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...curbs, and gutters, any road, street, alley, or portion thereof lying within or bounded on both sides by any platted lands, and situated outside a municipal corporation.

...f the improvement desired, signed by at least fifty-one per cent of the land or lot owners, residents of such county, who are to be specially assessed for such improvement, the board shall, within thirty days after such petition is presented, go upon the line of the proposed improvement, and, after viewing it, determine whether the public convenience and welfare require that such improvement be made.

...counted in determining whether the requisite number of persons have signed such petition ; No person signing a petition shall be permitted to withdraw therefrom unless the board finds that there was fraud or misrepresentation in obtaining his signature.

... determined that any road, street, or alley, or portion thereof shall be improved as provided for in section 5559.02 to 5559.16, inclusive, of the Revised Code, such board shall, by a majority vote, determine the route and termini of such improvement, the kind and extent thereof, and at the same time order the county engineer to make such surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications as are ...

... and specifications for an improvement under section 5559.02 of the Revised Code by the county engineer, the engineer shall transmit to the board of county commissioners copies of such surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications. The board shall then publish, in a newspaper of general circulation within the county, once a week for two consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16...

...nd shall adopt the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications therefor, as reported by the county engineer, or with such modifications as the board and engineer may agree upon. If, in view of the amount of the compensation and damages allowed, or for any other just cause, such board is of the opinion that the improvement should not be made, the board shall so order.

...eal estate abutting upon an improvement under section 5559.02 of the Revised Code according to the benefits accruing to such real estate.

...estate for road improvements. The schedule of such assessments shall be filed in the office of the board of county commissioners for the inspection of the persons interested. Before adopting the assessment, the board shall publish, once each week for two consecutive weeks, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, notice that such assessment has been...

...itor upon a special duplicate, to be collected as other taxes, and the principal shall be payable in not more than twenty semiannual installments, extending over a period of not more than ten years, as determined by the board of county commissioners. In the event that bonds are issued to pay the compensation, damages and costs incident to an improvement as provided by section 5559.02 of the Revised Code, the principa...

...o weeks prior to the date fixed for the letting of the contract, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. Such notice shall state that copies of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for such improvement are on file in the office of the board, and the time within which bids will be received. The board shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder. ...

...ntering into a contract, the board of county commissioners shall require a bond indemnifying the county against the damages that may be suffered by failure to perform such contract according to the provisions thereof and in accordance with the specifications for an improvement as provided by section 5559.02 of the Revised Code, and also against damages for personal or other injuries resulting from any negligence or v...

... the value of material delivered on the site of the work, or at a railroad station or siding, or other point in the general vicinity thereof, but not yet incorporated therein, provided such material has been inspected and found to meet the specifications. When an estimate is allowed on account of material delivered on the site of the work or in the vicinity thereof, but not yet incorporated therein, such material sha...

...lude the paving of a road, street, or alley in which there is a sanitary sewer, water, or gas main, such plans shall include the extension to the curb of all necessary and proper service connections with such sewer or main. After any improvement is laid under such sections, any future installation of mains or public utility lines shall, so far as possible, be made between the curb and property line. No road, street...

...those conferred by law upon boards of county commissioners, with respect to the improvement of public highways, and the authority of the board in such respect, under existing laws, shall be in no way altered or abridged by such sections.

...acks of railroads and parallel and adjacent interurban railways within the county, and require any railroad company operating a railroad in such county, and any interurban railway company operating an interurban railway parallel and adjacent to the railroad, to raise or lower the grade of its tracks, above or below any state or intercounty highway, and may construct ways or crossings for such highway above the tracks...

...hway or any part thereof, vacate the whole or any portion of such highway abandoned by relocation, and cause the improvements contemplated to be placed in such relocated highway.

...ecedent to the exercise of jurisdiction under sections 4957.06 and 5561.01 to 5561.15 of the Revised Code, by a board of county commissioners, such board shall transmit to the director of transportation a full written description of the grade crossing which it is proposed to abolish, showing its location, the reasons which tend to make necessary its elimination, the names of the railroads or interurban railways ownin...

...rvice of summons in civil actions, not less than twenty days prior to the date of such hearing. The board, after such hearing and for the purpose of making or causing such an improvement to be made, may, by resolution adopted by unanimous vote, require the railroad company, in co-operation with the county engineer or any engineer designated by the board, to prepare and submit to the board within six months, ...

...file an answer to such petition and present other plans for the abolition of such crossing. After the expiration of such period the court of common pleas shall proceed to a hearing upon the petition and any answers that have been filed, which hearing must be advanced upon the docket upon motion of either party. After examination of all plans presented to it and after hearing the evidence, the court shall make a findi...

...nd also fix the amount to be allowed or credited to the company for doing the work. Such company may deduct from its fifteen per cent of the cost of the improvement, the expense incurred by it in the change of its grade required by the county or made necessary by it under such specifications, but only in case the amount of the expense has been agreed upon in writing between the county and the company. If the amount o...

...de crossing improvement, the board of county commissioners shall, by resolution, require notice of its intention to make such improvement, in accordance with the plans and specifications agreed upon or ordered, to be given to the owner of each piece of property abutting on any road, the grade of which will be changed by the proposed improvement.

...d, the notice shall be published for at least two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. Notice shall be completed at least twenty days before any work is done on such improvement, and the sheriff's return shall be prima-facie evidence of the facts recited therein. Section 727.18 of the Revised Code shall apply to the notice provided for i...

...n, prescribe the manner and time of payment by a railroad company of the proportion of the cost of the proposed grade crossing improvement which such company shall pay.

...such height as not to be of less than twenty-one feet in the clear, from the top surface of the rails in the railroad track to the lowest point of projection of such overhead way, crossing, or viaduct, unless such company consents to, or the court orders a less height. In no event shall the court of common pleas order a less height than sixteen feet three inches.

...l be purchased or appropriated by the county or railroad company in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The county shall not appropriate land held or owned by a railroad company and necessary for the use of the company in maintaining and operating its road.