Ohio Rev. Code § 718.85 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 718 / § 718.85
§ 718.85. Filing of annual return; remittance; disposition of funds
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A)(1) For each taxable year, every taxpayer shall file an annual return. Such return, along with the amount of tax shown to be due on the return less the amount paid for the taxable year under section 718.88 of the Revised Code, shall be submitted to the tax commissioner, on a form and in the manner prescribed by the commissioner, on or before the fifteenth day of the fourth month following the end of the taxpayer's taxable year unless a taxpayer's unextended federal income tax return is due after that date, in which case the annual return shall be submitted on or before the taxpayer's federal income tax return due date. (2) The remittance shall be made payable to the treasurer of state and in the form prescribed by the tax commissioner. If the amount payable with the tax return is ten dollars or less, no remittance is required. (B) The tax commissioner shall immediately forward to the treasurer of state all amounts the commissioner receives pursuant to sections 718.80 to 718.95 of the Revised Code. The treasurer shall credit such amounts to the municipal net profit tax fund which is hereby created in the state treasury. (C)(1) Each return required to be filed under this section shall contain the signature of the taxpayer or the taxpayer's duly authorized agent and of the person who prepared the return for the taxpayer, and shall include the taxpayer's identification number. Each return shall be verified by a declaration under penalty of perjury. (2)(a) The tax commissioner may require a taxpayer to include, with each annual tax return, amended return, or request for refund filed with the commissioner under sections 718.80 to 718.95 of the Revised Code, copies of any relevant documents or other information. (b) A taxpayer that files an annual tax return electronically through the Ohio business gateway or in another manner as prescribed by the tax commissioner shall either submit the documents required under this division electronically as prescribed at the time of filing or, if electronic submission is not available, mail the documents to the tax commissioner. The department of taxation shall publish a method of electronically submitting the documents required under this division on or before January 1, 2019. (3) After a taxpayer files a tax return, the tax commissioner may request, and the taxpayer shall provide, any information, statements, or documents required to determine and verify the taxpayer's municipal income tax. (D)(1)(a) Any taxpayer that has duly requested an automatic extension for filing the taxpayer's federal income tax return shall automatically receive an extension for the filing of a tax return with the commissioner under this section. The extended due date of the return shall be the fifteenth day of the eleventh month after the last day of the taxable year to which the return relates. (b) A taxpayer that has not requested or received a six-month extension for filing the taxpayer's federal income tax return may request that the commissioner grant the taxpayer a seven-month extension of the date for filing the taxpayer's tax return. If the commissioner receives the request on or before the date the tax return is due, the commissioner shall grant the taxpayer's extension request. (c) An extension of time to file under division (D)(1) of this section is not an extension of the time to pay any tax due unless the tax commissioner grants an extension of that date. (2) If the commissioner considers it necessary in order to ensure payment of a tax imposed in accordance with section 718.04 of the Revised Code, the commissioner may require taxpayers to file returns and make payments otherwise than as provided in this section, including taxpayers not otherwise required to file annual returns. (3) If a taxpayer receives an extension for the filing of a tax return under division (D)(1) or (2) of this section, the commissioner shall not make any inquiry or send any notice to the taxpayer with regard to the return on or before the date the taxpayer files the return or on or before the extended due date to file the return, whichever occurs first. Division (D)(3) of this section does not apply to an extension received under division (D)(1) of this section if the commissioner has actual knowledge that the taxpayer failed to file for a federal extension as required to receive the extension under division (D)(1)(a) of this section or failed to file for an extension under division (D)(1)(b) of this section. (E) Each return required to be filed in accordance with this section shall include a box that the taxpayer may check to authorize another person, including a tax return preparer who prepared the return, to communicate with the tax commissioner about matters pertaining to the return. The return or instructions accompanying the return shall indicate that by checking the box the taxpayer authorizes the commissioner to contact the preparer or other person concerning questions that arise during the examination or other review of the return and authorizes the preparer or other person only to provide the commissioner with information that is missing from the return, to contact the commissioner for information about the examination or other review of the return or the status of the taxpayer's refund or payments, and to respond to notices about mathematical errors, offsets, or return preparation that the taxpayer has received from the commissioner and has shown to the preparer or other person. (F) When income tax returns or other documents require the signature of a tax return preparer, the tax commissioner shall accept a facsimile or electronic version of such a signature in lieu of a manual signature. Last updated July 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 735.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 735 / § 735.04
§ 735.04. Subdepartment - employment of superintendents, inspectors, clerks, and laborers
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The director of public service may establish such subdepartment as is necessary and determine the number of superintendents, deputies, inspectors, engineers, harbor masters, clerks, laborers, and other persons necessary for the execution of the work and the performance of the duties of this subdepartment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 705.52 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 705 / § 705.52
§ 705.52. Size of council - term of councilmen - vacancies
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The number of councilmen of a municipal corporation organized under sections 705.51 to 705.60 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be in proportion to the population of the municipal corporation, as determined by the last preceding federal census, as follows: (A) A municipal corporation having not more than ten thousand inhabitants, five; (B) More than ten thousand and not more than twenty-five thousand inhabitants, seven; (C) More than twenty-five thousand inhabitants, nine. All councilmen shall serve for a term of four years. At the first election in municipal corporations having five councilmen, the three candidates having the highest number of votes shall serve for four years and the two candidates having the next highest number of votes shall serve for two years. In municipal corporations having more than five councilmen, a majority of those elected having the highest number of votes shall serve for a period of four years and the others shall serve for a period of two years. Vacancies in the council shall be filled by the council for the remainder of the unexpired term, but any vacancy resulting from a recall election shall be filled in the manner provided in sections 705.92 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 755.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 755 / § 755.22
§ 755.22. Powers of board
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of park trustees shall have the entire management and control of any property or funds acquired as provided by section 755.19 of the Revised Code, all improvements within any such park, moneys derived from levies made for park purposes, moneys from the general fund appropriated by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation for such purposes, proceeds of bonds issued or sold for park purposes, moneys or other property donated to any such municipal corporation for park purposes, and of all other park property legally acquired. All such moneys shall be placed in a special fund called the "park fund," and shall be disbursed by the treasurer of the municipal corporation, only upon a warrant of the auditor or clerk thereof, drawn in accordance with the order of the board. Such board shall have the control and management of parks, park entrances, parkways, boulevards, connecting viaducts, subways, children's playgrounds, and public baths and stations of public comfort located in such parks, of all improvements thereon, and the acquisition, construction, repair, and maintenance thereof. The board shall exercise exclusively all the powers and perform all the duties in regard to such property vested in and imposed upon the director of public service. The board may apply, control, invest, and reinvest the funds coming or arising from gift, devise, or bequest according to the terms on which acquired.
Ohio Rev. Code § 723.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 723 / § 723.44
§ 723.44. Extension of street railway may be granted
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may grant permission, by ordinance, to any corporation, individual, or company, owning or having the right to construct a street railway, to extend the track, subject to the laws relating to the construction, operation and extension of street railways, within or without, or partly within or without any municipal corporation, on any street where the legislative authority deems such extension beneficial to the public. The charge for carrying passengers on such extended railway and its connections made with any other railway, by consolidation, shall not be increased by reason of such extension or consolidation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 735.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 735 / § 735.12
§ 735.12. Appointment of commission to construct market house
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When a city has a market house or public hall in connection therewith in contemplation or in process of construction, the director of public service may employ three citizens of the city, to be named by him, who shall constitute a commission. Each person so appointed shall receive such compensation, not to exceed five dollars for each meeting attended by him, as the director fixes, which shall in no case exceed twelve hundred dollars per annum. The compensation and expenses of the members of the commission shall be paid in the same manner as the cost of such buildings. Such commission may appoint a secretary and other necessary employees, and, subject to the approval of the director, fix their compensation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 725.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 725 / § 725.07
§ 725.07. Bond revenue used for urban renewal project or projects
Status: in_force

September 26, 1988 House Bill 774 - 117th General Assembly Moneys derived from the sale of urban renewal bonds issued pursuant to sections 725.01 to 725.11 of the Revised Code shall be used for an urban renewal project or projects, or any part thereof, including the refunding of urban renewal bonds previously issued. The principal of and interest on such urban renewal bonds shall be payable as provided in section 725.05 of the Revised Code. Such principal and interest shall be payable at the times and in the order and manner provided in the ordinance authorizing the issuance of such urban renewal bonds and in any trust agreements securing such bonds entered into pursuant to such ordinance. Each issue of urban renewal bonds issued pursuant to sections 725.01 to 725.11 of the Revised Code shall be dated, shall mature at such time or times, not to exceed thirty years, as determined by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation issuing such bonds and may be made redeemable before maturity, at the option of the municipal corporation, under conditions fixed by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation issuing such bonds. All bonds issued under sections 725.01 to 725.11 of the Revised Code shall be negotiable instruments. The bonds may be issued in coupon or in registered form or both as the legislative authority of the municipal corporation issuing such bonds determines. Provision may be made for the registration of any coupon bonds as to the principal alone and also to both principal and interest. Prior to the preparation of definitive bonds, the municipal corporation may, under like restrictions, issue interim receipts, or temporary bonds, with or without coupons, exchangeable for definitive bonds when such bonds have been executed and are available for delivery. The municipal corporation, whenever it determines refunding to be expedient, including funding and retirement and advance refunding with or without payment or redemption prior to maturity, may refund any urban renewal bonds by the issuance of urban renewal refunding bonds, and issue bonds partly to refund bonds then outstanding and partly for any other authorized purpose for urban renewal bonds. The refunding bonds may be issued in amounts sufficient for the payment of the principal amount of the bonds to be so refunded, any redemption premiums thereon, interest accrued or to accrue to the maturity dates or dates of redemption of such bonds, and any expenses incurred or to be incurred in connection with the refunding, funding, and retirement and the issuance of the urban renewal refunding bonds. The ordinance authorizing urban renewal refunding bonds may provide for the levying of a tax on real and tangible personal property, within the ten-mill limitation, pursuant to division (B) of section 725.05 of the Revised Code whether or not such a tax was provided for the bonds being refunded or for the obligating and pledging of moneys not raised by taxation pursuant to division (C) of section 725.05 of the Revised Code whether or not such moneys were obligated and pledged for the bonds being refunded.
Ohio Rev. Code § 707.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 707 / § 707.25
§ 707.25. Proceedings to change name
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When it is desirable to change the name of a municipal corporation a petition for the purpose, subscribed by at least twelve freeholders of the municipal corporation, setting forth the reasons such change is desirable, shall be filed in the court of common pleas of the county in which such municipal corporation, or the larger part thereof, is situated. A notice, setting forth the object of the petitioners, and the time when and place where such petition will be heard, shall be published for thirty days previous to the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 742.3719 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 742 / § 742.3719
§ 742.3719. Increase in benefit or allowance when IRC 415 limits increased
Status: in_force

November 2, 1999 House Bill 222 - 123rd General Assembly Whenever the limits established by section 415 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 415, as amended, are raised, the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall increase the amount of the pension, benefit, or allowance of any person whose pension, benefit, or allowance payable under section 742.37 , 742.3716 , 742.3717 , or 742.39 of the Revised Code was limited by the application of section 415. The amount of the increased pension, benefit, or allowance shall not exceed the lesser of the amount the person would have received if the limits established by section 415 had not been applied or the amount the person is eligible to receive subject to the new limits established by section 415.
Ohio Rev. Code § 731.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 731 / § 731.24
§ 731.24. Certificate of clerk as to publication
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Immediately after the expiration of the period of publication of summaries of ordinances required by section 731.22 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall enter on the record of ordinances, in a blank to be left for such purpose under the recorded ordinance, a certificate stating in which manner and on what dates such publication was made, and shall sign the clerk's name thereto officially. Such certificate shall be prima-facie evidence that legal publication of the summary of the ordinance was made. Last updated September 22, 2023 at 4:18 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 749.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 749 / § 749.28
§ 749.28. Notice for bids
Status: in_force

September 28, 2012 House Bill 509 - 129th General Assembly The board of hospital trustees shall not enter into a contract for work or supplies where the estimated cost exceeds fifty thousand dollars, without first giving thirty days' notice in one newspaper of general circulation in the municipal corporation that sealed proposals will be received for doing the work or furnishing the materials and supplies.
Ohio Rev. Code § 707.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 707 / § 707.02
§ 707.02. Petition for incorporation as village
Status: in_force

March 2, 1992 House Bill 228 - 119th General Assembly The petition required by section 707.01 of the Revised Code shall be signed by fifty-one per cent of the electors within the territory proposed to be incorporated, as determined by the total number of votes cast within that territory for the office of governor at the preceding general election for that office, and shall contain or have attached thereto: (A) A full description and an accurate map of the territory within the proposed municipal corporation; (B) A statement signed by the county auditor as to the total assessed valuation of the area proposed for incorporation; (C) A statement that the area consists of not less than two square miles, includes a population of not less than eight hundred persons per square mile, and has an assessed valuation of real, personal, and public utility property subject, except as otherwise provided in this division, to general property taxation of at least three thousand five hundred dollars per capita. In determining per capita assessed valuation under this division, the assessed valuation of any tangible personal property, buildings, structures, improvements, and fixtures that are exempt from taxation under division (B) of section 5709.081 of the Revised Code shall be added to the assessed valuation of real, personal, and public utility property subject to general property taxation. (D) A statement by the secretary of state that the name proposed in the petition is not being used by any other municipal corporation in the state; (E) The name of a person to act as agent for the petitioners; (F) A statement of whether or not the proposed municipal corporation contains and includes territory within three miles of any portion of the boundary of an existing municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 761.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 761 / § 761.04
§ 761.04. Term of revenue bonds
Status: in_force

November 1, 1965 House Bill 933 - 106th General Assembly Revenue bonds issued under section 761.03 of the Revised Code, shall be in such form and shall be sold in such manner and upon such terms as determined by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation issuing such bonds. Such bonds may be payable at any bank or trust company within or without the state, as determined by the legislative authority issuing such bonds. Any contract for the acquisition of a project may provide that payment shall be made in such bonds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 742.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 742 / § 742.34
§ 742.34. Firefighter employers' contribution
Status: in_force

