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...ion of any two or more joint vocational school districts may, by the adoption of identical resolutions by a majority of the members of each such board, propose that one new joint vocational school district be created by adding together all of the territory of each of the districts and dissolving such districts. A copy of each resolution shall be filed with the department for its approval or disapproval. The resolutio...

...Facilities of the joint vocational school districts may be used for post-high school training, technical training, and re-training programs of vocational education. A joint vocational school district operating a vocational school may construct, maintain, and operate facilities other than those used for vocational training to be used solely for post-high school training, technical training, re-training programs of voc...

...All joint vocational school district funds shall be kept in depositories selected pursuant to sections 135.01 to 135.21 of the Revised Code. The treasurer of the joint vocational school district shall be the custodian of such funds. Such funds shall be disbursed only pursuant to warrant signed by such treasurer and a person so authorized by the board of education of the joint vocational school district, and pursuant ...

...oard of education of a joint vocational school district, or upon the receipt of resolutions formally adopted by a majority of the boards of education of the school districts participating in the joint vocational school district, the board of education of the joint vocational school district shall adopt and send to the department of education and workforce a resolution requesting the dissolution of the joint vocationa...

...oard of education of a joint vocational school district may enter into a written agreement with the board of trustees of any technical college district, the boundaries of which are coterminous with such joint vocational school district, which agreement may provide for the sharing of use of any physical facility or equipment owned or used by either district. Such agreement may further provide that the joint vocational...

...tion residing within that portion of a school district, or districts proposed to be transferred may propose, by petition, the transfer of a part or all of one or more local school districts to another local school district or districts within the territory of the educational service center. Such transfers may be made only to local school districts adjoining the school district that is proposed to be transferre...

...) As used in this section, an "eligible school district transfer" means the transfer, not later than June 30, 2015, of the entire territory of a local school district that has fewer than five hundred students to a contiguous local school district under section 3311.22 of the Revised Code that results in the cancellation of the amount owed to the solvency assistance fund by either or both districts under Section 7 of ...

...tion residing within that portion of a school district proposed to be transferred may propose, by petition, the transfer of a part or all of one or more local school districts within the territory of the center to an adjoining educational service center or to an adjoining city or exempted village school district. A governing board of an educational service center adopting a resolution proposing a transfer of ...

... of a city, exempted village, or local school district shall file with the state board of education a proposal to transfer territory from such district to an adjoining city, exempted village, or local school district in any of the following circumstances: (a) The district board deems the transfer advisable and, if the portion of the district proposed to be transferred is five acres or more, the board has obta...

...luntary transfer of the territory of a school district in accordance with section 3311.38 or division (A)(1)(a) of section 3311.24 of the Revised Code, and where the transfer is initiated under either of those sections not later than December 31, 2015, and results in the complete consolidation and dissolution of the transferring district, the net indebtedness owed to the solvency assistance fund created under ...

...In the case of a proposed transfer of school district territory filed under section 3311.24 of the Revised Code, the state board of education shall approve a proposed transfer that satisfies all of the following conditions: (A) The territory is being transferred to an adjacent school district. (B) The district from which the territory is being transferred has received an overall performance rating of less than tw...

...r more city, local, or exempted village school districts whose territory is primarily located within the same county may be merged as provided in this section, if the county has a population of less than one hundred thousand, as determined by the most recent federal decennial census. (B) A petition may be filed with the board of elections proposing that two or more school districts whose territory is primaril...

...p, propose the creation of a new local school district from one or more local school districts or parts thereof, including the creation of a local district with noncontiguous territory from one or more local school districts if one of those districts has entered into an agreement under section 3313.42 of the Revised Code. Such proposal shall include an accurate map showing the territory affected. After the ado...

...The board of education of a surviving school district, as that term is defined in section 5748.10 of the Revised Code, shall notify the tax commissioner as and in the manner required by that section.

...on (B), (C), or (D) of this section, no school district shall be created and no school district shall exist which does not maintain within such district public schools consisting of grades kindergarten through twelve and any such existing school district not maintaining such schools shall be dissolved and its territory joined with another school district or districts by order of the state board of education if no agr...

...After June 1, 1954 no exempted village school districts shall be created under section 3311.08 of the Revised Code.

...iguous local, exempted village, or city school districts or parts of such districts. The possibility of making improvements in school district organization as well as the desires of the residents of the affected districts shall be given consideration in such studies and in any recommendations growing out of such studies. After the adoption of recommendations growing out of any such study, the state board may ...

