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...Attachments of whatever nature made to the water pipes or other fixtures belonging to the water works of a municipal corporation and intended for public use shall be subject to the same supervision, rules, and regulations as are made for the protection of water works against abuse, destruction, and unnecessary use or waste of water, or the director of public service may make general or special rules and regulations f...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may prescribe by ordinance for the laying of water pipes in all highways about to be paved, macadamized, or otherwise permanently improved, and for the assessment of the cost and expense thereof upon the lots or parcels of land adjoining or abutting upon the highways in which they are laid. In no case, except as a sanitary measure, shall such legislative authority ...

...If at any time any company, mentioned in section 743.28 of the Revised Code, required by the legislative authority to lay pipes and 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, a...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may prescribe, by ordinance, for the laying down of gas pipes in highways about to be paved, macadamized, or otherwise permanently improved, and for the assessment of the cost and expense 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 authori...

...A municipal corporation may grant an indeterminate permit to any public utility upon such terms as are considered conducive to the public interests, and as provided in sections 745.01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...When a municipal corporation determines to acquire the property of a public utility by condemnation, the compensation therefor shall be determined in the manner provided by sections 719.01 to 719.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...As used in this chapter: "Ferguson Act of 1869" means the act titled "An act relating to cities of the first class having a population exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants" passed May 4, 1869, (66 O. L. p. 80) pursuant to which the city of Cincinnati established the Cincinnati Southern Railway, as well as acts subsequently amending the act passed May 4, 1869, which included sections 15093 to 15150-2...

...All net earnings and income from the lease of a railway established under the Ferguson Act of 1869 shall be paid into the treasury of the municipal corporation that established the railway, to the credit of the sinking fund or bond retirement fund.

...Whenever in any city the legislative authority thereof, by ordinance, declares it essential to the interests of such city that a rapid transit commission, with the powers and duties described in sections 747.01 to 747.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code, be appointed, the mayor of such city shall appoint a board to be known as the board of rapid transit commissioners. Such board shall consist of five members, electors...

...The board of rapid transit commissioners shall have control and management of the construction of a rapid transit railway system, in, through, under, or upon any lands, including canal lands or parts thereof, together with the streets, alleys, and public ways outside of such canal lands, whether within or without the limits of the city, and of depots and terminals for interurban, suburban, street, and other electric ...

...The board of rapid transit commissioners may assess upon the abutting, adjacent, contiguous, 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, includi...

...The board of hospital commissioners may appoint a clerk, an architect, a superintendent, and other necessary employees, fix their compensation, adopt a suitable plan for the hospital, and make all contracts for the erection and furnishing thereof. The salaries of appointees and the plan of the hospital, before any contract for such hospital's erection is entered into, shall be submitted to and approved by the legisla...

...Before entering into any contract for the erection of a hospital building, the board of hospital commissioners shall have plans, specifications, detailed drawings, and forms of bids prepared, and when adopted by the board, it may have such plans and drawings lithographed, and the specifications, forms of bids, and a form of contract and bid guaranty prepared by the village solicitor or city director of law of the mun...

...The board of hospital commissioners shall not enter into any contract for work or materials for the erection of a hospital building, except as relates to procuring plans, drawings, specifications, and forms of bids, without first giving thirty days' notice in one or more newspapers of general circulation in the municipal corporation that sealed proposals will be received for doing the work or furnishing the materials...

...If an agreement under section 749.16 of the Revised Code becomes operative, the municipal corporation may enlarge its board of hospital commissioners, established under sections 749.04 and 749.05 of the Revised Code, so as to admit to membership thereon such representatives of the participating joint township hospital district, or such representatives of the county, as provided for in such agreement, and the board sh...