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...The board of rapid transit commissioners shall have control of the expenditure of all moneys appropriated by the legislative authority of the city, received from the sale of bonds provided for in sections 747.01 to 747.13 of the Revised Code, or from any other source, for the purchase, construction, improvement, maintenance, equipment, or enjoyment of all such rapid transit property, but no liability shall be i...

...The board of rapid transit commissioners may acquire by purchase or appropriate, enter upon, and hold any real estate or easement, partial or otherwise, therein, thereon, thereunder, or thereover, or any interest therein, both within and without the limits of the city, which it deems necessary for the purposes specified in section 747.08 of the Revised Code, and in the manner provided by sections 163.01 to 163.22, in...

...The term of office of the appointed members of the board of hospital commissioners shall be four years, but the members first appointed shall hold their offices, respectively, as determined by lot at the first meeting of the board, for the periods of one, two, three, and four years, and thereafter one member shall be appointed each year for the full term of four years. The mayor with the consent of the legislat...

...The board of hospital trustees shall, subject to any ordinance of the municipal corporation, have the entire management and control of the property or funds mentioned in section 749.20 of the Revised Code, and shall establish such rules for the government thereof as it deems expedient. Such board shall also have the entire control of the expenditure of all moneys therefrom and they shall be disbursed by the treasurer...

...Notwithstanding any conflicting provision of sections 749.09 to 749.14 and 749.26 to 749.31 of the Revised Code, Chapter 153. of the Revised Code, or any other competitive bidding requirement specified in the Revised Code that requires a public authority to enter into separate contracts for the design and construction of a public improvement. (A) A board of hospital commissioners or a board of hospital trustees may...

...(A) As used in this section, "public official" means any elected or appointed officer, employee, or agent of the state, any state institution of higher education, any political subdivision, board, commission, bureau, or other public body established by law. "State institution of higher education" means any state university or college as defined in division (A)(1) of section 3345.12 of the Revised Code, communit...

...(A) Any one of the governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the secretary of state, the treasurer of state, or the auditor of state, shall act as the applicable elected representative of the state for purposes of any federal law or United States treasury regulation that requires that bonds, notes, or other obligations of the state or any of its officers, boards, authorities, commissions, agencies, bod...

...There is hereby created a milk sanitation board consisting of the director of agriculture or the director's authorized representative, the director of health or the director's authorized representative, and the following members to be appointed by the director of agriculture: (A) Two grade A milk producers; (B) One manufacture milk producer; (C) Three milk processors, one of whom shall be a grade A milk processor ...

...(A) Producers of an agricultural commodity in this state may present to the director of agriculture a petition signed by at least two hundred or twenty-five per cent of all the producers of that agricultural commodity in this state, whichever is less, requesting the director to approve a marketing agreement for that agricultural commodity. (B) A petition submitted under division (A) of this section shall incl...

...After a vote of the board of supervisors of a soil and water conservation district to proceed with a project survey and design for a proposed improvement, the board or its designee shall conduct all necessary surveys for the proposed improvement. In addition, the board or its designee shall prepare plans for constructing the improvement. The plans shall include all of the following: (A) Specifications for construct...

...(A) A board of county commissioners may declare by resolution that it is necessary to levy a tax upon the property within the area to be benefited by an improvement in order to pay the costs of the improvement not otherwise funded. The resolution shall specify all of the following: (1) The rate that it is necessary to levy; (2) The purpose of the tax levy; (3) The number of years during which the increase is ...

...Except as provided in section 955.121 of Revised Code, a board of county commissioners shall appoint or employ a county dog warden and deputies in such number, for such periods of time, and at such compensation as the board considers necessary to enforce sections 955.01 to 955.27 and 955.50 to 955.53 of the Revised Code. Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, the warden and deputies sha...

...Whenever, in the judgment of the director of health, any city or general health district board of health, or persons performing the duties of a board of health, rabies is prevalent, the director of health, the board, or those persons shall declare a quarantine of all dogs in the health district or in a part of it. During the quarantine, the owner, keeper, or harborer of any dog shall keep it confined on the pre...

...(A) After the completion of the review of a board under section 101.63 of the Revised Code, the standing committee that conducted the review shall prepare and publish a report of its findings and recommendations. A standing committee may include in a single report its findings and recommendations regarding more than one board. The committee shall furnish a copy of the report to the president of the senate, the spea...

...of any real or personal property or any commercial or business enterprise of whatever form or nature between the following: (1) A retirement system lobbyist, the retirement system lobbyist's employer, or a member of the immediate family of the retirement system lobbyist or the retirement system lobbyist's employer; and (2) A state retirement system, a member of a board of a state retirement system, a state retireme...

...(A)(1) The code of regulations of a mutual state bank may provide for the amendment of its articles of incorporation or code of regulations, or the adoption of amended articles of incorporation or code of regulations, at any meeting of the members for which notice has been properly given in accordance with section 1114.12 of the Revised Code. The amendment or amended articles of incorporation or code of regulations s...

