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...Whenever the owners of all the lots and lands to be assessed for any sanitary or drainage facility improvement or any prevention or replacement facility improvement provided for in this chapter, by petition in writing, request the board of county commissioners to provide for the acquisition or construction, maintenance, and operation of the improvement, describing the improvement and the lots and lands owned by th...

...The cost of any improvement provided for in this chapter and the cost of its maintenance and operation shall include, in addition to the cost of its acquisition or construction, the cost of engineering, necessary publications, inspection, interest on public obligations, and all other items of cost incident to the improvement as described in division (B) of section 133.15 of the Revised Code. The county may pay from...

...The cost of the acquisition or construction of sanitary or drainage facilities or prevention or replacement facilities to be paid by assessments shall be assessed, as an assessment district assessment, upon all the property within the county sewer district found to be benefited in accordance with the special benefits conferred, less any part of the cost that is paid by the county at large from other available f...

... board of county commissioners may levy taxes in addition to all other taxes authorized by law. Such levy shall be subject to all the limitations provided by law upon the aggregate amount, rate, maximum rate, and combined maximum rate of taxation.

...oard of county commissioners may levy a tax under Chapter 5705. of the Revised Code upon all of the property listed and assessed for taxation in such sewer district or subdistrict and may authorize, issue, and execute bonds under the provisions of Chapter 133. of the Revised Code for and on behalf of said sewer district or subdistrict as an indebtedness of said district or subdistrict payable from taxes which the boa...

...The county sanitary engineer, upon the completion of any improvement in accordance with this chapter, shall prepare, or otherwise cause to be prepared, and shall present to the board of county commissioners a revised assessment based on the tentative assessment previously ratified by the board for the improvement or, if the tentative assessment has been revised by order of court, based on the revised tentative asses...

...ed assessments shall be placed upon the tax duplicate of the county for collection as they become due commencing with the first duplicate prepared after the assessments have been so certified, and shall be collected the same as other taxes, and shall be subject to the same penalties and interest. In case bonds have not been sold or an agreement between the county and the Ohio water development authority has not been ...

...tive authority or board of health, of a municipal corporation, the board of health of a general health district, or a board of township trustees makes complaint, in writing, to the environmental protection agency that unsanitary conditions exist in any county, the agency's director forthwith shall inquire into and investigate the conditions complained of. If, upon investigation of the complaint, the director finds t...

...If the board of county commissioners fails after thirty days after the notice and order given to it by the director of environmental protection to perform any act required of it by sections 6117.01 to 6117.40 of the Revised Code, and by any such order and notice of the director, such order may be enforced by a writ of mandamus issued by any court authorized to issue such writs.

...An action may be commenced and prosecuted for the recovery of any fine, forfeiture, or penalty mentioned in sections 6117.01 to 6117.40, inclusive, of the Revised Code, from any person liable therefor, by the prosecuting attorney of the proper county in the name of the state, in the court of common pleas of such county, or such action may be commenced and prosecuted by the attorney general in such county or in Frankl...

...(A)(1) After the formation of any county sewer district, the board of county commissioners may contract with a person, political subdivision, unincorporated area, or public agency located outside of the district for any of the following: (a) Depositing sewage or drainage from outside of the district in facilities acquired or constructed or to be acquired or constructed by the county to serve the district; (b) The t...

... estate or personal property owned by a municipal corporation. (B)(1) For the purposes of division (B) of this section, any of the following constitutes a public exigency: (a) A finding by the director of environmental protection that a public health nuisance caused by an occasion of unavoidable urgency and suddenness due to unsanitary conditions compels the immediate construction of sewers for the protection...

...ruct a sewer within the boundaries of a municipal corporation for the service of sewer districts wholly outside of such municipal corporation, the board may construct such sewer in the streets and alleys of such municipal corporation but shall restore all such streets and alleys to their original condition, and the cost thereof shall be a part of the cost of such sewer. Prior to the preparation of plans for such imp...

...At any time after the formation of any county sewer district, the board of county commissioners may enter into a contract, upon the terms and for the period of time that are mutually agreed upon, with any other public agency to prepare all necessary plans and estimates of cost and to acquire or construct any sanitary or drainage facilities or any prevention or replacement facilities that are to be used jointly b...

...he case of a county, when conveyed to a municipal corporation as provided in division (B) of section 6117.05 of the Revised Code.

