Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.21
§ 5534.21. Army Specialist Gerald R. Jenkins Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

August 5, 2016 Senate Bill 182 - 131st General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, that portion of the road known as United States route number twenty-three, running in a northerly and southerly direction, commencing at the intersection of that route and Island road and extending to the intersection of that route and Little Walnut road, within Pickaway county only, shall be known as the "Army Specialist Gerald R. Jenkins Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5531.147 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5531 / § 5531.147
§ 5531.147. When collection procedures prohibited
Status: in_force

September 11, 2014 House Bill 533 - 130th General Assembly A toll project operator shall not initiate collection procedures that are regulated by federal law against a registered owner in any of the following circumstances: (A) During the thirty-five-day period after the date of mailing of an invoice or a late notice to the registered owner; (B) The registered owner has timely submitted a notice to contest liability for a user fee or any administrative fee to the toll project operator. The toll project operator may initiate collection procedures that are regulated by federal law against such a registered owner if, at the hearing conducted by the hearing officer described in section 5533.144 of the Revised Code, the hearing officer finds that the registered owner is liable for payment of the user fee or administrative fee at issue and the registered owner does not pay the fee at issue in full within thirty-five days after the hearing officer makes the finding. (C) The registered owner has filed a request for an appeal hearing with the municipal court or county court having jurisdiction over the location of the toll project. The toll project operator may initiate collection procedures that are regulated by federal law against such a registered owner if, at the appeal hearing conducted by the municipal court or county court described in section 5533.144 of the Revised Code, the court finds that the registered owner is liable for payment of the user fee or administrative fee at issue and the registered owner does not pay the fee at issue in full within thirty-five days after the court issues a ruling to that effect. (D) The toll project operator has filed a civil suit against the registered owner in the municipal court or county court having jurisdiction over the location of the toll project.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5555.43 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5555 / § 5555.43
§ 5555.43. All costs may be paid by county - agreement with townships to pay proportion
Status: in_force

March 12, 2001 House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly The board of county commissioners, unless acting pursuant to section 5555.022 of the Revised Code, or the joint board of county commissioners, upon a unanimous vote, may order, without a petition, that all of a county's costs for constructing any improvement be paid out of the proceeds of any tax levies for road purposes on the grand duplicate of the county or out of any road improvement fund available for the payment of those costs, or may enter, by a similar vote and without a petition, into an agreement with the boards of township trustees of the townships in which the improvement is situated in whole or in part, whereby the entire cost of the improvement is paid by the county and townships, or one or more of them, in the agreed upon proportion or amount of the cost.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5523.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5523 / § 5523.15
§ 5523.15. Co-operation by municipal corporations
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly A municipal corporation may co-operate with the department of transportation in the abolishment of railway grade crossings and the construction or reconstruction of bridges and viaducts within such municipal corporation, and may pay such portion of the cost of any of such work as is agreed upon between the legislative authority of such municipal corporation and the director of transportation. The legislative authority of any municipal corporation desiring to co-operate as above, may, by resolution, propose such co-operation to the director, and a copy of such resolution, which shall set forth the proportion of the cost and expense to be contributed by the municipal corporation, shall be filed with the director. The subsequent proceedings shall be conducted as provided in sections 5521.01 to 5521.11 of the Revised Code. For the purpose of providing funds to pay the proportion of the cost of such work assumed by any municipal corporation, the legislative authority thereof may levy taxes and issue bonds as in cases of similar improvements constructed under the exclusive jurisdiction and control of the municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5552.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5552 / § 5552.04
§ 5552.04. Initiating process of adopting county access management regulations
Status: in_force

October 24, 2002 House Bill 366 - 124th General Assembly (A) The process of adopting county access management regulations provided for in division (B) of section 5552.02 of the Revised Code may be initiated in any of the following ways: (1) The board of county commissioners may adopt a resolution proposing the consideration of access management regulations on its own initiative. (2) The board of county commissioners shall adopt a resolution proposing the consideration of access management regulations if the county engineer certifies to the board a written request for the board to do so. (3) The board of county commissioners shall adopt a resolution proposing the consideration of access management regulations if a majority of the boards of township trustees of townships within the county certify to the board of county commissioners resolutions requesting the board to do so. (B) Upon adoption of a resolution proposing the consideration of access management regulations under division (A) of this section, the board of county commissioners shall request the county engineer to draft proposed regulations. The engineer shall prepare proposed regulations and, when they are complete, send a copy of them to each member of the advisory committee appointed under division (C) of this section along with a notice of the time and place of the first meeting of the advisory committee. That meeting shall take place within thirty days after the completion of the engineer's proposed regulations. (C) Upon adoption of a resolution under division (A) of this section, the board of county commissioners shall establish an advisory committee to review the county engineer's proposed regulations prepared under division (B) of this section. The board shall appoint to the committee the county engineer or the engineer's designee, a registered surveyor in private practice, a representative of the homebuilding industry, a licensed realtor, a representative of a county or regional planning commission with jurisdiction in the county, a professional engineer with expertise in traffic engineering, a representative of the metropolitan planning organization, where applicable, at least three township trustees from any townships located in the county selected by the local county association representing the township trustees and clerks in that county, a member of the board of county commissioners, and any other person the board chooses to appoint. At its initial meeting held as provided in the notice sent by the county engineer under division (B) of this section, the advisory committee shall elect one member to serve as the chairperson of the committee. Within two hundred seventy days after that initial meeting, the advisory committee shall provide the board of county commissioners with a copy of the engineer's proposed regulations, the committee's recommendations about each of the proposed regulations, and any other recommendations about the access management regulations the committee considers appropriate. (D) Upon receiving the advisory committee's recommendations under division (C) of this section, the board of county commissioners shall hold hearings as provided in section 5552.06 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5537.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5537 / § 5537.19
§ 5537.19. Studies of turnpike or infrastructure projects
Status: in_force

July 1, 2013 House Bill 51 - 130th General Assembly The Ohio turnpike and infrastructure commission shall expend such moneys as the commission considers necessary for studies of any turnpike project or infrastructure project, whether proposed, under construction, or in operation, and may employ consulting engineers, traffic engineers, and any other individuals or firms that the commission considers necessary to properly implement the studies. The cost of the studies may be paid from revenues, eligible state and federal grants, state taxes available to the commission and permitted by law to be spent for such purposes, or the proceeds of bonds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5589 / § 5589.99
§ 5589.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

October 27, 2000 Senate Bill 207 - 123rd General Assembly (A) Whoever violates section 5589.01 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (B) Whoever violates section 5589.02 , 5589.03 , 5589.05 , 5589.06 , 5589.08 , 5589.081 , 5589.09 , 5589.11 , 5589.12 , 5589.32 , or 5589.33 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (C) Whoever violates section 5589.07 or 5589.10 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (D) Whoever violates division (A) of section 5589.21 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be fined one thousand dollars. (E) Whoever violates section 5589.211 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be fined five thousand dollars. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5531.148 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5531 / § 5531.148
§ 5531.148. Agreements for the collection of owner and registration information
Status: in_force

September 11, 2014 House Bill 533 - 130th General Assembly (A) A toll project operator may enter into an agreement with the bureau of motor vehicles and the department, division, bureau, office, or other unit of government of any other state or jurisdiction that is functionally equivalent to the bureau of motor vehicles to obtain motor vehicle owner and registration information that is necessary to conduct electronic toll collection and electronic monitoring. (B)(1) A toll project operator shall ensure that information collected by an electronic toll collection device, an electronic-monitoring system in conjunction with an electronic toll collection system, or under division (A) of this section is limited solely to that information that is necessary for the collection of unpaid user fees and administrative fees; necessary to establish liability of the registered owner of a motor vehicle for payment of a user fee as provided in division (A) of section 5531.144 of the Revised Code; or necessary in any proceeding to establish or confirm such liability. (2) A toll project operator shall ensure that all images or other data collected by an electronic toll collection device, an electronic-monitoring system, or under division (A) of this section are: (a) Maintained in a protected database with security that is at least comparable to the security used for databases operated by the department of transportation; (b) Used solely for the collection of unpaid user fees and administrative fees. (3) All of the following apply to the images and other data described in division (B)(2) of this section: (a) The images and other data are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (b) A toll project operator or any other person shall not sell or use the images and data for sales, solicitation, or marketing purposes. Division (B)(3)(b) of this section does not prohibit the department of transportation or the toll project operator from using the images and data to facilitate collection or payment of user fees and administrative fees. (c) A toll project operator or any other person shall not disclose the images and data to any other entity except to a registered owner who contests liability for and challenges the imposition of a user fee or administrative fee; or except as may be necessary for the collection of unpaid user fees or administrative fees. (d) The images and data shall not be used in any court in a pending action or proceeding except upon an order from a court of competent jurisdiction or unless the action or proceeding relates to the liability of the registered owner of a motor vehicle for payment of a user fee as provided in division (A) of section 5531.144 of the Revised Code. (4)(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a toll project operator shall not retain any images or other data collected by an electronic toll collection device, an electronic-monitoring system, or under division (A) of this section and shall purge, write over, or otherwise eliminate, from existence the images or other data not later than one hundred eighty days after the collection of any unpaid user fees or administrative fees. Upon request from the director of transportation, any entity operating an electronic toll collection system or electronic-monitoring system in conjunction with an electronic toll collection system shall certify compliance with this section and, upon request, shall make all records pertaining to such system available for inspection and audit by the director or the director's designee. (b) No entity operating an electronic toll collection system or electronic-monitoring system in conjunction with an electronic toll collection system shall fail to certify compliance with this section or fail, upon request, to make all records pertaining to such system available for inspection and audit by the director or the director's designee. (5) Whoever violates division (B)(4)(b) of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense and a misdemeanor of the fourth degree on each subsequent offense.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5505.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5505 / § 5505.34
§ 5505.34. Recovering erroneous payments
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 Senate Bill 42 - 130th General Assembly If a person is paid any benefit or payment by the state highway patrol retirement system to which the person is not entitled, the benefit or payment shall be repaid to the retirement system by the person. If the person fails to make the repayment, the retirement system shall withhold the amount due from any benefit or payment due the person or the person's beneficiary or may collect the amount in any other manner provided by law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5505.173 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5505 / § 5505.173
§ 5505.173. Increase in monthly pension, allowance or benefit effective 7-1-81
Status: in_force

June 29, 2001 House Bill 299 - 124th General Assembly (A) Effective July 1, 1981, each person eligible to receive an age and service or disability pension, allowance, or benefit pursuant to Chapter 5505. of the Revised Code, that was based upon an award made effective before October 1, 1974, shall have the person's monthly pension increased by five per cent of the first five thousand dollars of the annual pension, allowance, or benefit. (B) Effective July 1, 1981, each person eligible to receive a survivor's benefit pursuant to Chapter 5505. of the Revised Code that was based upon an award made effective before July 1, 1981, shall have the person's monthly benefit increased by five per cent, except that the twelve-month sum of such increases shall not exceed five per cent of the first five thousand dollars of the annual benefit. (C) The increases provided in divisions (A) and (B) of this section shall be applied to the benefit payable on and after July 1, 1981. (D) The benefits provided in divisions (A) and (B) of this section are a continuation of those first provided in Am. Sub. H. B. 204 as passed by the 113th general assembly.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.01
§ 5534.01. Sgt. James C. Fekete, SF Memorial Interchange
Status: in_force

