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...(A) When a county charter petition has been certified to the board of elections pursuant to section 307.94 of the Revised Code, the board shall immediately proceed to determine whether the petition and the signatures on the petition meet the requirements of law, including section 3501.38 of the Revised Code, and to count the number of valid signatures. The board shall note opposite each invalid signature the reason f...

...Except as provided by Section 3 of Article X, Ohio Constitution, a county charter or amendment shall become effective if it has been approved by the majority of the electors voting thereon. The charter or amendment shall take effect on the thirtieth day after approval unless another date is fixed in the charter or amendment. No charter or amendment adopted by the electors of any county shall be held ineffective or v...

...(A) The circulator of a county charter petition, or his agent, shall, within five days after such petition is filed with the county commissioners, file a sworn itemized statement showing in detail: (1) All moneys or things of value paid, given, or promised for circulating such petition; (2) Full names and addresses of all persons to whom such payments or promises were made; (3) Full names and addresses of all pers...

...As used in this section, "county grantee" has the same meaning as in section 5101.21 of the Revised Code. Each board of county commissioners and each other county grantee of the county shall jointly enter into one or more written grant agreements with the director of job and family services or the director of children and youth in accordance with section 5101.21 of the Revised Code. The board of county commissione...

...(A)(1) As used in the Revised Code: (a) "County family services agency" means all of the following: (i) A child support enforcement agency; (ii) A county department of job and family services; (iii) A public children services agency. (b) "Family services duty" means a duty state law requires or allows a county family services agency to assume, including financial and general administrative duties. "Fam...

...(A) To the extent permitted by federal law, including subpart F of 5 C.F.R. part 900, and subject to any limitations established by the Revised Code, including division (B) of this section, a board of county commissioners may enter into a written contract with a private or government entity, including a public or private college or university, for the entity to perform a family services duty or workforce develo...

...Each board of county commissioners shall enter into a written plan of cooperation with the county family services agencies and workforce development agency serving the county to enhance the administration of the Ohio works first program established under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code; the prevention, retention, and contingency program established under Chapter 5108. of the Revised Code; and other family services ...

...(A) To enhance the administration, delivery, and effectiveness of family services duties and workforce development activities, a board of county commissioners may enter into one or more regional plans of cooperation with the following: (1) One or more other boards of county commissioners; (2) The chief elected official or officials of one or more municipal corporations that are local areas as defined in section 630...

...Each board of county commissioners shall develop a written transportation work plan that establishes policies regarding the transportation needs of low income residents of the county seeking or striving to retain employment. In developing the transportation work plan, the board shall consult with all of the following: (A) The county department of job and family services; (B) If a regional transit authority creat...

...Each board of county commissioners shall establish procedures for providing services to children in the county whose families relocate frequently, causing the children to transfer to different schools throughout the year. The board shall establish the procedures with the county department of job and family services and either each board of education of school districts with territory in the county or the education se...

...To the extent federal and state law permit, a contract entered into under section 307.981 or 307.982, a plan of cooperation entered into under section 307.983, a regional plan of cooperation entered into under section 307.984, a transportation work plan developed under section 307.985, and procedures established under section 307.986 of the Revised Code shall permit the exchange of information needed to improve servi...

...If a board of county commissioners contracts with a religious organization under section 307.981 or 307.982 of the Revised Code, the religious organization shall comply with section 104 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193).

...(A) Whoever violates section 307.42 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. (B) Whoever violates section 307.43 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, and imprisoned not less than ten nor more than sixty days. (C) Whoever violates section 307.37 of the Revised Code, shall be fined not ...

...In each county owing a bonded debt, there shall be a board, designated as the trustees of the sinking fund, composed of the prosecuting attorney, the county auditor, and the county treasurer. The prosecuting attorney shall be the president of such board and the county auditor shall be its secretary.

...The board of trustees of the sinking fund shall provide for the payment of all bonds issued by the county and the interest maturing thereon. All taxes, assessments, and other moneys collected for such purposes, or held in the county treasury to the credit of the sinking fund, shall be subject to investment and disbursement by such board. For the satisfaction of any obligation under its supervision, the board may sel...

...Immediately after each semiannual settlement of taxes and assessments, the county auditor shall report to the board of trustees of the sinking fund the amount in the county treasury to the credit of the sinking fund.

...The board of trustees of the sinking fund shall invest all moneys subject to its control in bonds of the United States, of this state, or of a municipal corporation, school district, township, or county of the state, and shall hold in reserve in cash only such sums as may be needed for effecting the purposes of sections 327.01 to 327.08, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...The meetings of the board of trustees of the sinking fund shall be open to the public, and all questions relating to the purchase or sale of securities or the payment of bonds or interest shall be decided by a yea and nay vote, which vote shall be recorded on the journal of such board.

...Money shall be drawn from the county treasury for investment or disbursement by the board of trustees of the sinking fund by the issuance of a voucher, signed by all the members of the board and directed to the county auditor, on which a warrant shall be drawn on the county treasurer, payable from the proper fund. All moneys received by such board shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the proper fun...

