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...provement of their health and living conditions; and as the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Ohio toll-way system by the department of transportation constitute the performance of essential governmental functions, the department shall not be required to pay any state or local taxes or assessments upon any toll project, or upon revenues or any property acquired or used by the depart...

...ing the department of transportation to construct and operate a toll project within the boundaries of the subdivision, agency, or agencies making the request. The procedure shall include a requirement that the director send a written reply to the subdivision, agency, or agencies explaining the disposition of the request.

...ector may make expenditures of money in connection with an agreement authorized under division (A)(1) of this section from any funds of the department of transportation that are available to the director. (B) Notwithstanding Chapter 2743. of the Revised Code, this state hereby waives its immunity from civil liability, including the immunity from suit in a federal court under the eleventh amendment to the United Stat...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, whoever violates division (C) of section 5531.15 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on each subsequent offense such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates division (C) of section 5531.15 of the Revised Code when the violation is a civil violation for failure to comp...

...y state or intercounty highway, and may construct ways or crossings for such highway above the tracks of any railroad and parallel and adjacent interurban railway, or require the railroad company and any interurban railway company operating an interurban railway, parallel and adjacent to such railroad, to construct ways or crossings therefor that are to be passed under its tracks. Such companies may be required to er...

... relocation, and cause the improvements contemplated to be placed in such relocated highway.

...As a condition precedent to the exercise of jurisdiction under sections 4957.06 and 5561.01 to 5561.15 of the Revised Code, by a board of county commissioners, such board shall transmit to the director of transportation a full written description of the grade crossing which it is proposed to abolish, showing its location, the reasons which tend to make necessary its elimination, the names of the railroads or interurb...

...public hearing as to the expediency of constructing such improvement, notice of which shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, for two weeks prior to the date set for such hearing or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, and shall be served upon the railroad or interurban railway companies in the manner for the service of summons in civil actions, not less t...

..., or as amended by its order entered by consent of the parties. The county shall make such changes in the roads or highways as may be necessary, and the railroad company shall make the changes necessary in the tracks and roadbed, in order to comply with the rulings of the court. If more than one company owns tracks on the crossing in question, the court shall apportion among them the fifteen per cent provided by sec...

...The cost of constructing a grade crossing improvement, including the making of ways, crossings, or viaducts, above or below the railroad tracks, and the raising or lowering of the grades of the railroad tracks and sidetracks for such distance as required by the county and made necessary by such improvement, including the cost of moving or changing existing structures and other incidental expenses, together with the c...

...required in the making of a proposed grade crossing improvement, the board of county commissioners shall, by resolution, require notice of its intention to make such improvement, in accordance with the plans and specifications agreed upon or ordered, to be given to the owner of each piece of property abutting on any road, the grade of which will be changed by the proposed improvement.

...f the passage of a resolution for a grade crossing improvement shall be served by the sheriff of the county, upon the owner of each piece of property which will be affected by any change of grade, in the manner provided for the service of summons in civil actions. If any of such owners are nonresidents of the county, or if it appears from the return that they cannot be found, the notice shall be published for a...

...oportion of the cost of the proposed grade crossing improvement which such company shall pay.

...er the tracks of any railroad company under sections 5561.01 to 5561.09, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be of such height as not to be of less than twenty-one feet in the clear, from the top surface of the rails in the railroad track to the lowest point of projection of such overhead way, crossing, or viaduct, unless such company consents to, or the court orders a less height. In no event shall the court of co...

... supports necessitated by a proposed grade crossing improvement, and the land or property required to make any alteration in the railroad, necessitated by the proposed improvements, shall be purchased or appropriated by the county or railroad company in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The county shall not appropriate land held or owned by a railroad company and ne...

...the completion of construction work, grade crossings and approaches shall be kept in repair as follows: (A) When the public way crosses a railroad or interurban railway, by an overhead bridge, the cost of maintenance must be borne by the county or state, as may be provided by law. (B) When the public way passes under a railroad or interurban railway, the bridge and its abutments shall be kept and maintained by the ...

...ipal corporation in which a proposed grade crossing improvement is to be made may assume and agree to pay to the county, on behalf of the municipal corporation such portion of the costs of the improvement assumed by the county as the board of township trustees or legislative authority deem reasonable. For the purpose of raising the money to pay the proportion of the cost of such improvement payable by the county, to...

...Revised Code, it has been determined to construct improvements, the board of county commissioners, by resolution, may require such street or interurban railway company to bear a reasonable portion of the cost assumed by the county in making the improvement, not exceeding twenty-five per cent of the portion payable by the county. The board shall have a right of action against such company for that part of the cost whi...

...f the director or the board, fixing the contribution of a company under section 5561.14 of the Revised Code to the commission, may be taken, and shall be heard and decided in the same manner. Any party to such proceedings on appeal, aggrieved by the decision of the commission, may prosecute error to the supreme court.

...sing at grade any street or road, shall construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, and repair that portion of the highway at such crossing and lying between the outside ends of the ties, and also that portion lying between the tracks, in the case of two or more tracks, and the cost and expense of this construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance, or repair shall be borne by said individual, firm, or corpora...

...plete the force account assessment form developed by the auditor of state under section 117.16 of the Revised Code. Except as otherwise provided in sections 505.08 and 505.101 of the Revised Code, when the board proceeds by contract, the contract shall, if the amount involved exceeds one hundred five thousand dollars, be let by the board to the lowest responsible bidder after advertisement for bids once, not later th...

...or to the date fixed for the letting of contracts, using at least one of the following methods: (A) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation within the township; (B) On the official public notice web site established under section 125.182 of the Revised Code; (C) On the web site and social media account of the township. Such notice shall state that copies of the surveys, plans, p...

...t for any road improvement shall be awarded at a price more than ten per cent in excess of the estimated cost. The bids received shall be opened at the time stated in the notice. If no bids are made that equal one hundred ten per cent of the estimate or less, the board of township trustees shall either readvertise based upon the original estimate, or request an amended estimate from the county engineer, who shall pro...

...ownship trustees shall require a bond indemnifying the township against damages that may be suffered by failure to perform the contract according to the contract's provisions and in accordance with the specifications for the improvement. The township fiscal officer shall not draw a warrant in favor of any contractor for estimates, on account of a contract let under sections 5575.02 and 5575.03 of the Revised Code...

...act, allowances for extra work may be made by a board of township trustees, but the board must first enter into a new contract in writing for the extra work. If the estimate for extra work is less than twenty-five thousand dollars for any particular line item listed in the new contract and the overall total estimate for the extra work does not exceed ten per cent of the total of the original contract, the contract fo...