March 23, 2016 Senate Bill 190 - 131st General Assembly The interchange of the road that carries the designations of both United States route number six and state route number two and Rye Beach road located in the municipal corporation of Huron shall be known as the "Sgt. James C. Fekete, SF Memorial Interchange." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers at the interchange indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5563.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5563 / § 5563.05
§ 5563.05. Trial by jury - selection of jurors
Status: in_force

May 22, 2012 House Bill 268 - 129th General Assembly If the probate judge or common pleas judge finds that an appeal in a road improvement case has been properly perfected, and that the proceedings are substantially regular, the judge shall fix a day, not more than twenty days after the finding, for the trial of the case by jury. The jury shall be selected from the jurors drawn as prescribed in Chapter 2313. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.413 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.413
§ 5534.413. Michael J. Aselage Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

March 23, 2018 Senate Bill 134 - 132nd General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, that portion of state route number seven hundred five commencing at the intersection of that route with Sawmill road and proceeding in a southerly and easterly direction to the intersection of that route with Eilerman road, in Shelby county only, shall be known as the "Michael J. Aselage Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5502.522 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5502 / § 5502.522
§ 5502.522. Statewide emergency alert program
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 Senate Bill 196 - 135th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the statewide emergency alert program to aid in the identification and location of any individual who has a mental impairment, has autism spectrum disorder or another developmental disability, or is sixty-five years of age or older, who is or is believed to be a temporary or permanent resident of this state, is at a location that cannot be determined by an individual familiar with the missing individual, and is incapable of returning to the missing individual's residence without assistance, and whose disappearance, as determined by a law enforcement agency, poses a credible threat of immediate danger of serious bodily harm or death to the missing individual. The program shall be a coordinated effort among the governor's office, the department of public safety, the attorney general, law enforcement agencies, the state's public and commercial television and radio broadcasters, and others as determined necessary by the governor. No name shall be given to the program created under this division that conflicts with any alert code standards that are required by federal law and that govern the naming of emergency alert programs. (B) The statewide emergency alert program shall not be implemented unless all of the following activation criteria are met: (1) The local investigating law enforcement agency confirms that the individual is missing. (2) The individual meets at least one of the following criteria: (a) Is sixty-five years of age or older; (b) Has a mental impairment; (c) Has either autism spectrum disorder or another developmental disability. (3) The disappearance of the individual poses a credible threat of immediate danger of serious bodily harm or death to the individual. (4) There is sufficient descriptive information about the individual and the circumstances surrounding the individual's disappearance to indicate that activation of the alert will help locate the individual. (C) Nothing in division (B) of this section prevents the activation of a local or regional emergency alert program that may impose different criteria for the activation of a local or regional plan. (D) Any radio broadcast station, television broadcast station, or cable system participating in the statewide emergency alert program or in any local or regional emergency alert program, and any director, officer, employee, or agent of any station or system participating in either type of alert program, shall not be liable to any person for damages for any loss allegedly caused by or resulting from the station's or system's broadcast or cablecast of, or failure to broadcast or cablecast, any information pursuant to the statewide emergency alert program or the local or regional emergency alert program. (E) A local investigating law enforcement agency shall not be required to notify the statewide emergency alert program that the law enforcement agency has received information that meets the activation criteria set forth in division (B) of this section during the first twenty-four hours after the law enforcement agency receives the information. (F) Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the use of the federal emergency alert system unless otherwise authorized by federal law. (G) As used in this section: (1) "Autism spectrum disorder" has the same meaning as in section 1751.84 of the Revised Code. (2) "Cable system" has the same meaning as in section 2913.04 of the Revised Code. (3) "Developmental disability" has the same meaning as in section 5123.01 of the Revised Code. (4) "Law enforcement agency" includes, but is not limited to, a county sheriff's office, the office of a village marshal, a police department of a municipal corporation, a police force of a regional transit authority, a police force of a metropolitan housing authority, the state highway patrol, a state university law enforcement agency, the office of a township police constable, and the police department of a township or joint police district. (5) "Mental impairment" means a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation, or memory that grossly impairs judgment, behavior, or ability to live independently or provide self-care as certified by one of the following: a licensed physician, including a physician who is a psychiatrist; a licensed psychiatric-mental health advanced practice registered nurse, as defined in section 5122.01 of the Revised Code; or a licensed psychologist. Last updated February 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5505.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5505 / § 5505.27
§ 5505.27. Payments from state treasury
Status: in_force

December 1, 2006 House Bill 530 - 126th General Assembly All amounts due the state highway patrol retirement system from the state treasury pursuant to this chapter shall be promptly paid upon warrant of the director of budget and management pursuant to a voucher approved by the director.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5501.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5501 / § 5501.14
§ 5501.14. Division of state into districts - district deputy directors
Status: in_force

September 17, 1996 House Bill 572 - 121st General Assembly The director of transportation shall divide the state into not exceeding twelve districts and give to each district an appropriate number or name. Each district shall manage all activities within the area of the district, including transportation planning, intermodal coordination, design, operation, and maintenance of highways and bridges, and any associated administrative activities. The director may appoint and assign to each district a district deputy director. Each district deputy shall serve during the pleasure of and perform such duties as are prescribed by the director. Each district deputy shall exercise professional judgment in the administration of all district activities and shall be accountable for all district duties. Policy, procedures, and operational plans of a district deputy shall follow the overall goals and objectives of the department of transportation. The director may establish, equip, and staff an office in each district for the use of the district deputy, and the director may acquire suitable space for such office by purchase or lease or by the purchase of a site and the erection of a building thereon.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.606 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.606
§ 5533.606. Major Rocco Barnes Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

May 31, 2010 House Bill 27 - 128th General Assembly The road known as state route number ten, running in a southwesterly and northeasterly direction, within the municipal corporation of North Olmsted only, shall be known as the "Major Rocco Barnes Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.974 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.974
§ 5533.974. Cpl. Lucas T. Pyeatt Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

March 22, 2013 House Bill 325 - 129th General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, that portion of the highway known as state route number one hundred twenty-nine, commencing at the intersection of that route and Cincinnati-Dayton road and proceeding in an easterly direction to the intersection of that route and interstate route number seventy-five within Liberty township only in Butler county, shall be known as the "Cpl. Lucas T. Pyeatt Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5593.161 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5593 / § 5593.161
§ 5593.161. Protection and enforcement of rights of bondholder and trustees
Status: in_force

July 23, 1969 House Bill 826 - 108th General Assembly The issuance of bridge revenue bonds or bridge revenue refunding bonds under Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code need not comply with any other law applicable to the issuance of bonds. Any holder of bonds issued under Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code, or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under any trust agreement, except to the extent the rights given by such chapter may be restricted by such trust agreement, may by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceedings, protect and enforce any rights under the laws of the state or granted under such sections, trust agreement, or the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, and may enforce and compel the performance of all duties required by such sections, or by the trust agreement or resolution, to be performed by the commission or any officer thereof, including the fixing, charging, and collecting of tolls.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5513.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5513 / § 5513.01
§ 5513.01. Purchases of supplies, products, and services
Status: in_force

June 30, 2025 House Bill 54 - 136th General Assembly (A) The director of transportation shall make all purchases of supplies, products, and services in the manner provided in this section. In all cases except those in which the director provides written authorization for purchases by district deputy directors of transportation, the director shall make all such purchases at the central office of the department of transportation in Columbus. Where the expenditure does not exceed the amount applicable to the purchase of supplies, products, or services specified in division (A) of section 125.05 of the Revised Code, the director shall give such notice as the director considers proper, or the director may make the purchase without notice. Where the expenditure exceeds the amount applicable to the purchase of supplies, products, or services specified in division (A) of section 125.05 of the Revised Code, the director shall give notice by posting for not less than ten days the intention to purchase on the electronic procurement system established by the department of administrative services under section 125.073 of the Revised Code. The director shall use a competitive selection process in the purchase of supplies, products, or services. The director may post multiple supplies, products, or services in a single listing on the electronic procurement system, it being the intent and purpose of this section to authorize the inclusion in a single solicitation of as many different supplies, products, or services as the director desires to purchase at any given time. The director shall not permit the modification of bids after they have been opened. (B) The director may permit a state agency, the Ohio turnpike and infrastructure commission, any political subdivision, and any state university or college to participate in contracts into which the director has entered for the purchase of supplies, products, or services. The turnpike and infrastructure commission and any political subdivision or state university or college desiring to participate in such purchase contracts shall file with the director a certified copy of the bylaws or rules of the turnpike and infrastructure commission or the ordinance or resolution of the legislative authority, board of trustees, or other governing board requesting authorization to participate in such contracts and agreeing to be bound by such terms and conditions as the director prescribes. Purchases made by a state agency, the turnpike and infrastructure commission, political subdivisions, or state universities or colleges under this division are exempt from any competitive bidding required by law for the purchase of supplies, products, or services. (C) As used in this section: (1) "Competitive selection," "products," "purchase," "services," and "supplies" have the same meanings as in section 125.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Political subdivision" means any county, township, municipal corporation, conservancy district, township park district, park district created under Chapter 1545. of the Revised Code, port authority, regional transit authority, regional airport authority, regional water and sewer district, county transit board, school district as defined in section 5513.04 of the Revised Code, regional planning commission formed under section 713.21 of the Revised Code, regional council of government formed under section 167.01 of the Revised Code, or other association of local governments established pursuant to an agreement under sections 307.14 to 307.19 of the Revised Code. (3) "State university or college" has the same meaning as in division (A)(1) of section 3345.32 of the Revised Code. (4) "Ohio turnpike and infrastructure commission" means the commission created by section 5537.02 of the Revised Code. (5) "State agency" means every organized body, office, board, authority, commission, or agency established by the laws of the state for the exercise of any governmental or quasi-governmental function of state government, regardless of the funding source for that entity, other than any state institution of higher education, the office of the governor, lieutenant governor, auditor of state, treasurer of state, secretary of state, or attorney general, the general assembly, the courts or any judicial agency, or any state retirement system or retirement program established by or referenced in the Revised Code. Last updated May 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5555.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5555 / § 5555.24
§ 5555.24. Appointment of county engineer by joint board - copies of surveys transmitted to each board
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly After the joint board of county commissioners has granted the improvement, it shall appoint a county engineer of one of the counties interested, who shall make such surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications as are necessary and transmit copies of them to each board interested in said improvement. If a majority of the joint board is unable to agree as to the appointment of an engineer, the joint board shall thereupon certify that fact to the director of transportation who shall designate a county engineer of one of the interested counties.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5511.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5511 / § 5511.01
§ 5511.01. State highway system established
Status: in_force