...er of local, exempted village, or city school districts, or parts of any such districts, to contiguous or noncontiguous local, exempted village, or city school districts. Such studies shall include a study of the effect of any proposal upon any portion of a school district remaining after such proposed transfer. The state board, in conducting such studies and in making recommendations as a result thereof, shal...

...As used in this section: (1) "County school financing district" means a taxing district consisting of the following territory: (a) The territory that constitutes the educational service center on the date that the governing board of that educational service center adopts a resolution under division (B) of this section declaring that the territory of the educational service center is a county school financing dis...

...rd that is taxing authority of a county school financing district that levies a tax pursuant to section 5705.215 of the Revised Code may, by resolution adopted by majority vote of its members, expend the proceeds of such tax for the benefit of school districts with territory in the county school financing district in accordance with this section and the resolution to levy the tax. (A) In the case of a district creat...

...A cooperative education school district may be established pursuant to divisions (A) to (C) of this section or pursuant to section 3311.521 of the Revised Code. (A) A cooperative education school district may be established upon the adoption of identical resolutions within a sixty-day period by a majority of the members of the board of education of each city, local, and exempted village school district that i...

...iguous city, exempted village, or local school districts may establish a cooperative education school district in accordance with this section for the purpose of operating a joint high school in lieu of each of such boards operating any high school. Such a cooperative education school district shall only be established pursuant to the adoption of identical resolutions in accordance with this section within a sixty-da...

...of any city, local, or exempted village school district that wishes to become part of a cooperative education school district established pursuant to divisions (A) to (C) of section 3311.52 of the Revised Code may adopt a resolution proposing to become a part of the cooperative education school district. (2) The board of education of any city, local, or exempted village school district that is contiguous to a coop...

...of education of a cooperative education school district, or upon the receipt of resolutions formally adopted by a majority of the boards of education of the city, local, and exempted village school districts whose territory is in the cooperative education school district, the board of education of the cooperative education school district shall adopt and send to the state board of education a resolution requesting th...

...This section applies to any school district that has an average daily membership, as reported under division (A) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, greater than sixty thousand and of which the majority of the district's territory is located in a city with a population greater than seven hundred thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census. (A) Subject to approval by the electors under sectio...

...xcept in the case of a joint vocational school district that receives assistance under sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code, if the requisite favorable vote on the election is obtained, or if the school district board has resolved to apply the proceeds of a property tax levy or the proceeds of an income tax, or a combination of proceeds from such taxes, as authorized in section 3318.052 of the Revised Code...

...If the board of education of a school district authorized to impose a tax pursuant to section 3318.06 of the Revised Code determines that taxable value of property subject to the tax has increased to the extent it will not be necessary to impose such tax for twenty-three years in order to generate an amount equal to the amount of the project cost supplied by the state, it may request the county auditor to determine t...

...The board of education of any school district imposing a tax for the purpose of paying the state pursuant to section 3318.06 of the Revised Code prior to the effective date of the amendments to that section by Amended Substitute House Bill No. 748 of the 121st general assembly, may enter into a supplemental agreement with the Ohio facilities construction commission under which the proceeds of such tax shall be distri...

...acilities construction commission and a school district enter into a written agreement under section 3318.08 of the Revised Code for the construction of a classroom facilities project, the commission approves an increase in the basic project cost above the amount budgeted plus any interest earned and available in the project construction fund, the state and the school district shall share the increased cost in propor...

...in Chapter 3318. of the Revised Code, a school district board may apply any local donated contribution toward any of the following: (1) The district's portion of the basic project cost of a project under either sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 or sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code to reduce the amount of bonds the district otherwise must issue in order to receive state assistance under those sections; (...

...(A) As used in this section, "eligible school district" means a school district that is eligible for state assistance under Chapter 3318. of the Revised Code, and for which the amount of bond money that will be used to raise the school district's portion of the basic project cost of a classroom facilities project under that chapter is not greater than fifteen million dollars. (B) Beginning January 1, 2001, solely fo...

...The construction budget for any project under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 or sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code shall contain a contingency reserve in an amount prescribed by the Ohio facilities construction commission, which unless otherwise authorized by the commission, shall be used only to pay costs resulting from unforeseen job conditions, to comply with rulings regarding building and other codes, t...

...after the written agreement between the school district board and the Ohio facilities construction commission has been entered into, the school district board shall proceed with the issuance of its bonds or notes in anticipation thereof pursuant to the provision of such agreement required by division (A) of section 3318.08 of the Revised Code and the deposit of the proceeds thereof in the school district's project co...

...mates of cost have been approved by the school district board and the Ohio facilities construction commission, the treasurer of the school district board shall advertise for construction bids in accordance with section 3313.46 of the Revised Code. Such notices shall state that plans and specifications for the project are on file in the office of the commission and such other place as may be designated in such notice,...