April 12, 2021 House Bill 444 - 133rd General Assembly (A) Each employer shall pay monthly, on such dates as the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund requires, from its general fund, or from a levy imposed pursuant to division (I), (W), or (JJ) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code, to the fund an amount known as the "firefighter employers' contribution," which shall be twenty-four per cent of the salaries as defined in division (L) of section 742.01 of the Revised Code of the members of the fire department of the employer. (B) The taxing authority of each municipal corporation in which there was a firemen's relief and pension fund on October 1, 1965, shall annually, in the manner provided for making other municipal levies and in addition to all other levies authorized by law, levy a tax of three-tenths of one mill upon all the real and personal property as listed for taxation in the municipal corporation for the purpose of paying the firefighter employers' contribution and the municipal corporation's accrued liability for its former firemen's relief and pension fund and interest thereon, and of defraying the current operating expenses of the municipal corporation. The annual revenues derived from the tax shall be used in the following order: (1) First, to pay the current firefighter employers' contribution and any interest related thereto; (2) Second, to pay any accrued liability chargeable to the municipal corporation during the current calendar year for its former firemen's relief and pension fund and any interest related thereto; (3) Third, to defray the current operating expenses of the municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 715.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 715 / § 715.15
§ 715.15. Ship canals
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Any municipal corporation may construct, open, enlarge, excavate, improve, deepen, straighten, or extend, any canal, ship canal, or watercourse located in whole or in part within such municipal corporation, or lying contiguous thereto.
Ohio Rev. Code § 705.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 705 / § 705.28
§ 705.28. Oath of office
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Every officer of a municipal corporation and every employee holding a position upon an annual salary, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe to an oath or affirmation, which shall be filed and kept in the office of the clerk of the municipal corporation, that he will: (A) Support the constitution of the United States and of this state, and the charter and ordinances of the municipal corporation; (B) Not be influenced by any consideration except that of merit and fitness in the appointment or discharge of employees; (C) Not make or authorize the expenditure of public money otherwise than for adequate consideration and efficient service to the municipal corporation; (D) Faithfully, in all other respects, discharge the duties of his position or office.
Ohio Rev. Code § 713.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 713 / § 713.05
§ 713.05. Employment of architects and engineers
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The planning commission may control, appoint, or employ such architects, engineers, and other professional service, and may appoint such clerks, draughtsmen, and other subordinates as are necessary for the performance of its functions. The expenditures for such service and employments shall be within the amounts appropriated for such persons by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, and such legislative authority shall provide for the expenses and accommodations necessary for the work of the commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 713.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 713 / § 713.27
§ 713.27. Plans to be filed with county recorder
Status: in_force

January 9, 1961 House Bill 1 - 104th General Assembly Whenever a county or regional plan is adopted by a city planning commission or the board of county commissioners, the fact of such adoption shall be certified by the adopting authority to the regional or county planning commission, as the case may be. Thereupon such regional or county commission shall deposit a copy of so much of the regional or county plan as is affected by such adoption in the office of the county recorder. If such plan shows a recommendation as to the location of a sewage or garbage disposal plant, such deposit shall not be made until six months after the plan's adoption and when so deposited the copy thereof shall state the action or nonaction of the appropriating authority with respect to the purchase or appropriation of property for such plant, as provided in section 713.25 of the Revised Code. Last updated July 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 703.371 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 703 / § 703.371
§ 703.371. Taxes and special assessments
Status: in_force

April 30, 2024 House Bill 101 - 135th General Assembly (A) All taxes and special assessments levied by the legislative authority of the dissolved village, including taxes levied in accordance with Chapters 718. and 5745. of the Revised Code, shall continue to be collected after the date the dissolution is effective to the extent that the receiver-trustee determines that the revenue is needed to pay the outstanding debts, obligations, and liabilities of the village and may lawfully be used for that purpose. During the transition period, the receiver-trustee shall administer and receive payments or settlements of such taxes and special assessments. After the transition period, the fiscal officer of the township that assumed the most dissolved village territory shall administer and receive payments or settlements of such taxes and special assessments. Except as provided in division (G) of this section, revenue from taxes and special assessments levied by the legislative authority of the dissolved village shall be used solely to pay the outstanding debts, obligations, and liabilities of the village. (B) A property tax or special assessment levied by the legislative authority of a dissolved village that is not needed to pay the outstanding debts, obligations, and liabilities of the village or that cannot lawfully be used for that purpose shall not be levied after the tax year that includes the date the dissolution is effective. Within thirty days after that date, the receiver-trustee or township fiscal officer that administers the tax or assessment shall send notice to the county auditor and each other member of the county budget commission of each county in which the territory of the village is located identifying each property tax levy and special assessment subject to this division and specifying the date the dissolution is effective. (C) A property tax or special assessment levied and collected in accordance with division (A) of this section after the tax year that includes the date the dissolution is effective shall not be levied after the tax year that includes the date that all outstanding debts, obligations, and liabilities of the dissolved village are paid in full. Within thirty days after that date, the receiver-trustee or township fiscal officer that administers the tax or assessment shall send notice to the county auditor and each other member of the county budget commission of each county in which the tax or assessment is levied identifying each property tax levy and special assessment subject to this division and specifying the date that all outstanding debts, obligations, and liabilities of the village were paid in full. (D) A tax levied by the legislative authority of a dissolved village in accordance with Chapter 718. or 5745. of the Revised Code that is not needed to pay the outstanding debts, obligations, and liabilities of the village or that cannot be used for such purposes shall not be levied in any taxable year beginning on or after the date that the dissolution is effective. Within thirty days after that date, the receiver-trustee or township fiscal officer that administers the tax shall send notice to the tax commissioner identifying each tax subject to this division and specifying the date the dissolution is effective. (E) A tax levied in accordance with Chapter 718. or 5745. of the Revised Code and collected in accordance with division (A) of this section after the date the dissolution is effective shall not be levied in any taxable year beginning on or after the date that all outstanding debts, obligations, and liabilities of the dissolved village are paid in full. Within thirty days after that date, the receiver-trustee or the fiscal officer that administers the tax shall immediately send notice to the tax commissioner identifying each tax subject to this division and specifying the date that all outstanding debts, obligations, and liabilities of the village were paid in full. (F) Refunds of illegal, erroneous, or excessive payments of taxes levied by the legislative authority of a dissolved village in accordance with Chapter 718. and 5745. of the Revised Code are "outstanding debts, obligations, and liabilities of the village" for purposes of this section. During the transition period, the receiver-trustee shall estimate the total amount of refunds that are expected to be requested and approved in accordance with section 718.19 , 718.91 , and 5745.11 of the Revised Code from the date the dissolution is effective until the first day of the fourth year following the last taxable year in which a tax is levied under division (E) of this section. The receiver-trustee shall deposit, out of amounts collected under this division, an amount equal to one hundred ten per cent of the estimate to a separate fund to be used only for tax refunds under sections 718.19 , 718.91 , and 5745.11 of the Revised Code. The fund shall be administered by the fiscal officer that administers the taxes. On the first day of the fourth year following the last taxable year in which a tax is levied under division (E) of this section, the fund shall be extinguished and any remaining balance shall be distributed among the townships into which the village was dissolved and used in accordance with division (G) of this section. Notwithstanding anything in the Revised Code to the contrary, no requests or applications for refund may be submitted or approved in accordance with section 718.19 , 718.91 , or 5745.11 of the Revised Code after the date the fund is extinguished under this division. (G) All revenue from taxes and special assessments levied by the legislative authority of a dissolved village that is either not used to pay the outstanding debts, obligations, and liabilities of the village or that cannot be used for that purpose shall be remitted to the township or townships into which the village is dissolved. If more than one township is to receive the remaining revenue, the revenue shall be divided among the townships in proportion to the amount of territory that each township has within the former boundaries of the dissolved village as compared to the total territory within the former boundaries of the dissolved village. Revenue received by a township under this division shall be deposited into the general fund of the township. The township or townships may use revenue received under this division for any lawful purpose so long as that purpose directly or indirectly benefits the territory of the dissolved village. (H) Resolutions related to property taxes levied by the board of trustees of a township shall apply to all taxable property within the former village territory dissolved into the township on and after the first day of the first taxable year in which, pursuant to divisions (B) and (C) of this section, no property taxes are levied on that property by the legislative authority of the dissolved village. This division applies only to resolutions related to property taxes that are levied on all taxable property within the township or all taxable property within the unincorporated territory of the township. Resolutions related to property taxes levied within a portion of the township or a portion of the township's unincorporated territory shall not apply to the territory of the dissolved village unless such resolutions are amended to include such territory. (I) This section does not apply to taxes or assessments levied within all or part of the territory of a dissolved village by a taxing authority other than the legislative authority of the dissolved village or a board of township trustees. The levy and collection of such taxes and assessments shall continue unimpeded by the dissolution of the village and the revenue derived therefrom shall be used for the purposes described in the ordinance or resolution that levies the tax or assessment. Last updated February 13, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 705.55 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 705 / § 705.55
§ 705.55. Powers exercised by council
Status: in_force

January 1, 1976 House Bill 205 - 111th General Assembly The powers conferred upon municipal corporations by the Ohio Constitution and any additional powers conferred upon municipal corporations by the general assembly, shall be exercised by the council, unless the exercise of such powers is expressly conferred upon some other authority of the municipal corporation or reserved to the people thereof. In municipal corporations in which a municipal court is not provided by law, each councilman may perform all of the general duties of mayors, as provided in section 733.30 of the Revised Code, and shall have such jurisdiction as is provided by section 1905.20 of the Revised Code. The member of council elected chairman shall perform all judicial functions.
Ohio Rev. Code § 739.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 739 / § 739.13
§ 739.13. Record of proceedings - clerk
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of tax commissioners shall keep a complete record of all its proceedings. The city auditor shall be clerk of the board, but shall receive no additional salary or compensation for such services. He shall enter in a book, to be provided by the city for that purpose, a full and detailed statement of all proceedings of the board, which shall be signed by the president or vice-president and by such clerk.
Ohio Rev. Code § 735.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 735 / § 735.18
§ 735.18. Employment of engineer and assistants
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When acting as the platting commissioner, the director of public service may employ an engineer and such assistants as he finds necessary, and fix their salaries within limits to be prescribed by the legislative authority of the city.
Ohio Rev. Code § 703.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 703 / § 703.22
§ 703.22. Identical municipal and township boundaries
Status: in_force

February 14, 1967 House Bill 2 - 107th General Assembly When the limits of a municipal corporation become identical with those of a township, all township offices shall be abolished, and the duties thereof shall be performed by the corresponding officers of the municipal corporation. All property, moneys, credits, books, records, and documents of such township shall be delivered to the legislative authority of such municipal corporation. All rights, interests, or claims in favor of or against the township may be enforced by or against such municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 742.301 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 742 / § 742.301
§ 742.301. Penalty and interest on late payment of an employer's accrued liability
Status: in_force

January 7, 2013 Senate Bill 340 - 129th General Assembly (A) Each employer shall promptly pay the amount due on the accrued liability on the dates fixed by the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund. Upon certification by the board that payment of an employer's accrued liability has not been paid within thirty days following the date a payment is due, a penalty of five per cent of the amount due shall be assessed against such employer. If the payment and penalty have not been paid within ninety days following the date a payment is due, annual interest at six per cent shall be assessed against the payment and penalty from the date that the payment is due. (B) Upon certification by the board to the superintendent of liquor control or the county auditor of an amount due from any employer who is subject to this chapter by reason of such employer's delinquency in making payments on the accrued liability, the amount due shall be withheld from the employer from liquor control permit fees to be distributed to that employer according to Chapter 4301. of the Revised Code or from the local government fund allocated for distribution to that employer by the county budget commission in accordance with Chapter 5739. of the Revised Code. Upon receipt of the certification from the board, the superintendent or county auditor shall provide for payment against such funds in favor of the Ohio police and fire pension fund for the certified amount due and any penalty and interest thereon. (C) If the payments under divisions (A) and (B) of this section are insufficient to pay the Ohio police and fire pension fund any amounts due the fund from an employer, the fund may seek payment through the office of budget and management. On certification by the board to the director of budget and management of any such amount due, the director shall withhold from the employer any amount available, not to exceed the amount certified as due the fund, from any amounts under the director's control that are payable or due the employer. The director shall pay the amount withheld to the fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 709.50 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 709 / § 709.50
§ 709.50. Removal of area
Status: in_force

July 2, 2010 House Bill 48 - 128th General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding any other section of the Revised Code, when a township contains at least ninety per cent of the geographic area of a municipal corporation, either that township or the municipal corporation may remove that part of that township that is located within the municipal corporation from that township if all of the following apply: (1) The electors of the township and the municipal corporation have voted to approve the establishment of a merger commission pursuant to section 709.45 of the Revised Code. (2) The unincorporated territory of the township has a population of more than nine thousand. (3) The township has previously adopted a limited home rule government under Chapter 504. of the Revised Code and a township zoning resolution under Chapter 519. of the Revised Code. (4) Not later than December 31, 1994, either the township adopts a resolution or the municipal corporation adopts a resolution or ordinance to remove that part of the township that is located in the municipal corporation from the township. Any resolution or ordinance adopted under division (A)(4) of this section shall include an accurate description of the land to be removed. The political subdivision that adopts an ordinance or resolution under division (A)(4) of this section shall file with the county recorder a copy of it certified by the county auditor, together with a map or plat certified by the county auditor of the land to be removed. The county recorder shall record the ordinance or resolution and the map or plat. (B) If either the township or the municipal corporation takes the action described in division (A)(4) of this section, the removal shall occur. After the removal, the unincorporated territory of the township shall no longer receive any revenue by virtue of its relationship to the municipal corporation. As soon as practicable after a removal occurs under this section, the board of county commissioners shall ascertain whether there is any joint indebtedness of the unincorporated territory of the township and the municipal corporation. If there is any such indebtedness, the board of county commissioners shall apportion it in accordance with section 503.10 of the Revised Code. (C)(1) If a removal occurs under this section, all or part of the unincorporated territory of the township may become a village if the board of township trustees adopts, by unanimous vote, a resolution for all or part of that territory to become a village. The board of township trustees shall file with the county recorder a copy of any resolution it adopts under division (C)(1) of this section certified by the county auditor, together with a map or plat certified by the county auditor of the land to be included in the village. The county recorder shall record the resolution and the map or plat. Once the board adopts a resolution under division (C)(1) of this section, no land within the area that will constitute the village may be annexed, and any pending annexation proceeding that includes land in that area shall be considered to be terminated with regard to that land. (2) If the board does not adopt a resolution under division (C)(1) of this section, or if the board adopts such a resolution in which only a part of the unincorporated territory becomes a village, the board of county commissioners shall attach all the unincorporated territory that does not become a village to any township contiguous to that territory or erect that territory into a new township, the boundaries of which need not include twenty-two square miles of territory. (D) If a board of township trustees adopts a resolution under division (C)(1) of this section for all or part of the township's unincorporated territory to become a village, the board shall serve as the legislative authority of the area constituting the village until the next regular municipal election that occurs at least ninety days after the adoption of the resolution. At that election, the legislative authority of the village shall be elected under section 731.09 of the Revised Code and all other officers of the village shall be elected under Chapter 733. of the Revised Code. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 729.51 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 729 / § 729.51
§ 729.51. Bylaws and regulations
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The director of public service and the board of trustees of public affairs may make such bylaws and regulations as are necessary for the safe, economical, and efficient management and protection of the sewerage system and sewage pumping, treatment, and disposal works mentioned in section 729.49 of the Revised Code, and for the construction and use of house sewers and their connections to the sewerage system. Such bylaws and regulations shall have the same effect as ordinances, when not repugnant thereto, or to the constitution or laws of the state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 737.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 737 / § 737.24
§ 737.24. Legislative authority may purchase engines and equipment
Status: in_force

