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...When a port authority finds it necessary to change the location of any portion of any public road, state highway, railroad, or public utility facility in connection with the construction of a port authority facility, it shall cause it to be reconstructed at such location as the division of government having jurisdiction over such road, highway, railroad, or public utility facility finds most favorable. Such construct...

...(A) All final actions of the port authority shall be journalized and the journal and the records of the port authority shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable times. Not later than the first day of April every year, every port authority shall submit a report to the director of development detailing the projects and activities of the port authority during the previous calendar year. The report shall inclu...

...Sections 4582.22 to 4582.59 of the Revised Code and division (C) of section 4582.06 of the Revised Code being necessary for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.

...(A) The requirement in division (C) of section 121.22 of the Revised Code that a member of a public body be present in person at a meeting open to the public in order to be part of a quorum or to vote does not apply to the board of directors of a port authority if the board holds the meeting by interactive video conference or by teleconference in the following manner: (1) The board establishes a primary meeting lo...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Bond proceedings" means, with respect to obligations authorized under this section, the resolutions, certifications and agreements, including without limitation a venture capital agreement, the loan documents and any trust agreements, and any authorized credit enhancement facilities or swaps or other hedging instruments, and amendments or supplements thereto, or to any one or...

...(A) No person shall keep a ferry across a stream running through or bounding on a county in this state, without having obtained a license therefor from the court of common pleas of such county. (B) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than thirty dollars.

...The person applying for a ferry license shall produce satisfactory evidence to the court of common pleas, by the affidavit of the applicant or otherwise, that he has given notice by advertisement posted in at least three public places in the township or neighborhood where a ferry is proposed to be kept, twenty days prior to the sitting of such court, of his intention to apply to such court for a license to keep such ...

...The court of common pleas, upon being satisfied that the notice required by section 4583.02 of the Revised Code, has been given, that a ferry is needed at such place, and that the applicant for a ferry license is a suitable person, may grant to such applicant a license to keep such ferry for the term of one year, on his paying into the county treasury a sum fixed by the court of not less than two nor more than fifty ...

...The person owning land on both sides of a stream where a ferry is proposed to be established shall have exclusive right of a license for a ferry at such place. When the opposit banks are owned by different persons, the right to the ferry shall be mutual. If such owner does not apply, the court of common pleas shall grant a license to a person applying for it. If either of the landings is not on a public highway, the ...

...When a person applies for a renewal of his ferry license at the same place where he kept a ferry the preceding year, it may be granted or renewed without notice or petition.

...When a ferry license expires in vacation, and the person obtaining it procures a renewal thereof, the renewal license shall include the time from the expiration of the former in addition to the time to which it shall extend in the future. The applicant shall pay a ratable proportion for the whole time therein mentioned, and be exonerated from any penalty to which he would be otherwise liable. In applications for a l...

...A person may ferry passengers across a small stream in high water, and the court of common pleas may direct the clerk of the court of common pleas to give a person a permit for that purpose, when in its opinion, the stream is too small to justify the expense of a license.

...At the time it grants a license to keep a ferry, the court of common pleas shall fix the rate of ferriages which the ferrykeeper may demand and receive for the transportation of persons and property. The clerk of the court of common pleas shall furnish a person taking out a license to keep a ferry with a list of the rate of ferriages. The ferrykeeper shall post such list at the door of his ferryhouse, or at a conspic...

...A person obtaining a license to keep a ferry shall provide and keep in complete repair a sufficient boat for the safe conveyance of persons and property. When the stream over which such ferry is kept is passable, he shall give due attendance from daylight in the morning until dark in the evening with sufficient hands to manage such boat. During the day he shall cross the stream at intervals of not longer than fiftee...

...The county auditor shall inform against offenders and prosecute violations of sections 4583.01 to 4583.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...Actions brought under sections 4583.01 to 4583.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be in the name of the state and the court taking cognizance thereof shall keep a record of all fines and forfeitures recovered thereunder. Sheriffs, constables, and other officers shall pay all moneys within thirty days after receiving them into the county treasury.

...A keeper of a ferry demanding and receiving a higher rate or sum for ferriage than that allowed by the court of common pleas of the county in which such ferry is kept shall forfeit and pay for each offense not exceeding ten dollars, recoverable before a judge of a county court or judge of a municipal court having jurisdiction, by a person making due proof thereof.

...A person having obtained a ferry license, and failing or neglecting to perform the duties provided in section 4583.10 of the Revised Code, shall forfeit and pay for each offense not exceeding five dollars, to be recovered before a judge of a county court or judge of a municipal court having jurisdiction, by a person prosecuting for, and making due proof of such failure or neglect.

...If the court of common pleas refuses to renew the license of a ferryman, he shall be exonerated from the penalties of sections 4583.01 to 4583.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by paying into the county treasury, previous to a prosecution being commenced against him, such sum, for the time which has elapsed between the expiration of his license and the next term of the court, as bears a ratable proportion to the a...

...Any officer neglecting or failing to comply with sections 4583.01 to 4583.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall forfeit and pay for each offense not exceeding fifty dollars, at the discretion of any judge before whom it may be recovered, for the use of the county.

...County court judges, municipal court judges, and clerks of the courts of common pleas before whom the fines provided for in sections 4583.01 to 4583.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are recovered, shall present an accurate account thereof to the county auditor on or before the first day of June annually. Clerks shall also return a list of all licenses issued by them, and to whom, and the price of each respectively...

...(A) Any watercraft navigating the waters within or bordering upon this state, is liable for the following: (1) All debts contracted on account of such watercraft by the master, owner, steward, consignee, or other agent for the following: (a) Materials, supplies, or labor in the building, repairing, furnishing, or equipping of the watercraft; (b) Insurance; (c) Wharfage. (2) Damages arising out of any contract fo...

...If a liability provided for in section 4585.01 of the Revised Code arises beyond the jurisdiction of this state, a lien therefor shall attach and may be enforced as provided in sections 4585.01 to 4585.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, except against purchasers without notice.

...A person who has a lien under section 4585.01 of the Revised Code may proceed against the owner of the watercraft, the master who contracted a debt, or the watercraft itself. The person may file a complaint as in a civil action in the appropriate municipal or county court or court of common pleas, against the watercraft by name, or if it does not have a name, by a pertinent and substantial description of it. Upon th...

...On the filing of a complaint under section 4585.03 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the court shall issue a summons, as in other cases, with a warrant returnable as other writs, directing the sheriff to seize the watercraft, or such part of its apparel or furniture as is necessary to satisfy the claim for relief of the plaintiff, and to detain them until discharged by due course of law. The officer who executes the ...