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...A company operating a railroad in whole or in part in this state may demand and receive for the transportation of passengers on its railroad, a fare not exceeding three cents per mile, for a distance of more than five miles, but the fare shall always be made that multiple of five nearest reached by multiplying the rate by the distance.

...Any company operating a railroad in whole or in part within this state which has posted proper notice to that effect in a conspicuous place in each waiting room and on the front of its depot building may collect ten cents in addition to the fare allowed by law when such fare is paid on the train, if an office at the point at which the passenger boarded the train was open for the sale of tickets at least thirty minute...

...A railroad company may demand and receive for the transportation of passengers on a branch road, the length of which does not exceed ten miles, a fare not exceeding six cents per mile, and for transportation of property such reasonable rates as are fixed by the company or prescribed by law.

...For the purposes specified in this section, bicycles, with or without lanterns or toolboxes attached, are baggage, shall be transported as such for passengers by all railroad companies, and are subject to the same charges and liabilities as other baggage. No passenger shall be required to crate, cover, or otherwise protect a bicycle. Such companies are not required to transport more than one bicycle for a single pers...

...Any common carrier, railroad, or motor carrier receiving property at a point within this state for transportation to a point within this state, shall issue a receipt or bill of lading for such property and is liable to the lawful holder of it for any loss, damage, or injury to such property caused by it or by any common carrier, railroad, or transportation company to which such property is delivered or over who...

...A railroad company organized under the laws of this state, upon the receipt of iron ore, grain, or other merchandise from any vessel, watercraft, or other source for storage and deposit, duly consigned to such company, upon the request of the owner of such ore, grain, or other merchandise, with the written consent of the consignee, may issue to the owner of such ore, grain, or other merchandise, a certificate, receip...

...When the track of a railroad company crosses, connects, or intersects a track of the same gauge of another company, either company may connect the tracks of the two railroads so crossing, connecting, or intersecting so as to admit the passage of cars from one railroad to another with facility and avoid the necessity of transferring freight from such cars.

...When the tracks of two railroad companies are connected as provided in section 4965.56 of the Revised Code, either company, when required, shall transport any freight offered over its railroad to its destination on such railroad in cars in which it is offered at its local rates per mile as set forth in its freight tariff for the distance most nearly corresponding, and return the cars, with or without freight or unnec...

...When the tracks of one railroad company lie contiguous to coal mines, stone quarries, manufacturing establishments, elevators, warehouses, navigable waters, or sidetracks, suitable for loading or unloading, it shall switch the cars of other companies, at the request of such companies or the shippers, over and upon the tracks so lying by such mines, quarries, manufacturing establishments, elevators, warehouses, naviga...

...(A) Every person, firm, or corporation engaging in the sale of steamship or railroad tickets for transportation to or from foreign countries shall execute and deliver a bond to the state approved by, and filed in the office of, the secretary of state, in the sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned for the selling of genuine and valid steamship or railroad tickets for such transportation. (B) Such bond shall be exe...

...When the railroads of railroad companies in this state or any portion of such railroads have been or are to be so constructed as to admit the passage of freight or passenger cars over any two or more of such railroads, continuously without break or interruption, such companies may consolidate themselves into a single company or either company may merge or be merged into the other. Where the railroad of any railroad c...

...A company organized in this state for the purpose of constructing, owning, and operating a railroad, or whose railroad is made or is in process of construction to a point within or without, or to the boundary line of, this state, may consolidate its capital stock, property, and franchises with those of a company in this or any other state, organized for a like purpose, whose railroad has been projected, constructed, ...

...A railroad company formed by the consolidation of a company of this state with a company of another state, or the surviving company in case of a merger of such companies, may make a further consolidation or merger with a company of this state, or of this state and any other state, or of another state or states, owning or operating over continuous, connected, but not parallel or competing lines. This section or sectio...

...A consolidation or merger of railroad companies shall be effected by each railroad company adopting an agreement of merger or consolidation pursuant to section 1701.78, 1701.79, 1701.80, or 1701.801 of the Revised Code and making the filings required by section 1701.81 of the Revised Code.

...A stockholder who dissents in a consolidation or merger of railroad companies pursuant to section 4967.04 of the Revised Code is entitled to relief as a dissenting shareholder under section 1701.85 of the Revised Code.

...Upon the consummation of any consolidation or merger, all the rights, privileges, and franchises of each of the companies, parties to the agreement of consolidation or merger, and all its property, debts due on account of subscriptions for stock, and other things in action, are to be deemed transferred to and vested in, or remain vested in, such new or surviving company without further act or deed. All property, righ...