October 23, 1961 House Bill 511 - 104th General Assembly The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may purchase the necessary fire engines and such other equipment as is necessary for the extinguishment of fires and the saving of lives, and may establish lines of fire alarm telegraph within the limits of the municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 705.60 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 705 / § 705.60
§ 705.60. Salary - oath - bond - seal
Status: in_force

March 20, 2019 House Bill 291 - 132nd General Assembly The city manager shall receive such salary as is fixed by the council of the municipal corporation. Such part of the salary of the city manager as the council deems proper shall be paid from the income of any publicly owned utility operated by such municipal corporation, or from any public cemetery. The part of the salary of the city manager so paid shall be fixed by the council with reference to the proportion of the city manager's time devoted to such utility. Before entering upon the duties of office, the city manager shall take the oath required by section 705.28 of the Revised Code. Except as otherwise provided in the municipal charter or in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, the city manager shall execute a bond in favor of the municipal corporation for the faithful performance of official duties, in such sum as is fixed by the council. The city manager shall be furnished with the corporate seal of the municipal corporation, in the center of which shall be engraved the coat of arms of the state, as described in section 5.04 of the Revised Code, and around the edge of which shall be the words, "Manager of the city of _________," or "Manager of the village of __________, state of Ohio."
Ohio Rev. Code § 733.261 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 733 / § 733.261
§ 733.261. Village clerk-treasurer
Status: in_force

July 2, 2010 House Bill 48 - 128th General Assembly (A) The legislative authority of a village may, by ordinance or resolution passed by at least a majority vote, combine the duties of the clerk and the treasurer into one office, to be known as the clerk-treasurer. The combination shall be effective on the first day of January following the next regular municipal election at which the village clerk is to be elected, provided that a clerk-treasurer shall be elected at such election pursuant to this section and shall be elected for a term of four years, commencing on the first day of April following election. Between the first day of January and the first day of April following such an election, the clerk shall perform the duties of clerk-treasurer. The legislative authority of the village shall file certification of such action with the board of elections not less than one hundred twenty days before the day of the next municipal primary election at which the village clerk is to be elected; provided that in villages under two thousand population in which no petition for a primary election was filed pursuant to section 3513.01 of the Revised Code, or in villages in which no primary is held pursuant to section 3513.02 of the Revised Code, such action shall be certified to the board of elections not less than one hundred twenty days before the next general election at which the village clerk is to be elected. At such succeeding regular municipal election and thereafter, the clerk-treasurer shall be elected for a term of four years, commencing on the first day of April following the clerk-treasurer's election. The clerk-treasurer shall be an elector of the corporation. (B) In addition to the circumstances described in division (A) of this section, when a vacancy exists in the office of village treasurer or village clerk the legislative authority of a village may, by ordinance or resolution passed by at least a majority vote, combine the duties of the clerk and the treasurer into one office, to be known as the clerk-treasurer. The combination shall be effective on the effective date of the ordinance or resolution combining the duties of the offices of clerk and treasurer. At the next regular municipal election at which the village clerk would have been elected and each four years thereafter, the clerk-treasurer shall be elected for a term of four years, commencing on the first day of April following the clerk-treasurer's election. The clerk-treasurer shall be an elector of the municipal corporation. (C) The clerk-treasurer shall perform the duties provided by law for the clerk and the treasurer. All laws pertaining to the clerk and to the treasurer shall be construed to apply to the clerk-treasurer, provided that the initial compensation for the office of clerk-treasurer shall be established by the legislative authority and that action shall not be subject to section 731.13 of the Revised Code relating to the time when the compensation of village elected officials shall be fixed and pertaining to changes in compensation of officials during the term of office. (D) The legislative authority of a village having a clerk-treasurer may separate the offices by ordinance or resolution passed by at least a majority vote. The action to separate the offices may be taken in either of the following circumstances: (1) When a vacancy exists in the office of clerk-treasurer, in which case the separation shall be effective upon the effective date of the ordinance or resolution; (2) When the action of the legislative authority is certified to and filed with the board of elections not less than one hundred twenty days before the day of the next primary election at which the village clerk and treasurer are to be elected; provided that in villages under two thousand population in which no petition for a primary election was filed pursuant to section 3513.01 of the Revised Code, or in villages in which no primary is held pursuant to section 3513.02 of the Revised Code, such action shall be certified to the board of elections not less than one hundred twenty days before the next general election at which the village clerk and treasurer are to be elected.
Ohio Rev. Code § 705.79 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 705 / § 705.79
§ 705.79. Powers and duties of mayor
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The mayor of a municipal corporation organized under sections 705.71 to 705.86 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall: (A) See that the laws and ordinances are enforced; (B) Recommend measures to the council for adoption; (C) Keep the council fully advised of the financial condition and future needs of the municipal corporation; (D) Prepare and submit to the council such reports as are required by that body; (E) Appoint competent, disinterested persons, not exceeding three in number, to examine without notice the affairs of any department, officer, or employee, and report the result of such examination to the mayor, and such result shall also be transmitted by him to the council without delay; (F) Perform such other duties as the council determines by ordinance or resolution.
Ohio Rev. Code § 743.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 743 / § 743.22
§ 743.22. Tax for payment of interest, lien on property
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly For the purpose of paying the interest on money borrowed for the erection and completion of a water works, during the erection and completion thereof and before the water works is put into operation, a tax of sufficient amount shall be assessed and collected each year, in the usual manner of levying and collecting taxes in the municipal corporation, upon all the taxable property thereof. For the purpose of paying the interest on any money which a municipal corporation has borrowed for the erection or extension of a water works, and after such water works has been placed in operation, and for the building of machinery, a tax of sufficient amount may be assessed and collected each year by the legislative authority thereof, in addition to the amount authorized by law, upon all the taxable property, both real and personal, in such municipal corporation. Such tax, when levied and assessed, shall be a lien upon the property upon which it is levied, and a charge against the owners thereof, and shall be certified to the county auditor, placed upon the tax list in a separate column thereof, collected as other taxes, and paid into and be under the same control as the water-works funds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 742.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 742 / § 742.13
§ 742.13. Record of proceedings between board and taxing district
Status: in_force

November 2, 1999 House Bill 222 - 123rd General Assembly The proper officers of each taxing district issuing the bonds provided for in section 742.12 of the Revised Code shall, without additional procedure or legislation on their part, comply with this section and with section 742.12 of the Revised Code, except that the proper accounting officers of such taxing district and the secretary of the sinking fund shall make and keep a detailed record of any such changes required by the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund. The board shall not change the date of maturity of any part of the principal or interest of any bond issue, nor shall it require a bond of any issue to be of a larger denomination, nor any partial payment of principal to be of greater amount than the aggregate amount of such issue falling due at any date.
Ohio Rev. Code § 737.112 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 737 / § 737.112
§ 737.112. Fines, proceeds and fees of fire department credited to general fund
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly All fines imposed as discipline or punishment upon members of the fire department of a municipal corporation by the authority having charge or control thereof, the proceeds of all suits for penalties for the violation of state statutes and municipal ordinances with the execution of which such department is charged, license fees or other fees payable thereunder, and fees received by such municipal corporation for any services performed or inspections made by the fire department, except fees charged and received by the municipal corporation from other subdivisions for fire protection or fire fighting therein shall be credited to the general fund of the municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 723.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 723 / § 723.03
§ 723.03. Dedication of streets - acceptance by legislative authority
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A street or alley, dedicated to public use by the proprietor of ground in any municipal corporation, shall not be a public street or alley, or under the care or control of the legislative authority of such municipal corporation, unless the dedication is accepted and confirmed by an ordinance specially passed for such purpose.
Ohio Rev. Code § 723.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 723 / § 723.36
§ 723.36. Procedure on failure of owner to light bridge or railway
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If the person, company, or corporation, owning, possessing, or operating a railway or bridge, neglects or fails to provide lighting in conformity with the ordinance under section 723.34 of the Revised Code for twenty days after notice under section 723.35 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation may immediately cause the lighting to be done at the expense of such person, company, or corporation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 737.221 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 737 / § 737.221
§ 737.221. Criminal records check
Status: in_force

April 9, 2003 Senate Bill 258 - 124th General Assembly (A) The fire chief of a village fire department may request the superintendent of BCII to conduct a criminal records check with respect to any person who is under consideration for appointment or employment as a permanent, full-time paid firefighter or any person who is under consideration for appointment as a volunteer firefighter. (B)(1) The fire chief of the village fire department may request that the superintendent of BCII obtain information from the federal bureau of investigation as a part of the criminal records check requested pursuant to division (A) of this section. (2) A fire chief authorized by division (A) of this section to request a criminal records check shall provide to each person for whom the fire chief intends to request a criminal records check a copy of the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 109.578 of the Revised Code and a standard impression sheet to obtain fingerprint impressions prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of section 109.578 of the Revised Code, obtain the completed form and impression sheet from the person, and forward the completed form and impression sheet to the superintendent of BCII at the time the criminal records check is requested. (3) Any person subject to a criminal records check who receives a copy of the form and a copy of the impression sheet pursuant to division (B)(2) of this section and who is requested to complete the form and provide a set of fingerprint impressions shall complete the form or provide all the information necessary to complete the form and shall provide the impression sheet with the impressions of the person's fingerprints. If a person fails to provide the information necessary to complete the form or fails to provide impressions of the person's fingerprints, the appointing authority shall not appoint or employ the person as a permanent full-time paid firefighter or a volunteer firefighter. (C)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(2) of this section, an appointing authority shall not appoint or employ a person as a permanent, full-time paid firefighter or a volunteer firefighter if the fire chief has requested a criminal records check pursuant to division (A) of this section and the criminal records check indicates that the person previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the following: (a) A felony; (b) A violation of section 2909.03 of the Revised Code; (c) A violation of an existing or former law of this state, any other state, or the United States that is substantially equivalent to any of the offenses described in division (C)(1)(a) or (b) of this section. (2) Notwithstanding division (C)(1) of this section, an appointing authority may appoint or employ a person as a permanent, full-time paid firefighter or a volunteer firefighter if all of the following apply: (a) The fire chief has requested a criminal records check pursuant to division (A) of this section. (b) The criminal records check indicates that the person previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the offenses described in division (C)(1) of this section. (c) The person meets rehabilitation standards established in rules adopted under division (E) of this section. (3) If a fire chief requests a criminal records check pursuant to division (A) of this section, an appointing authority may appoint or employ a person as a permanent, full-time paid firefighter or volunteer firefighter conditionally until the criminal records check is completed and the fire chief receives the results. If the results of the criminal records check indicate that, pursuant to division (C)(1) of this section, the person subject to the criminal records check is disqualified from appointment or employment, the fire chief shall release the person from appointment or employment. (D) The fire chief shall pay to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation the fee prescribed pursuant to division (C)(3) of section 109.578 of the Revised Code for each criminal records check conducted in accordance with that section. The fire chief may charge the applicant who is subject to the criminal records check a fee for the costs the fire chief incurs in obtaining the criminal records check. A fee charged under this division shall not exceed the amount of fees the fire chief pays for the criminal records check. If a fee is charged under this division, the fire chief shall notify the applicant at the time of the applicant's initial application for appointment or employment of the amount of the fee and that, unless the fee is paid, the applicant will not be considered for appointment or employment. (E) The appointing authority shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement this section. The rules shall include rehabilitation standards a person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to an offense listed in division (C)(1) of this section must meet for the appointing authority to appoint or employ the person as a permanent, full-time paid firefighter or a volunteer firefighter. (F) A fire chief who intends to request a criminal records check for an applicant shall inform each applicant, at the time of the person's initial application for appointment or employment, that the applicant is required to provide a set of impressions of the person's fingerprints and that the fire chief requires a criminal records check to be conducted and satisfactorily completed in accordance with section 109.578 of the Revised Code. (G) As used in this section: (1) "Appointing authority" means any person or body that has the authority to hire, appoint, or employ permanent, full-time paid firefighters and volunteer firefighters under section 737.22 of the Revised Code. (2) "Criminal records check" has the same meaning as in section 109.578 of the Revised Code. (3) "Superintendent of BCII" has the same meaning as in section 2151.86 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 715.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 715 / § 715.31
§ 715.31. Wharves and docks
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 Senate Bill 361 - 100th General Assembly Any municipal corporation may: (A) Regulate public landings, public wharves, public docks, public piers, and public basins; (B) Fix the rates of landing, wharfage, dockage, and the use of such facilities.
Ohio Rev. Code § 703.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 703 / § 703.36
§ 703.36. Post village dissolution
Status: in_force

