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...d in two or more counties, or along the county line between two or more counties in this state, is filed with the board of county commissioners of any one of said counties, the petitioners are not limited to the statement of a single method of paying the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement, but may request in the petition that the share of each interested county be apportioned by a different method...

...As soon as the county engineer has transmitted to the several boards of county commissioners copies of the engineer's surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for the improvement, the joint board of county commissioners shall, except in cases of reconstruction or repair of roads where no lands or property are taken, fix a time and place for hearing objections to said improvement. ...

... for the improvement as reported by the county engineer or with such modifications as the joint board and the engineer agree upon.

...oposed improvement is wholly within one county but within less than the legal assessment distance of the county line, and a petition is filed asking for such improvement, signed by fifty-one per cent of the persons to be specially assessed therefor, such improvement shall be regarded as joint county improvement, and shall be made in accordance with sections 5555.21 to 5555.30, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...A joint board of county commissioners has jurisdiction to provide for the construction of a portion a road improvement wholly within one county when it is necessary to avoid some place on the county line where the construction thereof would be unusually expensive or difficult.

...ired shall be issued separately by each county to cover its proportion of the costs and expenses of such improvement.

...ating to improvements wholly within one county shall when applicable apply to improvements authorized by a joint board of county commissioners.

...uplicate of all taxable property in the county, or out of any funds available therefor. Not less than twenty-five nor more than forty per cent thereof shall be paid out of the proceeds of any levies for road purposes upon the taxable property of any township in which said improvement is situated in whole or in part. The balance thereof, which shall not be less than twenty nor more than thirty-five per cent, shall be ...

...A board of county commissioners desiring to construct a county road improvement, and finding that no equitable method of apportioning the compensation, damages, and expenses thereof is provided by section 5555.41 of the Revised Code, or finding that an equitable assessment cannot be made by the use of any of the several assessment areas authorized by said section, may order the county engineer to make a tentati...

...The board of county commissioners, unless acting pursuant to section 5555.022 of the Revised Code, or the joint board of county commissioners, upon a unanimous vote, may order, without a petition, that all of a county's costs for constructing any improvement be paid out of the proceeds of any tax levies for road purposes on the grand duplicate of the county or out of any road improvement fund available for the paym...

...l estate, are to be paid in part by the county and in part by the townships in which such improvement is situated, under an agreement between the board of county commissioners and the boards of township trustees entered into under section 5555.41 or 5555.43 of the Revised Code, the part of such compensation, damages, and expenses to be paid by the interested townships may be paid from the proceeds of any levy made by...

...If property is separated from an improvement by a canal, street or interurban railway, steam railway, or in any other similar manner, such property shall be regarded for the purpose of assessment under the road improvement laws as property abutting upon said improvement. Land owned or occupied by such street or interurban railway or steam railroad and the land lying back thereof shall be assessed on account of said i...

...the Revised Code shall be placed by the county auditor upon a special duplicate to be collected as taxes, and the principal of the assessments shall be payable in not more than forty semiannual installments extending over a period of not more than twenty years, as determined by the board of county commissioners. If any assessment is twenty-five dollars or less, or if the unpaid balance of any assessment is twenty-fiv...

...tion of the life tenant to the board of county commissioners, be apportioned between the owner of the life estate and the owner of the fee in proportion to the value of their respective estates. Upon the filing of the application, the board shall fix a date for hearing it and cause notice of such hearing to be served on the owner of the fee in the manner provided by section 5555.09 of the Revised Code. Either party t...

...es of the improvement to be paid by the county shall be paid out of any road improvement fund available therefor. For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of the county's proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of constructing, reconstructing, improving, maintaining, and repairing roads under sections 5555.01 to 5555.72, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board of county commiss...

...uated in whole or in part, the board of county commissioners may levy a tax not exceeding three mills in any one year upon all the taxable property of such townships. Such levy shall be in addition to all other levies authorized by law for township purposes, and subject only to the limitation on the combined maximum rate for all taxes.

...es of any improvement to be paid by any county or township if such improvement is authorized and constructed by any joint board of county commissioners, or by agreement entered into between such joint board and the board of township trustees of one or more townships.

...The board of county commissioners, in anticipation of the collection of taxes, or taxes and assessments, for a road improvement or any part of a road improvement may issue and sell, or incur, public obligations of the county under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code to pay the estimated costs of the improvement. The making of any special assessments referred to in sections 5555.41 to 5555.50 of the Revised Code shall ...

