Ohio Revised Code Search

...s council or other organization the purpose of which is to foster and encourage the development of the arts, including but not limited to, literature, theater, music, the dance, painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, and motion pictures. In any city or county in which there is a symphony association, area arts council, art museum, or other similar organization, which is incorporated under sections 17...

... three of whom so nominated shall thereupon be elected as trustees or as members of any other governing body. (B) The right to nominate for membership on the executive committee of the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization one of the three trustees of the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization, representing the board of education or the educational service center governi...

...ther similar organization which is incorporated, organized, and operated in the manner and for the purposes stated in section 757.03 of the Revised Code, such city or county, or both, may pay the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization annually, in quarterly installments, in the case of a city, a sum not to exceed one half of one cent on each one hundred dollars of taxable property of the cit...

... or organization, three members to be appointed by the mayor, or by the legislative authority of the city if there is no mayor, or by the board of county commissioners, one of which nominees may, in the discretion of such mayor or legislative authority, or board of county commissioners, be the mayor, or a member of the legislative authority, or the board of county commissioners, all three of whom so nominated s...

...solution continues in force for the purposes named until, by like resolution, likewise certified and filed, any original resolution is revoked or rescinded.

...So long as any symphony association, area arts council, art museum, or other similar organization does all the things it agreed to do as considerations for the benefits to be received by it under sections 757.03 to 757.08 of the Revised Code, or is able, willing, and ready to perform the same, the appropriate board of education and the educational service center governing board and the city and county may conti...

...y each year, and pay it to a private corporation or association not for profit maintaining and furnishing a free museum of art, science, or history for the benefit of the inhabitants of the city as compensation for the use and maintenance thereof. The legislative authority may enter into a contract or agreement with such corporation or association setting forth the terms upon which the appropriations are to be made ...

...Any municipal corporation may provide public cemeteries and crematories for burial or incineration of the dead and regulate public and private cemeteries and crematories. Any cemetery established by a municipal corporation shall register with the division of real estate in the department of commerce pursuant to section 4767.03 of the Revised Code. Any cemetery of that nature is subject to Chapter 4767. and to section...

...legislative authority of a municipal corporation may provide a place for the interment of the dead outside of the corporate limits, and the police powers of the municipal corporation shall extend to those places.

...legislative authority of a municipal corporation owning a public burial ground or cemetery, whether within or without the municipal corporation, may pass and provide for the enforcement of ordinances necessary to carry into effect sections 759.02 to 759.48, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and may regulate such public burial grounds and cemeteries, the improvement thereof, the burial of the dead therein, define the te...

...legislative authority of a municipal corporation may sell any portion of the cemetery grounds owned by it and not used for the burial of the dead, which grounds are unsuitable for burial purposes, and may purchase with the proceeds thereof other suitable lands lying contiguous thereto. No such sale shall be made until the legislative authority has contracted for an equal or greater quantity of land suitable for buria...

...legislative authority of a municipal corporation may prohibit the interment of the dead within the municipal corporation limits, and, for the purpose of making such prohibition effective, may impose proper fines and penalties and cause any body, interred contrary thereto, to be taken up and buried without the limits of the municipal corporation.

...legislative authority of a municipal corporation may require the officer authorized to receive and disburse moneys arising from the sale of lots, or otherwise, and to invest, manage, and control the property and funds in his hands, to give a bond to the municipal corporation with sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duty, account for all moneys received by him, and pay over to his succ...

...When a municipal corporation holds land within its limits which has been used as a cemetery or burial ground, in which land interments have been prohibited by the municipal corporation, and it has been decided to remove the bodies interred therein, the legislative authority thereof may sell or otherwise dispose of such land, but the sale or transfer does not give the purchaser possession until the bodies therein inte...

...The title to and right of possession of public cemeteries and burial grounds located within a municipal corporation and set apart and dedicated as public cemeteries or burial grounds, and grounds used as such by the public but not dedicated, except those owned or under the care of a religious or benevolent society, or an incorporated company or association, are hereby vested in the municipal corporation in which such...

...e director of public service shall take possession and charge, and have the entire management, control, and regulation of public burial grounds and cemeteries located in or belonging to the city, subject to its ordinances. The director may direct the laying of such grounds out into lots, avenues, walks, and paths, or other subdivisions, which lots shall be numbered and the avenues named. A plat thereof shall be made ...

... in the name of the city to recover the possession of burial grounds, remove trespassers therefrom, and recover damages for injuries thereto or to any tombstone or monument therein. He shall see that all laws and ordinances passed for the protection of public burial grounds and cemeteries, and the burial of the dead, are enforced.

...The director of public service may make bylaws and regulations, not inconsistent with the ordinance of the city and the constitution and laws of this state, for the management and protection of the burial grounds and cemeteries under his control, and for the burial of the dead therein, and they shall have the same validity as the ordinances of the city. The director shall perform such other duties pertaining to the o...

...In the bylaws and regulations provided for by section 759.11 of the Revised Code, the director of public service shall declare the amount of money he will accept by agreement, gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise and hold as a permanent fund of the cemetery. He shall pledge the faith and credit of the city for the perpetual care of the lots designated, using only the interest or income of the money. On receipt of the ...

...ertinent description of the lots sold. Upon producing such receipt to the proper officer, such purchaser shall be entitled to a deed for the lots described therein. No more shall be charged for lots than is necessary to reimburse the city for the expense of lands purchased or appropriated for cemetery purposes, and to keep in order and embellish the grounds. Provision shall be made for the interment in such cemetery...

...The director of public service shall have entire charge and control of receipts from the sale of cemetery lots, and of laying off and embellishing the grounds. He may receive donations by bequest, devise, deed of gift, or otherwise, or money or other property, the principal or interest of which is to be used for the enlargement, improvement, embellishment, or care of the cemetery grounds generally, or for any particu...

...im as a permanent fund, for cemetery purposes, or such money as may thereafter come to him for such purposes, and shall render a full statement thereof, by whom, when, and for what purpose paid. The legislative authority shall acknowledge receipt thereof to the director in writing signed by its clerk. By resolution duly passed and entered on the minutes of its proceedings, the legislative authority shall pledge the...

...The director of public service shall appoint a clerk, and shall keep accurate minutes of all proceedings concerning cemeteries.

... the director of public service shall report in writing to the legislative authority of the city the number of cemetery lots sold, to whom sold, and the amount received therefor, during the year preceding, and a detailed statement of the expenditures during the same period, showing the time and purpose of each payment and to whom made. Such report shall contain a pertinent statement as to whether any funds on hand a...

... the director of public service shall report such fact to the legislative authority of the city, and recommend such action as he deems most expedient.