April 30, 2024 House Bill 101 - 135th General Assembly On the date the dissolution is effective, all of the following apply: (A) The village ceases to exist. (B) The corporate powers of the village cease. (C) The village officials cease to hold office. An official elected to start a term on or after the date the dissolution is effective shall not take office. (D) An issue voted on and scheduled to take effect on or after the date the dissolution is effective, other than tax levies and special assessments preserved under section 703.371 of the Revised Code, shall not take effect. (E) A charter, if applicable, and all ordinances and resolutions of the village, except for tax levy and special assessment ordinances and resolutions preserved under section 703.371 of the Revised Code and ordinances and resolutions necessary to maintain such tax levies and special assessments, are extinguished. Except as provided in division (H) of section 703.371 of the Revised Code, all resolutions of the township or townships into which the village dissolved apply throughout the township's newly included territory, including zoning regulations enacted by a board of township trustees under Chapter 519. of the Revised Code except as provided in sections 303.22 and 519.22 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in sections 303.22 and 519.22 of the Revised Code, county zoning regulations enacted by a board of county commissioners apply throughout the township's newly included territory as applicable. (F) A transition supervisory board exists, in accordance with section 703.361 of the Revised Code. (G) The territory of the village becomes part of the township or townships in which the village territory is located, along existing township boundaries. If there is uncertainty in this regard, the transition supervisory board shall resolve the uncertainty. (H) All leases to which the dissolved village was a party terminate in accordance with the lease agreement. If a lease agreement does not have a provision governing the circumstances, the transition supervisory board shall resolve the lease. Last updated February 12, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 731.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 731 / § 731.33
§ 731.33. Words which shall be printed in red
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly At the top of each part of the petition mentioned in section 731.32 of the Revised Code, the following words shall be printed in red: NOTICE Whoever knowingly signs this petition more than once, signs a name other than his own, or signs when not a legal voter is liable to prosecution.
Ohio Rev. Code § 715.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 715 / § 715.41
§ 715.41. Drainage in municipal corporations
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Any municipal corporation may drain by artificial means, at the expense of the municipal corporation, any lot or land within such municipal corporation on which water at any time accumulates and becomes stagnant, in a way prejudicial to the public health, convenience, or welfare by reason of not having a natural drainage outlet, or which cannot be drained by natural channels. In case such drainage is beneficial to the owner of any lot or land so drained, such owner shall bear that part of the expense of the drainage in proportion to the benefits which result from the improvement, in accordance with the provision for assessment as provided by section 727.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 733.75 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 733 / § 733.75
§ 733.75. Proceedings on the trial
Status: in_force

November 1, 1977 House Bill 219 - 112th General Assembly On the day designated under section 733.73 of the Revised Code for the trial, the trial shall take place, unless continued on affidavit for good cause to another time not exceeding ten days. On the trial, the village solicitor or city director of law shall appear for the prosecution, examine witnesses designated by the complainant, and such others as he discovers, and either party may have process from the probate judge to compel the attendance of witnesses.
Ohio Rev. Code § 735.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 735 / § 735.01
§ 735.01. Director of public service - qualifications - powers
Status: in_force

September 6, 1965 House Bill 358 - 106th General Assembly In each city there shall be a department of public service which shall be administered by a director of public service. The director shall be appointed by the mayor and need not be a resident of the city at the time of his appointment but shall become a resident thereof within six months after his appointment unless such residence requirement is waived by ordinance. He shall make rules and regulations for the administration of the affairs under his supervision.
Ohio Rev. Code § 737.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 737 / § 737.22
§ 737.22. Appointment of fire chief or fire prevention officer and firefighters
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Each village establishing a fire department shall have a fire chief as the department's head, appointed by the mayor with the advice and consent of the legislative authority of the village, who shall continue in office until removed from office as provided by sections 733.35 to 733.39 of the Revised Code. Neither this section nor any other section of the Revised Code requires, or shall be construed to require, that the fire chief be a resident of the village. In each village not having a fire department, the mayor shall, with the advice and consent of the legislative authority of the village, appoint a fire prevention officer who shall exercise all of the duties of a fire chief except those involving the maintenance and operation of fire apparatus. The legislative authority of the village may fix the compensation it considers best. The appointee shall continue in office until removed from office as provided by sections 733.35 to 733.39 of the Revised Code. Section 737.23 of the Revised Code shall extend to the officer. (B) The legislative authority of the village may provide for the appointment of permanent full-time paid firefighters as it considers best and fix their compensation, or for the services of volunteer firefighters, who shall be appointed by the mayor with the advice and consent of the legislative authority, and shall continue in office until removed from office. (1) No person shall be appointed as a permanent full-time paid firefighter of a village fire department, unless either of the following applies: (a) The person has received a certificate issued under former section 3303.07 of the Revised Code or section 4765.55 of the Revised Code evidencing satisfactory completion of a firefighter training program. (b) The person began serving as a permanent full-time paid firefighter with the fire department of a city or other village prior to July 2, 1970, and receives a fire training certificate issued under section 4765.55 of the Revised Code. (2) No person who is appointed as a volunteer firefighter of a village fire department shall remain in that position, unless either of the following applies: (a) Within one year of the appointment, the person has received a certificate issued under former section 3303.07 or section 4765.55 of the Revised Code evidencing satisfactory completion of a firefighter training program. (b) The person has served as a permanent full-time paid firefighter with the fire department of a city or other village prior to July 2, 1970, or as a volunteer firefighter with the fire department of a city, township, fire district, or other village prior to July 2, 1979, and receives a certificate issued under section 4765.55 of the Revised Code. (3) No person shall receive an appointment under this section unless the person has, not more than sixty days prior to receiving the appointment, passed a physical examination, given by a licensed physician, a physician assistant, a clinical nurse specialist, a certified nurse practitioner, or a certified nurse-midwife, showing that the person meets the physical requirements necessary to perform the duties of the position to which the person is to be appointed as established by the legislative authority of the village. The appointing authority shall, prior to making an appointment, file with the Ohio police and fire pension fund or the local volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund board a copy of the report or findings of that licensed physician, physician assistant, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse practitioner, or certified nurse-midwife. The professional fee for the physical examination shall be paid for by the legislative authority of the village. Last updated September 25, 2023 at 2:49 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 709.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 709 / § 709.15
§ 709.15. Petition to board of county commissioners
Status: in_force

March 27, 2002 Senate Bill 5 - 124th General Assembly The application of a municipal corporation to the board of county commissioners requesting the annexation of contiguous territory under section 709.16 of the Revised Code shall be by a petition setting forth that, under an ordinance of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, the territory described in the petition was authorized to be annexed to the municipal corporation. The petition shall contain an accurate legal description of the perimeter and shall be accompanied by an accurate map or plat of the territory proposed for annexation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 755.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 755 / § 755.19
§ 755.19. Care of property donated for park purposes
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In any municipal corporation which is the owner or trustee of property for park purposes, or of funds to be used in connection therewith, by deed of gift, devise, or bequest, such property or funds shall be managed and administered in accordance with the provisions or conditions of such deed of gift, devise, or bequest.
Ohio Rev. Code § 711.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 711 / § 711.17
§ 711.17. Vacation of plat
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Upon the application of two thirds of the proprietors of land described in a plat of a municipal corporation, the court of common pleas may alter or vacate the plat of any such municipal corporation, addition thereto, or parts thereof, within the county.
Ohio Rev. Code § 705.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 705 / § 705.24
§ 705.24. Salaries and duties of commission members
Status: in_force

August 26, 1977 House Bill 1 - 112th General Assembly The salaries of the members of the municipal civil service commission and of their assistants shall be determined by ordinance. The commission shall enforce Chapter 124. of the Revised Code, and shall make rules for the proper performance of its duties.
Ohio Rev. Code § 753.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 753 / § 753.05
§ 753.05. Employment of prisoners
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A person sentenced under section 753.04 of the Revised Code shall be received into the workhouse, and shall be kept and confined at labor therein, or if such labor cannot be furnished he may be employed at labor elsewhere when such employment is authorized by ordinance, and shall be subject to the rules, regulations, and discipline thereof until the expiration of his sentence, when he shall be discharged.
Ohio Rev. Code § 701.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 701 / § 701.06
§ 701.06. Validating previous proceedings
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly All legislative steps and all improvements and assessment proceedings taken by any charter municipal corporation prior to April 16, 1925, which would have been valid if this section and section 701.05 of the Revised Code had been in effect at the time, shall be legal and valid legislative steps, improvements, and assessments. All notes or bonds issued or authorized by any such charter municipal corporation prior to such date, which have been or will be sold for not less than par and accrued interest, and the proceeds thereof have been or will be paid into the treasury, which would have been valid if such sections had been in effect at the time, shall be valid and binding obligations.
Ohio Rev. Code § 718.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 718 / § 718.24
§ 718.24. Authority of tax administrator
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 House Bill 5 - 130th General Assembly Nothing in this chapter shall limit the authority of a tax administrator to perform any of the following duties or functions, unless the performance of such duties or functions is expressly limited by a provision of the Revised Code or the charter or ordinances of the municipal corporation: (A) Exercise all powers whatsoever of an inquisitorial nature as provided by law, including, the right to inspect books, accounts, records, memorandums, and federal and state income tax returns, to examine persons under oath, to issue orders or subpoenas for the production of books, accounts, papers, records, documents, and testimony, to take depositions, to apply to a court for attachment proceedings as for contempt, to approve vouchers for the fees of officers and witnesses, and to administer oaths; provided that the powers referred to in this division of this section shall be exercised by the tax administrator only in connection with the performance of the duties respectively assigned to the tax administrator under a municipal corporation income tax ordinance or resolution adopted in accordance with this chapter; (B) Appoint agents and prescribe their powers and duties; (C) Confer and meet with officers of other municipal corporations and states and officers of the United States on any matters pertaining to their respective official duties as provided by law; (D) Exercise the authority provided by law, including orders from bankruptcy courts, relative to remitting or refunding taxes, including penalties and interest thereon, illegally or erroneously imposed or collected, or for any other reason overpaid, and, in addition, the tax administrator may investigate any claim of overpayment and make a written statement of the tax administrator's findings, and, if the tax administrator finds that there has been an overpayment, approve and issue a refund payable to the taxpayer, the taxpayer's assigns, or legal representative as provided in this chapter; (E) Exercise the authority provided by law relative to consenting to the compromise and settlement of tax claims; (F) Exercise the authority provided by law relative to the use of alternative apportionment methods by taxpayers in accordance with section 718.02 of the Revised Code; (G) Make all tax findings, determinations, computations, and orders the tax administrator is by law authorized and required to make and, pursuant to time limitations provided by law, on the tax administrator's own motion, review, redetermine, or correct any tax findings, determinations, computations, or orders the tax administrator has made, but the tax administrator shall not review, redetermine, or correct any tax finding, determination, computation, or order which the tax administrator has made as to which an appeal has been filed with the local board of tax review or other appropriate tribunal, unless such appeal or application is withdrawn by the appellant or applicant, is dismissed, or is otherwise final; (H) Destroy any or all returns or other tax documents in the manner authorized by law; (I) Enter into an agreement with a taxpayer to simplify the withholding obligations described in section 718.03 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 727.171 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 727 / § 727.171
§ 727.171. Special assessment for off-street parking facilities
Status: in_force

August 24, 1967 Senate Bill 158 - 107th General Assembly 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 contemplated or required to be paid, under the provisions of an indenture given to secure the payment of such indebtedness at maturity, from the fees and charges for the use of such facilities and structures. Such resolution shall: (A) Describe each such off-street parking facility or structure, its location, and the lots or parcels of land to be assessed; (B) State the principal amount of revenue bonds remaining unpaid, the amount and rate of interest, and the number of years over which the bonds to be paid by such assessments are to mature; (C) State whether the method of levying such special assessments shall be: (1) By a percentage of the tax value of the property assessed; or (2) In proportion to the benefits which may result from the improvement; (D) State the mode of payment and the number of annual installments of the special assessments to be levied; (E) Provide for the preparation of a proposed assessment list in accordance with the method set forth in the resolution showing the amount of the assessment to be made against each lot or parcel of land to be assessed. The total amount of special assessment made by the legislative authority of the municipality under this section shall not exceed the total sum required to meet the maturing principal and interest costs on all unpaid bonds originally secured, when issued, by the revenues accruing from the operation of off-street parking facilities or structures. Such proposed assessments shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, and notice of the passage of such resolution and the filing of the proposed assessments shall be given to the owners of the lots or parcels of land against which the assessments are made, as provided by section 727.13 of the Revised Code. Objections to the proposed assessments may be made as provided in section 727.15 of the Revised Code, and such objections shall be heard and determined as provided in sections 727.16 and 727.17 of the Revised Code. The legislative authority of the municipal corporation shall, after the expiration of the time for filing objections to the proposed assessments and following the hearing and determination on any such objections, determine, by an ordinance, to proceed with and adopt the proposed assessment list as prepared and filed pursuant to the resolution of necessity adopted hereunder, or as equalized and approved by the legislative authority under section 727.17 of the Revised Code, and shall assess, as provided in section 727.25 of the Revised Code, in the manner provided in such resolution of necessity, upon the lots and parcels of land enumerated in the proposed assessment adopted by said ordinance, the cost of the improvement to be paid for by such special assessment. Such assessments shall be payable as provided in the resolution of necessity adopted hereunder and shall be final upon the adoption of the ordinance provided for in this section. No publication of the ordinance provided for in this section need be made under sections 731.21 and 731.22 of the Revised Code. Assessments made under this section shall be filed with the clerk of the legislative authority and shall be open for public inspection. Notice of the passage of the ordinance provided for in this section, adopting the assessments, shall be given as provided in section 727.26 of the Revised Code. Such assessments shall be payable and shall be collected in the manner provided by sections 727.27 to 727.40 , inclusive, of the Revised Code. Such assessments, when collected, shall be paid into a separate fund in accordance with section 5705.10 of the Revised Code. As the principal and interest requirements on the bonds which have been contemplated or required to be paid from the income arising from the operation of off-street parking facilities or structures mature, moneys in such special fund, in an amount sufficient to meet such interest and principal requirements, may be transferred to the fund from which such principal and interest is to be paid. Any moneys remaining in such special fund, after all obligations have been paid, may be transferred by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and use for off-street parking purposes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 718.012 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 718 / § 718.012
§ 718.012. Factors for determining whether individual is domiciled in municipal corporation
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 House Bill 5 - 130th General Assembly (A)(1) An individual is presumed to be domiciled in a municipal corporation for all or part of a taxable year if the individual was domiciled in the municipal corporation on the last day of the immediately preceding taxable year or if the tax administrator reasonably concludes that the individual is domiciled in the municipal corporation for all or part of the taxable year. (2) An individual may rebut the presumption of domicile described in division (A)(1) of this section if the individual establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that the individual was not domiciled in the municipal corporation for all or part of the taxable year. (B) For the purpose of determining whether an individual is domiciled in a municipal corporation for all or part of a taxable year, only the following factors shall be considered: (1) The location of financial institutions in which the individual or the individual's spouse have any accounts, including, but not limited to, checking, savings, certificates of deposit, or individual retirement accounts; (2) The location of issuers of credit cards to the individual or the individual's spouse or of any other persons making installment loans to the individual or the individual's spouse; (3) The location of institutional lenders which have made loans to, or which are guaranteed by, the individual or the individual's spouse; (4) The location of investment facilities, brokerage firms, realtors, financial advisors, or consultants used by the individual or the individual's spouse; (5) The location of either the insurance company that issued or the insurance agent that sold any policy of insurance to the individual or the individual's spouse, including, but not limited to, life, health, disability, automobile, or homeowner's insurance; (6) The location of law firms, accounting firms, and similar professionals utilized by the individual or the individual's spouse for legal, tax, accounting, financial, or retirement services; (7) The location of physicians, dentists, osteopaths, optometrists, or other health care providers, or veterinarians utilized by the individual or the individual's spouse; (8) The location of organizations described in section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code to which the individual or the individual's spouse make contributions or other payments or in which they participate as a congregant, member, board member, committee member, adviser, or consultant; (9) The location of burial plots owned by the individual or the individual's spouse; (10) The location of business ventures or business entities in which the individual or the individual's spouse has a more than twenty-five per cent ownership interest or in which the individual exercises, either individually or jointly, significant control over the affairs of the venture or entity; (11) The recitation of residency or domicile in a will, trust, or other estate planning document; (12) The location of the individual's friends, dependents as defined in section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code, and family members other than the individual's spouse, if the individual is not legally separated from the individual's spouse under a decree of divorce or separate maintenance as provided in section 7703(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code; (13) The location of educational institutions attended by the individual's dependents as defined in section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code, to the extent that tuition paid to such educational institution is based on the residency of the individual or the individual's spouse in the municipal corporation where the educational institution is located; (14) The location of trustees, executors, guardians, or other fiduciaries named in estate planning documents of the individual or the individual's spouse; (15) The location of all businesses at which the individual or the individual's spouse makes purchases of tangible personal property; (16) The location where the individual married; (17) The location or identity of recipients of political contributions made by the individual or the individual's spouse; (18) The number of contact periods the individual has with the municipal corporation. For the purposes of this division, an individual has one "contact period" with a municipal corporation if the individual is away overnight from the individual's abode located outside of the municipal corporation and while away overnight from that abode spends at least some portion, however minimal, of each of two consecutive days in the municipal corporation. (19) The individual's domicile in other taxable years; (20) The location at which the individual is registered to vote; (21) The address on the individual's driver's license; (22) The location of real estate for which the individual claimed a property tax exemption or reduction allowed on the basis of the individual's residence or domicile; (23) The location and value of abodes owned or leased by the individual; (24) Declarations, written or oral, made by the individual regarding the individual's residency; (25) The primary location at which the individual is employed. Last updated May 6, 2021 at 12:34 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 705.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 705 / § 705.08
§ 705.08. Treasurer - duties
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The treasurer shall be the custodian of all moneys of the municipal corporation, and shall keep the moneys in such manner and in such place as is determined by the legislative authority thereof. He shall pay out money only on warrants issued by the auditor.
Ohio Rev. Code § 711.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 711 / § 711.15
§ 711.15. Disposal of lots - forfeiture
Status: in_force

