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...he purpose of water supply, against any public corporation, the governing body or other taxing authority of such public corporation may appropriate any unappropriated funds of the water department of such public corporation. The aggregate of the amounts appropriated for such purpose during each successive five year period shall not exceed ninety per cent of the total amount of the annual levies collectible from such ...

...or water furnished by the district to a public corporation or person within the district. The aggregate amount collected through such additional rate from any public corporation or person during each successive five year period shall not exceed ninety per cent of the total amount of annual levies which would be collectible from such public corporation or person during such period without such additional rate. Before ...

...h public corporation the procedures and requirements with reference to the payment of such annual levy shall be as set forth in section 6101.62 of the Revised Code.

...If any county treasurer or other person entrusted with the collection of assessments fails to make prompt payment of the assessments, or any part of them, when collected under this chapter to the treasurer of the conservancy district upon the presentation of a proper demand, the county treasurer or other person shall forfeit ten per cent on the amount of the delinquency. The forfeiture shall at once become due and pa...

...After the close of each fiscal year, or oftener if the court so orders, the board of directors of the conservancy district shall make a report to the court of its proceedings and an accounting of receipts and disbursements of such year or period. There shall be an annual meeting of the full court for the presentation and examination of the annual report of the board. All such reports shall be filed with the clerk of ...

...Each member of the board of directors of a conservancy district and each member of the board of appraisers of a conservancy district shall receive a sum established by the court and necessary expenses for the time actually employed in performing official duties. The compensation and expenses shall be paid only upon itemized statements submitted and certified to by the individual member.

...The same land, if conducive to public health, safety, convenience, or welfare, may be included in more than one conservancy district and be subject to this chapter for each district in which it may be included. No district shall be organized under this chapter in whole or in part within the territory of a district already organized under this chapter until the court determines whether the public health, safety, conve...

...If any conservancy district is being organized within, or partly within and partly without, the same territory in which some other district has been or is being organized, one judge of the court of common pleas of each county in which the districts have been or are being organized shall confer at the earliest convenient moment after they ascertain the possibility of a conflict in jurisdiction, the sitting to be had i...

...d terms of office shall comply with the requirements established in division (C) of section 6101.10 of the Revised Code; (2) Direct that the districts absorbed as described in division (C)(1) of this section shall be represented on the board of the original district, designating what members of the board of the original district shall be retired from the new board and what members representing the included districts...

...urt shall give notice of the hearing by publication in the counties included in whole or in part within the proposed subdistricts. Whenever the court by its order entered of record decrees subdistricts to be organized, the clerk of the court then shall give notice of the order to the board of directors of the conservancy district, which then shall act also as the board of directors of the subdistricts. Thereafter, th...

...had as are necessary for fulfilling the requirements of such sections. No order of the court shall be made under this section which shall lessen the security of any issue of bonds or other obligations issued under this section or any other statute. If a proceeding sought to be joined to or amalgamated with a proceeding under sections 6101.01 to 6101.84, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is under the jurisdiction of...

...Irrigation districts may be formed under this chapter by a substantial compliance as near as possible with its provisions. No irrigation district in its construction or operation shall, in any manner, interfere with works for the prevention of floods or the drainage of lands or materially diminish the works' protective value. The court organizing the irrigation district shall require a statement in the petition and ...

...(A) If any person or public corporation, within or without any conservancy district, considers itself injuriously affected in any manner by any act performed by any official or agent of the district, or by the execution, maintenance, or operation of the official plan, and if no other method of relief is offered under this chapter, the remedy shall be as follows: (1) The person or public corporation considering itsel...

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B) The board of directors of a conservancy district may police the works of the district and, in times of great emergency, may compel assistance in the protection of those works. The board may prevent persons, vehicles, or livestock from passing over the property or works of the district at any places or in any man...

...Any director, appraiser, or other officer of any conservancy district may be removed for cause upon a motion filed in the original case where said district was organized, after a hearing.

...ors of the district or of any person or public corporation interested in any way in the district. The board of directors may institute court proceedings to enforce compliance by any person or public corporation with any order of the board. The board may institute those proceedings in the court of appeals in the first instance.

...ny notice with reference to any land or public corporation is faulty for one of the same reasons, the board may file a motion in the original cause asking that the court order that the notice required by this chapter or any applicable constitutional requirements be given to the owner of the land or to the public corporation and set a time for hearing as provided in this chapter, and, upon the granting of the motion a...

...ll be advanced as a matter of immediate public interest and concern, and heard in all courts at the earliest practicable moment. The court shall be open at all times for the purposes of this chapter.

...This chapter shall be liberally construed to effect the control, conservation, and drainage of the waters of this state.

...No person shall willfully destroy, injure, or remove any bench marks, witness marks, stakes, or other reference marks placed by the surveyors or engineers of the conservancy district or by contractors in constructing the works of such district.

...(A) All persons and corporations shall be liable for damage done to works of a conservancy district by themselves, their agents, their employees, or by their livestock. (B) No person shall damage any works, improvements or property of a conservancy district. Whoever violates this division of this section shall be liable for all damages and costs. The board of directors of the conservancy district may repair such da...

... of a conservancy district or any other public officer shall make a profit, directly or indirectly, out of any contracts entered into by the district, or, for the purpose of profit, use any money belonging to a district by loaning it or otherwise using it, or by depositing it in any manner, contrary to law, or by removal of any money by any such officer or by his consent and placing it elsewhere than is prescribed ei...

...g on the Petition: "To all Persons and Public Corporations Interested: Public Notice is Hereby Given: (1) That on the ...... day of .........., ...., pursuant to the Conservancy Law of Ohio, there was filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of ........... County, Ohio, the petition of ............ and others for the establishment of a Conservancy District to be known as .......... Conservancy...

...(A) Whoever violates division (B) of section 6101.14 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than fifty dollars. (B) Whoever violates division (B) of section 6101.19 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars. (C) Whoever violates section 6101.81 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars. (D) Whoever violates division (B) of section 6101.82 of the Revised C...

..., industrial, commercial, recreational, public, and domestic users. (B) "Governmental agencies" means departments, divisions, or other units of the state or federal government, political subdivisions, watershed districts, soil conservation districts, conservancy districts, sanitary districts, special water districts, and county and regional sewer and water districts. (C) "Beneficial use" means a use or control of w...