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...Sections 140.03 and 140.05 of the Revised Code are alternatives to sections 513.05, 513.06, 513.071, 513.08, 513.081, 513.09, 513.10, and 513.15 to 513.171, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Those sections of Chapter 513. of the Revised Code shall not be applicable with respect to hospital facilities and services provided for under leases and agreements entered into pursuant to section 140.03 or 140.05 of the Revised C...

...The board of township trustees may provide artificial lights for any road, highway, public place, or building under its supervision or control, or for any territory within the township and outside the boundaries of any municipal corporation, when the board determines that the public safety or welfare requires that the road, highway, public place, building, or territory shall be lighted. The lighting may be procured e...

...ays of any unincorporated district in a township sign a petition for artificial lighting of the streets and public ways in the district and file it with the township fiscal officer, the fiscal officer shall give to the board of township trustees a notice of the filing of the petition and a copy of it.

...A petition for the lighting of streets and public ways under section 515.02 of the Revised Code shall specify the metes and bounds of the district in which such lights are to be erected. The signing of such petition by a property owner is a waiver by him of all claims for compensation and damages for lands necessarily appropriated for the purpose of supporting and maintaining such lights. A lighting district shall n...

...The township fiscal officer shall fix a day, not more than thirty days from the date of notice to the board of township trustees, for the hearing of the petition authorized by section 515.02 or 515.16 of the Revised Code. The township fiscal officer or the fiscal officer's designee shall prepare and deliver to any of the petitioners a notice in writing directed to the lot and land owners and to the corporations, eith...

...16 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees shall meet and hear any and all proof offered by any of the parties affected by the improvement, and by other persons competent to testify. The board shall go over and along such streets and public ways, and, by actual view thereof, and of the premises along and adjacent thereto and to be lighted or benefited thereby, it shall determine the necessity...

...If the board of township trustees decides in favor of a lighting improvement as provided by section 515.02 of the Revised Code, it shall specify the number of lights it deems necessary for properly lighting the streets and public ways in the district, determine the candle power thereof, locate the points at which the lights shall be located, and the kind of supports for them.

...tive bidding is required, the board of township trustees shall post, in three of the most conspicuous public places in the district, a notice specifying the number, candle power, and location of lights and the kind of supports for the lights as provided by section 515.06 of the Revised Code, as well as the time, which shall not be less than thirty days from the posting of the notices, and the place the board w...

...5.07 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees shall enter into a contract with the successful bidder for the furnishing of such lights according to specifications. The contract shall not be for a longer term than ten years. The cost and expenses of furnishing and maintaining such lights, and of the proceedings in relation thereto, shall be paid from a fund raised by special assessments against the lots an...

...The board of township trustees, at the expiration of an existing contract for lighting, may award a new contract pursuant to section 515.07 of the Revised Code, unless the owners of lots and lands containing in excess of fifty per cent of the front feet abutting on the streets and public ways of the unincorporated district in the township sign a petition for the discontinuance of the artificial lighting and file the...

...h parties to the contract, the board of township trustees may increase the number of lights to be maintained under the contract, at not more than the same price per light, and the contract shall provide for such change in the number of lights.

...The board of township trustees may employ inspectors at such times as it deems proper to test the lights installed as provided by sections 515.08 and 515.09 of the Revised Code and determine whether they comply with the contract. The compensation of such inspectors shall be paid from the general fund of the township.

...The board of township trustees shall certify to the county auditor the boundaries of the district in which lights are to be erected, and, when requested to do so by the board, the auditor shall apportion the valuation for taxation of any lot or parcel of land lying partly within and partly without the district. The board shall, by resolution, assess against the benefited lots and parcels of land in the distri...

...lowed for other similar services. The township fiscal officer shall receive for the fiscal officer's services the sum of fifty cents from each lot or land owner for whom a notice is prepared and the sum of fifty cents for each annual assessment certified to the county auditor. All payments for the services of township officials shall be included in the cost of the lighting district or relocation and assesse...

...The board of township trustees may combine in a single contract the lighting of streets, public ways, roads, highways, or public places as authorized by sections 515.01 to 515.11, inclusive, of the Revised Code, provided: (A) That no such contract shall be made to cover a period of more than ten years; (B) That the procedure for entering into such contract is in accordance with the provisions of section 515.01 of t...

...A board of township trustees may contract only with the corporation, company, partnership, association, municipal corporation, or person that owns overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment on a street or right-of-way located within the township for the relocation of the overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment underground. Nothing in this section requires the owner of the overhead cables, wi...

...Any person may file a petition with the township fiscal officer requesting the board of township trustees to relocate underground any overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment on streets or rights-of-way and designated private streets in an unincorporated area of the township. The petition shall specify the metes and bounds of the area to be included in the underground relocation project and any desig...

...The board of township trustees may accept a conveyance of, or purchase, and enclose, improve, and protect lands in one or more places within the township as it deems necessary and proper for cemetery purposes. If suitable lands cannot be procured by contract on reasonable terms, such board may appropriate lands therefor, not to exceed ten acres, by proceedings in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, ...

...d persons petition for it, the board of township trustees shall provide a public road to any township cemetery over which it has control, in the same manner as provided by section 517.01 of the Revised Code for establishing cemeteries and obtaining the land therefor.

...nd other interment rights, the board of township trustees may levy a tax sufficient for that purpose.

... cemetery, on the order of the board of township trustees or the written application of any six electors of the township, shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of such township at a regular annual election. Such order or application shall specify as nearly as possible the proposed location of the cemetery, and the estimated cost thereof, including enclosing and improving it.

...ection 517.04 of the Revised Code, the township fiscal officer shall certify the order or application to the board of elections not later than four p.m. of the ninetieth day before the day of the election, and, at least twenty days before an election, the fiscal officer shall post written notices in at least three public places in the township that a vote will be taken on the question of the establishment of a ...

...The board of township trustees shall have the cemetery laid out in lots, avenues, and paths, shall number the lots, and shall have a suitable plat of the lots made, which plat shall be carefully kept by the township fiscal officer. The board shall make and enforce all needful rules and regulations for the division of the cemetery into lots, for the allotment of lots to families or individuals, and for the care,...

...(A) Upon application, the board of township trustees shall sell at a reasonable price the number of lots as public wants demand for burial purposes. Purchasers of lots or other interment rights, upon complying with the terms of sale, may receive deeds for the lots or rights which the board shall execute. The township fiscal officer shall record each deed in a book the township keeps for that purpose or with the count...

... of the Revised Code. (B) A board of township trustees may adopt rules for any township cemetery over which it has control for the burial, re-interment, or disinterment of the product of a fetal death. (C) With regard to the product of a fetal death, on the request of the mother and in compliance with cemetery rules, a township cemetery shall inter the product of the fetal death in accordance with one of t...