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...water pressure to adequately suppress a fire of any size, regardless of whether the hydrant was designed for use as a fire hydrant or whether a fire department uses the hydrant with the permission of the corporation or district. All low-pressure hydrants in a municipal corporation or regional water and sewer district shall be designated as such by being painted a conspicuous color distinguishing low-pressure hydrants...

...close, adjust, or interfere with a fire hydrant, valve, regulator, gauge, gate, disc, curb cock, stopcock, meter, or other regulator, operating or measuring device, or appliance in or attached to the wells, tanks, reservoirs, conduits, pipes, mains, service pipes, house pipes, or other pipes or apparatus of a water company or furnisher of water, with intent to cause the escape of water or to injure or destroy such pr...

...ection; (4) Within ten feet of a fire hydrant; (5) On a crosswalk; (6) Within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection; (7) Within thirty feet of, and upon the approach to, any flashing beacon, stop sign, or traffic control device; (8) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless a different length is indi...

... equipment, appliances, materials, fire hydrants, and water supply for fire-fighting and fire and rescue purposes that seems advisable to the board. The board shall provide for the care and maintenance of such fire equipment, and, for these purposes, may purchase, lease, lease with an option to purchase, or construct and maintain necessary buildings, and it may establish and maintain lines of fire-alarm communication...

...uipment, appliances, or materials; fire hydrants; and water supply for firefighting purposes that seems advisable to the board; (2) Provide for the care and maintenance of equipment and, for that purpose, purchase, lease, lease with an option to purchase, or construct and maintain necessary buildings; (3) Establish and maintain lines of fire-alarm communications within the limits of the district; (4) Appropriate l...

...ing with connections all necessary fire hydrants for fire department purposes, keeping them in repair, and for all other purposes necessary to the full and efficient management and construction of water works.

...hing or supplying connections with fire hydrants, and keeping them in repair for fire department purposes, for the cleaning of market houses, or the use of any public building belonging to the municipal corporation. In any case in which a school district includes territory not within the boundaries of the municipal corporation, a proportionate charge for water service shall be made in the ratio which the tax valuati...

...alves, tub fillers, shower valves, fire hydrants, service saddles, or water distribution main gate valves that are two inches in diameter or larger.

...01 to 146.19 of the Revised Code: (A) "Fire department" means a volunteer fire department, a fire department of a political subdivision or fire district of this state, or a private volunteer company that has elected to participate in the volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund pursuant to section 146.02 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) "Volunteer firefighter" means both of the following, subject to division (B)(2) of t...

...(A) Each political subdivision or fire district having a fire department employing volunteer fire fighters is a member of the volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund and shall establish a volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund board. (B) A private volunteer fire company which has contracted to afford fire protection to a political subdivision or fire district may become a member of the volunteer fire fighters' d...

...(A) A volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund board provided for in division (A) of section 146.02 of the Revised Code shall consist of five members chosen as follows: (1) Two members elected by the legislative authority of the political subdivision or fire district; (2) Two members elected by the fire department or the volunteer fire fighters; (3) One member elected by the board members who were elected pursuant...

...(A) The term of each volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund board member is one year and begins the first day of January. (B) Election of volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund board members provided for in divisions (A)(1) and (B)(1) of section 146.03 of the Revised Code shall be held each year no earlier than the first day of November and no later than the second Monday in December, and the election of the boa...

...A volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund board shall meet promptly after its election and organize. A chairperson and a secretary shall be elected. The secretary shall keep a complete record of the proceedings of the board, which record shall be maintained as a permanent file. The board may adopt rules necessary for the handling and processing of claims and shall perform such other duties as are necessary to carry...

...The members of the volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund boards shall serve without compensation. The political subdivision or fire district within which the boards operate shall provide the necessary meeting place, stationery, postage, and supplies for the efficient conduct of their business. The legal advisor for a volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund board is the prosecuting attorney of the county in which...

...hed in the state treasury the volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund. All investment earnings earned by the fund shall be collected by the treasurer of state and placed to the credit of the fund. Each political subdivision or fire district which maintains in whole or in part a volunteer fire department or employs volunteer fire fighters shall pay to the treasurer of state, to the credit of the fund, an initial prem...

...n 146.07 of the Revised Code, the state fire marshal shall certify such failure as an assessment against the member of the fund to the auditor of the county within which the member is located. The county auditor shall then withhold the amount of such assessment, together with interest at the rate of six per cent from the due date of the premium, from the next ensuing tax settlement due the members and pay the amount ...

... basic capital account of the volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund, and no further contributions are required of its members until such time as claims against the fund have reduced it to ninety-five per cent or less of its basic capital account. In such event, the state fire marshal shall cause the following assessments, based on current valuation, to be made and certified to the legislative body of each member o...

...(A) If a member of the volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund having a volunteer fire department or employing volunteer fire fighters does not pay the assessment provided in section 146.09 of the Revised Code within forty-five days after notice, the state fire marshal shall proceed with collection in the same manner as provided in section 146.08 of the Revised Code. (B) If a private volunteer fire company which is...

...nefits shall be paid from the volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund to or on behalf of the following persons: (A) To the surviving spouse of a volunteer firefighter killed while discharging the duties of a volunteer firefighter or who dies from exposure or injury received while in the discharge of those duties, a lump sum award of one thousand dollars, and, in addition, the sum of three hundred dollars per mo...

...The benefits provided for in section 146.12 of the Revised Code are in addition to all other benefits otherwise provided for by law, and are not liable to attachment, levy, or seizure under any legal or equitable process, whether such sums remain with the treasurer of state or are in the course of transmission to the person entitled thereto, but shall inure wholly to the benefit of the beneficiary.

...e a claim under oath with the volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund board on a form provided by the board, setting forth the full name of the deceased volunteer fire fighter, the name of the fire department or company of which the decedent was a member, the name and address of the surviving spouse, and the names, ages, and addresses of dependent children. The surviving spouse shall supply such documentary evidence...

... Code shall be filed with the volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund board located in the political subdivision or fire district in which the volunteer fire fighter was a member of a fire department or company. Thereafter, claims may be transferred at the request of the claimant or the board to a board near the current residence of the claimant, provided that the transfer is mutually agreed upon by the boards conce...

...A volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund board shall meet within five days after the receipt of a claim to consider the claim and, if satisfied with the validity of the claim, shall make a determination of the amount due and to become due and shall certify its determination to the state fire marshal for payment. The certificate shall show the name and address of the board, the name and address of each beneficiary, ...

...If a volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund board, after consideration of a claim, finds that the claimant has no right to benefits or that the claim is without merit, it shall deny the claim and issue notice of such action by delivering to the claimant a copy of the order, or by leaving a copy at the claimant's place of residence, or by mailing to the claimant a copy thereof by registered mail.

...The volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund boards established under sections 146.01 to 146.19 of the Revised Code, shall assume all obligations, claims, and outstanding liabilities of all fire fighters' indemnity boards existing on November 1, 1957 and all benefits due claimants after that date shall be paid in accordance with sections 146.01 to 146.19 of the Revised Code. All fire fighters' indemnity boards are he...