Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.59 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.59
§ 6101.59. Conservancy district assessment constitutes lien
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly All conservancy district assessments provided for in this chapter, together with all penalties and interest for default in payment of the assessments, and all costs in collecting the assessments, including a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court and taxed as costs in the action brought to enforce payment, from the date of filing the certificate described in this section in the office of the county auditor for the county in which the lands and properties or public corporations are located, until paid, shall constitute a lien, to which only the lien of the state for general state, county, municipal corporation, school, and road taxes shall be paramount, upon all the lands and other property or public corporation against which the assessments are levied as is provided in this chapter. No lands or properties to which the lien of the conservancy district assessments has attached shall be forfeited to the state pursuant to its lien for taxes except pursuant to section 5723.01 of the Revised Code. The lien of the conservancy district assessments may be evidenced by a certificate substantially in the form provided in section 6101.84 of the Revised Code. The certificate and tables shall be prepared in a record by the secretary of the conservancy district at the expense of the district. Unless expressly declared to the contrary, no warranty in any warranty deed or in any deed made pursuant to a judicial sale shall warrant against any portion of any assessment levied under this chapter, except past and current installments payable in the year which the deed bears date.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.27
§ 6101.27. Board of appraisers of conservancy district
Status: in_force

July 19, 1994 House Bill 450 - 120th General Assembly At the time of making its order organizing a conservancy district or at any suitable time thereafter, the court shall appoint three appraisers to constitute the board of appraisers of the conservancy district, who shall in every case where appraisers are appointed under this chapter, be recommended by the board of directors of the conservancy district. The board of appraisers shall appraise the lands or other property within and outside the district to be acquired for rights of way, reservoirs, and other works of the district, and shall appraise all benefits and damages accruing to all lands within or outside the district and all benefits accruing to public corporations as entities by reason of the execution of the official plan. The appraisers shall be residents of this state, who may or may not own lands within the district. Each of the appraisers, before taking up his duties , shall take and subscribe to an oath that he will faithfully and impartially discharge his duties as an appraiser, and that he will make a true report of the work done by him. The appraisers, at their first meeting, shall elect one of their own number chairman, and the secretary of the board of directors or his deputy shall be ex officio secretary of the board of appraisers during its continuance in office. A majority of the board of appraisers constitutes a quorum, and a concurrence of the majority in any matter within the board's duties shall be sufficient for its determination. The appraisers shall continue to hold their offices until excused by the court, and the court shall fill all vacancies in the board of appraisers, or may appoint a new board of appraisers for subsequent appraisals, as occasion requires. A new board of appraisers, if appointed, shall fill all the requirements of the board of appraisers and perform its duties.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.05
§ 6119.05. Application for inclusion of territory
Status: in_force

November 19, 1971 Senate Bill 166 - 109th General Assembly At any time after the creation of a regional water and sewer district, any county, township, or municipal corporation whose territory is not wholly included within such district may file an application with such district setting forth a general description of the territory it desires to have included within such district, the necessity for the inclusion of such territory within the district, that it will be conducive to the public health, safety, convenience, or welfare, and that it will be practical and feasible for such territory to be included within the district. If said application is approved by a majority of the board of trustees of said district, the territory described in said application shall thereupon become part of such district. If such application fails to receive the approval of a majority of the board within sixty days after the filing of said application with said district, the county, township, or municipal corporation filing such application may file a petition in the court of common pleas requesting the order of such court upon the board directing the board to include the territory described in said application within said district. Upon the filing of such petition the court shall set a date for hearing and notify the district by service of process on the secretary of the board of the filing of such petition and of the date set for the hearing. If at such hearing the court finds that it will be conducive to the public health, safety, convenience, or welfare of the district and to the territory described in the petition and that it will be practical and feasible for such territory to be included within such district, the court shall order that such territory be included within the district and the terms for its inclusion therein. If the court finds that it will not be conducive to the public health, safety, convenience, or welfare of the district or to the territory described in the petition, or that it will not be practical or feasible for such territory to be included within such district, it shall dismiss the petition and adjudge the costs against the petitioner. Such inclusion shall become legally effective unless, prior to the ninetieth day following the approval of the board or the order of the court for inclusion, qualified electors residing in the area proposed to be included in such district equal in number to a majority of the qualified electors voting at the last general election in such area file with the secretary of the board of trustees of the district in which inclusion is proposed a petition of remonstrance against such inclusion. The secretary shall cause the board of elections of the proper county or counties to check the sufficiency of the signatures on such petition.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.64 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.64
§ 6115.64. Surplus funds - reports to court and advisory council
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly Any surplus funds in the treasury of the sanitary district may be used for retiring bonds, for reducing the rate of assessment, or for accomplishing any other of the legitimate objects of the district. At least once a year, or more often if the court or, in the instance of a district organized after October 9, 1981 wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, the advisory council of the district, so orders, the board of directors of the sanitary district shall make a report to the court and the advisory council of its proceedings and an accounting of receipts and disbursements to that date, which shall be filed with the clerk of the court. The auditor of state shall audit the accounts and reports of the district.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.41
§ 6101.41. Land of district exempt from assessment
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly If any lands in any conservancy district are not liable for assessment at the time of the execution of the work, but afterwards, during the period when the work is being paid for, become liable to assessment by reason of some change in condition or ownership, the lands then shall be appraised and assessed as other lands in the district receiving equal benefits.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.27
§ 6119.27. Assessment and collection of assessment
Status: in_force

October 30, 1969 House Bill 276 - 108th General Assembly If it deems it expedient, the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district may assess the real estate as provided in the resolution to improve and collect such assessments, or may issue bonds in anticipation of the collection of such assessments before the work is done or contracted for. The board may delay such assessment until the work is completed and upon the filing of a certificate showing the completion of the work assess the real estate as provided in the resolution to improve. Any person so assessed may pay his proportion of the assessment in cash within thirty days from the date of the levy thereof upon due notice being given. If any such assessment is twenty-five dollars or less or if any unpaid balance of an assessment is twenty-five dollars or less, it shall be paid in full and not in installments at the time the first or next installment would otherwise become payable.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6103.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6103 / § 6103.16
§ 6103.16. Assessments certified
Status: in_force

September 21, 1982 House Bill 379 - 114th General Assembly On or before the second Monday in September, annually, the board of county commissioners shall certify to the county auditor all of the assessments provided for in sections 6103.06 to 6103.15 of the Revised Code, including all assessments deferred pursuant to section 6103.051 of the Revised Code, stating the amounts and time of payment thereof, and in accordance therewith the auditor shall record the same in a book to be known as the "water-works record" of said county, showing separately the assessments to be collected forthwith and the assessments whose collection has been deferred by the board pursuant to section 6103.051 of the Revised Code. Such assessments, including the assessments deferred by the board pursuant to section 6103.051 of the Revised Code, shall bear interest at the same rate that the bonds authorized by such sections bear, and are a lien upon the lots and lands so assessed from the date of such record until such assessment is paid, and shall be collected in annual or semiannual installments within a period of not more than twenty years, provided that interest on deferred assessments shall terminate when all of the bonds issued by the board in anticipation of the collection of such deferred assessments have been paid in full. The several installments of such assessments which have not been deferred for collection pursuant to section 6103.051 of the Revised Code and interest on deferred assessments shall be placed upon the tax duplicate of the county for collection as they become due commencing with the first duplicate prepared after the assessments have been so certified, and shall be collected the same as other taxes, and shall be subject to the same penalties and interest. In case bonds have not been sold to pay the cost of the improvement, the amount assessed against any lot or parcel of land may be paid within thirty days from the confirmation of the revised assessment. The board shall, annually, during the month of August, review all assessments which have been deferred for collection pursuant to section 6103.051 of the Revised Code as shown upon the auditor's "water-works record" and shall determine whether, in view of changed circumstances concerning the property since the date of the original deferment, it is no longer inequitable to certify such assessment or any portion thereof to the county auditor for collection. On or before the second Monday in September, annually, the board shall direct the county auditor to place on the tax duplicate for collection such deferred assessments or portions thereof as the board determines should no longer be deferred, or which the property owner has requested to be collected, and thereupon the county auditor shall place the same upon the first duplicate prepared by him thereafter and shall collect the same as other taxes in such number of annual or semiannual installments within a period of not more than twenty years as directed by the board, provided that the number of installments shall not be less than that required to coincide with the remaining principal payments on the bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of such assessments and in no event shall the payment period be less than five years. On or before the second Monday of September of the twentieth year following the adoption of the resolution confirming the revised assessment, the board shall direct the county auditor to place on the tax duplicate for collection all deferred assessments or parts thereof confirmed by such resolution which the board has not theretofore directed the auditor to collect, and thereupon the auditor shall place the same upon the first tax duplicate prepared by him thereafter and shall collect the same as other taxes in such number of annual or semiannual installments within a period of not more than twenty and not less than five years as directed by the board. All assessments when collected, together with all interest thereon, shall be applied respectively to the purposes for which such assessments have been made and to no other purpose, provided that any installments of deferred assessments collected by the treasurer subsequent to the retirement of the bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of such deferred assessments, shall be allocated by him to the several county funds, including the special fund provided for by section 6103.02 of the Revised Code, in proportion to their respective contributions to the retirement and discharge of such bonds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.50 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.50
§ 6131.50. General drainage improvement fund
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) The board of county commissioners of each county may provide and establish the "general drainage improvement fund," to be used as a sinking fund for all bonds issued under sections 6131.01 to 6131.64 , inclusive, of the Revised Code. (B) The fund may consist of any of the following: (1) Any taxes levied and collected for ditch and drainage purposes under county levies, not by law otherwise disposed of; (2) The proceeds of all bonds issued and sold under sections 6131.01 to 6131.64 , inclusive, of the Revised Code; (3) The collections from all special assessments for benefits to property, as provided in such sections; (4) Such other funds as by law are provided to be paid therein.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.12
§ 6117.12. Appeal by guardian of minors or other persons under disability
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The guardian of minors or other persons under disability may appeal to the probate court as provided in sections 6117.09 to 6117.11 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, without giving bond for the payments of costs. The taking of such appeal must first be authorized by the court which appointed such guardian. The probate court shall make an entry showing such disability on the journal. The estates of such persons shall be liable for all costs adjudged against them or their legal representatives.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.04
§ 6115.04. Establishment and purpose of sanitary districts
Status: in_force

October 9, 1981 House Bill 156 - 114th General Assembly The court of common pleas of any county in this state, when the conditions stated in section 6115.05 of the Revised Code are found to exist, may establish sanitary districts within the county in which the court is located. Districts partly within and partly without such county may also be established by a court comprised of one judge of the court of common pleas from each county having area within the district, as provided in section 6115.08 of the Revised Code. If there are but two judges who sit as a court under this section, and the judges are unable to agree as to the establishment of such district or upon any other question left for their decision, then a third judge from a disinterested county shall be appointed by the chief justice of the supreme court, which judge shall sit with the other two judges, and the decisions of a majority of the judges shall be final. Compensation for such judge shall be fixed by the chief justice. Sanitary districts may be established for any of the following purposes: (A) To prevent and correct the pollution of streams; (B) To clean and improve stream channels for sanitary purposes; (C) To regulate the flow of streams for sanitary purposes; (D) To provide for the collection and disposal of sewage and other liquid wastes produced within the district; (E) To provide a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use within the district, and incident to those purposes and to enable their accomplishment to construct reservoirs, trunk sewers, intercepting sewers, siphons, pumping stations, wells, intakes, pipe lines, purification works, treatment and disposal works, to maintain, operate, and repair the same, to acquire additional water supplies by purchase, and to do all other things necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes of sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 of the Revised Code; (F) To reduce populations of biting arthropods and abate their breeding places, and incident to those purposes to purchase supplies, materials, and equipment, to employ technicians and laborers, to build, construct, maintain, and repair such structures, devices, and improvements, to conduct studies and surveys of the populations of biting arthropods and of the incidence or spread within or among human or animal populations of diseases transmitted by biting arthropods, and to do such other things as are necessary or desirable to accomplish those purposes; (G) To collect and dispose of garbage; (H) To collect and dispose of any other refuse that may become a menace to health.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6103.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6103 / § 6103.99
§ 6103.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates section 6103.29 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 6155.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6155 / § 6155.02
§ 6155.02. Notice of petition for removal
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The county auditor shall give notice to the board of county commissioners of the filing and pendency of the petition provided for in section 6155.01 of the Revised Code, and the board shall forthwith designate when and where it will meet to hear the petition and complete its proceedings thereon.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.028 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.028
§ 6111.028. Discharge of dredged material into isolated wetlands
Status: in_force

July 17, 2001 House Bill 231 - 124th General Assembly (A) The discharge of dredged material into isolated wetlands is subject to sections 6111.021 to 6111.027 of the Revised Code. (B) As used in this section: (1) "Discharge of dredged material" has the same meaning as in 33 CFR 323.2 as effective February 16, 2001. (2) "Dredged material" means material that is excavated or dredged from isolated wetlands. "Dredged material" does not include material resulting from normal farming, silviculture, and ranching activities, such as plowing, cultivating, seeding, and harvesting, for production of food, fiber, and forest products.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.17
§ 6119.17. Tax levy to pay interest on and to retire bonds
Status: in_force

October 30, 1989 House Bill 230 - 118th General Assembly Upon the creation of a regional water and sewer district, the board of trustees thereof may submit to the electors within the territorial limits of the district the question of issuing bonds of such district and also the necessity of the levy of a tax outside the limitation imposed by Section 2 of Article XII, Ohio Constitution, to pay the interest on and to retire the bonds. Such bonds when so approved by the electors may be issued to pay any portion of the cost of one or more water resource projects or parts thereof and may include any portion of the cost of water resource projects to be specially assessed. The proceedings for such election and for the issuance and sale of such bonds shall be as provided by Chapter 133. of the Revised Code. If a majority of those voting upon the proposition vote in favor thereof, the board of trustees of such district may proceed to issue such bonds and to levy a tax outside the ten-mill limitation sufficient in amount to pay the interest on and retire such bonds at maturity. Notes may be issued in anticipation of such bonds as provided in section 133.22 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.44
§ 6101.44. Moneys of district administered through funds
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly The moneys of every conservancy district shall be administered through the following funds: (A) The preliminary fund, consisting of the proceeds of the preliminary assessment levied under authority of section 6101.45 of the Revised Code, any advances of assessments obtained or notes issued in accordance with section 6101.46 of the Revised Code, and any contribution or appropriation by the state under authority of section 6101.45 of the Revised Code, which shall be used for the payment of expenses incurred for the purposes for which such preliminary assessments and contributions are authorized; (B) The improvement fund, consisting of the proceeds of all special assessments the collection of which has not been anticipated in the issuance of bonds or notes and the proceeds of all bonds and notes, other than bonds to retire notes, issued under section 6101.50 of the Revised Code, which shall be used for defraying expenditures incurred in the execution of the official plan and the acquisition or construction of properties, works, and improvements of the district, including the cost of preparing the official plan and the appraisal, the entire cost of construction and superintendence, with all charges incidental thereto, and the cost of administration during the period of construction and may also be used for defraying preliminary expenses in accordance with section 6101.46 of the Revised Code and repayment to the preliminary fund, in the manner and to the extent provided by this section, of expenditures from it; (C) The bond retirement fund, consisting of the proceeds of all special assessments the collection of which has been anticipated in the issuance of bonds or notes together with all other receipts pledged for the retirement of bonds or notes or the payment of interest on the bonds or notes, which shall be used only for those purposes; (D) The maintenance fund, consisting of the proceeds of maintenance assessments levied annually in accordance with section 6101.53 of the Revised Code, earnings from the operation of the works of the district, rents, incomes, royalties, or other revenues received from the use of the conservancy district's lands, and all receipts not otherwise assigned by law or by order of the board of directors of the conservancy district, which shall be used for the payment of operation, maintenance, preservation, or any other expense of the district. Additionally, the board of directors of a conservancy district that includes all or parts of more than sixteen counties may use any surplus money in the maintenance fund other than proceeds derived from the levy of maintenance assessments under section 6101.53 of the Revised Code to provide financial support to a charitable trust or a social welfare trust, as defined in section 6101.47 of the Revised Code. Before levying any assessment to pay the cost of an improvement, the board of directors shall determine the amount expended and to be expended from the preliminary fund for surveys and plans, appraisals, hearings, administration, court costs, and other incidentals that equitably should be repaid to the preliminary fund. The amount may be all or any portion of the preliminary expenses for the improvement. When specified by resolution of the board of directors, the amount shall be included in the costs to be paid from the assessments upon benefited property, and shall be transferred from the improvement fund to the preliminary fund. The board may establish separate or special funds of each class for each or any designated purpose for which the district is incorporated. Any surplus moneys in any fund of the district may be transferred to any other such fund by the board with the approval of the court, but no transfer shall be made from the bond retirement fund prior to the final maturity of the bonds and notes payable from it, and no transfer shall thereafter be made which would reduce the balance in the fund below the amount required for the payment of all obligations outstanding against the fund. No money shall be drawn from the treasury of the district, and no obligation for the expenditure of money shall be incurred, except in pursuance of an appropriation by the board. This prohibition does not apply to funds placed at the place of payment by the treasurer of the conservancy district for the payment of maturing bonds and notes and interest on them in accordance with section 6101.51 of the Revised Code. At or before the opening of each fiscal year, which shall correspond to the calendar year unless a different year is authorized by the auditor of state, the board shall adopt a resolution making appropriations for the ensuing year. The appropriation resolution may be amended or supplemented by the board. The total amount appropriated from any fund for any year shall not exceed the sum of the unencumbered balance in the fund at the beginning of the year and the amounts to be received during the year from bonds authorized, and special assessments imposed prior to their appropriation, together with all other moneys estimated to be received by the fund during the year. At the close of each fiscal year, all unencumbered balances of appropriations shall revert to the funds from which they were made and shall be subject to reappropriation. No contract shall be entered into, and no order shall be issued, involving the expenditure of money unless the accounting officer of the district first certifies that the amount required to meet the expenditure or, in the case of a continuing contract to be performed in whole or in part in a subsequent fiscal year, the amount required to meet the contract in the year in which the contract is made has been lawfully appropriated for the purpose and is in the treasury or in process of collection to the credit of an appropriate fund free from previous encumbrances. Accounts shall be kept in such form as to show at all times the true condition of each appropriation. Last updated February 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 6105.134 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6105 / § 6105.134
§ 6105.134. Appeal of refusal of consent
Status: in_force

