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...When the conservancy assessment record is placed on file in the office of the conservancy district, notice by publication shall be given to property owners and public corporations assessed that they may pay their assessments. Any owner of real property or public corporation assessed for the execution of the official plan under this chapter may pay the assessment to the treasurer of the conservancy district within thi...

...(A)(1) Upon petition by the director of environmental protection, a court of common pleas may appoint a receiver to take possession of and operate a public water system that serves fewer than five hundred service connections only when conditions existing at the public water system present a threat to public health or welfare. However, division (A)(1) of this section does not apply to a system owned and operated by ...

...mplished by any of the following: (1) Purchasing credits at a mitigation bank approved in accordance with 33 C.F.R. 332.8; (2) Participating in an in-lieu fee mitigation program approved in accordance with 33 C.F.R. 332.8; (3) Constructing individual mitigation projects. Notwithstanding the mitigation hierarchy specified in section 3745-1-54 of the Administrative Code, mitigation projects shall be approved in...

...Upon taking the oath of office, the director or board of directors of a sanitary district shall select some suitable person as secretary. The secretary selected by the board may or may not be a member of the board. The secretary shall be the custodian of the records of the district and of its corporate seal and shall assist the board in such particulars as it directs in the performance of its duties. The secretary sh...

...The powers of the board of directors of a sanitary district do not include construction and maintenance of lateral sewers, sewerage systems, water mains, and distributing systems or other related improvements for local service within the political subdivisions forming the district, and such improvements shall in every case be provided by the public corporations or persons served by the works of the district. The powe...

...(A) For the purposes of this section, either of the following constitutes a public exigency: (1) A finding by the director of environmental protection that a public health nuisance caused by an occasion of unavoidable urgency and suddenness due to unsanitary conditions compels the immediate construction of sewers for the protection of the public health and welfare; (2) The issuance of an order by the board of healt...

...The board of directors of a sanitary district may enter into contracts or other arrangements with the United States government or any department thereof, with persons, railroads, or other corporations, with public corporations, and with the state government of this or other states, with sewerage, drainage, conservation, conservancy, or other improvement districts, in this or other states, for cooperation or assistanc...

...Whenever it is necessary for the purposes of a sanitary district to take or damage any cemetery, the board of appraisers of the sanitary district shall appraise the cost of such taking or easement in the same manner as appraisals are made for other property. The board of directors of the sanitary district shall have the same powers in case of the removal of a cemetery to agree with the authorities owning or controll...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the board of trustees of a regional water and sewer district may condemn for the use of the district any public or private land, easement, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, or other property within or without the district required by it for the accomplishment of its purposes according to the procedure set forth in sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised ...

...A regional water and sewer district may, from time to time, issue water resource revenue bonds and notes of the district in such principal amount as, in the opinion of the board of trustees of the district, are necessary for the purpose of paying any part of the cost of one or more water resource projects or parts thereof. The district may, from time to time, issue renewal notes, issue bonds to pay such notes and, wh...

...(A) Not later than three months after the effective date of this section, a board of trustees of a regional water and sewer district that holds a credit card account on the effective date of this section shall adopt a written policy for the use of credit card accounts. Otherwise, a board shall adopt a written policy before first holding a credit card account. The policy shall include provisions addressing all of t...

...(A) Upon the board's determination to proceed with the project survey and design on a proposed improvement under section 6131.12 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall immediately forward a copy of the board's findings and orders to the county engineer. (B) The county engineer shall do all of the following: (1) Conduct all necessary surveys for the proposed improvement; (2) Pr...

...The dredging equipment purchased under section 6156.02 of the Revised Code may be used for any appropriate purpose, including those enumerated in Chapters 6141., 6151., 6153., and 6155. of the Revised Code, notwithstanding any provisions of the Revised Code. Such work shall be done as prescribed by the county board of reclamation.

...When the use of dredging equipment is authorized under section 6156.04 of the Revised Code, the applicant shall be charged with an amount equal to the actual cost of labor, depreciation, and fuel furnished by the county. The county auditor may accept cash payment or may assess such amount on the county tax duplicate to be collected from the applicant as other county taxes are collected. In the event an assessment is ...

...(A) A municipal corporation may petition the board of county commissioners to annex contiguous territory owned only by the municipal corporation, a county, or the state. The clerk of the board shall cause the petition to be entered upon the board's journal at its next regular session. This entry shall be the first official act of the board upon the petition. Proceedings on the petition shall be conducted under this s...

...(A) The board of county commissioners of any county may, and on petition of the planning commissions of a majority of the municipal corporations in the county having those planning commissions shall, provide for the organization and maintenance of a county planning commission. A county planning commission shall consist of the members of the board of county commissioners, or their alternates designated in accordance w...

...The planning commission of any municipal corporation to which a regional or county plan is certified under section 713.24 of the Revised Code, may adopt such plan, and it shall thereupon have the same force within such municipal corporation as is provided by law or charter for plans prepared and adopted by the local planning commission. The board of county commissioners may adopt such plan so far as it relates to non...

...Whenever a county or regional plan is adopted by a city planning commission or the board of county commissioners, the fact of such adoption shall be certified by the adopting authority to the regional or county planning commission, as the case may be. Thereupon such regional or county commission shall deposit a copy of so much of the regional or county plan as is affected by such adoption in the office of the county ...

...An interstate regional planning commission may accept and use funds, grants, and services from the federal government or its agencies, from departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of this state or any adjoining state, and from any county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of this or any adjoining state, including a county, regional, municipal, or other planning commission of this or any adjoi...

...Each municipal corporation may lease for a period not to exceed forty years, pursuant to a contract providing for the construction thereof under a lease-purchase plan, buildings, structures, and other improvements for any authorized municipal purpose, and in conjunction therewith, may grant leases, easements, or licenses for lands under the control of the municipal corporation for a period not to exceed forty y...

...All municipal corporations may organize and maintain police and fire departments, erect the necessary buildings, and purchase and hold all implements and apparatus required therefor.

...All municipal corporations may: (A) Establish, maintain, and operate municipal lighting, power, and heating plants; (B) Furnish the municipal corporation and the inhabitants thereof with light, power, and heat; (C) Procure everything necessary for such operations; (D) Acquire by purchase, lease, or otherwise, the necessary lands for such purposes, within and without the municipal corporation.

...Any municipal corporation may establish, maintain, and regulate free public band concerts and maintain and regulate free public libraries established by the municipal corporation prior to September 4, 1947. Such municipal corporation may purchase books, papers, maps, and manuscripts for such libraries, receive donations and bequests of money or property for such libraries, in trust or otherwise, and provide for the r...

...Any municipal corporation may: (A) Provide for the public health; (B) Secure the inhabitants of the municipal corporation from the evils of contagious, malignant, and infectious diseases; (C) Purchase or lease property or buildings for pesthouses; (D) Erect, maintain, and regulate pesthouses, hospitals, and infirmaries.

...Any municipal corporation may regulate the weighing and measuring of hay, wood, coal, and other articles exposed for sale, and provide for the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of weights, measures, implements, and appliances for measuring and weighing, which are imperfect or liable to indicate false or inaccurate weight or measure, or which do not conform to the standards established by law, and which are known, ...