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...At the time of filing the petition provided for in section 6101.05 of the Revised Code, or at any time subsequent thereto and prior to the time of the hearing on said petition, a bond shall be filed, with security approved by the judge of the court of common pleas determining the sufficiency of the petition, sufficient to pay all the expenses connected with the proceeding in case the court refuses to organize t...

...Upon determining that a sufficient petition has been filed, the judge making such determination shall cause written notice thereof to be given to the director of the department of natural resources, the director of environmental protection, and to the board of directors of any conservancy district having jurisdiction over all or part of the territory affected by the proceeding or within the same major watershed area ...

...Upon the determination of a judge of the court of common pleas that a sufficient petition has been filed in the court in accordance with section 6101.05 of the Revised Code, the judge shall give notice of the petition to the court of common pleas of each county included in whole or in part within the proposed conservancy district. The judge of the court of common pleas of each county, or in the case of any county hav...

...At the preliminary meeting of the court, it shall fix the time and place of the hearing on the petition for the establishment of the proposed conservancy district, which hearing shall be held not later than sixty days thereafter, and the clerk of the court shall give notice of the hearing by publication. Any owner of real property in a proposed district who individually has not signed the petition and who wishes to o...

...Within thirty days after the conservancy district has been declared a corporation by the court, the clerk of such court shall transmit to the secretary of state, to the director of the department of natural resources, and to the county recorder in each of the counties having lands in the district, copies of the findings and the decree of the court incorporating the district. The same shall be filed and recorded in th...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, within thirty days after entering the decree incorporating a conservancy district, the court shall appoint three persons, at least two of whom are residents of counties, all or part of which are included within the territorial limits of the district, as a board of directors of the conservancy district, one for a term of three years, one for a term of five years,...

...Each member of the board of directors of a conservancy district, before entering upon the member's official duties, shall take and subscribe to an oath before a suitable officer that the member will honestly, faithfully, and impartially perform the duties of office and that the member will not be interested directly or indirectly in any contract let by the district. This oath shall be filed in the office of the cler...

...pecify the amounts to be paid for their services. The chief engineer shall be superintendent of all the works and improvements, shall make a full report to the board each year, or more often if required, and may make suggestions and recommendations to the board as the chief engineer considers proper. The board may require any officer or employee of the district to give bond for the faithful performance of the offic...

...Upon its qualification, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the board of directors of a conservancy district shall prepare a plan for the part or parts of the improvements for which the district was created as the board of directors considers advisable. The plan shall be filed, in accordance with this section, within two years from the date of the order establishing the district. The court may grant extensions of t...

...(A) The board of directors of any conservancy district, or its employees or agents, including contractors and their employees, and the board of appraisers of the conservancy district and its assistants, may enter upon lands within or without the district to make surveys and examinations to accomplish the necessary preliminary purposes of the district, or to have access to the work. They shall be liable, however, for ...

...In order to accomplish the purposes of the conservancy district, the board of directors of a conservancy district may do the following: (A) Clean out, straighten, widen, alter, deepen, or change the course or terminus of any ditch, drain, sewer, river, watercourse, pond, lake, creek, or natural or artificial stream located in or out of the district; (B) Fill up any abandoned or altered ditch, drain, sewer, river, w...

...When real property is acquired which is located either within or without the acquiring conservancy district and which is removed from the tax duplicate, the board of directors of the conservancy district shall pay annually to the county treasurer of the county in which such property is located, commencing with the tax year after the removal of such property from the tax duplicate, an amount of money in lieu of taxes ...

...When it is determined to let the work relating to the improvements for which a conservancy district was established by contract, contracts in excess of the amount specified in section 9.17 of the Revised Code shall be advertised after notice calling for bids has been published once a week for two consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, with the last publication to occur at least eight da...

...Notwithstanding section 6101.16 of the Revised Code, the board of directors of a conservancy district may comply with section 9.29 of the Revised Code regarding any contract for the engineering, repair, sustainability, water quality management, and maintenance of a water storage tank and appurtenant facilities.

...The board of directors of a conservancy district, when it is necessary for the purposes of this chapter, shall have a dominant right of eminent domain over the right of eminent domain of railroad, telephone, gas, water power, and other companies and corporations, and over townships, counties, and municipal corporations. In the exercise of this right, due care shall be taken to do no unnecessary damage to othe...

...The board of directors of a conservancy district may condemn for the use of the district, any land or property within or without said district not acquired or condemned by the court on the report of the board of appraisers of the conservancy district, in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, instead of having appraisals and assessments made by the board of appraisers.

...(A) For the purposes of this section, either of the following constitutes a public exigency: (1) A finding by the director of environmental protection that a public health nuisance caused by an occasion of unavoidable urgency and suddenness due to unsanitary conditions compels the immediate construction of sewers for the protection of the public health and welfare; (2) The issuance of an order by the board of healt...

...(A) The board of directors of a conservancy district may make and enforce rules and regulations it considers necessary and advisable to do the following: (1) To protect and preserve the works, improvements, and properties owned or controlled by the district, prescribe the manner of their use by public corporations and persons, and preserve order within and adjacent to the works, improvements, and properties; (2) To...

...When the official plan provided for in section 6101.13 of the Revised Code requires the building, modification, removal, or rebuilding of any bridge, grade, aqueduct, or other construction, and a hearing upon the report of the board of appraisers of the conservancy district has been had and a final order issued by the court for appraisals and assessments affecting such constructions, the owner of said bridge, grade, ...

...If it is necessary to pass any dredge boat or other equipment through a bridge or grade of any railroad company or other corporation, county, township, or municipal corporation, the board of directors of the conservancy district shall give twenty days' notice to the owner of said bridge or grade that the same shall be removed temporarily to allow the passage of such equipment or that an agreement be immediately enter...

...auges, rain gauges, and a flood warning service with telephone or telegraph lines or telephone or telegraph service, and may make such surveys and examinations of rainfall and flood conditions, stream flow, and other scientific and engineering subjects as are necessary and proper for the purposes of the district. The board may issue reports of its findings.

...The board of directors of a conservancy district may enter into contracts or other arrangements with the United States government or any department of it, with persons, railroads, or other corporations, with public corporations, with the state government of this or other states, and with drainage, conservation, conservancy, sewer, park, or other improvement districts in this or other states, for co-operation or assis...

...f, and rates for light, power, or other services charged by vendees, assignees, lessees, or licensees of such board are subject at all times to revision and control by state law. Assignments, leases, sales, or permissions may be made for periods of not greater than fourteen years, except that, in the case of public corporations desiring to purchase or use water for public water supply purposes, such assignments, leas...

...In the event a conservancy district builds or constructs an improvement outside the boundary of the district, and one of the purposes of such improvement is water impoundment, the persons or public corporations residing or located within the county in which such improvement lies, may purchase such waters at a rate to be determined by the district's board of directors. This rate may, in addition to other cost factors,...

...ities. The board may impose and collect charges for the use of the properties, improvements, and facilities maintained or operated by the district for recreational purposes. Moneys collected from these charges may be used to promote the district's recreational facilities. In case the revenues derived or to be derived from the properties, improvements, and facilities maintained, operated, used, or acquired by the dis...