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...If it deems it expedient, the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district may assess the real estate as provided in the resolution to improve and collect such assessments, or may issue bonds in anticipation of the collection of such assessments before the work is done or contracted for. The board may delay such assessment until the work is completed and upon the filing of a certificate showing the comp...

...The construction contracts authorized in Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code shall be awarded to the lowest and best bidder in the manner provided in section 6119.10 of the Revised Code and shall be paid for in the same manner as provided for payment of municipal contracts in Chapter 735. of the Revised Code.

...If in its opinion it is expedient, the board of trustees of a regional water and sewer district may provide for the construction of main sewers and drains and branch sewers and drains connecting therewith without previously adopting any plan of sewerage or division of the area or any part thereof into districts, and may assess the cost and expense of such construction upon such lots and lands as are designated in the...

...The issuance of bonds and notes in anticipation of the collection of special assessments shall be accomplished as provided in Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code.

...The board of county commissioners at any time not less than ninety days before the general election in any year, by a vote of two-thirds of its members, may declare by resolution that the amount of taxes which may be raised within the ten-mill limitation will be insufficient to provide an adequate amount for the necessary requirements of the county, and that it is necessary to levy a tax in excess of such limit...

...A copy of the resolution provided for in section 6119.31 of the Revised Code shall be certified to the board of elections for the county not less than ninety days before the general election in any year and said board shall submit the proposal to the electors of the county at the succeeding November election in accordance with section 5705.25 of the Revised Code. If the per cent required for approval of a levy...

...All funds and proceeds received from the levy of the tax approved as provided in section 6119.32 of the Revised Code may be appropriated in whole or in part by the board of county commissioners to the regional planning commission, the county planning commission, or to any regional water and sewer district for the purpose of preparing plans for the proper purification, filtration, and distribution of water or proper c...

...The regional planning commission, the county planning commission, or any regional water and sewer district undertaking the preparation of plans for the proper purification, filtration, and distribution of water or proper collection and treatment of sewage, or their authorized agents and employees, after proper notice, may enter upon any lands, waters, and premises in the state for the purpose of making or preparing s...

...Upon the completion of plans for the proper purification, filtration, and distribution of water or proper collection and treatment of sewerage, the board of county commissioners, the regional planning commission, the county planning commission, or any regional water and sewer district which has prepared such plans shall file a copy thereof with the environmental protection agency, which may approve or reject any prov...

... In lieu of submitting to the electors for approval the question of a tax levy outside the ten-mill limitation and levying that tax following approval, as provided for in sections 6119.31 and 6119.32 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners may issue securities, as defined in section 133.01 of the Revised Code, including anticipatory securities, for the purpose of paying the cost of the preparation of ...

...(A) Any employees of a political subdivision who are in the classified service under Chapter 124. of the Revised Code, and who because of the transfer of a facility of such political subdivision to a regional water and sewer district become the employees of such district, shall, while in the continuous employment of such district, not be reduced in pay or position, suspended, or removed except in accordance with sect...

...Any regional water and sewer district is subject to audit by the auditor of state, who shall furnish to each political subdivision whose territory is in whole or in part within such district a copy of his audit report.

...A regional water and sewer district is an employer and all employees of such district are public employees within the meaning of section 145.01 of the Revised Code. Such district and its employees are subject to Chapter 145. of the Revised Code.

...The exercise of the powers granted by Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code, will in all respects be for the benefit of the people and for the increase of their prosperity and the improvement of their health and living conditions. The operation and maintenance of public works by the board of trustees of a regional water and sewer district constitute the performance of essential governmental functions. Such district shall...

...The board of trustees of a regional water and sewer district may enter into contracts or other arrangements with the United States government or any department thereof, with persons, firms, or corporations, with public corporations and the state government of this state or other states, with drainage, conservation, conservancy, sewer, park, or other improvement districts in this or other states for co-operation or as...

... Any regional water and sewer district may levy and collect special assessments as provided in Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code. The board of trustees of such district may assess upon abutting, adjacent, contiguous, or other specially benefited lots or lands in the district all or any part of the cost connected with the improvement of any street, alley, or public road or place, or a property or easement of the distr...

... The cost of constructing a water resource project to be paid for directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by funds derived from special assessments may include but need not be limited to: (A) The purchase price of real estate or any interest therein when acquired by purchase, or when acquired by appropriation; (B) The cost of preliminary and other surveys; (C) The cost of preparing plans, specifications, p...

...In all proceedings in which lots or lands are to be charged with special assessments to provide funds for the construction of a water resource project, such lots and lands bounding and abutting upon the project may be described as all the lots and lands bounding and abutting upon such project between and including the termini of the project and those lots and lands which do not so bound and abut may be described by t...

...Special assessments for the construction of a water resource project under Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code shall be payable in such number of annual installments, not less than one, and at such times as the board of trustees prescribes.

...When it is considered necessary to construct a water resource project to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessments levied under Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code, plans, specifications, and profiles of the proposed project showing the anticipated grade of the project after completion with reference to any property abutting thereon, and an estimate of the cost of the project shall be prepared and filed in...

...Notice of the passage of a resolution of necessity and the filing of the estimated assessments under section 6119.46 of the Revised Code shall, after the estimated assessments have been prepared and filed as provided by such section, be served by the secretary of the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district, or a person designated by such secretary, upon the owners of the lots or parcels of land to ...

...The owner of any lot or parcel of land who objects to the assessment against such lot or parcel as set forth in the estimated assessments filed under section 6119.46 of the Revised Code shall file such objection, in writing, with the secretary of the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district within twenty-eight days from the date of completion of the notice required under section 6119.47 of the Revis...

...In the event that the owner of any lot or parcel of land to be assessed objects to the estimated assessments as provided in section 6119.48 of the Revised Code, the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district shall appoint an assessment equalization board consisting of three disinterested persons residing in the district, and shall fix the time and place for the hearing by such board of such objections...

...An owner of a lot or parcel of land claiming that he will sustain damages by reason of a proposed project, to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessments, shall, within twenty-eight days from the date of completion of the notice required under section 6119.47 of the Revised Code, file a claim in writing with the secretary of the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district, setting forth the ...

... The board of trustees of a regional water and sewer district which has adopted a resolution under section 6119.46 of the Revised Code declaring the necessity of constructing a water resource project shall, after the expiration of the time for filing claims for damages under section 6119.50 of the Revised Code, and, in the event that objections to the estimated assessments have been filed under section 6119.48 of the...