October 6, 1955 House Bill 607 - 101st General Assembly Any person who disposes of, offers for sale, or leases for a time exceeding five years, any lot, or any part of a lot, in a subdivision with intent to violate sections 711.001 to 711.14 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars for each lot or part of a lot so sold, offered for sale, or leased, to be recovered, with costs, in a civil action, in the name of the county treasurer for the use of the county.
Ohio Rev. Code § 709.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 709 / § 709.19
§ 709.19. Compensating township for lost tax revenue
Status: in_force

August 5, 2016 House Bill 233 - 131st General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "International airport" means any airport that is: (a) Designated as an international airport or a landing rights airport by the United States secretary of the treasury; (b) Owned and operated by a municipal corporation; (c) An unincorporated area not contiguous to the municipal corporation that owns it. (2) "Commercial," "industrial," "residential," and "retail," in relation to property, mean property classified as such by the tax commissioner for the purposes of valuing property for taxation, except that "commercial," in relation to property, does not include any property classified as "retail." (B) If unincorporated territory is annexed to a municipal corporation and excluded from a township under section 503.07 of the Revised Code, upon exclusion of that territory, the municipal corporation that annexed the territory shall make payments to the township from which the territory was annexed only as provided in this section, except that, if the legislative authority of the municipal corporation enters into an agreement under section 701.07 , 709.191 , or 709.192 of the Revised Code with the township from which the territory was annexed that makes alternate provisions regarding payments by the municipal corporation, then the payment provisions in that agreement shall apply in lieu of the provisions of this section. (C)(1) Except as provided in division (C)(2) of this section, the municipal corporation that annexed the territory shall make the following payments to the township from which the territory was annexed with respect to commercial and industrial real, personal, and public utility property taxes using the property valuation for the year that the payment is due: (a) In the first through third years following the annexation and exclusion of the territory from the township, eighty per cent of the township taxes in the annexed territory that would have been due the township for commercial and industrial real, personal, and public utility property taxes if no annexation had occurred; (b) In the fourth and fifth years following the annexation and the exclusion of the territory from the township, sixty-seven and one-half per cent of the township taxes in the annexed territory that would have been due the township for commercial and industrial real, personal, and public utility property taxes if no annexation had occurred; (c) In the sixth and seventh years following the annexation and exclusion of the territory from the township, sixty-two and one-half per cent of the township taxes in the annexed territory that would have been due the township for commercial and industrial real, personal, and public utility property taxes if no annexation had occurred; (d) In the eighth and ninth years following the annexation and exclusion of the territory from the township, fifty-seven and one-half per cent of the township taxes in the annexed territory that would have been due the township for commercial and industrial real, personal, and public utility property taxes if no annexation had occurred; (e) In the tenth through twelfth years following the annexation and exclusion of the territory from the township, forty-two and one-half per cent of the township taxes in the annexed territory that would have been due the township for commercial and industrial real, personal, and public utility property taxes if no annexation had occurred. (2) If there has been an exemption by the municipal corporation of commercial and industrial real, personal, or public utility property taxes pursuant to section 725.02 , 1728.10 , 3735.67 , 5709.40 , 5709.41 , 5709.45 , 5709.62 , or 5709.88 of the Revised Code, there shall be no reduction in the payments owed to the township due to that exemption. The municipal corporation shall make payments to the township under division (C)(1) of this section, calculated as if the exemption had not occurred. (D) The municipal corporation that annexed the territory shall make the following payments to the township from which the territory was annexed with respect to residential and retail real property taxes using the property valuation for the year that the payment is due: (1) In the first through third years following the annexation and exclusion of the territory from the township, eighty per cent of the township taxes in the annexed territory that would have been due the township for residential and retail real property taxes if no annexation had occurred; (2) In the fourth and fifth years following the annexation and exclusion of the territory from the township, fifty-two and one-half per cent of the township taxes in the annexed territory that would have been due the township for residential and retail real property taxes if no annexation had occurred; (3) In the sixth through tenth years following the annexation and exclusion of the territory from the township, forty per cent of the township taxes in the annexed territory that would have been due the township for residential and retail real property taxes if no annexation had occurred; (4) In the eleventh and twelfth years following the annexation and exclusion of the territory from the township, twenty-seven and one-half per cent of the township taxes in the annexed territory that would have been due the township for residential and retail real property taxes if no annexation had occurred. (E) If, pursuant to division (F) of this section, a municipal corporation annexes an international airport that it owns, the municipal corporation shall pay the township one hundred per cent of the township taxes in the annexed territory that would have been due the township if no annexation had occurred for each of the twenty-five years following the annexation. (F)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a board of county commissioners may authorize a municipal corporation to annex an international airport that the municipal corporation owns. Unless a contract is entered into pursuant to division (F)(2) of this section, any municipal corporation that annexes an international airport under this division shall make payments to the township from which the international airport is annexed, in the manner provided in division (E) of this section. No territory annexed pursuant to this division shall be considered part of the municipal corporation for the purposes of subsequent annexation, except that the board of county commissioners may authorize subsequent annexation under this division if the board determines that subsequent annexation is necessary to the continued operation of the international airport. (2) The chief executive of a municipal corporation that annexes territory pursuant to this division may enter into a contract with the board of township trustees of the township that loses the territory whereby the township agrees to provide the annexed territory with police, fire, or other services it is authorized to provide in exchange for specified consideration as agreed upon by the board of township trustees and the chief executive. In no instance shall the consideration received by the township be less than the payments that would be required under division (F)(1) of this section if no contract were entered into.
Ohio Rev. Code § 738.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 738 / § 738.10
§ 738.10. Board of trustees to make rules for distribution of fund
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly The board of trustees of the sanitary police pension fund shall make all rules for the distribution of the fund, including the qualifications of those to whom any portion of the fund shall be paid and the amount thereof, but no rules shall be in force until approved by the board or officer having charge or control of the health department of the municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 709.031 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 709 / § 709.031
§ 709.031. Report on accuracy of legal description - verification of signatures
Status: in_force

March 27, 2002 Senate Bill 5 - 124th General Assembly (A) Within five days after the petition for annexation is filed with the board of county commissioners, the clerk of the board shall refer the legal description of the perimeter and the map or plat of the territory proposed to be annexed to the county engineer for a report upon the accuracy of the legal description of the perimeter, map, or plat. Upon receiving these items, the county engineer shall file, at least twenty-five days before the hearing, a written report with the board based on the engineer's findings, which shall not be conclusive upon the board. Failure of the engineer to make the report shall not affect the jurisdiction or duty of the board to proceed. (B) The petition may be amended without further notice by leave of the board of county commissioners and with the consent of the agent for the petitioners if the amendment does not add to the territory embraced in the original petition and is made at least fifteen days before the date of the hearing. The board may rerefer the legal description of the perimeter, map, or plat to the county engineer if revisions are made in them, for a report on their accuracy. Upon receiving these items, the county engineer shall file, on or before the date of the hearing, a written report with the board based on the engineer's findings, which shall not be conclusive upon the board. Failure of the engineer to make the report shall not affect the jurisdiction or duty of the board to proceed. (C) The board of township trustees of any township containing any territory proposed for annexation and any owners of real estate in the territory proposed for annexation may request that reasonable proof be presented of the authority of a person signing the petition on behalf of any person other than a natural being, the state, or a political subdivision of the state. The request shall be in writing and be filed with the board of county commissioners and with the agent for the petitioners at least fifteen days prior to the hearing on the petition. When such a request is filed, the agent for the petitioners shall present to the board of county commissioners at the hearing held under section 709.032 of the Revised Code sufficient evidence by affidavit or testimony to establish that the owner is a person other than a natural being, the state, or a political subdivision of the state and that the owner authorized the person whose signature is on the petition to sign the petition on its behalf. If the board does not find the evidence sufficient to establish this authority, it shall remove the signature from the petition.
Ohio Rev. Code § 727.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 727 / § 727.31
§ 727.31. Proceedings to recover special assessment
Status: in_force

January 1, 1962 House Bill 262 - 104th General Assembly If the payment of a special assessment, which has not been certified to the county auditor for collection, is not made by the time stipulated in the ordinance providing therefor, the amount assessed, with interest, and a forfeiture of ten per cent thereon, may be recovered by suit before a county court, municipal court, or other court of competent jurisdiction, in the name of the municipal corporation, to enforce the lien against the lots and lands charged with such assessment. Proceedings for the recovery of the assessment may be instituted by the municipal corporation to enforce the lien, against all the lots or lands, or any of them embraced in any one assessment, but the judgment or decree shall be rendered severally or separately for the amount assessed. Any proceeding may be severed, in the discretion of the court, for the purpose of trial, review, or appeal when an appeal is allowed. In proceedings to enforce the lien, when the owner of any lot or land assessed is a nonresident of this state, or is unknown, notice shall be given by publication in the manner prescribed by a law in similar cases.
Ohio Rev. Code § 703.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 703 / § 703.14
§ 703.14. Procedure upon failure to act
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If the legislative authority fails to authorize the city auditor to take the census of a city, or, if the auditor fails to proceed under authority properly given, upon the presentation of a copy of the original petition provided by section 703.09 of the Revised Code to the board of county commissioners, such board shall forthwith appoint five resident electors of such city as enumerators, who shall perform the duties provided in sections 703.11 and 703.12 of the Revised Code. Such enumerators shall take an oath or affirmation to take the census of the city accurately to the best of their ability.
Ohio Rev. Code § 705.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 705 / § 705.47
§ 705.47. Creation and discontinuance of offices under commission plan
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Subject to sections 705.01 to 705.92 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, the commission may: (A) Create and discontinue departments, offices, and employments; (B) Appoint or provide for the appointment of all officers and employees of the municipal corporation; (C) Remove any such officers or employees by a majority vote of all members of the commission, and by ordinance or resolution prescribe, limit, or change the compensation of such officers and employees.
Ohio Rev. Code § 729.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 729 / § 729.04
§ 729.04. Assessment of costs of improvements
Status: in_force

October 9, 1963 Senate Bill 19 - 105th General Assembly Upon the expiration of the time within which sidewalks, curbs, or gutters shall be constructed or repaired by the owner of the lots or lands abutting thereon as set forth in the resolution adopted under section 729.02 of the Revised Code, the sidewalks, curbs, or gutters not constructed or repaired by the owners of the lots and lands abutting thereon shall be constructed or repaired by the municipal corporation in accordance with the resolution adopted under section 729.02 of the Revised Code, and the legislative authority of the municipal corporation shall, upon the completion of such construction or repair, assess the cost thereof against the lots or lands abutting thereon. In anticipation of the collection of the cost of the construction or repair of such sidewalks, curbs, or gutters from the owners of the lots or lands abutting thereon, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation may provide for the issuance of bonds or notes and the proceeds thereof shall be used to pay for the construction or repair of such sidewalks, curbs, or gutters.
Ohio Rev. Code § 707.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 707 / § 707.26
§ 707.26. Power of court - saving rights
Status: in_force

December 1, 1967 Senate Bill 221 - 107th General Assembly The court of common pleas may order a change in the name of a municipal corporation as provided by section 707.25 of the Revised Code, upon being satisfied, by proof, of the following: (A) The prayer of the petitioners is just and reasonable. (B) Notice, as required by such section, has been given. (C) At least three-fourths of the inhabitants of such municipal corporation desire the change. (D) There is no other municipal corporation in this state having the name prayed for. The clerk of the court of common pleas shall thereupon tax the petitioners with the costs, and record the proceedings in a book to be kept by him for that purpose. Such change shall not alter or affect any right, liability, action, or right of action, civil or criminal. Last updated March 9, 2022 at 12:14 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 749.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 749 / § 749.12
§ 749.12. Bids to be accompanied by bid guaranty
Status: in_force

