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...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.

...For the purpose of erecting or building dams across rivers or streams to raise and maintain a head of water, constructing and maintaining canals, locks, and race ways to regulate and carry such head of water to a plant or power house where electricity is to be generated, erecting and maintaining poles whereon to attach or sink wires or cables to carry and transmit electricity, transporting natural gas, petroleum, wat...

...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.

...In appropriation proceedings under sections 743.39 to 743.41, inclusive, of the Revised Code, no reservoir for the storage or transportation of water shall be constructed within the limits of a municipal corporation or any public park. All excavations, except such reservoirs, shall be well filled and so kept by the appropriating municipal corporation.

...A municipal corporation appropriating property pursuant to sections 743.39 to 743.42, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may transport, store, insure, and ship natural gas, petroleum, or water, and transport and store water for the purpose of furnishing it to engineers employed in developing for, or in the production and transportation of, petroleum, and for that purpose may lay down, construct, and maintain the necessa...

...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) A municipal corporation that has established and implemented a watershed management program with regard to a reservoir for drinking water shall allow an owner of property that is contiguous to property that constitutes a buffer around a body of water that is part of such a reservoir to maintain property that constitutes a buffer if the maintenance is for any of the following: (1) Creation of an access path that ...

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

...As used in sections 745.01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Public utility" means any street railway operated in whole or in part under sections 4951.20 to 4951.22, inclusive, and 4951.27 to 4951.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or any street railway operated in connection with or upon the tracks of any such street railway, and any corporation which owns, operates, or leases any such street railway...

...A municipal corporation may grant an indeterminate permit to any public utility upon such terms as are considered conducive to the public interests, and as provided in sections 745.01 to 745.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...Any public utility may surrender any existing license, permit, grant, or franchise, and may accept in lieu thereof any indeterminate permit, and the municipal corporation in which all or the major part of the property of such public utility is situated may accept such surrender and grant an indeterminate permit. At the time provided in the grant of such permit, or, if no time is provided in such grant, then at any ti...

...When a municipal corporation determines to acquire the property of a public utility by condemnation, the compensation therefor shall be determined in the manner provided by sections 719.01 to 719.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...When a municipal corporation desires, as expressed in an ordinance determining to acquire the property of a public utility, to have the compensation for such property determined by the public utilities commission, such municipal corporation shall make a request in writing to the commission in accordance with section 4909.04 of the Revised Code. Thereupon the commission shall proceed to make an inventory and valuation...

...Any municipal corporation may, contemporaneously with or at any time after the grant of an indeterminate permit as provided in sections 745.02 and 745.03 of the Revised Code, agree with a public utility upon the compensation to be paid for its property and the times for the exercise of the privilege of purchase, but no period between the times fixed for such purchase shall exceed five years. Upon the determination of...

...An ordinance passed pursuant to section 745.06 of the Revised Code shall not take effect until submitted to the electors of the municipal corporation, at a special or general election held in the municipal corporation at such time as the legislative authority determines, and approved by a majority of the electors voting on it. The ordinance shall be passed by an affirmative vote of not less than a majority of t...