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..., shall not apply within municipal corporations, except that where county territory, subject to such regulations, is incorporated, such regulations shall apply therein and be enforced by the county officials until the election and qualification of the officers for the newly incorporated territory, and for not to exceed ninety days thereafter, to enable the officers of the newly incorporated territory to adopt zoning ...

...ing resolution for the completion, restoration, reconstruction, extension, or substitution of nonconforming uses upon such reasonable terms as are set forth in the zoning resolution.

...For the purposes of sections 303.01 to 303.25, inclusive, of the Revised Code, outdoor advertising shall be classified as a business use and be permitted in all districts zoned for industry, business, trade, or lands used for agricultural purposes.

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, sections 303.01 to 303.25 of the Revised Code do not confer any power on any county rural zoning commission, board of county commissioners, or board of zoning appeals to prohibit the use of any land for agricultural purposes or the construction or use of buildings or structures incident to the use for agricultural purposes of the land on which such bui...

...struction, reconstruction, change, alteration, maintenance, removal, use, or enlargement of any buildings or structures of any public utility or railroad, whether publicly or privately owned, or the use of land by any public utility or railroad for the operation of its business. As used in this division, "public utility" does not include a person that owns or operates a solid waste facility or a solid waste tra...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, sections 303.01 to 303.25 of the Revised Code do not confer on any county rural zoning commission, board of county commissioners, or board of zoning appeals the authority to prohibit or restrict the location of a permanently sited manufactured home, as defined in division (C)(6) of section 3781.06 of the Revised Code, in any district or zone in which a single-fa...

...rid and designed for, or capable of, operation at an aggregate capacity of less than fifty megawatts. (B) Notwithstanding division (A) of section 303.211 of the Revised Code, sections 303.01 to 303.25 of the Revised Code confer power on a board of county commissioners or board of zoning appeals to adopt zoning regulations governing the location, erection, construction, reconstruction, change, alteration, maintenanc...

...County rural zoning commissions, boards of county commissioners, and county boards of zoning appeals shall comply with section 5502.031 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Except as provided in this section, sections 303.01 to 303.25 of the Revised Code do not confer on any county rural zoning commission, board of county commissioners, or board of zoning appeals the authority to prohibit or restrict the location of a home education learning pod, as defined in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code, in any district or zone in the county. (B) A county rural zoning commission, board of...

...Where the people of any township or part thereof have approved township zoning regulations in accordance with sections 519.02 to 519.25, inclusive, of the Revised Code, prior to the adoption of a county rural zoning resolution by the board of county commissioners, and the county plan includes any area covered by the township zoning plan, the zoning resolution adopted by the board of township trustees shall take prece...

...No person shall locate, erect, construct, reconstruct, enlarge, change, maintain, or use any building or use any land in violation of a resolution, or amendment or supplement to such resolution, adopted by any board of county commissioners under sections 303.01 to 303.25, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Each day's continuation of such violation is a separate offense.

...In case any building is or is proposed to be located, erected, constructed, reconstructed, enlarged, changed, maintained, or used, or any land is or is proposed to be used in violation of sections 303.01 to 303.25, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or of any regulation or provision adopted by any board of county commissioners under such sections, such board, the prosecuting attorney of the county, the county zoning ins...

...In any township in which there is in force a plan of county zoning, the plan may be repealed by the board of county commissioners, as to such township, in the following manner: (A) The board may adopt a resolution upon its own initiative. (B) The board shall adopt a resolution, if there is presented to it a petition, similar in all relevant aspects to that prescribed in section 303.12 of the Revised Code, sig...

...(A) If a program grant is awarded for an eligible project under sections 122.40 to 122.4077 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners of the county in which the project is situated, by resolution, may levy a special assessment upon residential property within the county for the purpose of providing a contribution from the county towards the funding gap for the eligible project. Assessments under this sec...

... prevent the spread of blight or deterioration, or to provide land for needed public facilities. (G) "County renewal area" means a slum area or a blighted area or a combination thereof which the board of county commissioners designates as appropriate for a county renewal project. (H) "County renewal plan" means a plan, as it exists from time to time, for a county renewal project, which plan shall conform to the ge...

...enterprise. The board shall give consideration to this objective in exercising its powers under sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, including the formulation of a workable program, the approval of county renewal plans, consistent with the general plan of the county, the exercise of its zoning powers, the enforcement of other laws, codes, and regulations relating to the use of land and the use a...

...The board of county commissioners, for the purposes of sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may formulate for the county a workable program for utilizing appropriate private and public resources to eliminate, and prevent the development or spread of, slums and blight, to encourage needed county rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment of slum and blighted areas, or to undertake such of t...

...No board of county commissioners shall exercise the authority conferred upon counties by sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, until after it has adopted a resolution finding that one or more slum or blighted areas exist in the county; and the rehabilitation, conservation, redevelopment, or combination thereof, of such slum or blighted area or areas is necessary in the interest of the public heal...

...A board of county commissioners shall not approve a county renewal project for a county renewal area unless it has, by resolution, determined such area to be a slum area or a blighted area or a combination thereof and designated such area as appropriate for a county renewal project. The board shall not approve a county renewal plan until a general plan for the county has been prepared by the planning commission of t...

...A board of county commissioners may itself prepare or cause to be prepared a county renewal plan, or any person or agency, public or private, may submit such a plan to the county. Prior to its approval of a county renewal project, the board shall submit such plan to the planning commission of the county for review and recommendations as to its conformity with the general plan for the development of the county. The pl...

...the county renewal project under consideration.

...sions, outmoded street patterns, deterioration of site, economic disuse, unsuitable topography, or faulty lot layouts, the need for the correlation of the area with other areas of the county by streets and modern traffic requirements, or any combination of such factors or other conditions which retard development of the area.

...A county renewal plan may be modified at any time. If such a plan is modified after the lease or sale by the county of real property in the county renewal area, such modification may be conditioned upon such approval of the owner, lessee, or successor in interest as the board of county commissioners may deem advisable, and in any event shall be subject to such rights at law or in equity as a lessee or purchaser, or h...

...Upon the approval by the board of county commissioners of a county renewal plan or any modification thereof, such plan or modification shall be in full force and effect for the respective county renewal area and the board may then cause such plan or modification to be carried out in accordance with its terms.

...Where the board of county commissioners certifies that an area in the county, but outside the corporate limits of any city or other incorporated municipality, is in need of redevelopment or rehabilitation as a result of a flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm, or other catastrophe respecting which the governor has certified the need for disaster assistance under public law 875, eighty-first congress, or other fed...