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...The board of county commissioners may receive bequests, donations, and gifts for the purpose of erecting, within its county, a monument in memory of those who died or were killed during any war or other military action in which the armed forces of the United States participated. When, in the opinion of the board, the bequests, donations, or gifts received by it are sufficient, the board may erect such monument.

...The board of county commissioners may receive bequests, donations, and gifts of real and personal property and money to promote and advance the cause of education in the county. All property and money so received by the board, or which has been bequeathed and bestowed upon such board and remains undisposed of, may be paid to any incorporated institution of learning in the county, or a part may be used each year to de...

...The board of county commissioners of any county may appropriate, out of the revenue fund not otherwise appropriated, money to be paid to the historical society of the county or to local societies for the preservation and restoration of historic and archaeological sites located in the county. The money may be used for the promotion of historical work within the borders of the county, for the restoration or reconst...

...y, are presented to the board of county commissioners.

...The publications provided for in section 307.23 of the Revised Code shall be placed in the custody of the incorporated historical societies and be distributed by them at such price and in such manner as the society directs.

...The board of county commissioners may, provide for the organization and maintenance of civic and social centers throughout the county, employ an expert director who shall superintend and administer the centers, and levy a tax and create a fund for the payment of all expenses involved in the social and educational work contemplated in this section. Any municipal corporations carrying on similar work shall, at the opti...

...Boards of county commissioners may make contributions of money, supplies, equipment, office facilities, and other property or services, which will be of value or use to organized soil conservation districts, within or without the boundaries of such county, if said board determines that the work accomplished by such conservation districts will be of value to the general welfare and benefit of such county. Any money ex...

...The board of county commissioners vested with the legal title to real estate dedicated and used for park purposes may grant the use and occupation of land situated in such park for the site of art buildings and for art purposes.

...The board of county commissioners of any county may make contributions of moneys, supplies, equipment, office facilities, and other personal property or services to any board of park commissioners established pursuant to Chapter 1545. of the Revised Code for the expenses of park planning, acquisition, management, and improvement. The board of park commissioners may accept such contributions without the approval of th...

...A board of county commissioners of any county that intends to adopt a resolution levying a tax under section 5739.026 of the Revised Code, any part of which is to be used to provide revenues for distribution through a community improvements board, shall adopt a resolution creating such a board. A community improvements board shall consist of nine members. The mayor of the municipal corporation with the greatest popu...

...mine and certify to the board of county commissioners each of the following: (1) The estimated grant revenue to be transferred to the community improvement fund during the current year. (2) The total amount of grants that may be awarded during the current year. Except as provided in division (D) of this section, the total amount of grants that may be awarded during any year may not exceed the sum of the unencumbere...

...end beyond a period of ten years or the expiration of the tax imposed by section 5739.026 of the Revised Code, whichever is the shorter period of time, they shall not constitute general obligations of the county, and they shall not pledge the county's faith and credit, or revenue, except revenues from the taxes imposed under sections 5739.026 and 5741.023 of the Revised Code. No other tax shall be levied or pledged f...

...The board of county commissioners may, by agreement with the city council, the director of public safety or his successor, or the person or board charged with the erection, maintenance, or repair of police stations, jails, police and municipal courthouse and courtrooms, lease to any municipal corporation in the county suitable quarters in county buildings, erected or to be erected, for municipal courts, police statio...

...The board of county commissioners may publish an annual report, to be made available to the residents of the county, setting forth information showing the progress and activities of the various departments of the county government.

...When it appears to the board of county commissioners that the boundary lines of the county are not sufficiently ascertained, the board shall issue its order to the county engineer, requiring him to ascertain and survey such lines.

...The board of county commissioners of a county where the county lines are to be run, shall give notice to the board of each county affected, declaring its intention of running the lines of such county. The board receiving the notice shall order the county engineer to run such lines with the engineers of the adjoining counties, at the time and in the manner fixed upon by the boards of such counties.

...Each county engineer shall make a return of the survey provided for by section 307.31 of the Revised Code to the clerk of the court of common pleas of his county, who shall make a record thereof.

...ined the boundary line, if the board or officers of the adjoining county disregard the true line, the board of the former may commence and prosecute a civil action in the court of common pleas of such adjoining county, against the board of that county, to ascertain and establish such boundaries. The board of such adjoining county shall be made a party to the action and summoned as in other cases. If the court finds ...

...The court of common pleas of the county in which an action is brought, as provided in section 307.34 of the Revised Code, may make such decree, as to taxes previously collected by either county within the true boundary of the territory actually in the other, as is just.

...When the board of county commissioners considers that the public good so requires, it shall authorize and require the county engineer to ascertain, by actual survey and evidence, the corners of each or any of the originally surveyed townships in such county, and there place, perpendicularly in the ground, a stone post, not less than ten inches in diameter nor less than three feet long. The board shall furnish the pos...

...or existing structures code to a county officer or employee who is trained and qualified for those duties and shall establish by resolution the minimum qualifications necessary to perform those duties. (2) The board may adopt regulations for participation in the national flood insurance program as defined in section 1521.01 of the Revised Code and regulations for the purposes of section 1506.04 or 1506.07 of the Re...

...ies of the office to an existing county officer who is certified pursuant to section 3781.10 of the Revised Code. (B) The board and a municipal corporation may enter into a contract under which one entity enforces for the other entity any local building regulations, existing structures code, or, if certified pursuant to section 3781.10 of the Revised Code, the state residential and nonresidential building codes in ...

... the county building inspector or other officer assigned to perform the building official's duties pertaining to the enforcement within the jurisdiction of Chapters 3781. and 3791. of the Revised Code and any rules adopted pursuant to those chapters.

...nded, or changed by the board of county commissioners, shall be made available to the public at the office of the board, and the section numbers and a notice of the availability of such regulations shall be published within ten days after their adoption, amendment, or change, using at least one of the following methods: (A) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation within the county; (...

...any county in which the board of county commissioners has created a building department to administer and enforce local building regulations or an existing structures code unless that person fully complies with the local building regulations and existing structures code. (2) No person shall erect, construct, alter, repair, or maintain any residential building as defined in section 3781.06 of the Revised Code withi...