April 9, 2003 Senate Bill 106 - 124th General Assembly All state highways established by law shall continue to be known as state highways, and the state highway system established by law shall continue to be known as the state highway system. Before establishing any additional highways as part of the state highway system, or making any significant changes in existing highways comprising the system, the director of transportation shall notify the general community of the project and offer an opportunity for appropriate public involvement in the project process. The opportunity for public involvement shall satisfy the requirements of the "National Environmental Policy Act of 1969," 83 Stat. 852, 42 U.S.C.A. 4321 et seq., as amended, and may consist of activities including public meetings or hearings, small group meetings with local officials, individual meetings, news releases, public notices, workshops, newsletters, electronic communications, radio announcements, mail notification, and other activities considered appropriate for the exchange of information. The director or the director's designee shall provide the public involvement activities in each of the counties in which the highway proposed to be established is to be located or in which it is proposed to make those changes. Any changes made in existing highways by the director or any additional highways established by the director following the public involvement activities shall be certified to the following authorities interested in them: the legislative authority of municipalities, the board of county commissioners, the board of township trustees, the municipal, county, and regional planning commissions, and the municipal, township, or county officer authorized to issue land use or building permits. Before any zoning change or subdivision plat is approved and before any permit for land use or the erection, alteration, or moving of a building is granted affecting any land within three hundred feet of the center line of a proposed new highway or highway for which changes are proposed, as described in the certification by the director, or within a radius of five hundred feet from the point of intersection of that center line with any public road or highway, the authority authorized to approve the zoning change or subdivision plat or the authority authorized to grant the permit for land use or the erection, alteration, or moving of the building shall give notice, by certified mail, to the director, and shall not approve a zoning change or subdivision plat or grant a permit for land use or the erection, alteration, or moving of a building for one hundred twenty days from date notice is received by the director. During the one hundred twenty-day period and any extension of it as may be agreed to between the director and any property owner, notice of which has been given to the authority to which the application has been made, the director shall proceed to acquire any land needed by purchase or gift, or by initiating proceedings to appropriate, or make a finding that acquisition at such time is not in the public interest. Upon purchase, initiation of appropriation proceedings, or a finding that acquisition is not in the public interest, the director shall notify the authority from which notice was received of that action. Upon being notified that the director has purchased or initiated proceedings to appropriate the land that authority shall refuse to rezone land or to approve any subdivision plat that includes the land which the director has purchased or has initiated proceedings to appropriate, and that authority shall refuse to grant a permit for land use or the erection, alteration, or moving of a building on the land which the director has purchased or initiated proceedings to appropriate. Upon notification that the director has found acquisition at that time not to be in the public interest, or upon the expiration of the one hundred twenty-day period or any extension of it, if no notice has been received from the director, that authority shall proceed in accordance with law. A report of the change or addition shall be filed in the office of the director, and the report of the director making the change or establishing the highway shall be placed on file in the office of the department of transportation. In no event shall the total mileage of the state highway system be increased under this section to exceed two hundred miles in one year. The director, upon petition of the boards of the counties traversed by a highway or of citizens of those counties, may officially assign to a highway of the state highway system a distinctive name commemorative of a historical event or personage, or officially assign to a highway of the state highway system a commonly accepted and appropriate name by which the highway is known. The director may, upon giving appropriate notice and offering the opportunity for public involvement and comment, abandon a highway on the state highway system or part of such a highway which the director determines is of minor importance or which traverses territory adequately served by another state highway, and the abandoned highway shall revert to a county or township road or municipal street. A report covering that action shall be filed in the office of the director, and the director shall certify the action to the board of the county in which the highway or portion of the highway so abandoned is situated. The director shall make a map showing, by appropriate numbering or other designation, all the state highways. The map shall be kept on file in the director's office, and the director shall cause the map to be corrected and revised to show all changes and additions to the date of the correction. A copy of the map, certified by the director as a correct copy of the map on file in the director's office, shall be admissible as evidence in any court to prove the existence and location of the several highways and roads of the state highway system. The state highway routes into or through municipal corporations, as designated or indicated by state highway route markers erected on the routes, are state highways and a part of the state highway system. The director may erect state highway route markers and other signs directing traffic as the director thinks proper upon those portions of the state highway system lying within municipal corporations, and the consent of the municipal corporations to that erection and marking shall not be necessary. However, the director may erect traffic signs in villages in accordance with section 5521.01 of the Revised Code. No change in the route of any highway through a municipal corporation shall be made except after providing public involvement activities. Except as provided in sections 5501.49 and 5517.04 of the Revised Code, no duty of constructing, reconstructing, maintaining, and repairing such state highways within municipal corporations shall attach to or rest upon the director. The director may enter upon such state highways within any municipal corporation and construct, reconstruct, widen, improve, maintain, and repair them, provided the municipal corporation first consents by resolution of its legislative authority, except that the director need not obtain the consent of the municipal corporation if the existing highway being changed or the location of an additional highway being established was not within the corporate limits of the municipal corporation at the time the establishment or change is approved by the director, or if the director is acting pursuant to section 5501.49 of the Revised Code. The director shall place in the files of the department a record of the routes of all such state highways within municipal corporations, and shall cause them to be corrected and revised to show all changes and additions to the date of the correction. A copy of the record or any pertinent part of it, certified by the director to be a true and correct copy, shall be admissible in evidence in any court of the state for the purpose of proving the existence and location of any state highway within a municipal corporation. When the director proposes to change an existing state highway and there exists upon the highway a separated railroad crossing, the director shall mail to the interested railroad company a copy of the notice, which shall be mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid, and certified with return receipt requested, at least two weeks before the time fixed for any public involvement activity. When the director proposes to change an existing state highway within a municipal corporation, the director shall mail to the mayor or other chief executive officer of the municipal corporation a copy of the notice, which shall be mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid, and certified with return receipt requested, at least two weeks before the time fixed for any public involvement activity. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require providing public involvement activities before the construction, reconstruction, maintenance, improvement, or widening of an existing highway where no relocation is involved. With the exception of the authority conferred upon the director by this section to erect state highway route markers and signs directing traffic and by section 5501.49 of the Revised Code, Chapters 5501., 5503., 5511., 5513., 5515., 5516., 5517., 5519., 5521., 5523., 5525., 5527., 5528., 5529., 5531., 5533., and 5535. of the Revised Code shall not in any way modify, limit, or restrict the authority conferred by section 723.01 of the Revised Code upon municipal corporations to regulate the use of streets and to have the care, supervision, and control of the public highways, streets, avenues, alleys, sidewalks, public grounds, bridges, aqueducts, and viaducts within the municipal corporations, or the liability imposed upon municipal corporations by division (B)(3) of section 2744.02 of the Revised Code for negligent failure to keep public roads in repair and other negligent failure to remove obstructions from public roads.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.65 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.65
§ 5534.65. Sgt. William 'Bill' Endress and Geneva Vietnam War Veterans Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

April 6, 2017 Senate Bill 207 - 131st General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, that portion of the road known as state route five hundred thirty-four, running in a northerly and southerly direction between the intersection of that route and state route eighty-four and the intersection of that route and Roosevelt drive, within Ashtabula county only, shall be known as the "Sgt. William 'Bill' Endress and Geneva Vietnam War Veterans Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5525.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5525 / § 5525.12
§ 5525.12. Lumber deemed material
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Lumber in highway work shall be deemed material within the meaning of sections 153.54 , 1311.26 , and 5525.16 of the Revised Code when it actually becomes part of the structure or improvement in which it is used, or when it is used as form material.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5531.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5531 / § 5531.06
§ 5531.06. Accepting federal funds
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly The director of transportation may accept any allotment of funds by the United States, or any department of agency thereof, appropriated under the "Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1958" and any subsequent legislation either supplementary to or amending such act.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5553.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5553 / § 5553.03
§ 5553.03. Width of county roads
Status: in_force

February 24, 1986 House Bill 221 - 116th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, all public roads located and established by the board of county commissioners subsequent to September 6, 1915, shall be of such width, not less than thirty feet, as is determined by the board. If a public road is established upon a county or state line, the board may determine the width of the strip of land in the county to be used for such purposes, but such width shall not be less than fifteen feet. (B) The board of county commissioners may locate and establish public roads that are less than thirty but not less than twenty feet in width, when all of the following conditions are met: (1) The roads have been in continuous existence and use as private roads since at least 1952, and are located in land platted as a subdivision outside of the limits of a municipal corporation; (2) It is proved to the satisfaction of the board that the acquisition of additional land necessary to meet the width otherwise applying under division (A) of this section will involve or result in damage to structures or dwellings adjacent to the roads; (3) The county engineer submits to the board a detailed report on the kinds and amount of traffic using the roads, and showing that the lesser width is adequate to serve anticipated traffic volumes without endagering persons using the roads.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5563.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5563 / § 5563.08
§ 5563.08. Oath of jurors
Status: in_force

September 24, 1963 Senate Bill 91 - 105th General Assembly The probate court or common pleas court shall administer to the jurors in road improvement cases an oath that they will faithfully, impartially, and to the best of their ability, determine the particular matters appealed from, and render a true verdict, according to the evidence, under the charge of the court.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.606 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.606
§ 5534.606. Sgt. Thomas Cole Walker Memorial Bridge
Status: in_force

July 21, 2022 House Bill 291 - 134th General Assembly The bridge spanning West Branch Conneaut creek that is part of state route number seven and that is located in the municipal corporation of Conneaut in Ashtabula county shall be known as the "Sgt. Thomas Cole Walker Memorial Bridge." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers upon the bridge or its approaches indicating its name. Last updated April 29, 2022 at 2:43 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.887 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.887
§ 5534.887. Lewis John Speece, Jr. Memorial Bridge
Status: in_force

June 10, 2020 House Bill 276 - 133rd General Assembly The bridge spanning interstate route number seventy-six, located in Canfield township in Mahoning county, and being part of the highway known as state route number forty-six, shall be known as the "Lewis John Speece, Jr. Memorial Bridge." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers upon the bridge or its approaches indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.499 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.499
§ 5534.499. Corporal John E. Ruch Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 House Bill 81 - 135th General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the northeastbound and southwestbound lanes of United States route number twenty between Center road and Gerald road, in Ashtabula county, shall be known as the "Corporal John E. Ruch Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name. Last updated February 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.88 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.88
§ 5533.88. Defiance County Veterans Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

June 30, 2017 House Bill 26 - 132nd General Assembly The road known as United States route number twenty-four, running in an easterly and westerly direction within Defiance county only, shall be known as the "Defiance County Veterans Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name. Last updated February 27, 2023 at 5:04 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.73 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.73
§ 5533.73. William R. Foster Bridge
Status: in_force

