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...In making a special assessment by percentage of the tax value or by the foot front on lots or lands not subdivided into lots, when such lots or lands are not assessed for taxation, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall fix, for the purpose of such assessment, the value of such lots as they stand and of such lands at what the legislative authority considers a fair average depth for lots in the nei...

...poration shall limit all special assessments levied under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to the special benefits conferred upon the property assessed. In no case shall there be levied, under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, upon a lot or parcel of land in the municipal corporation, any assessment for any purpose which, together with all assessments made for all ot...

... property is exempt from special assessments levied under Chapter 727. or 729. of the Revised Code, provided no delinquent special assessments and related interest and penalties are levied or assessed against any property owned by the owner and operator of the qualifying real property for that tax year.

...When a special assessment is levied under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation for the reimproving of any street within the municipal corporation by paving, for the original paving of which a special assessment has previously been levied by ordinance of the municipal corporation within the last twenty years, such assessments for repaving sh...

... such part of the total cost of improvements for which special assessments are levied under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, as the legislative authority thereof deems just, which part shall not be less than one-fiftieth of the total cost of the improvement, and in addition thereto, the municipal corporation shall pay the cost of intersections, except as provided by section 727.06 of the Rev...

...When a petition subscribed by the owners of sixty per cent of the front footage of property abutting upon a street, alley, public road, place, boulevard, parkway, park entrance, easement, or other public improvement in a municipal corporation, or the owners of seventy-five per cent of the area to be assessed for such improvement, requesting such improvement, is regularly presented to the legislative authority of the ...

...When a street, alley, public highway, sidewalk, wharf, or landing within a municipal corporation is graded, or pavements are constructed in conformity to grades established by the authorities of the municipal corporation, and the expense of such work is assessed on the lots or lands benefited thereby, such lots or lands shall not be subject to any special assessment occasioned by any subsequent change of grade in suc...

...t not be limited to: (A) The purchase price of real estate or any interest therein when acquired by purchase, or not more than fifty per cent of the cost of acquiring such real estate or any interest therein when acquired by appropriation; (B) The cost of preliminary and other surveys; (C) The cost of preparing plans, specifications, profiles, and estimates except, to the extent that costs of plans, specific...

...ner they should be improved at the same time, with the same kind of materials, and in the same manner, then such streets, alleys, easements, or other public places, or parts thereof, may be treated as a single improvement, and one resolution, ordinance, or contract providing for such improvement may include one or more of such streets, alleys, easements, or other public places, or parts thereof, at the discretion of ...

...s are to be charged with special assessments to pay any part of the cost of a public improvement, such lots and lands bounding and abutting upon the improvement may be described as all the lots and lands bounding and abutting upon such improvement between and including the termini of the improvement and those lots and lands which do not so bound and abut may be described by their appropriate lot numbers or by metes a...

...Special assessments for any improvement under this chapter shall be payable in annual installments pursuant to one or more payment schedules authorized by the legislative authority in the resolution of necessity adopted pursuant to section 727.12 of the Revised Code. Except as otherwise provided in section 727.251 of the Revised Code, the number of annual installments of any assessment for street lighting purposes or...

...de of the street and improvement after completion with reference to the property abutting thereon, and an estimate of the cost of the improvement shall be prepared and filed in the office of the clerk of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and shall be open to the inspection of all persons interested. After such plans, specifications, profiles, and estimate of cost of the improvement have been file...

...s to which tax bills are sent, or by a combination of the foregoing methods. (B)(1) If it appears by the return of service or the return of the certified mail notice that one or more of the owners cannot be found, such owners shall be served by either or both of the following methods: (a) Publication of the notice once in a newspaper of general circulation within the municipal corporation; (b) Publication of t...

... Revised Code. (B) When it appears from the estimated assessment filed as provided by section 727.12 of the Revised Code, that the assessment against the owner of any lot or parcel of land will exceed five hundred dollars, such owner shall be notified of the assessment in the manner provided in section 727.13 of the Revised Code.

...egislative authority within two weeks from the date of completion of the notice required under section 727.13 of the Revised Code. Such objection shall include the address for mailing of the notice provided in section 727.16 of the Revised Code. An owner who fails to so file an objection shall be deemed to have waived any objection.

...st of three disinterested freeholders from the county outside the municipal corporation.

...e the date of such hearing. After the completion of all hearings provided for by this section the board shall report to the legislative authority its recommendations including any changes which should be made in the estimated assessment. The legislative authority may approve or disapprove the report including any changes recommended by the board in the estimated assessment. In the event the legislative authority d...

...tion shall, after the expiration of the time for filing objections to the proposed assessments and following the hearing and determination on any such objections, determine, by an ordinance, to proceed with and adopt the proposed assessment list as prepared and filed pursuant to the resolution of necessity adopted hereunder, or as equalized and approved by the legislative authority under section 727.17 of the Revised...

... assessments, shall, within two weeks from the date of completion of the notice required under section 727.13 of the Revised Code, file a claim in writing with the clerk of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, setting forth the amount of the damages claimed and a general description of the property with respect to which it is claimed such damages will accrue. An owner who fails to file such claim, ...

... of the Revised Code, and shall fix the time and place for the inquiry and the assessment of such damages, which inquiry and the assessments shall be confined to such claims.

...rticular case. Such court shall fix the time and place of inquiry and the assessment of damages, which inquiry and assessment shall be confined to such claims.

...r such rules and instructions as are given it by the court. When the jury cannot agree, it may be discharged, but the court may receive its verdict as to one or more of the claimants, and discharge it with respect to the parties concerning whose claims it cannot agree. In case of the discharge of the jury because of such disagreement, a new jury shall be summoned, and the same proceedings shall be had with respect t...

...If the jury summoned under section 727.19 or 727.20 of the Revised Code finds no damages, the costs of the inquiry shall be taxed against the claimant or claimants and collected on execution. In other cases the costs shall be paid by the municipal corporation.

...all be judicially inquired into before commencing or after completing the proposed improvement.

...e provisions of this section have been complied with.