Ohio Revised Code Search

...Notice of the requirement that a bridge or railway be lighted shall be given at least twenty days before any forfeiture or charge is imposed for default, and such notice may be given by delivering a written or printed copy of the ordinance to an owner or part owner, or any person having possession, charge or management of such bridge or railway. When such ordinance requires the lighting of a railway, service of such ...

...If the person, company, or corporation, owning, possessing, or operating a railway or bridge, neglects or fails to provide lighting in conformity with the ordinance under section 723.34 of the Revised Code for twenty days after notice under section 723.35 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation may immediately cause the lighting to be done at the expense of such person, company, or...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may direct the manner in which the expense of lighting a bridge or railway shall be assessed and collected. When so assessed, the amount shall be a debt due against and payable by the person, company, or corporation owning, possessing, or operating such bridge or railway, and shall be a lien, to be enforced as any other lien, on such bridge and the land on which it...

...No corporation or individual shall perform any work in the construction of a street railway until application for permission is made in writing to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, and until such legislative authority, by ordinance, has granted permission and prescribed the terms upon and the manner in which such railway shall be constructed and operated, and the streets and alleys to be used an...

...Nothing mentioned in section 723.38 of the Revised Code shall be done, no ordinance or resolution to establish or define a street railway route shall be passed, no action inviting proposals to construct and operate such railway shall be taken by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, and no ordinance for the purpose specified in such section shall be passed, until public notice of the application there...

...No grant for the construction of a street railway under section 723.38 of the Revised Code shall be made, except to the corporation or individual that agrees to carry passengers upon such proposed railway at the lowest rates of fare, and has previously obtained the written consent of a majority of the property holders upon each street or part thereof, on the line of the proposed railway, as represented by the foot fr...

...No grant or renewal of a grant for the construction or operation of a street railway shall be valid for a greater period than twenty-five years from the date of such grant or renewal, and after such grant or renewal is made, whether by special or general ordinance, the municipal corporation shall not, during the term of the grant or renewal, release the grantee from any obligation or liability imposed by the terms of...

..., and in such manner as to give wheeled vehicles the full use of the roadway up to the face of the curb. When the tracks of two street railways, or of a street railway and a railroad, cross each other at a convenient grade on a street, such crossings shall be made with crossing-frogs of the most approved pattern and materials, and shall be kept in repair at the joint expense of the companies owning such tracks.

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may require any part of the track between the rails of any street railway constructed within the municipal corporation limits to be paved with stone, gravel, boulders, or wooden or asphaltic pavement, but beyond such limits paving between the rails with stone, boulders, or wooden or asphaltic pavement shall not be required.

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may grant permission, by ordinance, to any corporation, individual, or company, owning or having the right to construct a street railway, to extend the track, subject to the laws relating to the construction, operation and extension of street railways, within or without, or partly within or without any municipal corporation, on any street where the legislative auth...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may grant a franchise upon such terms as it prescribes for the building of any interurban railway having, constructing, or building ten miles or more of track outside of such municipal corporation, to any company using electric or other motive power, except steam, for the purpose of securing to such company access to or terminals within the municipal corporation. T...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may permit an interurban railway company referred to in section 723.45 of the Revised Code to make use of the tracks or parts of the tracks of any existing street railway company within the limits of the municipal corporation by agreement with such existing company. If no such agreement can be arrived at, the interurban company may be authorized by such legislative...

...No grant or franchise shall be made to an interurban railway company for longer than twenty years, and no franchise so granted shall be used for the purpose of operating a municipal streetcar system.

...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,...

...Before letting or making any contract for the construction, reconstruction, widening, resurfacing, 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 corporat...

...Where the proper officers of any municipal corporation construct, reconstruct, widen, 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 empl...

...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.

...In each 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 admin...

...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...

...Whenever the legislative authority of any city, by ordinance, declares it essential to the best interests of such city, the duties relating to the management 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, sh...

...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.