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...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, when a railroad track is laid in the municipal corporation, by ordinance, regulate the speed of all locomotives and railroad cars within the municipal corporation limits. Such ordinance shall not require a rate of speed of less than four miles an hour, and in villages having a population of two thousand or less, it shall not require a rate of less than eight m...

...If the owner or possessor of any lot or land in any municipal corporation digs, or causes to be dug, any cellar, pit, vault, or excavation, to a greater depth than nine feet below the curb of the street or streets on which such lot or land abuts, or, if there is no curb, below the established grade of the street or streets on which such lot or land abuts, or, if there is no curb or established grade, below the surfac...

...The owner or possessor of any lot or land in any municipal corporation may dig, or cause to be dug, any cellar, pit, or excavation, to the full depth of the foundation wall of any building upon adjoining lots, or to the full depth of nine feet below the established grade of the street or streets on which such lot abuts, without reference to the depth of adjoining foundation walls, without incurring the liability pres...

...Any municipal corporation, when it is necessary in the construction and protection of wells, pumps, cisterns, aqueducts, water pipes, dams, reservoirs, reservoir sites, sewers, drains, sewage disposal or water purification plants, and water works, for supplying water to itself and its inhabitants or disposing of sewage, may relocate, straighten, change, or cross a road or stream, but shall, without unnecessary delay,...

...rfacing, or repair of a street or other public way, the director of public service in a city, or the legislative authority in a village, shall make an estimate of the cost of such work using the force account project assessment form developed by the auditor of state under section 117.16 of the Revised Code. In municipal corporations having an engineer, or an officer having a different title but the duties and functio...

... resurface, or repair a street or other public way by force account or direct labor, and the estimated cost of the work as defined in section 723.52 of the Revised Code exceeds the amount specified in that section, such municipal authorities shall cause to be kept by the engineer of the municipal corporation, or other officer or employee of the municipal corporation in charge of such work, a complete and accurate acc...

...The legislative authority of a municipality shall designate a municipal official to have responsibility for inspection of all or portions of bridges within such municipality, except for bridges on the state highway system and the county highway system. This section does not prohibit the municipality from inspecting any bridge within its limits. Such inspection shall be made by a professional engineer or other qua...

...A municipality shall not contract for or undertake construction or repair of a bridge, for which the cost of such work exceeds fifty thousand dollars, unless the plans are prepared or approved by a professional engineer qualified in the designing of bridges.

...s, temporary bonds, and urban renewal refunding bonds issued pursuant to sections 725.01 to 725.11 of the Revised Code, and bonds issued pursuant to Article XVIII, Section 3, Ohio Constitution, for the uses specified in section 725.07 of the Revised Code. (G) "Urban renewal refunding bonds" means the refunding bonds authorized by section 725.07 of the Revised Code. (H) "Urban renewal plan" means a plan, as it e...

... development agreement declared to be a public purpose in the development agreement shall be exempt from real property taxation by all political subdivisions and taxing districts. Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the portion of the assessed valuation of improvements declared to be a public purpose and exempted from taxation shall not exceed seventy-five per cent of the assessed valuation ...

...The municipal corporation shall not take any formal action to enter into a development agreement that exempts improvements to real property from taxation in the manner set forth in section 725.02 of the Revised Code until section 5709.83 of the Revised Code has been complied with.

...payment of any loans from the state for public infrastructure capital improvements issued pursuant to Chapter 164. of the Revised Code that were used by the municipal corporation for any urban renewal projects. That fund shall be used to repay such loans. The legislative authority may authorize any urban renewal debt retirement fund to be used for both purposes provided for in this section.

...ted in an urban renewal debt retirement fund established pursuant to section 725.03 of the Revised Code. If the municipal corporation owns the improvements, it may require the lessee of the improvements to make the semiannual urban renewal service payments required under this section. The legislative authority of the municipal corporation may secure the urban renewal service payments by a lien on the improvements. ...

...eating an urban renewal debt retirement fund pursuant to section 725.03 of the Revised Code, may: (A) Issue unvoted urban renewal bonds, which pledge and are payable solely from all or any portion of the revenues as defined in division (D) of section 725.01 of the Revised Code. The revenues pledged shall be placed in the urban renewal debt retirement fund established for such urban renewal bonds and applied to the p...

...Urban renewal bonds issued under section 725.05 of the Revised Code shall be in such form and shall be sold in such manner and upon such terms and price as determined by ordinance of the municipal corporation issuing such bonds to be in the best interest of such municipal corporation.

...s, or any part thereof, including the refunding of urban renewal bonds previously issued. The principal of and interest on such urban renewal bonds shall be payable as provided in section 725.05 of the Revised Code. Such principal and interest shall be payable at the times and in the order and manner provided in the ordinance authorizing the issuance of such urban renewal bonds and in any trust agreements securing su...

...The proceeds of each issue of urban renewal bonds issued pursuant to sections 725.01 to 725.11 of the Revised Code shall be used for the urban renewal project or projects or any parts thereof designated in the ordinance authorizing such issue and the necessary expenses of preparing, printing, and selling said bonds, legal services, and transfer expense, or to advance the payment of interest on such bonds during the f...

... execute bonds payable from the general funds of such municipal corporation. In case any officer whose manual or facsimile signature appears on any such bond or coupon shall cease to be such officer before the delivery of such bonds, such signature shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes as if he had remained in office until such delivery. The ordinance or trust agreement may provide for the certi...

...ng charge of sinking or bond retirement funds of municipal corporations and other subdivisions of this state, and of domestic insurance companies.

... into the urban renewal debt retirement fund established for such bonds pursuant to section 725.03 of the Revised Code and may provide for the holding in trust by the trustee to the extent provided for in the ordinance authorizing such bonds, of all such revenues and moneys. Any such trust agreement, or any ordinance providing for the issuance of such bonds, may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing t...

...ach city there shall be a department of public service which shall be administered by a director of public service. The director shall be appointed by the mayor and need not be a resident of the city at the time of his appointment but shall become a resident thereof within six months after his appointment unless such residence requirement is waived by ordinance. He shall make rules and regulations for the administr...

...The director of public service shall manage and supervise all public works and undertakings of the city, except as otherwise provided by law. The director shall supervise the improvement and repair of streets, avenues, alleys, lands, lanes, squares, wharves, docks, landings, market houses, bridges, viaducts, aqueducts, sidewalks, playgrounds sewers, drains, ditches, culverts, ship channels, streams, and watercourses...

...ment and operation of municipally owned public utilities conferred upon the director of public service by sections 735.02 and 743.03 of the Revised Code shall be vested in a board composed of three members. The mayor, with the consent of the legislative authority, shall appoint one member for a term of two years, one for a term of four years, and one for a term of six years. At the expiration of each term of office a...

...The director of public service may establish such subdepartment as is necessary and determine the number of superintendents, deputies, inspectors, engineers, harbor masters, clerks, laborers, and other persons necessary for the execution of the work and the performance of the duties of this subdepartment.

...The director of public service may make any contract, purchase supplies or material, or provide labor for any work under the supervision of the department of public service involving not more than the amount specified in section 9.17 of the Revised Code. When an expenditure within the department, other than the compensation of persons employed in the department, exceeds the amount specified in section 9.17 of the Rev...