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...(A) The urban and rural initiative grant program is hereby created to promote economic development and improve the economic welfare of the people of the state, which shall be accomplished by the department of development awarding grants to eligible applicants for use in an eligible area for any of the following purposes: (1) Land acquisition; (2) Infrastructure improvements; (3) Voluntary actions undertaken on pro...

..., bridges, and traffic control devices; parking lots and facilities; water and sewer lines and treatment plants; gas, electric, and telecommunications hook-ups; and waterway and railway access improvements. (I) "Private developer" means any individual, firm, corporation, or entity, other than a nonprofit entity, limited profit entity, or governmental entity. (J) "Rural area" means any Ohio county that was an el...

...The rural industrial park loan fund is hereby created in the state treasury for the purposes of the program established under section 122.24 of the Revised Code. The director of development services shall deposit money received for the purposes of that section to the credit of the fund.

...(A) As used in this section and section 122.6512 of the Revised Code: (1) "Brownfield" means an abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial, commercial, or institutional property where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by known or potential releases of hazardous substances or petroleum. (2) "Lead entity" means a county, township, municipal corporation, port authority, conservancy district, park district ...

...(A) Except for the requirements of division (B) of this section, section 125.092, and division (B) of section 125.11 of the Revised Code, sections 125.04 to 125.08 and 125.09 to 125.15 of the Revised Code do not apply to or affect state institutions of higher education. (B)(1) As used in this division: (a) "Chartered nonpublic school" has the same meaning as in section 3310.01 of the Revised Code. (b) "Emergenc...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "9-1-1 system" means a system through which individuals can request emergency service using the access number 9-1-1. (B) "Basic 9-1-1" means an emergency telephone system to which all of the following apply: (1) The system automatically connects a caller to a designated public safety answering point. (2) Call routing is determined by a central office only. (3) Automatic num...

...(A) The general administration and management of the public employees retirement system and the making effective of Chapter 145. of the Revised Code, are hereby vested in a board to be known as the "public employees retirement board," which shall consist of the following members: (1) One member, known as the treasurer of state's investment designee, who shall be appointed by the treasurer of state for a term ...

...Advertisement for bids for the leasing of public service facilities in state parks shall be published in any newspaper of general circulation in Franklin county and each county in which the facility to be leased is situated. The publication shall be made once each week for four consecutive weeks prior to the date fixed for the acceptance of the bids. The notice shall set forth the pertinent facts concerning the facil...

...This section applies to obligations as defined in this section. (A) As used in this section: (1) "Capital facilities" means any project or capital improvements for any of the following: state and local parks and land and water recreation facilities; soil and water restoration and protection; land management, including preservation of natural areas and reforestation; water management, including dam safety, stream an...

...The division of wildlife, at the direction of the chief of the division, shall do all of the following: (A) Plan, develop, and institute programs and policies based on the best available information, including biological information derived from professionally accepted practices in wildlife and fisheries management, with the approval of the director of natural resources; (B) Have and take the general care, prote...

...(A) Except as provided in this section or division (A)(2) or (C) of section 1533.12 of the Revised Code or as exempted at the discretion of the chief of the division of wildlife, no person, including nonresidents, shall take or catch any fish by angling in any of the waters in the state or engage in fishing in those waters without a license. No person shall take or catch frogs or turtles without a valid fishing licen...

...For the respective purposes provided in sections 154.20, 154.21, 154.22, 154.23, 154.24, and 154.25 of the Revised Code, the issuing authority may issue obligations of the state of Ohio as provided in Chapter 154. of the Revised Code, provided that the holders or owners of obligations shall have no right to have excises or taxes levied by the general assembly for the payment of the bond service charges. The rig...

...Park districts may be created which include all or a part of the territory within a county, and the boundary lines of such district shall be so drawn as not to divide any existing township or municipal corporation within such county.

...Any park commissioner may be removed at the discretion of the probate judge, either upon complaint filed with such judge or upon his own motion. No such removal shall be made without giving such commissioner not less than ten days' notice and a full opportunity to be heard in his own behalf in a public hearing. The order removing such commissioner shall state the reasons therefor and shall be entered upon the records...

...The board of park commissioners may contract for a term not exceeding three years, upon such terms as the board deems expedient, with any private corporation or association not for profit maintaining a museum of natural history in any county within which the park district is located in whole or in part, or which has for its object the promotion of interest in or the conservation and preservation of the flora or fauna...

...In the development and improvement of the lands acquired by a board of park commissioners, such board may assess such portion of the cost of such development or improvement as it deems equitable, not to exceed fifty per cent of such total cost, upon abutting, contiguous, adjacent, or otherwise specifically benefited lands, in an amount not in excess of and in proportion to the special benefits conferred upon such lan...

...A board of park commissioners may levy taxes upon all the taxable property within the park district in an amount not in excess of one-half of one mill upon each dollar of the district tax valuation in any one year, subject to the combined maximum levy for all purposes otherwise provided by law. After the budget commission of the county in which the district is located certifies such levy, or such modification thereof...

...The board of park commissioners of any park district may issue bonds pursuant to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code for the purpose of acquiring and improving lands as authorized by section 1545.11 of the Revised Code. The board may secure the payment of such bonds by pledge or deed of trust of any of its revenues and receipts resulting from rentals, concessions, licenses, and permits. The board shall not pledge the cr...

...The board of park commissioners may establish and maintain a replacement fund, and for that purpose may set aside annually out of its revenue such sum as it may determine necessary. In case of total or partial destruction of or injury to any of the property of the park district from any cause, or in case it becomes necessary to demolish part or to repair or replace the same, in whole or in part, because of the unfitn...

...(A) As used in this section, "public swimming beach" means land along a shoreline that is under the control of the division of parks and watercraft and is used by the public when swimming and bathing in waters adjacent to the beach. (B) The chief of the division of parks and watercraft shall ensure that the waters of this state that are adjacent to public swimming beaches are sampled and tested in accordance with th...

...The division of parks and watercraft shall include in its annual report to the governor a statement of its action on all matters pertaining to the management and control of all state reservoirs, lakes, and lands set apart for public parks or pleasure resorts, which statement shall include a statement of the receipts and expenditures on account thereof.

...No person shall engage in the hunting of wildlife, either with a gun or with a bow and arrow, on lands or waters operated or administered by the division of parks and watercraft, except on such lands or waters as are exempted by the chief of the division, under specific orders adopted in conformity with sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code. No person shall engage in the discharge of firearms except during op...

...The picnic area that is located northwest of the intersection of Titus road and Division street in Kelleys Island state park shall be known as the "Henry T. Beatty Memorial Picnic Area." The chief of the division of parks and watercraft may erect suitable markers in the picnic area indicating its name.

...(A) As used in this section and section 1547.304 of the Revised Code: (1) "Abandoned junk vessel or outboard motor" means any vessel or outboard motor meeting all of the following requirements: (a) It has been left on private property for at least seventy-two hours without the permission of the person having the right to the possession of the property; left in a sunken, beached, or drifting condition for any period...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) or (B) of this section, no person shall operate or give permission for the operation of any watercraft on the waters in this state unless the watercraft is registered in the name of the current owner in accordance with section 1547.54 of the Revised Code, and the registration is valid and in effect. (2) On and after January 1, 1999, if a watercraft that is required to be ...