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...ssal may appeal to the court of common pleas of the county in which the petition was filed, as provided in sections 6131.12 to 6131.64 of the Revised Code. If no appeal is filed within thirty days pursuant to section 6131.25 of the Revised Code, the bond shall cover all the costs incurred in the proceedings. Any remaining funds from the bond shall be returned to the petitioner. (C) An order issued by the board unde...

...o prepare the reports, plans, and schedules as provided in this chapter. (3) Set a date for the filing of reports, plans, and schedules by the engineer, allowing such time as is necessary for the preparation of the reports, plans, and schedules by the engineer, and such time may be extended from time to time by the board. (D) After the thirty-day period for appeal provided under section 6131.25 of the Revised Co...

...and make such further reports and schedules as are necessary upon its order consolidating the improvements. If two or more improvements are consolidated, the proceedings after consolidation shall be the same as if all the matters were petitioned for in one petition.

...t for maintenance for one year shall be credited to the maintenance fund of the district. (6) Prepare a schedule of damages that includes both of the following: (a) An estimate of the value of land or other property necessary to be acquired through purchase or voluntary transfer or appropriated in accordance with section 163.01 to 163.62 of the Revised Code, and a description of that land or other property; (b)...

...e county engineer shall prepare a schedule of assessments that includes all of the following: (1) The name and address of each private owner of land and a description of the land to be benefited by the proposed improvement. The engineer shall obtain the names and addresses from the tax duplicates of the county. The engineer shall obtain the description from the county recorder's office. For purposes of the descript...

...rts, plans, and schedules by the county engineer as provided in section 6131.14 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall fix a date not fewer than twenty-five nor more than ninety days thereafter when a final hearing on the report shall be held. (B) At least twenty-one days prior to the date established for the hearing, the clerk shall provide notice to all owners that are adjacent to the propo...

...ner may file an exception to the county engineer's schedules of assessments or file a claim for damages or compensation with the clerk of the board of county commissioners not less than five days before the date of the final hearing in the proceedings to construct the improvement. (B) An owner shall include with an exception or claim for compensation or damage the nature of the exception or claim, the amount claime...

...stimate of damages and upon any claim filed for compensation or damages. (B) Upon consideration of all the evidence, the county engineer's schedule of estimated damages, and a view of the affected property, if the board desires a view, the board shall determine the amount of damages for each claim filed by an owner, and shall also determine the value of any land or any other property to be taken for the proposed im...

...rs shall hear any application that is filed for a change of the route or course of the proposed improvement, or of either terminus thereof, from that shown in the report of the county engineer. The board may hear any application to make any change in the nature, kind, or extent of the work proposed to be done, as shown in the report of the engineer. If the board finds that such changes will better accomplish the purp...

...ules, plans, and reports filed by the county engineer, the board of county commissioners shall review its former order to proceed with project survey and design for the proposed improvement and shall either affirm its former order and proceed to confirm the assessments and order the letting of the contract or shall set aside its former order and dismiss the petition. (B) In determining whether or not the improveme...

...r against the assessment proposed to be levied against any owner or on any land as shown by the schedule of assessments filed by the county engineer and shall hear any competent evidence on the question of benefits. (B)(1) The board, from the evidence offered and from an actual view of the premises, shall amend and correct the assessments, and the assessments so amended or corrected shall be approved by the board. ...

...ying of the assessments, the board of county commissioners shall determine how long a period of time, in semiannual installments, as taxes are paid, shall be given the owners of land benefited to pay the assessments that are made for an improvement and whether or not bonds or notes shall be issued and sold in anticipation of such payments. If bonds or notes are to be issued, the interest shall be added to the assessm...

...prepare the necessary bid documents and legal advertisements as provided in sections 307.87 and 307.88 of the Revised Code. (B) If an appeal has been taken to the court of common pleas, as provided in section 6131.25 of the Revised Code, the bids may be received and tabulated, but the bid guaranties with the bids shall immediately be returned to the bidders, and no further steps shall be taken on the bids.

...llowing questions: (1) Is the improvement necessary? (2) Will the improvement be conducive to the public welfare? (3) Is the cost of the improvement greater than the benefits conferred? (4) Is the route, termini, or mode of construction the best to accomplish the purpose of the improvement? (5) Are the assessments levied according to benefits? (6) Is the award for compensation or damages just? (B) The a...

...f common pleas, together with the permanent files of records of the proceedings maintained by the board of county commissioners and county engineer as required under section 6131.061 of the Revised Code.

... be made by the clerk of the board of county commissioners. All the appeals shall be filed in one action in the court of common pleas, which court, on any appeal, may separate for hearing or trial the issues appealed to said court, and render its order, judgment, or decree upon the issues as the same are determined. The case on appeal shall be advanced, or tried as soon as the court can hear it.

...e paid. (B) If the court orders the county engineer to make a survey and file the engineer's reports, plans, and schedules, the court also shall enter an order for transfer from the general revenue funds of the county to the general drainage improvement fund a sum of not more than twenty-five per cent of the engineer's preliminary estimate.

... the court of common pleas from the evidence adduced, including the county engineer's preliminary estimate of cost and preliminary report on feasibility of the project, but without a survey having been made by the county engineer and without any of the schedules, plans, or reports having been filed by the engineer, finds that the construction of the improvement is not necessary or will not be conducive to the public ...

...oners allowing or refusing to allow compensation or damages, the owners interested shall have the right of trial by jury. The jury may view the premises, as in other civil cases.

... separate claims on the question of compensation or damages or if there are issues as to different properties, the court may submit all the several claims and issues to the same jury, with appropriate verdicts as to each claim. The court also may direct separate trials for the separate claims and issues. The court shall instruct the jury that it shall not consider or deduct the value of any benefits that such land wi...

...e the costs as it deems just and equitable except as otherwise provided in section 6131.01 to 6131.64, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...the case to the clerk of the board of county commissioners, who shall forthwith enter the judgment, order, or decree upon the journal of the board. If the judgment, order, or decree is in favor of the granting of the improvement, the board shall proceed with the improvement proceedings in compliance with the final judgment, order, or decree from the point at which they were terminated by the appeal or from the point ...

...r the appeal has been determined, the county engineer shall receive bids. The contracts, bids, bonds, and bid guaranties shall be handled in accordance with sections 153.12 to 153.14 and 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code. Any action of the board forfeiting the bidder's deposit or bid guaranty shall be entered on its journal, and the forfeited sum shall be paid into the general drainage improvement fund.

...nd, or size proposed to be furnished. Unless the specifications otherwise provide, all bids for material shall be considered to be for delivery at the location of the improvement and at such place as is designated by the engineer in charge of the work, except that tile or pipe of any kind shall be along the line of the improvement where the same are to be used, provided the location is accessible. Any bidder may subm...

... engineer shall, as soon as is practicable, open, read aloud, and tabulate the bids and report them to the board of county commissioners with his recommendation of which bid, or combination of bids, in all respects is the best. No bid shall be accepted after the time designated for receiving bids. The board may accept any combination of bids of different bidders for different parts of the work or for furnishing diffe...