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...After the filing of a petition for the organization of a sanitary 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. Such payment shall be made on the warrant of the county auditor on the order of the court. If the district is organized, such cost shall be repaid to ...

...In order to facilitate the preliminary work, the board of directors of a sanitary district may borrow money at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent per annum; may issue and sell or pay to contractors or others negotiable warrants signed by the members of the board; and may pledge, after it has been levied, the preliminary tax of not exceeding three tenths of a mill for the repayment thereof. If any warrant i...

...(A) After the list of real property, with the appraised benefits as approved by the court, or that part thereof from which no appeal is pending, has been filed with the secretary of the sanitary district as provided in section 6115.39 of the Revised Code, then from time to time, as the affairs of the district demand it, the board of directors of the sanitary district may levy on all real property, upon which benefits...

...When the assessment roll is placed on file in the office of the sanitary district, notice by publication shall be given to property owners that they may pay their assessments. Any owner of real property assessed for the execution of the official plan under section 6115.48 of the Revised Code may pay such assessment to the treasurer of the sanitary district within thirty days from the time such assessment is placed on...

...(A) For the purpose of acquiring, constructing, rehabilitating, furnishing, and equipping real and personal property necessary or appropriate for the execution of the official plan, as such plan is amended from time to time, the board of directors of a sanitary district may issue bonds in anticipation of the levy and collection of special assessments in an amount not to exceed ninety per cent of the total amount of t...

...The treasurer of a sanitary district shall, at the time of taking office, execute and deliver to the president of the board of directors of the sanitary 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 him on the sale of any of such bonds or from any othe...

...(A) The board of directors of a sanitary district may issue revenue obligations as provided in this section to pay the costs of the acquisition, construction, improvement, furnishing, and equipping of real and personal property appropriate for execution of the official plan. Such revenue obligations shall be authorized by resolution of the board of directors of a sanitary district. (B) Revenue obligations may be sec...

...To maintain, operate, and preserve the reservoirs, sewers, pumping stations, treatment and disposal works, or other improvements made pursuant to this chapter, other than those connected with the development of a water supply for the sanitary district, and to strengthen, repair, and restore the same, when needed, and to defray the current expenses of the district, other than those expenses connected with the water su...

...Whenever the owners or representatives of twenty-five per cent or more of the acreage or value of the lands in a sanitary district file a petition with the clerk of the court in whose office the petition was filed, stating that there has been a material change in the values of the property in the district since the last previous appraisal of benefits, and praying for a readjustment of the appraisal of benefits for th...

...The board of directors of a sanitary district shall each year after the original assessment has been levied determine, order, and levy the part of the total assessments levied under this chapter, which shall become due and be collected during each year at the same time that state and county taxes are due and collected, which annual levy shall be evidenced and certified by the board not later than the first day of Sep...

...The county treasurer of each county in which lands of a sanitary district lie shall make due report to the county auditor of the sums collected by him. The auditor shall issue his warrant payable to the treasurer of the sanitary district for all sums of money in the hands of the county treasurer according to his report. Said auditor shall, as soon as the books for collection are closed by the county treasurer accordi...

...Before receiving the assessment book provided for by section 6115.55 of the Revised Code the county treasurer of each county in which lands or other property of the sanitary district are located shall execute to the board of directors of the sanitary district a bond with at least two good and sufficient sureties or a surety company, which bond shall be paid for by the district, in a sum not less than the probable amo...

...All sanitary district assessments and taxes provided for in this chapter, together with all penalties for default in payment of the same, and all costs in collecting the same, including reasonable attorney's fees, to be fixed by the court and taxed as costs in the action brought to enforce payment, from the date of filing the certificate described in this section in the office of the county auditor for the county whe...

...The "delinquent assessment book" of a sanitary district is prima-facie evidence in all courts of all matters therein contained. The liens established and declared in section 6115.58 of the Revised Code may be enforced at the option of the board of directors of the sanitary district by an action on delinquent tax bills or assessment bills, made and certified by the county auditor, which action shall be instituted in t...

...Whenever, under this chapter, an assessment is made against a county, municipal corporation, or township, the governing or taxing body of such political subdivision, upon receipt of the order of the court accepting the report of the board of appraisers, and upon receipt of a copy, certified by the secretary of the sanitary district, of the resolution of the board of directors levying the assessment, shall receive and...

...To pay a portion of the amount of an assessment or annual levy of a sanitary district organized for the purpose of water supply, against any political subdivision, or to pay charges for water, which charges are to be deposited into the bond fund, the legislative or other taxing authority of such political subdivision may appropriate any unappropriated funds of the water department of such political subdivision. When ...

...In addition to the uniform rates for water provided for by sections 6115.19 and 6115.53 of the Revised Code, the board of directors of a sanitary district, for the purpose of providing funds for retirement of principal and interest on bonds issued under this chapter, may charge an additional rate for water furnished by the district to a political subdivision or person within the district. Upon determination of such a...

...If any county treasurer or other person entrusted with the collection of assessments fails to make prompt payment of the assessment or any part thereof collected under this chapter to the treasurer of the sanitary district upon his presentation of a proper demand, he shall forfeit ten per cent on the amount of his delinquency. Such forfeiture shall at once become due and payable and both he and his sureties shall be...

...Any surplus funds in the treasury of the sanitary district may be used for retiring bonds, for reducing the rate of assessment, or for accomplishing any other of the legitimate objects of the district. At least once a year, or more often if the court or, in the instance of a district organized after October 9, 1981 wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, the advisory council of the district, so ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the members of the board of directors of a sanitary district and the members of the board of appraisers of a sanitary district shall receive proper compensation to be fixed by the court in accordance with the time actually employed in performance of their duties and also shall receive necessary expenses incurred in performing their duties. Members of ...

...The same land, if conducive to public health, safety, convenience, or welfare, may be included in more than one sanitary district and be subject to sections 6115.01 to 6115.79, inclusive, of the Revised Code, for each district in which it may be included. No district shall be organized under such sections in whole or in part within the territory of a district already organized under such sections until the court dete...

...In case any sanitary district is being organized within, or partly within and partly without, the same territory in which some other district has been or is being organized, one judge of the court of common pleas of each county in which such districts have been or are being organized shall confer at the earliest convenient moment after they ascertain the possibility of a conflict in jurisdiction, the sitting to be ha...

...(A) If two or more sanitary districts have been organized in a territory which, in the opinion of the board of directors of the sanitary district of either of the districts, should constitute only one district, the board of any of the districts may petition the court for an order uniting the districts into a single district. The petition shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of that c...

...Whenever it is desired to construct improvements wholly within or partly within and partly without any sanitary district, which improvements will affect only a part of said district, for the purpose of accomplishing such work, subdistricts may be organized upon petition of the owners of real property within or partly within and partly without the district. Such petition shall fulfill the same requirements conce...

...If any person or public corporation, within or without any sanitary district, considers itself injuriously affected in any manner by an act performed by any official or agent of such district, or by the execution, maintenance, or operation of the official plan, and if no other method of relief is offered under sections 6115.01 to 6115.79, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the remedy shall be as follows: The person or ...