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...(A) If a program grant is awarded for an eligible project under sections 122.40 to 122.4077 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners of the county in which the project is situated, by resolution, may levy a special assessment upon residential property within the county for the purpose of providing a contribution from the county towards the funding gap for the eligible project. Assessments under this sec...

...As used in sections 303.26 to 303.56 of the Revised Code, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context: (A) "Municipality" means any incorporated city or village of the state. (B) "Public body" means the state, any county, municipality, township, board, commission, authority, district, or other subdivision. (C) "Federal government" means the United States or any agency or instrumentality, c...

...The board of county commissioners, to the greatest extent it determines to be feasible in carrying out the provisions of sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall afford maximum opportunity, consistent with the sound needs of the county, to the rehabilitation or redevelopment of the county renewal area by private enterprise. The board shall give consideration to this objective in exercising its...

...The board of county commissioners, for the purposes of sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may formulate for the county a workable program for utilizing appropriate private and public resources to eliminate, and prevent the development or spread of, slums and blight, to encourage needed county rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment of slum and blighted areas, or to undertake such of t...

...No board of county commissioners shall exercise the authority conferred upon counties by sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, until after it has adopted a resolution finding that one or more slum or blighted areas exist in the county; and the rehabilitation, conservation, redevelopment, or combination thereof, of such slum or blighted area or areas is necessary in the interest of the public heal...

...A board of county commissioners shall not approve a county renewal project for a county renewal area unless it has, by resolution, determined such area to be a slum area or a blighted area or a combination thereof and designated such area as appropriate for a county renewal project. The board shall not approve a county renewal plan until a general plan for the county has been prepared by the planning commission of t...

...A board of county commissioners may itself prepare or cause to be prepared a county renewal plan, or any person or agency, public or private, may submit such a plan to the county. Prior to its approval of a county renewal project, the board shall submit such plan to the planning commission of the county for review and recommendations as to its conformity with the general plan for the development of the county. The pl...

...The board of county commissioners shall hold a public hearing on a county renewal project. Publication of the hearing shall be made on at least two successive days by the board at least fifteen days before the scheduled hearing date, using at least one of the following methods: (A) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper having general circulation in the county; (B) On the official public notice web site e...

...Following the public hearing required by section 303.32 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners may approve a county renewal project for the county renewal area if it finds that a feasible method exists for the location of families who will be displaced from the county renewal area in decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling accommodations within their means and without undue hardship to such families; the ...

...A county renewal plan may be modified at any time. If such a plan is modified after the lease or sale by the county of real property in the county renewal area, such modification may be conditioned upon such approval of the owner, lessee, or successor in interest as the board of county commissioners may deem advisable, and in any event shall be subject to such rights at law or in equity as a lessee or purchaser, or h...

...Upon the approval by the board of county commissioners of a county renewal plan or any modification thereof, such plan or modification shall be in full force and effect for the respective county renewal area and the board may then cause such plan or modification to be carried out in accordance with its terms.

...Where the board of county commissioners certifies that an area in the county, but outside the corporate limits of any city or other incorporated municipality, is in need of redevelopment or rehabilitation as a result of a flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm, or other catastrophe respecting which the governor has certified the need for disaster assistance under public law 875, eighty-first congress, or other fed...

...Every board of county commissioners shall have all the powers, and the right to exercise such powers, necessary or convenient to carry out sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, including the following powers granted in addition to those specifically authorized by sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) To undertake and carry out county renewal projects within the county bu...

...Every board of county commissioners may acquire by eminent domain any interest in real property, whether owned privately or publicly, including a fee simple title thereto, which it determines necessary for or in connection with a county renewal project within the county, and this power may be exercised in the manner provided in section 307.08 of the Revised Code, or it may be exercised in the manner now or which may ...

...Notwithstanding any of the provisions of sections 303.07 to 303.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, a county which acquires any real property, or any interest therein, in a county renewal area for or in connection with a county renewal project thereof for such area may dispose of any of such real property or interest therein as follows: (A) The board of county commissioners may sell, lease, or otherwise transfer rea...

...Costs of maintaining, repairing, constructing, relocating, paving, and repairing of public streets, alleys, curbs, and gutters within a county renewal area may be paid out of moneys distributed to counties under sections 5735.27 and 4501.04 of the Revised Code.

...A board of county commissioners may levy assessments against specially benefited lots or lands within a county renewal area or areas for any purpose within or without such area or areas for which special assessments may be levied by a county. In the exercise of such power to levy special assessments, the provisions of, including but not limited to Chapters 5555., 5559., 6103., and 6117. of the Revised Code, shall con...

...In making a special assessment by percentage of the tax value or by the front foot on lots or lands not subdivided into lots, on county-owned, or other, lots or lands within a county renewal area or areas, when such lots or lands are not assessed for taxation, the board of county commissioners shall fix, for the purpose of such assessment the value of such lots as they stand and of such land at what the board conside...

...In the event a board of county commissioners instituted assessment proceedings affecting lots or lands within a county renewal area, and then or thereafter eminent domain proceedings arising under sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are pending or contemplated against such lots or lands, the board may, by proper entry in such eminent domain proceedings, or by release in the event eminent domain...

...In the event of the levy of special assessments against lots or lands within a county renewal area which lots or lands are or become county-owned, the board of county commissioners may authorize the amount of the assessments thereon, or the amounts of the respective unpaid installments of such assessments, to be certified by the clerk of the board of county commissioners to the county auditor, entered upon the tax li...

...In addition to all other powers of boards of county commissioners provided by any other laws, any board, in order to provide funds for or in connection with its planning or county renewal project functions, under sections 303.26 to 303.56 of the Revised Code, or for the exercise of any of the powers granted by those sections, may: (A) Use its general tax revenues; (B) Issue and sell its bonds, and its notes in anti...

...In addition to all other powers of boards of county commissioners provided by any other laws, any board may issue bonds from time to time to finance its undertaking and carrying out of any county renewal project of such county, including, without limiting the generality thereof, the payment of principal and interest upon any advances for surveys and plans for or in connection with any such county renewal project, and...

...In case any of the public officials whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons issued under any of the provisions of sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, cease to be such officials before the delivery of such bonds, such signatures shall, nevertheless, be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if such officials had remained in office until such delivery. Any bonds issued under a...

...In any suit, action, or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of any bond issued under any of the provisions of sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or the security therefor, any such bond reciting in substance that it has been issued by the county in connection with county renewal project of such county shall be considered to have been issued for such purpose, and such project shall ...

...Bonds issued under any of the provisions of sections 303.26 to 303.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are declared to be issued for an essential public and governmental purpose and, together with interest thereon and income therefrom, shall be exempted from all taxes.