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...A municipal corporation appropriating property pursuant to sections 743.39 to 743.42, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may transport, store, insure, and ship natural gas, petroleum, or water, and transport and store water for the purpose of furnishing it to engineers employed in developing for, or in the production and transportation of, petroleum, and for that purpose may lay down, construct, and maintain the necessa...

...A municipal corporation 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 sectio...

... Code shall be construed to mean that a municipal corporation may not request the public utilities commission to review and comment upon the equity and financial implications of the portion of a proposed ordinance that relates to the rates that may be charged for electricity supplied by an electric generation facility either owned or operated by a municipal corporation or owned and operated by an electric light compa...

...(A) A municipal corporation that has established and implemented a watershed management program with regard to a reservoir for drinking water shall allow an owner of property that is contiguous to property that constitutes a buffer around a body of water that is part of such a reservoir to maintain property that constitutes a buffer if the maintenance is for any of the following: (1) Creation of an access path that ...

...(A) Whoever violates section 743.25 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five nor more than five hundred dollars.

...eterminate permit" means any grant of a municipal corporation to any person, association of persons, company, or corporation of power, right, or privilege to own, operate, manage, or control any plant or equipment or any part of a plant or equipment within this state of any public utility, which by the terms thereof is to continue in force until such time as the municipal corporation exercises its right to purchase t...

...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.

...ereof any indeterminate permit, and the municipal corporation in which all or the major part of the property of such public utility is situated may accept such surrender and grant an indeterminate permit. At the time provided in the grant of such permit, or, if no time is provided in such grant, then at any time after such grant, the municipal corporation may purchase all the property of such public utility actually ...

...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.

...When a municipal corporation desires, as expressed in an ordinance determining to acquire the property of a public utility, to have the compensation for such property determined by the public utilities commission, such municipal corporation shall make a request in writing to the commission in accordance with section 4909.04 of the Revised Code. Thereupon the commission shall proceed to make an inventory and valuation...

...Any municipal corporation may, contemporaneously with or at any time after the grant of an indeterminate permit as provided in sections 745.02 and 745.03 of the Revised Code, agree with a public utility upon the compensation to be paid for its property and the times for the exercise of the privilege of purchase, but no period between the times fixed for such purchase shall exceed five years. Upon the determination of...

...until submitted to the electors of the municipal corporation, at a special or general election held in the municipal corporation at such time as the legislative authority determines, and approved by a majority of the electors voting on it. The ordinance shall be passed by an affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the members of the legislative authority and shall be subject to the approval of the mayo...

...ontinue in force until such time as the municipal corporation acquires the property of the public utility as provided in sections 745.01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or until otherwise terminated according to the terms of the permit. The acceptance of an indeterminate permit deprives the public utility of all rights under any license, permit, grant, or franchise, or granted in any municipal ordinance or...

...In the absence of agreement between the municipal corporation and a public utility as to rates, fares, or charges, as provided in section 745.06 of the Revised Code, all rates, fares, tolls, and charges for services rendered and commodities furnished by such public utility shall be sufficient to yield a reasonable compensation to the public utility operating under an indeterminate permit, and in the ascertainment of ...

...If any municipal corporation establishes a department to exercise any of the powers conferred by sections 745.01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, such department is hereby granted such powers of supervision and regulation of any public utility operating under an indeterminate grant as are provided by such sections and the ordinance granting the permit, and as are prescribed by any ordinance not inconsistent...

...rbitration concerning the orders of the municipal corporation, the utility may appeal to the public utilities commission from any order of the municipal corporation which is in violation of law or of the permit, or from any unreasonable order concerning matters upon which the parties have not agreed in the permit itself. Such appeal shall be by petition filed within thirty days from the issuance of the order. The fil...

...If an ordinance granting an indeterminate permit provides for an appeal to or arbitration by the public utilities commission, the commission shall determine such appeal or arbitration according to the procedure, methods, and terms provided for in such ordinance. There shall be no judicial review of the actions of the commission upon such appeals or arbitration. Except as provided in this section and section 745.11 o...

...In addition to the methods of enforcement provided by sections 745.01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the duties imposed upon public utilities by such sections shall be enforceable by mandamus and all other judicial proceedings provided for the enforcement of the duties of public utilities.

... of the Revised Code do not deprive any municipal corporation of its rights to prescribe, by charter, any other methods or terms according to and upon which indeterminate permits may be granted in such municipal corporation.

...ns 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 established by the Ferguson Act of 1869.

... annual amount to be transmitted to the municipal corporation under section 746.05 of the Revised Code, which may only be amended upon consultation with the fiscal officer of the municipal corporation, and which shall result in an annual amount equal to or greater than the minimum approved by the electors under this section, except as provided in section 746.05 of the Revised Code. (2) After the railway board of tr...

...iving the net proceeds of the sale. The municipal corporation that owned the railway or portion of the railway before the sale shall be the sole beneficiary of the trust fund. Any funds in the trust fund shall not be considered part of the unencumbered balance or revenue of the subdivision under section 5705.35 or 5705.36 of the Revised Code. (B) The railway board of trustees shall manage and administer the railway...

... are not diminished while providing the municipal corporation payments pursuant to section 746.05 of the Revised Code. These policies shall address asset allocation targets and ranges, risk factors, asset class benchmarks, eligible investments, time horizons, total return objectives, a strategy for long-term growth of the principal of the trust fund, competitive procurement processes, fees and administrative expenses...

... board of trustees shall certify to the municipal corporation the principal amount remaining in the trust fund, and the amount of funds that the railway board of trustees will disburse to the municipal corporation over the course of the municipal corporation's immediately following fiscal year. During the municipal corporation's immediately following fiscal year, and with such frequency and in such installments as ma...

...e improvements" means streets, bridges, municipal buildings, parks and green space, site improvements, recreation facilities, improvements for parking purposes, and any other public facilities that are owned by a municipal corporation with a useful life of five or more years. "Existing infrastructure improvements" does not include the construction of new infrastructure improvements. (B) A municipal corporation that...