...The board of trustees of the sinking fund shall keep a full and complete record of its transactions, a complete record of the funded debt of the county specifying the dates, purposes, amounts, numbers, maturities, and rates, and maturities of interest installments on such debt, where such installments are payable, and an account exhibiting the amount held in the sinking fund for the payment thereof.

...On or before the first Monday in May of each year, the board of trustees of the sinking fund shall certify to the board of county commissioners the rate of tax necessary to provide a sinking fund for the payment, at maturity, of bonds issued by the county prior to August 17, 1921, and for the payment of interest on said bonded indebtedness. The amount so certified shall be set forth in the annual budget of the board ...

...In each county, except as provided in section 329.40 of the Revised Code, there shall be a county department of job and family services which, when so established, shall be governed by this chapter. The department shall consist of a county director of job and family services appointed by the board of county commissioners, and such assistants and other employees as are necessary for the efficient performance of the fu...

...Whenever the county department of welfare, county department of human services, county director of welfare, or county director of human services is referred to or designated in the Revised Code or any rule, contract, or other document, the reference or designation shall be deemed to refer to the county department of job and family services or county director of job and family services, as the case may be.

...Under the control and direction of the board of county commissioners, the county director of job and family services shall have full charge of the county department of job and family services. The director shall prepare the annual budget estimate of the department and submit it to the board. Before submitting the budget estimate to the board, the director shall consider the recommendations of the county family ser...

...(A) The board of county commissioners may, in addition to the county director of job and family services, appoint administrators to oversee services provided by the county department of job and family services, subject to the following limitations: (1) If the county has a population of five hundred thousand or more, the board may appoint up to five administrators. (2) If the county has a population of two hundred a...

... in division (XX) of this section, mini-trucks as defined in division (BBB) of this section, motorized bicycles, electric bicycles, road rollers, traction engines, power shovels, power cranes, and other equipment used in construction work and not designed for or employed in general highway transportation, well-drilling machinery, ditch-digging machinery, farm machinery, and trailers that are designed and used exclusi...

...eed, and utility vehicle, and each mini-truck, ten dollars. (B) For each passenger car, twenty dollars; (C) For each manufactured home, each mobile home, and each travel trailer or house vehicle, ten dollars; (D) For each noncommercial motor vehicle designed by the manufacturer to carry a load of no more than three-quarters of one ton and for each motor home, thirty-five dollars; for each noncommercial motor ve...

...egally binding upon a business. (3) "Truck," "trailer," and "semitrailer" have the same meanings as in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. (4) "Commercial trailer" means any trailer that is not a noncommercial trailer as defined in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The governing board of a regional transportation improvement project created under Chapter 5595. of the Revised Code may request that the...

...oybeans, tobacco, and wheat. (3) "Farm truck" means a truck used in the transportation from a farm of farm commodities when the truck is operated in accordance with this section. (4) "Log truck" means a truck used in the transportation of timber from the site of its cutting when the truck is operated in accordance with this section. (5) "Coal truck" means a truck transporting coal from the site where it is mi...

...r less, that is constructed either on a truck chassis or with special features for occasional off-road operation. (3) "Truck" means every motor vehicle, except trailers and semitrailers, designed and used to carry property and having a gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand pounds or less. (4) "Manufacturer" has the same meaning as in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. (5) "Gross vehicle weight rating" ...

...or distributor, a person who modifies a truck chassis supplied by a manufacturer or distributor for use as a public safety or public service vehicle, a person who modifies a motor vehicle chassis supplied by a manufacturer or distributor for use as a limousine or hearse, or a person who modifies an incomplete motor vehicle cab and chassis supplied by a new motor vehicle dealer or distributor for use as a tow truck, b...

...nder-speed or utility vehicles or mini-trucks on a public street or highway under its jurisdiction. A local authority that authorizes the operation of under-speed or utility vehicles or mini-trucks shall do all of the following: (1) Limit the operation of those vehicles to streets and highways having an established speed limit not greater than thirty-five miles per hour; (2) Require the vehicle owner who wis...

...ed Code, no person shall operate a mini-truck within this state. (B) A person may operate a mini-truck on a farm for agricultural purposes only when the owner of the farm qualifies for the current agricultural use valuation tax credit. A mini-truck may be operated by or on behalf of such a farm owner on public roads and rights-of-way only when traveling from one farm field to another. (C) A person may operate a ...

...s, in the purchase of machinery, tools, trucks, and other equipment for use in constructing, maintaining, and repairing roads, may make such purchases upon the following terms: not less than one-fourth of the purchase price shall be paid in cash, and the remainder of the purchase price shall be paid in not more than five equal annual installments, except that if the board sells, as authorized by law, used vehicles, m...

...: (a) An individual is employed as a truck driver by an entity that has a valid mailing address in the state. (b) An individual is self-employed as a truck driver using a valid mailing address in the state. (4) "Moving violation" has the same meaning as in section 4510.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The commercial truck driver student aid program is hereby established. Under the program, the chancellor of hi...