December 14, 1967 House Bill 791 - 107th General Assembly In the event the board of directors of a watershed district, under section 6105.133 of the Revised Code, refuses to give its consent to the construction, change, alteration, relocation, deposit, encroachment, or change of grade in a restricted channel or restricted floodway or makes a part of its consent conditions, regulations, or restrictions not included in the original application for such consent, the person, or governmental agency making the original application for such consent may appeal, on questions of law and fact, from the decision of the board to the court of common pleas of the county in which the structure or obstruction or other works referred to in such application is or is to be located. Such appeal shall be filed within fifteen days from the receipt of the written notice under section 6105.133 of the Revised Code. The court shall conduct a hearing on such appeal and shall give it preference over all other civil cases irrespective of their position on the calendar of the court. The hearing shall proceed as in the trial of civil actions. The court may affirm, reverse, or modify the decision of the board appealed from and the judgment of the court shall be final and conclusive unless reversed, vacated, or modified on appeal. The court shall certify its judgment to the board and upon receipt of such judgment, the board shall take action in accordance with such judgment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.45
§ 6101.45. Defects not to invalidate proceedings except where denial of justice results
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly After the filing of a petition for the organization of a conservancy district, and before the district is organized, the costs of publication and other official costs of the proceedings shall be paid out of the general funds of the county in which the petition is pending. The payment shall be made on the warrant of the county auditor or on the order of the court. If the district is organized, the costs shall be repaid to the county out of the first funds received by the district through levying of assessments, selling of bonds, or borrowing of money. If the district is not organized, the cost shall be collected from the petitioners or their bondspersons. Upon the organization of the district, the court shall make an order indicating a preliminary division of the preliminary expenses between the counties included in the district in approximately the proportions of interest of the various counties as estimated by the court. The court shall issue an order to the auditor of each county to issue a warrant upon the county treasurer of the county to reimburse the county having paid the total cost. As soon as any district has been organized and a board of directors of the conservancy district has been appointed and qualified, the board may levy upon the property within the district in each of not more than two years a preliminary assessment, based upon the benefit determined by the court as provided by section 6101.08 of the Revised Code, but not to exceed three-tenths of a mill on the assessed valuation of the property, to be used for the purpose of paying expenses of organization, for surveys and plans, appraisals, estimates of cost, and land options, and for other incidental expenses that may be necessary up to the time money is received from the sale of bonds or otherwise. This assessment shall be certified to the auditors of the various counties and by them to the respective treasurers of their counties. If the items of expense have already been paid in whole or in part from other sources, they may be repaid from the receipts of the levy, and the levy may be made although the work proposed may have been found impracticable or for other reasons is abandoned. The collection of the assessment shall conform in all matters to the sections of the Revised Code governing the collection of assessments levied by local political subdivisions, and the sections of the Revised Code concerning the nonpayment of assessments levied by local political subdivisions shall apply. The board may borrow money in any manner provided for in this chapter and may pledge the receipts from the assessments for its repayment, the information collected by the necessary surveys, the appraisal of benefits and damages, and other information and data being of real value and constituting benefits for which the assessment may be levied. In case a district is disbanded for any cause before the work is constructed, the data, plans, and estimates which have been secure shall be filed with the clerk of the court before which the district was organized and shall be matters of public record available to any person interested. The board shall, upon levying the preliminary assessment, certify to the director of natural resources an estimate of the amount of money the district will need to pay expenses of organization, for surveys and plans, appraisals, estimates of cost, and land options, and for other incidental expenses up to the time money is received by the district from the sale of bonds or otherwise. The director, within sixty days after the receipt of the certification, shall, upon finding that the organization and operation of the district contribute to the general welfare of the state, determine an equitable percentage of the amount so certified to be paid by the state. The director shall certify the determination to the board and shall cause to be paid to the district, out of any moneys appropriated to the department of natural resources for the purpose of assisting conservancy districts to pay expenses of organization, for surveys and plans, estimates of cost, and land options, and for other incidental expenses, the amount determined by the director to be the equitable share of the state in meeting the expenses. The director shall make available to the board all plans, data, surveys, or other information, which the department of natural resources or any division of it may have, which will be beneficial to the board in furthering the purposes for which the district is organized.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.79 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.79
§ 6115.79. Substantial requirements for forms
Status: in_force

May 9, 2000 House Bill 495 - 123rd General Assembly The following forms illustrate the character of the procedure contemplated by this chapter, and if substantially complied with, those things being changed which should be changed to meet the requirements of the particular case, such procedure shall be held to meet the requirements of this chapter. (A) Form of Notice of Hearing on the Petition: "To All Persons Interested: Public Notice is Hereby Given: (1) That on the __________ day of ______________, ____, pursuant to The Sanitary District Law of Ohio, there was filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of _____________ County, Ohio, the petition of ______________________ and others for the establishment of a Sanitary District to be known as ____________________ Sanitary District. (Here insert the purposes.) (2) That the lands sought to be included in the District comprise lands in __________________ and __________________ Counties, Ohio, described substantially as follows: Beginning on the north line of ______________________ County at its point of intersection with the west bank of the ____________ River; thence west along the north line of ____________ County to the high bluffs facing the ____________ River on the west; thence following the base of the line of said bluffs to the north line of the right-of-way of the ______________________ Railroad; thence west along the north right-of-way line of the Railroad to the center line of ________________ Avenue in the Village of __________________; thence south along the center line of ________________ Avenue to the ________________ Pike; thence southeasterly along the ________________ Pike to the southeasterly line of the right-of-way of the ________________ Railroad; thence southeasterly along the right-of-way line to the corporate limits of the City of ________________; thence with the corporation line southerly, easterly, and northerly to the southerly right-of-way line of the main track of the ________________ Railroad; thence easterly along the last named right-of-way line to the boundary line between ________________ Counties; thence north along the County line to the southerly line of _________________ County; thence easterly along the dividing line between ________________ Counties to the easterly line of the right-of-way of the ________________ Railroad; thence northerly along the right-of-way line to its intersection with the ________________ Pike; thence westerly along the Pike to the center line of the bridge over ________________ Creek; thence up the Creek and along the center line thereof to the north line of ______________ County; thence west to the place of beginning. Or, if found more convenient, the lands sought to be included in the District may be described as follows: All of Township ________________ in Range ________________ between the ________________ Railroad and the __________________ River; the following lands in __________ Township and ___________ Range; Section __________ and the ________________ half of Section ________________; also all lands within the corporate limits of the City of __________________ etc. (3) That a public hearing on the petition will be had in said Court on __________ the ____________ day of ____________, ____, at the hour of ________ o'clock ______M. by the Court of Common Pleas of ____________________ County, at the Courthouse in the City of __________________, __________________ County, Ohio. All persons and public corporations owning or interested in real estate within the territory hereinbefore described will be given the opportunity to be heard at the time and place above specified ___________________________________ Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of __________________ County, Ohio. Dated ________________, Ohio, ________________, ____" (B) Form of Finding on Hearing: "State of Ohio, ) ) ss. _____________County ) In the Court of Common Pleas ____________ County. In the Matter of ________________ Sanitary District: FINDINGS AND DECREE ON HEARING. On this ____________ day of ________________, 19____, this cause coming on for hearing on the petition of ______________ and others, for the organization of a Sanitary District under the Sanitary District Law of Ohio, the Court, after a full hearing now here finds: (1) That it has jurisdiction of the parties to and the subject matter of this proceeding. (2) That the purposes for which said District is established are: (Insert the purposes.) And that it is a public necessity. (3) That the public safety, health, convenience, and welfare will be promoted by the organization of a Sanitary District substantially as prayed in the petition (if additional lands are added by petition), except that the following additional lands at the petition of the owners thereof should be and hereby are included in the District: (Here insert additional lands.) (4) That the boundaries of the District as modified by the last finding herein are as follows: (Here insert corrected boundaries of district.) (5) That the territory last above described should be erected into and created a Sanitary District under the Sanitary District Law of Ohio under the corporate name of ________________ Sanitary District. Wherefore, it is by the Court ordered, adjudged, and decreed: That the territory as above described be, and the same hereby is erected into and created a Sanitary District under the Sanitary District Law of Ohio under the corporate name of ________________ Sanitary District, with its office or principal place of business at ________________, in ________________ County, Ohio. (If directors are appointed at the same time.) And the following persons are hereby appointed directors of the Sanitary District: ________________ for the term of three years, ________________ for the term of five years, ________________ for the term of seven years, who are hereby directed to qualify and proceed according to law. (6) For consideration of other matters herein, this cause is retained on the docket. ____________________________ Judge" (C) Form of Notice to Property Owners to Pay Assessment: "__________________ Sanitary District. To All Persons Interested: Public Notice is Hereby Given: (1) That on the ________________ day of ________________, ____, the Board of Directors of ________________ Sanitary District duly levied for the account of the Bond Fund of said District an assessment upon all the property in the District in the aggregate sum of $________________, has caused the same to be extended upon the assessment duplicate of said District, and that the assessment duplicate is now in process of collection by the County Treasurer of the County in which the lands are situated. (2) That the entire assessment against any parcel of land may be paid at any time on or prior to ________________, ____, without costs and without interest. (3) That as soon after the ________ day of ______________, ____, as conveniently may be, the Board of Directors of the District will divide the uncollected portion of the assessment into convenient installments and will issue bonds bearing interest not exceeding the rate provided in section 9.95 of the Revised Code in anticipation of the collection of the several installments of said assessment, pursuant to the Sanitary District Law of Ohio. ______________________________________ President ______________________________________ Secretary" (D) Form of Notice of Enlargement of District: "State of Ohio ) ) ss. County of ______________ ) In the Court of Common Pleas _____________________ County, Ohio In the Matter of _______________ Sanitary District: NOTICE OF ENLARGEMENT OF DISTRICT. To All Persons (and Public Corporations, if any) Interested: Public Notice is Hereby Given: (1) That heretofore on the ______ day of _____________, ___, the Court of Common Pleas of _________ County, Ohio, duly entered a final decree erecting and creating ___________________ Sanitary District and appointing a Board of Directors therefor. (2) That thereafter this Court duly appointed _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ to be the Board of Appraisers for said District. That the Board of Appraisers on the _____ day of __________, ____, filed its report recommending that the following described lands, not originally included in the District, be added thereto: (Here describe generally the lands which the Report of the Board of Appraisers recommends should be added to the District.) (3) That on _________, the _______ day of _______________, ____, (or as soon thereafter as the convenience of the Court will permit), at the Courthouse in _________ of ________________, Ohio, the Court of Common Pleas of __________ County, Ohio, will hear all persons and public corporations, who are owners of or interested in the property described in this notice upon the question whether the lands should be added to and included in the ________________ Sanitary District. __________________________________ Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of ____________________ County, Ohio" (E) Form of Notice of Hearing on Appraisals: "State of Ohio ) ) ss. County of ______________ ) In the Court of Common Pleas ______________ County, Ohio" In the matter of "_______________________" Sanitary District: NOTICE OF HEARING ON APPRAISALS. To All Persons and Public Corporations Interested: Public Notice is Hereby Given: (1) That heretofore on the ______ day of _________, ___, the Court of Common Pleas of ___________ County, Ohio, duly entered a decree, erecting and creating _______________ Sanitary District and appointing a Board of Directors therefor. (2) That thereafter this Court duly appointed _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ the Board of Appraisers for said District. That the Board of Appraisers on the ______ day of ____________, ____, filed its Appraisal of Benefits and Damages and of land to be taken as follows: (Here insert general description of land appraised.) The appraisal of benefits and damages and of land to be taken is now on file in the office of the clerk of this court. (3) All public corporations and all persons, owners of or interested in the property described in the Report, whether as benefited property or as property taken and damaged (whether the taken or damaged property lies within or without the District), desiring to contest the appraisals as made and returned by the Board of Appraisers, must file their objections in the court on or before the ______ day of __________, ____, (here insert a date ten (10) days after the last publication of the notice) and a hearing on the appraisal will be had on the _____ day of _________, ____, (here insert a date not less than twenty (20), nor more than thirty (30), days after the date of the last publication of this notice, as fixed by the court) in the City of ____________, Ohio, at which time an opportunity will be afforded all objectors to be heard upon their several objections. __________________________________ Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of __________________ County, Ohio. Dated at the City of ____________, Ohio, this ______ day of _______________, _____" (F) Form of Certificate of Levy of Assessments: "State of Ohio ) ) County of _______________) To the Auditor of _________________ County, Ohio: This is to certify that by virtue and under the authority of the Sanitary District Law of Ohio, the Board of Directors of ____________ Sanitary District have and do hereby levy the sum of ____________ Dollars for the account of the Bond Fund of said District, which assessment bears interest as provided by law and is payable in installments as follows: (Here insert.) You are further notified that for the account of the Maintenance Fund for the year _____, this Board has levied the sum of ____________ Dollars. The amounts of the levies upon the several parcels of land upon which the same are imposed are set forth upon the schedule hereunto attached, marked ____________ Sanitary District Assessment Book. The assessments shall be collectible and payable the present year in the sums therein specified at the same time that the state and county taxes are due and collectible, and you are directed and ordered to require the Treasurer of _________ County, Ohio, to demand and collect such assessments at the time that the treasurer demands and collects the state and county taxes due on the same lands, and this Sanitary District Assessment Book shall be your authority and the authority of the Treasurer to make such collection. Witness the signature of the President of the Board of Directors, attested by the seal of said corporation, and the signature of its Secretary, this _____ day of __________, ____ _______________________________ President. _______________________________ Secretary" Last updated October 24, 2022 at 9:21 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.49 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.49
§ 6117.49. Sale or disposition of county sanitary or drainage facilities
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly (A) If the board of county commissioners determines by resolution that the best interests of the county and those served by the sanitary or drainage facilities or the prevention or replacement facilities of a county sewer district so require, the board may sell or otherwise dispose of the facilities to another public agency or a person. The resolution declaring the necessity of that disposition shall recite the reasons for the sale or other disposition and shall establish any conditions or terms that the board may impose, including, but not limited to, a minimum sales price if a sale is proposed, a requirement for the submission by bidders of the schedule of rates and charges initially proposed to be paid for the services of the facilities, and other pertinent conditions or terms relating to the sale or other disposition. The resolution also shall designate a time and place for the hearing of objections to the sale or other disposition by the board. Notice of the adoption of the resolution and the time and place of the hearing shall be published as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code or once a week for two consecutive weeks, in a newspaper of general circulation in the sewer district and in the county. The public hearing on the sale or other disposition shall be held not less than twenty-four days following the date of first publication of the notice. A copy of the notice also shall be sent by first class or certified mail, on or before the date of the second publication, to any public agency within the area served by the facilities. At the public hearing, or at any adjournment of it, of which no further published or mailed notice need be given, the board shall hear all interested parties. A period of five days shall be given following the completion of the hearing for the filing of written objections by any interested persons or public agencies to the sale or other disposition, after which the board shall consider any objections and by resolution determine whether or not to proceed with the sale or other disposition. If the board determines to proceed with the sale or other disposition, it shall receive bids after advertising once a week for four consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county and, subject to the right of the board to reject any or all bids, may make an award to a responsible bidder whose proposal is determined by the board to be in the best interests of the county and those served by the facilities. (B) A conveyance of sanitary or drainage facilities or of prevention or replacement facilities by a county to a municipal corporation in accordance with division (B) of section 6117.05 of the Revised Code may be made without regard to division (A) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.46 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.46
§ 6131.46. Supervision and inspection of county engineer or deputy
Status: in_force

