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...(A) In making the settlement required by sections 319.43 and 319.44 of the Revised Code, the county auditor shall carefully examine the tax duplicate and ascertain, from the entries of taxes, interest, and penalty paid in whole or in part, and from such other sources of information as are within the auditor's reach, the true amount collected by the county treasurer on account of each ...

...(A) The county auditor shall maintain a real property tax suspension list of tracts and lots certified to him under section 323.33 of the Revised Code as being charged with delinquent amounts most likely uncollectible except through foreclosure or through foreclosure and forfeiture. Tracts and lots on the list shall be listed in the same form and order or sequence as on the general tax list of real and public utility...

...(A) On all moneys collected by the county treasurer on any tax duplicate of the county, other than estate tax duplicates, on all property tax relief reimbursements paid to the county under sections 323.156 and 4503.068 and divisions (F) and (I) of section 321.24 of the Revised Code, and on all moneys received as advance payments of personal property and classified property taxes, the county auditor, on settlement wit...

...(A) On or before the fifteenth day of February, in each year, the county treasurer shall settle with the county auditor for all taxes and assessments that the treasurer has collected on the general duplicate of real and public utility property at the time of making the settlement. If the county treasurer has made or will make advance payments to the several taxing districts of current year unpaid taxes under section ...

...(A) As used in this section, "qualifying county" means a county to which both of the following apply: (1) At least one major league professional athletic team plays its home schedule in the county for the season beginning in 1996; (2) The majority of the electors of the county, voting at an election held in 1996, approved a referendum on a resolution of the board of county commissioners levying a sales and use tax ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Applicant" means the person who occupies a homestead in a housing cooperative. (2) "Homestead" has the same meaning as in division (A)(1)(b) of section 323.151 of the Revised Code. (B) Not later than the first day of May each year, any nonprofit corporation that owns and operates a housing cooperative shall determine the amount of property taxes it paid for the housing coope...

...(A) Upon the enrollment of each student and on an annual basis, the governing authority of each community school established under this chapter shall verify to the department of education and workforce the school district in which the student is entitled to attend school under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code. The school district may review the determination made by the community school under divisio...

...(A) On or before May 15, 2007, and the fifteenth day of May in each calendar year thereafter, the tax commissioner shall determine for each school district whether the taxable value of all utility tangible personal property subject to taxation by the district in the preceding tax year was less than the taxable value of such property during the second preceding tax year. If any decrease exceeds ten per cent of the dis...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Port authority" means any port authority as defined in section 4582.01 or 4582.21 of the Revised Code. (2) "Real property" includes public utility real property and "personal property" includes public utility personal property. (3) "Uncollected taxes" means property taxes charged and payable against the property of a port authority for a tax year that a school district has n...

...s, the cost of the installation of site utilities and site preparation, the cost of demolition of all or part of any existing classroom facilities that are abandoned under the project, the cost of insuring the project until it is completed, any contingency reserve amount prescribed by the commission under section 3318.086 of the Revised Code, and the professional planning, administration, and design fees that a schoo...

...Except in the case of a joint vocational school district that receives assistance under sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code, if the requisite favorable vote on the election is obtained, or if the school district board has resolved to apply the proceeds of a property tax levy or the proceeds of an income tax, or a combination of proceeds from such taxes, as authorized in section 3318.052 of the Revised Cod...

...nd further includes site improvements, utilities, machinery, furnishings, and any separate or connected buildings, structures, improvements, sites, open space and green space areas, utilities or equipment to be used in, or in connection with the operation or maintenance of, or supplementing or otherwise related to the services or facilities to be provided by, such facilities. (7) "Obligations" means bonds or n...

...lks, lighting, machinery, furnishings, utilities, landscaping, wharves, docks, piers, reservoirs, dams, tunnels, bridges, retaining walls, riprap, culverts, ditches, channels, watercourses, retention basins, standpipes and water storage facilities, waste treatment and disposal facilities, heating, air conditioning, and communications facilities, and site improvements. (F) "Cost of capital facilities" means the...

...(A) As used in this section, "energy conservation measure" means the construction of, installation or modification of an installation in, or remodeling of, a new or existing building, to reduce energy consumption. It includes: (1) Insulation of the building structure and of systems within the building; (2) Storm windows and doors, multiglazed windows and doors, heat-absorbing or heat-reflective glazed and coa...

...(A) The board of county commissioners of a county solid waste management district and the board of directors of a joint solid waste management district may fix reasonable rates or charges to be paid by every person, municipal corporation, township, or other political subdivision that owns premises to which solid waste collection, storage, transfer, disposal, recycling, processing, or resource recovery service i...

