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...of a regional transit authority or any officer or employee designated by such board may make any contract for the purchase of goods or services, the cost of which does not exceed one hundred thousand dollars. When an expenditure, other than for the acquisition of real estate, the discharge of claims, or the acquisition of goods or services under the circumstances described in division (H) of this section, is e...

...The board of trustees of a regional transit authority may enter into such contracts or other arrangements with the United States government or any department thereof, with the state government of this or other states, with counties, municipalities, townships, or other governmental agencies created by or under the authority of the laws of the state or other states, with persons, with public corporations and private co...

...All officers and employees of a regional transit authority shall be considered as public employees within the meaning of section 145.01 of the Revised Code and a regional transit authority, its officers, and employees shall be subject to Chapter 145. of the Revised Code.

...Nothing in sections 306.30 to 306.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall limit the exercise of the power or authority granted to counties or municipal corporations by sections 307.20, 717.01, and 719.01 of the Revised Code.

...The board of county commissioners of any county included within a regional transit authority may appropriate annually, from moneys to the credit of the general fund of the county and not otherwise appropriated, that portion of the expense of the regional transit authority to be paid by such county as provided in the resolution creating or enlarging the regional transit authority adopted under section 306.32 or 306.32...

...ination of any of the foregoing for the officers and employees of the regional transit authority and their immediate dependents, whether issued by an insurance company or a health insuring corporation duly authorized to do business in this state.

...(A) Upon the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the qualified electors within the territorial boundaries of the regional transit authority voting on the question at an election held for the purpose of authorizing it, the regional transit authority may levy upon the property within its territorial boundaries a tax, for all purposes other than bond debt charges, not in excess of five mills annually on the total...

... director of transportation and the tax commissioner that specifies the total amount of local spending during the previous state fiscal year for capital costs, operating costs, and any costs for activities related to each of the following: (A) Local airports; (B) Local airport systems; (C) Any other local facility that is directly and substantially related to the air transportation of passengers or property and is...

...The legislative authority of any municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision or taxing district, may convey or lease to, or exchange with, any regional transit authority or any such authority may convey or lease to, or exchange with, a municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision or taxing district, without competitive bidding an...

...(A) A regional transit authority created under sections 306.30 to 306.53 of the Revised Code, shall be exempt from and shall not be required to pay any taxes on property, both real and personal, belonging to any such authority, which is used exclusively for any public purpose. However, except as provided in division (B) of this section, such exemption shall not apply to any property belonging to any authority while ...

...A regional transit authority may cooperate with other governmental agencies of this state, or of the United States, to carry out the purposes set forth in section 306.31 of the Revised Code.

...Subject to making due provisions for the payment and performance of its obligations, the resolution or ordinance creating the regional transit authority may provide for its dissolution or modification in membership under circumstances described therein, or a regional transit authority may be dissolved or its membership modified by its board of trustees with the consent of the subdivision or subdivisions creating such...

... regular elections for the election of officers of the municipal corporation proposing to withdraw from the regional transit authority, except that the question appearing on the ballot of a municipal corporation shall read: "Shall the territory within the _________________________ (name of municipal corporation to be withdrawn) be withdrawn from _________________________ _________ (name of) regional transit au...

...Any municipal corporation or township that withdraws from a regional transit authority under section 306.55 of the Revised Code may enter into a contract with a regional transit authority or other provider of transit services to provide transportation service for persons who are elderly or who have disabilities and for any other service the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or township may determine ...

...ar elections for the election of county officers. Notice of the election shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the territory of the county or of the regional transit authority once a week for two consecutive weeks prior to the election or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. If the board of elections operates and maintains a web site, notice of the election also shall be posted on th...

...The question of the decrease of the rate of a tax approved for a continuing period of time by the voters of a county or regional transit authority pursuant to sections 5739.023 and 5741.022 of the Revised Code may be initiated by the filing of a petition with the board of elections of the county, or in the case of a regional transit authority with the board of elections as determined pursuant to section 3505.07...

...unty transit board or a board of county commissioners operating a transit system, or the board of trustees of a regional transit authority, shall notify the tax commissioner immediately of any changes in the transit system's territorial boundaries if the board levies a tax under sections 5739.023 and 5741.022 of the Revised Code.

... for the creation of a regional transit commission which will provide services and facilities for a service area within this state and within one or more states adjacent to this state, for the transportation of persons in a manner that will be in the best public interest in view of the geographic, economic, population, and other factors influencing the needs and development of such service area. The exercise by a reg...

...subdivision, taxing district, or board, commission, or authority of either, or the United States or any department, agency, board, commission, authority, or corporation thereof. (B) "Regional transit commission" means a body politic and corporate created pursuant to sections 306.80 to 306.90, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and having territorial boundaries which include the territory of all counties of this state w...

...may, with respect to a regional transit commission created by such agreement, provide for the following: (A) Acquisition, by purchase or donation, or by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, construction, improvement, extension, enlargement, repair, lease as lessee or lessor, sale, operation, maintenance, and management of transit facilities within or without the territorial boundaries of such commission, tog...

...torial boundaries of a regional transit commission may advance or donate moneys to such regional transit commission.

...aries of more than one regional transit commission, nor shall any regional transit authority be created pursuant to sections 306.30 to 306.53, inclusive, of the Revised Code, which includes any territory within the territorial boundaries of a regional transit commission. No regional transit commission shall be created which includes territory theretofore included within the territorial boundaries of a regional transi...

...Bonds of a regional transit commission are lawful investments of banks, savings banks, mutual savings banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, deposit guaranty associations, bond retirement funds or sinking funds of municipal corporations, boards of education, regional transit commissions, counties, the administrator of workers' compensation, state teachers retirement system, school employees retirement...

...ical subdivision or taxing district, or commission, board, or authority of this state, may convey or lease to, or exchange with, any regional transit commission, or such commission may convey or lease to, or exchange with, any political subdivision, taxing district, or board, commission, or authority of this state or any other state having territory within the territorial boundaries of the regional transit commission...

...A regional transit commission authorized under sections 306.80 to 306.90, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is exempt from and is not required to pay any taxes on property, both real and personal, belonging to such commission, which is used exclusively for any public purpose; provided, such exemption does not apply to any property belonging to any commission while a private enterprise is a lessee of such property under...