August 1, 1980 Senate Bill 157 - 113th General Assembly Each bid for work and materials for the erection of a hospital building shall meet the requirements of section 153.54 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 755.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 755 / § 755.03
§ 755.03. Organization of board of park commissioners
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of park commissioners, after the appointment and qualification of its members, shall elect one of such members president and another vice-president, who, in the absence or disability of the president, shall perform his duties and exercise his powers. The board shall make its own rules, its meetings shall be open to the public, and all questions acted upon shall be decided by a yea and nay vote with the name of each member voting recorded on the journal. No question shall be decided unless it is approved by a majority of the board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 723.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 723 / § 723.08
§ 723.08. Effect of order of vacation
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The order of a legislative authority of a municipal corporation vacating or narrowing a street or alley which has been dedicated to public use by the proprietor thereof, shall, to the extent to which it is vacated or narrowed, operate as a revocation of the acceptance thereof by the legislative authority, but the right of way and easement therein of any lot owner shall not be impaired by such order.
Ohio Rev. Code § 709.015 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 709 / § 709.015
§ 709.015. Substantial compliance with procedural requirements is sufficient to grant jurisdiction
Status: in_force

March 27, 2002 Senate Bill 5 - 124th General Assembly The procedural requirements set forth in sections 709.02 to 709.21 of the Revised Code are directory in nature. Substantial compliance with the procedural requirements of those sections is sufficient to grant the board of county commissioners jurisdiction to hear and render its decision on a petition for annexation filed under those sections. The board shall cure a procedural defect and shall not deny a petition for annexation solely upon the basis of procedural defects.
Ohio Rev. Code § 719.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 719 / § 719.03
§ 719.03. Cemeteries
Status: in_force

January 1, 1966 Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly No land shall be purchased for public cemeteries within two hundred yards of a dwelling house without the consent, in writing, of the owner of the tract of land on which such house is situated. If the consent, in writing, of the owner of the tract of land on which such house is situated cannot be obtained, the municipal corporation may appropriate such land for the establishment of a cemetery or for the enlargement of any existing cemetery, within two hundred yards of such house, by making the owner of the house a party to all proceedings and actions for such appropriation. The appropriation shall be made according to sections 163.01 to 163.22 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, and the amount of damages to which such owner is entitled by reason of locating a cemetery within two hundred yards of such house, shall be determined by the appropriation proceedings. In the appropriation proceedings the damage to the remainder of the land of such owner shall be determined and included in the amount of damages. For the purpose of making a necessary enlargement of an existing cemetery, any municipal corporation which owns or acquires, by purchase, any lands suitable for such enlargement, may so devote and use such lands if they are not less than one hundred feet or the width of an existing street or intervening alley distant from any house. The addition of any land across a street or public road shall not be considered an enlargement of an existing cemetery under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 742.445 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 742 / § 742.445
§ 742.445. Termination of participation in deferred retirement option plan because of acceptance of disability benefit
Status: in_force

July 23, 2002 Senate Bill 134 - 124th General Assembly If a member ceases participation in the deferred retirement option plan due to acceptance by the member of a disability benefit awarded by the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund, both of the following apply: (A) The member shall forfeit all amounts that have accrued under section 742.443 of the Revised Code to the member's benefit under the deferred retirement option plan, and those amounts shall be treated as if the member had continued in the active service of a police or fire department and not participated in the plan. (B) The member shall be granted service credit for the period the member was participating in the plan.
Ohio Rev. Code § 705.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 705 / § 705.17
§ 705.17. Annual tax ordinance
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly An annual tax ordinance to determine the amount of the tax levy shall be prepared by the mayor, the chairman of the commission, or the city manager, as the case may be, under the direction of the legislative authority. For the purpose of preparing such ordinances such officer shall require from the head of each office or department for which appropriations are made, a detailed statement, upon uniform blanks furnished by such officer, of the expenses of such office or department for the previous years and the estimated expense for the next year. The tax ordinance prepared by such officer shall set forth in detail the probable revenues of the municipal corporation from every source, in such form as to indicate the means by which it is proposed to provide for the estimated expenditures set forth in such ordinance, and shall also include detailed statements of the contemplated expenditures of the municipal corporation and of each office, department, and functional division thereof. After the tax ordinance is prepared by such officer, opportunity shall be given, after at least one week's notice, for public hearings thereon. The ordinance shall then be submitted to the legislative authority and by it to the county budget commission which shall fix the total maximum tax levy permitted to the municipal corporation for the ensuing year. The legislative authority shall then fix the actual tax levy for the ensuing year, but such levy shall not be higher than the estimate submitted by such officer or exceed the limit fixed by the county budget commission. Such levy shall not be higher than the maximum provided for by law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 705.56 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 705 / § 705.56
§ 705.56. Administrative officers appointed by council
Status: in_force

November 1, 1977 House Bill 219 - 112th General Assembly The council shall appoint a clerk, treasurer, and auditor. If the council is created within a village, the council shall also appoint a solicitor. If the council is created within a city, the council shall also appoint a city director of law. Provision may be made by ordinance for the performance of the duties of clerk and treasurer, or clerk and auditor, by the same person. Council may provide that the treasurer or auditor may be employed as cashier in the electric light or water department of the municipal corporation, or both, and as clerk to the city manager and as clerk to the civil service commission of the municipal corporation. Council may provide that a part of the salary of the auditor shall be paid from the income of any publicly-owned utility or cemetery operated by the municipal corporation, the part to be fixed by the council with reference to the proportion of his services devoted to the utility or cemetery. Council may provide that the auditor or treasurer may be employed as cashier of the utility or cemetery, or both, and as clerk to the city manager and as clerk to the civil service commission. The auditor or treasurer may be paid for such services from the funds of the utility or cemetery, in addition to his salary as auditor or treasurer.
Ohio Rev. Code § 713.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 713 / § 713.22
§ 713.22. County planning commission
Status: in_force

April 15, 2005 Senate Bill 115 - 125th General Assembly (A) The board of county commissioners of any county may, and on petition of the planning commissions of a majority of the municipal corporations in the county having those planning commissions shall, provide for the organization and maintenance of a county planning commission. A county planning commission shall consist of the members of the board of county commissioners, or their alternates designated in accordance with this division, and eight other members appointed by the board in accordance with divisions (B)(1) to (4) of this section or their alternates designated and approved in accordance with this division. Any alternate designated under this division shall be a resident of the county. To designate an alternate for a member of the board of county commissioners, the board member shall send a letter of appointment to the alternate and deliver a copy of that letter to the clerk of the board of county commissioners. At the next regular meeting of the board, the clerk shall inform the board of the designation of the alternate, and the board shall have the designation entered on the journal. To designate an alternate for any other member of the planning commission, the member shall send a letter of appointment to the clerk of the board of county commissioners designating an individual to serve as that member's alternate. At the next regular meeting of the board, the clerk shall inform the board of the designation of the alternate, which designation the board may either approve or disapprove. The board shall enter its decision on the board's journal and, if the alternate is approved, designate the name of the alternate on the journal. The clerk of the board shall notify the commission member of the board's action, and the commission member shall inform the alternate. A designated alternate shall serve at the pleasure of the member who makes the designation. Removal of an alternate shall be made by a letter of removal, delivered and journalized by the same method that the alternate was designated. Once an alternate is designated for a member of the planning commission, if that commission member is absent from a planning commission meeting, the alternate has the right to vote and participate in all proceedings and actions of the commission at that meeting as if that alternate were the commission member. (B)(1) Except as provided for counties with two or less townships in division (B)(4) of this section, if the population of the portion of any city located in the county exceeds fifty per cent of the total population of the county, the board of county commissioners shall select three of the appointive members from persons nominated by the planning commission of that city. The board shall appoint three members from the unincorporated territory of the county from persons recommended by the townships to the county, except that, if one or more of those townships in the county is a limited home rule government township, then the board shall appoint at least one of these three township appointees from the persons recommended by a limited home rule government township. The remaining two appointees shall be selected at the discretion of the board and shall be residents of the county, one residing in the unincorporated territory of the county and representing townships and the other residing in the incorporated territory of the county and representing municipal corporations in the county. (2) Except as provided for counties with two or less townships in division (B)(4) of this section, if a county does not contain the portion of any city with at least fifty per cent of the total population of the county but contains one or more limited home rule government townships, one of the appointees shall be a resident of a limited home rule government township in the county, selected at the discretion of the board of county commissioners from persons recommended by a limited home rule government township in the county. One appointee shall be a resident of the municipal corporation with the largest population contained within the portion of the municipal corporation located in the county, selected at the discretion of the board of county commissioners from persons recommended by that municipal corporation. The remaining six appointees shall be residents of the county, selected at the discretion of the board of county commissioners. (3) Except as provided for counties with two or less townships in division (B)(4) of this section, if a county does not contain the portion of any city with at least fifty per cent of the total population of the county and does not contain a limited home rule government township, the board of county commissioners shall appoint eight residents of the county selected at the discretion of the board. (4) If a county contains two or less townships with unincorporated territory, the board of county commissioners shall appoint eight residents of the county selected at the discretion of the board, except that, if the population of the portion of any city located in the county exceeds fifty per cent of the total population of the county, then at least three of the appointive members shall be selected from persons nominated by the planning commission of that city. (C) Subject to division (F) of this section, the appointive members of a county planning commission shall be appointed for terms of three years, except that, of the eight members first appointed, three shall be appointed for terms of two years, and two shall be appointed for a term of one year. The appointive members may be allowed their actual and necessary expenses and the compensation that the board of county commissioners determines to be appropriate. Any member of a county planning commission may hold any other public office and may serve as a member of a city, village, and regional planning commission, except as otherwise provided in the charter of any city or village. (D) The compensation and expenses of the appointive members of a county planning commission and the compensation of planning commission employees shall be paid from appropriations made by the board. The county planning commission may employ engineers, accountants, consultants, and employees as are necessary, and make purchases as may be needed to the furtherance of its operation. The county planning commission may accept, receive, and expend funds, grants, and services from the federal government or its agencies, from departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of this state or any adjoining state, from one or more counties of this state or any adjoining state, from any municipal corporation or political subdivision of this or any adjoining state, including a county, regional, and municipal planning commission of this or any adjoining state, or from civic sources, may contract with respect thereto, either separately, jointly, or cooperatively, and may provide information and reports as may be necessary to secure such financial aid. (E) A county planning commission may adopt a policy under which members of the board of county commissioners, as members of that commission, or their designated alternates must abstain from participating and voting on the commission's recommendation, whenever a county planning commission is required by section 303.12 of the Revised Code to recommend the approval or denial of a proposed amendment or approval of some modification of an amendment to the county zoning resolution, or is required by section 303.07 of the Revised Code to approve or disapprove, or make suggestions about, a proposed county zoning resolution. The policy may require that a quorum of the commission under those circumstances be determined on the basis of an eight-member commission instead of an eleven-member commission. (F) If at any time a change occurs within a county so that the population of a portion of a city within the county exceeds or no longer exceeds fifty per cent of the total population of the county or a township becomes a limited home rule government township, thus creating a situation where the membership of a county planning commission should be altered to comply with the membership requirements of division (B) of this section, within thirty days after the effective date of either of those types of change, the board of county commissioners, in the board's discretion, may make changes on the commission by resolution so that its membership representation complies with division (B) of this section. If the board does not adopt a resolution to so change the commission's membership, the board shall phase in the necessary changes in the commission's membership by waiting until a member's term of office expires and appointing new members so as to meet the representation requirements of division (B) of this section as soon as possible without interfering with any member's term of office.
Ohio Rev. Code § 701.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 701 / § 701.10
§ 701.10. Unpaid charges for collection or disposal services
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A)(1) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation that has established a rate or charge, payable to the municipal corporation, for the provision of collection or disposal services for garbage, ashes, animal and vegetable refuse, dead animals, or animal offal may certify to the county auditor, by ordinance, the amount of the rate or charge that has not been paid in accordance with applicable requirements by a person using the collection or disposal services, when either of the following applies: (a) The unpaid amount is equal to or greater than two hundred fifty dollars; or (b) The unpaid amount is equal to or greater than the applicable annual rate or charge imposed by the municipal corporation upon the person using the collection or disposal services, regardless of the actual cost incurred by the municipal corporation in providing the collection or disposal services. (2) The amount certified shall be a lien on the person's property to which services are provided, placed on the tax list in a separate column, collected as other taxes, and paid into the general fund of the municipal corporation. (B) A municipal corporation that, on or before October 17, 2019, collected all rates or charges for such services in a manner consistent with the collection of other taxes, rather than making that rate or charge payable to the municipal corporation, may continue to collect amounts in such manner without being subject to the limitation in division (A)(1) of this section. Last updated July 14, 2021 at 4:10 PM Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 753.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 753 / § 753.11
§ 753.11. Violation of parole
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The director of public safety may employ or authorize any person to see that the conditions of a parole are not violated, and in case of violation to return to the workhouse any prisoner so violating his parole. The time between the violation of the conditions of such parole, or conditional release by whatever name, as entered by order of such director on the records of the workhouse, and the reimprisonment or return of the prisoner, shall not be counted as any part or portion of time served under his sentence.
Ohio Rev. Code § 705.92 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 705 / § 705.92
§ 705.92. Procedure for removal of elective officer by recall
Status: in_force