...As used in sections 3706.40 to 3706.65 of the Revised Code: (A) "Qualifying solar resource" means an electric generating facility in this state to which all of the following apply: (1) The facility uses or will use solar energy as the primary energy source. (2) The facility obtained a certificate for construction of a major utility facility from the power siting board prior to June 1, 2019. (3) The facility i...

...hority, in consultation with the public utilities commission. The interest generated by the fund shall be retained in the fund and used for the purposes set forth in sections 3706.40 to 3706.65 of the Revised Code. (B) The fund shall be administered by the Ohio air quality development authority, and the authority shall request the treasurer of state to create the account for the fund. The treasurer of state shall d...

...ving quarters, and may be connected to utilities necessary for operation of installed features and appliances. (O) "Person" has the same meaning as in section 1.59 of the Revised Code and also includes this state, any political subdivision of this state, and any other state or local body of this state. (P) "Portable camping units" means dependent recreational vehicles, tents, portable sleeping equipment, and ...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Board of health" means the board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health in any city as authorized by section 3709.05 of the Revised Code. (B) "Director" means the director of environmental protection. (C) "Health district" means a city or general health district as created by or under authority of Chapter 3709. of t...

...Nothing in this chapter or rules adopted under it applies to any of the following: (A) Oil or gas production operations regulated under Chapter 1509. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under it; (B) Equipment, petroleum, or piping owned or operated by a public utility as defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code or other electric light company as defined in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code or by a subsid...

...ouse of representatives; (3) Electric utilities, appointed by the governor; (4) Electric cooperatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives; (5) A statewide organization representing independent oil and gas producers, appointed by the president of the senate; (6) The telephone industry, appointed by the governor; (7) Cable service providers, appointed by the president of the senate; (8...

...Funds accumulated in the course of business, or surplus money above the capital stock, of any company organized under any law of this state, for the purpose provided in section 3925.01 of the Revised Code, shall only be loaned or invested in the securities listed in sections 3925.05 and 3925.06 of the Revised Code, or in the following: (A)(1) Bonds and mortgages on unencumbered real estate within this or any ...

...of workers' compensation and the public utilities commission shall enforce this section.

... of the corporations or publicly owned utilities referred to in this section shall fail to comply with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code and, for self-insuring employers, to comply with the assessment based upon paid compensation provisions of this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code. All fines collected for a violation of this section shall be paid to the general fund of the political subdivision ...

... health, the chairperson of the public utilities commission, and the county emergency management agency and sheriff of each county along the proposed route, or any alternate route, of the shipment. (C) The executive director of the emergency management agency shall not disclose to any person other than those persons enumerated in division (B) of this section any information pertaining to any shipment of specia...

...The public utilities commission shall cause blank forms to be prepared suitable for the purposes designated in Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code which shall conform as nearly as practicable to the forms prescribed by the interstate commerce commission, and, when necessary, furnish such blank forms to each railroad.

...d receiving blank forms from the public utilities commission shall cause them to be properly filled, answering fully and correctly each question therein. In case it is unable to answer any question, such railroad shall give a good and sufficient reason for not answering it. Such answers shall be verified under oath by the proper officer of the railroad and returned to the commission within the time fixed by it.

...e notice of such accident to the public utilities commission. In case of such accident, the commission, if it deems the public interest requires it, shall cause an investigation to be made forthwith, which shall be held in the locality of the accident, unless for greater convenience of those concerned, the commission orders such investigation held at some other place. Such investigation may be adjourned from place ...

... in plain type and file with the public utilities commission, within a time fixed by the commission, schedules, showing all rates, fares, and charges for transportation of passengers and property, and any service in connection therewith, which such railroad has established and which are in force at such time between all points in this state upon its railroad, or upon any railroad controlled or operated by it. Such sc...

...shall be printed, filed with the public utilities commission, and filed in every depot, station, and office of such railroads where passengers or property are received for transportation.

... upon thirty days' notice to the public utilities commission. All such changes shall be plainly indicated upon existing schedules, or by filing new schedules thirty days prior to the time they are to take effect. The commission may, for good cause shown, allow changes upon less than the notice specified in this section, or modify the requirements of this section in respect to publishing, posting, and filing of tariff...

...The public utilities commission may prescribe such changes in the form in which schedules are issued by a railroad as are expedient. Such schedules, as far as practicable, shall conform to the forms prescribed by the interstate commerce commission.

...The public utilities commission has the same control over private tracks, so far as such tracks are used by common carriers in connection with a railroad for the transportation of freight, as it has over the tracks of such railroad.

...ck and perishable property. The public utilities commission may enforce reasonable regulations for furnishing cars to shippers, switching, loading, and unloading cars, and the weighing of cars and freight offered for shipment over any railroad.

