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...The board of park commissioners, after the appointment and qualification of its members, shall elect one of such members president and another vice-president, who, in the absence or disability of the president, shall perform his duties and exercise his powers. The board shall make its own rules, its meetings shall be open to the public, and all questions acted upon shall be decided by a yea and nay vote with the name...

...All disbursements of money by the board of park commissioners shall be made by the city treasurer upon warrants drawn by the city auditor, and no warrant shall be drawn by the auditor or paid by the treasurer unless it is approved and attested by the signatures, in their own handwriting, of the president and secretary of the board.

...The board of park commissioners shall have the control and management of parks, park entrances, parkways, boulevards, connecting viaducts, subways, children's playgrounds, and public baths and stations of public comfort located in such parks, of all improvements thereon, and the acquisition, construction, repair, and maintenance thereof. The board shall exercise exclusively all the powers and perform all the duties, ...

...The board of park commissioners may adopt and enforce regulations as to the proper use and protection of all property mentioned in section 755.05 of the Revised Code and the improvements thereon, and may impose penalties for the violation of such regulations.

...The board of park commissioners may establish or extend parks, parkways, boulevards, connecting viaducts, subways, public comfort stations, children's playgrounds, and public baths located in such parks, within such city or the territory contiguous thereto, and may acquire or appropriate, in the manner provided by sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the necessary real estate for such purposes, ...

...The board of park commissioners may employ a secretary, general superintendent, engineer, clerks, and other necessary employees for carrying into effect the purposes of its creation, and the board shall fix the compensation and term of service of such employees.

...All moneys received by the city from taxation or otherwise for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, equipping, and maintaining parks, park entrances, parkways, boulevards, connecting viaducts, subways, children's playgrounds, and public baths, and stations of public comfort located in such parks, shall be deposited in the city treasury and transferred by warrants on the city auditor to the credit of the board of p...

...The board of park commissioners, in the letting of contracts, shall be governed by sections 735.05 to 735.09, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...The members of boards established pursuant to section 755.14 of the Revised Code shall elect their own chairman and secretary, select all other necessary officers to serve for a period of one year, and may employ such other persons as are needed. Such boards may adopt rules for the conduct of all business within its jurisdiction. A joint recreation district board of trustees formed pursuant to division (C) of sectio...

...For the purpose of paying debt charges on bonds issued pursuant to section 755.17 of the Revised Code or notes issued in anticipation of such bonds, the board of county commissioners of a county that is joined in a joint recreation district under section 755.14 of the Revised Code may pledge and contribute revenue from a tax levied under division (A)(5) of section 5739.026 and section 5741.023 of the Revised Code or ...

...The board of park trustees may employ such superintendents, landscape gardeners, and other employees as are necessary for the execution of its duties, and fix their salaries or compensation. Any such persons may be removed by the board at any time.

...The board of park trustees shall have the entire management and control of all work of straightening, cleaning, deepening, or otherwise improving any natural watercourse, whether partly or wholly used for sewer purposes or not, within the city, may purchase, acquire, or condemn any water rights, easements, or privileges in connection with any natural watercourse through such city, and may acquire or condemn such real...

...The board of park trustees, before entering into any contract for the performance of any work, the cost of which exceeds fifty thousand dollars, shall cause plans and specifications and forms of bids to be prepared, and when adopted by the board, shall have them printed for distribution among bidders.

...Each bid for a contract for the construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction of an improvement to be performed for the board of park trustees shall meet the requirements of section 153.54 of the Revised Code. Each bid concerning other work to be performed for the board of park trustees shall be accompanied by a bond, signed by sufficient security, for the acceptance of the contract if awarded by th...

...Bids for work and supplies to be furnished the board of park trustees shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope and deposited with the clerk of the board, such envelope shall have indorsed thereon the nature of the bid, and all bids shall be opened at the time, date, and place specified in the notice to bidders or specifications. The time, date, and place of bid openings may be extended to a later date by the board of p...

...As used in sections 757.03 to 757.08 of the Revised Code, "area arts council" means an arts council or other organization the purpose of which is to foster and encourage the development of the arts, including but not limited to, literature, theater, music, the dance, painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, and motion pictures. In any city or county in which there is a symphony association, area arts c...

...No symphony association, area arts council, art museum, or other similar organization may receive any of the payments provided for in section 757.03 of the Revised Code until the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization, by a proper resolution adopted by its board of trustees or other governing body, has tendered to the appropriate board of education or the educational service center governing...

...In any city or county in which there is a symphony association, an area arts council, an art museum, or other similar organization which is incorporated, organized, and operated in the manner and for the purposes stated in section 757.03 of the Revised Code, such city or county, or both, may pay the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization annually, in quarterly installments, in the case of a ...

...No symphony association, area arts council, art museum, or other similar organization may receive any of the payments provided for in section 757.05 of the Revised Code until the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization, by a proper resolution adopted by its board of trustees or other governing body, has tendered to the mayor, or to the legislative authority of the city if there is no mayor, o...

...After any symphony association, area arts council, art museum, or other similar organization has once filed with the board of education, the city controller, or the board of county commissioners the resolutions provided for in sections 757.03 to 757.06 of the Revised Code, it need not renew the same from year to year, but each original resolution continues in force for the purposes named until, by like resoluti...

...So long as any symphony association, area arts council, art museum, or other similar organization does all the things it agreed to do as considerations for the benefits to be received by it under sections 757.03 to 757.08 of the Revised Code, or is able, willing, and ready to perform the same, the appropriate board of education and the educational service center governing board and the city and county may conti...

...The legislative authority of each city may appropriate from its general funds, or may levy and collect a tax, not to exceed one fourth of one mill on each dollar of the taxable property of the city each year, and pay it to a private corporation or association not for profit maintaining and furnishing a free museum of art, science, or history for the benefit of the inhabitants of the city as compensation for the use a...

...The director of public service shall take possession and charge, and have the entire management, control, and regulation of public burial grounds and cemeteries located in or belonging to the city, subject to its ordinances. The director may direct the laying of such grounds out into lots, avenues, walks, and paths, or other subdivisions, which lots shall be numbered and the avenues named. A plat thereof shall be mad...

...The director of public service shall, when necessary, institute suits in the name of the city to recover the possession of burial grounds, remove trespassers therefrom, and recover damages for injuries thereto or to any tombstone or monument therein. He shall see that all laws and ordinances passed for the protection of public burial grounds and cemeteries, and the burial of the dead, are enforced.

...The director of public service may make bylaws and regulations, not inconsistent with the ordinance of the city and the constitution and laws of this state, for the management and protection of the burial grounds and cemeteries under his control, and for the burial of the dead therein, and they shall have the same validity as the ordinances of the city. The director shall perform such other duties pertaining to the o...