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...The board of directors of a conservancy district shall each year after the original assessment has been levied determine, order, and levy the annual levy, which shall include all assessments, or installments of assessments, together with interest, levied under this chapter, which become due in the ensuing year. The annual levy shall be due and be collected at the same time that state and county taxes are due and col...

...In anticipation of the collection of assessments for any year levied under sections 6101.53 and 6101.55 of the Revised Code, the board of directors of a conservancy district may borrow money and issue notes therefor; but the aggregate of such loans made in any year shall not exceed one half of the total amount estimated by the county auditors of the several counties in the district to be received from the collection ...

...Each county treasurer charged with collection of assessments shall make due report to the county auditor of the sums collected by the treasurer, and the auditor shall issue a warrant payable to the treasurer of the conservancy district for all sums of money in the hands of the county treasurer, according to the report. The auditor, as soon as the records for collection are closed by the county treasurer according to ...

...Before receiving the assessment record provided for by section 6101.55 of the Revised Code, the county treasurer of each county in which lands or other property of the conservancy district are located shall execute to the district and deliver to the board of directors of the district a bond with a surety company authorized to conduct a surety business in this state as surety, which bond shall be paid for by the distr...

...All conservancy district assessments provided for in this chapter, together with all penalties and interest for default in payment of the assessments, and all costs in collecting the assessments, including a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court and taxed as costs in the action brought to enforce payment, from the date of filing the certificate described in this section in the office of the county audit...

...The auditor's conservancy assessment record is prima-facie evidence in all courts of all matters contained in it. The liens established and declared in section 6101.59 of the Revised Code may be enforced at the option of the board of directors of the conservancy district by an action on delinquent assessment bills, made and certified by the county auditor, which action shall be instituted in the court of common pleas...

...Whenever, under this chapter, the board of directors of a conservancy district has determined, ordered, and levied an annual levy in accordance with section 6101.55 of the Revised Code, the board shall certify to the governing or taxing body of each political subdivision assessed, a notice and statement of the annual levy, setting forth the total amount payable by the political subdivision and included in the annual ...

...y district organized for the purpose of water supply, against any public corporation, the governing body or other taxing authority of such public corporation may appropriate any unappropriated funds of the water department of such public corporation. The aggregate of the amounts appropriated for such purpose during each successive five year period shall not exceed ninety per cent of the total amount of the annual lev...

...In addition to the uniform rates for water provided for by sections 6101.24 and 6101.53 of the Revised Code, the board of directors of a conservancy district, for the purpose of providing funds for bond retirement and interest, and thus accomplishing reduction in the amount to be collected through annual levy, may charge an additional rate for water furnished by the district to a public corporation or person within t...

...For the purpose of payment of any portion of an annual levy made for the purpose of collection and disposal of sewage and liquid wastes, the governing body or other taxing authority of a public corporation assessed may appropriate and use moneys from the sewer fund derived from proceeds of sewer rentals collected under authority of sections 729.49 to 729.52, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Such use of the sewer fund ...

...If any county treasurer or other person entrusted with the collection of assessments fails to make prompt payment of the assessments, or any part of them, when collected under this chapter to the treasurer of the conservancy district upon the presentation of a proper demand, the county treasurer or other person shall forfeit ten per cent on the amount of the delinquency. The forfeiture shall at once become due and pa...

...After the close of each fiscal year, or oftener if the court so orders, the board of directors of the conservancy district shall make a report to the court of its proceedings and an accounting of receipts and disbursements of such year or period. There shall be an annual meeting of the full court for the presentation and examination of the annual report of the board. All such reports shall be filed with the clerk of ...

...Each member of the board of directors of a conservancy district and each member of the board of appraisers of a conservancy district shall receive a sum established by the court and necessary expenses for the time actually employed in performing official duties. The compensation and expenses shall be paid only upon itemized statements submitted and certified to by the individual member.

...The same land, if conducive to public health, safety, convenience, or welfare, may be included in more than one conservancy district and be subject to this chapter for each district in which it may be included. No district shall be organized under this chapter in whole or in part within the territory of a district already organized under this chapter until the court determines whether the public health, safety, conve...

...If any conservancy district is being organized within, or partly within and partly without, the same territory in which some other district has been or is being organized, one judge of the court of common pleas of each county in which the districts have been or are being organized shall confer at the earliest convenient moment after they ascertain the possibility of a conflict in jurisdiction, the sitting to be had i...

...(A) If two or more conservancy districts have been organized in a territory which, in the opinion of the board of directors of the conservancy district of any one of the districts, should constitute only one district, the board of any one of the districts may petition the court for an order uniting those districts into a single district. The petition shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pl...

...ng body of any political subdivision or watershed district created under section 6105.02 of the Revised Code, within, or partly within and partly without, the district, or upon petition of the board of directors of the district. The petition shall fulfill the same requirements concerning the subdistricts as the petition outlined in section 6101.05 of the Revised Code is required to fulfill concerning the organization...

...wer, or for the cleaning of drains and watercourses, or for the removal of drift, or for the drainage of marshes, or for any sewer district outside of a municipal corporation, organized under any other law of this state, may become a conservancy district or subdistrict under sections 6101.01 to 6101.84, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or may be absorbed in and amalgamated with any conservancy district in the f...

...wners of lands lying upon any stream of water of the ordinary flow in the stream without compensation. Subject to this section, the board of directors has the same powers as are conferred generally by this chapter insofar as applicable. Assessments shall be levied and bonds issued as provided in this chapter, using the words "Conservancy Assessments" or "Conservancy Bonds."

...(A) If any person or public corporation, within or without any conservancy district, considers itself injuriously affected in any manner by any act performed by any official or agent of the district, or by the execution, maintenance, or operation of the official plan, and if no other method of relief is offered under this chapter, the remedy shall be as follows: (1) The person or public corporation considering itsel...

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B) The board of directors of a conservancy district may police the works of the district and, in times of great emergency, may compel assistance in the protection of those works. The board may prevent persons, vehicles, or livestock from passing over the property or works of the district at any places or in any man...

...Any director, appraiser, or other officer of any conservancy district may be removed for cause upon a motion filed in the original case where said district was organized, after a hearing.

...The performance of all duties prescribed in this chapter concerning the organization and administration or operation of the conservancy district may be enforced against any officer of the district by mandamus at the instance of the board of directors of the district or of any person or public corporation interested in any way in the district. The board of directors may institute court proceedings to enforce complianc...

...If a notice and hearing by the court are provided for in this chapter, the court shall, prior to the conclusion of the hearing, examine the form of the notice and all evidence relating to the giving of the notice and, if the court finds for any reason that due notice was not given in whole or in part, whether by reason of noncompliance with any of the requirements of this chapter or with any applicable constitutional...

...All cases in which there arises a question of the validity of the organization of conservancy districts shall be advanced as a matter of immediate public interest and concern, and heard in all courts at the earliest practicable moment. The court shall be open at all times for the purposes of this chapter.