March 5, 2004 House Bill 70 - 125th General Assembly The Maud-Hughes road bridge spanning Gregory Creek in Butler county, located at mile twenty-three and eighteen-hundredths of state route number one hundred twenty-nine, shall be known as the "William R. Foster Bridge." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers upon the bridge, or the approaches thereto, indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5502.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5502 / § 5502.35
§ 5502.35. Exercising emergency management powers outside jurisdiction
Status: in_force

October 29, 1995 Senate Bill 162 - 121st General Assembly Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of law, persons engaged in emergency management activities, members of emergency management agencies in this state, and members of the emergency management agencies of other states or of the federal government or of another country or of a province or subdivision thereof performing emergency management services at any place in this state pursuant to agreements, compacts, or arrangements for mutual aid and assistance, to which the state or a political subdivision thereof is a party, shall possess the same powers, duties, immunities, and privileges they would ordinarily possess if performing their duties in the jurisdiction in which normally employed or rendering services.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.785 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.785
§ 5533.785. Staff Sgt. Sean Landrus Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

September 17, 2010 House Bill 449 - 128th General Assembly That portion of the road known as state route number five hundred twenty-eight, commencing at the intersection of that road and United States route number three hundred twenty-two in Geauga county and extending in a northerly direction to the boundary of Geauga county and Lake county, shall be known as the "Staff Sgt. Sean Landrus Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5557.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5557 / § 5557.01
§ 5557.01. Road defined
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly As used in sections 5557.02 to 5557.07 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, "road" includes any state or county roads, or the streets of any municipal corporation, or any part of such roads or streets, which forms a continuous road improvement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5501.81 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5501 / § 5501.81
§ 5501.81. Crossing or relocation of facility
Status: in_force

June 29, 2011 House Bill 114 - 129th General Assembly An operator under sections 5501.70 to 5501.83 of the Revised Code and any utility whose facility is to be crossed or relocated shall cooperate fully in planning and arranging the manner of the crossing or relocation of the utility facility.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5543.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5543 / § 5543.09
§ 5543.09. Supervision by county engineer
Status: in_force

September 20, 1999 House Bill 187 - 123rd General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the county engineer shall supervise the construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance, and repair of the highways, bridges, and culverts under the jurisdiction of the board of county commissioners, and the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, and improvement of public roads by boards of township trustees under sections 5571.01 , 5571.06 , 5571.07 , 5571.15 , 5573.01 to 5573.15 , 5575.02 to 5575.09 , and 5577.01 of the Revised Code. When the engineer has charge of the highways, bridges, and culverts within the engineer's county, and under the control of the state, the engineer shall also supervise their construction, reconstruction, improvement, and repair. (B) For any particular project, with the approval of the county engineer, the board of township trustees of a township that has adopted a limited home rule government under Chapter 504. of the Revised Code may hire an independent professional engineer to assist the county engineer with the supervision of the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, and improvement of public roads by the board under sections 5571.01 , 5571.06 , 5571.07 , 5571.15 , 5573.01 to 5573.15 , 5575.02 to 5575.09 , and 5577.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5575.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5575 / § 5575.10
§ 5575.10. Maintenance and repair fund
Status: in_force

October 29, 1975 Senate Bill 124 - 111th General Assembly After the annual estimate for each township has been filed with the board of township trustees by the county engineer, such board may increase or reduce the amount of any items contained in the estimate, and at its first meeting after such estimate is filed the board shall make its levies for the purposes set forth in the estimate and for creating a fund for dragging, maintenance, and repair of roads, upon all the taxable property of the township outside of any municipal corporation or part thereof, not exceeding, in the aggregate, three mills in any one year upon each dollar of the valuation of such property. Such levies shall be in addition to all other levies authorized for township purposes, and subject only to the limitation upon the combined maximum rate for taxes now in force. This section does not prevent the expenditures of any portion of the regular levy of two mills for township purposes, but is in addition thereto. The board shall provide annually by taxation, under this section or under section 5573.13 of the Revised Code, or under both, an adequate fund for the maintenance and repair of township roads. The maintenance and repair fund so provided shall not be less than one hundred dollars for each mile of improved township road and twenty dollars for each mile of unimproved township road. Such levies for maintenance and repair purposes shall be separately set forth in the annual budget of the board presented to the budget commission, and the maintenance and repair levies made by the board, pursuant to this section, shall be preferred levies as against any others made for township road purposes by the board. Should the budget commission of any county be unable to allow all of the road levies made by the board, such reductions as are necessary shall be first made in levies other than for maintenance and repair purposes made under this section. The fund produced by such levies for maintenance and repair purposes shall be subject to transfer, in the manner provided in sections 5705.15 and 5705.16 of the Revised Code. This section does not prevent the board from using any other available road funds for the maintenance and repair of township roads. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.602 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.602
§ 5533.602. Sampson Harris Memorial Bridge
Status: in_force

September 23, 2011 House Bill 65 - 129th General Assembly The bridge that is part of state route number eight hundred twenty-one, between mile marker number nine and mile marker number ten at mile nine and fourteen-hundredths miles, near the village of Caldwell in Noble county, shall be known as the "Sampson Harris Memorial Bridge." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers upon the bridge or its approaches indicating its name. Last updated February 27, 2023 at 3:55 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5505.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5505 / § 5505.30
§ 5505.30. Lump sum death benefit payment
Status: in_force

April 6, 2017 House Bill 520 - 131st General Assembly On the death of a retirant, a lump-sum payment of five thousand dollars shall be paid to the retirant's surviving spouse or, if there is no surviving spouse, the payment shall be made to the beneficiary designated by the retirant on a form provided by the state highway patrol retirement system. A retirant may designate an individual or a trust as a beneficiary. If there is no surviving spouse or designated beneficiary, the payment shall be made to the retirant's estate. Application for the payment shall be made on a form provided by the state highway patrol retirement board. A benefit paid under this section shall be treated as life insurance for purposes of this chapter and shall be funded solely from contributions made under division (B) of section 5505.15 of the Revised Code and any earnings attributable to those contributions.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5501.70 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5501 / § 5501.70
§ 5501.70. Definitions for ORC sections 5501.70 to 5501.83
Status: in_force

September 11, 2014 House Bill 533 - 130th General Assembly As used in sections 5501.70 to 5501.83 of the Revised Code: (A) "Affected jurisdiction" means any unit of government within the state in which all or part of a transportation facility is located or any other public entity directly affected by the transportation facility. (B) "Force majeure" means an uncontrollable force or natural disaster not within the power of the operator or the state. (C) "Maintenance" includes routine maintenance, major maintenance, and any other categories of maintenance that may be designated by the department of transportation. (D) "Material default" means any failure of an operator to perform any duties under a public-private agreement that jeopardizes delivery of adequate service to the public and remains unsatisfied after a reasonable period of time and after the operator has received written notice from the department of the failure. (E) "Operate" means any action to maintain, repair, improve, equip, or modify a transportation facility. (F) "Operator" means a private entity that has entered into a public-private agreement under sections 5501.71 to 5501.83 of the Revised Code. (G) "Private entity" means any natural person, corporation, general partnership, limited liability company, limited partnership, joint venture, business trust, public benefit corporation, nonprofit entity, or other business entity. (H) "Public-private agreement" means the agreement between a private entity and the department that relates to the development, financing, maintenance, or operation of a transportation facility subject to sections 5501.70 to 5501.83 of the Revised Code. (I) "Public-private initiative" means an arrangement between the department and one or more private entities, the terms of which are stated in a public-private agreement, that provides for all of the following: (1) Acceptance of a private contribution, including a money payment, for a project or service for a transportation facility; (2) Sharing of resources and the means of providing a project or service for a transportation facility; (3) Cooperation in researching, developing, and implementing projects or services for a transportation facility. (J) "Transportation facility" has the same meaning as in section 5501.01 of the Revised Code and also includes a tunnel, ferry, port facility on navigable waters that are used for commerce, intermodal facility, or similar facility open to the public and used for the transportation of persons or goods, and any building, structure, parking area, or other appurtenances or property needed to operate a transportation facility that is subject to a public-private agreement. (K) "User fee" means a rate, toll, fee, or other charge established under section 5531.14 of the Revised Code and imposed by an operator for use of all or part of a transportation facility in accordance with that section. (L) "Utility" means a privately, publicly, or cooperatively owned line, facility, or system for producing, transmitting, or distributing communications, cable television, power, electricity, light, heat, gas, oil, crude products, water, steam, waste, storm water not connected with highway drainage, alternative or renewable energy sources such as wind or solar, or any other similar commodity, including a fire or police signal system or street lighting system that directly or indirectly serves the public.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5502.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5502 / § 5502.07
§ 5502.07. Training schools for examiners
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly The director of public safety may conduct training schools for prospective driver's license examiners and may establish rules governing the qualifications for admission to such schools and provide for competitive examinations to determine the fitness of such students for prospective examiners, not inconsistent with the rules of the director of administrative services.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5502.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5502 / § 5502.99
§ 5502.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

October 29, 1995 Senate Bill 162 - 121st General Assembly (A) Whoever violates division (A) of section 5502.37 of the Revised Code shall be fined fifty dollars or imprisoned for not less than sixty days, or both. (B) Whoever violates division (B) of section 5502.37 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not less than one nor more than five years, or both. (C) Whoever violates division (C) or (D) of section 5502.37 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than two thousand nor more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not less than one nor more than five years, or both. (D) Except as provided in divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section and unless another penalty is provided by the laws of this state, whoever violates sections 5502.21 to 5502.37 of the Revised Code, or any other law enacted, adopted, or issued pursuant to those sections, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned for not more than sixty days, or both. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5555.61 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5555 / § 5555.61
§ 5555.61. Contract for improvement not to exceed ten per cent above estimates
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly After the board of county commissioners decides to proceed with the improvement, it shall do so in accordance with sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code. No contract for any improvement shall be awarded at a price more than twenty per cent in excess of the estimated cost. Last updated September 28, 2023 at 4:11 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5502.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5502 / § 5502.41
§ 5502.41. Intrastate mutual aid compact
Status: in_force