...evised Code, "low-speed vehicle," "mini-truck," "under-speed vehicle," and "utility vehicle" have the same meanings as in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) No person shall operate a low-speed vehicle upon any street or highway having an established speed limit greater than thirty-five miles per hour. (2) No person shall operate an under-speed or utility vehicle or a mini-truck upon any street or highwa...

...tion of the highway. The driver of any truck, or motor vehicle drawing another vehicle, when traveling upon a roadway outside a business or residence district shall maintain a sufficient space, whenever conditions permit, between such vehicle and another vehicle ahead so an overtaking motor vehicle may enter and occupy such space without danger. This paragraph does not prevent overtaking and passing nor does it appl...

...hicle combination, including a straight truck towing a trailer typically using a ball and socket connection, designed and used specifically for the transport of boat hulls and boats, whether the hulls or boats are assembled or partially disassembled to facilitate transportation. (8) "Stinger-steered boat transporter" means a boat transporter configured as a semitrailer combination in which the fifth wheel is located...

...icle, motorcycle, utility vehicle, mini-truck, snowmobile, locomotive, watercraft, or aircraft, shall cause the death of another or the unlawful termination of another's pregnancy in any of the following ways: (1) As the proximate result of committing an OVI offense. (2) In one of the following ways: (a) Recklessly; (b) As the proximate result of committing, while operating or participating in the operation o...

...endant thereto, but excluding therefrom trucks and facilities designed for use in the movement of property by truck; (2) Docks, wharves, warehouses, piers, and other port, terminal, or transportation facilities and marinas; (3) Facilities used, available for use, or designed for use to aid in the safe taking off or landing of aircraft, for the safety, storage, and maintenance of aircraft, for the comfort and acco...

...igh school students in the operation of trucks, commercial cars, and commercial tractors, trailers, and semi-trailers. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, upon the district's compliance with all provisions that govern the issuance of a license to a driver training school to offer instruction and training in the operation of trucks, commercial cars, and commercial tractors, trailers, and semi-trailers,...

...re than one such vehicle; (2) A pickup truck or straight truck designed by the manufacturer to carry a load of not less than one-half ton and not more than two tons may tow or draw not more than two such vehicles that are being used to transport agricultural produce from the farm to a local place of storage. No vehicle being so towed by such a pickup truck or straight truck shall be considered to be a motor vehicle....

...If a municipal corporation requires tow trucks and tow truck operators to be licensed, no owner of a private property located within the municipal corporation shall cause the removal and storage of any vehicle pursuant to division (B) of this section by an unlicensed tow truck or unlicensed tow truck operator. (3) No towing service shall remove a vehicle from a private tow-away zone except pursuant to a written co...

...trol trooper of this state may stop any truck, trailer, or other vehicle engaged in the transporting of the evergreen trees or boughs described in section 4551.01 of the Revised Code, except trucks or trailers licensed for and engaged in interstate commerce, and require the operator to produce the bill, invoice, or statement of ownership required by sections 4551.01 and 4551.02 of the Revised Code as evidence of lawf...

...icle, motorcycle, utility vehicle, mini-truck, snowmobile, locomotive, watercraft, or aircraft, shall cause serious physical harm to another person or another's unborn in any of the following ways: (1)(a) As the proximate result of committing a violation of division (A) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or of a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance; (b) As the proximate result of committing a violatio...

...er bus systems but excluding therefrom trucks, the movement of property by truck, and facilities designed for use in the movement of property by truck for hire; (3) Issue, with the approval of the county commissioners when the issuance is made by the transit board, revenue bonds of the county as provided in division (B) of section 306.09 of the Revised Code, to secure funds to accomplish its purposes. The pri...

...f commercial motor vehicle. (R) "Farm truck" means a truck controlled and operated by a farmer for use in the transportation to or from a farm, for a distance of not more than one hundred fifty miles, of products of the farm, including livestock and its products, poultry and its products, floricultural and horticultural products, and in the transportation to the farm, from a distance of not more than one hundred fi...

...of a public agency. (E) No driver of a truck, trailer, or semitrailer shall knowingly permit any person who has not attained the age of sixteen years to ride in the unenclosed or unroofed cargo storage area of the driver's vehicle if the vehicle is traveling faster than twenty-five miles per hour, unless either of the following applies: (1) The cargo storage area of the vehicle is equipped with a properly secured ...

...d keeping in repair, automobiles, motor trucks, road machinery, and other equipment owned by the department of transportation. Such buildings may be secured by purchase or lease or by the purchase of a suitable site and the erection thereon of suitable buildings. The director may equip such buildings with the necessary tools and equipment for the care and repair of such automobiles, trucks, machinery, and other equi...

...of the vessel or motor by a private tow truck operator or towing company. (2)(a) Except as provided in division (B)(2)(d) of this section, no person, without the consent of the owner or other person authorized to give consent, shall moor, anchor, or tie a vessel or outboard motor at a private dock or mooring facility or structure owned by another person if the owner has posted, in a conspicuous manner, a prohibitio...