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...At the preliminary meeting of the court, it shall fix the time and place of the hearing on the petition for the establishment of the proposed conservancy district, which hearing shall be held not later than sixty days thereafter, and the clerk of the court shall give notice of the hearing by publication. Any owner of real property in a proposed district who individually has not signed the petition and who wishes to o...

...Within thirty days after the conservancy district has been declared a corporation by the court, the clerk of such court shall transmit to the secretary of state, to the director of the department of natural resources, and to the county recorder in each of the counties having lands in the district, copies of the findings and the decree of the court incorporating the district. The same shall be filed and recorded in th...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, within thirty days after entering the decree incorporating a conservancy district, the court shall appoint three persons, at least two of whom are residents of counties, all or part of which are included within the territorial limits of the district, as a board of directors of the conservancy district, one for a term of three years, one for a term of five years,...

...Each member of the board of directors of a conservancy district, before entering upon the member's official duties, shall take and subscribe to an oath before a suitable officer that the member will honestly, faithfully, and impartially perform the duties of office and that the member will not be interested directly or indirectly in any contract let by the district. This oath shall be filed in the office of the cler...

...The secretary of the conservancy district shall be the custodian of the records of the district and shall assist the board of directors in the particulars it directs in the performance of its duties. The secretary shall attest all certified copies of the official records and files of the district that are required of the secretary by this chapter or by any person ordering copies and paying the reasonable cost of tran...

...of a plan shall be prepared providing a water supply for domestic, industrial, or public use, or providing for the collection and disposal of sewage and other liquid wastes, for any municipal corporation, unless the governing body of the municipal corporation has petitioned the board to provide a water supply or a system for the collection and disposal of sewage and other liquid wastes, or has signed the petition ini...

...(A) The board of directors of any conservancy district, or its employees or agents, including contractors and their employees, and the board of appraisers of the conservancy district and its assistants, may enter upon lands within or without the district to make surveys and examinations to accomplish the necessary preliminary purposes of the district, or to have access to the work. They shall be liable, however, for ...

...inus of any ditch, drain, sewer, river, watercourse, pond, lake, creek, or natural or artificial stream located in or out of the district; (B) Fill up any abandoned or altered ditch, drain, sewer, river, watercourse, pond, lake, creek, or natural or artificial stream, and concentrate, divert, or divide the flow of water in or out of the district; (C) Construct, acquire, operate, and maintain main and lateral ditche...

...When real property is acquired which is located either within or without the acquiring conservancy district and which is removed from the tax duplicate, the board of directors of the conservancy district shall pay annually to the county treasurer of the county in which such property is located, commencing with the tax year after the removal of such property from the tax duplicate, an amount of money in lieu of taxes ...

...When it is determined to let the work relating to the improvements for which a conservancy district was established by contract, contracts in excess of the amount specified in section 9.17 of the Revised Code shall be advertised after notice calling for bids has been published once a week for two consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, with the last publication to occur at least eight da...

...he engineering, repair, sustainability, water quality management, and maintenance of a water storage tank and appurtenant facilities.

...ent domain of railroad, telephone, gas, water power, and other companies and corporations, and over townships, counties, and municipal corporations. In the exercise of this right, due care shall be taken to do no unnecessary damage to other public utilities, and, in case of failure to agree upon the mode and terms of interference, not to interfere with their operation or usefulness beyond the actual necessiti...

...The board of directors of a conservancy district may condemn for the use of the district, any land or property within or without said district not acquired or condemned by the court on the report of the board of appraisers of the conservancy district, in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, instead of having appraisals and assessments made by the board of appraisers.

...(A) For the purposes of this section, either of the following constitutes a public exigency: (1) A finding by the director of environmental protection that a public health nuisance caused by an occasion of unavoidable urgency and suddenness due to unsanitary conditions compels the immediate construction of sewers for the protection of the public health and welfare; (2) The issuance of an order by the board of healt...

...d with the works of the district or any watercourse in the district and the manner in which the watercourses of the district may be used for sewer outlets or for disposal of waste; (4) To prescribe the permissible uses of the water supply provided by the district and the manner of its distribution, and to prevent the pollution or unnecessary waste of the water supply; (5) To prohibit or regulate the discharge into ...

... the change or improvement of a natural watercourse is made necessary by the insufficiency of the bridge or other structure to permit the water of the stream to pass through it in times of high water, the work of altering or removing said bridge or other structure shall be at the expense of the owner. Before the removal or modification of any works outlined in this section, the board of directors shall give thirty da...

...If it is necessary to pass any dredge boat or other equipment through a bridge or grade of any railroad company or other corporation, county, township, or municipal corporation, the board of directors of the conservancy district shall give twenty days' notice to the owner of said bridge or grade that the same shall be removed temporarily to allow the passage of such equipment or that an agreement be immediately enter...

...The board of directors of a conservancy district may establish and maintain stream gauges, rain gauges, and a flood warning service with telephone or telegraph lines or telephone or telegraph service, and may make such surveys and examinations of rainfall and flood conditions, stream flow, and other scientific and engineering subjects as are necessary and proper for the purposes of the district. The board may issue r...

...perating the works of the district, the waters of it, or the parks, parkways, forests, and recreational facilities of it, or in minimizing or preventing damage to the properties, works, and improvements of the district from soil erosion, or for making surveys and investigations or reports thereon. The board may purchase, lease, or acquire land or other property in adjoining states to secure outlets or for other purpo...

...tions, corporations, and other users of waters to the waters of the conservancy district for domestic use, water supply, industrial purposes, water power, or for any other purposes are to remain the same as were owned by them prior to the organization of the district, and to such use as could be made of such waters if the improvements of the district had not been made. Wherever the improvements made by the district m...

... of the purposes of such improvement is water impoundment, the persons or public corporations residing or located within the county in which such improvement lies, may purchase such waters at a rate to be determined by the district's board of directors. This rate may, in addition to other cost factors, include an amount to cover the cost of any equipment necessary to make such water available for purchase. The right ...

...The board of directors of a conservancy district may construct, improve, operate, maintain, and protect parks, parkways, forest preserves, bathing beaches, playgrounds, and other recreational facilities upon the lands owned or controlled by the district, or upon lands located within the district owned or controlled by the United States government or any department of it, by this state or any department or division of...

...Whenever it is necessary for the purpose of a conservancy district to take or damage any cemetery, the board of appraisers of the conservancy district shall appraise the cost of such taking or easement or the amount of such damage in the same manner as appraisals are made for other property. The board of directors of the conservancy district after such taking shall have the same powers regarding the removal of a ce...

...At the time of making its order organizing a conservancy district or at any suitable time thereafter, the court shall appoint three appraisers to constitute the board of appraisers of the conservancy district, who shall in every case where appraisers are appointed under this chapter, be recommended by the board of directors of the conservancy district. The board of appraisers shall appraise the lands or other propert...

...During the preparation of the official plan, the board of appraisers of a conservancy district shall examine and become acquainted with the nature of plans for the improvement and of the lands and other property affected thereby, in order that it may be better prepared to make appraisals. When the certified copy of the entry of the court approving the official plan is filed with the secretary of the conservancy dist...