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...orize and enter into contracts for the services of registered professional engineers to make the surveys. The surveys authorized by this section may include drawings, plans, specifications, estimates of cost of labor and materials, other items of cost, assessment rolls, and other facts, material, data, reports, and information and recommendations that the board considers advisable or necessary for the purpose. C...

...Whenever authorized by the legislative authority of any municipal corporation, the board of county commissioners may by resolution lay out, establish, and maintain one or more sewer districts within its county to include a part or all of the territory within such municipal corporation as the whole or a part of such district. Such authority shall be evidenced by an ordinance or resolution of the legislative authority ...

...The authority of a board of county commissioners to acquire, construct, maintain, and operate sanitary or drainage facilities or prevention or replacement facilities for a county sewer district in the territory of a municipal corporation, or a regional district established under Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code, that is in whole or in part within the county sewer district is the same as provided by law with re...

...y under this chapter for the use of, or service of property located in, any county sewer district, or any part of those facilities to which any of the following applies: (1) The facilities are located within the municipal corporation or within any area that is incorporated as, or annexed to, the municipal corporation. (2) The facilities serve the municipal corporation or any area that is located within or that...

...(A) After the establishment of any sewer district, the board of county commissioners, if a sanitary or drainage facility or prevention or replacement facility improvement is to be undertaken, may have the county sanitary engineer prepare, or otherwise cause to be prepared, for the district, or revise as needed, a general plan of sewerage or drainage that is as complete in each case as can be developed at the t...

... which it is in immediate need of sewer service; whether the tentative assessment is a disproportionately high percentage of the estimated market value of the property after the improvement will have been completed. All requests for the deferment of the collection of assessments shall be considered by the board before it adopts the improvement resolution provided for by section 6117.07 of the Revised Code, and, if th...

...(A) At any time prior to the expiration of the five-day period provided by section 6117.06 of the Revised Code for the filing of written objections, any owner of property which is classified on the general tax list of the county auditor as agricultural land and has been assessed for the extension of a trunk sewer line over or along such property under sections 6117.01 to 6117.45 of the Revised Code may file wit...

...After the expiration of the period of five days provided for in section 6117.06 of the Revised Code for the filing of written objections, the board of county commissioners shall determine whether or not it will proceed with the construction of the improvement mentioned in such section. Notice of the time and place of each meeting of the board of county commissioners, at which the resolution to proceed with the ...

...After the adoption of a resolution to proceed with an improvement as provided for in section 6117.07 of the Revised Code, the construction of the improvement shall be deferred until ten days have elapsed. If, at the expiration of that period, no appeal has been effected by any property owner as provided in sections 6117.09 to 6117.24 of the Revised Code, the action of the board of county commissioners shall be final...

...Any owner of property to be assessed or taxed for an improvement under sections 6117.01 to 6117.45 or sections 6103.01 to 6103.30 of the Revised Code, may appeal to the probate court from the action of the board of county commissioners in determining to proceed with the improvement in regard to any of the following matters: (A) The necessity of the improvement, including the question whether the cost of the improvem...

...Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to appeal to the probate court as provided in section 6117.09 of the Revised Code, when the improvement is located in two or more counties, may appeal to the probate court of the county in which property of such appellant to be assessed for such improvement is located. Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to appeal from the final order or judgment of the board upon any ...

...In case the petition for an improvement is dismissed, or the prayer thereof is not granted, then a person, firm, or corporation desiring to appeal therefrom must give the notice provided for in section 6117.10 of the Revised Code, on the date when the order is made dismissing said petition, or refusing to grant the prayer thereof, and file the bond required within the time prescribed in such section.

...The guardian of minors or other persons under disability may appeal to the probate court as provided in sections 6117.09 to 6117.11, inclusive, of the Revised Code, without giving bond for the payments of costs. The taking of such appeal must first be authorized by the court which appointed such guardian. The probate court shall make an entry showing such disability on the journal. The estates of such persons shall b...

...Within ten days after the filing of an appeal bond provided for in section 6117.10 or 6117.11 of the Revised Code, or the making of the entry provided for in section 6117.12 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall transmit to the probate court the original papers in the proceedings, and a certified transcript of the record of said board of all proceedings in connection therewith. Upon receipt the...

...The probate judge shall designate a day not exceeding five days after the docketing of the cause as provided in section 6117.13 of the Revised Code for the hearing of all preliminary questions and motions on the appeal, and for the examination of the papers and proceedings. On the day so fixed, all preliminary motions and questions arising upon the appeal shall be heard and determined, and if the probate court finds ...

...If the probate judge finds that an appeal under sections 6117.09 to 6117.24, inclusive, of the Revised Code, has been properly perfected, and that the proceedings are substantially regular, he shall fix a day not more than twenty days thereafter for the trial of the case, and shall publish at least twice in a newspaper of general circulation within the county a notice that such appeal has been made and stating the ti...

...If more than one party appeals in regard to the same improvement, the probate court shall order the cases to be consolidated and tried together, but the rights of each person, firm, or corporation as to the inclusion of their property in the assessment district or as to the apportionment of the tentative assessment shall be separately determined by the court in its verdict.

...he court in the manner provided for the service of summons in civil actions. If such owners are not residents of the county, or if in any case it appears by the return of the notice that such owner cannot be found, the notice shall be published at least twice in a newspaper of general circulation within the county, and the date of such hearing shall be at least one week after service of notice or of the second public...

...The probate judge shall make a record of all proceedings before him, and tax the cost in favor of the prevailing party and against the losing party. If more than one matter is appealed from, and a party prevails as to one matter and loses as to another, the probate court shall determine how much of the costs each party shall pay. The costs on motions or continuance and the like shall be taxed and paid as the court di...

...If an appeal has been made in reference to the necessity of the improvement as provided in section 6117.09 of the Revised Code, and it appears from the transcript certified to the board of county commissioners by the probate judge that the proposed improvement is not necessary for the public health, convenience, and welfare, or that the cost thereof will exceed the benefits resulting from such improvement, the board ...

...If an appeal has been made in reference to the boundaries of the assessment district or to the tentative assessment as provided in section 6117.09 of the Revised Code, and it appears from the transcript certified to the board of county commissioners by the probate judge that the boundaries of the assessment district should be changed or that the tentative assessment should be modified, the board may make such changes...

...If an appeal is taken from the order of the board of county commissioners dismissing or refusing to grant the prayer of the petition, and the probate court finds in favor of the improvement, it shall render judgment establishing such improvement, unless it grants a new trial, and the improvement shall henceforth be established unless the judgment of said court is reversed on appeal.

...For their services required on appeal the officers and other persons mentioned in sections 6117.01 to 6117.40, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are entitled to the fees and compensation which they are entitled to by law for like services in other cases.

...The final judgment of the probate court may be reviewed on appeal as in other cases. If an appeal is prosecuted from the judgment of the probate court as to the necessity of the improvement, the construction of the improvement shall be deferred until the appeal is finally disposed of. If an appeal is prosecuted from the judgment of the court as to the inclusion of any property in the assessment district or as to the...

...Any court in which an action is brought to enjoin, reverse, or declare void the proceedings by which any improvement has been made or ordered to be made under sections 6117.01 to 6117.45, inclusive, or 6103.02 to 6103.30, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or to enjoin a collection of a tax or assessment levied for such purpose, or any part thereof, or to which appeal is taken under section 6117.09 of the Revised Code t...