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...(A) Where the legislative authority of a municipal corporation fixes the price at which a company shall furnish electricity or either natural or artificial gas to the citizens or to public buildings, or for the purpose of lighting the streets, alleys, avenues, wharves, landing places, public grounds, or other places, or for other purposes, for a period not exceeding ten years, and the company or person to furnish suc...

...If at any time any company, mentioned in section 743.28 of the Revised Code, required by the legislative authority to lay pipes and light a street, alley, avenue, wharf, landing place, or public ground or building, refuses or neglects for six months after being notified by the legislative authority to comply with such requirement, the legislative authority may lay pipes and erect gasworks for lighting such streets, a...

...Any gaslight company which neglects to furnish gas to the citizens and other consumers of gas or to the municipal corporation in accordance with the prices fixed and established by the legislative authority shall forfeit all rights of such company under the charter by which it has been established, and the legislative authority may proceed to erect, or, by ordinance, empower any person to erect gasworks for the suppl...

...In a municipal corporation in which gasworks are constructed, the legislative authority thereof may provide, by ordinance, for the appointment of an officer, to be known as inspector of gas, whose compensation shall be fixed by the legislative authority, and whose duty it shall be to inspect all gas and gas meters, certify the correctness of all bills against consumers of gas, make photometric tests, and perform such...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall not agree by ordinance, contract, or otherwise with any person for the construction or extension of gasworks for manufacturing or supplying the municipal corporation or its inhabitants with gas, which gives or continues to such person the exclusive privilege of using the streets, lanes, commons, or alleys for the purpose of conveying gas to the municipal corp...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may erect gasworks or electric works at the expense of the municipal corporation, or purchase any such works already erected therein. If the legislative authority and the owner of such works are unable to agree upon the compensation to be paid therefor, the legislative authority may proceed in the manner provided in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Rev...

...When a municipal corporation is the owner of a natural gas plant by which the citizens thereof are supplied with natural gas, and such natural gas is so supplied through pipes, from a point beyond the limits of such municipal corporation, which pass through the limits of a village, the municipal corporation may sell natural gas to such village, or to a company, for the use of such village and the citizens thereof. Su...

...When a municipal corporation is the owner of a natural gas plant for the purpose of supplying the citizens thereof with natural gas for fuel, the legislative authority thereof may provide for supplying natural gas, at rates to be determined by it, to persons living outside of and in the vicinity of such municipal corporation, and to county homes, children's homes, and other public institutions within or without such ...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may prescribe, by ordinance, for the laying down of gas pipes in highways about to be paved, macadamized, or otherwise permanently improved, and for the assessment of the cost and expense thereof upon the lots or parcels of land adjoining or abutting upon the highways in which they are laid. In no case, excepting as a sanitary measure, shall the legislative authori...

...A municipal corporation may contract with any company for supplying such municipal corporation with electric light and natural or artificial gas for the purpose of lighting or heating the streets, squares, and other public places and buildings therein.

...Appropriation of lands under section 743.39 of the Revised Code shall be made in accordance with sections 719.01 to 719.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code. As far as the rights of the public therein are concerned, the board of county commissioners as to county and state roads, the board of township trustees as to township roads, and the legislative authority of a municipal corporation as to streets and alleys, in the...

...Sections 743.39 and 743.40 of the Revised Code do not confer power to appropriate or confer any right in any portion of a street, alley, highway, public way, or land situated within a municipal corporation, without its consent.

...A municipal corporation authorized by law to purchase or lease lands, purchase, lease or sink natural gas wells, procure rights of way, and purchase and lay pipes for the purpose of supplying such municipal corporation or the citizens thereof with natural gas may exercise any such powers outside of its limits, and in addition thereto shall have all the rights and powers conferred upon municipal corporations by sectio...

...Nothing in section 743.26, 743.34, or 4909.34 of the Revised Code shall be construed to mean that a municipal corporation may not request the public utilities commission to review and comment upon the equity and financial implications of the portion of a proposed ordinance that relates to the rates that may be charged for electricity supplied by an electric generation facility either owned or operated by a municipal ...

...(A) Whoever violates section 743.25 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five nor more than five hundred dollars.

...The director of agriculture may do any of the following: (A) Enter into contracts or agreements with any agency of the United States government, or any other public or private agency, or organization, for the performance of the prescribed duties of the department of agriculture under this chapter and Chapter 940. of the Revised Code or for accomplishing cooperative projects within the scope of those duties; (B) Ent...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no person in the western basin shall surface apply manure under any of the following circumstances: (1) On snow-covered or frozen soil; (2) When the top two inches of soil are saturated from precipitation; (3) When the local weather forecast for the application area contains greater than a fifty per cent chance of precipitation exceeding one-half inch in a tw...

...This chapter does not infringe upon the rights, powers, and authority vested by law in the division of wildlife in the department of natural resources.

...(A) On the date and at the time established by the board of supervisors for the hearing on a petition for a proposed improvement, the board shall conduct the hearing. At the hearing, the board shall do both of the following: (1) Present the board's preliminary report on the proposed improvement; (2) Hear any comments or evidence offered by any landowner for or against the proposed improvement. (B) If necessary...

...(A) A board of county commissioners may declare by resolution that it is necessary to levy a tax upon the property within the area to be benefited by an improvement in order to pay the costs of the improvement not otherwise funded. The resolution shall specify all of the following: (1) The rate that it is necessary to levy; (2) The purpose of the tax levy; (3) The number of years during which the increase is ...

...(A) If a proposed improvement would affect more than one county, the board of county commissioners from each of the counties that would be affected by the proposed improvement shall meet on a date fixed by the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the lead county. The boards shall meet in the lead county to organize a joint board of county commissioners and elect a president, which shall be the first order of...

...(A) The auditor of the lead county shall certify to the auditor of the other counties a schedule of any taxes or assessments to be levied for the improvement, and the auditor of such other county immediately shall place such tax or assessment upon the duplicates. Taxes or assessments so certified for collection to an auditor of another county are a lien on the land within such county from the date such certificate is...

...Any affected landowner may appeal to the appropriate court of common pleas any action or determination of a board of supervisors, joint board of supervisors, board of county commissioners, or joint board of county commissioners under this chapter. The affected landowner shall make the appeal within thirty days of the date of the action or determination. The appeal may be based on, but is not limited to, any of the fo...