April 9, 1981 House Bill 268 - 113th General Assembly All work on an improvement and all materials furnished for use therein shall be under the supervision and inspection of the county engineer or a deputy appointed by him for the purpose. All material furnished under the specifications and contract shall be inspected by him before use and within a reasonable time after the same is delivered and placed upon the line of the improvement or such other place as is designated.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6123.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6123 / § 6123.17
§ 6123.17. Acquisition of real property interest
Status: in_force

September 28, 1979 House Bill 144 - 113th General Assembly The Ohio water development authority may acquire by purchase, whenever it determines such purchase expedient, any land, property, rights, rights-of-way franchises, easements, and other interests in lands which it finds to be necessary or convenient for the construction and operation of any development project, upon such terms and at such price as it considers reasonable and are agreed upon between the authority and the owner thereof, and take title thereto in the name of the state. Any governmental agency, notwithstanding any contrary provision of law may lease, lend, grant, or convey to the authority, at its request, upon such terms as the proper authorities of such governmental agencies determine to be reasonable and fair and without the necessity for an advertisement, auction, order of court, or other action or formality, other than the regular and formal action of the governmental agency concerned, any real property or interests therein including improvements thereto or personal property which is necessary or convenient to effect the authorized purposes of the authority, including public roads and real or personal property already devoted to public use.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.71 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.71
§ 6101.71. Petition for organizing subdistricts
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly Whenever it is desired to construct improvements wholly within, or partly within and partly without, any conservancy district, which improvements will affect only a part of the district, for the purpose of accomplishing such work, subdistricts may be organized upon petition of the owners of real property, or the governing body of any political subdivision or watershed district created under section 6105.02 of the Revised Code, within, or partly within and partly without, the district, or upon petition of the board of directors of the district. The petition shall fulfill the same requirements concerning the subdistricts as the petition outlined in section 6101.05 of the Revised Code is required to fulfill concerning the organization of the main district, shall be filed with the clerk of the same court of common pleas, and shall be accompanied by a bond as provided for in section 6101.06 of the Revised Code. All proceedings relating to the organization of the subdistricts shall conform to the provisions of this chapter relating to the organization of districts, except that it shall not be necessary for the court to hold a preliminary meeting. The judge determining that a sufficient petition has been filed shall forthwith set a date for hearing, which shall be held not later than sixty days after the filing of the petition, and shall give notice of the hearing to the court of common pleas of each county included in whole or in part in the main district. The clerk of the court shall give notice of the hearing by publication in the counties included in whole or in part within the proposed subdistricts. Whenever the court by its order entered of record decrees subdistricts to be organized, the clerk of the court then shall give notice of the order to the board of directors of the conservancy district, which then shall act also as the board of directors of the subdistricts. Thereafter, the proceedings in reference to the subdistricts shall in all matters conform to this chapter, except that, in appraisal of benefits and damages for the purposes of the subdistricts, in the issuance of bonds or notes, in the levying of assessments, and in all other matters affecting only the subdistricts this chapter shall apply to each subdistrict as though it were an independent district, and it shall not, in these things, be amalgamated with the main district. The board of directors, board of appraisers, chief engineer, attorney, secretary of the conservancy district, and other officers, agents, and employees of the district shall, so far as it is necessary, serve in the same capacities for each subdistrict, and contracts and agreements between the main district and each subdistrict may be made in the same manner as contracts and agreements between two districts. The distribution of administrative expense between the main district and each subdistrict shall be in proportion to the interests involved and the amount of service rendered. The division shall be made by the board of directors with an appeal to the court establishing the district. This section does not prevent the organization of independent districts for local improvements under other laws within the limits of a conservancy district organized under this chapter, as provided in sections 6101.68 and 6101.69 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.04
§ 6111.04. Water pollution and sludge management violations prohibited
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Both of the following apply except as otherwise provided in division (A) or (F) of this section: (1) No person shall cause pollution or place or cause to be placed any sewage, sludge, sludge materials, industrial waste, or other wastes in a location where they cause pollution of any waters of the state. (2) Such an action prohibited under division (A)(1) of this section is hereby declared to be a public nuisance. Divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section do not apply if the person causing pollution or placing or causing to be placed wastes in a location in which they cause pollution of any waters of the state holds a valid, unexpired permit, or renewal of a permit, governing the causing or placement as provided in sections 6111.01 to 6111.08 of the Revised Code or if the person's application for renewal of such a permit is pending. (B) If the director of environmental protection administers a sludge management program pursuant to division (R) of section 6111.03 of the Revised Code, both of the following apply except as otherwise provided in division (B) or (F) of this section: (1) No person, in the course of sludge management, shall place on land located in the state or release into the air of the state any sludge or sludge materials. (2) An action prohibited under division (B)(1) of this section is hereby declared to be a public nuisance. Divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section do not apply if the person placing or releasing the sludge or sludge materials holds a valid, unexpired permit, or renewal of a permit, governing the placement or release as provided in sections 6111.01 to 6111.08 of the Revised Code or if the person's application for renewal of such a permit is pending. (C) No person to whom a permit has been issued shall place or discharge, or cause to be placed or discharged, in any waters of the state any sewage, sludge, sludge materials, industrial waste, or other wastes in excess of the permissive discharges specified under an existing permit without first receiving a permit from the director to do so. (D) No person to whom a sludge management permit has been issued shall place on the land or release into the air of the state any sludge or sludge materials in excess of the permissive amounts specified under the existing sludge management permit without first receiving a modification of the existing sludge management permit or a new sludge management permit to do so from the director. (E) The director may require the submission of plans, specifications, and other information that the director considers relevant in connection with the issuance of permits. (F) This section does not apply to any of the following: (1) Waters used in washing sand, gravel, other aggregates, or mineral products when the washing and the ultimate disposal of the water used in the washing, including any sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes contained in the waters, are entirely confined to the land under the control of the person engaged in the recovery and processing of the sand, gravel, other aggregates, or mineral products and do not result in the pollution of waters of the state; (2) Water, gas, or other material injected into a well to facilitate, or that is incidental to, the production of oil, gas, artificial brine, or water derived in association with oil or gas production and disposed of in a well, in compliance with a permit issued under Chapter 1509. of the Revised Code, or sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes injected into a well in compliance with an injection well operating permit. Division (F)(2) of this section does not authorize, without a permit, any discharge that is prohibited by, or for which a permit is required by, regulation of the United States environmental protection agency. (3) Application of any materials to land for agricultural purposes or runoff of the materials from that application or pollution by residual farm products, manure, or soil sediment, including attached substances, resulting from farming, silvicultural, or earthmoving activities regulated by Chapter 307. or 939. of the Revised Code. Division (F)(3) of this section does not authorize, without a permit, any discharge that is prohibited by, or for which a permit is required by, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or regulations adopted under it. As used in division (F)(3) of this section, "residual farm products" and "manure" have the same meanings as in section 939.01 of the Revised Code. (4) The excrement of domestic and farm animals defecated on land or runoff therefrom into any waters of the state. Division (F)(4) of this section does not authorize, without a permit, any discharge that is prohibited by, or for which a permit is required by, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or regulations adopted under it. (5) On and after the date on which the United States environmental protection agency approves the NPDES program submitted by the director of agriculture under section 903.08 of the Revised Code, any discharge that is within the scope of the approved NPDES program submitted by the director of agriculture; (6) The discharge of sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes into a sewerage system tributary to a treatment works. Division (F)(6) of this section does not authorize any discharge into a publicly owned treatment works in violation of a pretreatment program applicable to the publicly owned treatment works or any discharge to a privately owned treatment works in violation of any permit conditions established in accordance with 40 C.F.R. 122.44(m). (7) A household sewage treatment system or a small flow on-site sewage treatment system, as applicable, as defined in section 3718.01 of the Revised Code that is installed in compliance with Chapter 3718. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under it. Division (F)(7) of this section does not authorize, without a permit, any discharge that is prohibited by, or for which a permit is required by, regulation of the United States environmental protection agency. (8) Exceptional quality sludge generated outside of this state and contained in bags or other containers not greater than one hundred pounds in capacity. As used in division (F)(8) of this section, "exceptional quality sludge" has the same meaning as in division (X) of section 3745.11 of the Revised Code. (G) The holder of a permit issued under section 402 (a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act need not obtain a permit for a discharge authorized by the permit until its expiration date. Except as otherwise provided in this division, the director of environmental protection shall administer and enforce those permits within this state and may modify their terms and conditions in accordance with division (J) of section 6111.03 of the Revised Code. On and after the date on which the United States environmental protection agency approves the NPDES program submitted by the director of agriculture under section 903.08 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture shall administer and enforce those permits within this state that are issued for any discharge that is within the scope of the approved NPDES program submitted by the director of agriculture. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 6151.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6151 / § 6151.02
§ 6151.02. Resolution for appropriation of property
Status: in_force

February 21, 1967 House Bill 1 - 107th General Assembly In order to acquire property as provided in section 6151.01 of the Revised Code by appropriation proceedings, the board of county commissioners shall adopt a resolution declaring the necessity therefor; and shall then proceed in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22 , inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6135.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6135 / § 6135.22
§ 6135.22. Filing claims for compensation and damages
Status: in_force

August 23, 1957 House Bill 220 - 102nd General Assembly Claims for compensation and damages shall be filed with the clerk of the joint board on or before the day of hearing on the apportionment. Such claims as are allowed, with costs of location actually incurred, shall be paid out of the county fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.011 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.011
§ 6119.011. Regional water and sewer district definitions
Status: in_force

October 16, 2009 House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Court of common pleas" or "court" means, unless the context indicates a different meaning or intent, the court of common pleas in which the petition for the organization of a regional water and sewer district is filed. (B) "Political subdivision" includes departments, divisions, authorities, or other units of state governments, watershed districts, soil and water conservation districts, park districts, municipal corporations, counties, townships, and other political subdivisions, special water districts, including county and regional water and sewer districts, conservancy districts, sanitary districts, sewer districts or any other public corporation or agency having the authority to acquire, construct, or operate waste water or water management facilities, and all other governmental agencies now or hereafter granted the power of levying taxes or special assessments, the United States or any agency thereof, and any agency, commission, or authority established pursuant to an interstate compact or agreement. (C) "Person" means any natural person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation other than a political subdivision. (D) "Beneficial use" means a use of water, including the method of diversion, storage, transportation, treatment, and application, that is reasonable and consistent with the public interest in the proper utilization of water resources, including, but not limited to, domestic, agricultural, industrial, power, municipal, navigational, fish and wildlife, and recreational uses. (E) "Waters of the state" means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, that are situated wholly or partly within, or border upon, this state, or are within its jurisdiction, except those private waters that do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters. (F) "Water resources" means all waters of the state occurring on the surface in natural or artificial channels, lakes, reservoirs, or impoundments, and in subsurface aquifers, that are available or may be made available to agricultural, commercial, recreational, public, and domestic users. (G) "Project" or "water resource project" means any waste water facility or water management facility acquired, constructed, or operated by or leased to a regional water and sewer district or to be acquired, constructed, or operated by or leased to a regional water and sewer district under this chapter, or acquired or constructed or to be acquired or constructed by a political subdivision with a portion of the cost thereof being paid from a loan or grant from the district under this chapter, including all buildings and facilities that the district considers necessary for the operation of the project, together with all property, rights, easements, and interest that may be required for the operation of the project. Any water resource project shall be determined by the board of trustees of the district to be consistent with any applicable comprehensive plan of water management approved by the director of natural resources or in the process of preparation by the director and to be not inconsistent with the standards set for the waters of the state affected thereby by the environmental protection agency. Any resolution of the board of trustees of the district providing for acquiring, operating, leasing, or constructing such projects or for making a loan or grant for such projects shall include a finding by the board of trustees of the district that those determinations have been made. (H) "Pollution" means the placing of any noxious or deleterious substances in any waters of the state or affecting the properties of any waters of the state in a manner that renders those waters harmful or inimical to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life, or to the use of the waters for domestic water supply, industrial or agricultural purposes, or recreation. (I) "Sewage" means any substance that contains any of the waste products or excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals that pollutes the waters of the state. (J) "Industrial waste" means any liquid, gaseous, or solid waste substance resulting from any process of industry, manufacture, trade, or business, or from the development, processing, or recovery of any natural resource, together with such sewage as is present, that pollutes the waters of the state. (K) "Waste water" means any storm water and any water containing sewage or industrial waste or other pollutants or contaminants derived from the prior use of the water. (L) "Waste water facilities" means facilities for the purpose of treating, neutralizing, disposing of, stabilizing, cooling, segregating, or holding waste water, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, facilities for the treatment and disposal of sewage or industrial waste and the residue thereof, facilities for the temporary or permanent impoundment of waste water, both surface and underground, and storm and sanitary sewers and other systems, whether on the surface or underground, designed to transport waste water, together with the equipment and furnishings thereof and their appurtenances and systems, whether on the surface or underground, including force mains and pumping facilities therefor when necessary. (M) "Water management facilities" means facilities for the purpose of the development, use, and protection of water resources, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, facilities for water supply, facilities for stream flow improvement, dams, reservoirs, and other impoundments, water transmission lines, water wells and well fields, pumping stations and works for underground water recharge, stream monitoring systems, facilities for the stabilization of stream and river banks, and facilities for the treatment of streams and rivers, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, facilities for the removal of oil, debris, and other solid waste from the waters of the state and stream and river aeration facilities. (N) "Cost" as applied to water resource projects means the cost of acquisition and construction, the cost of acquisition of all land, rights-of-way, property rights, easements, franchise rights, and interests required by the district for such acquisition and construction, the cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to which such buildings or structures may be moved, the cost of acquiring or constructing and equipping a principal office and sub-offices of the district, the cost of diverting highways, interchange of highways, and access roads to private property, including the cost of land or easements therefor, the cost of all machinery, furnishings, and equipment, financing charges, interest prior to and during construction and for no more than eighteen months after completion of acquisition or construction, engineering, expenses of research and development with respect to waste water or water management facilities, legal expenses, plans, specifications, surveys, estimates of cost and revenues, working capital, other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of acquiring or constructing any such project, administrative expense, and such other expense as may be necessary or incident to the acquisition or construction of the project, the financing of the acquisition or construction, including the amount authorized in the resolution of the district providing for the issuance of water resource revenue bonds to be paid into any special funds from the proceeds of those bonds and the financing of the placing of any such project in operation. Any obligation or expense incurred by any political subdivision, and approved by the district, for surveys, borings, preparation of plans and specifications, and other engineering services in connection with the acquisition or construction of a project shall be regarded as a part of the cost of the project and may be reimbursed by the district. (O) "Owner" includes all individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, or political subdivisions having any title or interest in any property rights, easements, and interests authorized to be acquired by this chapter. (P) "Revenues" means all rentals and other charges received by a district for the use or services of any project, all special assessments levied by the district pursuant to this chapter, any gift or grant received with respect thereto, and moneys received in repayment of and for interest on any loan made by the district to a political subdivision, whether from the United States or a department, administration, or agency thereof, or otherwise. (Q) "Public roads" includes all public highways, roads, and streets in the state, whether maintained by the state, county, city, township, or other political subdivision. (R) "Public utility facilities" includes tracks, pipes, mains, conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles, and other equipment and appliances of any public utility. (S) "Construction," unless the context indicates a different meaning or intent, includes reconstruction, enlargement, improvement, or providing furnishings or equipment. (T) "Water resources bonds," unless the context indicates a different meaning or intent, includes water resource notes and water resource refunding bonds. (U) "Regional water and sewer district" means a district organized or operating for one or both of the purposes described in section 6119.01 of the Revised Code and, if organized or operating for only one of those purposes, may be designated either a regional water district or a regional sewer district, as the case may be. (V) "Homestead exemption" means the reduction of taxes allowed under division (A) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code. (W) "Low- and moderate-income person" has the same meaning as in section 175.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.66 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.66
§ 6115.66. Land in more than one sanitary district
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The same land, if conducive to public health, safety, convenience, or welfare, may be included in more than one sanitary district and be subject to sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, for each district in which it may be included. No district shall be organized under such sections in whole or in part within the territory of a district already organized under such sections until the court determines whether the public health, safety, convenience, or welfare demand the organization of an additional district, or whether it demands that the territory proposed to be organized into an additional district shall be added to the existing district. If the proceedings concerning two or more such districts are before the court of common pleas of two or more counties, such determination shall be as provided in section 6115.67 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.28
§ 6101.28. Appraising of benefits and damages
Status: in_force

