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...e 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, convenience, or welfare demand the organization of an additional district, or whether it ...

...tent the several districts should be consolidated or to what extent the boundaries should be adjusted in order to most fully carry out the purposes of this chapter. The judges shall by suitable orders make the determination effective. If notices have been issued or jurisdiction acquired in any proceeding concerning territory which is transferred to the court of common pleas of another county, the notices shall not b...

...(A) If two or more conservancy districts have been organized in a territory which, in the opinion of the board of directors of the conservancy district of any one of the districts, should constitute only one district, the board of any one of the districts may petition the court for an order uniting those districts into a single district. The petition shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pl...

...hin and partly without, any conservancy district, which improvements will affect only a part of the district, for the purpose of accomplishing such work, subdistricts may be organized upon petition of the owners of real property, or the governing body of any political subdivision or watershed district created under section 6105.02 of the Revised Code, within, or partly within and partly without, the district, or upon...

... drainage of marshes, or for any sewer district outside of a municipal corporation, organized under any other law of this state, may become a conservancy district or subdistrict under sections 6101.01 to 6101.84, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or may be absorbed in and amalgamated with any conservancy district in the following manner: When the officials in charge of any such improvement or the board of direc...

...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 ...

...tion, 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 itself to be injuriously affected shall ...

...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 manner that would result in damage to the property or works or in the opinion of the board would endanger the ...

...r, 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.

...tration or operation of the conservancy district may be enforced against any officer of the district by mandamus at the instance of the board of directors 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...

...e board of directors of the conservancy district determines that any 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 a...

...dity of the organization of conservancy districts shall 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.

...rveyors or engineers of the conservancy district or by contractors in constructing the works of such district.

...r 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 damage at the expense of the person or corporation co...

...No officer 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 pre...

... for the establishment of a Conservancy District to be known as .......... Conservancy District. (Here insert the purposes) (2) That the lands sought to be included in said District comprise lands in .......... and .......... Counties, Ohio, described substantially as follows: Beginning on the north line of .......... County at its point of intersection with the west bank of the .......... River; thence west along...

...(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...

...es" means all waters within a watershed district occurring on the surface in natural or artificial channels, lakes, reservoirs, or impoundments, and in subsurface aquifers, which are available or may be made available to agricultural, industrial, commercial, recreational, public, and domestic users. (B) "Governmental agencies" means departments, divisions, or other units of the state or federal government, political...

...A watershed district shall be created upon the filing of a map and a description of such watershed district under division (G) of section 6111.42 of the Revised Code.

...er a map and description of a watershed district have been filed under division (G) of section 6111.42 of the Revised Code, the president of the board of county commissioners of that county or part of a county with a population within the territorial boundaries of the district, according to the last federal decennial census, greater than that of any other county or part of a county within such district, shall call a ...

...tatives, adopt an official name for the district and appoint a board of directors for the district. Such board shall consist of five members. By reason of his vocation, employment, or affiliation one of such members shall be classed as a representative of the public, one as a representative of agriculture, one as a representative of industry, one as a representative of public water supply, and one as a representativ...

...an expenditure budget for the watershed district for the remainder of the current calendar year and for the next succeeding calendar year. The total amount of each of such budgets shall be apportioned among the several watershed counties in the ratio that the taxable value of the real and personal property within such county and within the territorial boundaries of the district bears to the taxable value of all real...

... of a board of directors of a watershed district, the board shall meet and organize by selecting from among its members a chairman and a vice-chairman, who shall hold their respective offices until the next annual meeting of the board as provided in its bylaws. At each annual meeting thereafter the board shall elect from its membership a chairman and a vice-chairman who shall serve for a term of one year. The board...

...The secretary-treasurer of a watershed district is the fiscal officer of the district and the custodian of its funds and records and shall assist the board of directors in such particulars as it directs in the performance of its duties. The secretary-treasurer shall, before receiving any moneys belonging to the district, furnish bond in such amount as is determined by the board of directors of the district with sure...