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...f 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 surface of the adjoining lots, an...

...f 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 prescribed in section 723.49...

...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,...

... of the Revised Code. In municipal corporations having an engineer, or an officer having a different title but the duties and functions of an engineer, the estimate shall be made by the engineer or other officer. Where the total estimated cost of any such work is seventy thousand dollars or less, the proper officers may proceed by force account. Where the total estimated cost of any such work exceeds seventy thousa...

...e 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 employee of ...

...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.

..." means an area within a municipal corporation, in which area there is a predominance of buildings or improvements, whether residential or nonresidential, which by reason of dilapidation, deterioration, age or obsolescence, inadequate provision for ventilation, light, air, sanitation, or open spaces, high density of population and overcrowding, or the existence of conditions which endanger life or property, by fire a...

...slative authority of the municipal corporation shall deliver to the board of education a notice stating its intent to declare improvements to be a public purpose under the agreement. The notice shall be delivered not later than forty-five days prior to execution of the agreement by the legislative authority, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays as defined in section 1.14 of the Revised Code. The notice sh...

...The municipal corporation shall not take any formal action to enter into a development agreement that exempts improvements to real property from taxation in the manner set forth in section 725.02 of the Revised Code until section 5709.83 of the Revised Code has been complied with.

...gislative authority of a municipal corporation upon the authorization of urban renewal bonds, whether a single issue or a series, shall, at the same time, establish an urban renewal debt retirement fund for such single issue or series. The legislative authority shall also establish an urban renewal debt retirement fund upon its adoption of a resolution authorizing the repayment of any loans from the state for public ...

...ot been specified by the municipal corporation. A development agreement may contain an obligation binding on the owner or owners of the improvements, and all subsequent owners of the improvements, to make a semiannual urban renewal service payment in an amount that is higher than the amount of real property taxes that would have been paid on the assessed valuation of the improvements had an exemption period not been ...

...A municipal corporation creating an urban renewal debt retirement fund pursuant to section 725.03 of the Revised Code, may: (A) Issue unvoted urban renewal bonds, which pledge and are payable solely from all or any portion of the revenues as defined in division (D) of section 725.01 of the Revised Code. The revenues pledged shall be placed in the urban renewal debt retirement fund established for such urban renewal ...

...ined by ordinance of the municipal corporation issuing such bonds to be in the best interest of such municipal corporation.

...slative authority of the municipal corporation issuing such bonds and may be made redeemable before maturity, at the option of the municipal corporation, under conditions fixed by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation issuing such bonds. All bonds issued under sections 725.01 to 725.11 of the Revised Code shall be negotiable instruments. The bonds may be issued in coupon or in registered form or bot...

...The proceeds of each issue of urban renewal bonds issued pursuant to sections 725.01 to 725.11 of the Revised Code shall be used for the urban renewal project or projects or any parts thereof designated in the ordinance authorizing such issue and the necessary expenses of preparing, printing, and selling said bonds, legal services, and transfer expense, or to advance the payment of interest on such bonds during the f...

...nd credit of the issuing municipal corporation. All such urban renewal bonds described in this division shall contain on the face thereof a statement to the effect that the bonds, as to both principal and interest, are not a general obligation of the issuing municipal corporation but are payable solely from receipts pledged for their payment. (B) Urban renewal bonds issued pursuant to division (B) of section 725.05...

...bond retirement funds of municipal corporations and other subdivisions of this state, and of domestic insurance companies.

...st agreement between the municipal corporation and a corporate trustee, which trustee may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state. Any such trust agreement and the ordinance providing for the issuance of such bonds may pledge or assign all revenues as defined in division (D) of section 725.01 of the Revised Code, or any part thereof, and all moneys deposited into...

...Each municipal corporation shall have special power to levy and collect special assessments. The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may assess upon the abutting, adjacent, and contiguous, or other specially benefited, lots or lands in the municipal corporation, any part of the cost connected with the improvement of any street, alley, dock, wharf, pier, public road, place, boulevard, parkway, or park ent...

...lative authority of such municipal corporation may establish one or more districts in the municipality designating the boundaries thereof, and may each year thereafter, by ordinance, designate the district in which such control, planting, care, and maintenance shall be effected. The ordinance shall set forth an estimate of the cost and providing for the levy of a special assessment upon all the real property in the d...

...ative authority of such municipal corporation may establish one or more districts in the municipality designating the boundaries thereof, and may each year thereafter, by ordinance, designate the district in which such constructing, maintaining, repairing, cleaning, and enclosing of ditches shall be effected, setting forth an estimate of the cost and providing for the levying of a special assessment upon all t...

...A municipal corporation may contract with any corporation, company, partnership, association, or person maintaining overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment on a street of the municipal corporation for the relocation of such overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment underground within the limits of the street. Such contract shall provide for the payment of the contract price by the municipal corporat...

...gislative authority of a municipal corporation shall fix, for the purpose of such assessment, the value of such lots as they stand and of such lands at what the legislative authority considers a fair average depth for lots in the neighborhood, so that it will be a fair average of the assessed value of other lots in the neighborhood. In making assessments either way on land not subdivided into lots but which is assess...

...gislative authority of a municipal corporation shall limit all special assessments levied under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to the special benefits conferred upon the property assessed. In no case shall there be levied, under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, upon a lot or parcel of land in the municipal corporation, any assessment for any purpose which, togethe...