...After the board of county commissioners decides to proceed with the improvement, it shall do so in accordance with sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code. No contract for any improvement shall be awarded at a price more than twenty per cent in excess of the estimated cost.

...section 153.13 of the Revised Code, the county engineer may, under such conditions as he prescribes, allow and pay to a contractor a sum not exceeding ninety per cent of the value of material delivered by such contractor, and safely stored at a railroad station or siding or other point in the vicinity of the work. When such estimate is allowed, the material on which it is allowed shall thereupon become the property o...

...eted within the time therein fixed, the county engineer shall, after the expiration of the time fixed for the completion of such contract, keep an accurate account of all expenditures for inspection, supervision, and all other similar engineering services in connection with the improvement, that the contractor shall pay all such expenses incurred in connection with the improvement after the expiration of the time fix...

...If, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, the contractor has not commenced his work within a reasonable time, does not carry such work forward with reasonable progress, is improperly performing his work, or has abandoned or failed to complete a contract entered into, the board shall make a finding to that effect, enter such finding on its journal, and so notify the contractor in writing, and the right ...

...or extra work may be made by a board of county commissioners, but the board must first enter into a new contract in writing for the extra work. In all cases in which the amount of the original contract price is less than twenty-five thousand dollars for any particular line item listed in the new contract and the overall total estimate for the extra work does not exceed ten per cent of the total of the original contra...

...When the board of county commissioners constructs, reconstructs, widens, resurfaces, repairs, or improves a road by force account, and the estimated cost of the work, as defined in section 5543.19 of the Revised Code, exceeds three thousand dollars per mile, such board shall cause to be kept by the county engineer a complete and accurate account in detail of the cost of doing such work. Such account shall include lab...

...te and an adjoining state, the board of county commissioners of any county of this state may join with the proper authorities of any adjoining state, or subdivision thereof, in such construction or improvement. Each party to such agreement shall pay such proportion of the costs of said improvement as is agreed upon by the parties thereto.

...ay in September, annually, the board of county commissioners shall certify to the county auditor all of the assessments provided for in sections 6103.06 to 6103.15 of the Revised Code, including all assessments deferred pursuant to section 6103.051 of the Revised Code, stating the amounts and time of payment thereof, and in accordance therewith the auditor shall record the same in a book to be known as the "water-wor...

...fe water supply conditions exist in any county, the agency's director forthwith shall inquire into and investigate the conditions complained of. If, upon investigation of the complaint, the director finds that it is necessary for the public health and welfare that water supply facilities be acquired or constructed, maintained, and operated to serve any territory outside municipal corporations in any county, the direc...

...If the board of county commissioners fails, after a period of thirty days, after the notice and order given it by the director of environmental protection to perform any act required of it by sections 6103.02 to 6103.30 of the Revised Code, and by any such order and notice of the director, such order of the director may be enforced by a writ of mandamus issued by any court authorized to issue such writ.

... At any time after the formation of any county sewer district, the board of county commissioners, when it considers it appropriate, on application by a person or public agency for the supply of water to properties of that person or public agency located outside of the district, may contract with the person or public agency for supplying water to those properties from water supply facilities acquired or constructed...

...At any time after the formation of any county sewer district, the board of county commissioners may enter into a contract, upon the terms and for the period of time that is mutually agreed upon, with any other public agency to prepare all necessary plans and estimates of cost and to acquire or construct any water supply facilities that are to be used jointly by the contracting parties, and to provide for the furnish...

... for the payment of compensation to the county or other public agency owning, acquiring, or constructing, or agreeing to acquire or construct, the water supply facilities to be jointly used in an amount agreed upon as the other party's share of the cost of acquiring or constructing the facilities. The contract also shall provide for payment of compensation to the county or other public agency owning, acquiring, or co...

...A county or other public agency contracting as provided in sections 6103.21 and 6103.22 of the Revised Code for the joint use of any water supply facilities acquired or constructed, or to be acquired or constructed, by another public agency may provide for payment of the agreed compensation by the levy of taxes or special assessments or from water rates and charges, if and to the extent that the public agency is au...

...A county or other public agency receiving the compensation provided for in section 6103.22 of the Revised Code shall credit the amount so received to the proper fund to be used for the acquisition, construction, or operation and maintenance, as the case may be, of water supply facilities or for other authorized purposes.

...henever, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, it is necessary to acquire real estate or any interest in real estate for the acquisition, construction, maintenance, or operation of any water supply facilities authorized by this chapter, or to acquire the right to acquire, construct, maintain, and operate those facilities in and upon any property within or outside of a county sewer district, it may pur...

