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...(A) When one vehicle is towing another vehicle, the drawbar or other connection shall be of sufficient strength to pull all the weight towed thereby, and the drawbar or other connection shall not exceed fifteen feet from one vehicle to the other, except the connection between any two vehicles transporting poles, pipe, machinery, or other objects of structural nature which cannot readily be dismembered. When one vehi...

...No superintendent or other executive officer of a company operating a railroad who receives from the public utilities commission notice of a prescribed rate of speed for trains passing over a defective track, bridge, or other structure, or notice forbidding the running of passenger trains over such defective track, bridge, or other structure, shall neglect, within two days after receiving such notice, to direct the p...

...(A) The public utilities commission shall survey all public crossings of railroads at grade, whether on state, county, or township highways or on streets or ways within municipal corporations. The commission shall devise a formula according to sound highway engineering practice for determining the probability of accident at each such crossing and may include in the formula factors representing volume of vehicular tra...

...(A) The Ohio rail development commission shall do all of the following: (1) Develop, promote, and support safe, adequate, and efficient rail service throughout the state; (2) Maintain adequate programs of investigation, research, promotion, planning, and development for rail service, which programs shall include the consideration of recommendations by public or private planning organizations; (3) Provide for the p...

...sult of a reckless operation offense or speeding offense. (B) The rules required under divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section shall include guidelines to determine which areas are appropriate to the posting of such signs. The guidelines may include consideration of the following: the duration of the work on the street or highway, the proximity of workers to moving traffic, the existence of any unusual or hazardous...

...The board of county commissioners may classify the county and township roads and bridges and all other roads and bridges within their respective counties, except state highways and bridges on state highways, with reference to the maximum weights and speeds permitted on such roads and bridges. The classifications made by the board under this section shall not apply to vehicles of a weight of five tons or less for veh...

...All rules as provided by section 5577.08 of the Revised Code shall be made by the board of county commissioners, at regular meetings, by a majority vote. Such rules shall be kept on file in the office of the board and open for inspection by the public. At least two days before such rules become effective the board shall cause to be placed and retained on county and township highways classified under section 5577.08 ...

...(A) As used in sections 5709.45 to 5709.47 of the Revised Code: (1) "Downtown redevelopment district" or "district" means an area not more than ten acres enclosed by a continuous boundary in which at least one historic building is being, or will be, rehabilitated. (2) "Historic building" and "rehabilitation" have the same meanings as in section 149.311 of the Revised Code. (3) "Public infrastructure improvement...

...(A) An application for a program grant under the Ohio residential broadband expansion grant program shall include, at a minimum, the following information for an eligible project: (1) The location and description of the project, including: (a) The residential addresses in the unserved or tier one areas where tier two broadband service will be available following completion of the project; (b) A notarized let...

...(A) The reports required under section 122.4070 of the Revised Code and except as provided in section 122.4075 of the Revised Code, all information and documents in them shall be in a format specified by the department of development and shall be publicly available on the department's web site. (B) In each report, the broadband provider shall include an account of how program grant funds have been used and the pro...

...(A) As used in this section and in section 145.116 of the Revised Code: (1) "Agent" means a dealer, as defined in section 1707.01 of the Revised Code, who is licensed under sections 1707.01 to 1707.50 of the Revised Code or under comparable laws of another state or of the United States. (2) "Minority business enterprise" has the same meaning as in section 122.71 of the Revised Code. (3) "Ohio-qualified agent" m...

...(A) Except as provided in this section, the chief of the division of parks and watercraft, with the approval of the director of natural resources, shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that are necessary for the proper management of state parks, bodies of water, and the lands adjacent to them under its jurisdiction and control, including rules: (1) Governing opening and closing times...

...No person shall moor or anchor any vessel in a designated speed zone or water ski zone. No person, unless in distress and no other vessel is endangered thereby, shall moor to, anchor to, or tie up to any marker, aid, buoy, light, or other aid to navigation. No person shall operate or permit to be operated any vessel on the waters in this state in violation of this section.

...(A) Except on the waters of the Ohio River or Lake Erie and immediately connected harbors and bays, any person who rides or attempts to ride upon one or more water skis, surfboard, or similar device, or who engages or attempts to engage in barefoot skiing, and any person who operates a vessel towing a person riding or attempting to ride on one or more water skis, surfboard, or similar device, or engaging or attemptin...

...No person or organization shall conduct any race, regatta, or other special event upon the waters in this state without first obtaining written permission, upon application not less than thirty days prior to the time of the proposed race, regatta, or event, of the federal agency, state department, conservancy district, or political subdivision having jurisdiction and control over such waters. Any state department, co...

...This chapter and other applicable laws of this state govern the operation, equipment, registration, numbering, and all other matters relating thereto whenever any vessel is operated on the waters in this state, whether the waters are under the jurisdiction and control of a state department, conservancy district, or political subdivision, or when any activity regulated by this chapter takes place thereon; but nothing ...

...Motormen and trip riders shall use care in handling the locomotive and cars, and shall see that the signal or marker is used for the purpose as provided. Motormen and trip riders shall be governed by the speed provided for in sections 1567.39, 1567.40, and 1567.41 of the Revised Code in handling cars. No person shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.

...The operator of an underground coal mine, at which locomotives are used for hauling coal, shall keep a light on the front end of the locomotive when it is in use. When the locomotive is run ahead of the trip, and the trip rider is not required to ride the rear car of the trip, a signal, light, or marker, approved by the deputy mine inspector, shall be carried on the rear end of the trip to indicate when the trip has ...

...No person except those in charge of trips, superintendents, mine foremen, mine electricians, machinists, and blacksmiths, when required by their duty, shall ride on haulage trips, except where by mutual agreement in writing between the owner, lessee, or agent, and the employees, a special trip of empty cars is run for the purpose of taking employees into and out of the mine, or empty cars attached to loaded trips, wh...

...The motormen shall not run the locomotive with the trolley ahead of the locomotive, except in cases where they cannot do otherwise. In such case, the locomotive shall be run only at a speed of two miles per hour.

...(A) A person taking a child into custody shall, with all reasonable speed and in accordance with division (C) of this section, either: (1) Release the child to the child's parents, guardian, or other custodian, unless the child's detention or shelter care appears to be warranted or required as provided in section 2151.31 of the Revised Code; (2) Bring the child to the court or deliver the child to a place of detent...

...(A) Each public children services agency and private child placing agency shall prepare and maintain a case plan for any child to whom the agency is providing services and to whom any of the following applies: (1) The agency filed a complaint pursuant to section 2151.27 of the Revised Code alleging that the child is an abused, neglected, or dependent child; (2) The agency has temporary or permanent custody of t...

...(A) No person shall fail to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer invested with authority to direct, control, or regulate traffic. (B) No person shall operate a motor vehicle so as willfully to elude or flee a police officer after receiving a visible or audible signal from a police officer to bring the person's motor vehicle to a stop. (C)(1) Whoever violates this section is guilty of f...

...If a witness ordered to give recognizance fails to comply with such order, the judge or magistrate shall commit him to such custody or open or close detention as may be appropriate under the circumstances, until he complies with the order or is discharged. Commitment of the witness may be to the custody of any suitable person or public or private agency, or to an appropriate detention facility other than a jail, or ...

...An arrest may be made by any peace officer or a private person without a warrant upon reasonable information that the accused stands charged in the courts of any state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year. When so arrested the accused must be taken before a judge or magistrate with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against him under oath setting forth the groun...