January 1, 1966 Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly During the preparation of the official plan, the board of appraisers of a conservancy district shall examine and become acquainted with the nature of plans for the improvement and of the lands and other property affected thereby, in order that it may be better prepared to make appraisals. When the certified copy of the entry of the court approving the official plan is filed with the secretary of the conservancy district, he shall at once notify the board of appraisers, and it shall thereupon appraise the benefits of every kind to all real property within or without the district, which will result from the organization of said district and the execution of the official plan. The board of appraisers shall appraise the damages sustained and the value of the land and other property necessary to be taken by the district for which settlement has not been made by the board of directors of the conservancy district. In the progress of its work, the board of appraisers shall have the assistance of the attorney, engineers, secretary, and other agents and employees of the board of directors. The board of appraisers shall also appraise the benefits and damages accruing to municipal corporations, counties, townships, and other public corporations, as political entities, and to this state. Before appraisals of compensation and damages are made, the board of directors may report to the board of appraisers the parcels of land or other property it wishes to purchase, and for which it wishes appraisals to be made, both for easement and for purchase in fee simple. The board of directors may, if it deems best, specify in case of any property the particular purpose for which and the extent to which an easement in the same is desired, describing definitely such purpose and extent. The board of appraisers shall appraise all damages which may, because of the execution of the official plan, accrue to real or other property either within or without the district, which damages shall also represent easements acquired by the district for all of the purposes of the district, unless otherwise specifically stated. Wherever instructed to do so by the board of directors, the board of appraisers shall appraise lands or other property which it is necessary or desirable for the district to own, and when instructed by the board of directors to do so, the board of appraisers shall appraise both the total value of the land, and also the damages due to an easement for the purposes of the district. When such appraisals are confirmed by the court, the board of directors has the option of paying the entire appraised value of the property and acquiring full title to it in fee simple, or of paying only the cost of such easement for the purposes of the district. The board of appraisers in appraising benefits and damages shall consider only the effect of the execution of the official plan. In making appraisals, the board of appraisers shall give due consideration and credit to any other works or improvements already constructed, or under construction, which form a useful part of the work of the district according to the official plan. Where the board of appraisers returns no appraisal of damages to any property, it shall be deemed a finding by such board of appraisers that no damages will be sustained.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.04
§ 6101.04. Purpose and organization of conservancy districts
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly Any area or areas situated in one or more counties may be organized as a conservancy district in the manner and subject to the conditions provided by this chapter for any of the following purposes: (A) Preventing floods; (B) Regulating stream channels by changing, widening, and deepening the stream channels; (C) Reclaiming or filling wet and overflowed lands; (D) Providing for irrigation where it may be needed; (E) Regulating the flow of streams and conserving their waters; (F) Diverting or in whole or in part eliminating watercourses; (G) Providing a water supply for domestic, industrial, and public use; (H) Providing for the collection and disposal of sewage and other liquid wastes produced within the district; (I) Arresting erosion along the Ohio shore line of Lake Erie. This section does not terminate the existence of any district organized prior to July 19, 1937, entirely within a single county. The purposes of a district may be altered by the same procedure as provided for the establishment of the district.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.11
§ 6131.11. Dismissal of petition - appeal
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) If the board of county commissioners finds at the conclusion of the first hearing for a proposed improvement that a proposed improvement is not necessary, will not be conducive to the public welfare, or that the estimated cost of the proposed improvement will exceed the benefits to be derived if it is constructed, the board shall dismiss the petition for the proposed improvement and enter its findings upon its journal. (B) Any owner who is affected by the order of dismissal may appeal to the court of common pleas of the county in which the petition was filed, as provided in sections 6131.12 to 6131.64 of the Revised Code. If no appeal is filed within thirty days pursuant to section 6131.25 of the Revised Code, the bond shall cover all the costs incurred in the proceedings. Any remaining funds from the bond shall be returned to the petitioner. (C) An order issued by the board under this section is effective on the day of the hearing at which the board issued it.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.37
§ 6119.37. Civil service status of employees
Status: in_force

October 22, 1980 House Bill 579 - 113th General Assembly (A) Any employees of a political subdivision who are in the classified service under Chapter 124. of the Revised Code, and who because of the transfer of a facility of such political subdivision to a regional water and sewer district become the employees of such district, shall, while in the continuous employment of such district, not be reduced in pay or position, suspended, or removed except in accordance with section 124.34 of the Revised Code. (B) Division (C) of this section applies to the persons described in that division and to all former employees of a municipal corporation who: (1) Were employed in the municipal departments responsible for supplying water or for collecting, treating, and disposing of waste water; (2) Were granted employment rights and protection under the charter of the municipal corporation or provisions adopted pursuant to the charter similar to those granted to employees in the classified state service under Chapter 124. of the Revised Code; and (3) Lost their employment with the municipal corporation because of the creation or expansion of a regional water and sewer district or because of the transfer of a facility of the municipal corporation to a regional water and sewer district and became employees of the district after the creation, expansion, or transfer. (C) All persons described in division (B) of this section shall, while employed by the district, be subject to the provisions of Chapter 124. of the Revised Code that govern the appointment, promotion, transfer, reinstatement, lay-off, reduction in pay or position, suspension, removal, and political activity of employees in the classified state service, and for the purposes of these provisions shall be treated as if they were employees in the classified state service. This division also applies to all persons employed by a regional water and sewer district after persons described in divisions (B)(1), (2), and (3) of this section become employees of the district. (D) As used in this section: (1) "Regional water and sewer district" includes a district organized under this chapter that has been designated as either a regional water district or a regional sewer district as provided in division (U) of section 6119.011 of the Revised Code. (2) "State service" has the same meaning as given in section 124.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.56 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.56
§ 6119.56. Lien of assessment or any installment
Status: in_force

November 19, 1971 Senate Bill 166 - 109th General Assembly The lien of an assessment or any installment thereof shall continue for two years from date of passage of the resolution under section 6119.52 or 6119.58 of the Revised Code, and no longer, unless the regional water and sewer district, before the expiration of such time, causes it to be certified to the county auditor for entry upon the tax list and duplicate, for collection, or causes the proper action to be commenced in a court having jurisdiction thereof, to enforce the lien against such lots or lands, in which case the lien shall continue in force so long as the assessment or any installment thereof remains on the tax list uncollected, or so long as the action is pending, and any judgment obtained under and by virtue thereof remains in force and unsatisfied. If an action for the recovery of an assessment is commenced within due time, and a judgment therein for the plaintiff is reversed, or if the plaintiff fails in such action otherwise than upon the merits and the time limited for the action has expired, a new action may be commenced within one year after such reversal or failure. A court of common pleas shall have the jurisdiction authorized by Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code for the collection of any charge or debt or the enforcement of any lien, notwithstanding the amount involved is less than that to which the jurisdiction is limited in other cases. Such court may make such special rules concerning the class of cases authorized to be brought under such chapter as will tend to expedite the disposition and prevent unnecessary costs.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6105.132 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6105 / § 6105.132
§ 6105.132. Filing designation of restricted channel with county engineer
Status: in_force

December 14, 1967 House Bill 791 - 107th General Assembly When the board of directors of a watershed district has adopted a resolution under section 6105.131 of the Revised Code, designating a specific reach of a channel of a watercourse as a restricted channel or a specific area as a restricted floodway, it shall cause a copy of such resolution and a map and a description of the boundaries of such restricted channel or restricted floodway to be filed in the office of the county engineer of each county in which such restricted channel or restricted floodway is located. Each county engineer shall maintain a restricted channel and restricted floodway record in which shall be placed all resolutions, maps, and descriptions pertaining to restricted channels and restricted floodways filed with the county engineer under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6135.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6135 / § 6135.15
§ 6135.15. Rules of joint board
Status: in_force

April 9, 1981 House Bill 268 - 113th General Assembly The joint board of county commissioners, on assembling for the meeting set by the clerk of the board of county commissioners under section 6135.14 of the Revised Code, shall be governed by like rules as provided by law for the first meeting thereof. They may call to their assistance the engineers who surveyed and planned the proposed improvement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.57 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.57
§ 6115.57. Bond of county treasurer for probable amount of assessments
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Before receiving the assessment book provided for by section 6115.55 of the Revised Code the county treasurer of each county in which lands or other property of the sanitary district are located shall execute to the board of directors of the sanitary district a bond with at least two good and sufficient sureties or a surety company, which bond shall be paid for by the district, in a sum not less than the probable amount of any annual levy of the assessment to be collected by him during any one year, conditioned that said treasurer shall pay over and account for all assessments so collected by him according to law. Said bond after approval by said board shall be deposited with the secretary of the sanitary district who shall be custodian thereof. Such secretary shall produce the bond for inspection and use as evidence whenever and wherever lawfully requested to do so.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.25
§ 6101.25. Recreational facilities upon lands owned or controlled by district
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly The board of directors of a conservancy district may construct, improve, operate, maintain, and protect parks, parkways, forest preserves, bathing beaches, playgrounds, and other recreational facilities upon the lands owned or controlled by the district, or upon lands located within the district owned or controlled by the United States government or any department of it, by this state or any department or division of it, or by any political subdivision, if authorized by lease, contract, or other arrangements with the appropriate agency of government having ownership or control. The board may acquire by lease, purchase, or appropriation property additional to that required for the purposes for which the district was incorporated, in order to provide for the protection, more adequate development, and fuller public use and enjoyment of the improvements and facilities. The board may impose and collect charges for the use of the properties, improvements, and facilities maintained or operated by the district for recreational purposes. Moneys collected from these charges may be used to promote the district's recreational facilities. In case the revenues derived or to be derived from the properties, improvements, and facilities maintained, operated, used, or acquired by the district for recreational purposes are not sufficient for the purposes of this section, the board, with the approval of the court, may provide for the payment of obligations incurred under this section by the levy of special assessments upon public corporations having lands within the district. In no case shall the obligations incurred under this section be paid from the proceeds of special assessments levied under section 6101.48 or 6101.53 of the Revised Code, or of bonds or notes issued in anticipation of them. After special assessments against the public corporations are approved by the court, the board of appraisers of the conservancy district shall appraise the benefits to be conferred on each public corporation by reason of the acquisition and construction of the properties and improvements authorized by the board of directors under this section, and shall appraise the damages accruing to persons and public corporations from the improvements. The provisions of this chapter that refer to the determination of benefits and damages apply to the appraisals made under this section, but they shall be separate from other appraisals of benefits and damages made under this chapter, and separate records of them shall be prepared. After the appraisal of benefits has been approved by the court, and within the amount of benefits so determined, the board of directors may levy assessments on the public corporations benefited to pay the cost of the properties and improvements acquired and constructed under this section, and may issue bonds and notes in anticipation of the collection of these assessments. In addition, the board of directors may annually levy a maintenance assessment for the purposes of this section on the public corporations upon the basis of total appraised benefits. The provisions of this chapter that relate to assessments for district purposes and to bonds and notes issued in anticipation of the assessments apply to the assessments authorized under this section and the bonds and notes issued in anticipation of the assessments. Improvement, bond retirement, and maintenance funds shall be established for recreational purposes in conformity with section 6101.44 of the Revised Code, which shall be separate from one another and from other funds of the district, and no transfers shall be made to them from the other funds of the district. The proceeds of all bonds, notes, and assessments authorized by this section and all receipts derived from the recreational properties, improvements, and facilities owned, controlled, operated, or maintained by the district shall be paid into those funds, and all expenditures in accordance with this section shall be made from them.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6121.042 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6121 / § 6121.042
§ 6121.042. Rates or charges imposed upon the owners or occupants of lands within waste water facilities service area
Status: in_force

December 3, 1971 Senate Bill 105 - 109th General Assembly For the purpose of paying rates, rentals, or charges imposed pursuant to an order issued under section 6121.041 of the Revised Code, a governmental agency may raise money by any method or combination of methods authorized by law, as if the governmental agency itself were proposing to construct, were constructing, or had constructed waste water facilities. For such purpose the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or the board of county commissioners of a county may by resolution define an area, within their respective jurisdictions, that will derive a benefit from the waste water facilities service provided under an order, and may fix and impose rates or charges upon the owners or occupants of lands within such area.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.45
§ 6119.45. Payment of assessments by annual installments
Status: in_force

November 19, 1971 Senate Bill 166 - 109th General Assembly Special assessments for the construction of a water resource project under Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code shall be payable in such number of annual installments, not less than one, and at such times as the board of trustees prescribes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6135.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6135 / § 6135.26
§ 6135.26. Journalizing agreement for improvement
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When the board of county commissioners enters into an agreement with the proper officials of an adjoining county in another state, under sections 6135.23 to 6135.25 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, it shall make an entry upon its journal setting forth fully and particularly the terms of such agreement, as to the extent and nature of the outlet to be constructed or improved, the time within which it is to be completed, the amount to be paid by such upper county to such lower county for the improvement of such outlet, and the time and manner of payment therefor.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.10
§ 6117.10. Appeal when improvement is located in two or more counties
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to appeal to the probate court as provided in section 6117.09 of the Revised Code, when the improvement is located in two or more counties, may appeal to the probate court of the county in which property of such appellant to be assessed for such improvement is located. Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to appeal from the final order or judgment of the board upon any of the questions mentioned in such section, shall on or before the date of the passage of the improvement resolution give notice in writing of an intention to appeal, specifying therein the matters to be appealed from. The board shall fix the amount of the bond to be given by the appellant, which amount shall be reasonable, and shall make an entry thereof upon its journal. The appellant within ten days thereafter shall file with the county auditor a bond in the amount so fixed with sureties to be approved by the auditor, and such bond shall be conditioned to pay all costs made on the appeal if the appellant fails to sustain such appeal or the same is dismissed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.29
§ 6101.29. Effect of improvement on land outside district
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If the board of appraisers of a conservancy district finds that lands or other property not embraced within the boundaries of the district will be affected by the proposed improvement, or should be included in the district, it shall appraise the benefits and damages to such land, and shall file notice in the court of the appraisal which it has made upon the lands beyond the boundaries of the district, and to the land which in its opinion should be included in the district. The board shall also report to the court any lands which in its opinion should be eliminated from the district.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.02
§ 6101.02. Conservancy bonds and records
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly (A) The bonds issued under this chapter may be called conservancy bonds, and the term shall be engraved or printed on the face of the bonds. (B) The records provided for in this chapter shall be termed conservancy records.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.12
§ 6115.12. Seal - records - transcripts of meetings
Status: in_force

May 6, 1998 House Bill 26 - 122nd General Assembly (A) The director or board of directors of a sanitary district shall adopt a seal and shall keep in a well-bound book a record of all proceedings, minutes of all meetings, certificates, contracts, bonds given by employees, and corporate acts. The book shall be open to the inspection of all owners of property in the district and to all other interested parties. (B) In addition to the requirements established in section 121.22 of the Revised Code, any court of jurisdiction meeting pursuant to section 6115.10 of the Revised Code in regard to the appointment, removal, or reappointment of a member of the board of directors of a sanitary district organized wholly for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use or meeting for any other matter regarding such a district other than litigation involving the district shall keep a written transcript of the meeting and shall make the transcript available to the public upon request.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6161.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6161 / § 6161.02
§ 6161.02. Great Lakes commission members
Status: in_force

