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...er and authority granted to a watershed district shall be vested in and exercised by its board of directors. Upon its organization, the watershed district constitutes a political subdivision of the state, may sue and be sued, and may enter into contracts in furtherance of its powers and duties. The district may receive and accept gifts and grants from persons or any governmental agency, subject to any conditions or ...

...The board of directors of a watershed district, for the purpose of assisting to obtain the orderly development and the most beneficial use of the water resources within the territorial boundaries of the district, may: (A) Review and recommend plans for the development of the water resources within the territorial boundaries of the district; (B) Recommend appropriate means to resolve water conflicts among water us...

...e territorial boundaries of a watershed district, such person or agency shall, before such construction or alteration or the drilling, boring, or digging of such well is authorized, notify the board of directors of the watershed district, in writing, of such plans. Such notice shall briefly describe such plan, its location, and the purpose for which it is intended.

...The board of directors of a watershed district may designate a specific reach in the channel of any watercourse within the territorial boundaries of the district as a restricted channel, when the construction or alteration of structures or obstructions within such channel will restrict its capacity so as to constitute an unreasonable hazard to the safety of life and property in times of flood, or designate any ...

...n the board of directors of a watershed district has adopted a resolution under section 6105.131 of the Revised Code, designating a specific reach of a channel of a watercourse as a restricted channel or a specific area as a restricted floodway, it shall cause a copy of such resolution and a map and a description of the boundaries of such restricted channel or restricted floodway to be filed in the office of the coun...

...vernmental agency, except a conservancy district or subdistrict thereof organized under Chapter 6101. of the Revised Code, shall construct any structure or obstruction, or make or permit to be made any change or alteration in any structure or obstruction in a restricted channel or restricted floodway, or relocate, alter, otherwise restrict, deposit into, encroach upon, or change the grade of a restricted channel or r...

...t the board of directors of a watershed district, under section 6105.133 of the Revised Code, refuses to give its consent to the construction, change, alteration, relocation, deposit, encroachment, or change of grade in a restricted channel or restricted floodway or makes a part of its consent conditions, regulations, or restrictions not included in the original application for such consent, the person, or government...

...y the board of directors of a watershed district shall prepare and publish a report of its proceedings during the preceding calendar year. Such report shall contain a summary of the hearings held by the board, the recommendations of the board resulting from such hearings, and any suggestions or recommendations which the board may deem pertinent to the orderly development and beneficial use of the water resources of t...

..., the board of directors of a watershed district shall submit to the board of county commissioners of each watershed county an expenditure budget for the watershed district for the next succeeding calendar year.

...r the expenditure budget of a watershed district has been submitted to the boards of county commissioners under section 6105.15 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 census, greater than that of any other county or part of a county within such district...

...nt, adopt an expenditure budget for the district for the next succeeding calendar year. The amounts of the budget adopted under this section may be more or less than the amounts contained in the budget submitted under section 6105.15 of the Revised Code. The total amount of such budget shall be apportioned among the several watershed counties in the ratio that the taxable value of the real and personal property with...

... following the creation of a watershed district a referendum may be held on the question of dissolution of the district. The question of dissolution of a watershed district may be presented to the electors within the territorial boundaries of the district, at any general election, by the filing of a petition, signed by at least two hundred qualified electors residing within the territorial boundaries of the di...

...contain: (A) The name of the watershed district it is proposed to dissolve; (B) A statement that the signers of the petition request that the question of the dissolution of the district be presented to the electors within the territorial boundaries of the district at the next general election.

...territorial boundaries of the watershed district, shall, on or before the ninetieth day before the day of the election at which the question of dissolving the district is to be submitted to the electors, certify to the board of elections of each watershed county the question of whether or not the district shall be dissolved. The board of elections of each of such counties shall place such question on the ques...

...continuing the existence of a watershed district, the secretary of the board of directors of the district shall call a special meeting of the board for the purpose of distributing the assets of the district. At such meeting the board shall determine the value of the assets of the district and provide for their distribution among the several watershed counties, in the ratio that the taxable value of the real and perso...

..., the board of directors of a watershed district in which such violation has occurred or is threatened, or the owner of any property who would be especially damaged by such violation, in addition to any other remedies provided by law may institute and prosecute a suit for injunction to prevent or terminate such violation or correction of a condition constituting or threatening to constitute such a violation.

...Whoever violates section 6105.13 or 6105.133 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. Each day upon which such violation occurs or continues may constitute a separate offense.

...nships, municipal corporations, school districts, road districts, ditch districts, park districts, levee districts, and all other governmental agencies clothed with the power of levying general or special taxes. (D) "Court" means the court of common pleas in which the petition for the organization of a sanitary district was filed and granted. In the case of a district lying in more than one county, "court" me...

... this chapter shall be termed "sanitary district books" or "sanitary district records," and such titles shall be printed, stamped, or written thereon.

...by the board of directors of a sanitary district and the issuance of bonds in accordance therewith. (C) In the preparation of any assessment or appraisal roll the usual abbreviations employed by engineers, surveyors, and abstractors may be used. (D) Where properly to describe any parcel of land, it would be necessary to use a long description, the board of appraisers of a sanitary district, after locating the land ...

...nd disposal of sewage and other liquid wastes produced within the district; (E) To provide a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use within the district, and incident to those purposes and to enable their accomplishment to construct reservoirs, trunk sewers, intercepting sewers, siphons, pumping stations, wells, intakes, pipe lines, purification works, treatment and disposal works, to maintain, operat...

...Before any court establishes a sanitary district as outlined in section 6115.04 of the Revised Code, a petition shall be filed in the office of the clerk of said court, signed by five hundred freeholders, or by a majority of the freeholders, or by the owners of more than half of the property, in either acreage or value, within the limits of the territory proposed to be organized into a district. Such a petition may b...

... court refuses to organize the sanitary district. If at any time during the proceeding the court is satisfied that the bond first executed is insufficient in amount, it may require the execution of an additional bond within a time to be fixed, which shall be not less than ten days distant, and upon failure of the petitioners to execute such additional bond the petition shall be dismissed.

...litical subdivision within the proposed district. The court of common pleas of the county in which the petition was filed shall thereafter for all purposes of sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 of the Revised Code, except as otherwise provided in such sections, maintain and have original and exclusive jurisdiction coextensive with the boundaries and limits of said district and of lands and other property proposed to be inc...

...f real property in a proposed sanitary district who individually has not signed a petition under section 6115.05 of the Revised Code, and who wishes to object to the organization and incorporation of said district shall, on or before the date set for the cause to be heard, file his objections to the organization and incorporation of such district. Such objections shall be limited to a denial of the statements in the...