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...No right shall be given by municipal or county authorities to occupy the track, single or double, or other structure, of existing street railways for more than one eighth of the distance between the termini of the route, as actually constructed, operated, and run over, of the company or person to whom such grant is made. In granting permission to extend existing routes in cities, the cities and companies owning such ...

...No extension of a street railway located wholly outside a city, or of one wherever located, which is built in pursuance of a right obtained from authority other than that of a municipal corporation, shall be made within the limits of such city, except as a new route.

...No grant referred to in section 4951.02 of the Revised Code shall be made until there is produced to the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or the board of county commissioners the written consent of the owners of more than one half of the front footage of the lots and lands abutting on the street or public way along which it is proposed to construct such street railway or extension, and evidence that o...

...When a grant is made by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, either for a new route or as an extension of an existing route, in case the number of tracks is not increased beyond the number for which consent originally was obtained, on and along any part of a street or public way upon which a street railway has been operated within one year preceding under a grant or renewal of a grant which has expir...

...When the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or board of county commissioners makes a grant as provided in section 4951.02 of the Revised Code, the company or person to whom it is made may appropriate, in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, property necessary for the street railway if the owner fails expressly to waive his claim to damages by reason of the construc...

...When it is deemed necessary by a majority of the directors of a domestic or foreign corporation owning or operating a street railway in a municipal corporation to appropriate private property in such municipal corporation, in order to avoid dangerous or difficult curves or grades or unsafe or unsubstantial ground or foundations, to extend or shorten its railway line, or to provide land on which to extend its power pl...

...Companies incorporated under section 1701.04 of the Revised Code, for the purpose of owning or operating street railway companies, may construct, maintain, and operate street railways for the transportation of passengers, packages, express matter, United States mail, baggage, and freight upon the highways in this state outside of municipal corporations or upon private right of ways. Such companies may occupy and use...

...If the public highway along which a street railway is to be constructed is owned by a person or company, or is within the control or management of the board of public works or other public officer, such owner or officer may agree with the person or company constructing the railway as to the conditions upon which the highway may be occupied.

...Whenever it is deemed necessary by a majority of the board of directors of a street railway company to cross the streets, avenues, alleys, ways, or any part thereof, of any municipal corporation or any public highway outside of a municipal corporation, the legislative authority of such municipal corporation, or the public officers owning or having charge of such highways outside of municipal corporations, may agree w...

...Street railways and interurban or suburban railroads using other than steam as motive power, when necessary, may enter upon and use private property in the construction, alteration, and operation of its railway or any part of it. For such purpose they have all rights and powers of appropriation that railroad companies possess and shall proceed in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Co...

...Where the tracks of any street railway extend into or through any municipal corporation and the street railway company deems it necessary to enter upon and use any private property within such municipal corporation for the construction and maintenance of either passenger stations or freight depots to be used in the operation of such railway, such company may appropriate private property within municipal corporations ...

...Street railway and suburban and interurban railroad companies may lease, purchase, or make traffic arrangements with any other street railway company as to so much of its tracks and other property as is necessary or desirable to enable them to enter or pass through a municipal corporation, upon the conditions applicable to other street railways. Any existing railway company owning or operating a railway shall receive...

...Street railway companies referred to by section 4951.18 of the Revised Code may consolidate on the terms applicable to the consolidation of railroad companies. No increase of fare shall be allowed on any street railway route by reason of such consolidation. Such companies shall be subject to the regulations provided for street railways and have all the powers, insofar as they are applicable, that other street railwa...

...When the lines or authorized lines of railway of street railway companies meet or intersect, or conveniently can be operated from one power house, or power houses owned, under lease, or operated by one of such companies, or when such line of a street railway company, and that of an inclined-plane railway or railroad company, or any railway operated by electricity conveniently may be connected, to be operated to mutua...

...Section 4951.20 of the Revised Code as to competing lines does not apply to companies whose lines are nearby or wholly situated in a municipal corporation of this state, or to the railway of any street railway company organized in this state which is made or is in process of construction to the boundary line of the state, or to a point within or without the state. Such company may consolidate its capital stock with t...

...When the railways of any street railway company, organized under the laws of this state, are constructed or in process of construction, and are or will be operated by electricity, and connect, or will or can be made to connect with the railways of another street railway company formed by the consolidation of companies organized under the laws of this state, or by the consolidation of a company organized under the law...

...When an interurban railroad company is incorporated and organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of building, acquiring, owning, leasing, operating, and maintaining a railroad to be operated by electricity or other motive power from one municipal corporation or point in this state to another municipal corporation or point in this state, it may agree with a street railway company owning or operating a st...

...While they are running and being operated over and along the tracks of a street railway company in a municipal corporation, the cars of an interurban railroad company are entitled to the privilege enjoyed by and subject to the obligations imposed upon the cars of such street railway company owning or operating its cars in such municipal corporation. They shall be operated only by the motive power which operates the c...

