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...chase, condemnation, or otherwise, such lands as are required for rights-of-way, and to be provided for from any available funds. Where an existing road, highway, or street, in whole or in part, has been designated as or included within a freeway, existing easements of access may be extinguished by purchase, gift, agreement, or condemnation.

...rt proceedings to acquire the necessary land for "limited access highways" or "freeways" as provided in sections 5535.02 to 5535.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall take precedence over all other causes not involving the public interest in all courts, and shall be given preference to the end that constructions and reconstructions of highways and freeways may not be unreasonably delayed, but may be expedited.

...rchase, condemnation, or otherwise, any lands required for the construction or improvement. (B) Upon compliance with the requirements of division (A) of this section, the county, township, or municipal corporation proposing the project may proceed only with the consent of the department. The state or other political subdivision having control over the road may contribute to the cost of the construction or improvemen...

...ive days' written notice, to enter upon lands within its jurisdiction to make surveys and examinations preliminary to the location and construction of projects for the district, without liability of the district or its agents or employees except for actual damage done; (8) Make and enter into all contracts and agreements necessary or incidental to the performance of its functions and the execution of its powers und...

...ays, with the same power to appropriate land and road material, establish grades of roads, and other rights, given to boards of county commissioners, relating to the repair and improvement of public highways.

...son, partnership, or corporation owning land or an interest therein in fee or otherwise, containing coal, clay, or stone, and over any portion of which passes a state, county, or township road or public highway, with the consent of the board of county commissioners if state or county roads, or with the consent of the board of township trustees if township roads, may excavate, mine, and quarry through or under such ro...

...The owner or occupant of lands situated along the highways shall remove all obstructions within the bounds of the highways, which have been placed there by them or their agents, or with their consent. By first obtaining the consent and approval of the board of county commissioners, obstructions erected prior to July 16, 1925 in highways other than roads and highways on the state highway system or bridges or culverts...

...ight of way of such railroad company to land or storage house owned by the county. All expenditures authorized by this section shall be paid out of any available road funds of the county. Purchases, hiring, or leasing made by the board pursuant to this section shall be governed by sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code.

...No tax shall be levied or bonds issued by the board of township trustees to purchase real property, containing suitable stone or gravel for road materials and the necessary machinery for operating the same, unless such tax is approved by a vote of the people in the manner provided by law.

...iation, firm, or corporation owning any lands or property used for street or interurban railway purposes and any lessee thereof. (B) "Road" includes any state or county road, or the street of any municipal corporation, or any part of such road or street, which forms a continuous road improvement.

... of access points or from applying when land use is changed in a way that significantly increases the types of traffic or traffic volume on a street or highway. (C) No access management regulation, or amendment to an access management regulation, adopted under section 5552.02 of the Revised Code shall be construed to affect the state highway system or modify any access management standards or procedures established ...

...not unreasonably interfere with current land uses along the road, it may vacate the road subject to the preservation of a public right of way at least thirty feet wide within such roadway for such uses.

...d detailed description of each tract of land which he believes it is necessary to take in the event such improvement is made, together with the name of each owner. The engineer shall, at the time of making such survey, set stakes at the termini of each right of way line, at all angles between such termini, and at sufficient other points on the right of way lines so that the bounds of such improvement are discernible ...

... civil action against the owners of the land abutting upon such road to ascertain and have the boundaries of such road judicially established in one action. Any road, the true course of which is surveyed and fixed as provided in this section and sections 5553.18 and 5553.19 of the Revised Code, shall to the limits of such boundaries be a public highway. The engineer and board may not change the line of any road under...

...for said road has paid to the owners of lands through which said road will pass the amount found due them for compensation or damages, he may enter upon the premises and open up the road.

...d by at least fifty-one per cent of the land or lot owners, residents of such county, who are to be specially taxed or assessed for said improvement, the board shall, within thirty days after such petition is presented, go upon the line of the proposed improvement and, after viewing it, determine whether the public convenience and welfare require that such improvement be made. The petition shall state the method of p...

...Lot or land owners who are not otherwise taxed than to raise the proportion of the cost and expenses of the improvement, petitioned for pursuant to section 5555.03 of the Revised Code, to be paid by the township, or by the county as a whole, shall not be considered as specially taxed or assessed for said improvement, and such persons shall not be counted either for or against the improvement in determining whether th...

...proper among the county, the owners of lands to be specially assessed, and any municipal corporation within which such projected improvement is situated in whole or in part, but no portion of the cost may be apportioned to a municipal corporation without the consent of such municipal corporation evidenced by an ordinance or resolution of its legislative authority. When the prayer of any such application is gra...

...If any lands to be assessed are subject to a life estate, the assessment made therein shall, upon application of the life tenant to the board of county commissioners, be apportioned between the owner of the life estate and the owner of the fee in proportion to the value of their respective estates. Upon the filing of the application, the board shall fix a date for hearing it and cause notice of such hearing to be ser...

...ent of any part of the compensation for land taken and damages to property caused by such improvement, as allowed by the board or fixed as provided by law. All claims for compensation and damages shall be presented to and heard and determined by the board, and all proceedings with reference thereto shall be had by such board in the same manner as though the improvement were located entirely outside a municipal corpor...

...d by at least fifty-one per cent of the land or lot owners, residents of such county, who are to be specially assessed for such improvement, the board shall, within thirty days after such petition is presented, go upon the line of the proposed improvement, and, after viewing it, determine whether the public convenience and welfare require that such improvement be made.

...reet to be improved and of the lots and lands to be specially assessed for the improvement. The board may order the engineer to make alternate surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications, providing therein for different width of roadway, different materials, or other similar variations, and approve any of such alternate surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specification...

...to the improvement. In the event that land or property is to be taken for such improvement, such taking shall be in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code.

... compensation and damages on account of land or property taken for an improvement under section 5559.02 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners is still satisfied that the public convenience and welfare require that such improvement be made, and that the cost will not be excessive, in view of the public utility thereof, such board shall order, by resolution, that it proceed with the improvement, and sh...

... and confirmed, shall be a lien on the land chargeable therewith.