...For any project undertaken with financial assistance from the state under this chapter, the amount of state appropriations to be encumbered for the project in each fiscal year shall be determined by the Ohio facilities construction commission based on the project's estimated construction schedule for that year. In each fiscal year subsequent to the first year in which state appropriations are encumbered for the proje...

... standards for solar-ready equipment in school buildings under their jurisdiction. The rules shall include, but not be limited to, standards regarding roof space limitations, shading and obstruction, building orientation, roof loading capacity, and electric systems. (C) A school district may seek, and the commission may grant for good cause shown, a waiver from part or all of the standards prescribed under division ...

...on shall cause to be transferred to the school district's project construction fund the necessary amounts from amounts appropriated by the general assembly and set aside for such purpose, from time to time as may be necessary to pay obligations chargeable to such fund when due. All investment earnings of a school district's project construction fund shall be credited to the fund. (B)(1) The treasurer of the school ...

...As used in this section, "big-eight school district" has the same meaning as in section 3314.02 of the Revised Code. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in section 3318.12 or Chapter 5705. of the Revised Code, a big-eight school district receiving assistance for a project under this chapter, that has opted with the approval of the Ohio facilities construction commission to divide the project into discrete ...

...levied on all taxable property within a school district for the purpose of paying the cost of maintaining the classroom facilities included in the project under the agreement provided in section 3318.08 of the Revised Code or the supplemental agreement provided in section 3318.081 of the Revised Code shall be included in the budget of the school district for each year upon the certification to the county budget commi...

..., the county treasurer shall pay to the school district the proceeds of the tax levy provided in section 3318.13 of the Revised Code to be used to pay the cost of maintaining the classroom facilities included in the project.

...There is hereby created the public school building fund within the state treasury consisting of any moneys transferred or appropriated to the fund by the general assembly, moneys paid into or transferred in accordance with section 3318.47 of the Revised Code, and any grants, gifts, or contributions received by the Ohio facilities construction commission to be used for the purposes of the fund. All investment earnings...

...l property purchased with moneys in the school district's project construction fund. Once obligations issued to finance a project under section 3318.26 of the Revised Code are no longer outstanding, any interest held by the commission shall be transferred to the school district.

...in division (B) of this section, when a school district receives classroom assistance from the state from time to time under the procedure set forth in sections 3318.01 to 3318.12 of the Revised Code, the levy of taxes required by sections 3318.13 and 3318.14 of the Revised Code shall be at the rate of one-half mill for each one dollar of valuation and shall be for a maximum period of twenty-three years after the las...

...n this section: (1) "Valuation" of a school district means the sum of the amounts described in divisions (A)(1) and (2) of section 3317.021 of the Revised Code as most recently certified for the district before the annual computation is made under division (B) of this section. (2) "Valuation per pupil" of a school district means the district's valuation divided by the district's formula ADM as most recently cal...

...stitutional in their application to any school district or contract shall affect any other school district or contract made under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...h may be, or may be part of, either the school building program bond service fund created by division (Q) of section 3318.26 of the Revised Code, including all moneys and investments, and earnings from investments, credited and to be credited thereto. (E) "Issuing authority" means the treasurer of state, or the officer who by law performs the functions of such officer. (F) "Obligations" means bonds, notes, or other...

...A) The general assembly finds that many school districts are prevented by their size, tax base, or other conditions from performing their essential functions as agencies of state government to provide adequate classroom facilities and issuing securities under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code at favorable interest rates or charges. Accordingly, the Ohio facilities construction commission is invested with the powers an...

...ereby created in the state treasury the school building program assistance fund. The fund shall consist of the proceeds of obligations issued for the purposes of such fund pursuant to section 3318.26 of the Revised Code that are payable from moneys in the lottery profits education fund created in section 3770.06 of the Revised Code or pursuant to section 151.03 of the Revised Code. All investment earnings of the fund...

...neys or additional moneys needed in the school building program assistance fund for the purposes of sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 and sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code, or needed for capitalized interest, for funding reserves, and for paying costs and expenses incurred in connection with the issuance, carrying, securing, paying, redeeming, or retirement of the obligations or any obligations refunded there...

...The authority provided by sections 3318.21 to 3318.29 of the Revised Code is in addition to and provides alternative methods for any other authority provided by law for the same or similar purposes, and are supplemental to and not in derogation of any powers of any governmental agency otherwise conferred including those conferred in Chapter 133. of the Revised Code. In case any provision of sections 3318.21 to 3318.2...