...Whenever an emergency, as defined by the superintendent of financial institutions, exists with regard to a state bank, national bank, savings bank, or savings association that warrants, in the opinion of the superintendent and of a majority of the members of the respective boards of directors of the constituent corporations concerned, an immediate transfer of assets and liabilities, the board of directors of a state ...

...(A) A mutual holding company and any subsidiary holding company shall be governed by a board of directors and in accordance with the articles of incorporation and code of regulations adopted in connection with the reorganization, or as amended in accordance with law or rule after the reorganization. (B) The board of the mutual holding company and any subsidiary holding company shall have at least five members who, i...

...(A)(1) The superintendent of financial institutions may issue an order suspending a regulated person from office or temporarily prohibiting a regulated person from further participation in the conduct of the affairs of a bank or trust company, or both, if both of the following apply: (a) The superintendent serves, or has served, the regulated person with a notice of charges and intent to remove the regulated person ...

...(A) The pay ranges established by the board of county commissioners for the county public defender and those established by the joint board of county commissioners for the joint county public defender shall not exceed the pay ranges assigned under section 325.11 of the Revised Code for county prosecutors. (B) The pay ranges established by the board of county commissioners for the staff of the county public de...

...(A) As used in this section: "Charitable organization" has the same meaning as in section 1716.01 of the Revised Code. "Independent college or university" means a nonprofit institution of higher education that has a certificate of authorization under Chapter 1713. of the Revised Code. "Industry sector partnership" means a workforce collaborative that organizes key leaders and stakeholders of an industry cluster...

...m to award grants for the demolition of commercial and residential buildings and revitalization of surrounding properties on sites that are not brownfields. The program shall be administered by the director of development pursuant to this section and rules adopted pursuant to division (A)(2) of this section. (2) The director shall adopt rules, under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, for the administration of the p...

...(A) As used in this section, "institution of higher education" means a state university or college, as defined in section 3345.12 of the Revised Code, or a state community college. (B) The Ohio facilities construction commission shall establish a local administration competency certification program to certify institutions of higher education to administer capital facilities projects pursuant to section 3345....

...The director of administrative services and the state personnel board of review shall exercise all functions, powers, and duties that formerly were by law devolved upon, vested in and imposed upon the state civil service commission and the offices of commissioners and members and upon their employees, agents, and representatives. Whenever in any law or rule of this state or any political subdivision, "state civil se...

...(A) If an employee in the classified or unclassified civil service becomes aware in the course of employment of a violation of state or federal statutes, rules, or regulations or the misuse of public resources, and the employee's supervisor or appointing authority has authority to correct the violation or misuse, the employee may file a written report identifying the violation or misuse with the supervisor or ...

...(A)(1) The director of transportation may acquire by gift, purchase, or appropriation, any interest, estate, or right in and to real property adjacent to highways of this state as necessary for the restoration, preservation, and enhancement of scenic beauty adjacent to those highways, or for the establishment of publicly owned and controlled rest and recreation areas and sanitary and other facilities within or adjac...

...When lands are entered upon under section 5543.12 of the Revised Code, the county engineer shall agree with the owners of such lands, subject to the approval of the board of county commissioners or board of township trustees, as to the amount of compensation and damages already sustained or to be sustained by such owner, and the amount of such compensation and damages, so determined, shall be paid by the county or to...

...The owners of land shall construct and keep in repair all approaches or driveways from the public roads, under the direction of the county engineer. If in the construction, improvement, maintenance, and repair of any road, the approach or driveway of an abutting property owner is destroyed, the authorities constructing, improving, maintaining, or repairing such road shall compensate the property owner for the destruc...

...The county engineer shall, at the time he makes surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for any county, township, or district road improvement, or plans for the construction, improvement or repair of any bridge or culvert, determine whether the making of the improvement will require the closing to traffic of such highway, bridge, or culvert. The engineer shall, whenever practicable, so...

...A person owning land abutting a public road, not within a municipal corporation, when approved by the director of transportation if upon a state highway, board of county commissioners if upon a county road, or the board of township trustees if upon a township road, may lay a pipe line, within the line of the road, for the purpose of conveying water for public and other purposes. The laying of such pipe line shall in ...

...Any part of the compensation, damages, costs, and expenses of acquiring the right of way or other lands of a street or interurban railway company, including the appropriation of lands to be exchanged therefor, as provided in section 5551.07 of the Revised Code, and the cost and expense of removal, relocation, or both, of the tracks, sidings, and other facilities located thereon, may be apportioned and paid in any one...

...The board of county commissioners shall give notice to the owners of lands through which the proposed road will pass of the filing of the petition provided for in section 5553.41 of the Revised Code and the date and place of the hearing thereon. Such notice shall be served on such owners personally, or by leaving a copy of such notice at the usual place of residence of such owners at least five days before the ...

...If the surveys, plans, profiles, and cross sections prepared by the county engineer pursuant to section 5555.07 of the Revised Code show that lands will be required for the improvement, the board of county commissioners shall proceed in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...After the determination of claims for compensation for lands taken, if the board of county commissioners is still satisfied that the public convenience and welfare require that such improvement be made, and that the cost of such improvement will not be excessive in view of the public utility thereof, the board shall order by resolution that it proceed with such improvement. The board shall adopt the surveys, plans, p...