...A consolidated railroad company created by or existing under the laws of this state, or of this state and any other state, may take, hold, pledge, or otherwise dispose of, under such terms and agreements as the board of directors of such company prescribes, the stock and bonds of any other company acquired upon any consolidation or merger or received by virtue of any purchase, lease, or operating contract. Such compa...

...When a consolidated railroad company described in section 4967.13 of the Revised Code is in possession of or operating in connection with or extension of its own railroad, any other railroad in this state or any other state, under purchase, conveyance, lease, contract, or agreement, such company may take a surrender or transfer of the whole or a part of the capital stock of the company conveying, leasing, or owning s...

...When the whole of the capital stock referred to in section 4967.14 of the Revised Code is surrendered or transferred, and a certificate thereof filed in the office of the secretary of state, under the common seal of the consolidated railroad company to which such surrender or transfer was made, the estate, property, rights, privileges, and franchises of the company whose stock was so surrendered or transferred vests ...

...Sections 4967.14 and 4967.15 of the Revised Code do not relieve a consolidated railroad company from paying the fee provided by section 111.16 of the Revised Code in case a corporation files a certificate for an increase of its capital stock. The rights of a stockholder not surrendering or transferring his stock are not affected, nor are existing liabilities or the rights of creditors of the company whose stock has b...

...As soon as convenient after a consolidation of railroad companies resulting in the formation of a new company, the new company shall establish a principal office at some point in this state on the line of its railroad, but may change it at pleasure. Public notice of such establishment or change shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the state, and by filing a written notice thereof wit...

...That part of the railroad of a consolidated or surviving railroad company located in this state, and all its real and personal property in this state, shall be listed for taxation and taxed in the same manner as the railroad and property of other railroad companies in this state. To ascertain the proportion of the rolling machinery subject to taxation here, the officer listing it shall ascertain the value of all the ...

...Suits may be brought and maintained against the new company formed by a consolidation of railroad companies, or against the surviving company in the case of a merger, in the courts of this state for all causes of action, in the same manner as against other companies.

...In any suit brought to charge a consolidated or surviving railroad company with a liability of any company party to the consolidation or merger, it is not necessary to produce or prove: (A) The charters of such companies; (B) The laws of the several states under and by virtue of which such consolidation or merger was effected; (C) The original articles of consolidation or merger.

...When two or more railroad companies are owners in common of the whole or a part of a railroad located within this state, and by reason of inequality in the amount of business done on such railroad by each company require a different degree and extent of improvement and development, such companies may enter into any arrangement they agree upon for enlarging, improving, developing, or increasing the facilities of such ...

...A municipal corporation shall grant a credit against its tax on income to a resident of the municipal corporation who works in a joint economic development zone created under section 715.691 or a joint economic development district created under section 715.70, 715.71, or 715.72 of the Revised Code to the same extent that it grants a credit against its tax on income to its residents who are employed in another munici...

...To provide a fund to pay the cost of the sprinkling under sections 723.17 to 723.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board or officer having charge of the repair of streets in the municipal corporation, each year, may estimate the cost thereof and cause a tax to be levied for such purpose upon the general tax duplicate of the municipal corporation, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as other le...

... county auditor for collection as other taxes in the year or years in which they are payable; provided any such assessment in the amount of five dollars or less, or any unpaid balance of any such assessment which is five dollars or less, shall be paid in full, and not in installments, at the time the first or next installment would otherwise become due and payable. Upon the adoption of such ordinance levying as...

...and receive, from the county treasurer, taxes levied and assessments made and certified to the county auditor by the legislative authority of such municipal corporation and placed on the tax list by such auditor for collection, moneys, from persons authorized to collect or required to pay them, accruing to the municipal corporation from any judgments, fines, penalties, forfeitures, licenses, costs taxed in mayor's co...

...thorities, and in addition to all other taxes authorized by law, levy and collect annually a tax upon all the real and personal property in the municipal corporation sufficient to pay the interest and provide a sinking fund for the extinguishment of all bonds issued and funded debts incurred prior to August 17, 1921, and the taxes so raised shall be used for no other purpose.

...In each city, the trustees of the sinking fund shall be a board of tax commissioners, but as members of such board they shall receive no compensation for their services. The members of such board, as such, shall take an oath to support the constitution of the United States and of this state and to faithfully and honestly perform their duties as such tax commissioners. The board shall organize by appointing one of i...

...Bonds purchased by the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund from any taxing district of the state shall be in the denomination required by the board in its resolution of purchase, or the board may by its resolution require that all bonds of any series of bonds purchased by it from any taxing district of the state be consolidated and issued as one bond, the principal amount of which is equal to t...

...The proper officers of each taxing district issuing the bonds provided for in section 742.12 of the Revised Code shall, without additional procedure or legislation on their part, comply with this section and with section 742.12 of the Revised Code, except that the proper accounting officers of such taxing district and the secretary of the sinking fund shall make and keep a detailed record of any such changes required...

