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...A county transit board authorized by section 306.01 of the Revised Code shall consist of seven members. All members shall be electors of the county, shall be appointed by the board of county commissioners, and shall have such qualifications as the board of county commissioners may establish in its resolution under section 306.01 of the Revised Code. The appointments shall be for overlapping three-year terms, provided...

...As soon as possible after the appointment of the initial members, a county transit board shall organize for the transaction of business, elect a vice-chairman and secretary and prescribe their duties, designate a fiscal officer who need not be a member of the board, and adopt bylaws, rules, and regulations to govern its proceedings. Thereafter the board shall hold regular meetings at least once every month. Sp...

...without the consent of the legislative pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan> of such municipal corporation, or take or disturb real estate or interests therein, personal property, or any combination thereof belonging to any other political subdivision, public corporation, public utility, or common carrier, which is necessary and convenient in the operation of such political subdivision, public corporation, public utility, or common carri...

...The county commissioners may advance funds from any available fund of the county for purchase or acquisition of a transit system, surveys, planning, and mass transportation studies. The amount advanced may be reimbursed from any funds of the county transit board including the proceeds of the sale of bonds for the purchase, acquisition, construction, enlargement, improvement, or equipment of the county transit system.

...(A) As used in this section, "social services" includes all of the following: (1) Services for senior citizens; (2) Services for persons with developmental disabilities; (3) Services funded in whole or in part with federal funds provided for social services programs, including the community development block grant program established under Title I of the "Housing and Community Development Act of 1974," 42 U.S.C. 5...

...The county transit board or board of county commissioners operating a transit system may enter into an agreement with any municipal corporation, township, or other county, whereby the board undertakes to provide transportation service for the movement of persons within, from, or to that municipal corporation, township, or county, to make payments or transfer real estate or interests therein or a combination thereof, ...

...The operations, revenues, and property of the county transit system and all obligations secured by the real estate or interests therein or revenues of the system, or the income derived therefrom, are exempt from the levy of any excise or other tax by the county or any political subdivision of the state, unless and to the extent such exemption is prohibited by the constitution or other laws of this state.

...Any county transit board or board of county commissioners operating a transit system, that acquires, leases as lessee, or receives a right to use a publicly or privately owned transit system may enter into an agreement with the operator thereof transferring that transit system, and that operator may enter into an agreement with the county transit board or board of county commissioners operating a transit system provi...

...nds or coupons. All bonds issued under <span class='keyword-hit'>authorityspan> of this section have all qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments, subject to provisions for registration, and may be issued in coupon or fully registered form, or both, as the board provides. Provision may be made for the registration of any coupon bonds as to principal alone or as to both principal and interest and for the conversion into fully registered b...

...The county transit board or a board of county commissioners operating a transit system may issue refunding bonds of the county to refund any bonds previously issued under division (B) of section 306.09 of the Revised Code for any of the following purposes: (A) Refunding bonds which have matured or are about to mature when the rentals, revenues, and other income, charges, and moneys pledged for the payment of such bo...

...In counties that have a county transit board, that transit board shall have exclusive control over the county transit system's budgets, appropriations, collections, custody, and application of its revenues or other funds received by it and shall have jurisdiction of all purchases and contracts entered into in connection with the county transit system pursuant to sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code. In those...

...Any board of county commissioners operating a transit system or any county transit board shall, if it acquires any existing transit system, assume all the employer's obligations under any existing labor contract between the employees and management of the system. The board shall, if it acquires, constructs, controls, or operates any such facilities, negotiate arrangements to protect the interests of employees affecte...

...A board of county commissioners operating a transit system or a county transit board created under sections 306.01 to 306.13 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 the board, which is used exclusively for any public purpose; provided, such exemption shall not apply to any property belonging to the board while a private ente...

...(A) If a board of county commissioners awards a franchise to a franchisee on behalf of a county transit board, the county transit board shall submit an annual written report to the board of county commissioners not later than a date designated by the board of county commissioners and in a form prescribed by that board. The board of county commissioners shall make the report available on the general web site of ...

...torial boundaries of a regional transit pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan>, including all right-of-way, power lines, rolling stock, equipment, machinery, terminals, buildings, administration and maintenance and repair facilities, and supporting parking facilities, and franchise rights attendant thereto, but excluding therefrom trucks and facilities designed for use in the movement of property by truck; (B) Docks, wharves, warehouses, ...

...e purpose of joining a regional transit pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan>. (B) A board of township trustees may adopt a resolution designating as a township, for the purpose of joining a regional transit an class='keyword-hit'>authority</span>, territory consisting of contiguous whole election precincts that make up less than the entire unincorporated area of the township, provided that none of the territory is already part of a regional transit an class='keyword-hit'>authority</span>. The resoluti...

...A regional transit pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan> may be created in the manner provided in section 306.32 of the Revised Code, for any one or more of the following purposes: acquiring, constructing, operating, maintaining, replacing, improving, and extending transit facilities; controlling and administering the public utilities franchise of such transit facilities; entering into and supervising franchise agreements; accepting assignment ...

...of these, may create a regional transit pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan> by the adoption of a resolution or ordinance by the board of county commissioners of each county, the legislative <span class='keyword-hit'>authorityspan> of each municipal corporation, and the board of township trustees of each township which is to create or to join in the creation of the regional transit an class='keyword-hit'>authority</span>. The resolution or ordinance shall state: (A) The necessity for the creation of a...

... ordinance creating a regional transit pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan> may be amended to include additional counties, municipal corporations, or townships by the adoption of an amendment by the board of county commissioners of each county, the legislative pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan> of each municipal corporation, and the board of township trustees of each township which has created or, prior to the adoption of the amendment, joined or proposes to joi...

...ommissioners of a county, a legislative pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan> of a municipal corporation, or a board of trustees of a township. (B) For any regional transit an class='keyword-hit'>authority</span> that levies a property tax and that includes in its membership political subdivisions that are located in a county having a population of at least four hundred thousand according to the most recent federal census, the procedures of this section apply until Decem...

...hin sixty days after a regional transit pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan> has been created under section 306.32 of the Revised Code, the board of trustees for such regional transit pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan> shall be appointed as provided in this section. Members of a board of trustees of an pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan> created by the exclusive action of a county shall be appointed by the county commissioners of such county. A board of trustees of an an class='keyword-hit'>authority</span> created by two...

...ard of trustees of any regional transit pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan> created by one county and two municipal corporations, with the county having a population of at least five hundred thousand according to the most recent federal census, shall be appointed and governed as provided in this section. The board of trustees of such a regional transit pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan> shall consist of nine members, six of whom shall be appointed by the board of co...

...All the power and an class='keyword-hit'>authority</span> granted to a regional transit pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan> shall be vested in and exercised by its board of trustees which shall manage and conduct its affairs. The board shall, within the limitations of sections 306.30 to 306.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by its rules and regulations provide the procedure for its actions, the manner of selection of its president, vice-president, secretary-treasurer, a...

...Upon the creation of a regional transit pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan> as provided by section 306.32 of the Revised Code, and upon the qualifying of its board of trustees and the election of a president and a vice-president, the pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan> shall exercise in its own name all the rights, powers, and duties vested in and conferred upon it by sections 306.30 to 306.53 of the Revised Code. Subject to any reservations, limitations, and qualific...

...A regional transit pan class='keyword-hit'>authoritypan> may purchase an articulated bus only if the regional transit an class='keyword-hit'>authority</span> establishes and follows a preference system for buses that are manufactured or assembled within this state, or, if none, within the United States.