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...gislative authority of a municipal corporation may request the attorney general to provide legal guidance and assistance in developing, formulating, and drafting an ordinance regarding the operation of adult entertainment establishments that does not conflict with general laws, with any provision in Chapter 4303. of the Revised Code, or with any provision in a rule adopted by the division of liquor control purs...

...gislative authority of a municipal corporation may provide suitable hospitals for the reception and care of such prisoners as are diseased or disabled, under such regulations and the charge of such persons as the legislative authority directs.

...Any municipal corporation may regulate the transportation, keeping, and sale of gunpowder and other explosives or dangerous combustibles and materials, and provide or license magazines therefor.

...Any municipal corporation may regulate and license manufacturers and dealers in explosives, chattel mortgage and salary loan brokers, peddlers, public ballrooms, scavengers, intelligence officers, billiard rooms, bowling alleys, livery, sale, and boarding stables, dancing or riding academies or schools, race courses, ball grounds, street musicians, secondhand dealers, junk shops, and all persons engaged in the trade,...

...In the trial of any action brought under section 715.61 of the Revised Code, the fact that any party to such action represented himself as engaged in any business or occupation, for the transaction of which a license is required, or as the keeper, proprietor, or manager of the thing for which a license is required, or that such party exhibits a sign indicating such business or calling, or such proprietorship or mana...

...Any municipal corporation may license exhibitors of shows or performances of any kind, hawkers, peddlers, auctioneers of horses and other animals on the highways or public grounds of the municipal corporation, vendors of gunpowder and other explosives, taverns, houses of public entertainment, and hucksters in the public streets or markets. The municipal corporation may, in granting such license, charge such fee as is...

...Any municipal corporation may license transient dealers, persons who temporarily open stores or places for the sale of goods, wares, or merchandise, and each person who, on the streets or traveling from place to place about such municipal corporation, sells, bargains to sell, or solicits orders for goods, wares, or merchandise by retail. Such license shall be granted as provided by section 715.63 of the Revised Code....

...Any municipal corporation may license bill-posters, advertising sign painters, bill distributors, card tackers, and advertising matter of any article or compound which has not been manufactured or compounded within such municipal corporation. In granting such license the legislative authority of such municipal corporation may fix such license fees as are expedient, and may delegate to the mayor thereof the authority ...

...Any municipal corporation may license the owners of vehicles used for the transportation of persons or property, for hire, and all undertakers and owners of hearses. The owners of such vehicles may be made liable for the breach of any ordinance regulating the conduct of the drivers thereof. All moneys and receipts, in any municipal corporation, which are derived from the enforcement of any ordinance or law requirin...

...Any municipal corporation may make the violation of any of its ordinances a misdemeanor, and provide for the punishment thereof by fine or imprisonment, or both. The fine, imposed under authority of this section, shall not exceed five hundred dollars and imprisonment shall not exceed six months.

...No municipal corporation shall adopt plans or specifications for a public improvement, required by law to be made by contract let after competitive bidding, which requires the exclusive use of a patented article or process, protected by a trademark or an article or process wholly controlled by any person, firm, corporation, or combination thereof.

...ntracting party" means a municipal corporation that has entered into a joint economic development zone contract or any party succeeding to the municipal corporation, or a township that entered into a joint economic development zone contract with a municipal corporation. (2) "Zone" means a joint economic development zone designated under this section. (3) "Substantial amendment" means an amendment to a joint eco...

...ss" means a sole proprietorship, a corporation for profit, a pass-through entity as defined in section 5733.04 of the Revised Code, the federal government, the state, the state's political subdivisions, a nonprofit organization, or a school district. (3) "Contracting party" means a municipal corporation, county, or township that is a party to a joint economic development zone contract under section 715.691 of ...

...(A) The requirement in division (C) of section 121.22 of the Revised Code that a member of a public body be present in person at a meeting open to the public in order to be part of a quorum or to vote does not apply to a board of directors of a joint economic development zone created under section 715.691 of the Revised Code, a joint economic development review council created under section 715.692 of the Revised Cod...

...de apply only to: (1) Municipal corporations and townships within a county that has adopted a charter under Sections 3 and 4 of Article X, Ohio Constitution; (2) Municipal corporations and townships that have created a joint economic development district comprised entirely of real property owned by a municipal corporation at the time the district was created under this section. The real property owned by the mu...

...ction. (B) One or more municipal corporations and one or more townships may enter into a contract approved by the legislative authority of each contracting party pursuant to which they create as a joint economic development district one or more areas for the purpose of facilitating economic development to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities and to improve the economic welfare of the people in this ...

...rties" means one or more municipal corporations, one or more townships, and, under division (D) of this section, one or more counties that have entered into a contract under this section to create a joint economic development district. (2) "District" means a joint economic development district created under this section. (3) "Contract for utility services" means a contract under which a municipal corporation agre...

... or consolidation with a municipal corporation of any unincorporated territory within a joint economic development zone that is subject to division (I)(2) of section 715.691 of the Revised Code, shall be commenced for a period of three years after the contract creating the zone is approved by the majority of the electors under section 715.691 of the Revised Code. This division does not apply if the contract is termin...

...th respect to the substance and administration of zoning and other land-use regulations, building codes, permanent public improvements, and other regulatory and proprietary matters determined to be for a public purpose. No contract, however, shall exempt the territory within the zone from the procedures of land use regulation applicable pursuant to municipal corporation, township, and county regulations, including, b...

...When exercising a power or performing a function or duty under a contract entered into under section 715.691 of the Revised Code, a township may exercise all of the powers of a township, and may perform all the functions and duties of a township, within the joint economic development zone that is subject to division (I)(2) of section 715.691 of the Revised Code pursuant to and to the extent consistent with the contra...

...A municipal corporation may issue bonds and exercise all other powers under Chapter 165. of the Revised Code for one or more projects or parts thereof located in a joint economic development district created pursuant to a contract entered into under section 715.70, 715.71, or 715.72 of the Revised Code to which the municipal corporation is a party, or in a township adjacent to that municipal corporation, if the legis...

...so includes as a party a municipal corporation that is an eligible area as defined in division (A)(2) of section 122.16 or division (A)(9) of section 5733.33 of the Revised Code, then any project located anywhere within the unincorporated area or township contained within the joint economic development district is eligible for any state assistance under Chapter 122. or section 5733.33 of the Revised Code for which de...

...ntracting party" means a municipal corporation that has entered into a municipal utility district contract or any party succeeding to such a municipal corporation. (2) "Contract for utility services" means a contract under which a municipal corporation agrees to provide to another municipal corporation water, sewer, electric, or other utility services necessary to the public health, safety, and welfare. (3) "Muni...

...t between a county and a municipal corporation, a municipal corporation may not regulate rates and charges of users imposed by a board of county commissioners under Chapter 6103. or 6117. of the Revised Code or for any county utility established under any other chapter of the Revised Code.

...Each municipal corporation may do any of the following: (A) Acquire by purchase or condemnation real estate with or without buildings on it, and easements or interests in real estate; (B) Extend, enlarge, reconstruct, repair, equip, furnish, or improve a building or improvement that it is authorized to acquire or construct; (C) Erect a crematory or provide other means for disposing of garbage or refuse, and erect ...