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...(A) As used in this section and section 6101.44 of the Revised Code: (1) "Charitable trust" means any entity that meets all of the following: (a) It is exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. (b) At least in part, it benefits a conservancy district that includes all or parts of more than sixteen counties. (c) At least in part, its purposes are consistent with...

...After the conservancy appraisal record as approved by the court, or that part of it from which no appeal is pending, has been filed with the secretary of the conservancy district as provided in section 6101.37 of the Revised Code, from time to time, as the affairs of the district demand it, the board of directors of the conservancy district shall levy on all real property and on all public corporations, upon which be...

...When the conservancy assessment record is placed on file in the office of the conservancy district, notice by publication shall be given to property owners and public corporations assessed that they may pay their assessments. Any owner of real property or public corporation assessed for the execution of the official plan under this chapter may pay the assessment to the treasurer of the conservancy district within thi...

...(A) The board of directors of a conservancy district may, if in its judgment it seems best, issue bonds in an amount not to exceed ninety per cent of the total amount of the unpaid portion of an assessment, exclusive of interest, levied under this chapter, to mature at annual or semiannual intervals within thirty years. Whenever the board determines to issue bonds in anticipation of the collection of the installments...

...A conservancy district or a subdistrict of it may issue revenue bonds for the purpose of paying all or part of the cost of acquiring or constructing any improvement that the district or subdistrict is authorized to acquire or construct, and the improvement may include equipment, land or interests in land, and facilities necessary or appropriate to the improvement. The bonds shall be secured only by a pledge of, and l...

...The treasurer of a conservancy district, at the time of taking office, shall execute to the district and deliver to the president of the board of directors of the district, a bond with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the board, conditioned that the treasurer shall account for and pay over as required by law, and as ordered by the board, all money received by the treasurer on the sale of bonds and note...

...Whenever the owner of any coupon bond issued pursuant to this chapter presents the bond to the treasurer of the conservancy district with a request for the conversion of the bond into a bond registered as to principal and interest, the treasurer shall cut off and cancel the coupons of the coupon bond presented, and shall stamp, print, or write upon the coupon bond, either upon the back or the face of it or in blanks ...

...structed for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, industrial, and public use within the district, when the water supply can be metered or measured when furnished to persons or public corporations. If the district, for the benefit of one or more persons or political subdivisions, provides a water supply that recharges underground aquifers and thereby replenishes wells or provides a source of water for...

...Whenever the owners or representatives of twenty-five per cent or more of the acreage or value of the lands in a conservancy district or the board of directors of a conservancy district file a petition with the clerk of the court having jurisdiction in the original case, stating that there has been a material change in the values of the property in the district or additional benefits are being derived from the works ...

...The board of directors of a conservancy district shall each year after the original assessment has been levied determine, order, and levy the annual levy, which shall include all assessments, or installments of assessments, together with interest, levied under this chapter, which become due in the ensuing year. The annual levy shall be due and be collected at the same time that state and county taxes are due and col...

...In anticipation of the collection of assessments for any year levied under sections 6101.53 and 6101.55 of the Revised Code, the board of directors of a conservancy district may borrow money and issue notes therefor; but the aggregate of such loans made in any year shall not exceed one half of the total amount estimated by the county auditors of the several counties in the district to be received from the collection ...

...Each county treasurer charged with collection of assessments shall make due report to the county auditor of the sums collected by the treasurer, and the auditor shall issue a warrant payable to the treasurer of the conservancy district for all sums of money in the hands of the county treasurer, according to the report. The auditor, as soon as the records for collection are closed by the county treasurer according to ...

...Before receiving the assessment record provided for by section 6101.55 of the Revised Code, the county treasurer of each county in which lands or other property of the conservancy district are located shall execute to the district and deliver to the board of directors of the district a bond with a surety company authorized to conduct a surety business in this state as surety, which bond shall be paid for by the distr...

...All conservancy district assessments provided for in this chapter, together with all penalties and interest for default in payment of the assessments, and all costs in collecting the assessments, including a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court and taxed as costs in the action brought to enforce payment, from the date of filing the certificate described in this section in the office of the county audit...

...The auditor's conservancy assessment record is prima-facie evidence in all courts of all matters contained in it. The liens established and declared in section 6101.59 of the Revised Code may be enforced at the option of the board of directors of the conservancy district by an action on delinquent assessment bills, made and certified by the county auditor, which action shall be instituted in the court of common pleas...

...Whenever, under this chapter, the board of directors of a conservancy district has determined, ordered, and levied an annual levy in accordance with section 6101.55 of the Revised Code, the board shall certify to the governing or taxing body of each political subdivision assessed, a notice and statement of the annual levy, setting forth the total amount payable by the political subdivision and included in the annual ...

...y district organized for the purpose of water supply, against any public corporation, the governing body or other taxing authority of such public corporation may appropriate any unappropriated funds of the water department of such public corporation. The aggregate of the amounts appropriated for such purpose during each successive five year period shall not exceed ninety per cent of the total amount of the annual lev...

...In addition to the uniform rates for water provided for by sections 6101.24 and 6101.53 of the Revised Code, the board of directors of a conservancy district, for the purpose of providing funds for bond retirement and interest, and thus accomplishing reduction in the amount to be collected through annual levy, may charge an additional rate for water furnished by the district to a public corporation or person within t...

...For the purpose of payment of any portion of an annual levy made for the purpose of collection and disposal of sewage and liquid wastes, the governing body or other taxing authority of a public corporation assessed may appropriate and use moneys from the sewer fund derived from proceeds of sewer rentals collected under authority of sections 729.49 to 729.52, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Such use of the sewer fund ...

...If any county treasurer or other person entrusted with the collection of assessments fails to make prompt payment of the assessments, or any part of them, when collected under this chapter to the treasurer of the conservancy district upon the presentation of a proper demand, the county treasurer or other person shall forfeit ten per cent on the amount of the delinquency. The forfeiture shall at once become due and pa...

...After the close of each fiscal year, or oftener if the court so orders, the board of directors of the conservancy district shall make a report to the court of its proceedings and an accounting of receipts and disbursements of such year or period. There shall be an annual meeting of the full court for the presentation and examination of the annual report of the board. All such reports shall be filed with the clerk of ...

...Each member of the board of directors of a conservancy district and each member of the board of appraisers of a conservancy district shall receive a sum established by the court and necessary expenses for the time actually employed in performing official duties. The compensation and expenses shall be paid only upon itemized statements submitted and certified to by the individual member.

...The same land, if conducive to public health, safety, convenience, or welfare, may be 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, conve...

...If any conservancy district is being organized within, or partly within and partly without, the same territory in which some other district has been or is being organized, one judge of the court of common pleas of each county in which the districts have been or are being organized shall confer at the earliest convenient moment after they ascertain the possibility of a conflict in jurisdiction, the sitting to be had i...

...(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...