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... of any real or personal property or operations of the county against any risks or hazards, including the power to pay premiums on any such insurance; and to enter into any contracts or agreements necessary to effectuate the purposes of sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code. No statutory provision with respect to the acquisition, clearance, or disposition of property by public bodies shall restric...

...Every board of county commissioners may acquire by eminent domain any interest in real property, whether owned privately or publicly, including a fee simple title thereto, which it determines necessary for or in connection with a county renewal project within the county, and this power may be exercised in the manner provided in section 307.08 of the Revised Code, or it may be exercised in the manner now or which may ...

...shall take into account and give consideration to the uses provided in such plan; the restrictions upon, and the covenants, conditions, and obligations assumed by the purchaser or lessee or by the county retaining the property; and the objectives of such county renewal plan for the prevention of the recurrence of slum or blighted areas. The board in any instrument of conveyance to a private purchaser or lessee may pr...

...Costs of maintaining, repairing, constructing, relocating, paving, and repairing of public streets, alleys, curbs, and gutters within a county renewal area may be paid out of moneys distributed to counties under sections 5735.27 and 4501.04 of the Revised Code.

...A board of county commissioners may levy assessments against specially benefited lots or lands within a county renewal area or areas for any purpose within or without such area or areas for which special assessments may be levied by a county. In the exercise of such power to levy special assessments, the provisions of, including but not limited to Chapters 5555., 5559., 6103., and 6117. of the Revised Code, shall con...

...In making a special assessment by percentage of the tax value or by the front foot on lots or lands not subdivided into lots, on county-owned, or other, lots or lands within a county renewal area or areas, when such lots or lands are not assessed for taxation, the board of county commissioners shall fix, for the purpose of such assessment the value of such lots as they stand and of such land at what the board conside...

...In the event a board of county commissioners instituted assessment proceedings affecting lots or lands within a county renewal area, and then or thereafter eminent domain proceedings arising under sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are pending or contemplated against such lots or lands, the board may, by proper entry in such eminent domain proceedings, or by release in the event eminent domain...

...In the event of the levy of special assessments against lots or lands within a county renewal area which lots or lands are or become county-owned, the board of county commissioners may authorize the amount of the assessments thereon, or the amounts of the respective unpaid installments of such assessments, to be certified by the clerk of the board of county commissioners to the county auditor, entered upon the tax li...

...In addition to all other powers of boards of county commissioners provided by any other laws, any board, in order to provide funds for or in connection with its planning or county renewal project functions, under sections 303.26 to 303.56 of the Revised Code, or for the exercise of any of the powers granted by those sections, may: (A) Use its general tax revenues; (B) Issue and sell its bonds, and its notes in anti...

...In addition to all other powers of boards of county commissioners provided by any other laws, any board may issue bonds from time to time to finance its undertaking and carrying out of any county renewal project of such county, including, without limiting the generality thereof, the payment of principal and interest upon any advances for surveys and plans for or in connection with any such county renewal project, and...

...In case any of the public officials whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons issued under any of the provisions of sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, cease to be such officials before the delivery of such bonds, such signatures shall, nevertheless, be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if such officials had remained in office until such delivery. Any bonds issued under a...

...In any suit, action, or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of any bond issued under any of the provisions of sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or the security therefor, any such bond reciting in substance that it has been issued by the county in connection with county renewal project of such county shall be considered to have been issued for such purpose, and such project shall ...

...Bonds issued under any of the provisions of sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are declared to be issued for an essential public and governmental purpose and, together with interest thereon and income therefrom, shall be exempted from all taxes.

...All banks, trust companies, bankers, savings banks, and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies, and other persons carrying on a banking or investment business; all insurance companies, insurance associations, and other persons carrying on an insurance business; and all executors, administrators, curators, trustees, and other fiduciaries, may legally invest an...

...All property of a county, including funds owned or held by it for the purposes of sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution, and no execution or other judicial process shall issue against the same, nor shall judgment against a county be a charge or lien upon such property. The provisions of this section shall not apply to or limit the right...

...The property of a county, acquired or held for the purposes of sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is declared to be public property used for essential public and governmental purposes and such property shall be exempt from all taxes of the county, any municipality, the state, or any political subdivision thereof. The tax exemption provided for in this section shall terminate when the county se...

...upon such terms, with or without consideration as it may determine: dedicate, sell, convey, or lease any of such public body's interest in any property or grant easements, licenses, or other rights or privileges therein to a county; incur the entire expense of any public improvements made by such public body in exercising the powers granted in this section; do any and all things necessary to aid or cooperate in the p...

...Any instrument executed by a county respecting a county renewal project thereof and purporting to convey any right, title, or interest in any property under sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be conclusively presumed to have been executed in compliance with the applicable provisions of said sections insofar as title or other interest of any bona fide purchasers, lessees, or transferees o...

...y commissioners, in carrying out its operations and activities under sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, with respect to any county renewal project or projects, may set up, establish, and maintain, for and on behalf of the county or any affected office, department, board, or commission thereof, such books, records, budgets, and accounts, and such general, separate, special, or specific funds, i...

...Any county availing itself of any of the provisions of sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, in order to fully effectuate the purposes and objectives of said sections in respect of any planning or project activities thereunder by such county, may, by its board of county commissioners, prescribe such reasonable rules and regulations not inconsistent with said sections, as such board of county comm...

...rd certificate for the construction, operation, or maintenance of a utility facility that does any of the following: (a) For utility facilities: (i) Changes the facility's generation type from one type of utility facility to another; (ii) Increases the facility's nameplate capacity; (iii) Changes the boundaries of the facility, unless the new boundaries of the facility are completely within the previous bound...

...to all school districts, municipal corporations, and boards of township trustees located in whole, or in part, within the boundaries of the proposed restricted area. (3) The board shall comply with the requirements of divisions (C)(1) and (2) of this section before the board modifies a resolution it previously adopted under this section. (D) Any resolution designating a restricted area shall include a map of the ...

...A resolution designating a restricted area prohibiting the construction of utility facilities, if adopted by the board of county commissioners, becomes effective thirty days after the date of its adoption, unless, within thirty days after the adoption, there is presented to the board of county commissioners a petition, signed by a number of registered electors residing in the county equal to not less than eight per c...

...If a resolution described in this section is adopted and becomes effective under sections 303.58 and 303.59 of the Revised Code, no person shall file, and the power siting board shall not accept, an application for a certificate, or a material amendment to an existing certificate, to construct, operate, or maintain a utility facility in a restricted area where the construction of such a utility facility is prohibited...

...(A) At least ninety days, but not more than three hundred days, prior to applying for a certificate from the power siting board, or a material amendment to an existing certificate, for a utility facility, to be located in whole or in part in the unincorporated area of a county, the person intending to apply shall hold a public meeting in each county where the utility facility is to be located. (B) The applicant sh...