April 6, 2017 House Bill 463 - 131st General Assembly Notwithstanding Section 38 of Article II, Ohio Constitution, or any other provisions in the Revised Code to the contrary, any elective officer of a municipal corporation may be removed from office by the qualified voters of such municipal corporation. The procedure to effect such removal shall be: (A) A petition signed by qualified electors equal in number to at least fifteen per cent of the total votes cast at the most recent regular municipal election, and demanding the election of a successor to the person sought to be removed, shall be filed with the board of elections. A petition shall contain the required number of valid signatures upon submission to the board of elections. A petition is not valid after ninety days from the date of the first signature. A petition shall contain a general statement in not more than two hundred words of the grounds upon which the removal of the person is sought. The form, sufficiency, and regularity of any such petition shall be determined as provided in the general election laws. (B) If the petition is sufficient, and if the person whose removal is sought does not resign within five days after the sufficiency of the petition has been determined, an election shall be held at the next primary or general election occurring more than ninety days from the date of the finding of the sufficiency of the petition. The election authorities shall publish notice and make all arrangements for holding the election, which shall be conducted and the result thereof returned and declared in all respects as are the results of regular municipal elections. (C) The nomination of candidates to succeed each officer sought to be removed shall be made, without the intervention of a primary election, by filing with the election authorities, at least twenty days before the such special election, a petition proposing a person for each such office, signed by electors equal in number to ten per cent of the total votes cast at the most recent regular municipal election for the head of the ticket. (D) The ballots at the recall election shall, with respect to each person whose removal is sought, submit the question: "Shall (name of person) be removed from the office of (name of office) by recall?" Immediately following each such question, there shall be printed on the ballots, the two propositions in the order set forth: "For the recall of (name of person)." "Against the recall of (name of person)." Immediately to the left of the proposition shall be placed a square in which the electors may vote for either of the propositions. Under each of the questions shall be placed the names of candidates to fill the vacancy. The name of the officer whose removal is sought shall not appear on the ballot as a candidate to succeed the officer's self. In any recall election, if a majority of the votes cast on the question of removal are affirmative, the person whose removal is sought shall be removed from office upon the announcement of the official canvass of that election, and the candidate receiving the plurality of the votes cast for candidates for that office shall be declared elected. The successor of any person so removed shall hold office during the unexpired term of the successor's predecessor. The question of the removal of any officer shall not be submitted to the electors until such officer has served for at least one year of the term during which the officer is sought to be recalled. The method of removal provided in this section, is in addition to other methods of removal as are provided by law. If, at any such recall election, the incumbent whose removal is sought is not recalled, the incumbent shall be repaid the incumbent's actual and legitimate expenses for the election from the treasury of the municipal corporation, but such sum shall not exceed fifty per cent of the sum that the incumbent is by law permitted to expend as a candidate at any regular municipal election. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 742.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 742 / § 742.06
§ 742.06. Oath or affirmation of office
Status: in_force

November 2, 1999 House Bill 222 - 123rd General Assembly Each member of the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund, before entering upon the member's official duties, shall take and subscribe to an oath of affirmation that the member will support the constitution of the United States, the constitution of the state of Ohio, and that the member will honestly, faithfully, and impartially perform the duties of the member's office. Such oath or affirmation shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 713.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 713 / § 713.34
§ 713.34. Administration
Status: in_force

December 13, 1967 House Bill 460 - 107th General Assembly An interstate regional planning commission may accept and use funds, grants, and services from the federal government or its agencies, from departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of this state or any adjoining state, and from any county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of this or any adjoining state, including a county, regional, municipal, or other planning commission of this or any adjoining state, or from private sources, and may contract with respect thereto and provide such information and reports as may be necessary to secure such financial aid. Within the amounts thus agreed upon and appropriated or otherwise received, the commission may employ such engineers, planners, consultants, and other employees as are necessary and may rent or own such space and make such purchases as it deems necessary to its use. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 745.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 745 / § 745.08
§ 745.08. Time of continuance of indeterminate permit - effect of acceptance
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Any indeterminate permit shall continue in force until such time as the municipal corporation acquires the property of the public utility as provided in sections 745.01 to 745.14 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, or until otherwise terminated according to the terms of the permit. The acceptance of an indeterminate permit deprives the public utility of all rights under any license, permit, grant, or franchise, or granted in any municipal ordinance or resolution existing at the time of the granting of the permit. From the time of such grant, the rates, fares, charges, service, accounts, equipments, repairs, additions, extensions, improvements, transfers, joint use, depreciation, capitalization, bonded or other indebtedness, and all other terms relating to the financing, construction, maintenance, and operation of such utility shall be subject to municipal regulation. Such power of municipal regulation shall not be exercised in a manner inconsistent with the express terms of the ordinance granting the permit. The capitalization and bonded or other indebtedness for improvement and other purposes beyond the limits of the municipal corporation granting the permit shall remain subject to regulation by the public utilities commission. No such capitalization or indebtedness shall be given effect as a basis for purchase price to or rate regulation by the municipal corporation contrary to the agreement of the municipal corporation and public utility as expressed in the ordinance granting the permit. Such sections do not confer upon any municipal corporation, or upon any officer, department, or commission thereof, any power to grant an indeterminate permit to any such public utility in any other manner than by ordinance, or to prescribe that such ordinance shall take effect in any other manner than by acceptance by the public utility to which it is granted by filing a written acceptance thereof with the clerk of the legislative authority or other officers named in such permit.
Ohio Rev. Code § 731.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 731 / § 731.29
§ 731.29. Petition for referendum
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly Any ordinance or other measure passed by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall be subject to the referendum except as provided by section 731.30 of the Revised Code. No ordinance or other measure shall go into effect until thirty days after it is filed with the mayor of a city or passed by the legislative authority in a village, except as provided by such section. Except as provided in section 731.291 of the Revised Code, when a petition, signed by thirty-five per cent of the number of electors who voted for governor at the most recent general election for the office of governor in the municipal corporation, is filed with the city auditor or village clerk within thirty days after any ordinance or other measure is filed with the mayor or passed by the legislative authority of a village, or in case the mayor has vetoed the ordinance or any measure and returned it to council, such petition may be filed within thirty days after the council has passed the ordinance or measure over the veto, ordering that such ordinance or measure be submitted to the electors of such municipal corporation for their approval or rejection, such auditor or clerk shall, after ten days, and not later than four p.m. of the ninetieth day before the day of election, transmit a certified copy of the text of the ordinance or measure to the board of elections. The auditor or clerk shall transmit the petition to the board together with the certified copy of the ordinance or measure. The board shall examine all signatures on the petition to determine the number of electors of the municipal corporation who signed the petition. The board shall return the petition to the auditor or clerk within ten days after receiving it, together with a statement attesting to the number of such electors who signed the petition. The board shall submit the ordinance or measure to the electors of the municipal corporation, for their approval or rejection, at the next general election occurring subsequent to ninety days after the auditor or clerk certifies the sufficiency and validity of the petition to the board of elections. No such ordinance or measure shall go into effect until approved by the majority of those voting upon it. Sections 731.28 to 731.41 of the Revised Code do not prevent a municipal corporation, after the passage of any ordinance or other measure, from proceeding at once to give any notice or make any publication required by such ordinance or other measure. As used in this section, "certified copy" means a copy containing a written statement attesting that it is a true and exact reproduction of the original ordinance or other measure. Last updated July 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 723.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 723 / § 723.04
§ 723.04. Change of name, vacating, or narrowing streets on petition
Status: in_force

January 30, 2014 House Bill 72 - 130th General Assembly The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, on petition by a person owning a lot in the municipal corporation praying that a street or alley in the immediate vicinity of such lot be vacated or narrowed, or the name thereof changed, upon hearing, and upon being satisfied that there is good cause for such change of name, vacation, or narrowing, that it will not be detrimental to the general interest, and that it should be made, may, by ordinance, declare such street or alley vacated, narrowed, or the name thereof changed. The legislative authority may include in one ordinance the change of name, vacation, or narrowing of more than one street, avenue, or alley. The original ordinance or a certified copy thereof shall be recorded in the official records of the county recorder.
Ohio Rev. Code § 743.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 743 / § 743.15
§ 743.15. Disposition of aqueducts and water pipes in case of annexation
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The municipal corporation shall take full charge and control of the mains and water pipes mentioned in sections 743.12 to 743.14 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, keep them in repair at its own expense, and, in case of annexation to the municipal corporation of such territory, the municipal corporation shall pay a just compensation therefor and shall thereupon become the owner of them.
Ohio Rev. Code § 723.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 723 / § 723.07
§ 723.07. Notice of application to be published
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly No street or alley shall be vacated or narrowed unless notice of the pendency and prayer of the petition under section 723.04 of the Revised Code is given by publishing, in a newspaper of general circulation in such municipal corporation, for six consecutive weeks preceding action on such petition, or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code preceding action on the petition. Where no newspaper is of general circulation in the municipal corporation, notice shall be given by posting the notice in three public places therein six weeks preceding such action. Action thereon shall take place within three months after the completion of the notice.
Ohio Rev. Code § 713.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 713 / § 713.26
§ 713.26. County engineer shall assist commission
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The county engineer of any county for which a regional or county planning commission has been organized, shall give such assistance to the commission, within the scope of his resources and without interference with his regular duties, as is requested by it.
Ohio Rev. Code § 749.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 749 / § 749.08
§ 749.08. Management and control of hospitals by board
Status: in_force

April 27, 2005 Senate Bill 222 - 125th General Assembly (A) The board of hospital commissioners shall have the entire management and control of a hospital erected under sections 749.02 to 749.14 of the Revised Code, when completed and ready for use, and shall assume and continue the operation of the hospital. Subject to the ordinances of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, the board shall establish rules for the hospital's government, and the admission of persons to its privileges, as are expedient. (B) The board has control of the property of the hospital. The board's control of property includes acquiring, holding, possessing, managing, and disposing of real and personal property. (C) The board may enter into contracts with any person or government entity. No member of the board shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract concerning the hospital. (D)(1) The board has control of all funds used in the hospital's operation, including moneys received from the operation of the hospital, moneys appropriated for its operation by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, and moneys resulting from special levies submitted by the legislative authority for operation of the hospital. Of those funds, all or part of any amount determined not to be necessary to meet current demands on the hospital may be invested by the board or its designee in any classifications of securities and obligations eligible for deposit or investment of moneys pursuant to section 135.14 of the Revised Code, subject to the approval of the board's written investment policy by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation. (2) Each disbursement of funds shall be made on a voucher signed by signatories designated and approved by the board. (3) Unless an expenditure is first authorized by the board, no money shall be paid for any of the following: (a) The erection, rebuilding, or repair of the hospital; (b) An addition to the hospital; (c) Supplies for the hospital; (d) Replacement of necessary equipment for the hospital; (e) Acquisition, leasing, or construction of permanent improvements to hospital property; (f) Donations authorized under division (H) of this section; (g) Any other use or purpose related to the hospital. (E) For the use and benefit of the hospital, the board may take and hold in trust any grant or devise of land and any donation or bequest of money or other personal property. (F) With respect to taking title to or a leasehold interest in property on behalf of the hospital, both of the following apply: (1) The title to or leasehold interest in the property may be taken in the name of the board or an entity organized for charitable purposes that is under the board's control. (2) If a transaction occurs or has occurred in which the title to or leasehold interest in the property was taken in the name of the legislative authority of the municipality, the title to or leasehold interest in the property may be conveyed to the board or an entity organized for charitable purposes that is under the board's control. (G) When the legislative authority of a municipal corporation acquires property for purposes of the hospital, an easement may be acquired in the name of the board. (H) For the public purpose of improving the health, safety, and general welfare of the community, the board of hospital commissioners may donate to a nonprofit entity any of the following: (1) Moneys and other financial assets determined not to be necessary to meet current demands on the hospital; (2) Surplus hospital property, including supplies, equipment, office facilities, and other property; (3) Services rendered by the hospital.
Ohio Rev. Code § 733.62 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 733 / § 733.62
§ 733.62. Annual report
Status: in_force

November 1, 1977 House Bill 219 - 112th General Assembly The city director of law shall make a report to the legislative authority of the city, at its first regular meeting in January, of the business of his office, the moneys by him collected during the year preceding, and such other matters as he deems proper to promote the good government and welfare of the city.
Ohio Rev. Code § 733.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 733 / § 733.11
§ 733.11. Books and accounts - merger of offices in certain cities
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The city auditor shall keep the books of the city and exhibit accurate statements of all moneys received and expended, of all property owned by the city and the income derived therefrom, and of all taxes and assessments. In cities having a population of less than twenty thousand the legislative authority thereof may, by a majority vote, merge the duties of the clerk of the water works, clerk of the board of control, and clerk of such legislative authority with the duties of the auditor, allowing him such additional assistants in performing such duties as the legislative authority determines.
Ohio Rev. Code § 723.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 723 / § 723.34
§ 723.34. Specifications in lighting ordinance
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The ordinance mentioned in section 723.33 of the Revised Code shall specify the manner in which the bridge or railway shall be lighted, the number and style of lamp posts, gas posts, electric lights, or other lights and fixtures, and the time such lights shall be kept burning in each twenty-four hours. No such lights, poles, or fixtures, or any lights, poles, or fixtures located by any municipal corporation on its streets, alleys, or public grounds shall be required to be so placed as to interfere with a clear view of any fixed signal used in the operation of such railway from the points thereon where a clear view is required for safe operation. All lights, poles, or fixtures placed so as to interfere with such clear view shall, within a reasonable time, be relocated. This section does not excuse any railway company from lighting its bridges and tracks when required to do so, or from paying any reasonable assessment or charge therefor.
Ohio Rev. Code § 739.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 739 / § 739.05
§ 739.05. Auditor's or clerk's report to board
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The city auditor or clerk of the village shall, upon demand of the board of trustees of the sinking fund, report to the board the balances belonging to such municipal corporation, to the credit of the sinking fund, interest accounts, or for any bonds issued for or by the municipal corporation, and all officers or persons having such balances shall immediately pay them over to the board, which shall deposit them in such place as a majority of such board selects.
Ohio Rev. Code § 755.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 755 / § 755.26
§ 755.26. Power to incur liability
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of park trustees shall not incur any liability for park purposes beyond the amount of the funds levied therefor or appropriated to its order by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation for such purposes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 747.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 747 / § 747.05
§ 747.05. Control and expenditure of funds - contracts for work
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly The board of rapid transit commissioners shall have control of the expenditure of all moneys appropriated by the legislative authority of the city, received from the sale of bonds provided for in sections 747.01 to 747.13 of the Revised Code, or from any other source, for the purchase, construction, improvement, maintenance, equipment, or enjoyment of all such rapid transit property, but no liability shall be incurred or expenditure made unless the money required therefor is in the city treasury to the credit of the board of rapid transit commissioners' fund and not appropriated for any other purpose. Moneys to be derived from the sale of bonds, the issue of which has been authorized, shall be deemed to be in the treasury to the credit of such fund. All moneys expended for the construction and acquisition of parkways or boulevards, as authorized by such sections, shall be provided for partly by special appropriation or bond issue and partly by assessments, as specified in section 747.06 of the Revised Code, and such funds shall be separately accounted for, and such expenditure shall not be considered a part of the rapid transit expenditure authorized by this section. The board may let contracts for any part of the work to the lowest and best bidder after three weeks' advertisement in a newspaper of general circulation in the city or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. The board may reject any bid, and the proceedings for such contracts and payment therefor shall be the same as provided for the director of public service except the requirement of the approval of the board of control.
Ohio Rev. Code § 733.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 733 / § 733.18
§ 733.18. Duty of city auditor as to receiving bids
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When bids are required to be filed for the letting of contracts by the director of public service or the director of public safety, the city auditor or his chief deputy shall attend and assist at the opening thereof and inspect them.
Ohio Rev. Code § 742.511 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 742 / § 742.511
§ 742.511. Transfer of police officers of newly incorporated municipality prior to 12-1-83
Status: in_force

