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...anding section 5501.05 of the Revised Code, real property purchased with money appropriated to the department of transportation may be transferred to a municipality with a population of no more than ten thousand persons as of December 31, 1992, if the real property is to be used for the public purpose of providing health care services to the community.

...letion of matters relating thereto, the department of transportation or the director of transportation shall be held to constitute the continuation of the department of highways and the director of highways. All rules, regulations, acts, determinations, and decisions pertaining to such duties, powers, and functions of the department of highways and the director of highways, in force and effect at the time of such tra...

...s affected by the program; (3) The levels of existing service and fare; (4) The degree to which the proposed plan demonstrates approaches of potential value to other local transit boards, authorities, commissions, counties, municipal corporations, and private nonprofit organizations operating public transportation systems; (5) The degree to which the grant applicant will use state and local funds to match a fed...

...All funds received by the department of transportation from federal, local, or private sources for the purpose of carrying out public transportation programs shall be deposited into the highway operating fund.

...tegic transportation planning, shall develop metrics that allow the comparison of data across transportation modes and that also incorporate the full spectrum of state strategic transportation goals, including all of the following: (A) Anticipated future costs of maintaining infrastructure in acceptable condition, both short-term and long-term; (B) Short-term economic impact, one to five years, and long-term econom...

...of the effective date of this act, the department of transportation shall establish a written policy for the classification and prioritization of all new construction plans and contracts. The policy shall consider all aspects of new construction planning in a manner allowing the comparison of competing projects. The director of transportation shall utilize the policy in regard to all new construction plans an...

...f this section, the department shall develop and maintain a pavement management system. The system shall inventory and evaluate basic road and bridge conditions throughout the state highway system and develop strategies to improve those conditions, minimize annual maintenance of the state highway system, and ensure that a disproportionate percentage of the roads and bridges on the state highway system are not due for...

...s, and shall perform such duties as are designated by the director.

...l divide the state into not exceeding twelve districts and give to each district an appropriate number or name. Each district shall manage all activities within the area of the district, including transportation planning, intermodal coordination, design, operation, and maintenance of highways and bridges, and any associated administrative activities. The director may appoint and assign to each district a district de...

...The director of transportation may appoint a chief clerk, who shall be exempt from civil service requirements or regulations. The director may appoint a secretary to the director and a secretary to each assistant director. Secretaries so appointed shall be exempt from civil service requirements or regulations.

...the authority of this section shall be eligible to receive pay during periods of on the job training or while attending special training schools conducted by the department of transportation. Such employees and appointees, in addition to their salaries, shall receive their actual necessary traveling expenses when on official business. The director may contract with regional, county, or municipal planning commi...

...means that an employee is placed in a position where the employee's wage rate equals, or is not more than twenty per cent less than, the employee's wage rate immediately prior to demotion or where the employee's job responsibilities are reduced, or both. (3) "Employee in the career professional service with restoration rights" means an employee in the career professional service who has been in the classified civi...

...oduce in any court an original paper or electronic record, plan, drawing, or other document. All records, plans, and other documents and drawings of the department shall be open to the inspection of any interested person, subject to such reasonable rules as to the time of inspection and as to supervision, as the director prescribes.

...n shall not be suable, either as a sole defendant or jointly with other defendants, in any court outside Franklin county except in actions brought by a railroad company under section 4957.30 of the Revised Code, or by a property owner to prevent the taking of property without due process of law, in which case suit may be brought in the county where such property is situated, or in any action otherwise specifically pr...

...ed in transportation improvement and development. In such cases the director, or the person designated by him, shall receive his actual and necessary expenses in addition to his salary.

...all into conference any employee of the department of transportation or the officials of any county, township, or municipal corporation for any purpose connected with the director's official duties. Any employee of the department so called into conference shall be entitled to receive his actual and necessary expenses in addition to his salary.

...rge of the duties of their respective positions and such bonds, except the bond of the director which shall be approved as to sureties by the governor, shall be approved as to the sufficiency of the sureties by the director, and as to legality and form by the attorney general, and shall be deposited with the secretary of state. The premium on such bonds shall be paid out of appropriate funds of the department of tran...

...d (2) of this section shall include guidelines to determine which areas are appropriate to the posting of such signs. The guidelines may include consideration of the following: the duration of the work on the street or highway, the proximity of workers to moving traffic, the existence of any unusual or hazardous conditions, the volume of traffic on the street or highway, and any other appropriate factors. The directo...

...ay alter, widen, straighten, realign, relocate, establish, construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, repair, and preserve any road or highway on the state highway system, and, in connection therewith, relocate, alter, widen, deepen, clean out, or straighten the channel of any watercourse as the director considers necessary, and purchase or appropriate property for the disposal of surplus materials or borrow pi...

...iodic payments. (E) Pursuant to the "Telecommunications Act of 1996," 110 Stat. 152, 47 U.S.C. 332 note, the director may grant a lease, easement, or license in a transportation facility to a telecommunications service provider for construction, placement, or operation of a telecommunications facility. An interest granted under this division is subject to all of the following conditions: (1) The transportation fa...

...transportation purpose, including the reloaning of such repaid funds for other projects. Reloaned funds would be considered state loans, not federal share loans. (3) Sell transportation facilities under such terms as the director may determine, including conditional sale or installment sale, under which title may pass prior to or after completion of the facility, or at any time provided in the agreement pertai...

...y part of a tract of land when the acquisition of a part of the land needed for highway purposes will result in substantial damages to the residue by severance, controlled access, or isolation. The warranty deed shall contain a description of the property suitable for platting on tax maps. Any instrument by which real property is acquired pursuant to this section shall identify the agency of the state that has the us...

...At any time during the development of a highway project, subject to section 5501.331 of the Revised Code, the owner of an interest in real property may donate to the state, and the director of transportation may accept in the name of the state, all or part of the interest that is needed for purposes of the highway project.

...ighway project, including the decision relative to the need to construct the project or selection of its specific location. (C) The donated interest shall revert to the grantor or his successors or assigns if the interest is not required for the alignment chosen for the highway project after public hearings, if hearings are required, and adoption of the environmental document.

...attorney general, shall prepare a deed releasing the property donated under section 5501.33 of the Revised Code to the grantor or the grantor's successors or assigns. The deed shall declare the occurrence of the condition and the consequent reversion. The deed shall be executed by the governor, countersigned by the secretary of state, recorded in the office of the director of administrative services, and delivered to...