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...An annual appropriation ordinance shall be prepared by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation from estimates submitted by the mayor, the chairperson of the commission, or the city manager, as the case may be, in the manner provided in section 705.17 of the Revised Code for the annual tax ordinance. The annual appropriation ordinance shall be submitted to the legislative authority at its first meet...

...After the hearing on a petition to incorporate, the board of county commissioners shall enter an order on its journal allowing the incorporation if it finds that: (A) The petition contains all the matters required in section 707.02 of the Revised Code and the statements in the petition are true. (B) Notice has been published as is required by section 707.05 of the Revised Code. (C) The number of valid signatures o...

...The court of common pleas may order a change in the name of a municipal corporation as provided by section 707.25 of the Revised Code, upon being satisfied, by proof, of the following: (A) The prayer of the petitioners is just and reasonable. (B) Notice, as required by such section, has been given. (C) At least three-fourths of the inhabitants of such municipal corporation desire the change. (D) There is no o...

...No error, irregularity, or defect in any proceeding for the creation of a municipal corporation shall render it invalid if the territory sought to be incorporated has been recognized as such municipal corporation, and if any tax levied upon it as such has been paid, or if it has been subjected to the authority of the municipal legislative authority without objection from its inhabitants.

...of the annexing municipal corporation, taxes levied upon it as such have been paid, and it has been subjected to the authority of the legislative authority of the annexing municipal corporation.

...o make such adjustment of funds, unpaid taxes, claims, indebtedness, and other fiscal matters as the board determines to be proper. Transcripts of the ordinances, agreement, and resolution certified by the board shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state and shall also be filed and recorded in the office of the county recorder. All fees and costs for such filing and recording shall be assumed and paid by...

...When territory is detached from a village in accordance with section 709.39 of the Revised Code, an apportionment of the property, funds, and indebtedness of the village shall be made between such village and the detached territory upon the basis of the respective tax duplicates in the village after such detachment and in the detached territory. All water pipes and sewers, laid either in such village or detached terr...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Plat" means a map of a tract or parcel of land. (B) "Subdivision" means either of the following: (1) The division of any parcel of land shown as a unit or as contiguous units on the last preceding general tax list and duplicate of real and public utility property, into two or more parcels, sites, or lots, any one of which is less than five acres for the purpose, whether immediate...

...Upon the institution of proceedings by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, the board of county commissioners of a county, the department of transportation of the state, or an individual, partnership, or corporation in the court of common pleas, for the vacation of any public streets, alley, avenue, lane, road, boulevard, driveway, or other public way, or any portion thereof, in a village, or additio...

...(A) Any municipal corporation may: (1) Regulate the erection of fences, billboards, signs, and other structures, within the municipal corporation, and provide for the removal and repair of insecure billboards, signs, and other structures; (2) Regulate the construction and repair of wires, poles, plants, and all equipment to be used for the generation and application of electricity; (3) Provide for the licensing...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Contracting party" means a municipal corporation that has entered into a municipal utility district contract or any party succeeding to such a municipal corporation. (2) "Contract for utility services" means a contract under which a municipal corporation agrees to provide to another municipal corporation water, sewer, electric, or other utility services necessary to the public he...

...ised Code. Revenues derived from local taxes or otherwise, for the purpose of conserving energy or for defraying the current operating expenses of the municipal corporation, may be pledged and applied to the payment of interest and the retirement of the notes. The notes may be sold at private sale or given to the contractor under an installment payment contract authorized by division (C) of this section. ...

...s are necessary in each case to pay the taxes levied against the real estate used in such operation, and to pay all costs of maintenance, repairs, operation, and regulation of such off-street parking facilities or structures, may, irrespective of the provisions of section 5705.10 of the Revised Code, until such bonds are fully paid and retired, be paid into the bond retirement funds or sinking funds, as the case may ...

... fund, the village may levy and collect taxes within the limitations imposed by law; or the village may repay the fund from moneys derived from special assessments upon the properties benefited from the particular proposed improvements to the extent that the cost of the improvement assessed upon the benefited properties includes the cost of preparing the plans and expenses incidental thereto, may include the amount p...

...est maturing previous to the receipt of taxes or other revenues from which such interest ultimately is to be paid. (e) A reserve fund, that may be included in the issue, to secure the payment of principal and interest on the issue not to exceed a sum equal to the principal and interest payments for the year during the issue in which principal and interest payments shall be the highest. (2) Agree to the payment of i...

...No person hired or retained by a tax administrator to examine or inspect a taxpayer's books shall be paid on a contingency basis.

...(A) Personal property not needed for municipal purposes, the estimated value of which is less than one thousand dollars, may be sold by the board or officer having supervision or management of that property. If the estimated value of that property is one thousand dollars or more, it shall be sold only when authorized by an ordinance of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and approved by the b...

..."Owner," as used in sections 723.17 to 723.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, includes the legal or equitable owner, the person in whose name the property may be assessed for taxation on the tax duplicate, a tenant giving satisfactory guaranty that the assessment against the property signed for will be paid, or the board of education having the control of any school property.

...Each municipal corporation shall have special power to levy and collect special assessments. The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may assess upon the abutting, adjacent, and contiguous, or other specially benefited, lots or lands in the municipal corporation, any part of the cost connected with the improvement of any street, alley, dock, wharf, pier, public road, place, boulevard, parkway, or park ent...

...For the purpose of controlling the blight and disease of shade trees within public rights-of-way, and for planting, maintaining, trimming, and removing shade trees in and along the streets of a municipality, the legislative authority of such municipal corporation may establish one or more districts in the municipality designating the boundaries thereof, and may each year thereafter, by ordinance, designate the distri...

...In making a special assessment by percentage of the tax value or by the foot front on lots or lands not subdivided into lots, when such lots or lands are not assessed for taxation, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall fix, for the purpose of such assessment, the value of such lots as they stand and of such lands at what the legislative authority considers a fair average depth for lots in the nei...

...When it is deemed necessary by a municipal corporation to make a public improvement to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessments levied under this chapter, plans, specifications, profiles of the proposed improvement showing the proposed grade of the street and improvement after completion with reference to the property abutting thereon, and an estimate of the cost of the improvement shall be prepared and...

...(A) Notice of the passage of a resolution of necessity and the filing of the estimated assessment under section 727.12 of the Revised Code, shall, after the estimated assessment has been made and filed as provided by section 727.12 of the Revised Code, be served by the clerk of the legislative authority, or a person designated by such clerk, upon the owners of the lots or parcels of land to be assessed for the propos...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may declare, by resolution, the necessity of levying and collecting special assessments for the purpose of paying the principal and interest, or part thereof, of bonds previously issued to pay the cost and expense of acquiring, constructing, and equipping off-street parking facilities, structures, or lands required therefor, which principal and interest was contemp...

...If the jury summoned under section 727.19 or 727.20 of the Revised Code finds no damages, the costs of the inquiry shall be taxed against the claimant or claimants and collected on execution. In other cases the costs shall be paid by the municipal corporation.