Ohio Revised Code Search

...um of money each year sufficient to enable the county engineer to carry out this section. Such sum shall constitute the "county engineer's emergency repair fund." All expenses incurred in employing extra help or in purchasing materials used in such repairs shall be paid from such fund on vouchers signed by the engineer. Necessary repairs, the total cost of which is not more than five thousand dollars, shall be deeme...

...The county engineer shall be responsible for the inspection of all public improvements made under authority of the board of county commissioners. The engineer shall keep in suitable books a complete record of all estimates and summaries of bids received and contracts for the various improvements, together with the record of all estimates made for payments on that work. The engineer shall make all surveys required by ...

...n a county engineer or his deputy is called upon to make a survey to be offered as evidence, the adverse party having notice of the time of the making of such survey, the county engineer or deputy, upon application of either party to the cause of action, shall administer an oath to any witness brought to prove any corner or line of such survey, or the existence of any natural or artificial object or mark which is nec...

... note the variation of the magnetic needle from the original course of such survey.

...racts of land are, the court of common pleas, in either of such counties, may issue an order of survey to the county engineer of either of such counties, who shall survey such tract of land and run and lay down the entry or survey lines necessary to establish it.

... been sold for taxes, and, after the sale and before a survey of the land or lot, the land or lot is set off to another county by the erection of a new county or change of county lines, the engineer of the county in which the sale was made may make the survey, and the county auditor of the same county shall make the deed.

...ineer is interested in a survey, the title of which is disputed before the court of common pleas, or if such engineer is not commissioned and qualified, the court shall direct the resurvey to be made by a capable disinterested person, who shall return such resurvey to the court, on oath.

...by the county engineer or his deputy, unless made by an order of the court of common pleas, or made in accordance with sections 315.15 to 315.18 of the Revised Code, shall be considered evidence.

...ty courts to take and certify the acknowledgments of deeds, mortgages, powers of attorney, and other instruments affecting real estate, to administer oaths, and to take and certify affidavits and depositions.

...r that purpose, which book shall be deposited in the office of the engineer for the use of the landholders in such county. A certified copy from such book by the engineer shall be received as prima-facie evidence in all cases in which the original would be received. The expenses incurred by reason of this section shall be paid from the county treasury on the warrant of the county auditor.

...nclude corners, distances, azimuths, angles, calculations, plats, and a description of the monuments set up, with such references thereto as will aid in finding the names of the parties for whom the surveys are made, and the date of making such surveys. Such book shall be kept as a public record by the engineer at the engineer's office, and it shall be at all proper times open to inspection and examination by all per...

... to real property is presented to the county auditor for transfer, and the deed contains a legal description for land that is a cut-up or split of the grantor's one or more existing parcels of land as shown in the county auditor's records, or if the legal description of the land conveyed in the deed is different from the legal description shown in the prior deed to the grantor, a boundary survey plat in conformity wi...

...rom the records of the court of common pleas, probate court, or any other court, or from the office of the county auditor, county recorder, or other office in the state where they may be procured, into suitable books, which shall be placed among the records of the engineer's office and made a part of such records, and they shall have the same validity and legal effect as similar records in his office.

...ard of county commissioners, the county engineer shall make and keep up, in a manner convenient for reference, complete indexes to all the records in his office, alphabetically arranged by townships. Such indexes shall contain in their several columns the number or name of the original survey, section, tract, or lot in which such survey is located, the date of the execution thereof, the name of the surveyor making it...

...e original corner trees or monuments called for in the original survey, if found, and of all other trees or monuments which it may be important or advisable to note, and of all the places of notoriety over or by which the lines of such survey pass. If it is a single tract divided by a county line, such person may call on the engineer of any county in which a part of such tract lies. The engineer shall make out a pla...

...rner, may call on the engineer of the county in which the land is situated, who shall attend on the ground where it is intended to establish such corners, at such time as the applicant appoints. The engineer shall issue a subpoena, directed to any constable or other person fit to execute it, to cause such witnesses, from outside as well as within his county, as the person demanding such warrant or other interested pe...

...n a public newspaper published in the county where the land lies. The last insertion of such notice shall be twenty days previous to the time of taking such depositions. In the notice a description of the adjoining lands shall be given. Evidence of the notice shall be furnished the engineer prior to his taking any deposition. With his proceedings, which shall be in writing, the engineer shall return the original noti...

...Any county engineer making surveys under sections 315.28 to 315.30, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall record the plat and certificate of such surveys in a book kept by him for that purpose, together with the depositions, notices, advertisements, and the evidence in relation to such depositions, notices, and advertisements, and shall, on demand, deliver the original plat and certificate of the survey to the person...

... any court in any cause in which the title of any land to which they apply is affected, but the depositions of witnesses so recorded shall only be received when such witnesses are dead or outside the jurisdiction of the court.

...esses shall receive the same fees and mileage as allowed by section 2335.06 of the Revised Code. All such expenses shall be paid by the persons applying for a survey and depositions, who may recover, from the persons owning the adjoining lands that are benefited by the perpetuation of such testimony, their equal proportion of the expense incurred in obtaining such evidence.

... other officers, and witnesses are entitled to demand and receive from the persons interested in the surveys and establishment of corners, under this section, the same fees as are allowed by section 315.33 of the Revised Code for similar services.

...ard of county commissioners, into suitable books, provided by him for that purpose and paid for from the county treasury, which shall be placed among the records in his office, made a part of such records, and have the same validity and legal effect as other similar records in his office.

...ode, copies thereof, certified by the county engineer, shall be received in evidence in the same manner, and shall have the same force and effect as is given to copies of other records of maps, records of plats, and field notes of surveys.

...When it comes to the knowledge of a county engineer that a trespass has been committed on any canal lands or on any lands appropriated by congress for the support of schools or for ministerial purposes of this state, he shall immediately ascertain the extent of such trespass, the names of the trespassers and of witnesses to such trespass, and report them to the prosecuting attorney. For such services the engineer sh...

...r person by the hindrance of the county engineer or his deputy, and all expenses and costs that accrue in consequence of the attendance of the sheriff, who, upon the call of such engineer or deputy, shall accompany and protect him.