July 3, 2012 Senate Bill 243 - 129th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Chief executive of a participating political subdivision" means the elected chief executive of a participating political subdivision or, if the political subdivision does not have an elected chief executive, a member of the political subdivision's governing body or an employee of the political subdivision appointed by the governing body's members to be its representative for purposes of the intrastate mutual aid program created pursuant to this section. (2) "Countywide emergency management agency" means a countywide emergency management agency established under section 5502.26 of the Revised Code. (3) "Emergency" means any period during which the congress of the United States, a chief executive as defined in section 5502.21 of the Revised Code, or a chief executive of a participating political subdivision has declared or proclaimed that an emergency exists. (4) "Participating political subdivision" means each political subdivision in this state except a political subdivision that enacts or adopts, by appropriate legislation, ordinance, resolution, rule, bylaw, or regulation signed by its chief executive, a decision not to participate in the intrastate mutual aid program created by this section and that provides a copy of the legislation, ordinance, resolution, rule, bylaw, or regulation to the state emergency management agency and to the countywide emergency management agency, regional authority for emergency management, or program for emergency management within the political subdivision. (5) "Planned event" means a scheduled nonemergency activity as defined by the national incident management system adopted under section 5502.28 of the Revised Code as the state's standard procedure for incident management. "Planned event" includes, but is not limited to, a sporting event, concert, or parade. (6) "Political subdivision" or "subdivision" has the same meaning as in section 2744.01 of the Revised Code and also includes a health district established under Chapter 3709. of the Revised Code. (7) "Program for emergency management within a political subdivision" means a program for emergency management created by a political subdivision under section 5502.271 of the Revised Code. (8) "Regional authority for emergency management" means a regional authority for emergency management established under section 5502.27 of the Revised Code. (9) "Regional response team" means a group of persons from participating political subdivisions who provide mutual assistance or aid in preparation for, response to, or recovery from an incident, disaster, exercise, training activity, planned event, or emergency, any of which requires additional resources. "Regional response team" includes, but is not limited to, an incident management team, hazardous materials response team, water rescue team, bomb team, or search and rescue team. (B) There is hereby created the intrastate mutual aid program to be known as "the intrastate mutual aid compact" to complement existing mutual aid agreements. The program shall have two purposes: (1) Provide for mutual assistance or aid among the participating political subdivisions for purposes of preparing for, responding to, and recovering from an incident, disaster, exercise, training activity, planned event, or emergency, any of which requires additional resources; (2) Establish a method by which a participating political subdivision may seek assistance or aid that resolves many of the common issues facing political subdivisions before, during, and after an incident, disaster, exercise, training activity, planned event, or emergency, any of which requires additional resources, and that ensures, to the extent possible, eligibility for available state and federal disaster assistance or other funding. (C) Each countywide emergency management agency, regional authority for emergency management, and program for emergency management within a political subdivision, in coordination with all departments, divisions, boards, commissions, agencies, and other instrumentalities within that political subdivision, shall establish procedures or plans that, to the extent possible, accomplish both of the following: (1) Identify hazards that potentially could affect the participating political subdivisions served by that agency, authority, or program; (2) Identify and inventory the current services, equipment, supplies, personnel, and other resources related to the preparedness, response, and recovery activities of the participating political subdivisions served by that agency, authority, or program. (D)(1) The executive director of the state emergency management agency shall coordinate with the countywide emergency management agencies, regional authorities for emergency management, and programs for emergency management within a political subdivision in identifying and formulating appropriate procedures or plans to resolve resource shortfalls. (2) During and after the formulation of the procedures or plans to resolve resource shortfalls, there shall be ongoing consultation and coordination among the executive director of the state emergency management agency; the countywide emergency management agencies, regional authorities for emergency management, and programs for emergency management within a political subdivision; and all departments, divisions, boards, commissions, agencies, and other instrumentalities of, and having emergency response functions within, each participating political subdivision, regarding this section, local procedures and plans, and the resolution of the resource shortfalls. (E)(1) A participating political subdivision that is impacted by an incident, disaster, exercise, training activity, planned event, or emergency, any of which requires additional resources, may request mutual assistance or aid by doing either of the following: (a) Declaring a state of emergency and issuing a request for assistance or aid from any other participating political subdivision; (b) Issuing to another participating political subdivision a verbal or written request for assistance or aid. If the request is made verbally, a written confirmation of the request shall be made not later than seventy-two hours after the verbal request is made. (2) Requests for assistance or aid made under division (E)(1) of this section shall be made through the emergency management agency of a participating political subdivision or an official designated by the chief executive of the participating political subdivision from which the assistance or aid is requested and shall provide the following information: (a) A description of the incident, disaster, exercise, training activity, planned event, or emergency; (b) A description of the assistance or aid needed; (c) An estimate of the length of time the assistance or aid will be needed; (d) The specific place and time for staging of the assistance or aid and a point of contact at that location. (F) A participating political subdivision shall provide assistance or aid to another participating political subdivision that is impacted by an incident, disaster, exercise, training activity, planned event, or emergency, any of which requires additional resources. The provision of the assistance or aid is subject to the following conditions: (1) The responding political subdivision may withhold resources necessary to provide for its own protection. (2) Personnel of the responding political subdivision shall continue under their local command and control structure, but shall be under the operational control of the appropriate officials within the incident management system of the participating political subdivision receiving assistance or aid. (3) Responding law enforcement officers acting pursuant to this section have the same authority to enforce the law as when acting within the territory of their regular employment. (G)(1) Nothing in this section shall do any of the following: (a) Alter the duties and responsibilities of emergency response personnel; (b) Prohibit a private company from participating in the provision of mutual assistance or aid pursuant to the compact created pursuant to this section if the participating political subdivision approves the participation and the contract with the private company allows for the participation; (c) Prohibit employees of participating political subdivisions from responding to a request for mutual assistance or aid precipitated by an incident, disaster, exercise, training activity, planned event, or emergency, any of which requires additional resources, when the employees are responding as part of a regional response team that is under the operational control of the incident command structure; (d) Authorize employees of participating political subdivisions to respond to an incident, disaster, exercise, training activity, planned event, or emergency, any of which requires additional resources, without a request from a participating political subdivision. (2) This section does not preclude a participating political subdivision from entering into a mutual aid or other agreement with another political subdivision, and does not affect any other agreement to which a participating political subdivision may be a party, or any request for assistance or aid that may be made, under any other section of the Revised Code, including, but not limited to, any mutual aid arrangement under this chapter, any fire protection or emergency medical services contract under section 9.60 of the Revised Code, sheriffs' requests for assistance to preserve the public peace and protect persons and property under section 311.07 of the Revised Code, any agreement for mutual assistance or aid in police protection under section 737.04 of the Revised Code, any agreement for law enforcement services between universities and colleges and political subdivisions under section 3345.041 or 3345.21 of the Revised Code, and mutual aid agreements among emergency planning districts for hazardous substances or chemicals response under sections 3750.02 and 3750.03 of the Revised Code. (H)(1) Personnel of a responding participating political subdivision who suffer injury or death in the course of, and arising out of, their employment while rendering assistance or aid under this section to another participating political subdivision are entitled to all applicable benefits under Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code. (2) Personnel of a responding participating political subdivision shall be considered, while rendering assistance or aid under this section in another participating political subdivision, to be agents of the responding political subdivision for purposes of tort liability and immunity from tort liability under the law of this state. (3)(a) A responding participating political subdivision and the personnel of that political subdivision, while rendering assistance or aid under this section, or while in route to or from rendering assistance or aid under this section, in another participating political subdivision, shall be deemed to be exercising governmental functions as defined in section 2744.01 of the Revised Code, shall have the defenses to and immunities from civil liability provided in sections 2744.02 and 2744.03 of the Revised Code, and shall be entitled to all applicable limitations on recoverable damages under section 2744.05 of the Revised Code. (b) A participating political subdivision requesting assistance or aid and the personnel of that political subdivision, while requesting or receiving assistance or aid under this section from any other participating political subdivision, shall be deemed to be exercising governmental functions as defined in section 2744.01 of the Revised Code, shall have the defenses to and immunities from civil liability provided in sections 2744.02 and 2744.03 of the Revised Code, and shall be entitled to all applicable limitations on recoverable damages under section 2744.05 of the Revised Code. (I) If a person holds a license, certificate, or other permit issued by a participating political subdivision evidencing qualification in a professional, mechanical, or other skill, and if the assistance or aid of that person is asked for under this section by a participating political subdivision, the person shall be deemed to be licensed or certified in or permitted by the participating political subdivision receiving the assistance or aid to render the assistance or aid, subject to any limitations and conditions the chief executive of the participating political subdivision receiving the assistance or aid may prescribe by executive order or otherwise. (J)(1) Subject to division (K) of this section and except as provided in division (J)(2) of this section, any participating political subdivision rendering assistance or aid under this section in another participating political subdivision shall be reimbursed by the participating political subdivision receiving the assistance or aid for any loss or damage to, or expense incurred in the operation of, any equipment used in rendering the assistance or aid, for any expense incurred in the provision of any service used in rendering the assistance or aid, and for all other costs incurred in responding to the request for assistance or aid. To avoid duplication of payments, insurance proceeds available to cover any loss or damage to equipment of a participating political subdivision rendering assistance or aid shall be considered in the reimbursement by the participating political subdivision receiving the assistance or aid. (2) A participating political subdivision rendering assistance or aid under this section to another participating political subdivision shall not be reimbursed for either of the following: (a) The first eight hours of mutual assistance or aid it provides to the political subdivision receiving the assistance or aid; (b) Expenses the participating political subdivision incurs under division (H)(1) of this section. (K) A participating political subdivision rendering assistance or aid under this section may do any of the following: (1) Assume, in whole or in part, any loss, damage, expense, or cost the political subdivision incurs in rendering the assistance or aid; (2) Loan, without charge, any equipment, or donate any service, to the political subdivision receiving the assistance or aid; (3) Enter into agreements with one or more other participating political subdivisions to establish different allocations of losses, damages, expenses, or costs among such political subdivisions.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.872 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.872
§ 5533.872. Guernsey County Veterans - Flags of Honor Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

May 31, 2010 House Bill 27 - 128th General Assembly That portion of the highway known as state route number three hundred thirteen, located within Guernsey county and commencing at the intersection of that state route and Fritter road, extending in an easterly direction and ending at the first intersection with state route number eighty-three, also known as West road, shall be known as the "Guernsey County Veterans - Flags of Honor Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5528.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5528 / § 5528.13
§ 5528.13. Investing excess moneys of highway improvement bond retirement fund
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly The commissioners of the sinking fund may invest any moneys to the credit of the highway improvement bond retirement fund created by section 5528.12 of the Revised Code, in excess of the total amount of moneys necessary to meet in full all payments of interest, principal, and charges on outstanding bonds and other obligations issued pursuant to Section 2g of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and sections 5528.10 and 5528.11 of the Revised Code, due and payable during the current calendar year, in bonds, notes, certificates of indebtedness, treasury bills, or other securities, issued by and constituting direct obligations of the United States of America, or discount notes of the federal national mortgage associations; provided, that only such obligations as will mature or are redeemable at the option of the holder within two years from the date of purchase shall be eligible securities for such investments. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5595.041 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5595 / § 5595.041
§ 5595.041. Memorandum of understanding and supplemental powers
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The governing board of a qualified RTIP may negotiate and enter into a memorandum of understanding with the department of transportation for the purpose of completing opportunity corridor improvements. The governing board, in carrying out the opportunity corridor improvements, may exercise all authority granted to it by this chapter and may additionally do all of the following: (A) Appropriate property, fully or partially located within the right-of-way associated with, or necessary as right-of-way for, any transportation improvement, provided the appropriation would be within the department of transportation's appropriation authority if carried out by the department and both the improvement and appropriation authority are described in the memorandum of understanding and the appropriation is exclusively for that improvement. This division does not grant any additional appropriation authority to the department of transportation. (B) Receive and reinvest any funds from development within the development area; (C) Contract for the use of digitalized procurement planning and permitting systems; (D) Request and receive grants and private contributions for any of the purposes described in division (A) of section 5595.06 of the Revised Code; (E) Establish, acquire, own, control, manage, sell, or transfer a business, as defined in section 1354.01 of the Revised Code, as necessary, convenient, or proper for either of the following: (1) The construction, maintenance, repair, or operation of opportunity corridor improvements described in the memorandum of understanding; (2) Otherwise advancing the objectives of the qualified RTIP. (F) Form, participate in the management of, and contract with a public-private enterprise to assist in managing the development of opportunity corridor improvements to be located within rights of way and development areas acquired and owned by the RTIP. The governing documents of a proposed enterprise shall be submitted to the director of transportation for review and approval in the same manner as is required for approval of a cooperative agreement. As used in division (F) of this section, "public-private enterprise" means a business entity that is owned in part by a qualified RTIP and in part by one or more private persons. (G) Purchase real property fully or partially located within the development area, through means other than appropriation, that is necessary, convenient, or proper to provide a benefit to the public or for the construction, maintenance, repair, or operation of transportation improvements or opportunity corridor improvements. (H) Negotiate and enter into an agreement with the Ohio academic resources network to set up a point of presence for the purpose of establishing, expanding, or improving broadband service, or other digital capabilities or services, within the development area. Last updated October 4, 2023 at 3:05 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5555.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5555 / § 5555.01
§ 5555.01. County road improvement definitions
Status: in_force