...It is not necessary for an interurban railroad company, in case it uses in a municipal corporation only the tracks of a street railway company owning or operating a street railway in such municipal corporation, to obtain an additional grant, franchise, or right, except by the agreement referred to by section 4951.23 of the Revised Code with such street railway company.

...The fare charged by an interurban railroad company which has contracted for the use of tracks as provided by section 4951.23 of the Revised Code for transporting passengers within the municipal corporation shall not be greater than that fixed in the franchise held or owned by the street railway company. When there is a public park or cemetery on the line of such railway, within one mile of, and owned by, such municip...

...A company maintaining and operating a street railway or a railroad operated by electricity may lease or purchase all the property, franchises, rights, and privileges of any company organized for the purpose of supplying either electricity or natural or artificial gas, or both, for power, light, heat, or fuel purposes, or which has been engaged in such business in whole or part in any municipal corporation within this...

...A company leasing or purchasing the property, rights, and franchises of an electric light and power company, natural or artificial gas company, or electric light and power and natural or artificial gas company, as provided in section 4951.27 of the Revised Code, has all the rights, power, and authority of the company whose property, rights, and franchises are so leased or purchased. The liability of the electric ligh...

...A company organized for street railway purposes may lease or purchase any street railway, or railroad operated as such and by electric power, or inclined-plane railway, together with all the property, franchises, rights, and privileges respecting the use and operation of such railway, situated or existing in whole or part in this state, constructed and held by any other company, the latter being hereby invested with ...

...Two or more street railway or electric railway companies may enter into any agreement for their common benefit consistent with and calculated to promote the objects for which they were created. No such lease or purchase shall be perfected until a meeting of the stockholders of each of the companies has been called for that purpose by the directors of such companies, on thirty days' notice to each stockholder at such ...

...When a lease or purchase is made as provided in sections 4951.29 and 4951.30 of the Revised Code, there shall be no increase of the existing rates of fare by reason of such lease or purchase, nor shall any fare be charged upon any of the separate routes so leased or purchased in excess of the fare charged over such separate routes prior to the lease or purchase of them. When a lease or purchase is made, the fare char...

...Snowmobiles, off-highway motorcycles, and all-purpose vehicles may be operated as follows: (A) To make a crossing of a highway, other than a highway as designated in division (A)(1) of section 4519.40 of the Revised Code, whenever the crossing can be made in safety and will not interfere with the movement of vehicular traffic approaching from any direction on the highway, and provided that the operator yields the ri...

...es, and all-purpose vehicles on land or waters controlled by the state. The director also shall undertake a program relating to the development of trails and special areas for the use of snowmobiles, off-highway motorcycles, and all-purpose vehicles, and may require any permits for such use as the director considers necessary. The director may designate employees of the department of natural resources to enforce any...

...A board of park commissioners of any park district created under Chapter 1545. of the Revised Code may provide by rule for the operation of snowmobiles, off-highway motorcycles, and all-purpose vehicles in the parks, parkways, and other reservations of land under its jurisdiction, and shall file a copy of any such rules with the director of natural resources. Any employee of a board of park commissioners designated ...

...f-way thereof, or on any public land or waters. (B) No person who is less than sixteen years of age shall operate a snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle on any land or waters other than private property or waters owned by or leased to the person's parent or guardian, unless accompanied by another person who is eighteen years of age, or older, and who holds a license as provided in divisi...

...(A) Any dealer who rents, leases, or otherwise furnishes a snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle for hire shall maintain the vehicle in safe operating condition. No dealer, or agent or employee of a dealer, shall rent, lease, or otherwise furnish a snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle for hire to any person who does not hold a license as required by division (A) of section 4...

...The operator of a snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle involved in any accident resulting in bodily injury to or death of any person, or damage to the property of any person in excess of one hundred dollars, shall report the accident within forty-eight hours to the state highway patrol, the sheriff of the county within which the accident occurred, or the chief of police, if the accident occurred...

...(A) Whenever a person is found guilty of operating a snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle in violation of any rule authorized to be adopted under section 4519.21 or 4519.42 of the Revised Code, the trial judge of any court of record, in addition to or independent of any other penalties provided by law, may impound for not less than sixty days the certifica...

...Nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent local authorities from regulating the operation of snowmobiles, off-highway motorcycles, and all-purpose vehicles on streets and highways and other public property under their jurisdiction, and within the reasonable exercise of the police power, except that no local authority shall require the registration or licensing of any snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-p...

...The registrar of motor vehicles shall adopt rules the registrar considers necessary to ensure uniform and orderly operation of sections 4519.51 to 4519.70 of the Revised Code, and the clerks of the courts of common pleas shall conform to those rules. The registrar shall receive and file in the registrar's office all information forwarded to the registrar by the clerks under those sections, and the clerk...

