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...ilable for highway construction or maintenance and repair, on the order of the board. This section does not apply where the board has constructed three or more bridges within the limits of a municipal corporation. In such case the municipal corporation shall light the bridges within its limit at its own expense.

...dy done, one or more guardrails on each end of a county bridge, viaduct, or culvert more than five feet high. The board also shall protect, by guardrails, all embankments with a rise of more than eight feet in height and with a downward slope of greater than seventy degrees, where the embankments have an immediate connection with a county road. The expense for a guardrail required under this section shall be p...

...evised Code shall render the county liable for all accidents or damages resulting from that failure.

...tion authorized by law to charge and collect toll for crossing it, may purchase such bridge, with the approaches, at a price agreed upon by the board and the owners of the bridge. If such board is unable to agree with the owners upon such purchase and sale the board may appropriate the bridge.

...ion assessed, the right to charge or collect toll shall cease.

...When the board of county commissioners appropriates a bridge, as provided in sections 5591.38 and 5591.39 of the Revised Code, and fails to pay for it within three months after the assessment of compensation, the right of the board to make such appropriation on the terms of the assessment so made shall cease and such bridge shall be relieved from all encumbrances on account of the proceedings in such case. The judgme...

...ll not exceed the interest on the probable cost of constructing a bridge across the stream.

... county engineer or an engineer to be selected by the board, or the director of transportation, may ascertain the safe carrying capacity of the bridges on roads or highways under their jurisdiction. Where the safe carrying capacity of any such bridge is ascertained and found to be less than the load limit prescribed by sections 5577.01 to 5577.12 of the Revised Code, warning notice shall be conspicuously posted near ...

...A constable of a township, a marshal of a village, or a police officer of a city may arrest upon view, and without process, a person violating section 5591.42 of the Revised Code.

... be in the name of the state and be commenced within three months after the offense is committed. Sections 5591.33 to 5591.43 of the Revised Code do not take away from the board of county commissioners a right of action for damages, which it may have against a person for injury done to a bridge.

...development area, and that is funded at least in part with private funds. "Opportunity corridor improvement" includes the establishment, acquisition, ownership, control, management, sale, or transfer of a business under division (E) of section 5595.041 of the Revised Code. (D) "Development area" means all parcels of real property located within two thousand five hundred feet of the outermost boundary of the right-...

...rovement project for the purpose of completing transportation improvements within the territory of the counties. The project shall be administered by a governing board in accordance with a cooperative agreement. (B)(1) The cooperative agreement shall provide for the creation of a governing board consisting of the following individuals: (a) One county commissioner from each county that is a party to the agreement ...

...e system in ensuing years under reasonable assumptions about development, population trends, and other factors affecting transportation infrastructure in the counties; (2) A comprehensive list of the transportation improvements to be completed as part of the project, including a general description of each improvement, schedules of the projected beginning and end of each improvement, and the estimated cost of each...

...e cooperative agreement and, if applicable, the memorandum of understanding. The procuring of goods and awarding of contracts with a cost in excess of fifty thousand dollars shall be done in accordance with the competitive bidding procedures established for boards of county commissioners by sections 307.86 to 307.91 of the Revised Code. (B) Sue and be sued in its own name, plead and be impleaded, provided any acti...

...f transportation for the purpose of completing opportunity corridor improvements. The governing board, in carrying out the opportunity corridor improvements, may exercise all authority granted to it by this chapter and may additionally do all of the following: (A) Appropriate property, fully or partially located within the right-of-way associated with, or necessary as right-of-way for, any transportation improveme...

...poration, or county may declare improvements made within the development area of a qualified RTIP to be for a public purpose and exempt from taxation pursuant to section 5709.40, 5709.41, 5709.73, or 5709.78 of the Revised Code, as authorized under those sections.

...ute a debt or a pledge of the faith and credit of the state or of any political subdivision of the state. Debt charges on outstanding securities are payable solely from revenues pledged to the regional transportation improvement project pursuant to section 5595.06 of the Revised Code. All securities shall contain on their face a statement to that effect. Sections 9.98 to 9.983 of the Revised Code apply to the securit...

...under section 5739.021, 5739.023, 5739.026, 5741.021, 5741.022, or 5741.023 of the Revised Code if the county or transit authority will benefit from the proposed transportation improvements or opportunity corridor improvements and revenue from the tax may lawfully be applied to those purposes under the resolution levying the tax. (B) The governing board shall use license tax revenue pledged to the project under di...

...resources, the director may make available to the board resources of the department, including funding or equipment, as may be necessary to fulfill the request. The director, in the director's discretion, may elect to assign any or all of any post-construction management responsibilities for the project back to the governing board. The governing board shall pay all expenses the department incurs in fulfilling the re...

...chapter, whether as proceeds from the sale of securities, as revenues, or otherwise, shall be held by it in trust for the purpose of carrying out its powers and duties, shall be used and reused as provided in this chapter, and shall at no time be part of other public funds. Such funds, except as otherwise provided in bond proceedings or in any trust agreement securing such securities, or except when invested pursuant...

...estments of moneys in any fund shall be credited to funds as the governing board determines, subject to the provisions of any such proceedings or trust agreement, and the investments may be sold at any time the governing board determines.

...rticipating in the project shall be the legal advisor of the governing board of the project and shall prosecute and defend all suits and actions that the governing board directs or to which it is a party.

... performance of essential governmental functions, neither the project nor the governing board may be required to pay any state or local taxes or assessments upon any improvement, or upon revenue or any property acquired or used by the governing board of the project under this chapter, or upon the income therefrom. The securities issued under this chapter, their transfer, and the income therefrom, including any profit...

...ement project shall not use any amount pledged or allocated to the board under this chapter for administrative expenses of the board without prior approval of the director of transportation. The director may approve expenses individually by line item or may approve an aggregate amount to be allocated for administrative expenses over a period of time not exceeding twelve months. The director may prescribe rules pursua...

...ion improvement project shall assume title to all real and personal property acquired by the board in the fulfillment of its duties under this chapter. The property shall be divided and distributed in accordance with the cooperative agreement. Unless otherwise provided by contract, pledges of revenue to the governing board from the state or a political subdivision or taxing unit shall terminate by operation of law up...