March 12, 2001 House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Cost" or "costs" includes compensation, damages, and expenses that are incident to an improvement covered by this chapter and all items of cost described in division (B) of section 133.15 of the Revised Code that are incident to an improvement covered by this chapter. (B) "Public obligations" has the same meaning as in section 133.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Road" includes any state or county road or part of any state or county road, or any state or county road and any municipal corporation street, or part of a road or street of those types, which form a continuous road improvement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.481 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.481
§ 5534.481. Patrolman Dane L. Rowe Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

November 2, 2018 House Bill 347 - 132nd General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the portion of the road known as state route number three hundred seventeen, running in a northerly and southerly direction, between the intersection of that route and Gerling boulevard and the intersection of that route and Wingate road, in Madison township in Franklin county only, shall be known as the "Patrolman Dane L. Rowe Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5553.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5553 / § 5553.01
§ 5553.01. Improvement defined
Status: in_force

January 1, 1966 Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly As used in sections 5553.02 to 5553.16 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, "improvement" means any location, establishment, alteration, widening, straightening, vacation, or change in the direction of a public road, or part thereof, as determined upon by a board of county commissioners or joint board of county commissioners by resolution.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5523.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5523 / § 5523.06
§ 5523.06. Right to file answer to petition - presentation of other plans - hearing - finding
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Upon the filing of a petition under section 5523.05 of the Revised Code, accompanied by plans, the railroad company or director opposed to the prayer thereof, or directly interested therein, may, within forty days after service of summons, file an answer to such petition and present other plans for the abolition of such crossing. After expiration of such forty days the court shall proceed to a hearing upon the petition and any answers that have been filed, which hearing must be advanced upon the docket upon motion of either party. After examination of all plans presented to it and after hearing the evidence, the court shall make a finding as to whether such plans or any of them are reasonable and practicable.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.34
§ 5533.34. PFC Melvin E. Newlin, Medal of Honor Recipient, Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 578 - 134th General Assembly That portion of the road known as state route number seven, commencing at the boundary of Columbiana and Jefferson counties and extending in a northeasterly direction through the municipal corporation of Wellsville to the western-most boundary of the municipal corporation of East Liverpool, shall be known as the "PFC Melvin E. Newlin, Medal of Honor Recipient, Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name. Last updated February 27, 2023 at 3:38 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5531.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5531 / § 5531.07
§ 5531.07. Agreements with federal government for highway beautification
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly The director of transportation may enter into agreements with the secretary of transportation or other appropriate official of the United States as provided by the "Highway Beautification Act of 1965," 79 Stat. 1028, 23 U.S.C.A. 131, and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto. Any expenditures of money by the director in connection with agreements authorized by this section shall be payable from any funds available to the director.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5593.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5593 / § 5593.07
§ 5593.07. Restrictions as to members or employees of bridge commissions
Status: in_force

September 4, 1982 House Bill 98 - 114th General Assembly No person while in the employ of or holding any official relation to any person, firm, or corporation selling or furnishing any materials entering into the construction, improvement, repair, or maintenance of any bridge constructed or acquired by the county or city bridge commission, or who is pecuniarily interested therein as a stockholder or otherwise shall be a member of the county or city bridge commission. No such commission shall appoint any person as engineer, superintendent, or foreman sustaining such relation to such person, firm, or corporation. No such engineer, superintendent, or foreman shall thereafter become in any way connected with or interested in any such person, firm, or corporation while in the employ of such commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.181 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.181
§ 5533.181. Staff Sgt. James P. Hunter Memorial Bridge
Status: in_force

March 13, 2013 Senate Bill 300 - 129th General Assembly The bridge spanning the Vermillion river, located in the community of Birmingham in Erie county and being a part of the highway known as state route number one hundred thirteen, shall be known as the "Staff Sgt. James P. Hunter Memorial Bridge." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers upon the bridge or its approaches indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5502.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5502 / § 5502.15
§ 5502.15. Using federal funds
Status: in_force

October 16, 2009 House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly Any funding provided or made available by the United States or by any agency designated and authorized by the United States government for the purposes of enforcing compliance with supplemental nutrition assistance program laws shall be expended by the department of public safety for those purposes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5501.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5501 / § 5501.38
§ 5501.38. Reusing petroleum contaminated sands, gravel and soils as highway construction materials
Status: in_force

June 30, 1997 House Bill 215 - 122nd General Assembly The director of transportation has determined that it is feasible to use in the construction of highways sands, gravel, and soils that contain varying amounts of petroleum products resulting from the upgrading of underground storage tanks. In order to maximize the beneficial reuse of these petroleum contaminated sands, gravel, and soils, the director shall establish a program to promote the reuse of these materials as highway construction materials. Not later than one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this section, the director of transportation, in consultation with the chief of the bureau of underground storage tanks and the director of environmental protection, shall issue highway construction specifications that facilitate the reuse of petroleum contaminated sands, gravel, and soils that are removed during the repair, removal, or closure of underground storage tanks that are under the jurisdiction of the chief of the bureau of underground storage tanks. Following issuance of the specifications, the director of transportation shall prepare and distribute to any interested party information describing the program of the department to facilitate the reuse of such petroleum contaminated sands, gravel, and soils in the construction of highways. In order to accumulate a sufficient and ready supply of petroleum contaminated sands, gravel, and soils that meet the specifications, the director of transportation is authorized to construct and operate temporary covered structures in locations that are in close proximity to highway projects and accumulate bulk quantities of these sands, gravel, and soils for reuse. These materials shall be made available to the department of transportation and its contractors for reuse on highway construction projects. As used in this section, "petroleum" has the same meaning as in division (J) of section 3737.87 of the Revised Code, except that it does not include used oil.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5577.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5577 / § 5577.05
§ 5577.05. Prohibition against violation
Status: in_force

