeals, complaints, or applications to the commission shall not apply to public utilities operating under indeterminate permits.

...sive, of the Revised Code, the duties imposed upon public utilities by such sections shall be enforceable by mandamus and all other judicial proceedings provided for the enforcement of the duties of public utilities.

...ed Code do not deprive any municipal corporation of its rights to prescribe, by charter, any other methods or terms according to and upon which indeterminate permits may be granted in such municipal corporation.

...g to cities of the first class having a population exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants" passed May 4, 1869, (66 O. L. p. 80) pursuant to which the city of Cincinnati established the Cincinnati Southern Railway, as well as acts subsequently amending the act passed May 4, 1869, which included sections 15093 to 15150-20 of the General Code, as subsequently amended by Section 2 of S.B. 200 of the 98th ge...

...eceive offers for, and sell, all or any portion of a railway in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. The board of trustees may approve and enter into a sale agreement by adopting a resolution that shall include the terms of the proposed sale, and the method that will be used to determine the minimum annual amount to be transmitted to the municipal corporation under section 746.05 of the Revised Code, which...

...of trustees that sells a railway or any portion of a railway under section 746.02 of the Revised Code shall establish a railway proceeds trust fund for the purpose of receiving the net proceeds of the sale. The municipal corporation that owned the railway or portion of the railway before the sale shall be the sole beneficiary of the trust fund. Any funds in the trust fund shall not be considered part of the unencumbe...

...to the assets of the trust fund, the purposes of the trust, and the skills and knowledge of the members of the railway board of trustees, in order to fulfill the board's duties and responsibilities in administering the trust fund. The railway board of trustees shall provide for payment of these and other reasonable expenses of administering the trust fund from the investment earnings on the trust fund. (C) The rail...

...stees shall certify to the municipal corporation the principal amount remaining in the trust fund, and the amount of funds that the railway board of trustees will disburse to the municipal corporation over the course of the municipal corporation's immediately following fiscal year. During the municipal corporation's immediately following fiscal year, and with such frequency and in such installments as may be determin...

... redemption premium payments, and any deposits pertaining thereto, required with respect to bonds. "Existing infrastructure improvements" means streets, bridges, municipal buildings, parks and green space, site improvements, recreation facilities, improvements for parking purposes, and any other public facilities that are owned by a municipal corporation with a useful life of five or more years. "Existing infrastru...

...d into the treasury of the municipal corporation that established the railway, to the credit of the sinking fund or bond retirement fund.

...at a rapid transit commission, with the powers and duties described in sections 747.01 to 747.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code, be appointed, the mayor of such city shall appoint a board to be known as the board of rapid transit commissioners. Such board shall consist of five members, electors of the county within which such city is located, and a majority of whom shall be electors of such city. The commissioners ...

... to the public and all questions acted upon shall be decided by a yea and nay vote, with the name of each member voting recorded on the journal, and no question shall be decided unless approved by a majority of the members of the board.

...The board of rapid transit commissioners may employ clerks, engineers, superintendents, real estate experts, attorneys, and such other employees as are necessary. The chief engineer of the subdepartment of engineering of the department of public service may be employed as the chief engineer of the board and receive compensation in addition to that paid him as chief engineer of the subdepartment. The duties performed...

...railway system, in, through, under, or upon any lands, including canal lands or parts thereof, together with the streets, alleys, and public ways outside of such canal lands, whether within or without the limits of the city, and of depots and terminals for interurban, suburban, street, and other electric railways, and the construction of interurban, suburban, street, or rapid transit electric railways, and of any com...

...d and not appropriated for any other purpose. Moneys to be derived from the sale of bonds, the issue of which has been authorized, shall be deemed to be in the treasury to the credit of such fund. All moneys expended for the construction and acquisition of parkways or boulevards, as authorized by such sections, shall be provided for partly by special appropriation or bond issue and partly by assessments, as s...

...rapid transit commissioners may assess upon the abutting, adjacent, contiguous, or other specially benefited lots or lands in a city fifty per cent of the entire cost or expense connected with the construction of any boulevard or parkway authorized by sections 747.01 to 747.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The proceedings by such board for the levying and collecting of any special assessments, including the issuan...

...The taxing authority of a city may pay the preliminary expenses of the board of rapid transit commissioners and include the cost of such preliminary expenses as part of the cost of the rapid transit system for which bonds may be issued. No bonds shall be issued for any rapid transit system in excess of one hundred fifty thousand dollars without a vote of the people, and the total bonds issued by any city for a...