Ohio Revised Code Search

...No grant or franchise shall be made to an interurban railway company for longer than twenty years, and no franchise so granted shall be used for the purpose of operating a municipal streetcar system.

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, when a railroad track is laid in the municipal corporation, by ordinance, regulate the speed of all locomotives and railroad cars within the municipal corporation limits. Such ordinance shall not require a rate of speed of less than four miles an hour, and in villages having a population of two thousand or less, it shall not require a rate of less than eight m...

...If the owner or possessor of any lot or land in any municipal corporation digs, or causes to be dug, any cellar, pit, vault, or excavation, to a greater depth than nine feet below the curb of the street or streets on which such lot or land abuts, or, if there is no curb, below the established grade of the street or streets on which such lot or land abuts, or, if there is no curb or established grade, below the surfac...

... excavation, to the full depth of the foundation wall of any building upon adjoining lots, or to the full depth of nine feet below the established grade of the street or streets on which such lot abuts, without reference to the depth of adjoining foundation walls, without incurring the liability prescribed in section 723.49 of the Revised Code, and may, on thirty days' notice to adjoining owners, grade and improve th...

...Any municipal corporation, when it is necessary in the construction and protection of wells, pumps, cisterns, aqueducts, water pipes, dams, reservoirs, reservoir sites, sewers, drains, sewage disposal or water purification plants, and water works, for supplying water to itself and its inhabitants or disposing of sewage, may relocate, straighten, change, or cross a road or stream, but shall, without unnecessary delay,...

... form developed by the auditor of state under section 117.16 of the Revised Code. In municipal corporations having an engineer, or an officer having a different title but the duties and functions of an engineer, the estimate shall be made by the engineer or other officer. Where the total estimated cost of any such work is seventy thousand dollars or less, the proper officers may proceed by force account. Where the ...

...Where the proper officers of any municipal corporation construct, reconstruct, widen, resurface, or repair a street or other public way by force account or direct labor, and the estimated cost of the work as defined in section 723.52 of the Revised Code exceeds the amount specified in that section, such municipal authorities shall cause to be kept by the engineer of the municipal corporation, or other officer or empl...

...onal engineer or other qualified person under the supervision of a professional engineer on a schedule established by the director of transportation, but at least once every twenty-four months, or more frequently if required by the legislative authority, in accordance with the manual of bridge inspection described in section 5501.47 of the Revised Code. The legislative authority may contract for inspection services. ...

... municipality shall not contract for or undertake construction or repair of a bridge, for which the cost of such work exceeds fifty thousand dollars, unless the plans are prepared or approved by a professional engineer qualified in the designing of bridges.

... substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth of a municipal corporation, retards the provision of housing accommodations, or constitutes an economic or social liability and is a menace to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare in its present condition and use by reason of the presence of a substantial number of slums, deteriorated or deteriorating structures, predominance of defective or inadequate stree...

...xemption period. (B) With the approval under this division of the board of education of the city, local, or exempted village school district within the territory of which the improvements are or will be located, the portion of the assessed valuation of improvements exempted from taxation may exceed seventy-five per cent, but shall not exceed one hundred per cent. The legislative authority of the municipal corporatio...

...The municipal corporation shall not take any formal action to enter into a development agreement that exempts improvements to real property from taxation in the manner set forth in section 725.02 of the Revised Code until section 5709.83 of the Revised Code has been complied with.

...blish an urban renewal debt retirement fund for such single issue or series. The legislative authority shall also establish an urban renewal debt retirement fund upon its adoption of a resolution authorizing the repayment of any loans from the state for public infrastructure capital improvements issued pursuant to Chapter 164. of the Revised Code that were used by the municipal corporation for any urban renewal proje...

...ed in an urban renewal debt retirement fund established pursuant to section 725.03 of the Revised Code. If the municipal corporation owns the improvements, it may require the lessee of the improvements to make the semiannual urban renewal service payments required under this section. The legislative authority of the municipal corporation may secure the urban renewal service payments by a lien on the improvements. S...

...ating an urban renewal debt retirement fund pursuant to section 725.03 of the Revised Code, may: (A) Issue unvoted urban renewal bonds, which pledge and are payable solely from all or any portion of the revenues as defined in division (D) of section 725.01 of the Revised Code. The revenues pledged shall be placed in the urban renewal debt retirement fund established for such urban renewal bonds and applied to the pa...

...Urban renewal bonds issued under section 725.05 of the Revised Code shall be in such form and shall be sold in such manner and upon such terms and price as determined by ordinance of the municipal corporation issuing such bonds to be in the best interest of such municipal corporation.

...never it determines refunding to be expedient, including funding and retirement and advance refunding with or without payment or redemption prior to maturity, may refund any urban renewal bonds by the issuance of urban renewal refunding bonds, and issue bonds partly to refund bonds then outstanding and partly for any other authorized purpose for urban renewal bonds. The refunding bonds may be issued in amounts suffic...

...The proceeds of each issue of urban renewal bonds issued pursuant to sections 725.01 to 725.11 of the Revised Code shall be used for the urban renewal project or projects or any parts thereof designated in the ordinance authorizing such issue and the necessary expenses of preparing, printing, and selling said bonds, legal services, and transfer expense, or to advance the payment of interest on such bonds during the f...

...execute bonds payable from the general funds of such municipal corporation. In case any officer whose manual or facsimile signature appears on any such bond or coupon shall cease to be such officer before the delivery of such bonds, such signature shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes as if he had remained in office until such delivery. The ordinance or trust agreement may provide for the certif...

...Urban renewal bonds issued under sections 725.01 to 725.11 of the Revised Code are lawful investments of banks, savings banks, savings and loan associations, trust companies, trustees, fiduciaries, trustees or other officers having charge of sinking or bond retirement funds of municipal corporations and other subdivisions of this state, and of domestic insurance companies.

...ecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the bondholders as are reasonable and proper and not in violation of law, including covenants setting forth the duties of the municipal corporation. Any bank or trust company incorporated under the laws of this state which may act as trustee or as depository of the proceeds of bonds or revenues may furnish such indemnifying bonds or may pledge such securities as are re...

...and maintain a sanitary police pension fund. Thereupon a board of trustees, who shall be known as "trustees of the sanitary police pension fund," shall be created, consisting of the board or officer having charge or control of the health department of the municipal corporation and five members of the sanitary police force; provided, that upon petition of a majority of the members of the sanitary police force, such bo...

...on to create a sanitary police pension fund, an election shall be held to choose five trustees from the sanitary police force. Such board or officer shall give notice thereof by posting it in a conspicuous place at the headquarters of such force. Between the hours of nine a.m. and six p.m. of the day designated, each person in the sanitary police force who, by its rules, is designated a member thereof, shall send by ...

...rustees of the sanitary police pension fund, and the secretary or corresponding officer of the health department shall be secretary of the fund. In case there is no such officer, the board of trustees of the sanitary police pension fund shall appoint the secretary. The secretary shall keep a complete record of the proceedings of the board of trustees, and such board may fix his compensation therefor, to be paid from ...

... maintaining a sanitary police pension fund, the legislative authority thereof each year, in the manner provided for other municipal levies and in addition to all other levies authorized by law, may levy a tax, not to exceed one-thirtieth of a mill on each dollar, upon all the real and personal property listed for taxation in such municipal corporation. In the matter of such levy, the board of trustees of the fund sh...