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...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the board of township trustees, without the presentation of a petition, may take the necessary steps to construct, reconstruct, resurface, or improve a public road or part thereof, upon the passage of a resolution by unanimous vote declaring the necessity for the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, or improvement. The cost thereof may be paid by any of th...

...When the board of township trustees has determined that any road shall be constructed, reconstructed, resurfaced, or improved, the board shall determine by resolution, by unanimous vote if acting without a petition, and by a majority vote if acting upon a petition, the route and termini of the road, and the kind and extent of the improvement, and at the same time shall order the county engineer or, if the township ha...

...The proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of any road improvement to be paid by the township shall be paid out of any road improvement fund available for it. For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of the township's proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing, or improving roads under sections 5571.01, 5571.06, 5571.07, 5571.15,...

...The board of township trustees, in anticipation of the collection, for road improvements, of taxes and assessments or any part thereof, may, whenever in its judgment it is necessary, sell the bonds of the township in any amount not greater than the aggregate sum necessary to pay the estimated compensation, damages, and costs of such improvement.

...The proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of any road improvement to be paid by a township road district shall be paid out of any road improvement fund available for it. For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of a township road district's proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing, improving, maintaining, repairing, and draggi...

...The director of transportation, board of county commissioners, or board of township trustees may appropriate a right-of-way or crossing over railroad tracks and lands held by railway companies, whether operated by steam or electricity, and may appropriate the necessary property and right to construct such crossing above or below the grade of the railway. Such proceedings shall be had thereon as are provided for appro...

...When the budget commission has completed its work with respect to a tax budget or other information required to be provided under section 5705.281 of the Revised Code, it shall certify its action to the taxing authority, together with an estimate by the county auditor of the rate of each tax necessary to be levied by the taxing authority within its subdivision, taxing unit, or, in the case of a qualifying library lev...

...(A) As used in this section, "multinational for-profit entity" means an entity that is organized for profit, headquartered in Ohio, and has business operations in both the United States and other countries. (B) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, a board of township trustees, or a board of county commissioners may amend, or provide in, an ordinance or resolution adopted in accordance with division...

...(A) The board of county commissioners of a county that receives service payments in lieu of taxes under section 5709.79 of the Revised Code shall establish a redevelopment tax equivalent fund into which those payments shall be deposited. Separate accounts shall be established in the fund for each resolution adopted by the board of county commissioners under section 5709.78 of the Revised Code. If the board of county ...

...(A) The legislative authority of a county, township, or municipal corporation that grants an exemption from taxation under Chapter 725. or 1728. or under section 3735.67, 5709.28, 5709.40, 5709.41, 5709.45, 5709.62, 5709.63, 5709.632, 5709.73, or 5709.78 of the Revised Code shall create a tax incentive review council. The council shall consist of the following members: (1) In the case of a municipal corporation el...

...erson is an official or employee of the political subdivision or has been hired, contracted, or directed by such an official or employee to file a complaint or counter-complaint under this section on behalf of the political subdivision. (1) Subject to division (A)(2) of this section, a complaint against any of the following determinations for the current tax year shall be filed with the county auditor on or before ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Eligible delinquent land" means delinquent land or delinquent vacant land, as defined in section 5721.01 of the Revised Code, included in a delinquent tax list or delinquent vacant land tax list that has been certified delinquent within the meaning of section 5721.03 of the Revised Code, excluding any certificate parcel as defined in section 5721.30 of the Revised Code...

...(A) If a decedent dies on or after July 1, 1989, and before January 1, 2001, sixty-four per cent of the gross amount of taxes levied and paid under this chapter shall be for the use of the municipal corporation or township in which the tax originates, and shall be credited as provided in division (A)(1), (2), or (3) of this section: (1) To the general revenue fund in the case of a city; (2) To the general revenue f...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Tourism development district" means a tourism development district designated by a township or municipal corporation under section 503.56 or 715.014 of the Revised Code, respectively. (2) "Incremental sales tax growth" means one of the following: (a) For a county, the amount of revenue from a tax levied under section 5739.021 or 5739.026 of the Revised Code, except for a tax levie...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this division, no person shall engage in this state in the wholesale or retail business of trafficking in cigarettes or in the business of a manufacturer or importer of cigarettes without having a license to conduct each such activity issued by a county auditor under division (B) of this section or the tax commissioner under divisions (C) and (F) of this section. On dissolution of ...

...(A) On or before the twenty-fifth day of July of each year, the tax commissioner shall make and certify to the county auditor of each county an estimate of the amount of the local government fund to be allocated to the undivided local government fund of each county for the ensuing calendar year, adjusting the total as required to account for subdivisions receiving local government funds under section 5747.502 of the ...

...ater and sewer district is filed. (B) "Political subdivision" includes departments, divisions, authorities, or other units of state governments, watershed districts, soil and water conservation districts, park districts, municipal corporations, counties, townships, and other political subdivisions, special water districts, including county and regional water and sewer districts, conservancy districts, san...

...At any time after the creation of a regional water and sewer district, any county, township, or municipal corporation whose territory is not wholly included within such district may file an application with such district setting forth a general description of the territory it desires to have included within such district, the necessity for the inclusion of such territory within the district, that it will be conducive...

...rations. (E) "Public corporation" or "political subdivision" means counties, townships, municipal corporations, school districts, park districts, turnpikes, toll bridges, conservancy districts, and all other governmental agencies clothed with the power of levying general or special taxes. (F)(1) "Benefit" or "benefits," except as ordered in section 6131.31 of the Revised Code, means advantages to land and owners,...

...The board of township trustees of a township to which is apportioned by the board of county commissioners a portion of the expenses of the construction of an improvement shall levy annually upon the grand duplicate of the township a tax sufficient to pay said apportionment, but not to exceed five tenths of one mill on a dollar, and shall certify this to the county auditor on or before the fifteenth day of May in each...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "International airport" means any airport that is: (a) Designated as an international airport or a landing rights airport by the United States secretary of the treasury; (b) Owned and operated by a municipal corporation; (c) An unincorporated area not contiguous to the municipal corporation that owns it. (2) "Commercial," "industrial," "residential," and "retail," in relation to ...

...In lieu of making any of the payments required by section 709.19 of the Revised Code and for any proposed annexation which does not require payments under that section, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation which proposes to annex unincorporated territory of a township may enter into an agreement with the board of township trustees of the township in which the territory to be annexed is located, whereb...

...Upon petition of a majority of the freehold electors owning lands in any portion of the territory of a municipal corporation, or, if no freehold electors own land therein, upon petition of a majority of the owners of lands therein, accurately described in such petition with an accurate map or plat thereof, praying to have such portion of territory detached therefrom, the board of county commissioners, with the ...

...mber of electors residing in each such political subdivision who voted for the office of governor at the most recent general election for that office. (B) The petition shall be filed with the board of elections of the county in which the largest portion of the population of the municipal corporation with which merger is proposed resides. The board of elections shall cause the validity of all signatures to be ...

...tate; from any municipal corporation or political subdivision of this or any adjoining state, including county, regional, and municipal planning commissions of this or any adjoining state; or from civic sources. The regional planning commission may contract with respect to those funds, grants, and services, either separately, jointly, or cooperatively, and may provide the information and reports necessary to secure t...