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...ks, parkways, and other reservations of land under its jurisdiction, and shall file a copy of any such rules with the director of natural resources. Any employee of a board of park commissioners designated pursuant to section 1545.13 of the Revised Code shall have full authority to enforce any of the provisions of this chapter with respect to the proper titling, registration, equipping, and operation of snowmobiles,...

...e operated or maintained on any public land or water owned or controlled by this state, or by any political subdivision of this state, except at such places and under such rules and regulations governing and controlling the operation and maintenance of aircraft as are adopted and promulgated by the department in accordance with sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code. Such action and approval by the dep...

...er or person in charge of an airport or landing field within this state, prior to taking off or upon landing said aircraft. No person shall operate an aircraft within this state unless such aircraft is licensed and registered by the United States; this section is inapplicable to the operation of military aircraft of the United States, aircraft of a state, territory, or possession of the United States, or aircraft li...

...ithin such zones, regulate and restrict land use in order to minimize injury, loss of life, and hazards to the safety of persons or to the security of property within such zones, and may include regulations governing population density and concentration of persons within such zones. Prior to initial zoning under this section, the procedures set forth in sections 4563.05, 4563.06, and 4563.08 of the Revised Code for ...

...ties in a new location, the cost of any lands, or any rights or interests in lands, and any other rights, acquired to accomplish such relocation or removal, shall be paid by the port authority as a part of the cost of the port authority facility. In case of any such relocation or removal of such facilities, the railroad or public utility owning or operating them, its successors, or assigns may maintain and operate su...

...e establishment or re-establishment of land boundaries and the platting of lands and subdivisions; and like measurements and operations involved in the surveying of mines, commonly known as "mine surveying."

...rement of area contours of a portion of land for the installation or modification of a sewage treatment system or components of a system, the measurement and documentation of the lengths and widths of the area of a sewage treatment system or components of a system, or any other measurement that is necessary to comply with Chapter 3718. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under it. (C) This section does not e...

...mental protection agency. (5) Minimum land or land rights acquired by the company as necessary for any service line, equipment, or facility described in divisions (C)(1) to (4) of this section. As used in divisions (C)(1) and (2) of this section, "replacement of an existing plant" includes replacements that result in an upgrade or improvement of the previously existing plant, provided that the replacement plant i...

...5 of the Revised Code, the owner of any land abutting on the line of the right of way of such person or company may construct the fence, so far as his lands abut on the right of way. When such owner has completed the fence, he may present for payment, to the ticket agent of the company at the station nearest the track so fenced, an itemized statement of the expenses of such construction. If such person or company neg...

...companies to enter upon and appropriate lands and materials for depots, workshops, and side tracks apply to such union terminal company, whether organized by the presidents of two or more railroad companies or by not less than five individuals. Any municipal corporation or the board of county commissioners of any county in which such company is located, which owns or has charge of any public road, street, alley, way,...

...depot companies may appropriate private lands for the purpose of connecting their main tracks, terminals, and depots with their own tracks and with the tracks of any other interurban electric railroad company, for acquiring depot sites, and for the construction of main track to avoid dangerous or difficult curves or grades or unsafe or unsubstantial grounds or foundations, or to extend or shorten their railroad lines...

...rivileges to enter upon and appropriate lands in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...company may acquire by purchase or gift lands in the vicinity of the line of its railroad, or through which it passes, so far as is deemed convenient or necessary by the company to secure a right of way, and such as are granted to aid in the construction of its railroad, and hold or convey them, as the board of directors prescribes. Conveyances made by such railroad company may be signed by the president or a vice-pr...

...hich will be upon public ground, common landing, or wharf, and also the vertical and longitudinal clearances between the supports. No right to appropriate shall accrue to the railroad company until after it and the legislative authority have agreed upon the manner, terms, and conditions upon which the property may be used or occupied and the plans submitted have been approved by ordinance passed by a two-thirds vote ...

...cquire by purchase or condemnation such land as it needs to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad along and adjacent to such part of its chartered route as was so sold or conveyed, and it shall have and enjoy all rights and franchises in respect to such newly acquired railroad as were held and enjoyed in respect to the railroad sold or conveyed.

...September is designated as "Ohio Public Lands Day."