...sed Code to file complaint, the public utilities commission shall proceed to hear and determine the same in a manner provided for making investigations upon complaint. If upon such hearing the commission finds that it is practicable and reasonably necessary to accommodate the public, to connect such tracks and that when so connected it will be practicable to transport cars over such railroad without endangerin...

...a railroad who receives from the public utilities commission notice of a prescribed rate of speed for trains passing over a defective track, bridge, or other structure, or notice forbidding the running of passenger trains over such defective track, bridge, or other structure, shall neglect, within two days after receiving such notice, to direct the proper subordinate officers to run the passenger trains over such def...

...reconstruction prescribed by the public utilities commission within the time limited by it under sections 4907.44 and 4907.45 of the Revised Code, such company shall forfeit to the state one hundred dollars for each day that such repairs or reconstruction is delayed beyond the time prescribed.

...earing, it is the opinion of the public utilities commission that the public safety requires a gate, automatic alarm bell, or other mechanical device to be erected and maintained at any place where a public road or street is crossed at the same level by a railroad, and the crossing has been declared by the commission to be so dangerous and hazardous as to require additional protective devices, or the public safety re...

...(A) The public utilities commission shall survey all public crossings of railroads at grade, whether on state, county, or township highways or on streets or ways within municipal corporations. The commission shall devise a formula according to sound highway engineering practice for determining the probability of accident at each such crossing and may include in the formula factors representing volume of vehicular tra...

...uch protection is ordered by the public utilities commission pursuant to section 4907.47, 4907.471, or 4907.49 of the Revised Code; (2) The costs incurred by the commission in administering sections 4907.47 to 4907.476 of the Revised Code. (B) Moneys for the fund shall be provided from the motor fuel tax levied under section 5735.05 of the Revised Code and any federal funds apportioned and allocated to the state fo...

...907.471 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall determine as to each crossing whether there is a demonstrable need for such crossing to exist and whether the crossing could be closed to vehicular traffic, or to pedestrian traffic, or to both, and the travel over the crossing diverted to other crossings. In making this determination, the commission shall consider all of the following: (1) The daily...

...(A) If the public utilities commission finds that there is not a demonstrable need for the crossing to exist according to the factors listed in divisions (A)(1) to (9) of section 4907.474 of the Revised Code and that the crossing could be closed to vehicular traffic, or to pedestrian traffic, or to both, and the travel over the crossing diverted to other crossings, and if the crossing is on a road or highway other th...

...907.475 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall, to the extent that it uses federal funds in connection with the erection, installation, or maintenance of any grade crossing protective devices or additional grade crossing protective devices, adhere to all pertinent federal laws and regulations. Where such laws or regulations require that the department of transportation make final decisions for the...

...ected under the direction of the public utilities commission shall be built within the time, in the manner, and of materials approved by the commission. Such devices so authorized shall be located in the highway or street on one or both sides of the railroad tracks, as the commission deems the public safety requires. Such gates shall be so constructed that when closed they obstruct or prevent passage across such rail...

... or fixtures was approved by the public utilities commission, and a plan thereof prepared by such railroads and filed with the commission.

...If in the opinion of the public utilities commission any system of interlocking works or fixtures referred to in section 4907.50 of the Revised Code proves to be unsafe or impracticable, the commission may order than no engines or trains shall pass over any such crossing or bridge without stopping, and the laws regulating the running of engines and trains shall apply. Before such order is made or enforced the commiss...

...grade, if, in the opinion of the public utilities commission, public safety requires protection, the commission, upon its own motion or upon complaint, after notice to the railroads interested and full investigation, may make an order requiring the railroads so intersecting and crossing to install such devices as in the opinion of the commission will properly protect such crossing. The commission may make any other ...

...ss continued for good cause, the public utilities commission shall try the question of whether a crossing referred to by section 4907.52 of the Revised Code shall be protected by interlocking or other safety devices, and shall give all companies or parties interested an opportunity to be fully heard. After such hearing, the commission shall enter upon a record book or docket kept for that purpose an order granting o...

...her fixtures satisfactory to the public utilities commission at such crossing, and pay the costs of such fixtures and the expenses of installing them. The maintenance and operation of such fixtures shall be apportioned equally between the railroads by the commission. This section does not apply to crossings of sidetracks only.

...g to comply with an order of the public utilities commission concerning the protection of persons and property from danger at grade crossings of any such railroad over another, or over a swing bridge or drawbridge and at junction points, by providing interlocking works or other fixtures, shall forfeit five hundred dollars per week for each week such railroad refuses or neglects to obey such orders. Such forfeiture sh...