... the agreed compensation by the levy of taxes or special assessments or from sanitary sewer or drainage rates and charges, if and to the extent that the public agency is authorized by the laws governing it in the acquisition, construction, maintenance, or operation of the facilities to provide for payment of the costs in respect of which the compensation is due from those sources, and may issue or incur public o...

...A county or other public agency receiving the compensation provided for in section 6117.42 of the Revised Code shall credit the amount so received to the proper fund to be used for the acquisition, construction, or operation and maintenance, as the case may be, of the sanitary or drainage facilities or the prevention or replacement facilities or for other authorized purposes.

...No person or public agency shall tamper with or damage any sanitary or drainage facility or any prevention or replacement facility acquired or constructed by a county under this chapter or any apparatus or accessory connected with it or pertaining to it, or make any connection into or with the facility, without the permission of the board of county commissioners or in a manner or for a use other than as prescrib...

...ereof within or without the limits of a municipal corporation, regulate the tapping thereof by lateral sewers, and prescribe the conditions of such tapping.

...The board of county commissioners may acquire by purchase or appropriation proceedings all real and personal property necessary for the proper construction and maintenance of a trunk or main sewer provided for in section 6117.46 of the Revised Code. The board may occupy any public road, street, avenue, or alley for such trunk or main sewer or part thereof.

...When it is necessary to procure real estate or a right of way or an easement therein for a trunk or main sewer provided for in section 6117.46 of the Revised Code, and the owners thereof are unable to agree upon the compensation therefor, the board of county commissioners may appropriate it in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...replacement facilities by a county to a municipal corporation in accordance with division (B) of section 6117.05 of the Revised Code may be made without regard to division (A) of this section.

...isted on the county's agricultural land tax list as being valued for tax purposes as land devoted exclusively to agricultural use under section 5713.31 of the Revised Code, when the foundation wall of the dwelling house is two hundred feet or less from the nearest boundary of the right-of-way within which the sewer is located, if both of the following also apply: (1) The sewer right-of-way for the property on which ...

...It is the intent of the general assembly that the amendments made to this chapter by Sub. H.B. 549 of the 123rd general assembly are subject to section 4 of that act. This section does not affect the application of section 3 of that act to sections 1 and 2 of that act.

...Whoever violates section 6117.45 or 6117.51 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

...In determining new highway locations the director shall consider the following factors, wherever applicable, and include such considerations in the record of his proceedings: national defense; economic activity; employment; open spaces; existing park lands; recreation; fire protection; esthetics; public utilities; safety; residential character and location; religious institutions and practices; rights and freedoms o...

...such proposal is within the limits of a municipal corporation, such proposal shall be accompanied by the consent of the municipal corporation to the doing of such work, evidenced by proper legislation of its legislative body, unless such consent has already been given to the director. The boards may co-operate with the director in the cost of obtaining right-of-way required for or in connection with any state highway...

...he board of county commissioners or the municipal authorities so offering to co-operate. The director shall cause to be transmitted to the board or municipal authority copies of such maps, plans, profiles, specifications, and estimates as the director may prepare for the construction of the work covered by the proposal. Upon receipt of the maps, plans, profiles, specifications, and estimates for the proposed improvem...

...fected board of county commissioners or municipal authorities.

...If the board of county commissioners or municipal authority, after adopting the maps, plans, profiles, specifications, and estimates, are still of the opinion that the work should be constructed, and that they should co-operate upon the basis set forth in the proposal, such board or municipal authority shall adopt a resolution requesting the director of transportation to proceed with the work, and shall enter into a ...

...oners or the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, under authority of sections 5521.02 and 5521.03 of the Revised Code, co-operate with the department of transportation, said board or municipal authority may purchase or appropriate such property as is needed, or pay damages, in the establishment, construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, widening, maintenance, repair, or preservation of state highways, i...

...ard of county commissioners or with any municipal corporation in the establishment, construction, reconstruction, widening, maintenance, repair, railway grade crossing elimination, or other improvement of any section or portion of a state highway, the director may, as a condition precedent to his extending such cooperation, require such county or municipal corporation to provide the portion of the cost of such improv...

...on of the cost assumed by the county or municipal corporation has been fully paid shall be returned to the county or municipal corporation.

...oard of county commissioners may levy a tax, not exceeding one and one-half mills, upon all taxable property of the county. The proceeds of such levy shall be used for the purpose of paying the county's proportion of the cost and expense of any work conducted by the department in co-operating with such county.

