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...slative authority of any municipal corporation owning and operating municipal water, gas, or electric light plants, may provide by ordinance that the products of such plants, when used for municipal or public purposes, shall be furnished free of charge.

...gislative authority of a municipal corporation fixes the price at which a company shall furnish electricity or either natural or artificial gas to the citizens or to public buildings, or for the purpose of lighting the streets, alleys, avenues, wharves, landing places, public grounds, or other places, or for other purposes, for a period not exceeding ten years, and the company or person to furnish such utility assent...

...gislative authorities of municipal corporations may make surveys of water works, sewerage systems, or other public works or improvements which they are by law authorized to construct, operate, maintain, or repair, the construction, improvement, enlargement, or repair of which is contemplated, whether governmental or proprietary, and they may proceed in the manner provided in this section. The legislative authority o...

...nd public grounds of the municipal corporation for the purpose of lighting them and furnishing gas to the citizens and public buildings.

...nsumers of gas or to the municipal corporation in accordance with the prices fixed and established by the legislative authority shall forfeit all rights of such company under the charter by which it has been established, and the legislative authority may proceed to erect, or, by ordinance, empower any person to erect gasworks for the supply of gas to such municipal corporation and its citizens. A temporary failure t...

...In a municipal corporation in which gasworks are constructed, the legislative authority thereof may provide, by ordinance, for the appointment of an officer, to be known as inspector of gas, whose compensation shall be fixed by the legislative authority, and whose duty it shall be to inspect all gas and gas meters, certify the correctness of all bills against consumers of gas, make photometric tests, and perform such...

...gislative authority of a municipal corporation shall not agree by ordinance, contract, or otherwise with any person for the construction or extension of gasworks for manufacturing or supplying the municipal corporation or its inhabitants with gas, which gives or continues to such person the exclusive privilege of using the streets, lanes, commons, or alleys for the purpose of conveying gas to the municipal corporatio...

...gislative authority of a municipal corporation may erect gasworks or electric works at the expense of the municipal corporation, or purchase any such works already erected therein. If the legislative authority and the owner of such works are unable to agree upon the compensation to be paid therefor, the legislative authority may proceed in the manner provided in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised C...

...When a municipal corporation is the owner of a natural gas plant by which the citizens thereof are supplied with natural gas, and such natural gas is so supplied through pipes, from a point beyond the limits of such municipal corporation, which pass through the limits of a village, the municipal corporation may sell natural gas to such village, or to a company, for the use of such village and the citizens thereof. Su...

...When a municipal corporation is the owner of a natural gas plant for the purpose of supplying the citizens thereof with natural gas for fuel, the legislative authority thereof may provide for supplying natural gas, at rates to be determined by it, to persons living outside of and in the vicinity of such municipal corporation, and to county homes, children's homes, and other public institutions within or without such ...

...gislative authority of a municipal corporation may prescribe, by ordinance, for the laying down of gas pipes in highways about to be paved, macadamized, or otherwise permanently improved, and for the assessment of the cost and expense thereof upon the lots or parcels of land adjoining or abutting upon the highways in which they are laid. In no case, excepting as a sanitary measure, shall the legislative authority req...

...A municipal corporation may contract with any company for supplying such municipal corporation with electric light and natural or artificial gas for the purpose of lighting or heating the streets, squares, and other public places and buildings therein.

...nsmitting electricity, a municipal corporation may enter upon any private land to examine or survey lines for such tubing, pipes, conduits, poles and wires, reservoirs, dams, canals, race ways, plant, or power house and to ascertain the number of acres overflowed by reason of the construction of such dams. The municipal corporation may appropriate so much thereof as is necessary for the laying down or building of suc...

...gislative authority of a municipal corporation as to streets and alleys, in their respective jurisdictions, may grant a municipal corporation the right to lay tubing, pipes, conduits, poles, and wires therein, subject to such regulations and restrictions as they prescribe. The right to appropriate for any such purpose shall not extend to the erection of any tank, station, reservoir, building, or lands therefor, or to...

...r land situated within a municipal corporation, without its consent.

...d within the limits of a municipal corporation or any public park. All excavations, except such reservoirs, shall be well filled and so kept by the appropriating municipal corporation.

...A municipal corporation appropriating property pursuant to sections 743.39 to 743.42, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may transport, store, insure, and ship natural gas, petroleum, or water, and transport and store water for the purpose of furnishing it to engineers employed in developing for, or in the production and transportation of, petroleum, and for that purpose may lay down, construct, and maintain the necessa...

...A municipal corporation authorized by law to purchase or lease lands, purchase, lease or sink natural gas wells, procure rights of way, and purchase and lay pipes for the purpose of supplying such municipal corporation or the citizens thereof with natural gas may exercise any such powers outside of its limits, and in addition thereto shall have all the rights and powers conferred upon municipal corporations by sectio...

...construed to mean that a municipal corporation may not request the public utilities commission to review and comment upon the equity and financial implications of the portion of a proposed ordinance that relates to the rates that may be charged for electricity supplied by an electric generation facility either owned or operated by a municipal corporation or owned and operated by an electric light company with whom th...

...(A) A municipal corporation that has established and implemented a watershed management program with regard to a reservoir for drinking water shall allow an owner of property that is contiguous to property that constitutes a buffer around a body of water that is part of such a reservoir to maintain property that constitutes a buffer if the maintenance is for any of the following: (1) Creation of an access path that ...

...(A) Whoever violates section 743.25 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five nor more than five hundred dollars.

...f any such street railway, and any corporation which owns, operates, or leases any such street railway. (B) "Indeterminate permit" means any grant of a municipal corporation to any person, association of persons, company, or corporation of power, right, or privilege to own, operate, manage, or control any plant or equipment or any part of a plant or equipment within this state of any public utility, which by the ter...

...A municipal corporation may grant an indeterminate permit to any public utility upon such terms as are considered conducive to the public interests, and as provided in sections 745.01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...erminate permit, and the municipal corporation in which all or the major part of the property of such public utility is situated may accept such surrender and grant an indeterminate permit. At the time provided in the grant of such permit, or, if no time is provided in such grant, then at any time after such grant, the municipal corporation may purchase all the property of such public utility actually used and useful...

...When a municipal corporation determines to acquire the property of a public utility by condemnation, the compensation therefor shall be determined in the manner provided by sections 719.01 to 719.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code.