...The registrar of motor vehicles shall designate as an electronic dealer a dealer who meets both of the following criteria: (A) The dealer has the capability, via electronic means, to send title and registration information relating to off-highway motorcycles and all-purpose vehicles, as specified by the registrar, to the registrar and the clerks of the courts of common pleas. (B) The dealer meets other c...

...The owner of an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle shall apply for a certificate of title for the motorcycle or vehicle when required by this chapter, but, except as otherwise specifically required in this chapter, the owner may elect whether or not to have the clerk of the court of common pleas to whom the certificate of title application is submitted issue a physical certificate of title for ...

...(A) Except as provided in sections 4519.521 and 4519.54 of the Revised Code, no dealer engaged in the business of selling new or used off-highway motorcycles or all-purpose vehicles shall sell or otherwise transfer a new or used off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle without obtaining a certificate of title to the new or used motorcycle or vehicle, in accordance with this chapter, and deliveri...

...(A)(1) If a person who is not an electronic dealer owns an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle for which a physical certificate of title has not been issued by a clerk of a court of common pleas and the person sells the motorcycle or vehicle to an electronic dealer, the person is not required to obtain a physical certificate of title to the motorcycle or vehicle in order to transfer ownership to...

...No person who acquires an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle from the owner of it, whether the owner is a manufacturer, importer, dealer, or any other person, acquires any right, title, claim, or interest in or to the off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle until the person has been issued a certificate of title to the off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle, or there is delivere...

...No manufacturer, importer, dealer, or other person shall sell or otherwise dispose of a new off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle to a dealer to be used by the dealer for purposes of display and resale, without delivering to the dealer a manufacturer's or importer's certificate executed in accordance with this section, and with such assignments thereon as are necessary to show title in the purchaser. No deale...

...Application for a certificate of title for an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle shall be made upon a form prescribed by the registrar of motor vehicles and shall be sworn to before a notary public or other officer empowered to administer oaths. The application shall be filed with the clerk of any court of common pleas. An application for a certificate of title may be filed electronically by any electronic...

...Notwithstanding any general requirement in this chapter to the effect that an application for a certificate of title to an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle shall be "sworn to" or shall be "sworn to before a notary public or other officer empowered to administer oaths," that requirement shall apply only in the case of a transfer of an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle between parties in the co...

...(A) An application for a certificate of title shall be sworn to before a notary public or other officer empowered to administer oaths by the lawful owner or purchaser of the off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle and shall contain at least the following information in a form and together with any other information the registrar of motor vehicles may require: (1) Name, address, and social security number or e...

...(A) When the clerk of a court of common pleas issues a physical certificate of title for an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle, the clerk shall issue it over the clerk's official seal. The front side of each physical certificate of title shall contain the information required in the application for it as prescribed by section 4519.56 of the Revised Code, spaces for the dates of notation an...

...(A) When the clerk of a court of common pleas issues a physical certificate of title, the clerk shall issue the certificate of title on a form and in a manner prescribed by the registrar of motor vehicles. The clerk shall file a copy of the physical evidence for the creation of the certificate of title in a manner prescribed by the registrar. A clerk may retain digital images of documents used as evidence for issuanc...

...(A)(1) The clerk of a court of common pleas shall charge and retain fees as follows: (a) Eighteen dollars, or twenty-three dollars if a board of county commissioners adopts a resolution authorizing the increased fee for that county, for each certificate of title or duplicate certificate of title including the issuance of a memorandum certificate of title, authorization to print a non-negotiable evidence of ownershi...

...(A) In the event of the transfer of ownership of an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle by operation of law, as upon inheritance, devise, bequest, order in bankruptcy, insolvency, replevin, or execution of sale, or when repossession is had upon default in performance of the terms of a security agreement as provided in Chapter 1309. of the Revised Code, a clerk of a court of common pleas, upon the surrender ...

...(A) Each owner of an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle and each person mentioned as owner in the last certificate of title, when the off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle is dismantled, destroyed, or changed in such manner that it loses its character as an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle, or changed in such manner that it is not the off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose...

...In the event of a lost or destroyed certificate of title, application shall be made to a clerk of a court of common pleas, by the owner of the off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle, or the holder of a lien on it, for a certified copy of the certificate, upon a form prescribed by the registrar of motor vehicles and accompanied by the fee prescribed by section 4519.59 of the Revised Code. The app...

...(A) The registrar of motor vehicles or the clerk of the court of common pleas, upon the application of any person and payment of the proper fee, may prepare and furnish title information regarding off-highway motorcycles and all-purpose vehicles in the form and subject to any territorial division or other classification as they may direct. The registrar or the clerk may search the records of the bureau of motor vehic...