July 1, 2013 House Bill 51 - 130th General Assembly (A) No vehicle shall be operated upon the public highways, streets, bridges, and culverts within the state, whose dimensions exceed those specified in this section. (B) No such vehicle shall have a width in excess of: (1) One hundred four inches for passenger bus type vehicles operated exclusively within municipal corporations; (2) One hundred two inches, excluding such safety devices as are required by law, for passenger bus type vehicles operated over freeways, and such other state roads with minimum pavement widths of twenty-two feet, except those roads or portions of roads over which operation of one hundred two-inch buses is prohibited by order of the director of transportation; (3) One hundred thirty-two inches for traction engines; (4) One hundred two inches for recreational vehicles, excluding safety devices and retracted awnings and other appurtenances of six inches or less in width and except that the director may prohibit the operation of one hundred two inch recreational vehicles on designated state highways or portions of highways; (5) One hundred two inches, including load, for all other vehicles, except that the director may prohibit the operation of one hundred two-inch vehicles on such state highways or portions of state highways as the director designates. (C) No such vehicle shall have a length in excess of: (1) Sixty-six feet for passenger bus type vehicles and articulated passenger bus type vehicles operated by a regional transit authority pursuant to sections 306.30 to 306.54 of the Revised Code; (2) Forty-five feet for all other passenger bus type vehicles; (3) Fifty-three feet for any semitrailer when operated in a commercial tractor-semitrailer combination, with or without load, except that the director may prohibit the operation of any such commercial tractor-semitrailer combination on such state highways or portions of state highways as the director designates. (4) Twenty-eight and one-half feet for any semitrailer or trailer when operated in a commercial tractor-semitrailer-trailer or commercial tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination, except that the director may prohibit the operation of any such commercial tractor-semitrailer-trailer or commercial tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination on such state highways or portions of state highways as the director designates; (5)(a) Ninety-seven feet for drive-away saddlemount vehicle transporter combinations and drive-away saddlemount with fullmount vehicle transporter combinations when operated on any interstate, United States route, or state route, including reasonable access travel on all other roadways for a distance not to exceed one road mile from any interstate, United States route, or state route, not to exceed three saddlemounted vehicles, but which may include one fullmount; (b) Seventy-five feet for drive-away saddlemount vehicle transporter combinations and drive-away saddlemount with fullmount vehicle transporter combinations, when operated on any roadway not designated as an interstate, United States route, or state route, not to exceed three saddlemounted vehicles, but which may include one fullmount; (6) Sixty-five feet for any other combination of vehicles coupled together, with or without load, except as provided in divisions (C)(3) and (4), and in division (E) of this section; (7) Forty-five feet for recreational vehicles; (8) Fifty feet for all other vehicles except trailers and semitrailers, with or without load. (D) No such vehicle shall have a height in excess of thirteen feet six inches, with or without load. (E) An automobile transporter or boat transporter shall be allowed a length of sixty-five feet and a stinger-steered automobile transporter or stinger-steered boat transporter shall be allowed a length of seventy-five feet, except that the load thereon may extend no more than four feet beyond the rear of such vehicles and may extend no more than three feet beyond the front of such vehicles, and except further that the director may prohibit the operation of a stinger-steered automobile transporter, stinger-steered boat transporter, or a B-train assembly on any state highway or portion of any state highway that the director designates. (F) The widths prescribed in division (B) of this section shall not include side mirrors, turn signal lamps, marker lamps, handholds for cab entry and egress, flexible fender extensions, mud flaps, splash and spray suppressant devices, and load-induced tire bulge. The width prescribed in division (B)(5) of this section shall not include automatic covering devices, tarp and tarp hardware, and tiedown assemblies, provided these safety devices do not extend more than three inches from each side of the vehicle. The lengths prescribed in divisions (C)(2) to (8) of this section shall not include safety devices, bumpers attached to the front or rear of such bus or combination, nonproperty carrying devices or components that do not extend more than twenty-four inches beyond the rear of the vehicle and are needed for loading or unloading, B-train assembly used between the first and second semitrailer of a commercial tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination, energy conservation devices as provided in any regulations adopted by the secretary of the United States department of transportation, or any noncargo-carrying refrigeration equipment attached to the front of trailers and semitrailers. In special cases, vehicles whose dimensions exceed those prescribed by this section may operate in accordance with rules adopted by the director. (G) This section does not apply to fire engines, fire trucks, or other vehicles or apparatus belonging to any municipal corporation or to the volunteer fire department of any municipal corporation or used by such department in the discharge of its functions. This section does not apply to vehicles and pole trailers used in the transportation of wooden and metal poles, nor to the transportation of pipes or well-drilling equipment, nor to farm machinery and equipment. The owner or operator of any vehicle, machinery, or equipment not specifically enumerated in this section but the dimensions of which exceed the dimensions provided by this section, when operating the same on the highways and streets of this state, shall comply with the rules of the director governing such movement that the director may adopt. Sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code apply to any rules the director adopts under this section, or the amendment or rescission of the rules, and any person adversely affected shall have the same right of appeal as provided in those sections. This section does not require the state, a municipal corporation, county, township, or any railroad or other private corporation to provide sufficient vertical clearance to permit the operation of such vehicle, or to make any changes in or about existing structures now crossing streets, roads, and other public thoroughfares in this state. (H) As used in this section, "recreational vehicle" has the same meaning as in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 29, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5537.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5537 / § 5537.01
§ 5537.01. Turnpike commission definitions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Commission" means the Ohio turnpike and infrastructure commission created by section 5537.02 of the Revised Code or, if that commission is abolished, the board, body, officer, or commission succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to which the powers given by this chapter to the commission are given by law. (B) "Turnpike project" means any express or limited access highway, super highway, or motorway constructed, operated, or improved, under the jurisdiction of the commission and pursuant to this chapter and approved by the governor, including all bridges, tunnels, overpasses, underpasses, interchanges, entrance plazas, approaches, those portions of connecting public roads that serve interchanges and are determined by the commission and the director of transportation to be necessary for the safe merging of traffic between the turnpike project and those public roads, toll booths, service facilities, and administration, storage, and other buildings, property, and facilities that the commission considers necessary for the operation or policing of the turnpike project, together with all property and rights which may be acquired by the commission for the construction, maintenance, or operation of the turnpike project, and includes any sections or extensions of a turnpike project designated by the commission as such for the particular purpose. Each turnpike project shall be separately designated, by name or number, and may be constructed, improved, or extended in such sections as the commission may from time to time determine. Construction includes the improvement and renovation of a previously constructed turnpike project, including additional interchanges, whether or not the turnpike project was initially constructed by the commission. (C) "Infrastructure project" means any public express or limited access highway, super highway, or motorway, including all bridges, tunnels, overpasses, underpasses, interchanges, entrance plazas, approaches, and those portions of connecting public roads that serve interchanges, that is constructed or improved, in whole or in part, with infrastructure funding approved pursuant to criteria established under section 5537.18 of the Revised Code. (D) "Cost," as applied to construction of a turnpike project or an infrastructure project, includes the cost of construction, including bridges over or under existing highways and railroads, acquisition of all property acquired either by the commission or by the owner of the infrastructure project for the construction, demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to which the buildings or structures may be moved, site clearance, improvement, and preparation, diverting public roads, interchanges with public roads, access roads to private property, including the cost of land or easements therefor, all machinery, furnishings, and equipment, communications facilities, financing expenses, interest prior to and during construction and for one year after completion of construction, traffic estimates, indemnity and surety bonds and premiums on insurance, title work and title commitments, insurance, and guarantees, engineering, feasibility studies, and legal expenses, plans, specifications, surveys, estimates of cost and revenues, other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of constructing or operating a turnpike project or an infrastructure project, administrative expenses, and any other expense that may be necessary or incident to the construction of the turnpike project or an infrastructure project, the financing of the construction, and the placing of the turnpike project or an infrastructure project in operation. Any obligation or expense incurred by the department of transportation with the approval of the commission for surveys, borings, preparation of plans and specifications, and other engineering services in connection with the construction of a turnpike project or an infrastructure project, or by the federal government with the approval of the commission for any public road projects which must be reimbursed as a condition to the exercise of any of the powers of the commission under this chapter, shall be regarded as a part of the cost of the turnpike project or an infrastructure project and shall be reimbursed to the state or the federal government, as the case may be, from revenues, state taxes, or the proceeds of bonds as authorized by this chapter. (E) "Owner" includes all persons having any title or interest in any property authorized to be acquired by the commission for turnpike projects under this chapter, or the public entity for whom an infrastructure project is funded, in whole or in part, by the commission under this chapter. (F) "Revenues" means all tolls, service revenues, investment income on special funds, rentals, gifts, grants, and all other moneys coming into the possession of or under the control of the commission by virtue of this chapter, except the proceeds from the sale of bonds. "Revenues" does not include state taxes. (G) "Public roads" means all public highways, roads, and streets in the state, whether maintained by a state agency or any other governmental agency. (H) "Public utility facilities" means tracks, pipes, mains, conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles, and other equipment and appliances of any public utility. (I) "Financing expenses" means all costs and expenses relating to the authorization, issuance, sale, delivery, authentication, deposit, custody, clearing, registration, transfer, exchange, fractionalization, replacement, payment, and servicing of bonds including, without limitation, costs and expenses for or relating to publication and printing, postage, delivery, preliminary and final official statements, offering circulars, and informational statements, travel and transportation, underwriters, placement agents, investment bankers, paying agents, registrars, authenticating agents, remarketing agents, custodians, clearing agencies or corporations, securities depositories, financial advisory services, certifications, audits, federal or state regulatory agencies, accounting and computation services, legal services and obtaining approving legal opinions and other legal opinions, credit ratings, redemption premiums, and credit enhancement facilities. (J) "Bond proceedings" means the resolutions, trust agreements, certifications, notices, sale proceedings, leases, lease-purchase agreements, assignments, credit enhancement facility agreements, and other agreements, instruments, and documents, as amended and supplemented, or any one or more or any combination thereof, authorizing, or authorizing or providing for the terms and conditions applicable to, or providing for the security or sale or award or liquidity of, bonds, and includes the provisions set forth or incorporated in those bonds and bond proceedings. (K) "Bond service charges" means principal, including any mandatory sinking fund or mandatory redemption requirements for the retirement of bonds, and interest and any redemption premium payable on bonds, as those payments come due and are payable to the bondholder or to a person making payment under a credit enhancement facility of those bond service charges to a bondholder. (L) "Bond service fund" means the applicable fund created by the bond proceedings for and pledged to the payment of bond service charges on bonds provided for by those proceedings, including all moneys and investments, and earnings from investments, credited and to be credited to that fund as provided in the bond proceedings. (M) "Bonds" means bonds, notes, including notes anticipating bonds or other notes, commercial paper, certificates of participation, or other evidences of obligation, including any interest coupons pertaining thereto, issued by the commission pursuant to this chapter. (N) "Infrastructure fund" means the applicable fund or funds created by the bond proceedings, which shall be used to pay or defray the cost of infrastructure projects recommended by the director of transportation and evaluated and approved by the commission. (O) "Net revenues" means revenues lawfully available to pay both current operating expenses of the commission and bond service charges in any fiscal year or other specified period, less current operating expenses of the commission and any amount necessary to maintain a working capital reserve for that period. (P) "Pledged revenues" means net revenues, moneys and investments, and earnings on those investments, in the applicable bond service fund and any other special funds, and the proceeds of any bonds issued for the purpose of refunding prior bonds, all as lawfully available and by resolution of the commission committed for application as pledged revenues to the payment of bond service charges on particular issues of bonds. (Q) "Service facilities" means service stations, restaurants, and other facilities for food service, roadside parks and rest areas, parking, camping, tenting, rest, and sleeping facilities, hotels or motels, and all similar and other facilities providing services to the traveling public in connection with the use of a turnpike project and owned, leased, licensed, or operated by the commission. (R) "Service revenues" means those revenues of the commission derived from its ownership, leasing, licensing, or operation of service facilities. (S) "Special funds" means the applicable bond service fund and any accounts and subaccounts in that fund, any other funds or accounts permitted by and established under, and identified as a "special fund" or "special account" in, the bond proceedings, including any special fund or account established for purposes of rebate or other requirements under federal income tax laws. (T) "State agencies" means the state, officers of the state, and boards, departments, branches, divisions, or other units or agencies of the state. (U) "State taxes" means receipts of the commission from the proceeds of state taxes or excises levied and collected, or appropriated by the general assembly to the commission, for the purposes and functions of the commission. State taxes do not include tolls, or investment earnings on state taxes except on those state taxes referred to in Section 5a of Article XII, Ohio Constitution. (V) "Tolls" means tolls, special fees or permit fees, or other charges by the commission to the owners, lessors, lessees, or operators of motor vehicles for the operation of or the right to operate those vehicles on a turnpike project. (W) "Credit enhancement facilities" means letters of credit, lines of credit, standby, contingent, or firm securities purchase agreements, insurance, or surety arrangements, guarantees, and other arrangements that provide for direct or contingent payment of bond service charges, for security or additional security in the event of nonpayment or default in respect of bonds, or for making payment of bond service charges and at the option and on demand of bondholders or at the option of the commission or upon certain conditions occurring under put or similar arrangements, or for otherwise supporting the credit or liquidity of the bonds, and includes credit, reimbursement, marketing, remarketing, indexing, carrying, interest rate hedge, and subrogation agreements, and other agreements and arrangements for payment and reimbursement of the person providing the credit enhancement facility and the security for that payment and reimbursement. (X) "Person" has the same meaning as in section 1.59 of the Revised Code and, unless the context otherwise provides, also includes any governmental agency and any combination of those persons. (Y) "Refund" means to fund and retire outstanding bonds, including advance refunding with or without payment or redemption prior to stated maturity. (Z) "Governmental agency" means any state agency, federal agency, political subdivision, or other local, interstate, or regional governmental agency, and any combination of those agencies. (AA) "Property" has the same meaning as in section 1.59 of the Revised Code, and includes interests in property. (BB) "Administrative agent," "agent," "commercial paper," "floating rate interest structure," "indexing agent," "interest rate hedge," "interest rate period," "put arrangement," and "remarketing agent" have the same meanings as in section 9.98 of the Revised Code. (CC) "Outstanding," as applied to bonds, means outstanding in accordance with the terms of the bonds and the applicable bond proceedings. (DD) "Ohio turnpike system" or "system" means all existing and future turnpike projects constructed, operated, and maintained under the jurisdiction of the commission. (EE) "Ohio turnpike and infrastructure system" means turnpike projects and infrastructure projects funded by the commission existing on and after July 1, 2013, that facilitate access to, use of, and egress from the Ohio turnpike system, and also facilitate access to and from areas of population, commerce, and industry that are connected to the Ohio turnpike system. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5549.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5549 / § 5549.03
§ 5549.03. Purchase of road material
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of county commissioners or the county engineer, when authorized by the board of county commissioners or the board of township trustees, may purchase from any public institution within the state any road material, machinery, tools, or equipment, quarried, mined, prepared, or manufactured by such institution.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5553.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5553 / § 5553.25
§ 5553.25. Hearing upon petition to change road - finding of board
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly At the hearing had upon the petition provided for in section 5553.23 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners may hear evidence for or against changing the road, and if it is satisfied that the proposed change will not cause serious injury or disadvantage to the public, it may make a finding of such fact in its journal and authorize the petitioner to change such road in conformity with the prayer of the petition. The board may grant the change as prayed for in the petition, or it may order such change of the route of such road as will, in its judgment, be for the best interest of the public.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.153 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.153
§ 5534.153. First Lieutenant Gerald B. Greendyke Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 578 - 134th General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the northbound and southbound lanes of state route number forty-nine between the northernmost intersection of that route and Heritage road and the intersection of that route and Arcanum Bears Mill road, in Darke county, shall be known as the "First Lieutenant Gerald B. Greendyke Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name. Last updated February 27, 2023 at 2:44 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.407 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.407
§ 5534.407. Patrolman Mathew Mazany Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