November 2, 1999 House Bill 222 - 123rd General Assembly In computing years of active service under division (C) of section 742.37 or section 742.39 of the Revised Code for a full-time regular police officer who, prior to December 1, 1983, was appointed to the police department of a newly incorporated municipal corporation, whether pursuant to section 124.41 of the Revised Code or otherwise, directly from a police department of the township from which such municipal corporation was incorporated, such members shall be given full credit for service as a full-time township police officer and as a full-time police officer in the municipal corporation after the date of incorporation and for which contributions were made to the public employees retirement system, if, within thirty days after December 1, 1983, the member makes a written request to the public employees retirement system to withdraw accumulated contributions attributable to such service from the public employees retirement system and, thirty days after receiving such contributions, the member pays into the Ohio police and fire pension fund the amount withdrawn from the public employees retirement system for the period of service being obtained. When such an election is made, the public employees retirement system shall certify to the Ohio police and fire pension fund a copy of the records of the service and contributions of the member and shall transfer to the Ohio police and fire pension fund an amount equal to the total employer contributions paid on service as a full-time township police officer and on service as a full-time municipal police officer at the rates in effect during such employment, as set forth in section 145.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 743.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 743 / § 743.10
§ 743.10. Protection to attachments
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Attachments of whatever nature made to the water pipes or other fixtures belonging to the water works of a municipal corporation and intended for public use shall be subject to the same supervision, rules, and regulations as are made for the protection of water works against abuse, destruction, and unnecessary use or waste of water, or the director of public service may make general or special rules and regulations for such purpose.
Ohio Rev. Code § 718.91 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 718 / § 718.91
§ 718.91. Refund applications
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) An application to refund to a taxpayer amounts that were overpaid, paid illegally or erroneously, or paid on an illegal or erroneous assessment pursuant to sections 718.80 to 718.95 of the Revised Code shall be filed with the tax commissioner within three years after the date of the illegal, erroneous, or excessive payment, the date the return to which the payment relates was due including any valid extension, or within any additional period allowed by division (A) of section 718.90 of the Revised Code, whichever is later. The application shall be filed in the form prescribed by the tax commissioner. (B)(1) On the filing of a refund application, the tax commissioner shall determine the amount of refund to which the applicant is entitled. The amount determined shall be based on the amount overpaid per return or assessment. If the amount is greater than ten dollars and not less than that claimed, the commissioner shall certify that amount to the director of budget and management and the treasurer of state for payment from the tax refund fund created in section 5703.052 of the Revised Code. If the amount is greater than ten dollars but less than that claimed, the commissioner shall proceed in accordance with section 5703.70 of the Revised Code. (2) Upon issuance of a refund under this section, the commissioner shall notify each municipal corporation of the amount refunded to the taxpayer attributable to that municipal corporation, which shall be deducted from the municipal corporation's next distribution under section 718.83 of the Revised Code. (C) Any portion of a refund determined under division (B) of this section that is not issued within ninety days after such determination shall bear interest at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code from the ninety-first day after such determination until the day the refund is paid or credited. On an illegal or erroneous assessment, interest shall be paid at that rate from the date of payment on the illegal or erroneous assessment until the day the refund is paid or credited. Last updated July 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 742.53 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 742 / § 742.53
§ 742.53. Long term care insurance
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 Senate Bill 42 - 130th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Long-term care insurance" has the same meaning as in section 3923.41 of the Revised Code. (2) "Retirement systems" has the same meaning as in division (A) of section 145.581 of the Revised Code. (B) The board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund may establish a program under which members of the fund, employers on behalf of members, and persons receiving service or disability pensions or survivor benefits are permitted to participate in contracts for long-term care insurance. Participation may include dependents and family members. If a participant in a contract for long-term care insurance leaves employment, the participant and the participant's dependents and family members may, at their election, continue to participate in a program established under this section in the same manner as if the participant had not left employment, except that no part of the cost of the insurance shall be paid by the participant's former employer. Such program may be established independently or jointly with one or more of the other retirement systems. (C) The fund may enter into an agreement with insurance companies, health insuring corporations, or government agencies authorized to do business in the state for issuance of a long-term care policy or contract. However, prior to entering into such an agreement with an insurance company or health insuring corporation, the fund shall request the superintendent of insurance to certify the financial condition of the company or corporation. The fund shall not enter into the agreement if, according to that certification, the company or corporation is insolvent, is determined by the superintendent to be potentially unable to fulfill its contractual obligations, or is placed under an order of rehabilitation or conservation by a court of competent jurisdiction or under an order of supervision by the superintendent. (D) The board may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code governing the program. Any rules adopted by the board shall establish methods of payment for participation under this section, which may include establishment of a payroll deduction plan under section 742.56 of the Revised Code, deduction of the full premium charged from a person's service or disability pension or survivor benefit, or any other method of payment considered appropriate by the board. If the program is established jointly with one or more of the other retirement systems, the rules also shall establish the terms and conditions of such joint participation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 742.62 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 742 / § 742.62
§ 742.62. Ohio public safety officers death benefit fund
Status: in_force

November 2, 1999 House Bill 222 - 123rd General Assembly The Ohio public safety officers death benefit fund is hereby created as the fund to which shall be credited contributions paid by the state and any moneys resulting from gifts made to the fund. The board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall be the trustees of the Ohio public safety officers death benefit fund. The board shall have the same powers as provided in section 742.10 of the Revised Code in administering the Ohio public safety officers death benefit fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 737.32 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 737 / § 737.32
§ 737.32. Sale or donation of unclaimed property
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly Except as otherwise provided in this section and unless the property involved is required to be disposed of pursuant to another section of the Revised Code, property that is unclaimed for ninety days or more shall be sold by the chief of police of the municipal corporation, marshal of the village, or licensed auctioneer at public auction, after notice of the sale has been provided by publication once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. The proceeds of the sale shall be paid to the treasurer of the municipal corporation and shall be credited to the general fund of the municipal corporation. If authorized to do so by an ordinance adopted by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and if the property involved is not required to be disposed of pursuant to another section of the Revised Code, the chief of police or marshal may contribute property that is unclaimed for ninety days or more to one or more public agencies, to one or more nonprofit organizations no part of the net income of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual and no substantial part of the activities of which consists of carrying on propaganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, or to one or more organizations satisfying section 501(c)(3) or (c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Ohio Rev. Code § 715.81 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 715 / § 715.81
§ 715.81. Authority of municipal corporations and townships
Status: in_force

September 13, 2016 House Bill 182 - 131st General Assembly When exercising a power or performing a function or duty under a contract entered into under section 715.691 of the Revised Code, a township may exercise all of the powers of a township, and may perform all the functions and duties of a township, within the joint economic development zone that is subject to division (I)(2) of section 715.691 of the Revised Code pursuant to and to the extent consistent with the contract. No political subdivision shall grant any tax exemption under Chapter 1728. or section 3735.67 , 5709.62 , 5709.63 , or 5709.632 of the Revised Code on any property located within the zone that is subject to division (I)(2) of section 715.691 of the Revised Code, without the consent of the contracting parties. The prohibition against granting a tax exemption under this section does not apply to any exemption filed, pending, or approved before the effective date of the contract entered into under section 715.691 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 715.54 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 715 / § 715.54
§ 715.54. Vicious literature
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Any municipal corporation may restrain and prohibit the distribution, sale, and exposure for sale of books, papers, pictures, and periodicals or advertising matters of an obscene or immoral nature.
Ohio Rev. Code § 727.011 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 727 / § 727.011
§ 727.011. Control, planting, care, and maintenance of shade trees
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly For the purpose of controlling the blight and disease of shade trees within public rights-of-way, and for planting, maintaining, trimming, and removing shade trees in and along the streets of a municipality, the legislative authority of such municipal corporation may establish one or more districts in the municipality designating the boundaries thereof, and may each year thereafter, by ordinance, designate the district in which such control, planting, care, and maintenance shall be effected. The ordinance shall set forth an estimate of the cost and providing for the levy of a special assessment upon all the real property in the district, in the amount and in the manner provided in section 727.01 of the Revised Code, for planting, maintaining, trimming, and removing shade trees. However, the ordinance may provide for an exemption from special assessments that applies to entities that are determined by the internal revenue service to be tax-exempt pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The ordinance shall be adopted as other ordinances and a succinct summary of the ordinance shall be published in the manner provided in section 731.21 of the Revised Code. Bonds and anticipatory notes may be issued in anticipation of the collection of such special assessments, under section 133.17 of the Revised Code. Last updated February 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 761.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 761 / § 761.13
§ 761.13. Action in event of default
Status: in_force

November 1, 1965 House Bill 933 - 106th General Assembly In the event of a default with respect to any lease, the municipal corporation shall take such action as it deems proper in the circumstances to enforce and protect the rights of the municipal corporation and such action as may be required by the provisions of any ordinance authorizing its revenue bonds or of any trust agreement securing such bonds, which may include any appropriate action at law or in equity, enforcement or waiver of any provision of any lease. Notwithstanding any such action, the municipal corporation shall transfer from the fund created by section 761.11 of the Revised Code to the sinking fund or funds referred to in section 761.10 of the Revised Code amounts not greater than the amounts which would have been paid under such lease but for such default, at the time or times when such amounts would have been paid but for such defaults, to the extent provided in the ordinances authorizing and the trust agreements securing such bonds, to be held and applied as other moneys in the sinking fund, and shall make such other transfers and take such other action as shall be required of the municipal corporation by any such ordinance or trust agreement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 749.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 749 / § 749.25
§ 749.25. Rules for management and control of property
Status: in_force

November 15, 1991 Senate Bill 233 - 119th General Assembly The board of hospital trustees shall have the entire management and control of the erection, rebuilding, and repair of all buildings, and the entire management and control of all grounds acquired pursuant to section 749.20 of the Revised Code, and shall adopt rules for the protection, care, and government thereof. Such rules, when approved by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, shall have the same effect and may be enforced by the same penalties as ordinances thereof.
Ohio Rev. Code § 742.51 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 742 / § 742.51
§ 742.51. Election to transfer from public employees retirement system to police and fire pension fund
Status: in_force

November 2, 1999 House Bill 222 - 123rd General Assembly Any person serving as a full-time regular member of a township fire department, or a municipal fire or police department who was serving in that capacity on December 31, 1966, and was a member of the public employees retirement system on that date and who has continued to serve in the same capacity and has continued as a member of the public employees retirement system until filing an election after November 20, 1973, may elect prior to January 1, 1985, to transfer from the public employees retirement system to the Ohio police and fire pension fund. When such an election is made, the public employees retirement system shall certify to the Ohio police and fire pension fund a copy of the records of the service and contributions of such member and shall transfer to the Ohio police and fire pension fund all contributions to the credit of the member as a member of a police or fire department, and an amount equal to the total employer contribution paid on service as a member of a police or fire department, at the respective rates in effect during the member's employment. The Ohio police and fire pension fund shall obtain from its actuary a certification of the accrued liability for the member being transferred, less the amounts transferred from the public employees retirement system, and such unfunded accrued liability shall be charged to the municipal corporation or township in which the member is employed and paid in full or paid by the employer at the rate of at least five per cent per annum with interest at four per cent per annum on unpaid balances; payment and interest to be paid semiannually on dates to be fixed by the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund. The Ohio police and fire pension fund may require any affected municipal corporation or township to certify the period of full-time service and salary of any member requesting transfer. A member transferred in accordance with this section shall be given service credit by the Ohio police and fire pension fund equal to the period of full-time service on which both member and employer made contributions to the public employees retirement system, which contributions were transferred to the Ohio police and fire pension fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 733.65 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 733 / § 733.65
§ 733.65. Oath and bond of sealer - appointment of inspectors
Status: in_force

March 20, 2019 House Bill 291 - 132nd General Assembly The sealer of weights and measures, before entering upon official duties, shall take the oath of office required by section 733.68 of the Revised Code. Except as otherwise provided in the municipal charter or in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, the sealer shall give bond to the municipal corporation in such amount as is prescribed by ordinance, with security to the approval of the mayor, and conditioned for the faithful performance of official duties. The sealer may appoint inspectors to assist the sealer in the sealer's duties if authorized by the legislative authority.
Ohio Rev. Code § 743.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 743 / § 743.23
§ 743.23. Laying pipes in highway
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may prescribe by ordinance for the laying of water pipes in all 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, except as a sanitary measure, shall such legislative authority require any house connections to be built further from the main pipe than the outer line of the curbstone.
Ohio Rev. Code § 717.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 7 / Chapter 717 / § 717.04
§ 717.04. Municipal establishment of limited access highways or freeways
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Municipal corporations may lay out, establish, acquire, open, construct, improve, maintain, regulate, vacate, or abandon "limited access highways" or "freeways" in the same manner in which such municipal corporations may lay out, establish, acquire, open, construct, improve, maintain, regulate, vacate or abandon a street or public highway. Municipal corporations also shall have all other additional authority relative to such highways or freeways as they possess relative to streets and highways including, the authority to acquire by gift, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, land required for right of way. Where an existing street or highway, in whole or in part, has been designated as, or included within, a limited access highway or freeway, existing easements or access may be extinguished by purchase, gift, agreement, or by condemnation. As an adjunct of any limited access highway or freeway the municipal corporation may lay out and construct streets or highways, to be designated as service streets or highways, to provide access from areas adjacent to a limited access highway or freeway. A limited access highway or freeway, as used in this section, is a street or highway especially designed for through traffic over which abutting property owners have no easement or right of access by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such street or highway, and access to which may be allowed only at street or highway intersections designated by the municipal corporation. As used in this section, "road" or "highway" includes bridges, viaducts, grade separations, appurtenances, and approaches on or to such road or highway.