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...r the purpose of operating a municipal streetcar system.

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, when a railroad track is laid in the municipal corporation, by ordinance, regulate the speed of all locomotives and railroad cars within the municipal corporation limits. Such ordinance shall not require a rate of speed of less than four miles an hour, and in villages having a population of two thousand or less, it shall not require a rate of less than eight m...

...h than nine feet below the curb of the street or streets on which such lot or land abuts, or, if there is no curb, below the established grade of the street or streets on which such lot or land abuts, or, if there is no curb or established grade, below the surface of the adjoining lots, and by such excavation he causes damage to any wall, house, or other building upon the lots adjoining thereto, such owner or possess...

...eet below the established grade of the street or streets on which such lot abuts, without reference to the depth of adjoining foundation walls, without incurring the liability prescribed in section 723.49 of the Revised Code, and may, on thirty days' notice to adjoining owners, grade and improve the surface of any lot to correspond with the established grade of the street, streets, or alleys upon which such lot or la...

...Any municipal corporation, when it is necessary in the construction and protection of wells, pumps, cisterns, aqueducts, water pipes, dams, reservoirs, reservoir sites, sewers, drains, sewage disposal or water purification plants, and water works, for supplying water to itself and its inhabitants or disposing of sewage, may relocate, straighten, change, or cross a road or stream, but shall, without unnecessary delay,...

... widening, resurfacing, or repair of a street or other public way, the director of public service in a city, or the legislative authority in a village, shall make an estimate of the cost of such work using the force account project assessment form developed by the auditor of state under section 117.16 of the Revised Code. In municipal corporations having an engineer, or an officer having a different title but the dut...

...nstruct, widen, resurface, or repair a street or other public way by force account or direct labor, and the estimated cost of the work as defined in section 723.52 of the Revised Code exceeds the amount specified in that section, such municipal authorities shall cause to be kept by the engineer of the municipal corporation, or other officer or employee of the municipal corporation in charge of such work, a complete a...

...d who is responsible for inspection and maintenance, and the authority for such responsibilities. The official shall report the condition of all bridges to the municipal legislative authority not later than sixty days after the official's inspection, or shall report more frequently if required by the legislative authority. Any bridge for which the municipality has inspection or maintenance responsibility which, at ...

...A municipality shall not contract for or undertake construction or repair of a bridge, for which the cost of such work exceeds fifty thousand dollars, unless the plans are prepared or approved by a professional engineer qualified in the designing of bridges.

... Code: (A) "Public utility" means any street railway operated in whole or in part under sections 4951.20 to 4951.22, inclusive, and 4951.27 to 4951.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or any street railway operated in connection with or upon the tracks of any such street railway, and any corporation which owns, operates, or leases any such street railway. (B) "Indeterminate permit" means any grant of a municipal co...

...A municipal corporation may grant an indeterminate permit to any public utility upon such terms as are considered conducive to the public interests, and as provided in sections 745.01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...Any public utility may surrender any existing license, permit, grant, or franchise, and may accept in lieu thereof any indeterminate permit, and the municipal corporation in which all or the major part of the property of such public utility is situated may accept such surrender and grant an indeterminate permit. At the time provided in the grant of such permit, or, if no time is provided in such grant, then at any ti...

...When a municipal corporation determines to acquire the property of a public utility by condemnation, the compensation therefor shall be determined in the manner provided by sections 719.01 to 719.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...When a municipal corporation desires, as expressed in an ordinance determining to acquire the property of a public utility, to have the compensation for such property determined by the public utilities commission, such municipal corporation shall make a request in writing to the commission in accordance with section 4909.04 of the Revised Code. Thereupon the commission shall proceed to make an inventory and valuation...

...f the utility with reference to minimum maintenance, renewal, and depreciation reserve funds; (G) The arbitration of differences; (H) Other terms relative to the construction, maintenance, financing, operation, and control of service of the utility consistent with sections 745.01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code and an indeterminate permit.

...An ordinance passed pursuant to section 745.06 of the Revised Code shall not take effect until submitted to the electors of the municipal corporation, at a special or general election held in the municipal corporation at such time as the legislative authority determines, and approved by a majority of the electors voting on it. The ordinance shall be passed by an affirmative vote of not less than a majority of t...

...elating to the financing, construction, maintenance, and operation of such utility shall be subject to municipal regulation. Such power of municipal regulation shall not be exercised in a manner inconsistent with the express terms of the ordinance granting the permit. The capitalization and bonded or other indebtedness for improvement and other purposes beyond the limits of the municipal corporation granting the per...

...In the absence of agreement between the municipal corporation and a public utility as to rates, fares, or charges, as provided in section 745.06 of the Revised Code, all rates, fares, tolls, and charges for services rendered and commodities furnished by such public utility shall be sufficient to yield a reasonable compensation to the public utility operating under an indeterminate permit, and in the ascertainment of ...

...If any municipal corporation establishes a department to exercise any of the powers conferred by sections 745.01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, such department is hereby granted such powers of supervision and regulation of any public utility operating under an indeterminate grant as are provided by such sections and the ordinance granting the permit, and as are prescribed by any ordinance not inconsistent...

...When an ordinance granting an indeterminate permit contains no provisions whatever relative to appeal from or arbitration concerning the orders of the municipal corporation, the utility may appeal to the public utilities commission from any order of the municipal corporation which is in violation of law or of the permit, or from any unreasonable order concerning matters upon which the parties have not agreed in the p...

...If an ordinance granting an indeterminate permit provides for an appeal to or arbitration by the public utilities commission, the commission shall determine such appeal or arbitration according to the procedure, methods, and terms provided for in such ordinance. There shall be no judicial review of the actions of the commission upon such appeals or arbitration. Except as provided in this section and section 745.11 o...

...In addition to the methods of enforcement provided by sections 745.01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the duties imposed upon public utilities by such sections shall be enforceable by mandamus and all other judicial proceedings provided for the enforcement of the duties of public utilities.

...Sections 745.01 to 745.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not deprive any municipal corporation of its rights to prescribe, by charter, any other methods or terms according to and upon which indeterminate permits may be granted in such municipal corporation.