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...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, when a railroad track is laid in the municipal corporation, by ordinance, regulate the speed of all locomotives and railroad cars within the municipal corporation limits. Such ordinance shall not require a rate of speed of less than four miles an hour, and in villages having a population of two thousand or less, it shall not require a rate of less than eight m...

...th than nine feet below the curb of the street or streets on which such lot or land abuts, or, if there is no curb, below the established grade of the street or streets on which such lot or land abuts, or, if there is no curb or established grade, below the surface of the adjoining lots, and by such excavation he causes damage to any wall, house, or other building upon the lots adjoining thereto, such owner or posses...

...cribed in section 723.49 of the Revised Code, and may, on thirty days' notice to adjoining owners, grade and improve the surface of any lot to correspond with the established grade of the street, streets, or alleys upon which such lot or land abuts, without incurring liability.

...Any municipal corporation, when it is necessary in the construction and protection of wells, pumps, cisterns, aqueducts, water pipes, dams, reservoirs, reservoir sites, sewers, drains, sewage disposal or water purification plants, and water works, for supplying water to itself and its inhabitants or disposing of sewage, may relocate, straighten, change, or cross a road or stream, but shall, without unnecessary delay,...

...ate under section 117.16 of the Revised Code. In municipal corporations having an engineer, or an officer having a different title but the duties and functions of an engineer, the estimate shall be made by the engineer or other officer. Where the total estimated cost of any such work is seventy thousand dollars or less, the proper officers may proceed by force account. Where the total estimated cost of any such wor...

...efined in section 723.52 of the Revised Code exceeds the amount specified in that section, such municipal authorities shall cause to be kept by the engineer of the municipal corporation, or other officer or employee of the municipal corporation in charge of such work, a complete and accurate account, in detail, of the cost of doing the work. The account shall include labor, materials, freight, fuel, hauling, overhead...

...ribed in section 5501.47 of the Revised Code. The legislative authority may contract for inspection services. The municipal official responsible for inspection shall maintain an updated inventory record of all bridges in the municipality and indicate on such inventory record who is responsible for inspection and maintenance, and the authority for such responsibilities. The official shall report the condition of a...

...rofessional engineer qualified in the designing of bridges.

...d Code: (A) "Public utility" means any street railway operated in whole or in part under sections 4951.20 to 4951.22, inclusive, and 4951.27 to 4951.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or any street railway operated in connection with or upon the tracks of any such street railway, and any corporation which owns, operates, or leases any such street railway. (B) "Indeterminate permit" means any grant of a municipal c...

...01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Any such municipal corporation may purchase and operate such property, and every such public utility shall sell such property for the compensation determined or agreed upon in accordance with such sections. The amount to be paid for the property may be determined by condemnation proceedings, by proceedings before the public utilities commission, or by agreement between t...

...01 to 719.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...nce with section 4909.04 of the Revised Code. Thereupon the commission shall proceed to make an inventory and valuation of the property of such public utility. The proceedings for a review of such valuation shall be as prescribed in section 4909.11 of the Revised Code. Such valuation shall not become binding upon the municipal corporation unless the legislative authority thereof passes an ordinance accepting such val...

...ctions 745.02 and 745.03 of the Revised Code, agree with a public utility upon the compensation to be paid for its property and the times for the exercise of the privilege of purchase, but no period between the times fixed for such purchase shall exceed five years. Upon the determination of the municipal corporation to acquire the property of such public utility, the amount to be paid by the municipal corporation and...

...suant to section 745.06 of the Revised Code shall not take effect until submitted to the electors of the municipal corporation, at a special or general election held in the municipal corporation at such time as the legislative authority determines, and approved by a majority of the electors voting on it. The ordinance shall be passed by an affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the members of the legi...

...01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or until otherwise terminated according to the terms of the permit. The acceptance of an indeterminate permit deprives the public utility of all rights under any license, permit, grant, or franchise, or granted in any municipal ordinance or resolution existing at the time of the granting of the permit. From the time of such grant, the rates, fares, charges, service, accou...

...ovided in section 745.06 of the Revised Code, all rates, fares, tolls, and charges for services rendered and commodities furnished by such public utility shall be sufficient to yield a reasonable compensation to the public utility operating under an indeterminate permit, and in the ascertainment of what shall constitute such reasonable rates, fares, tolls, and charges, the municipal corporation shall have regard, amo...

...01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, such department is hereby granted such powers of supervision and regulation of any public utility operating under an indeterminate grant as are provided by such sections and the ordinance granting the permit, and as are prescribed by any ordinance not inconsistent with the ordinance granting the permit. Each such public utility shall comply with all orders and regulations...

...When an ordinance granting an indeterminate permit contains no provisions whatever relative to appeal from or arbitration concerning the orders of the municipal corporation, the utility may appeal to the public utilities commission from any order of the municipal corporation which is in violation of law or of the permit, or from any unreasonable order concerning matters upon which the parties have not agreed in the p...

...ction and section 745.11 of the Revised Code, the law relating to appeals, complaints, or applications to the commission shall not apply to public utilities operating under indeterminate permits.

...01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the duties imposed upon public utilities by such sections shall be enforceable by mandamus and all other judicial proceedings provided for the enforcement of the duties of public utilities.

...01 to 745.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not deprive any municipal corporation of its rights to prescribe, by charter, any other methods or terms according to and upon which indeterminate permits may be granted in such municipal corporation.