January 8, 1979 Senate Bill 115 - 112th General Assembly In pursuance of Article IV of the compact, as set forth in section 6161.01 of the Revised Code, there shall be five commissioners on the great lakes commission from this state. One of the commissioners shall be the director of the department of natural resources, one shall be the director of environmental protection, one shall be a member of the senate who shall be appointed by the president of the senate, one shall be a member of the house of representatives who shall be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, to serve for two-year terms respectively, and one shall be appointed by the governor to serve at his pleasure. The commissioner appointed by the governor shall be a person qualified by experience and training in the areas set forth in the purpose clauses of the compact. In order to fully effectuate these purposes the members of the state commission shall appoint advisory committees similar to the committees of the commission. Members of said advisory committees may not vote on matters considered by the state commission. Members of the state commission shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in attendance at official meetings of the commission and its committees.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.10
§ 6119.10. Competitive bidding for certain contracts
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The board of trustees of a regional water and sewer district or any officer or employee designated by the board may make any contract for the purchase of supplies or material or for labor for any work, under the supervision of the board, the cost of which shall not exceed the amount specified in section 9.17 of the Revised Code. When an expenditure, other than for the acquisition of real estate and interests in real estate, the discharge of noncontractual claims, personal services, the joint use of facilities or the exercise of powers with other political subdivisions, or the product or services of public utilities, exceeds the amount specified in section 9.17 of the Revised Code, the expenditures shall be made only after a notice calling for bids has been published once per week for two consecutive weeks in one newspaper of general circulation within the district or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. If the bids are for a contract for the construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction of an improvement, the board may let the contract to the lowest and best bidder who meets the requirements of section 153.54 of the Revised Code. If the bids are for a contract for any other work relating to the improvements for which a regional water and sewer district was established, the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district may let the contract to the lowest or best bidder who gives a good and approved bond with ample security conditioned on the carrying out of the contract. The contract shall be in writing and shall be accompanied by or shall refer to plans and specifications for the work to be done, approved by the board. The plans and specifications shall at all times be made and considered part of the contract. The contract shall be approved by the board and signed by its president or other duly authorized officer and by the contractor. In case of a real and present emergency, the board of trustees of the district, by two-thirds vote of all members, may authorize the president or other duly authorized officer to enter into a contract for work to be done or for the purchase of supplies or materials without formal bidding or advertising. All contracts shall have attached the certificate required by section 5705.41 of the Revised Code duly executed by the secretary of the board of trustees of the district. The district may make improvements by force account or direct labor, provided that, if the estimated cost of supplies or material for any such improvement exceeds the amount specified in section 9.17 of the Revised Code, bids shall be received as provided in this section. For the purposes of the competitive bidding requirements of this section, the board shall not sever a contract for supplies or materials and labor into separate contracts for labor, supplies, or materials if the contracts are in fact a part of a single contract required to be bid competitively under this section. Last updated August 8, 2023 at 10:53 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 6109.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6109 / § 6109.05
§ 6109.05. Plan for the provision of safe drinking water in emergencies
Status: in_force

December 14, 1978 Senate Bill 445 - 112th General Assembly (A) The director of environmental protection shall adopt a plan for the provision of safe drinking water in emergencies. For purposes of this section "emergency" means an imminent and substantial danger to human health. (B) Whenever the director determines that a water supply emergency exists requiring immediate action to protect the public health or welfare and the owner or operator of a public water system has not taken such action, he shall issue an order reciting the existence of the emergency and requiring that such action be taken as is necessary to meet the emergency. Such order shall be issued upon written or oral notice, as may be reasonable under the circumstances, and may be issued without prior hearing. Such order shall take effect immediately. Any person to whom such order is directed shall comply therewith immediately, but on application to the director within ten days after receipt of the order shall be afforded a hearing as soon as possible, and not later than twenty days after such application. On the basis of such hearing, the director shall continue such order in effect, revoke it, or modify it. No such emergency order shall remain in effect for more than ninety days after its effective date, except that the director may extend the effectiveness of the order for additional periods, not to exceed ninety days in any extension, if the emergency condition still exists on the date of extension.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.63 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.63
§ 6131.63. Written agreement for construction of drainage improvement
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) When one or more owners are willing to construct and pay the costs of a drainage improvement that will benefit the land of the owners, they may enter into a written agreement for the construction of the improvement, which may include each owner constructing part of the improvement. (B) The owners shall file the agreement and the plan and schedules for construction of the proposed improvement with the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the improvement is to be constructed. The clerk shall submit the agreement, plan, and schedules to the county engineer for examination and review. (C) The county engineer shall determine the adequacy of the plan and schedules and the effect of the proposed improvement on any other improvements and highways in the area affected. (D) The county engineer shall also prepare a schedule of proposed assessments for the maintenance of the improvement according to an estimate of benefits accruing to each owner and an estimate of maintenance costs including the engineer's costs in preparing the schedules. (E) The engineer shall file with the clerk of the board of county commissioners, within sixty days, a report of the engineer's review together with such recommendations for change, amendment, or alteration of the agreement, plan, and schedules. (F) When the agreement, plan, and schedules, as presented or as amended by the owners pursuant to the county engineer's recommendations, are approved by the county engineer, the engineer shall file, within sixty days, a certificate of approval with the clerk of the board of county commissioners. Failure to file a certificate of approval within sixty days constitutes a presumption of certification and the owners may proceed to construct. (G) The board shall set a hearing date on the engineer's proposed maintenance assessments for the drainage improvement not less than twenty-five nor more than ninety days after the engineer files a certificate of approval and shall notify all persons whose names appear in the engineer's schedule of maintenance assessments in accordance with section 6131.16 of the Revised Code. At the hearing on the proposed assessments the board of county commissioners shall hear any evidence offered for or against the assessments proposed to be levied against any owner as shown by the schedule of assessments filed by the county engineer and shall hear any competent evidence on the question of benefits. (H) The board, from the evidence offered, may amend and correct the assessments, and the assessments so amended or corrected shall be approved by the board and the approval entered on its journal. Once the assessments have been approved, all further proceedings in connection with the maintenance of the improvement shall be in accordance with Chapter 6137. of the Revised Code. (I) The clerk shall record the agreement, plan, and schedules in the drainage records of the county, and the agreement shall locate and establish the improvement as a drainage improvement. The improvement shall then be constructed by the owner in accordance with the approved plans. (J) This section shall not be interpreted to include improvements or changes in stream channels that may be made by the department of transportation or other public agencies or railroads at their own expense for the purpose of providing a more adequate waterway along a highway or at the site of a bridge or culvert or to improve conditions of flow through them or for the purpose of protecting the highway or road bed and that do not limit future deepening of the channel.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6155.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6155 / § 6155.11
§ 6155.11. Assessment of costs
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of county commissioners shall order the amounts, as provided in section 6155.09 of the Revised Code, to be placed upon the tax duplicate against the real estate of the petitioners and all other landowners benefited by the removal of the milldam. Such amounts shall be collected within the time and to meet the payments as far as practicable as provided in the laws relating to county ditches, whether agreed upon between the board and the milldam owner or fixed by the board or otherwise pursuant to such laws, adding to the first year's assessment the taxable costs of the proceedings and the estimated costs of removing the milldam.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6155.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6155 / § 6155.08
§ 6155.08. Final hearing - record of proceedings
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly On the day fixed by the board of county commissioners for final hearing as provided in section 6155.07 of the Revised Code, it shall meet at the time and place appointed and make known to the petitioners the amount asked by the owner of the milldam for his right, title, and interest to and in it and the franchise pertaining thereto and for the right to remove it. Such board shall also make known the necessary cost of removing such milldam, as estimated by the county engineer, with all other taxable costs of the proceedings. Upon such statement, if no objections are made thereto by any of the petitioners, the board shall make a record thereof.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.52 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.52
§ 6101.52. Duties of treasurer
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly Whenever the owner of any coupon bond issued pursuant to this chapter presents the bond to the treasurer of the conservancy district with a request for the conversion of the bond into a bond registered as to principal and interest, the treasurer shall cut off and cancel the coupons of the coupon bond presented, and shall stamp, print, or write upon the coupon bond, either upon the back or the face of it or in blanks provided for the purpose a dated and signed statement to the effect that the bond is registered as to principal and interest in the name of the owner and that thereafter the interest and principal of the bond are payable to the registered owner. Upon request of an owner similarly made for registration of any coupon bond as to principal only, the treasurer of the district shall similarly record on the bond a statement to the effect that the bond is registered as to principal and that thereafter the principal of the bond is payable to the registered owner. Thereafter, and from time to time, any bond so registered as to principal and interest or as to principal only may be transferred by the registered owner in person or by attorney duly authorized on presentation of the bond to the treasurer of the district and the bond again registered as before, a similar statement being stamped, printed, or written on it. If the bond is so registered, the principal and interest of the bond or the principal of it, if registered as to principal only, shall be payable to the registered owner. Upon request of the owner of any registered bond, the bond may be discharged from registration by being in like manner transferred and made payable to bearer and, if the bond has been registered as to interest, by attaching to it reproductions of the original interest coupons thereafter payable; but the cost of reproducing and attaching the coupons shall be paid by the owner of the bond. The treasurer of the district shall enter in a register of such bonds to be kept by the treasurer the fact of the registration of the bond and the name of the registered owner of it so that the register at all times shows what bonds are registered, the kind of registration, and the name of the registered owner.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.32 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.32
§ 6115.32. Notice of hearing of land to be included or excluded from district
Status: in_force

July 8, 1993 Senate Bill 105 - 120th General Assembly If the report of the board of appraisers of a sanitary district includes recommendations that other lands be included in the district, or that certain lands be excluded from the district, the clerk of the court before which the proceeding is pending shall give notice to the owners of such property by publication to be made as provided for a hearing on the petition for the creation of the district. Such notice to those owners whose lands are to be added to the district may be substantially as shown in division (D) of section 6115.79 of the Revised Code. The time and place of the hearing may be the same as those of the hearing on appraisals. To the owners of property to be excluded from the district it will be sufficient to notify them of that fact.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6151.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6151 / § 6151.13
§ 6151.13. Cost of letting work
Status: in_force

April 9, 1981 House Bill 268 - 113th General Assembly All cost of letting the work as authorized by sections 6151.01 , 6151.02 , and 6151.09 of the Revised Code, the expense of the work, and other expenses therein shall be paid from the bridge or motor vehicle license and gasoline tax funds of the county when the work is accepted and approved by the board of county commissioners, which shall direct the payment thereof.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6109.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6109 / § 6109.35
§ 6109.35. Nonliability of water suppliers
Status: in_force

June 18, 2002 Senate Bill 65 - 124th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Water supplier" means an entity that is subject to this chapter and rules adopted under it and that supplies drinking water through pipes, through tubing, or in a similar manner to consumers within this state. (2) "Acquiring water supplier" means a water supplier that satisfies both of the following: (a) The water supplier acquires ownership of an existing water supplier. (b) The water supplier and the acquired existing water supplier do not have any mutual directors, officers, controlling shareholders, or other persons with an ownership interest prior to the acquisition. (3) "Drinking water standards" means safe drinking water standards established by the environmental protection agency under this chapter or established by the United States environmental protection agency under the Safe Drinking Water Act. (B) An acquiring water supplier that acquires ownership of an existing public water system is not liable in damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property that occurred prior to the acquisition and that was allegedly caused by the previous water supplier's failure to comply with drinking water standards if the acquiring water supplier does both of the following: (1) Enters into a written agreement with the environmental protection agency to bring the water system into compliance with drinking water standards within a specified period of time; (2) Brings the water system into compliance with drinking water standards within the time period agreed to under division (B)(1) of this section. (C) A water supplier that operates a public water system is not liable in damages in a civil action to any person for injury, death, or loss to person or property that allegedly arises from the person's consumption of water supplied by the water supplier if all of the following apply: (1) During the period of time that the water supplier supplies water to the person, the water supplied by the water supplier meets all applicable drinking water standards. (2) The water supplier has not been found to be in significant noncompliance with drinking water standards. (3) The injury, death, or loss to person or property is alleged to be caused by a substance for which drinking water standards have been established. (D)(1) This section does not create a new cause of action or substantive legal right against a water supplier. (2) This section does not affect any immunities from civil liability or defenses established by another section of the Revised Code or available at common law to which a water supplier may be entitled under circumstances not covered by this section. (3) This section does not create immunity from civil liability for violations of section 6109.31 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6123.042 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6123 / § 6123.042
§ 6123.042. Fees and fines may not exceed loan principal
Status: in_force

September 23, 2008 House Bill 562 - 127th General Assembly With respect to a loan made under this chapter, the Ohio water development authority shall not charge any fees or fines that, in the aggregate, exceed an amount equal to the principal amount of the loan.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.0382 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.0382
§ 6111.0382. Surface water improvement fund
Status: in_force

September 5, 2012 Senate Bill 294 - 129th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the surface water improvement fund. The fund shall include, but is not limited to, money derived from any of the following: (1) Payments, contributions, and donations made to the environmental protection agency for water quality restoration and protection projects; (2) Payments made under an in-lieu fee mitigation program established by the agency under section 6111.025 of the Revised Code; (3) Funds for supplemental environmental projects for water quality improvements required by orders of the director of environmental protection, settlement agreements, consent decrees, or court orders; (4) Mitigation fees for impacts to waters of the state for mitigation not required by the United States environmental protection agency or the United States army corps of engineers. (B) Money in the fund shall be used by the director to complete water quality protection and restoration projects. The director may enter into contracts and agreements, including grant agreements with federal, state, or local government agencies, environmental nonprofit organizations, and universities, for purposes of those projects. (C) If the agency becomes an approved sponsor of a federal in-lieu fee mitigation program in accordance with 33 C.F.R. 332, money for the federally approved program may be maintained in the fund, provided that the money is segregated from all other money in the fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.50 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.50
§ 6115.50. Bonds in anticipation of the levy and collection of special assessments
Status: in_force