...Whenever in the opinion of the board of county commissioners it becomes necessary to construct a water main within the boundaries of a municipal corporation for the service of one or more sewer districts wholly outside of such municipal corporation, the board may construct such main in the streets and alleys of such municipal corporation but shall restore all such streets and alleys to their original condition, and t...

...All bonds and certificates of indebtedness issued under authority of sections 6117.01 to 6117.45, inclusive, and 6103.02 to 6103.30, inclusive, of the Revised Code, prior to May 10, 1927, which have been sold for not less than par and accrued interest and the proceeds thereof paid into the treasury, are binding obligations of the political subdivision issuing the same, without regard to whether any special assessment...

... cost of preliminary surveys. Boards of county commissioners or other officials may complete all improvements in process of construction under such sections, levy taxes and assessments for such improvements, sell bonds to pay for the construction of such improvements, and do all things contemplated by such sections necessary for the completion of such improvements.

...y facility acquired or constructed by a county under this chapter or any apparatus or accessory connected with it or pertaining to it, or make any connection into or with the water supply facility, without the permission of the board of county commissioners or in a manner or for a use other than as prescribed by the board. No person or public agency shall refuse to permit the inspection by the county sanitary engi...

... the prosecuting attorney of the proper county in the name of the state, in the court of common pleas of such county, or such action may be commenced and prosecuted by the attorney general in such county or in Franklin county, as provided by law.

...(A) If the board of county commissioners determines by resolution that the best interests of the county and the users of water supply facilities of the county serving a sewer district so require, the board may sell or otherwise dispose of the facilities to another public agency or a person. The resolution declaring the necessity of that disposition shall recite the reasons for the sale or other disposition and ...

...It is the intent of the general assembly that the amendments made to this chapter by Sub. H.B. 549 of the 123rd general assembly are subject to Section 4 of that act. This section does not affect the application of Section 3 of that act to Sections 1 and 2 of that act.

...(A) Whoever violates section 6103.29 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.

...ate and interests in real estate. (4) "County sanitary engineer" means either of the following: (a) The registered professional engineer employed or appointed by the board of county commissioners to be the county sanitary engineer as provided in this section3; (b) The county engineer, if, for as long as and to the extent that engineer by agreement entered into under section 315.14 of the Revised Code is ret...

...A board of county commissioners in the manner provided in this section may make surveys of water supply, sanitary facilities, drainage facilities, or prevention or replacement facilities for any sewer district, the acquisition or construction of which is contemplated. Any board desiring to make a survey shall adopt a resolution declaring its purpose and necessity. In making the surveys, the board may call upon e...

...(A) A board of county commissioners may adopt rules requiring owners of property within the district whose property is served by a connection to sewers maintained and operated by the board or to sewers that are connected to interceptor sewers maintained and operated by the board to do any of the following: (1) Disconnect storm water inflows to sanitary sewers maintained and operated by the board and not operate...

...(A) The board of county commissioners shall fix reasonable rates, including penalties for late payments, for the use, or the availability for use, of the sanitary facilities of a sewer district to be paid by every person and public agency whose premises are served, or capable of being served, by a connection directly or indirectly to those facilities when those facilities are owned or operated by the county and may c...

...At any time after the formation of a county sewer district, the board of county commissioners may enter into a contract, on terms and for the period of time that are mutually agreed on, with any other public agency under which the public agency will conduct projects and activities for the purpose of complying with the requirements of phase II of the storm water program of the national pollutant discharge elimination ...

...any municipal corporation, the board of county commissioners may by resolution lay out, establish, and maintain one or more sewer districts within its county to include a part or all of the territory within such municipal corporation as the whole or a part of such district. Such authority shall be evidenced by an ordinance or resolution of the legislative authority of such municipal corporation, entered upon its reco...

...The authority of a board of county commissioners to acquire, construct, maintain, and operate sanitary or drainage facilities or prevention or replacement facilities for a county sewer district in the territory of a municipal corporation, or a regional district established under Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code, that is in whole or in part within the county sewer district is the same as provided by law with re...

...under the jurisdiction of the board of county commissioners for purposes of the acquisition and construction of sanitary and drainage facility and prevention or replacement facility improvements until all of those improvements for the area for which a resolution described in division (A) or (E) of section 6117.06 of the Revised Code has been adopted by the board have been acquired or completed or until the boa...