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... construction, modification, or both of township infrastructure. (B) A person who proposes to do any of the following shall provide written notification as required under division (C) of this section to the board of township trustees of the township in which a facility is or is to be located: (1) Establish a new major concentrated animal feeding facility; (2) Increase the design capacity of an existing major co...

...B) For any purpose for which a board of township trustees, a joint police district board, a township fire district, a joint fire district, a joint ambulance district, or a fire and ambulance district is authorized to acquire real or personal property, that board may enter into a lease-purchase agreement in accordance with this section to acquire the property. The board's resolution authorizing the lease-purchase agre...

...(A)(1) Boards of township trustees, either severally or jointly, may provide, maintain, and operate facilities for the collection, transfer, recycling, and disposal of solid wastes or may enter into written contracts with the proper municipal or county authorities or with independent contractors for such services for the township or for a waste disposal district as provided in section 505.28 of the Revised Code. (2)...

...The board of township trustees may create a waste disposal district under sections 505.27 to 505.33 of the Revised Code, by a unanimous vote of the board and give notice thereof by publication using at least one of the following methods: (A) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation in the township; (B) On the official public notice web site established under section 125.182 of the Rev...

...The board of township trustees may levy, in any year, a sufficient tax within the ten-mill limitation upon all taxable property in a waste disposal district to provide and maintain waste collection, transfer, recycling, and disposal services and to provide for the collection and disposal of tree leaves. In the alternative, the board of township trustees of any township that has provided or contracted for the collect...

...The township or its officers shall not be liable for damages, from any cause in performing waste disposal service. Private parties or firms entering a contract to perform said service shall carry public liability and property damage insurance, in an amount acceptable to the board of township trustees, and shall present proper evidence of such insurance to the board.

...ed in division (B) of this section, the township fiscal officer shall collect the service charges for waste collection, transfer, recycling, and disposal services and administer them under rules established by the board of township trustees. All of those service charges shall be kept in a separate fund designated as the waste collection fund and shall be appropriated and administered by the board. The fund shall be u...

...5.27 to 505.33 of the Revised Code, the township fiscal officer shall be allowed the compensation fixed by the board of township trustees. The compensation shall be paid semiannually, and shall be charged back, and prorated against each waste disposal district as part of its operating costs. Any increase required by the board in the bond of the fiscal officer, and the costs of any necessary supplies, shall be p...

...y, before the first day of October, the township fiscal officer shall certify to the county auditor the names of the property owners and a description of their lands that are delinquent as to waste disposal service charges. The auditor then shall place the charges on the tax duplicate for the ensuing December installment of taxes, for collection.

...The board of township trustees may compound or release, in whole or in part, a debt, obligation, judgment, or claim due the township, from a bank in process of liquidation or operating under a conservatorship, or due the board, except where any member of such board is personally interested as a stockholder of the bank. The board shall enter upon its records a statement of the facts and the reasons for such compoundin...

...r that purpose, shall be paid into the township treasury, and shall be paid out and expended upon the vouchers of the board of township trustees, or of the officers in the township having charge of the repair of public roads or streets. Contracts for the improvements shall be made in the same manner as other contracts. Vouchers to pay for the contracts, or for any portion of the cost of the improvements, shall be...

...When the voters of a township determine to issue bonds for the construction or repair of viaducts, or for the purchase or condemnation of the land necessary for such improvements, the authority to make such improvements is hereby conferred and the money arising from the sale of the bonds shall be expended in the manner provided by section 505.35 of the Revised Code. If a municipal corporation or the board of county ...

...(A) The board of township trustees may establish all necessary rules to guard against the occurrence of fires and to protect the property and lives of the citizens against damage and accidents, and may purchase, lease, lease with an option to purchase, or otherwise provide any fire apparatus, mechanical resuscitators, underwater rescue and recovery equipment, or other fire equipment, appliances, materials, fire hydra...

...(A) The boards of township trustees of one or more townships and the legislative authorities of one or more municipal corporations, or the legislative authorities of two or more municipal corporations, or the boards of township trustees of two or more townships, may, by adoption of a joint resolution by a majority of the members of each board of township trustees and by a majority of the members of the legislative au...

...Before entering upon the duties of his office, the clerk of the board of fire district trustees shall execute a bond, in the amount and with surety to be approved by the board of fire district trustees, payable to the state, conditioned for the faithful performance of all the official duties required of him. Such bond shall be deposited with the presiding officer of the board, and a copy thereof, certified by him, sh...

...The board of township trustees may, by resolution, adopt by incorporation by reference a standard code pertaining to fire, fire hazards, and fire prevention prepared and promulgated by the state or any department, board, or other agency of the state, or any such code prepared and promulgated by a public or private organization that publishes a model or standard code. After the adoption of the code by the board, a ...

...No person shall violate a provision of a standard code or regulation adopted under section 505.373 or division (C) of section 505.375 of the Revised Code. Each day of continued violation of this section shall constitute a separate offense.

...(A)(1)(a) The boards of township trustees of one or more townships and the legislative authorities of one or more municipal corporations, or the legislative authorities of two or more municipal corporations, or the boards of township trustees of two or more townships, may negotiate an agreement to form a fire and ambulance district for the delivery of both fire and ambulance services. The agreement shall be ratified ...

...When any expenditure of a fire and ambulance district, other than for the compensation of district employees, exceeds the amount specified in section 9.17 of the Revised Code, the contract for the expenditure shall be in writing and made with the lowest and best bidder after advertising once a week for not less than two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the district. The board of trustees...

...A volunteer firefighter appointed pursuant to this chapter is a bona fide volunteer and not an employee for purposes of section 513 of the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," 124 Stat. 119 (2010), 26 U.S.C. 4980H, if, for providing those fire protection services, the volunteer receives any of the benefits provided in Chapter 146., 4121., or 4123. or section 9.65, 505.23, 3333.26, 3923.13, or 4113.41 of the ...

...(A) The fire chief of a township or fire district may request the superintendent of BCII to conduct a criminal records check with respect to any person who is under consideration for appointment or employment as a permanent, full-time paid firefighter or any person who is under consideration for appointment as a volunteer firefighter. (B)(1) The fire chief of the township or fire district may request that the superi...

...The board of township trustees may, in any year, levy a sufficient tax upon all taxable property in the township or in a fire district, to provide protection against fire, to provide fire and rescue services, to provide and maintain fire apparatus, mechanical resuscitators, underwater rescue and recovery equipment, and other fire equipment and appliances, buildings and sites therefor, sources of water supply and mate...

...(A) If, after the fire department of a township, township fire district, or joint fire district, or a private fire company with which the fire department of a township, township fire district, or joint fire district contracts for fire protection, responds to a false alarm from an automatic fire alarm system at a commercial establishment or residential building, the board of township trustees gives written notice by c...

...o bonds shall be issued by the board of township trustees for the purpose of providing and maintaining fire apparatus, mechanical resuscitators, underwater rescue and recovery equipment, and other fire equipment and appliances, buildings and sites therefor, sources of water supply and materials therefor, or for the establishment and maintenance of lines of fire-alarm communications, or for the payment of permanent, ...

...Pursuant to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, the board of trustees of a fire district organized under division (C) of section 505.37 of the Revised Code may issue bonds for the purpose of acquiring fire-fighting equipment, buildings, and sites for the district or for the purpose of constructing or improving buildings to house fire-fighting equipment.