...eral charge of and supervision over the lands appropriated by congress for the support of schools and ministerial purposes that have been allocated for the benefit of that school district.

...ment to the school district selling the land, the school district shall certify receipt of such payment to the department of administrative services. Following the payment to the school district, the department of administrative services shall prepare a deed, conveying such lands in fee simple to the successful bidder, and deliver it to the governor, together with a certification signed by the director of administrat...

...In the leasing of all of the lands which were reserved and given to Ohio for the support of schools and religion, which by a congressional act, Public Law 90-304, approved May 13, 1968, were released to Ohio to be sold and the revenue to be used for the support of education, it is the state's policy to sell the land and to use the revenue for the support of public education.

...for the purchase or condemnation of the land necessary for such improvements, the authority to make such improvements is hereby conferred and the money arising from the sale of the bonds shall be expended in the manner provided by section 505.35 of the Revised Code. If a municipal corporation or the board of county commissioners determines to construct or repair a viaduct over any street, steam railroad tracks, or o...

...gether with a proper description of the lands to the county auditor who shall place the costs upon the tax duplicate. The costs are a lien upon the lands from and after the date of entry. The costs shall be returned to the township and placed in the township's general fund. (2) The board may commence a civil action to recover the total costs from the owner of record of the real property on which the building or str...

...erect thereon a town hall, and suitable lands cannot be procured by contract for such purpose on reasonable terms, may appropriate land therefor, not to exceed one acre, by proceedings in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code.

...on, or otherwise, any private or public lands which it might deem necessary for its use, and, in case of condemnation, such proceedings shall be governed by sections 719.01 to 719.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Such board may receive donations, legacies, or devises in land, money, or other property for the general purpose of aiding the objects and purposes of the memorial building, monument, statue, or memoria...

...l to its assistance one or more skilled landscape architects, and, if desired, other expert advice, as to suitable places for the location of one or more public parks. The board of park commissioners shall make a written report to the board of township trustees of its findings and recommendations, with an estimate of the cost of the land recommended for park purposes. Before filing the report, the board of park comm...

...y, sell, lease, or exchange portions of land or property, real or personal, under the management and control of the department, or enter into contracts relative thereto, or grant easements or licenses for the use thereof, when such purchase, sale, lease, exchange, contract, easement, or license is advantageous to the state. An action may be brought to enforce any agreement authorized by this section. Revenues receiv...

... the streets, alleys, avenues, wharves, landing places, public grounds, or other places, or for other purposes, for a period not exceeding ten years, and the company or person to furnish such utility assents thereto, by written acceptance, filed in the office of the auditor or clerk of the municipal corporation, the legislative authority may, for the purpose of exercising the rights of the municipal corporation under...

...d light a street, alley, avenue, wharf, landing place, or public ground or building, refuses or neglects for six months after being notified by the legislative authority to comply with such requirement, the legislative authority may lay pipes and erect gasworks for lighting such streets, alleys, or public grounds, and all other such places not already lighted, and such company shall be precluded from using or occupyi...

...nse thereof upon the lots or parcels of land adjoining or abutting upon the highways in which they are laid. In no case, excepting as a sanitary measure, shall the legislative authority require house connections to be built further from the main pipe than the outer line of the curbstone.

... street, alley, highway, public way, or land situated within a municipal corporation, without its consent.

... authorized by law to purchase or lease lands, purchase, lease or sink natural gas wells, procure rights of way, and purchase and lay pipes for the purpose of supplying such municipal corporation or the citizens thereof with natural gas may exercise any such powers outside of its limits, and in addition thereto shall have all the rights and powers conferred upon municipal corporations by sections 743.39 to 743.43, in...

...of 1869, and does not include property, land, right-of-way, or easements which are a part of the railroad line but are no longer necessary for the operation of the railroad, as determined by the railway board of trustees. "Railway board of trustees" means a board of trustees established by a municipal corporation pursuant to H.B. 69 of the 112th general assembly as successor to a board of trustees that was establis...

...s, or other specially benefited lots or lands in a city fifty per cent of the entire cost or expense connected with the construction of any boulevard or parkway authorized by sections 747.01 to 747.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The proceedings by such board for the levying and collecting of any special assessments, including the issuance and sale of bonds in anticipation of the collection of such special assess...