...(A) Each employer shall pay monthly, on such dates as the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund requires, from its general fund, or from a levy imposed pursuant to division (J), (W), or (JJ) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code, to the fund an amount known as the "police officer employers' contribution," which shall be nineteen and one-half per cent of the salaries as defined in division (L) of...

...(A) Each employer shall pay monthly, on such dates as the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund requires, from its general fund, or from a levy imposed pursuant to division (I), (W), or (JJ) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code, to the fund an amount known as the "firefighter employers' contribution," which shall be twenty-four per cent of the salaries as defined in division (L) of section 742....

...All rentals, payments, and fees of every description and all other income, earnings, or revenues received from all persons, firms, and corporations for the use of depots, terminals, and railways, shall be kept in a separate and distinct fund, and after paying the expenses of the city for maintaining, conducting, and managing such depots, terminals, and railways, including the setting aside of a reasonable sum annuall...

...ed and shall be used for the payment of taxes on the duplicate for the year in which such certificates are issued and subsequent duplicates commencing with the 1938 duplicate. The legislative authority of a municipal corporation issuing housing certificates under such sections shall include within the tax budget each year provision for the obligations incurred and to be incurred by the issuance of such certificates a...

...The taxing authority of any municipal corporation, as defined by section 5705.01 of the Revised Code, shall, upon the filing of a petition therefor, signed by the qualified electors of such municipal corporation equal in number to ten per cent of the votes cast for governor in the last regular election, submit to the vote of the electors of the municipal corporation the question of levying annually for a period of fi...

...s for the deduction of municipal income taxes from the wages or salaries of employees of the state or its instrumentalities.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Economic development assistance" means all of the following: (a) The programs and assistance provided or administered by the department of development under Chapters 122. and 166. of the Revised Code and any other section of the Revised Code under which the department provides or administers economic development assistance; (b) The programs and assistance provided or administered ...

...If the board of education of a school district procures a tax-sheltered annuity for an employee, pursuant to section 9.90 of the Revised Code, that meets the requirements of Internal Revenue Code section 403(b), the employee has the right to designate the licensed agent, broker, or company through whom the board shall arrange for the placement or purchase of the tax-sheltered annuity. In any case in which the e...

...(A) Any one of the governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the secretary of state, the treasurer of state, or the auditor of state, shall act as the applicable elected representative of the state for purposes of any federal law or United States treasury regulation that requires that bonds, notes, or other obligations of the state or any of its officers, boards, authorities, commissions, agencies, bod...

...(A) The director of agriculture shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing all of the following: (1) Requirements and procedures governing high volume breeders, including the licensing and inspection of and record keeping by high volume breeders, in addition to the requirements and procedures established in this chapter. The rules shall include a requirement that a high volum...

...As used in the Revised Code: (A) "Blighted area" and "slum" mean an area in which at least seventy per cent of the parcels are blighted parcels and those blighted parcels substantially impair or arrest the sound growth of the state or a political subdivision of the state, retard the provision of housing accommodations, constitute an economic or social liability, or are a menace to the public health, safety, m...

...(A)(1) No present or former public official or employee shall, during public employment or service or for twelve months thereafter, represent a client or act in a representative capacity for any person on any matter in which the public official or employee personally participated as a public official or employee through decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation, the rendering of advice, investigation, or other ...

...tions made for tax relief or refunds of taxes and other overpayments; (3) Appropriations of money received as gifts. (B) "Rate of inflation" means the percentage increase or decrease in the consumer price index over a one-year period, based on the most recent consumer price index for all urban consumers, midwest region, all items, as determined by the bureau of labor statistics of the United States department of la...

...les, use, or other excise or applicable taxes, or for the payment of amounts that may be in lieu of such taxes, levied on any item sold to any nonmember of the governing tribe by any business establishment located on the land to be taken into trust.

...Except as otherwise provided by this section, the trustees of a charitable trust required to register under section 109.26 of the Revised Code shall file annual reports on forms prescribed by the attorney general, on or before the fifteenth day of the fifth month following the close of the trust's taxable year as established for federal tax purposes; or, in lieu of filing those reports, the trustees may file complete...

...In order to protect its interest in a property, a state bank may purchase a tax certificate under section 5721.32 or 5721.33 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, to the extent set forth in the transaction documents relating to a securitization: (1) Any property, assets, or rights purported to be transferred, in whole or in part, in a securitization shall be deemed to no longer be the property, assets, or rights of the transferor. (2) A transferor in a securitization, the transferor's creditors, or a bankruptcy trustee, receive...