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...The board of appraisers of a conservancy district shall prepare a report of its findings that shall be known as the conservancy appraisal record. The record shall contain the name of the owner of property appraised as it appears on the tax duplicate or the deed records if ascertainable from them, the tax mailing address or other known address of the owner if ascertainable, a description of the property appraised, the...

...Upon the filing of the report of the board of appraisers of a conservancy district under section 6101.31 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the court shall give notice of the filing by publication in each county in the district in which property included in the conservancy appraisal record is located. The notice shall be substantially as set forth in division (F) of section 6101.84 of the Revised Code. It is not neces...

...Any property owner or public corporation may accept the appraisals in its favor of benefits, of damages, and of lands to be taken made by the board of appraisers of a conservancy district, or may acquiesce in the board's failure to appraise damages in its favor, and shall be construed to have done so unless, within thirty days after the publication provided for in section 6101.32 of the Revised Code, or such addition...

...If it appears to the satisfaction of the court after having heard and determined all the exceptions filed pursuant to section 6101.33 of the Revised Code that the estimated cost of constructing the improvement contemplated in the official plan is less than the benefits appraised, then the court shall approve and confirm the report of the board of appraisers of a conservancy district as modified and amended, and, exce...

...Any person or public or private corporation desiring to appeal from an award as to compensation or damages shall, within twenty days from the judgment of the court confirming the report of the board of appraisers of a conservancy district, file with the clerk of such court a written notice making demand for a jury trial, specifying the award or awards from which the appeal is taken. He shall at the same time file a b...

...No property shall be taken under this chapter until compensation has been paid according to law. But if a trial is had by jury and a verdict is rendered that is confirmed by the trial court, the board of directors of the conservancy district may pay the amount allowed into court in money with the costs, and, at that time, the court shall make an order admitting the district into possession of the property and confirm...

...Upon the entry of the order of the court approving the report of the board of appraisers of a conservancy district, the clerk of said court in which the same is entered shall transmit a certified copy of the decree, and of the appraisals as confirmed by the court, except those parts from which appeals have been perfected but not determined, to the secretary of the conservancy district. Upon the entry of the order of...

...After a certified copy of the entry of the court and of the appraisals as confirmed by the court, except those parts from which appeals have been perfected but not determined, is transmitted to the secretary of the conservancy district as provided by section 6101.37 of the Revised Code, the board of directors of the conservancy district may deposit with the court the amount of any confirmed appraisal of compensation ...

...No appeal under this chapter shall be permitted to interrupt or delay any action or the prosecution of any work under this chapter, except where the party appealing is entitled to a jury under the constitution of the state, and the jury trial has not been had, in which case only so much of the work shall be interrupted or delayed as would constitute a taking of or a damaging of the property of the appellant. The boa...

...If any lands in any conservancy district are not liable for assessment at the time of the execution of the work, but afterwards, during the period when the work is being paid for, become liable to assessment by reason of some change in condition or ownership, the lands then shall be appraised and assessed as other lands in the district receiving equal benefits.

...If any real property or public corporation within or without any conservancy district is benefited and for any reason the benefits were not appraised in the original proceedings or were not appraised to the extent of the benefits received, or if any person or public corporation makes use of or profit by the works of any district to a degree not compensated for in the original appraisal, or if the board of directors o...

...No fault in any notice or other proceedings, whether by reason of noncompliance with the requirements of this chapter or with any applicable constitutional requirements, or otherwise, shall affect the validity of any proceeding under this chapter, except to the extent to which it can be shown that the fault resulted in a material denial of justice to the property owner or public corporation complaining of the fault. ...

...The moneys of every conservancy district shall be administered through the following funds: (A) The preliminary fund, consisting of the proceeds of the preliminary assessment levied under authority of section 6101.45 of the Revised Code, any advances of assessments obtained or notes issued in accordance with section 6101.46 of the Revised Code, and any contribution or appropriation by the state under authority of s...

...After the filing of a petition for the organization of a conservancy district, and before the district is organized, the costs of publication and other official costs of the proceedings shall be paid out of the general funds of the county in which the petition is pending. The payment shall be made on the warrant of the county auditor or on the order of the court. If the district is organized, the costs shall be repai...

...In order to facilitate the preliminary work, the board of directors of a conservancy district may borrow money and issue notes therefor at a rate or rates of interest not exceeding the rate provided in section 9.95 of the Revised Code and in an amount not greater than seventy-five per cent of the unencumbered proceeds derived or derivable from the preliminary assessment levied, or which the board has authority to lev...

...(A) As used in this section and section 6101.44 of the Revised Code: (1) "Charitable trust" means any entity that meets all of the following: (a) It is exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. (b) At least in part, it benefits a conservancy district that includes all or parts of more than sixteen counties. (c) At least in part, its purposes are consistent with...

...After the conservancy appraisal record as approved by the court, or that part of it from which no appeal is pending, has been filed with the secretary of the conservancy district as provided in section 6101.37 of the Revised Code, from time to time, as the affairs of the district demand it, the board of directors of the conservancy district shall levy on all real property and on all public corporations, upon which be...

...When the conservancy assessment record is placed on file in the office of the conservancy district, notice by publication shall be given to property owners and public corporations assessed that they may pay their assessments. Any owner of real property or public corporation assessed for the execution of the official plan under this chapter may pay the assessment to the treasurer of the conservancy district within thi...

...(A) The board of directors of a conservancy district may, if in its judgment it seems best, issue bonds in an amount not to exceed ninety per cent of the total amount of the unpaid portion of an assessment, exclusive of interest, levied under this chapter, to mature at annual or semiannual intervals within thirty years. Whenever the board determines to issue bonds in anticipation of the collection of the installments...

...A conservancy district or a subdistrict of it may issue revenue bonds for the purpose of paying all or part of the cost of acquiring or constructing any improvement that the district or subdistrict is authorized to acquire or construct, and the improvement may include equipment, land or interests in land, and facilities necessary or appropriate to the improvement. The bonds shall be secured only by a pledge of, and l...

...The treasurer of a conservancy district, at the time of taking office, shall execute to the district and deliver to the president of the board of directors of the district, a bond with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the board, conditioned that the treasurer shall account for and pay over as required by law, and as ordered by the board, all money received by the treasurer on the sale of bonds and note...

...Whenever the owner of any coupon bond issued pursuant to this chapter presents the bond to the treasurer of the conservancy district with a request for the conversion of the bond into a bond registered as to principal and interest, the treasurer shall cut off and cancel the coupons of the coupon bond presented, and shall stamp, print, or write upon the coupon bond, either upon the back or the face of it or in blanks ...

...Whenever the owners or representatives of twenty-five per cent or more of the acreage or value of the lands in a conservancy district or the board of directors of a conservancy district file a petition with the clerk of the court having jurisdiction in the original case, stating that there has been a material change in the values of the property in the district or additional benefits are being derived from the works ...

...The board of directors of a conservancy district shall each year after the original assessment has been levied determine, order, and levy the annual levy, which shall include all assessments, or installments of assessments, together with interest, levied under this chapter, which become due in the ensuing year. The annual levy shall be due and be collected at the same time that state and county taxes are due and col...

...In anticipation of the collection of assessments for any year levied under sections 6101.53 and 6101.55 of the Revised Code, the board of directors of a conservancy district may borrow money and issue notes therefor; but the aggregate of such loans made in any year shall not exceed one half of the total amount estimated by the county auditors of the several counties in the district to be received from the collection ...