Ohio Revised Code Search

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Commission" means the Ohio turnpike and infrastructure commission created by section 5537.02 of the Revised Code or, if that commission is abolished, the board, body, officer, or commission succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to which the powers given by this chapter to the commission are given by law. (B) "Turnpike project" means any express or limited access highw...

...(A) Upon receiving written information that noxious weeds, wild parsnip, wild carrot, oxeye daisy, wild mustard, or other harmful weeds are growing on land in a township, other than land owned or managed by the department of natural resources, or park land owned or managed by the state or a political subdivision, the board of township trustees shall notify the owner, lessee, agent, or tenant having charge of the land...

...This section does not apply to school districts, county school financing districts, or lake facilities authorities. The taxing authority of any subdivision at any time and in any year, by vote of two-thirds of all the members of the taxing authority, may declare by resolution and certify the resolution to the board of elections not less than ninety days before the election upon which it will be voted that the amoun...

...When the budget commission has completed its work with respect to a tax budget or other information required to be provided under section 5705.281 of the Revised Code, it shall certify its action to the taxing authority, together with an estimate by the county auditor of the rate of each tax necessary to be levied by the taxing authority within its subdivision, taxing unit, or, in the case of a qualifying library lev...

...The taxing authority of any subdivision, or the board of trustees of any public library, nonprofit corporation, or library association maintaining a free public library that has adopted and certified rules under section 5705.28 of the Revised Code, that is dissatisfied with any action of the county budget commission may, through its fiscal officer, appeal to the board of tax appeals within thirty days after the...

...Market houses and other houses or halls, public squares, or other public grounds of a municipal corporation or township used exclusively for public purposes or erected by taxation for such purposes, land and multi-level parking structures used exclusively for a public purpose and owned and operated by a municipal corporation under section 717.05 of the Revised Code or by an urban township that has adopted a limited h...

...Lands on which are situated prehistoric earthworks, or upon which stands an historic building which is preserved in commemoration of historic events in the settlement and development of the state, and which are purchased by any person, association, or company for the purpose of the preservation of such earthworks or historic building and are not held for profit but dedicated to public uses as prehistoric parks or as ...

... years, as reflected in the preliminary assessments; (b) The three-year average assessed value from nuclear fuel materials and assemblies assessed under division (D)(2)(a) of this section for tax years 1996, 1997, and 1998, as reflected in the preliminary assessments, using an assessment rate of twenty-five per cent. (3) In the case of a taxing district having a nuclear power plant within its territory, any amoun...

...(A)(1) A board of county commissioners may, by resolution adopted by a majority of the members of the board, levy an excise tax not to exceed three per cent on transactions by which lodging by a hotel is or is to be furnished to transient guests. The board shall establish all regulations necessary to provide for the administration and allocation of the tax. The regulations may prescribe the time for payment of the ta...

...The board of directors of a conservancy district may enter into contracts or other arrangements with the United States government or any department of it, with persons, railroads, or other corporations, with public corporations, with the state government of this or other states, and with drainage, conservation, conservancy, sewer, park, or other improvement districts in this or other states, for co-operation or assis...

...The planning commission established under section 713.01 of the Revised Code shall make plans and maps of the whole or any portion of the municipal corporation, and of any land outside thereof, which, in the opinion of the commission, is related to the planning of the municipal corporation, and make changes in such plans or maps when it deems it advisable. Such maps or plans shall show the commission's recommendation...

...Any municipal corporation may hold, improve, protect, and preserve public grounds, parks, park entrances, free recreation centers, and boulevards. Such municipal corporation may acquire by purchase, lease, with privilege of purchase, gift, devise, condemnation, or otherwise, and hold, real estate or any interest therein and other property for the use of the municipal corporation and may sell, lease, or donate by dee...

...The treatment with road oil, calcium chloride, light coal tar products, light asphalt, or light bituminous substances as provided by section 723.23 of the Revised Code shall be regarded as a cleaning and repairing of streets and alleys, and the municipal corporation's portion of the cost thereof may be paid from any fund available for the cleaning and repairing of streets or alleys. When the roadways of a public park...

...(A)(1) A railway board of trustees may solicit or receive offers for, and sell, all or any portion of a railway in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. The board of trustees may approve and enter into a sale agreement by adopting a resolution that shall include the terms of the proposed sale, and the method that will be used to determine the minimum annual amount to be transmitted to the municipal corporat...

...(A) As used in this section: "Debt service" means the principal, interest, and redemption premium payments, and any deposits pertaining thereto, required with respect to bonds. "Existing infrastructure 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 mun...

...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 ...

...When five per cent of the qualified electors of a city petition the board of elections of the county for the privilege of determining by ballot whether there shall be a board of park commissioners, such board shall submit at the next general election held within such city at least ninety days after the petition is filed, or at a special election occurring at least ninety days after the petition is filed, if the...

...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...

...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.

...In any municipal corporation which is the owner or trustee of property for park purposes, or of funds to be used in connection therewith, by deed of gift, devise, or bequest, such property or funds shall be managed and administered in accordance with the provisions or conditions of such deed of gift, devise, or bequest.

...The board of park trustees mentioned in section 755.20 of the Revised Code, shall consist of four resident electors of the municipal corporation, who shall be appointed by the mayor, and shall serve without compensation for the term of four years. The park trustees shall be appointed in the first instance to serve for one, two, three, and four years respectively, and thereafter their successors shall be appointed one...

...The board of park trustees shall hold meetings at least once a month, and shall adopt necessary rules for the regulation of its business. It shall keep a complete record of its proceedings, which record, or a copy thereof, certified by the clerk of the board, shall be competent evidence of its transactions in the courts of this state. The yeas and nays shall be called upon the passage of every resolution or order. Th...

...The board of park trustees may make contracts for the improvements of the grounds, the erection of the necessary bridges and structures therein, and adopt rules for the protection, care, and government of the parks under its charge, and such rules, when approved by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation shall have the same effect and may be enforced by the same penalties as ordinances.

...The board of park trustees shall not incur any liability for park purposes beyond the amount of the funds levied therefor or appropriated to its order by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation for such purposes.

...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.