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...In making a special assessment by percentage of the tax value or by the foot front on lots or lands not subdivided into lots, when such lots or lands are not assessed for taxation, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall fix, for the purpose of such assessment, the value of such lots as they stand and of such lands at what the legislative authority considers a fair average depth for lots in the nei...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall limit all special assessments levied under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to the special benefits conferred upon the property assessed. In no case shall there be levied, under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, upon a lot or parcel of land in the municipal corporation, any assessment for any purpose which, t...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Nonprofit arts institution" has the same meaning as in division (G) of section 5709.121 of the Revised Code. (2) "Qualifying real property" means any real property that is located in a county having a population greater than five hundred thousand but less than five hundred forty thousand and that is either (i) owned and operated by a nonprofit arts institution or (ii) owned and o...

...When a special assessment is levied under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation for the reimproving of any street within the municipal corporation by paving, for the original paving of which a special assessment has previously been levied by ordinance of the municipal corporation within the last twenty years, such assessments for repaving sh...

...The municipal corporation shall pay such part of the total cost of improvements for which special assessments are levied under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, as the legislative authority thereof deems just, which part shall not be less than one-fiftieth of the total cost of the improvement, and in addition thereto, the municipal corporation shall pay the cost of intersections, except as pr...

...When a petition subscribed by the owners of sixty per cent of the front footage of property abutting upon a street, alley, public road, place, boulevard, parkway, park entrance, easement, or other public improvement in a municipal corporation, or the owners of seventy-five per cent of the area to be assessed for such improvement, requesting such improvement, is regularly presented to the legislative authority of the ...

...When a street, alley, public highway, sidewalk, wharf, or landing within a municipal corporation is graded, or pavements are constructed in conformity to grades established by the authorities of the municipal corporation, and the expense of such work is assessed on the lots or lands benefited thereby, such lots or lands shall not be subject to any special assessment occasioned by any subsequent change of grade in suc...

...The cost of any public improvement to be paid for directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by funds derived from special assessments may include but not be limited to: (A) The purchase price of real estate or any interest therein when acquired by purchase, or not more than fifty per cent of the cost of acquiring such real estate or any interest therein when acquired by appropriation; (B) The cost of preli...

...When it is determined by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation and is recited in the resolution of necessity adopted under section 727.12 of the Revised Code, that the streets, alleys, easements, or other public places, or parts thereof, to be improved by construction of sidewalks, curbs, gutters, sewers, drains, or water lines or by paving, lighting, relocating overhead wires, cables, and appurtenant ...

...In all proceedings in which lots or lands are to be charged with special assessments to pay any part of the cost of a public improvement, such lots and lands bounding and abutting upon the improvement may be described as all the lots and lands bounding and abutting upon such improvement between and including the termini of the improvement and those lots and lands which do not so bound and abut may be described by the...

...Special assessments for any improvement under this chapter shall be payable in annual installments pursuant to one or more payment schedules authorized by the legislative authority in the resolution of necessity adopted pursuant to section 727.12 of the Revised Code. Except as otherwise provided in section 727.251 of the Revised Code, the number of annual installments of any assessment for street lighting purposes or...

...When it is deemed necessary by a municipal corporation to make a public improvement to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessments levied under this chapter, plans, specifications, profiles of the proposed improvement showing the proposed grade of the street and improvement after completion with reference to the property abutting thereon, and an estimate of the cost of the improvement shall be prepared and...

... (A) Notice of the passage of a resolution of necessity and the filing of the estimated assessment under section 727.12 of the Revised Code, shall, after the estimated assessment has been made and filed as provided by section 727.12 of the Revised Code, be served by the clerk of the legislative authority, or a person designated by such clerk, upon the owners of the lots or parcels of land to be assessed for the propo...

... (A) In lieu of the procedure provided in section 727.13 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority may provide for notice of the passage of a resolution of necessity providing for the lighting, sprinkling, sweeping, or cleaning of any street, alley, public road, or place, or parts thereof or for treating the surface of the same with dust-laying or preservative substances, or for the planting, maintaining, and re...

...The owner of any lot or parcel of land who objects to the amount or apportionment of, or the assessment against such lot or parcel as set forth in the estimated assessment filed under section 727.12 of the Revised Code, shall file such objection, in writing, with the clerk of the legislative authority within two weeks from the date of completion of the notice required under section 727.13 of the Revised Code. Such ob...

...In the event the owner of any lot or parcel of land to be assessed objects to the amount or apportionment of the estimated assessment or to the assessment against such lot or parcel, as provided in section 727.15 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation shall appoint an assessment equalization board, consisting of three disinterested freeholders of the municipal corporation, and sha...

...On the day appointed by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation for that purpose, the assessment equalization board appointed under section 727.16 of the Revised Code, shall meet and take an oath before a proper officer to honestly and impartially discharge its duties. It shall at such meeting or at any adjournment thereof, hear and determine all objections to the estimated assessment which have been f...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may declare, by resolution, the necessity of levying and collecting special assessments for the purpose of paying the principal and interest, or part thereof, of bonds previously issued to pay the cost and expense of acquiring, constructing, and equipping off-street parking facilities, structures, or lands required therefor, which principal and interest was contemp...

...An owner of a lot or parcel of land, claiming that he will sustain damages by reason of a proposed public improvement, to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessments, shall, within two weeks from the date of completion of the notice required under section 727.13 of the Revised Code, file a claim in writing with the clerk of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, setting forth the amount of...

...When claims for damages are filed under section 727.18 of the Revised Code and the legislative authority of the municipal corporation determines in the ordinance adopted under section 727.23 of the Revised Code that the damages shall be assessed before commencing such improvement, the municipal corporation shall, within ten days after the passage of the ordinance to proceed with the improvement under section 727.23 o...

...When claims for damages are filed in accordance with section 727.18 of the Revised Code and the legislative authority of the municipal corporation determines, in the ordinance adopted under section 727.23 of the Revised Code, that the damages shall be assessed after the completion of the improvement, the municipal corporation shall, within ten days after the completion of such improvement, make written application to...

...The jury summoned under section 727.19 or 727.20 of the Revised Code shall be sworn to inquire into and assess the actual damages in each case separately, under such rules and instructions as are given it by the court. When the jury cannot agree, it may be discharged, but the court may receive its verdict as to one or more of the claimants, and discharge it with respect to the parties concerning whose claims it cann...

...If the jury summoned under section 727.19 or 727.20 of the Revised Code finds no damages, the costs of the inquiry shall be taxed against the claimant or claimants and collected on execution. In other cases the costs shall be paid by the municipal corporation.

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation which has adopted a resolution under section 727.12 of the Revised Code declaring the necessity for a public improvement shall, after the expiration of the time for filing claims for damages under section 727.18 of the Revised Code, and, in the event objections to the estimated assessment have been filed under section 727.15 of the Revised Code, and the report of t...

...After the passage of an ordinance under section 727.23 of the Revised Code, to proceed with a public improvement, the improvement may be constructed by force account, or a contract for the construction of the improvement shall be let in the manner provided by law, provided that in the event that the lowest and best bid for labor and materials for the public improvement exceeds the estimated cost for labor and materia...