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...The port authority shall foster and encourage the participation of private enterprise in the development of the port facilities to the fullest extent it considers practicable in the interest of limiting the necessity of construction and operation of the facilities by the port authority.

...Nothing contained in sections 4582.25 to 4582.59 of the Revised Code shall: (A) Impair the provisions of law or ordinance directing the payment of revenues derived from public property into sinking funds or dedicating those revenues to specific purposes; (B) Impair the powers of any county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision to develop or improve port and terminal facilities except as restricted ...

...The legislative authority of any municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision or taxing district, may convey or lease to or from, lease with an option to purchase, or exchange with, any port authority or any port authority may convey or lease to or from, lease with an option to purchase, or exchange with, a municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other ...

...The board of directors of a port authority created in accordance with section 4582.22 of the Revised Code shall annually prepare a budget for the port authority. Rents and charges received by the port authority shall be used for the general expenses of the port authority and to pay interest, amortization, and retirement charges on money borrowed. If there remains, at the end of any calendar year, any surplus of such...

...Upon the affirmative vote in a primary or general election of at least a majority of the qualified electors within the port authority voting at an election held for the purpose, the port authority may levy upon the property within its jurisdiction a tax, for all purposes including bond debt charges, not in excess of one mill annually on the total value of all property as listed and assessed for taxation for any perio...

...A port authority that is created by the exclusive action of a municipal corporation and located within an existing port authority created by a county may levy a tax under section 4582.40 of the Revised Code only if the existing port authority created by the county has no such tax levy in effect. Unless the existing port authority created by the county subsequently levies a tax under section 4582.40 of the Revised Cod...

...Before receiving any moneys, the secretary of a port authority created in accordance with section 4582.22 of the Revised Code shall furnish bond in such amount as shall be determined by the port authority, with sureties satisfactory to it, and all funds coming into the hands of said secretary shall be deposited by him to the account of the port authority in one or more such depositories as shall be qualified to recei...

...No municipal corporation or county creating or participating in the creation of a port authority in accordance with section 4582.22 of the Revised Code may, during the time the port authority is in existence, exercise the rights and powers provided in sections 307.65 or 721.04 to 721.11 of the Revised Code.

...ction of the port authority by a public utility or a common carrier, charges by the port authority for the services shall not be less than the charges established for the same services furnished by a public utility or common carrier in the port authority jurisdiction. The rentals or other charges shall not be subject to supervision or regulation by any other authority, commission, board, bureau, or agency of the stat...

...(A) A port authority may enter into any contracts or other arrangements with the United States government, or any department thereof, with persons, railroads, or other corporations, with public corporations, with public utilities, and with the state government of this or any other state, with counties, municipalities, townships, or other governmental agencies created by or under the authority of the laws of this stat...

...Bonds of a port authority and port authority revenue bonds issued pursuant to sections 4582.22 to 4582.59 of the Revised Code are lawful investments of banks, societies for savings, trust companies, savings and loan associations, deposit guaranty associations, trustees, fiduciaries, trustees or other officers having charge of the bond retirement funds or sinking funds of port authorities and political subdivisions, a...

...A port authority shall be exempt from and shall not be required to pay any taxes on property, both real and personal, or any combination thereof, belonging to any port authority that is used exclusively for any authorized purpose. This exemption shall not apply to any property occupied and used during a tax year by a person who is a lessee of the property as of the tax lien date for that tax year under a written le...

...(A) With respect to facilities, and their financing, for authorized purposes, under agreements whereby the person to whom the facility is to be leased, subleased, or sold, or to whom a loan is to be made for the facility, is to make payments sufficient to pay all of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the port authority revenue bonds issued for the facility, the port authority, in addition to other pow...

...A port authority at any time may issue port authority revenue bonds in such principal amounts as, in the opinion of the port authority, are necessary for the purpose of paying the cost of one or more port authority facilities or parts thereof. A port authority at any time may issue renewal notes, issue bonds to retire its notes and whenever it considers refunding expedient, refund any bonds by the issuance of p...

...The issuance of port authority revenue bonds under sections 4582.22 to 4582.59 of the Revised Code need not comply with any other law applicable to the issuance of bonds or notes.

...In the discretion of the port authority, any port authority revenue bonds issued under sections 4582.22 to 4582.59 of the Revised Code may be secured by a trust agreement between the port authority and a corporate trustee that may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state. The trust agreement may pledge or assign revenues of the port authority to be received and ma...

...Any holder of port authority revenue bonds issued under sections 4582.22 to 4582.59 of the Revised Code, or any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under any trust agreement, except to the extent the rights given by such sections may be restricted by the applicable resolution or such trust agreement, may by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceedings, protect and enforce any rights under the laws of...

...Port authority revenue bonds issued under sections 4582.22 to 4582.59 of the Revised Code do not constitute a debt, or a pledge of the faith and credit, of the state or any political subdivision of the state, and the holders or owners of the bonds have no right to have taxes levied by the general assembly or taxing authority of any political subdivision of the state for the payment of the principal of or interest on ...

...All moneys, funds, properties, and assets acquired by the port authority under sections 4582.22 to 4582.59 of the Revised Code, whether as proceeds from the sale of port authority revenue bonds or as revenues, or otherwise, shall be held by it in trust for the purposes of carrying out its powers and duties, shall be used and reused as provided in such sections, and shall at no time be part of other public funds. Such...

...Moneys in the funds of the port authority, except as otherwise provided in any resolution authorizing the issuance of its port authority revenue bonds or in any trust agreement securing the same, in excess of current needs, may be invested as permitted by sections 135.01 to 135.21 of the Revised Code or invested in linked deposit programs established by resolution of the board of directors in accordance with section ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Eligible county" means a county whose territory includes a part of Lake Erie the shoreline of which represents at least fifty per cent of the linear length of the county's border with other counties of this state. (2) "Lakeshore improvement project" means construction of a port authority facility within one mile of the Lake Erie shoreline in an eligible county. (3) "Constructio...

...oad, 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 construction shall be of substantially the same type and in as good condition as the original road, hig...

...(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...