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...At any time after the third year following the creation of a watershed district a referendum may be held on the question of dissolution of the district. The question of dissolution of a watershed district may be presented to the electors within the territorial boundaries of the district, at any general election, by the filing of a petition, signed by at least two hundred qualified electors residing within the t...

...A petition filed under section 6105.18 of the Revised Code shall contain: (A) The name of the watershed district it is proposed to dissolve; (B) A statement that the signers of the petition request that the question of the dissolution of the district be presented to the electors within the territorial boundaries of the district at the next general election.

...The board of elections with which a petition has been filed under section 6105.18 of the Revised Code, after determining that the petition is in proper form and is signed by at least two hundred qualified electors residing within the territorial boundaries of the watershed district, shall, on or before the ninetieth day before the day of the election at which the question of dissolving the district is to be sub...

...Within ten days after a board of elections, under section 6105.20 of the Revised Code, has certified that a majority of the electors voting on the proposition have voted against continuing the existence of a watershed district, the secretary of the board of directors of the district shall call a special meeting of the board for the purpose of distributing the assets of the district. At such meeting the board shall de...

...In the event of any violation of sections 6105.01 to 6105.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or the imminent threat thereof, the board of directors of a watershed district in which such violation has occurred or is threatened, or the owner of any property who would be especially damaged by such violation, in addition to any other remedies provided by law may institute and prosecute a suit for injunction to prevent o...

...Whoever violates section 6105.13 or 6105.133 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. Each day upon which such violation occurs or continues may constitute a separate offense.

...The tax books and records provided for in this chapter shall be termed "sanitary district books" or "sanitary district records," and such titles shall be printed, stamped, or written thereon.

...(A) In any orders of court the words "The court now here finds that it hath jurisdiction of the parties to and of the subject matter of this proceeding" are equivalent to a finding that each jurisdictional fact necessary to confer plenary jurisdiction upon the court, beginning with the proper signing and filing of the initial petition to the date of the order, meets every legal requirement imposed by sections 6115.01...

...The court of common pleas of any county in this state, when the conditions stated in section 6115.05 of the Revised Code are found to exist, may establish sanitary districts within the county in which the court is located. Districts partly within and partly without such county may also be established by a court comprised of one judge of the court of common pleas from each county having area within the district, as...

...Before any court establishes a sanitary district as outlined in section 6115.04 of the Revised Code, a petition shall be filed in the office of the clerk of said court, signed by five hundred freeholders, or by a majority of the freeholders, or by the owners of more than half of the property, in either acreage or value, within the limits of the territory proposed to be organized into a district. Such a petition may b...

...At the time of filing the petition provided for in section 6115.05 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 court, sufficient to pay all the expenses connected with the proceedings in case the court refuses to organize the sanitary district. If at any time during the proceeding the court is satisf...

...Immediately after the filing of the petition provided for in section 6115.05 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the court with whom such petition is filed shall give notice by publication, in accordance with the suggested form in division (A) of section 6115.79 of the Revised Code, of the pendency of the petition and of the time and place of the hearing thereon. The clerk shall send notice by certified mail to the dir...

...Any owner of real property in a proposed sanitary district who individually has not signed a petition under section 6115.05 of the Revised Code, and who wishes to object to the organization and incorporation of said district shall, on or before the date set for the cause to be heard, file his objections to the organization and incorporation of such district. Such objections shall be limited to a denial of the statem...

...Within thirty days after the sanitary district has been declared a corporation by the court, the clerk of such court shall transmit to the secretary of state, and to the county recorder in each of the counties having lands in said district, copies of the findings and the decree of the court incorporating said district. The same shall be filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state in the same manner as ...

...Within thirty days after entering the decree incorporating a sanitary district, providing the district is wholly within one county, the court shall appoint one person who shall be a resident elector within the district as a director of the district for a term of five years from the date of the person's appointment. If the district is composed of more than one county or part thereof, each county is entitled to one dir...

...The board of directors of a sanitary district organized after the effective date of this section wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods shall consist of five members to be appointed by the advisory council of the district, one of whom shall be an employee of a city or general health district. Within sixty days after the court enters the decree incorporating the district, the advisory council sha...

...(A) With respect to sanitary districts organized after the effective date of this section wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, there shall be appointed, within thirty days after the court enters the decree incorporating the district, a sanitary district advisory council. The council shall consist of one member to be appointed from each municipal corporation, county, township, city health dist...

...(A) The board of directors of a sanitary district organized wholly for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use that includes two municipal corporations in two counties shall be appointed as follows: (1) One member shall be appointed by the chief executive officer of one of the municipal corporations included in the district; (2) One member shall be appointed by the chief exec...

...(A) With respect to a sanitary district organized wholly for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use that includes two municipal corporations in two counties, there shall be appointed, within sixty days of the effective date of this section, a sanitary district advisory council. The council shall consist of one member who uses water supplied directly or indirectly by the distri...

...Each director of a sanitary district, before entering upon his official duties, shall take and subscribe to an oath before an officer authorized to administer oaths that he will honestly, faithfully, and impartially perform the duties of his office, and that he will not be interested directly or indirectly in any contract let for the purpose of carrying out sections 6115.01 to 6115.79, inclusive, of the Revised Code...

...(A) The director or board of directors of a sanitary district shall adopt a seal and shall keep in a well-bound book a record of all proceedings, minutes of all meetings, certificates, contracts, bonds given by employees, and corporate acts. The book shall be open to the inspection of all owners of property in the district and to all other interested parties. (B) In addition to the requirements established in sectio...

...Upon taking the oath of office, the board of directors of a sanitary district shall choose one of its members as president of the board. If a district, other than a district organized after the effective date of this amendment wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, is composed of an even number of counties or parts thereof and the board finds itself unable to agree on any question pertaining t...

...Upon taking the oath of office, the director or board of directors of a sanitary district shall select some suitable person as secretary. The secretary selected by the board may or may not be a member of the board. The secretary shall be the custodian of the records of the district and of its corporate seal and shall assist the board in such particulars as it directs in the performance of its duties. The secretary sh...

...The prohibition and requirements established under division (D) of section 5705.41 of the Revised Code, other than those applicable solely to counties, apply to a sanitary district established under this chapter.

...If a sanitary district is established for purposes other than the provision of a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use, or for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, after the establishment of the district and the organization of the board of directors of the district no public corporation or person shall install within the district any outlet for discharge of sewage or other liquid waste o...