July 8, 1993 Senate Bill 105 - 120th General Assembly (A) For the purpose of acquiring, constructing, rehabilitating, furnishing, and equipping real and personal property necessary or appropriate for the execution of the official plan, as such plan is amended from time to time, the board of directors of a sanitary district may issue bonds in anticipation of the levy and collection of special assessments in an amount not to exceed ninety per cent of the total amount of the assessments, exclusive of interest, levied under section 6115.48 of the Revised Code, in denominations of not less than one thousand dollars, bearing interest from date of issue at a rate determined as authorized in section 9.95 of the Revised Code, payable at such intervals as may be determined by the board of directors as provided in section 133.21 of the Revised Code, but in no event shall the maturity be greater than thirty years from the date of issue. Anticipatory securities issued under this section shall be governed as to maturity by section 133.17 of the Revised Code. Such bonds shall be signed by the president of the board, attested by the signature of the secretary of the district, and may be issued in accordance with section 9.96 of the Revised Code. In case any of the officers whose signatures, countersignatures, or certificates appearing upon bonds issued pursuant to such sections ceases to be such officer before the delivery of such bonds to the purchaser, such signatures, countersignatures, or certificates shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes, as if such officer had remained in office until the delivery of the bonds. All of the bonds issued under this section and section 6115.52 of the Revised Code may be sold at a public or private sale in the manner provided in section 133.30 of the Revised Code, as determined by the board of directors of the sanitary district; except that, with respect to such bonds, the minimum price stated in section 133.30 of the Revised Code shall be exclusive of original issue discount, if any, applicable to such bonds. They shall show on their face the purpose for which they are issued and, in the case of anticipatory securities, that they are issued in anticipation of the issuance of bonds, and shall be payable out of money deposited in the bond fund. A sufficient amount of the assessment shall be appropriated by the board to pay the principal and interest of bonds and such assessment shall, when collected, be set apart in a separate fund for that purpose only. All bonds and coupons not paid at maturity shall bear interest at the rate provided in section 9.95 of the Revised Code from maturity until paid, or until sufficient funds have been deposited at the place of payment. (B) Upon the determination of the board of directors that such issuance will be in the sanitary district's best interest, the sanitary district may: (1) Issue bonds pursuant to this section to fund or refund any outstanding revenue or other special obligation securities previously issued by it for permanent improvements pursuant to authorization by law or the Ohio Constitution. Any bonds issued pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section shall be payable as to principal at such times and in such installments as determined by the sanitary district consistent with section 133.21 of the Revised Code, but their last maturity shall not be later than thirty years from the date of issuance of the original bonds issued for the original purpose. (2) Issue revenue bonds, if authorized by other law or the Ohio Constitution to issue such bonds for the original purpose, to fund or refund any outstanding bonds previously issued by it pursuant to authorization by law. The sanitary district shall establish the maturity date or dates, the interest payable, and other terms of such securities as it considers necessary or appropriate for their issuance. (3) Issue bonds pursuant to this section to fund or refund outstanding bonds issued in one or more issues for any purpose or purposes. Bonds issued pursuant to division (B)(3) of this section shall be payable as to principal at such times and in such installments as determined by the sanitary district. Section 133.21 of the Revised Code is not applicable to these refunding securities, but the last maturity of these refunding securities shall not be later than the year of last maturity permitted by law for the bonds refunded. Assessments levied for debt charges on the refunding bonds shall be considered to have the same status with respect to the provisions of the applicable limitation as the levies for debt charges on bonds that are refunded. (C) Bonds issued pursuant to this section shall be considered to be issued for the same purpose or purposes as the securities that they are issued to fund or refund, and their proceeds shall be used as determined by the sanitary district consistent with their purpose. That use may include the payment of the outstanding principal amount of, any redemption premium on, and any interest to redemption or maturity on, the bonds being funded or refunded, and any expenses relating to the funding or refunding or the issuance of the refunding bonds, including financing costs, all as determined by the sanitary district. Proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to this section may also be used to provide additional money for the purpose or purposes for which the bonds being funded or refunded, or which they funded or refunded, were issued. (D) Bonds may be issued pursuant to this section to fund or refund all or any portion of the outstanding bonds, and whether or not the bonds to be funded or refunded were issued subject to call or redemption prior to maturity, or are the original bonds, or are themselves refunding bonds. (E) The proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to this section to fund or refund bonds and required for the purpose shall, under an escrow agreement or otherwise, to the extent required by the legislation to be placed in an escrow fund, which may be in the bond fund in the case of the funded or refunded bonds being payable within ninety days of issuance of the refunding bonds, and are pledged for the purpose of funding or refunding the refunded bonds and shall be used, together with any other available funds as provided in this section, for that purpose. Pending that use, the moneys in escrow shall be invested in direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States that mature or are subject to redemption by and at the option of the holder not later than the date or dates when the moneys, together with interest or other investment income accrued on those moneys, will be required for that use. Any moneys in the escrow fund derived from the issuance of revenue bonds that will not be needed to pay debt charges on the funded or refunded bonds may be used for and pledged to the payment of debt charges on the refunding securities and on any bonds issued on a parity with the refunding bonds. Any moneys in the escrow fund derived from the proceeds of refunding bonds and that will not be needed to pay debt charges on the refunded bonds shall be transferred to the bond fund. When the district has placed in escrow moneys, derived from proceeds of refunding obligations or otherwise, or those direct or guaranteed obligations of the United States, or a combination of both, determined by an independent public accounting firm to be sufficient, with the interest or other investment income accruing on those direct obligations, for the payment of debt charges on the refunded bonds, the refunded bonds shall no longer be considered to be outstanding, and the levy of taxes or other charges for the payment of debt charges on the bonds under this chapter, Chapter 5705., or other provisions of the Revised Code, shall not be required. For purposes of this division, "direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States" includes rights to receive payment or portions of payments of the principal of or interest or other investment income on those obligations and on other obligations fully secured as to principal and interest by those direct obligations and the interest or other investment income on those direct obligations. (F) The authority granted by this section is in addition to and not a limitation on any other authorizations granted by or pursuant to law or the Ohio Constitution for the same or similar purposes. The board in making the annual assessment levy shall take into account the principal of, including mandatory sinking fund payments, and interest on all bonds, and shall make ample provision in advance for the payment thereof. In case the proceeds of the original assessment made under section 6115.48 of the Revised Code are not sufficient to pay the principal and interest of all bonds issued, then the board shall make such additional levies as are necessary for this purpose, subject to the limitation of section 6115.48 of the Revised Code regarding the total of all assessments, and under no circumstances shall any assessment levies be made that will in any manner or to any extent impair the security of the bonds or the fund available for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.04
§ 6131.04. Petition for construction of single county drainage improvement
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) Any owner may file a petition for the construction of a drainage improvement with the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the county in which is located a part of the land proposed to benefit from the improvement. Prior to filing a petition, the petitioner shall consult with the county engineer of the county in which the petition will be filed to discuss the proposed drainage improvement and to determine the proper forms and procedures for filing the petition. (B) The petition shall state all of the following: (1) The nature of the work petitioned for, which may include locating, cleaning, removing obstructions from, constructing, reconstructing, straightening, deepening, widening, altering, boxing, tiling, filling, walling, or arching any ditch, drain, watercourse, floodway, creek, run, or river; changing the course, location, or terminus thereof; or constructing a levee, wall, embankment, jetty, dike, dam, sluice, revetment, reservoir, holding basin, control gate, breakwater, or other structure for control of water; (2) The course and termini of the proposed improvement and the branches, spurs, or laterals, if any are petitioned for; (3) That the construction of the improvement is necessary and will benefit the petitioner; (4) That all costs of engineering, construction, and future maintenance will be assessed to the benefiting parcels of land, except as ordered under an appeal filed in accordance with section 6131.31 of the Revised Code; (5) A list of the names and addresses, where known, of all the owners of the land that the petitioner or the county engineer claims will be benefited or damaged by the construction of the proposed improvement, as determined by the county engineer. (C) One or more owners must sign the petition as the petitioners. If the petitioner is a public corporation or the state, its authorized representative must sign the petition. (D) If the petitioner is the county, the petition must be filed with the clerk of the court of common pleas without the bond required under section 6131.06 of the Revised Code, and the clerk and the court shall do all things that sections 6131.01 to 6131.64 of the Revised Code provide that the county commissioners shall do. The court of common pleas may appoint a board of three disinterested owners in the county and shall designate one of the persons to be chairperson. The appointed board shall hear and act on the petition in accordance with this chapter. Either party may appeal the board's decision to the court of common pleas.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.19
§ 6101.19. Conservancy district rules and regulations - enforcement - prohibitions
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly (A) The board of directors of a conservancy district may make and enforce rules and regulations it considers necessary and advisable to do the following: (1) To protect and preserve the works, improvements, and properties owned or controlled by the district, prescribe the manner of their use by public corporations and persons, and preserve order within and adjacent to the works, improvements, and properties; (2) To prescribe the manner of building bridges, roads, or fences or other works in, into, along, or across any channel, reservoir, or other construction of the district; (3) To prescribe the manner in which ditches, sewers, pipe lines, or other works shall be adjusted to or connected with the works of the district or any watercourse in the district and the manner in which the watercourses of the district may be used for sewer outlets or for disposal of waste; (4) To prescribe the permissible uses of the water supply provided by the district and the manner of its distribution, and to prevent the pollution or unnecessary waste of the water supply; (5) To prohibit or regulate the discharge into the sewers of the district of any liquid or solid wastes considered detrimental to the works and improvements of the district. The rules and regulations shall not be inconsistent with the laws of the state or the rules or requirements of the director of environmental protection, and shall be published before taking effect. (B) No person shall violate any rule or regulation adopted in accordance with this section. (C) The board may enforce by mandamus or otherwise all necessary regulations made by it and authorized by this chapter, may remove any harmful or improper construction or obstruction or close any opening or connection made improperly or in violation of the rules and regulations, and may bring suits in mandamus in the court of appeals in the first instance, if it considers it advisable. Any person or public corporation that willfully fails to comply with the rules and regulations shall be liable for damage caused by the failure and for the cost of renewing any construction damaged or destroyed. (D) No person or public corporation shall erect within the drainage area of the district any dam or reservoir upon any stream or watercourse in it, or any work or obstruction diminishing the cross section of any stream or watercourse in it, until a copy of the plans for the dam, reservoir, work, or obstruction has been filed with the secretary of the conservancy district for the board's examination.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6123.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6123 / § 6123.15
§ 6123.15. Development revenue bonds lawful investments
Status: in_force

November 2, 1999 House Bill 222 - 123rd General Assembly All development revenue bonds issued under this chapter are lawful investments of banks, societies for savings, savings and loan associations, deposit guarantee associations, trust companies, trustees, fiduciaries, insurance companies, including domestic for life and domestic not for life, trustees or other officers having charge of sinking and bond retirement or other special funds of political subdivisions and taxing districts of this state, the commissioners of the sinking fund of the state, the administrator of workers' compensation, the state teachers retirement system, the public employees retirement system, the school employees retirement system, and the Ohio police and fire pension fund, and are acceptable as security for the deposit of public moneys.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.54 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.54
§ 6119.54. Collection of special assessments
Status: in_force

September 21, 1982 House Bill 379 - 114th General Assembly When any special assessment is levied under sections 6119.52 and 6119.58 of the Revised Code, and water resource revenue bonds or notes of the regional water and sewer district are issued pledging the same, the secretary of the board of trustees of the district shall on or before the second Monday in September of each year, certify such assessment to the county auditor, stating the amounts and the time of payment. The auditor shall place the assessment upon the tax list and duplicate in accordance therewith. The county treasurer shall collect the assessment in the same manner and at the time as other taxes are collected, and shall pay the amounts collected, together with interest and penalty, to the secretary, to be applied by him to the payment of such bonds or notes and interest thereon, and for no other purpose. For the purpose of enforcing such collection, the county treasurer shall have the same power and authority as allowed by law for the collection of state and county taxes. Each installment of such assessments remaining unpaid after becoming due and collectible shall be delinquent and bear the same penalty and interest as delinquent taxes. The authorized legal representative of any such district may act as attorney for the county treasurer in actions brought for the enforcement of the lien of such delinquent assessments. When a special assessment is made on real estate subject to a life estate, the assessment shall be payable by the tenant for life, but upon application by the life tenant to a court of competent jurisdiction, by action against the owner of the estate in fee, such court may apportion the cost of the assessment between the life tenant and the owner in fee in proportion to the relative value of the improvement to their estates, respectively, to be ascertained and determined by the court on principles of equity. In placing any assessment on the tax list and duplicate the county auditor shall add to each assessment such per cent as he deems necessary to defray the expense of collecting it.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6123.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6123 / § 6123.21
§ 6123.21. Liberal construction of statutes
Status: in_force

July 13, 1970 Senate Bill 447 - 108th General Assembly Sections 6123.01 to 6123.20 inclusive, of the Revised Code being necessary for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.23
§ 6117.23. Appeal from probate court
Status: in_force

March 12, 2001 House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly The final judgment of the probate court may be reviewed on appeal as in other cases. If an appeal is prosecuted from the judgment of the probate court as to the necessity of the improvement, the construction of the improvement shall be deferred until the appeal is finally disposed of. If an appeal is prosecuted from the judgment of the court as to the inclusion of any property in the assessment district or as to the apportionment of the tentative assessment, the board of county commissioners may proceed with the construction of the improvement in accordance with the transcript of the probate court and thereafter shall adjust those matters to the extent necessary in accordance with their final adjudication.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.045 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.045
§ 6111.045. Waste minimization and treatment plan for class I injection well facility
Status: in_force

July 1, 1996 Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly (A) Not later than twenty-four months after May 28, 1992, each owner or operator of a class I injection well facility shall prepare and adopt a waste minimization and treatment plan to identify the specific technically and economically feasible measures that will be taken to prevent or reduce releases into the environment of the industrial waste and other wastes generated at the facility and, in the case of such an injection well facility that is located on the premises of the industrial facility generating the wastes disposed of at the injection facility, the industrial waste and other wastes generated at that industrial facility. The plan shall cover a three-year planning period and shall include all of the following: (1) The name, address, and, if applicable, standard industrial classification code of the facility; (2) A summary of the industrial wastes and other wastes generated at the facility, including supporting data and calculations; (3) A description of the facility's historic efforts at waste minimization and treatment and of existing waste minimization and treatment, source reduction, and recycling practices undertaken at the facility in 1987 and subsequent years; (4) An assessment of the technically and economically feasible options for the further elimination or reduction of such wastes that considers the impacts of cross-media transfers and gives preference to source reduction over the recycling, treatment, or disposal of the wastes; (5) The identification of specific objectives to prevent, reduce, or recycle releases of such wastes when technically and economically feasible options exist; (6) An explanation of the rationale for the objectives identified under division (A)(5) of this section; (7) A signed policy statement articulating the commitment of upper management and the corporation to implement the waste minimization and treatment plan and its objectives. (B) Each waste minimization and treatment plan prepared and adopted under division (A) of this section shall be retained at the facility to which it applies and shall be made available for inspection and review by the director of environmental protection or the director's authorized representative. The disclosure of any trade secret information contained in any such plan is subject to prosecution as a theft offense, as defined in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code. (C) Every three years after the adoption of a waste minimization and treatment plan under division (A) of this section, the owner or operator of the facility to which the plan applies, on or before the anniversary of the date of the adoption of the plan, shall do all of the following: (1) Review the operation of the facility for any changes in the type and amount of industrial waste or other wastes generated at the facility that have occurred since the adoption of the plan or the most recent revision of the plan; (2) If necessary or appropriate, reevaluate the technically and economically feasible options for reducing or eliminating the generation of industrial waste or other wastes at the facility; (3) If any changes in the type or amount of wastes generated at the facility are identified under division (C)(1) of this section or if, after a reevaluation conducted under division (C)(2) of this section, the owner or operator of the facility determines that the waste minimization and treatment options in the plan or most recent revision of the plan should be updated, amend the plan to update the information contained in it and include in the amendment an explanation of the need for the amendment. (D)(1) Not later than May 28, 1994, each owner or operator of a class I injection well facility shall submit to the director of environmental protection an executive summary of the waste minimization and treatment plan adopted by the owner or operator under division (A) of this section. The executive summary shall include a synopsis of each of the elements required to be included in the plan under divisions (A)(2) to (6) of this section and shall include a signed policy statement articulating the commitment of upper management and the corporation to implement the plan and its objectives. (2) Every three years after the adoption of a waste minimization and treatment plan under division (A) of this section, the owner or operator of a class I injection well facility, on or before the anniversary of the date of the adoption of the plan, shall submit to the director a revised executive summary of the plan that meets the requirements of division (D)(1) of this section and contains revisions to the previous executive summary that reflect any amendments to the plan made by the most recent review of the plan required under division (C) of this section. (E) No person shall fail to comply with this section. (F) As used in this section: (1) "Disposal" means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, emitting, or placing of any industrial waste or other wastes into or on any land or ground or surface water or into the air, except if the disposition constitutes storage or treatment. (2) "Recycling" means to use, reuse, or reclaim a material. (3) "Release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or discharging into the environment of any industrial waste or other wastes, including the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers, or other closed receptacles that contained an industrial waste or other waste. (4) "Source reduction" means any practice that reduces the amount of any industrial waste or other wastes entering any waste stream or otherwise released into the environment, including fugitive emissions, prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal and that reduces the hazards to public health and the environment associated with the release of such wastes. "Source reduction" includes equipment or technology modifications, process or procedure modifications, reformulation or redesign of products, substitution of raw materials, and improvements in housekeeping, maintenance, training, or inventory control. "Source reduction" does not include any practice that alters the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics or the volume of an industrial waste or other wastes through a process or activity that is not integral to and necessary for the production of a product or the providing of a service. (5) "Treatment" means any method, technique, or process designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics or composition of any industrial waste or other wastes; to neutralize the waste; to recover energy or material resources from the waste; to render the waste nonhazardous or less hazardous, safer to transport, store, or dispose of, or amenable for recovery, storage, further treatment, or disposal; or to reduce the volume of the waste. (6) "Waste minimization" means any effort to reduce or recycle the quantity of waste generated and, when feasible, to reduce or eliminate toxicity. "Waste minimization" does not include treatment unless the treatment is part of the recycling process.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.15
§ 6101.15. Powers of board
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly In order to accomplish the purposes of the conservancy district, the board of directors of a conservancy district may do the following: (A) Clean out, straighten, widen, alter, deepen, or change the course or terminus of any ditch, drain, sewer, river, watercourse, pond, lake, creek, or natural or artificial stream located in or out of the district; (B) Fill up any abandoned or altered ditch, drain, sewer, river, watercourse, pond, lake, creek, or natural or artificial stream, and concentrate, divert, or divide the flow of water in or out of the district; (C) Construct, acquire, operate, and maintain main and lateral ditches, sewers, canals, levees, dikes, dams, sluices, revetments, reservoirs, holding basins, floodways, wells, intakes, pipe lines, purification works, treatment and disposal works, pumping stations and siphons, and any other works and improvements considered necessary to accomplish the purposes of the district or to construct, preserve, operate, or maintain the works in or out of the district. This chapter does not limit the authority of public corporations to install, maintain, and operate sewerage systems and water-works systems as otherwise permitted by law, but the board shall have full power to require the use of the improvements constructed or acquired by the district for the purpose of water supply or the collection and disposal of sewage and other liquid wastes by the public corporations and persons within the district for which the improvements were installed. (D) Afforest lands owned by the district; (E) Install improvements on lands owned or controlled by the district for the proper maintenance of the lands, or for the purpose of preventing or minimizing damage to the works and improvements of the district; (F) Construct connections to the works of the district for the delivery of a water supply from the works or for the delivery of sewage and other liquid wastes to the works; (G) Construct or enlarge any bridges that may be needed in or out of the district; (H) Construct or elevate roadways and streets; (I) Construct any of the works and improvements across, through, or over any public highway, canal, railroad right of way, track, grade, fill, cut, or other public or private property located in or out of the district; (J) Remove or change the location of any fence, building, railroad, canal, or other structure or improvement located in or out of the district, but if it is not feasible or economical to move any building, structure, or improvement situated in or upon lands required by the district and if the cost to the district is determined by the board to be less than that of purchase or condemnation, the board may acquire land and construct, acquire, or install buildings, structures, or improvements, similar in purpose, to be exchanged for the aforementioned buildings, structures, or improvements under contracts entered into between the owner of them and the district; (K) Hold, encumber, control, acquire by donation, purchase, or condemnation, construct, own, lease, use, and sell real and personal property, and any easement, riparian right, railroad right of way, canal, cemetery, sluice, reservoir, holding basin, milldam, water power, wharf, or franchise in or out of the district for right of way, holding basin, location, or protection of works and improvements, relocation of communities and of buildings, structures, and improvements situated on lands required by the district, or any other necessary purpose, or for obtaining or storing material to be used in constructing and maintaining the works and improvements; (L) Replat or subdivide land, open new roads, streets, and alleys, or change the course of an existing one, and install improvements to replace those in the former roads, streets, or alleys; (M) Procure insurance against loss to the district by reason of damage to its properties, works, or improvements resulting from fire, theft, accident, or other casualty or by reason of the liability of the district for any damages to persons or property occurring in the operation of the works and improvements of the district or the conduct of its activities; (N) Conduct on its own or in combination with other entities, water quantity and quality studies and other water monitoring activities that do not conflict with similar studies or activities by other agencies. A written report of the findings of any study or activity, or a copy of it, shall be submitted to the director of environmental protection. (O) Do all things necessary or incident to the fulfillment of the purposes for which the district is established.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.032 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.032
§ 6111.032. Primary authority to reside in legislative authority or governing board
Status: in_force