...n anticipation of the collection of the taxes provided for by section 5521.09 of the Revised Code, and in anticipation of the assessments which it is authorized to levy, may, whenever in its judgment it is deemed necessary, sell the bonds of said county in any amount not greater than the aggregate sum necessary to pay the share of the estimated compensation, damages, cost, and expense payable by the county, and by th...

...with the board of township trustees, or municipal authorities, at the expense of the municipal corporation, or in co-operation with the board of township trustees, from constructing any part of the state highway system, or the bridges and culverts thereon, within such county, municipal corporation, or township. The plans and specifications covering any such proposed construction by the board of county commissioners, ...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may submit preliminary plans to the director of transportation for any project wherein co-operation between the municipal corporation and the state is contemplated ultimately under Chapter 5521. of the Revised Code. The director may give conditional approval to such project by the issuance of a letter of intent directed to the municipal corporation, and thereupon t...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, whenever a political subdivision submits to the director of transportation any documents, reports, plans, or other materials relating to a proposed highway improvement project on the state highway system or relating to a road construction or improvement in accordance with section 5535.15 of the Revised Code, the director shall review and approve such documents, ...

... or county roads, or the streets of any municipal corporation, or any part of such roads or streets, which forms a continuous road improvement.

... improvement into, within, or through a municipal corporation, when the consent of the legislative authority of such municipal corporation has been first obtained. Such consent shall be evidenced by the proper action of the legislative authority, entered upon its records, and the legislative authority may assume and pay such proportion of the cost of that part of the proposed improvement within the municipal corporat...

...provide for a road improvement within a municipal corporation by levying against the property benefited by such improvement in the same manner as provided in sections 5555.41, 5555.45, 5555.46, and 5555.47 of the Revised Code. The municipal corporation shall pay to the county treasurer its estimated portion of the cost of such an improvement, to be borne by the municipal corporation as a whole, as fixed in the agreem...

...ch portion of a road as lies within the municipal corporation, in connection with the remainder of a proposed road improvement or separately, as the board determines. The total cost of such work shall be paid on the allowance of the board, by the warrant of the county auditor, and after completion of such work and the payment of the cost thereof, any balance of the funds contributed by the municipal corporation shall...

...s lies within the corporate limits of a municipal corporation, and the legislative authority of such municipal corporation desires to improve any part of the road within such municipal corporation to a greater width than is contemplated by the proceedings for the improvement by the board, such legislative authority shall, at any time before it approves the surveys and profiles for such improvement, determine by resol...

...county road extending into or through a municipal corporation, or a part of a county road and a municipal corporation's streets extending into or through a municipal corporation and forming a continuous road improvement, when the consent of the legislative authority of said municipal corporation has been first obtained, and such consent shall be evidenced by the proper legislation of the legislative authority of the ...

...Whenever the boundary line of a municipal corporation is located within or along the side lines of a street, avenue, road, or other public highway and adjoins unincorporated territory, such municipal corporation may enter into an agreement with the board of county commissioners for the improvement of such street, avenue, road, or other public highway in such manner as the legislative authority of the municipal corpor...

...As used in Title LVII of the Revised Code, "person" includes individuals, firms, companies, business trusts, estates, trusts, partnerships, limited liability companies, associations, corporations, and any other business entities.

...As used in Title LVII of the Revised Code: (A) "Real property," "realty," and "land" include land itself, whether laid out in town lots or otherwise, all growing crops, including deciduous and evergreen trees, plants, and shrubs, with all things contained therein, and, unless otherwise specified in this section or section 5701.03 of the Revised Code, all buildings, structures, improvements, and fixtures of whatever ...

...f, electricity, or, for purposes of any tax levied on personal property, patterns, jigs, dies, or drawings that are held for use and not for sale in the ordinary course of business, except to the extent that the value of the electricity, patterns, jigs, dies, or drawings is included in the valuation of inventory produced for sale. (B) "Business fixture" means an item of tangible personal property that has become per...

...As used in Title LVII of the Revised Code, "money" includes gold, silver, and other coin, circulating notes of national banking associations, United States legal tender notes, and other notes and certificates of the United States payable on demand and circulating or intended to circulate as currency.

...As used in Title LVII of the Revised Code other than in division (A)(7) of section 5733.056 of the Revised Code, "deposits" includes every deposit which the person owning, holding in trust, or having the beneficial interest therein is entitled to withdraw in money, whether on demand or not, and whether evidenced by commercial or checking account, certificate of deposit, savings account, certificates of running, or ot...