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...loan agreements, accept notes and other forms of obligation to evidence such indebtedness and mortgages, liens, pledges, assignments, or other security interests to secure such indebtedness, which may be prior or subordinate to or on a parity with other indebtedness, obligations, mortgages, pledges, assignments, other security interests, or liens or encumbrances, and take such actions as may be determined appropriate...

...improvement and to determine the proper forms and procedures for filing the petition. (B) The petition shall state all of the following: (1) The nature of the work petitioned for, which may include locating, cleaning, removing obstructions from, constructing, reconstructing, straightening, deepening, widening, altering, boxing, tiling, filling, walling, or arching any ditch, drain, watercourse, floodway, creek, r...

...(A) Upon the filing with the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the reports, plans, and schedules by the county engineer as provided in section 6131.14 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall fix a date not fewer than twenty-five nor more than ninety days thereafter when a final hearing on the report shall be held. (B) At least twenty-one days prior to the date established for the h...

...If there is more than one appellant in a trial by jury authorized under section 6131.32 of the Revised Code with separate claims on the question of compensation or damages or if there are issues as to different properties, the court may submit all the several claims and issues to the same jury, with appropriate verdicts as to each claim. The court also may direct separate trials for the separate claims and issues. Th...

...(A) If necessary, the board of county commissioners, each March, shall levy upon the grand duplicate of the county a tax, not to exceed five-tenths of one mill on the dollar, that is sufficient to pay for the location and construction of the portions of the respective improvements located by the board or for which the county has been assessed under this chapter or Chapter 6133., 6135., or 6137. of the Revised Code. W...

...(A) On the date fixed by the clerk of the board of county commissioners with whom the petition was filed, the board of county commissioners from each of the counties affected by a proposed joint county improvement shall meet and organize a joint board of county commissioners by electing one of their number president. (B) The clerk of the board of county commissioners of the lead county shall act as clerk and admin...

...After receiving notice by the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the time and place of the meeting as provided in section 6135.02 of the Revised Code, the boards of county commissioners shall proceed at such time and place to form themselves into a joint board for the purpose before them by electing one of their number as president and another as clerk. The president and clerk shall not both be selected f...

...(A) The governor's office of workforce transformation, the department of education and workforce, and the chancellor of higher education, in consultation with business and economic development stakeholder groups, shall develop a regional workforce collaboration model. The model shall provide guidance on how the JobsOhio regional network, local chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, business, busine...

...Process shall be under the seal of the court from which it issues, shall be styled "The State of Ohio, _______________ County," shall be signed by the clerk of such court, and shall bear the date of the day it actually is issued.

...For the publication of advertisements, notices, and proclamations, except those relating to proposed amendments to the Ohio Constitution, required to be published by a public officer of the state, a benevolent or other public institution, a trustee, assignee, executor, or administrator, or by or in any court of record, except when the rate is otherwise fixed by law, publishers of newspapers may charge and receive for...

...For publication of proposed amendments to the Ohio constitution, ballot language, and explanations and arguments both for and against proposed amendments, referenda, or laws proposed by initiative petitions, publishers of newspapers may charge and receive rates charged on annual contracts by them for a like amount of space to other advertisers who advertise in its general display advertising columns. Legal ad...

...A proclamation for an election, an order fixing the time of holding court, notice of the rates of taxation, bridge and pike notices, notice to contractors, and such other advertisements of general interest to the taxpayers as the county auditor, county treasurer, probate judge, or board of county commissioners deems proper shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation, as defined in section 7.12 of t...

...(A) Whenever a state agency or a political subdivision of the state is required by law to make any legal publication in a newspaper, the newspaper shall be a newspaper of general circulation. As used in the Revised Code, "newspaper" or "newspaper of general circulation," except daily law journals in existence on or before July 1, 2011, and performing the functions described in section 2701.09 of the Revised Cod...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "State agency" means any organized body, office, agency, institution, or other entity established by the laws of the state for the exercise of any function of state government, including state institutions of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. (2) "Political subdivision" has the meaning defined in section 2744.01 of the Revised Code. (B) If a ...

...In submitting to the electors of any municipal corporation the question of organizing under any one of the plans of government provided in sections 705.41 to 705.86, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board of elections shall have printed on the ballots the following question: "Shall the (name the plan) plan of government, as provided in chapter ________ section ________ of the Revised Code be adopted?" Imme...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall choose an auditor, who shall keep an accurate account of all taxes and assessments, and of all money due to, all receipts and disbursements by, and of all assets and liabilities of the municipal corporation, and of all appropriations made by the legislative authority. The auditor shall, at the end of each fiscal year, and more often if required by the legisla...

...The village solicitor or city director of law shall act as the legal advisor to and attorney for the municipal corporation, and for all officers of the municipal corporation in matters relating to their official duties. He shall prepare all contracts, bonds, and other instruments in writing in which the municipal corporation is concerned, and shall indorse on each his approval of the form and the correctness thereof....

...A majority of all members of the legislative authority of a municipal corporation constitutes a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and compel the attendance of absent members. The affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the legislative authority is necessary to adopt any motion, ordinance, or resolution, and on the passage of every ordinance or resolution the vote shall be taken by "yea...

...An annual tax ordinance to determine the amount of the tax levy shall be prepared by the mayor, the chairman of the commission, or the city manager, as the case may be, under the direction of the legislative authority. For the purpose of preparing such ordinances such officer shall require from the head of each office or department for which appropriations are made, a detailed statement, upon uniform blanks furnished...

...At the end of each year the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall have an annual report printed, in pamphlet form, giving: (A) The classified statement of all receipts, expenditures, assets, and liabilities of the municipal corporation; (B) A detailed comparison of such receipts and expenditures with those of the preceding year; (C) A summary of the proceedings of the legislative authority and a s...

...The form of government provided in sections 705.41 to 705.48, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be known as the "commission plan." In municipal corporations organized under such sections the only elective officers shall be the members of the municipal commission. Three commissioners shall be chosen in municipal corporations having not more than ten thousand inhabitants according to the last preceding federal cens...

...The form of government provided in sections 705.51 to 705.60, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to be known as the "city manager plan," shall consist of a council of five or more citizens, according to the population of the municipal corporation as determined by the last preceding federal census, who shall be elected at large. The council shall constitute the governing body of such municipal corporation with power...

...The form of government provided in sections 705.71 to 705.86, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be known as the "federal plan." In municipal corporations adopting such plan the only elective officers shall be the mayor and members of council.

...All laws pertaining to the initiative and referendum in municipal corporations shall apply to and become a part of each plan of government provided in sections 705.41 to 705.86, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Section 705.92 of the Revised Code shall be submitted, with each such plan, to the electors of the municipal corporation as prescribed in section 705.03 of the Revised Code, and shall go into effect and form a...

...Notwithstanding Section 38 of Article II, Ohio Constitution, or any other provisions in the Revised Code to the contrary, any elective officer of a municipal corporation may be removed from office by the qualified voters of such municipal corporation. The procedure to effect such removal shall be: (A) A petition signed by qualified electors equal in number to at least fifteen per cent of the total votes cast at the ...