...If property is separated from an improvement by a canal, street or interurban railway, steam railway, or in any other similar manner, such property shall be regarded for the purpose of assessment under the road improvement laws as property abutting upon said improvement. Land owned or occupied by such street or interurban railway or steam railroad and the land lying back thereof shall be assessed on account of said i...

...The board of county commissioners may, as provided in sections 5559.03 to 5559.16, inclusive, of the Revised Code, improve by grading, draining, paving, constructing storm sewers, sidewalks, curbs, and gutters, any road, street, alley, or portion thereof lying within or bounded on both sides by any platted lands, and situated outside a municipal corporation.

...If a person through whose land a public road has been established which is under the jurisdiction of a board of township trustees, desires to turn or change or relocate such road or any part thereof through any part of the person's land, the person may file a petition with such board of township trustees setting forth briefly the particular change desired. Upon receipt of such petition, the board of township trustees...

...Upon the completion of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for a road improvement by the county engineer, the engineer shall transmit to the board of township trustees copies of the same. Except in cases of reconstruction or repair of roads, where no land or property is taken, the board shall then publish, once a week for two consecutive weeks, a notice using at least one of th...

...When property is separated from a road improvement by a canal, street or interurban railway, steam railroad, or in any similar manner, such property shall be regarded, for the purpose of assessment under the township road improvement laws as property abutting upon the improvement. The land owned or occupied by such street or interurban railway or steam railroad and the land lying back thereof shall be assessed, on ac...

...The director of transportation, board of county commissioners, or board of township trustees may appropriate a right-of-way or crossing over railroad tracks and lands held by railway companies, whether operated by steam or electricity, and may appropriate the necessary property and right to construct such crossing above or below the grade of the railway. Such proceedings shall be had thereon as are provided for appro...

...The board of township trustees shall make a written report to the county auditor of the board's action under sections 5579.05 and 5579.06 of the Revised Code with a statement of the board's charges for its services, the amount paid for the labor, materials, and equipment, and a proper description of the premises. These amounts, when allowed, shall be entered upon the tax duplicate, shall be a lien upon the land from ...

...No person shall wrongfully obstruct any ditch, drain, or watercourse along, upon, or across a public highway, or divert any water from adjacent lands to or upon a public highway. Whenever the township highway superintendent learns of any obstruction of any ditch, drain, or watercourse along, upon, or across a public highway, or diversion of any water from adjacent lands to or upon a public highway, he shall notify th...

...The resolution provided for by section 5591.09 of the Revised Code shall contain a general description of the land or property required by the county for approaches to the bridge, for making alterations in any highway shown on the plan or required by the specifications or contract, or necessary to be purchased or appropriated by the county, and any land required for establishing, altering, widening, or changing the l...

...The land or property required to make the alteration in a street or highway necessitated by a proposed improvement as provided in sections 5591.03 to 5591.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and as shown in the plan, specifications, and contract, or required to make any alteration in the railroad necessitated by the proposed improvement shall be purchased or appropriated by the county or the railroad in the manner as...

...The purpose and intent of the general levy for current expenses is to provide one general operating fund derived from taxation from which any expenditures for current expenses of any kind may be made. The taxing authority of a political subdivision may include in such levy the amounts required for carrying into effect any of the general or special powers granted by law to such subdivision, including the acquisition o...

...The board of county commissioners of any county at their June session, annually, may levy a tax not exceeding three mills on each dollar valuation of taxable property within the county, for county purposes other than for roads, bridges, county buildings, sites therefor, and the purchase of lands for infirmary purposes. For the purpose of building county buildings, purchasing sites therefor, and purchasing lands for i...

...on that places real property in use for commercial or industrial purposes. Except as otherwise permitted under that division, the service payments provided for in section 5709.42 of the Revised Code shall be used to finance the designated public infrastructure improvements, for the purpose described in division (D)(1), (E), or (F) of this section, or as provided in section 5709.43 of the Revised Code. An ordinance...

...(A) As used in this section, "qualifying athletic complex" means real property that is an athletic complex or upon which an athletic complex is situated, provided the complex is or was designated, on or after January 1, 2013, as a United States olympic or paralympic training site by the United States olympic committee. "Qualifying athletic complex" does not include any of the following real property if the real prope...

...(A) Service payments in lieu of taxes required under sections 725.04, 5709.42, 5709.46, 5709.74, and 5709.79 of the Revised Code, minimum service payment obligations, and service charges in lieu of taxes required under sections 1728.11 and 1728.111 of the Revised Code shall be treated in the same manner as taxes, as defined in section 323.01 of the Revised Code, for all purposes of the lien described in section 323.1...

...If the county auditor determines under section 5713.01 of the Revised Code that the construction of a dwelling on a previously vacant parcel of land is now available for use or that an additional dwelling is constructed on a parcel of land and is now available for use, the county auditor, by ordinary mail, shall send to the owner of the dwelling a notice that the applicant may apply for a reduction in taxes und...