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...In all cases in which the director of transportation desires to cooperate with the board of county commissioners or with any municipal corporation in the establishment, construction, reconstruction, widening, maintenance, repair, railway grade crossing elimination, or other improvement of any section or portion of a state highway, the director may, as a condition precedent to his extending such cooperation, require s...

...The director of transportation shall make payments from the funds described in section 5521.07 of the Revised Code in such amounts and at such times as he determines during the progress of the work described in such section, and any surplus remaining after the work has been completed and the portion of the cost assumed by the county or municipal corporation has been fully paid shall be returned to the county or munic...

...For the purpose of providing a fund for the payment of the county's proportion of the cost and expense of co-operating with the department of transportation, the board of county commissioners may levy a tax, not exceeding one and one-half mills, upon all taxable property of the county. The proceeds of such levy shall be used for the purpose of paying the county's proportion of the cost and expense of any work conduc...

...The board of county commissioners, in anticipation of the collection of the taxes provided for by section 5521.09 of the Revised Code, and in anticipation of the assessments which it is authorized to levy, may, whenever in its judgment it is deemed necessary, sell the bonds of said county in any amount not greater than the aggregate sum necessary to pay the share of the estimated compensation, damages, cost, and expe...

...Chapters 5501., 5503., 5511., 5512., 5513., 5515., 5516., 5517., 5519., 5521., 5523., 5525., 5527., 5528., 5529., 5531., 5533., and 5535. of the Revised Code do not prohibit the board of county commissioners, at the expense of the county, or in co-operation with the board of township trustees, or municipal authorities, at the expense of the municipal corporation, or in co-operation with the board of township trustees...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may submit preliminary plans to the director of transportation for any project wherein co-operation between the municipal corporation and the state is contemplated ultimately under Chapter 5521. of the Revised Code. The director may give conditional approval to such project by the issuance of a letter of intent directed to the municipal corporation, and thereupon t...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, whenever a political subdivision submits to the director of transportation any documents, reports, plans, or other materials relating to a proposed highway improvement project on the state highway system or relating to a road construction or improvement in accordance with section 5535.15 of the Revised Code, the director shall review and approve such documents, ...

...For the purpose of eliminating one or more existing grade crossings on any road or highway on the state highway system or any extension thereof, the director of transportation may relocate any portion of a road or highway on the system or any portion of any extension thereof; or the director may raise or lower the grade of any road or highway on the system or of any extension thereof, above or below the existing trac...

...When it is necessary, in the elimination of existing grade crossings, to change the location of any highway on the state highway system or any extension of the system, the director of transportation may relocate the highway or any part thereof, or the extension or any part thereof, and may vacate the whole or any portion of such highway or extension no longer needed by reason of such relocation, and cause the improve...

...The director of transportation, in a grade crossing elimination, shall proceed by issuing a finding and order, setting out a full written description of the existing grade crossing that is proposed to be abolished, showing its location, the reasons that tend to make its elimination necessary, the names of the companies owning, operating, controlling, or managing such railroads or interurban railways, the manner in wh...

...If the director of transportation enters a finding and determination for a proposed grade crossing improvement the railroad companies involved in such proceedings shall co-operate with the director in the preparation of plans and specifications covering the construction of the proposed project. Such companies shall furnish such plans, specifications, and approximate estimates as the director directs. In changing the ...

...If at the expiration of three months from the time of the entering of the finding and determination for the proposed grade crossing improvement by the director of transportation the railroad companies involved and the director have refused, failed, or neglected to agree upon the necessity of the improvement, or upon the plans, specifications, and estimates covering the proposed project, the companies involved or the ...

...Upon the filing of a petition under section 5523.05 of the Revised Code, accompanied by plans, the railroad company or director opposed to the prayer thereof, or directly interested therein, may, within forty days after service of summons, file an answer to such petition and present other plans for the abolition of such crossing. After expiration of such forty days the court shall proceed to a hearing upon the petiti...

...If the court finds any of the plans presented under section 5523.05 of the Revised Code are reasonable and practicable it shall so find and order the proposed improvement to be made in accordance with such plans. The court may modify or change any plans submitted and order the proposed improvement to be made under the modified or changed plans. The state shall make such changes in the highway or extension as may be n...

...The cost of constructing the improvement authorized, including the making of ways, crossings, or viaducts, above or below the railroad tracks, together with sufficient approaches thereto, necessary guardrails, and adequate drainage, shall be part of and chargeable to the improvement. If the improvement replaces a portion of highway which prior to the improvement was unimproved, the surface chargeable to the improveme...

...Before the director of transportation may enter into any contract provided for in section 5523.08 of the Revised Code, such contract shall be submitted to and receive the approval of the attorney general as to its form.

...The property or rights therein, necessary in making a proposed grade crossing improvement and any relocation of the highway, shall be purchased or appropriated by the director of transportation, who may effect settlement for damages involved. Any appropriation of property by the director shall be in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code. The property, or rights therein, required to make any al...

...Before any work is done that may be required in the making of the proposed grade crossing elimination improvement, the director of transportation shall file plans covering the proposed improvement in the office of the district deputy director of transportation of the state highway district within which such improvement or any part thereof is located, for the examination of all persons interested. The plans shall show...

...The director of transportation may prescribe the manner and time of payment by a railroad company of the proportion of the cost of the proposed grade crossing improvement that the company shall pay.

...Any way, crossing, or viaduct constructed over the tracks of any railroad company under sections 5523.01 to 5523.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be of such height as not to be less than twenty-one feet in the clear, from the top surface of the rails of the railroad track to the lowest point or projection of such overhead way, crossing, or viaduct, unless such company consents to or the court orders a less h...

...A municipal corporation may co-operate with the department of transportation in the abolishment of railway grade crossings and the construction or reconstruction of bridges and viaducts within such municipal corporation, and may pay such portion of the cost of any of such work as is agreed upon between the legislative authority of such municipal corporation and the director of transportation. The legislative authorit...

...From the finding and order of the director of transportation that such improvement as provided for in section 5523.02 of the Revised Code is reasonably necessary and expedient, any railroad company or any interurban railway company may, upon the question of such necessity and expediency, take an appeal to the public utilities commission. A party desiring to take an appeal shall file with the director written notice o...

...After the completion of the work of constructing, reconstructing, widening, or realigning a separated crossing by the director of transportation, in accordance with sections 5523.01 to 5523.20 of the Revised Code, the separated crossing and approaches thereto shall be kept in repair as follows: (A) When the public way crosses the tracks of any railroad company by a structure carrying the highway over such tracks the...

...The proportion of the cost of a grade crossing improvement to be paid by the state shall be paid by the director of transportation, upon estimates, out of any fund appropriated to the department of transportation available for the establishment, construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance, or repair of highways, funds contributed by the local subdivisions, and funds contributed by the federal government. T...

...When a separated crossing, which was not constructed in accordance with sections 4957.01 to 4957.26 or sections 5561.01 to 5561.15 of the Revised Code, is situated on a road or highway on the state highway system or an extension thereof, and is so located that in order to provide for the safety and convenience of the traveling public having occasion to use such road or highway or extension, the director of transporta...