...struction, and the board may enter upon lands or buildings for examination and surveys prior to appropriation proceedings therefor.

...nd hold in trust any grant or devise of land and any donation or bequest of money or other personal property. (F) With respect to taking title to or a leasehold interest in property on behalf of the hospital, both of the following apply: (1) The title to or leasehold interest in the property may be taken in the name of the board or an entity organized for charitable purposes that is under the board's control. (2) ...

...ease for use as a general hospital, the lands, buildings, and equipment of any such general hospital; provided, that if a joint township hospital district board or a board of county commissioners is participating with a municipal corporation under section 513.08 or 749.16 of the Revised Code, the joint township hospital district board or the board of county commissioners must approve said lease and if said lease is b...

... parks, playfields, and reservations of land under its jurisdiction and on adjacent highways, rivers, riverbanks, and lakes, and the preservation of property and natural life therein. Such rules shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the county once a week for two consecutive weeks, or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, before taking effect. In counties in which no newspaper is ...

...o reimburse the city for the expense of lands purchased or appropriated for cemetery purposes, and to keep in order and embellish the grounds. Provision shall be made for the interment in such cemetery of persons buried at the expense of the city.

...ry, by the purchase or appropriation of land therefor not exceeding one hundred acres, to be paid for as provided by section 759.30 of the Revised Code.

...on or township, and may make use of any land acquired by dedication, gift, or devise for burial purposes.

...n incorporated cemetery association the lands, lots, and improvements of a cemetery owned and controlled by the municipal corporation or township for cemetery purposes. The association shall assume all legal debts on the cemeteries so transferred.

...r approach thereto. No lot or parcel of land or part thereof upon which a dwelling house is situated shall be so appropriated. Such property may be acquired by gift, purchase, appropriation, or by exchange therefor of property of the cemetery used for an approach thereto, and which is, in the judgment of a majority of such officers, rendered unnecessary by such new approach.

... to pay for it is in the cemetery fund. Land so acquired may not be used for burial purposes nor be subject to statutory restrictions against the appropriation and use of property for cemetery purposes.

...cultural labor, waste, and uncultivated land, undeveloped resources, and decrease of rural population as he deems wise for the promotion of agricultural production.

...ncluding without limitation the federal land bank, production credit association, or bank for cooperatives, or any of their local associations, or any other financial institution or entity authorized to make mortgage loans and qualified to do business in this state. (H) "Loan" includes a loan made to or through, or a deposit with, a lending institution or a loan made directly to the owner or operator of a project to...

..."Animal feeding facility" also includes land that is owned or leased by or otherwise is under the control of the owner or operator of the lot, building, or structure and on which manure originating from agricultural animals in the lot, building, or structure or a production area is or may be applied. Two or more animal feeding facilities under common ownership shall be considered to be a single animal feeding facili...

...ty and in surrounding areas, including land on which manure is stored or applied. The plan shall conform to best management practices established in rules. The director shall approve or deny the plan within the time period established in rules by the director and may require modification of the plan at that time or a later time in accordance with rules. (C) On and after the date that is established in rules by...

...erson who owns or operates agricultural land to receive the information. The director or the supervisors of a district may release or disclose information specified in division (A) of this section to the extent required by the "Federal Water Pollution Control Act" as defined in section 6111.01 of the Revised Code. (C) Information, data, and any associated record used in the development, approval, implementation, re...

... in this section, "western basin" means land in the state that is located in the following watersheds identified by the specified United States geological survey hydrologic unit code: (1) St. Marys watershed, hydrologic unit code 04100004; (2) Auglaize watershed, hydrologic unit code 04100007; (3) Blanchard watershed, hydrologic unit code 04100008; (4) Sandusky watershed, hydrologic unit code 04100011; (5) Cedar...

... environmental protection governing the land application of lime sludge so generated. (L) "Distribute" means to offer for sale, sell, barter, or otherwise supply liming material in this state. (M) "Official sample" means any sample of liming material taken and designated as "official" by the director of agriculture or the director's designee. (N) "Effective neutralizing power" means the neutralizing value of l...

...s over, and remain upon privately owned lands for those purposes and shall not be subject to arrest for trespass.