July 1, 1993 House Bill 152 - 120th General Assembly (A) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation or the governing board of a county or special district owning or operating a publicly owned treatment works or sewerage system, subject to compliance with the exercise of lawful authority granted to or rules adopted by the director of environmental protection pursuant to section 6111.03 of the Revised Code, shall exercise primary authority to adopt, amend, rescind, administer, and enforce rules with respect to all of the following: (1) The establishment, construction, reconstruction, improvement, repair, operation, and maintenance of its sewerage systems, treatment works, and disposal systems; (2) The establishment and modification of rates or charges to be made of users of its sewerage systems, treatment works, and disposal systems, which need not be uniform throughout the territory served by the systems or works, to assure that the systems and works will be properly and efficiently operated and maintained; that the principal of and interest on bonds, notes, and certificates of indebtedness will be timely paid; and that reserves and other terms and conditions required by any ordinance, resolution, mortgage, or trust agreement with respect to debt obligations will be met; (3) Industrial water pollution control facilities discharging into its sewerage systems, treatment works, and disposal systems; (4) The establishment, operation, administration, and enforcement of its publicly owned treatment works pretreatment program, including inspection, monitoring, and reporting programs and activities. (B) The rules adopted by the legislative authority or governing board pursuant to division (A) of this section shall be applicable, and enforceable by civil or other actions, within any territory served by its sewerage systems, treatment works, or disposal systems regardless of whether the territory served is within the territorial boundaries of the municipal corporation, county, or special district, provided that the rules are consistent with the provisions of any contracts or agreements in effect with other municipal corporations, counties, or special districts served by or on whose behalf the publicly owned treatment works or sewerage systems are owned or operated, in whole or in part. (C) The director, by rule or through contracts or other means, may authorize a municipal corporation, county, or special district that owns or operates a publicly owned treatment works or sewerage system and that has an approved program under this section to operate, administer, and enforce an industrial pretreatment program, to review and approve industrial permits to install in connection with indirect discharges by industrial users of its treatment works or sewerage system. (D) The authority granted to municipal corporations, counties, and special districts by this section is in addition to and not in derogation of any other authority granted pursuant to the Constitution and laws of this state, the "Federal Water Pollution Control Act," or the rules of any agency of federal or state governments.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6137.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6137 / § 6137.03
§ 6137.03. Annual drainage improvement maintenance assessment
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A)(1) The maintenance fund shall be maintained, as needed, by an assessment levied not more often than once annually upon the benefited owners apportioned on the basis of the estimated benefits for all costs of the improvement. (2) An assessment shall represent such a percentage of the estimated benefits as is estimated by the engineer and found adequate by the board or joint board to effect the purpose of section 6137.02 of the Revised Code, except that at no time shall a maintenance fund have an unencumbered balance greater than twenty per cent of the permanent assessment base for maintenance established under section 6137.11 of the Revised Code. (3) The minimum assessment shall be two dollars. (B) A maintenance assessment shall be made by the board of county commissioners or the joint board of county commissioners upon the substantial completion of a drainage improvement. The maintenance assessment shall be certified by the clerk of the board or joint board to the county auditor in case of a single county improvement, and to the county auditor of each affected county in a joint county improvement. The auditor or auditors shall place the assessment on the next succeeding tax duplicate to be collected and paid as other special assessments are collected and paid. (C) With respect to a single county improvement, the county engineer shall inspect the drainage improvements in the county. On or before the first day of July of each year, the county engineer shall report to the board of county commissioners both of the following: (1) The county engineer's findings regarding the present condition of the drainage improvements in the county; (2) An estimate of the amount of funds necessary to repair and maintain the improvements for the following year. With regard to a joint county improvement, the county engineer of each applicable county shall make such a report to the joint board. (D)(1) The board shall use the county engineer's estimate to determine the annual drainage maintenance assessments, which shall be based on a percentage of the permanent assessment base. (2) On or before the second Monday of September in each year, the board shall direct the county auditor or auditors, as applicable, to place the maintenance assessments on the tax duplicate. (E)(1) With respect to a single county improvement, the county auditor shall place maintenance assessments received for a drainage improvement into the maintenance fund designated for the drainage improvement. (2) With respect to a joint county improvement, the county auditor of each county that is not the lead county shall place maintenance assessments received for a drainage improvement into the maintenance fund designated for the drainage improvement. Twice a year, each county auditor of a county that is not a lead county shall transfer money in that fund to the county auditor of the lead county, who shall deposit the money into the joint drainage improvement's maintenance fund. The county auditor of the lead county shall place maintenance assessments received in the lead county for the drainage improvement into the joint drainage improvement's maintenance fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6121.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6121 / § 6121.12
§ 6121.12. Investment of funds of water development authority
Status: in_force

May 26, 1989 House Bill 267 - 118th General Assembly Moneys in the funds of the Ohio water development authority, except as otherwise provided in any resolution authorizing the issuance of its water development revenue bonds, in any trust agreement securing its water development revenue bonds, or in any other resolution authorizing the investment of the funds of the authority, in excess of current needs, may be invested in notes, bonds, or other obligations of the United States, or of any agency or instrumentality thereof, or in obligations of this state or any political subdivision thereof. Income from all such investments of moneys in any fund shall be credited to such funds as the authority determines, subject to the provisions of any such resolution or trust agreement, and such investments may be sold at such times as the authority determines.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.55 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.55
§ 6111.55. Computerized database or databases composed of all credible data
Status: in_force

October 21, 2003 House Bill 43 - 125th General Assembly Following the adoption of rules under sections 6111.51 and 6111.53 of the Revised Code, the director of environmental protection shall establish and maintain a computerized database or databases composed of all credible data in the director's possession and shall make the data available to other agencies and all other interested persons. The data shall be stored in such a manner that they are easily retrieved and analyzed and are available for sharing with other agencies and all other interested persons.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6109.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6109 / § 6109.13
§ 6109.13. Approval of connections to public water system
Status: in_force

December 14, 1978 Senate Bill 445 - 112th General Assembly No official, officer, or employee in charge of or being employed in the maintenance and operation of a public water system and no other person, firm, or corporation shall establish or permit to be established any connection whereby water from a private, auxiliary, or emergency water system may enter the public water system, unless such private, auxiliary, or emergency water system, and the method of connection and use of such system, has been approved by the environmental protection agency.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.43 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.43
§ 6101.43. Moneys of district administered through funds
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly No fault in any notice or other proceedings, whether by reason of noncompliance with the requirements of this chapter or with any applicable constitutional requirements, or otherwise, shall affect the validity of any proceeding under this chapter, except to the extent to which it can be shown that the fault resulted in a material denial of justice to the property owner or public corporation complaining of the fault. If it is found upon a hearing that, by reason of some irregularity or defect in the proceedings, the appraisal has not been properly made, the court may nevertheless, on having proof that expense has been incurred which is a proper charge against the property of the person, or against the public corporation, complaining of the irregularity or defect, render a finding as to the amount of benefits to the property or public corporation, and appraise the proper benefits accordingly, subject to a claim for a jury as provided in section 6101.35 of the Revised Code, where the party is entitled to it. At that time, the land or public corporation shall be assessed as other land or public corporations equally benefited. If, at any time either before or after the issuance of bonds or notes pursuant to this chapter, the appraisal of benefits, either as a whole or in part, is declared by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid by reason of any defect or irregularity in the proceedings, whether jurisdictional or by reason of noncompliance with any of the requirements of this chapter or with any applicable constitutional requirements, or otherwise, the court of common pleas, on the application of the board of directors of the conservancy district or on the application of any holder of any bonds or notes that have been issued pursuant to this chapter, shall promptly and without delay remedy, or cause to be remedied, all defects or irregularities as the case requires and, for the purpose, may direct the board of appraisers of the conservancy district to make, in the manner provided in section 6101.28 of the Revised Code, a new appraisal of the amount of benefits against the whole or any part of the lands or any public corporation in the district as the case requires and may order a new hearing to be held after giving of notice of the hearing in compliance with the requirements of this chapter, or such other and further notice as the court shall prescribe to comply with any applicable constitutional requirements.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6103.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6103 / § 6103.06
§ 6103.06. Proceedings for water supply improvements
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly After the expiration of the period of five days provided in section 6103.05 of the Revised Code for the filing of written objections, the board of county commissioners shall determine whether it will proceed with the construction of the proposed improvement. If it decides to proceed therewith, the board shall ratify or amend the plans for the improvement, the character and termini thereof, the boundaries of the assessment district, and the tentative assessment, and may cause such revision of plans, boundaries, or assessments as is necessary to be made by the county sanitary engineer. If the boundaries of the assessment district are amended so as to include any property not included within the boundaries as established by the resolution of necessity, provided for in section 6103.05 of the Revised Code, the owners of all such property shall be notified by mail if their addresses are known, and notice shall be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the county or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, that such amendments have been adopted and that a hearing will be given by the board at a time and place stated in such notice at which all persons interested will be heard by the board. The date of such hearing shall be not less than twenty-four days after the first publication of such notice, and the hearing shall be conducted and records kept in the same manner as the first hearing. Five days shall be allowed for the filing of written objections as provided in section 6103.05 of the Revised Code for the first hearing and after the expiration of such fiveday period the board shall ratify the plans for the improvement, the character and termini thereof, the boundaries of the assessment district, and the tentative assessment, or shall further amend the same. If the boundaries of the assessment district are amended so as to include any property not included in the assessment district as originally established or previously amended, further notice and hearing shall be given to the owners of such property in the same manner as for the first amendment of such boundaries, and the same procedure shall be repeated until all property owners affected have been given an opportunity to be heard. If the owners of all property added to an assessment district by amendment of the original boundaries thereof waive objection to such amendment in writing, no further notice or hearing shall be given. After the board has ratified the plans for the improvement, the character and termini thereof, the boundaries of the assessment district, and the tentative assessment, either as originally presented or as amended, and if it decides to proceed therewith, the board shall adopt a resolution, to be known as the improvement resolution. Said improvement resolution shall declare the determination of such board to proceed with the construction of the improvement provided for in the resolution of necessity, in accordance with the plans and specification provided for such improvement, as ratified or amended, and whether bonds or certificates of indebtedness shall be issued in anticipation of the collection of special assessments, or that money in the county treasury unappropriated for any other purpose shall be appropriated to pay for said improvement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.60 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.60
§ 6117.60. Amendments to chapter are subject to 4 of HB 549 of the 123rd General Assembly
Status: in_force

March 12, 2001 House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly It is the intent of the general assembly that the amendments made to this chapter by Sub. H.B. 549 of the 123rd general assembly are subject to section 4 of that act. This section does not affect the application of section 3 of that act to sections 1 and 2 of that act.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6109.32 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6109 / § 6109.32
§ 6109.32. Investigations - enforcement by attorney general
Status: in_force

September 5, 2012 Senate Bill 294 - 129th General Assembly The director of environmental protection may on the director's own initiative investigate or make inquiries into any suspected violation of section 6109.31 of the Revised Code. The attorney general, upon written request by the director, shall bring an action for injunction or other appropriate civil action or criminal prosecution against any person violating or threatening to violate that section. In an action for injunction to enforce any final order of the director, the finding by the director, after hearing, is prima-facie evidence of the facts found therein.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6103.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6103 / § 6103.04
§ 6103.04. Jurisdiction in area incorporated as or annexed to municipal corporation
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly (A) Whenever any portion of a county sewer district is incorporated as, or annexed to, a municipal corporation, the area so incorporated or annexed shall remain under the jurisdiction of the board of county commissioners for purposes of the acquisition and construction of water supply improvements until all of the improvements for the area for which a resolution described in division (A) or (E) of section 6103.05 of the Revised Code has been adopted by the board have been acquired or completed or until the board has abandoned the improvements. The board, unless and until a conveyance is made to a municipal corporation in accordance with division (B) of this section, shall continue to have jurisdiction in the area so incorporated or annexed with respect to the management, maintenance, and operation of all water supply improvements so acquired or completed, or previously acquired or completed, including the right to establish rules and rates and charges for the use of, and connections to, the improvements. The incorporation or annexation of any part of a district shall not affect the legality or enforceability of any public obligations issued or incurred by the county for purposes of this chapter to provide for the payment of the cost of acquisition, construction, maintenance, or operation of any water supply improvements within the area, or the validity of any assessments levied or to be levied upon properties within the area to provide for the payment of the cost of acquisition, construction, maintenance, or operation of the improvements. (B) A board may convey, by mutual agreement, to a municipal corporation any completed water supply facilities acquired or constructed by a county under this chapter for the use of, or service of property located in, any county sewer district, or any part of those facilities to which any of the following applies: (1) The facilities are located within the municipal corporation or within any area that is incorporated as, or annexed to, the municipal corporation. (2) The facilities provide water for the municipal corporation or any area that is located within or that is incorporated as, or annexed to, the municipal corporation. (3) The facilities are connected to water supply facilities of the municipal corporation. The conveyance shall be completed with terms and for consideration as may be negotiated. Upon and after the conveyance, the municipal corporation shall manage, maintain, and operate the facilities in accordance with the agreement. The board may retain the right to joint use of all or part of any facilities so conveyed for the benefit of the district. Neither the validity of any assessment levied or to be levied, nor the legality or enforceability of any public obligations issued or incurred, to provide for the payment of the cost of the acquisition, construction, maintenance, or operation of the facilities or any part of them shall be affected by the conveyance.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6109.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6109 / § 6109.10
§ 6109.10. Prevention of lead contamination
Status: in_force

September 9, 2016 House Bill 512 - 131st General Assembly (A)(1) As used in this section, "lead free" means: (a) Containing not more than two-tenths of one per cent lead when used with respect to solders or flux; (b) Containing not more than a weighted average of twenty-five-hundredths per cent lead when used with respect to wetted surfaces of pipes, pipe fittings, or plumbing fittings or fixtures. (2) For purposes of this section, the weighted average lead content of a pipe, pipe fitting, or plumbing fitting or fixture shall be calculated by using the following formula: for each wetted component, the percentage of lead in the component shall be multiplied by the ratio of the wetted surface area of that component to the total wetted surface area of the entire product to determine the weighted percentage of lead of the component. The weighted percentage of lead of each wetted component shall be added together, and the sum of the weighted percentages shall constitute the weighted average lead content of the product. The lead content of the material used to produce wetted components shall be used to determine whether the wetted surfaces are lead free pursuant to division (A)(1)(b) of this section. For purposes of the lead contents of materials that are provided as a range, the maximum content of the range shall be used. (B) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, no person shall do any of the following: (1) Use any pipe, pipe fitting, plumbing fitting, plumbing fixture, including a drinking water fountain, solder, or flux that is not lead free in the installation or repair of a public water system or of any plumbing in a residential or nonresidential facility providing water for human consumption; (2) Introduce into commerce any pipe, pipe fitting, plumbing fitting, or plumbing fixture, including a drinking water fountain, that is not lead free; (3) Sell solder or flux that is not lead free while engaged in the business of selling plumbing supplies; (4) Introduce into commerce any solder or flux that is not lead free unless the solder or flux has a prominent label stating that it is illegal to use the solder or flux in the installation or repair of any plumbing providing water for human consumption. (C) The owner or operator of a public water system shall identify and provide notice to persons that may be affected by lead contamination of their drinking water. The notice shall be in such form and manner as the director of environmental protection may reasonably require, but shall provide a clear and readily understandable explanation of all of the following: (1) Potential sources of lead in the drinking water; (2) Potential adverse health effects; (3) Reasonably available methods of mitigating known or potential lead content in drinking water; (4) Any steps the public water system is taking to mitigate lead content in drinking water; (5) The necessity, if any, of seeking alternative water supplies. The notice shall be provided notwithstanding the absence of a violation of any drinking water standard. (D)(1) Division (B)(1) of this section does not apply to the use of leaded joints that are necessary for the repair of cast iron pipes. (2) Division (B)(2) of this section does not apply to a pipe that is used in manufacturing or industrial processing. (3) Division (B)(3) of this section does not apply to the selling of plumbing supplies by manufacturers of those supplies. (4) Division (B) of this section does not apply to either of the following: (a) Pipes, pipe fittings, or plumbing fittings or fixtures, including backflow preventers, that are used exclusively for nonpotable services such as manufacturing, industrial processing, irrigation, outdoor watering, or any other uses where the water is not anticipated to be used for human consumption; (b) Toilets, bidets, urinals, fill valves, flushometer valves, tub fillers, shower valves, fire hydrants, service saddles, or water distribution main gate valves that are two inches in diameter or larger.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.20
§ 6117.20. Appeal made in reference to boundaries of assessment district or to tentative assessment
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If an appeal has been made in reference to the boundaries of the assessment district or to the tentative assessment as provided in section 6117.09 of the Revised Code, and it appears from the transcript certified to the board of county commissioners by the probate judge that the boundaries of the assessment district should be changed or that the tentative assessment should be modified, the board may make such changes or modifications and proceed with the improvement, provided that the necessity of such improvement has not been denied by the probate court or the cost thereof found to exceed the benefits resulting from such improvement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6109.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6109 / § 6109.16
§ 6109.16. Writ of mandamus
Status: in_force

December 14, 1978 Senate Bill 445 - 112th General Assembly If the responsible officers of a municipal corporation, county, or public institution fail to submit to the director, within ninety days after receipt of notice of an order of the director of environmental protection under section 6109.15 of the Revised Code, plans for compliance with the order, or fail to perform any act required of them by such order within a reasonable time, the order may be enforced by a writ of mandamus issued by any court authorized to issue such writ.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.042 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.042
§ 6111.042. Rules requiring compliance with Federal Water Pollution Control Act
Status: in_force

March 17, 2000 House Bill 197 - 123rd General Assembly In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the director of environmental protection shall adopt and enforce, and may modify and rescind, rules setting forth and requiring compliance with national effluent limitations, national standards of performance for new sources, national toxic and pretreatment effluent standards, and national sludge use and disposal standards, as necessary in order to ensure compliance with sections 301, 306, 307, and 405 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. No person shall violate any such rule, except in compliance with the terms and conditions of a permit issued under section 6111.03 of the Revised Code. To the extent the effluent limitations adopted by the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency pursuant to section 304 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act are inapplicable, the director may establish on a case-by-case basis effluent limitations in a permit issued under section 6111.03 of the Revised Code, based upon best professional judgment. In establishing such effluent limitations, the director shall take both of the following into consideration: (A) The appropriate technology for the category or class of point sources of which the applicant is a member, based on all available information, including the administrator's draft or proposed development documents or guidance; the total cost of achieving the limitations in relation to the effluent reduction benefits to be achieved; the age of equipment and facilities involved; the process employed; the engineering aspects of the application of various types of control techniques and process changes; nonwater quality environmental impact, including energy requirements; and other factors that would have been appropriate for the administrator to consider pursuant to section 304 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (B) As to the applicant for the permit, any unique factors regarding the considerations set forth in division (A) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.049 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.049
§ 6111.049. Tonnage fees for injection of waste - exceptions
Status: in_force

May 28, 1992 House Bill 147 - 119th General Assembly Section 6111.047 and rules adopted under division (B)(5) of section 6111.043 of the Revised Code do not apply to any nonhazardous class I injection well that disposes of naturally occurring formation fluids extracted during salt mining processes into an injection zone consisting of the Oriskany sandstone at depths of not more than one thousand five hundred feet.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6133.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6133 / § 6133.04
§ 6133.04. Organization of joint board
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) On the date fixed by the clerk of the board of county commissioners with whom the petition was filed, the board of county commissioners from each of the counties affected by a proposed joint county improvement shall meet and organize a joint board of county commissioners by electing one of their number president. (B) The clerk of the board of county commissioners of the lead county shall act as clerk and administrator of the joint board and shall enter the findings of the joint board in the journal of the board of county commissioners of the clerk's county, shall do all things required to be done by the clerk, and shall make the final record of the improvement in the clerk's county. The clerk shall provide copies of all proceedings with the clerks of the boards of all affected counties. (C) A majority of the county commissioners constituting the joint board shall constitute a quorum. All decisions of the joint board shall be made by a vote of a majority of the county commissioners constituting the joint board. (D) The director of natural resources shall be a member ex officio of the joint board and may participate, either in person or through a designated representative, in deliberations and proceedings of the joint board but shall have no vote except in case of a tie, in which case the proceedings shall be adjourned for thirty days, during which time the director shall review the proceedings and cast the deciding vote. The vote shall be recorded in the journal. (E) After the view of a proposed improvement by the joint board of county commissioners, all hearings shall be held in the lead county unless a majority of the joint board of county commissioners agree to an alternative location. (F) When the joint board of county commissioners is formed, the joint board of county commissioners shall be administered by the lead county's elected officials, including the lead county's county engineer, county recorder, county auditor, county prosecutor, common pleas judges, county treasurer, and clerk of the board of county commissioners.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.01
§ 6111.01. Water pollution control definitions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Pollution" means the placing of any sewage, sludge, sludge materials, industrial waste, or other wastes in any waters of the state. (B) "Sewage" means any liquid waste containing sludge, sludge materials, or animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution, and may include household wastes as commonly discharged from residences and from commercial, institutional, or similar facilities. (C) "Industrial waste" means any liquid, gaseous, or solid waste substance resulting from any process of industry, manufacture, trade, or business, or from the development, processing, or recovery of any natural resource, together with such sewage as is present. (D) "Other wastes" means garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, and other wood debris, lime, sand, ashes, offal, night soil, oil, tar, coal dust, dredged or fill material, or silt, other substances that are not sewage, sludge, sludge materials, or industrial waste, and any other "pollutants" or "toxic pollutants" as defined in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act that are not sewage, sludge, sludge materials, or industrial waste. (E) "Sewerage system" means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and force mains, and all other constructions, devices, appurtenances, and facilities used for collecting or conducting water-borne sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes to a point of disposal or treatment, but does not include plumbing fixtures, building drains and subdrains, building sewers, and building storm sewers. (F) "Treatment works" means any plant, disposal field, lagoon, dam, pumping station, building sewer connected directly to treatment works, incinerator, or other works used for the purpose of treating, stabilizing, blending, composting, or holding sewage, sludge, sludge materials, industrial waste, or other wastes, except as otherwise defined. (G) "Disposal system" means a system for disposing of sewage, sludge, sludge materials, industrial waste, or other wastes and includes sewerage systems and treatment works. (H) "Waters of the state" means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, regardless of the depth of the strata in which underground water is located, that are situated wholly or partly within, or border upon, this state, or are within its jurisdiction, except those private waters that do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters. "Waters of the state" does not include an ephemeral feature for which the United States army corps of engineers lacks the authority to issue a permit under 33 U.S.C. 1344. (I) "Person" means the state, any municipal corporation, any other political subdivision of the state, any person as defined in section 1.59 of the Revised Code, any interstate body created by compact, or the federal government or any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof. (J) "Industrial water pollution control facility" means any disposal system or any treatment works, pretreatment works, appliance, equipment, machinery, pipeline or conduit, pumping station, force main, or installation constructed, used, or placed in operation primarily for the purpose of collecting or conducting industrial waste to a point of disposal or treatment; reducing, controlling, or eliminating water pollution caused by industrial waste; or reducing, controlling, or eliminating the discharge into a disposal system of industrial waste or what would be industrial waste if discharged into the waters of the state. (K) "Schedule of compliance" means a schedule of remedial measures including an enforceable sequence of actions or operations leading to compliance with standards and rules adopted under sections 6111.041 and 6111.042 of the Revised Code or compliance with terms and conditions of permits set under division (J) of section 6111.03 of the Revised Code. (L) "Federal Water Pollution Control Act" means the "Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972," 86 Stat. 886, 33 U.S.C.A. 1251, as amended by the "Clean Water Act of 1977," 91 Stat. 1566, 33 U.S.C.A. 1251, and all other amendments to that act. (M) "Historically channelized watercourse" means the portion of a watercourse on which an improvement, as defined in divisions (C)(2) to (4) of section 6131.01 of the Revised Code, was constructed pursuant to Chapter 940., 6131., or 6133. of the Revised Code or a similar state law that preceded any of those chapters and authorized such an improvement. (N) "Sludge" means sewage sludge and a solid, semi-solid, or liquid residue that is generated from an industrial wastewater treatment process and that is applied to land for agronomic benefit. "Sludge" does not include ash generated during the firing of sludge in a sludge incinerator, grit and screening generated during preliminary treatment of sewage in a treatment works, animal manure, residue generated during treatment of animal manure, or domestic septage. (O) "Sludge materials" means solid, semi-solid, or liquid materials derived from sludge and includes products from a treatment works that result from the treatment, blending, or composting of sludge. (P) "Storage of sludge" means the placement of sludge on land on which the sludge remains for not longer than two years, but does not include the placement of sludge on land for treatment. (Q) "Sludge disposal program" means any program used by an entity that begins with the generation of sludge and includes treatment or disposal of the sludge, as "treatment" and "disposal" are defined in division (X) of section 3745.11 of the Revised Code. (R) "Agronomic benefit" means any process that promotes or enhances plant growth and includes, but is not limited to, a process that increases soil fertility and moisture retention. (S) "Sludge management" means the use, storage, treatment, or disposal of, and management practices related to, sludge and sludge materials. (T) "Sludge management permit" means a permit for sludge management that is issued under division (J) of section 6111.03 of the Revised Code. (U) "Sewage sludge" has the same meaning as in division (X) of section 3745.11 of the Revised Code. (V) "Ephemeral feature" means surface water flowing or pooling only in direct response to precipitation, such as rain or snow. "Ephemeral feature" does not include a wetland, as defined in section 6111.02 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.33
§ 6119.33. Funds and proceed appropriated from levy
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly All funds and proceeds received from the levy of the tax approved as provided in section 6119.32 of the Revised Code may be appropriated in whole or in part by the board of county commissioners to the regional planning commission, the county planning commission, or to any regional water and sewer district for the purpose of preparing plans for the proper purification, filtration, and distribution of water or proper collection and treatment of sewage.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6123.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6123 / § 6123.18
§ 6123.18. Reconstruction of road, highways, railroads or public utilities
Status: in_force

September 28, 1979 House Bill 144 - 113th General Assembly When the Ohio water development authority finds it necessary to change the location of any portion of any public road, state highway, railroad, or public utility facility in connection with the construction of a development project, it shall cause the same to be reconstructed at such location as the division of government having jurisdiction over such road, highway, railroad, or public utility facility finds most favorable. Such construction shall be of substantially the same type and in as good condition as the original road, highway, railroad, or public utility facility. The cost of such reconstruction, relocation, or removal and any damage incurred in changing the location of any such road, highway, railroad, or public utility facility shall be paid by the authority as a part of the cost of such development project. When the authority finds it necessary that any public highway or portion thereof be vacated by reason of the acquisition or construction of a development project, the authority may request the director of transportation, in writing, to vacate such highway or portion thereof in accordance with section 5511.07 of the Revised Code if the highway or portion thereof to be vacated is on the state highway system, or, if the highway or portion thereof to be vacated is under the jurisdiction of the county commissioners, the authority shall request the director, in writing, to petition the county commissioners, in the manner provided in section 5553.041 of the Revised Code, to vacate such highway or portion thereof. The authority shall pay to the director or the county, as a part of the cost of such development project, any amounts required to be deposited with any court in connection with proceedings for the determination of compensation and damages and all amounts of compensation and damages finally determined to be payable as a result of such vacation. The authority may make reasonable regulations for the installation, construction, maintenance, repair, renewal, relocation, and removal of railroad or public utility facilities in, on, over, or under any development project. Whenever the authority determines that it is necessary that any such facilities installed or constructed in, on, over, or under property of the authority pursuant to such regulations be relocated, the public utility owning or operating such facilities shall relocate or remove them in accordance with the order of the authority. The cost and expenses of such relocation or removal, including the cost of installing such facilities in a new location, the cost of any lands, or any rights or interests in lands, and any other rights, acquired to accomplish such relocation or removal, may be paid by the authority as a part of the cost of such development project. In case of any such relocation or removal of facilities, the railroad or public utility owning or operating them, its successors, or assigns may maintain and operate such facilities, with the necessary appurtenances, in the new location in, on, over, or under the property of the authority for as long a period and upon the same terms as it had the right to maintain and operate such facilities in their former location.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.48 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.48
§ 6115.48. Sanitary district assessment record
Status: in_force

July 8, 1993 Senate Bill 105 - 120th General Assembly (A) After the list of real property, with the appraised benefits as approved by the court, or that part thereof from which no appeal is pending, has been filed with the secretary of the sanitary district as provided in section 6115.39 of the Revised Code, then from time to time, as the affairs of the district demand it, the board of directors of the sanitary district may levy on all real property, upon which benefits have been appraised, an assessment of such portion of the benefits as is found necessary by the board to pay the cost of the execution of the official plan, including superintendence of construction, administration, and financing costs, plus ten per cent of the total to be added for contingencies, but not to exceed in the total of principal the appraised benefits so adjudicated. (B) Such assessment shall be apportioned to and levied on each tract of land or other property in the district in proportion to the benefits appraised, and not in excess thereof. If bonds are issued as provided in section 6115.50 of the Revised Code, then the amount of interest which will accrue on such bonds, as estimated by the board, shall be included in and added to the the assessment, but the interest to accrue on account of the issuing of the bonds shall not be construed as a part of the cost of construction in determining whether or not the expenses and costs of making the improvement are equal to or in excess of the benefits appraised. (C) As soon as the assessment is levied, the secretary of the sanitary district, at the expense of the district, shall prepare in duplicate an assessment record of the district. It shall be indorsed and named "Sanitary District Assessment Record of ___________________ District." (D) A separate record shall be preserved in case the purposes of the district include both improved sanitation and improved water supply. It shall contain a notation of the items of property appraised, the total amount of benefits appraised against each item, and the total assessment levied against each item. Where successive levies of assessments are made for the bond fund, the sanitary district assessment record shall contain suitable notations to show the number of levies and the amount of each, to the end that the sanitary district assessment record may disclose the aggregate of all levies for the bond fund up to that time. (E) Upon the completion of such record it shall be signed and certified by the president of the board and by the secretary of the sanitary district, and shall thereafter become a permanent record in the office of the district. A copy of that part of the sanitary district assessment record affecting lands in any county shall be filed with the county auditor of such county. (F) If it is found at any time that the total amount of assessment levied is insufficient to pay the cost of works set out in the official plan or of additional work done, the board may make an additional levy to provide funds to complete the work, provided the total of all levies of such assessment exclusive of interest does not exceed the total benefits appraised. (G) The board of directors of a sanitary district shall not levy an assessment pursuant to this section unless both of the following apply: (1) The total of all such assessments, exclusive of any amount added or to be added to such assessments representing interest that will accrue on bonds issued or to be issued, during the ten-year period that includes the year in which such assessment under this section is levied and the immediately preceding nine years does not exceed three per cent of the assessed valuation of the property within the district as listed and assessed for taxation in the year in which such assessment is levied; (2) The largest annual installment of such assessment, exclusive of any amount to be added to such installment representing interest that will accrue on bonds to be issued and assuming no payment of any part of such assessment will be made pursuant to section 6115.49 of the Revised Code, does not exceed five-tenths of one per cent of such assessed valuation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6135.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6135 / § 6135.24
§ 6135.24. Bonds issued to pay costs of improvements
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When the board of county commissioners of the upper county deems it expedient to do so, it may issue bonds of the county to raise the money necessary to pay the costs, including the amount agreed to be paid to the lower county, as provided by section 6135.26 of the Revised Code, in the manner provided by law in the case of a single county ditch.