June 10, 2020 House Bill 276 - 133rd General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed by the Revised Code or otherwise, the eastbound and westbound lanes of state route number two between the intersection of that route and state route number three hundred six and the intersection of that route and state route number six hundred fifteen, in Lake county, shall be known as the "Patrolman Mathew Mazany Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.80 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.80
§ 5534.80. Specialist Lawrence George Stapleton Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

June 30, 2017 House Bill 26 - 132nd General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the eastbound and westbound lanes of interstate route number ninety between mile marker one hundred eighty-two and mile marker one hundred eighty-five, in Cuyahoga county, shall be known as the "Specialist Lawrence George Stapleton Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.761 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.761
§ 5534.761. Cpl. David A. Johnston Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 House Bill 81 - 135th General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the portion of the road known as Refugee road running in an easterly and westerly direction between state route number two hundred fifty-six and Pickerington road northwest, in Fairfield county, shall be known as the "Cpl. David A. Johnston Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name. Last updated February 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5515.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5515 / § 5515.05
§ 5515.05. Grant of franchise to street or interurban railways
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly No franchise or grant to any street, interurban, or other railway shall be granted by the director of transportation, board of county commissioners, or by the council of any municipal corporation, unless such franchise or grant provides that the company shall, when required by the proper authorities in charge of such road or street, make such changes in its grade and method of construction as are necessary to conform to any improvement made on such street or road. The type of construction used by the company shall be approved in the first instance: (A) By the director, if such road is under jurisdiction of the state; (B) By the engineer of a municipal corporation if such improvement is within the bounds of such municipal corporation; (C) By the county engineer in the case of other roads, and shall also be approved by the proper authorities having jurisdiction over such street or road.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.404 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.404
§ 5534.404. Firefighter/Paramedic Patrick Wolterman Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

November 2, 2018 House Bill 347 - 132nd General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the portion of the road known as state route number four, running in a northerly and southerly direction, between the intersection of that route and north Fair avenue and the intersection of that route and state route number one hundred twenty-nine, in Butler county only, shall be known as the "Firefighter/Paramedic Patrick Wolterman Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5501.49 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5501 / § 5501.49
§ 5501.49. Lift bridge inspection
Status: in_force

June 30, 2007 House Bill 67 - 127th General Assembly (A) The director of transportation is responsible for the construction, reconstruction, major maintenance and repair, and operation of all bridges located on the state highway system within a municipal corporation. The public entity responsible for maintaining the pavements and sidewalks on either end of the bridge is responsible for the routine maintenance of all bridges located on the state highway system within the municipal corporation. (B) The director may enter into an agreement with the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or a county, upon mutually agreeable terms, for the municipal corporation or county to operate and perform major maintenance and repair on any bridge located on the state highway system within the municipal corporation or county. (C) The director is not required to obtain the consent of a municipal corporation prior to the performance of any major bridge maintenance and repair. Except in an emergency, the director shall give a municipal corporation reasonable notice prior to the performance of any work that will affect the flow of traffic. No utilities, signs, or other appurtenances shall be attached to a bridge without the prior written consent of the director. (D) As used in this section: (1) Major and routine maintenance and repair relates to all elements of a bridge, including abutments, wingwalls, and headwalls but excluding approach fill and approach slab, and appurtenances thereto. (2) "Major maintenance" includes the painting of a bridge, and the repair of deteriorated or damaged elements of bridge decks, including emergency patching of bridge decks, to restore the structural integrity of a bridge. (3) "Routine maintenance" includes without limitation, clearing debris from the deck, sweeping, snow and ice removal, minor wearing surface patching, cleaning bridge drainage systems, marking decks for traffic control, minor and emergency repairs to railing and appurtenances, emergency patching of deck, and maintenance of traffic signal and lighting systems, including the supply of electrical power. (4) "Operation" relates solely to lift bridges and to those expenses that are necessary for the routine, daily operation of a lift bridge, such as payroll, workers' compensation and retirement payments, and the cost of utilities.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5523.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5523 / § 5523.14
§ 5523.14. Clearance under viaduct
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 Senate Bill 361 - 100th General Assembly Any way, crossing, or viaduct constructed over the tracks of any railroad company under sections 5523.01 to 5523.13 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be of such height as not to be less than twenty-one feet in the clear, from the top surface of the rails of the railroad track to the lowest point or projection of such overhead way, crossing, or viaduct, unless such company consents to or the court orders a less height. In no event shall the court order a less height than sixteen feet three inches.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.604 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.604
§ 5533.604. Sergeant Jeremy D. Barnett Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

April 7, 2009 Senate Bill 243 - 127th General Assembly The road known as state route number eight hundred, located within the municipal corporation of Mineral City in Tuscarawas county only, shall be known as the "Sergeant Jeremy D. Barnett Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.545 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.545
§ 5533.545. Sgt. Charles J. Webb Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

September 4, 2014 Senate Bill 245 - 130th General Assembly The portion of the road known as south fair avenue south of state route number one hundred twenty-nine and as north fair avenue north of that state route, commencing at the intersection of south fair avenue and hancock avenue and proceeding in a northerly direction to the intersection of north fair avenue and state route number four in the municipal corporation of Hamilton in Butler county, shall be known as the "Sgt. Charles J. Webb Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5559.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5559 / § 5559.02
§ 5559.02. Grading, draining, and paving of platted lands outside of municipal corporations
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of county commissioners may, as provided in sections 5559.03 to 5559.16 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, improve by grading, draining, paving, constructing storm sewers, sidewalks, curbs, and gutters, any road, street, alley, or portion thereof lying within or bounded on both sides by any platted lands, and situated outside a municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5561.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5561 / § 5561.02
§ 5561.02. Change of location of state highways
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly When the board of county commissioners deems it necessary, in the abolishment of grade crossings, to change the location of any state or intercounty highway in the county, such board may, with the approval of the director of transportation, relocate such highway or any part thereof, vacate the whole or any portion of such highway abandoned by relocation, and cause the improvements contemplated to be placed in such relocated highway.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5525.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5525 / § 5525.08
§ 5525.08. Disposition of bids of unqualified bidders - nonresponsive bids
Status: in_force

June 30, 2025 House Bill 54 - 136th General Assembly Except as otherwise provided in this section, the director of transportation shall not consider any bid filed with the director by any person who has not been qualified to bid by the time the contract is awarded. If the director finds, subsequent to the opening of bids, that facts exist that would disqualify the lowest bidder, or that such bidder either is not competent and responsible or has submitted a nonresponsive bid, the director shall reject such bid, despite any prior qualification of such bidder. No contract shall be awarded to any bidder not qualified to bid thereon at the time of awarding the contract, except that the director may award contracts for environmental remediation and specialty work not set out in the director's rules governing classes of work to bidders that are not qualified under sections 5525.02 to 5525.09 of the Revised Code. Last updated April 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.24
§ 5533.24. American Legion Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly The road known as interstate route seventy-five, running in a southerly direction from the city of Toledo, Lucas county, through the counties of Wood, Hancock, Allen, Auglaize, Shelby, Miami, Montgomery and Warren to the city of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, shall be known as the "American Legion Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers upon such highway indicating its name. Last updated February 27, 2023 at 3:32 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.441 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.441
§ 5534.441. Police Chief Ronnie Ricketts, Sr. Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 House Bill 81 - 135th General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, state route number one hundred seventy, running in a northwesterly and southeasterly direction within the municipal corporation of New Middletown, in Mahoning county, shall be known as the "Police Chief Ronnie Ricketts, Sr. Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name. Last updated February 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5543.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5543 / § 5543.06
§ 5543.06. Annual meeting of county and township authorities
Status: in_force

April 9, 2025 House Bill 257 - 135th General Assembly The county engineer shall annually call a meeting, within the county, at a time and place approved by the board of county commissioners, of all the township and county authorities having directly to do with the construction and repair of roads and bridges within the county. At such meeting, which shall be open to the general public, the engineer, or the engineer's designee, shall instruct the proper authorities as to the best and most economical methods for repairing and maintaining the roads and bridges of the county, so as to provide a uniform system of highway work for such county. Each official attending such meeting shall receive the official's actual and necessary expenses, in addition to the official's regular per diem or salary, which shall be paid by the county treasurer from the road fund of the county on itemized vouchers approved by the engineer. The county engineer may conduct a meeting under this section through means of video conference or any other similar electronic technology in accordance with section 121.221 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5528.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5528 / § 5528.40
§ 5528.40. Certifying retirement of obligations
Status: in_force

July 1, 2015 House Bill 53 - 131st General Assembly Upon the payment in full of all interest, principal, and charges for the retirement of all highway obligations issued pursuant to Section 2i of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and sections 5528.30 and 5528.31 of the Revised Code, the commissioners of the sinking fund shall make a certification of such fact to the clerk of the senate, the clerk of the house of representatives, and the treasurer of state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.014 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.014
§ 5534.014. SFC Charles E. Carpenter Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

June 10, 2020 House Bill 276 - 133rd General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed by the Revised Code or otherwise, the road known as state route number one hundred twenty-two, running in an easterly and westerly direction, commencing at the intersection of that route and Wicoff street in Butler county and extending to the intersection of that route and Towne boulevard in Warren county, shall be known as the "SFC Charles E. Carpenter Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.85 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.85
§ 5533.85. Charles E. Holzer Highway
Status: in_force

May 18, 2005 Senate Bill 156 - 125th General Assembly The road known as state route number one hundred sixty, running in a northerly and southerly direction within Gallia county only, shall be known as the "Charles E. Holzer Highway." The director of transportation may erect markers along the highway indicating its name. Last updated February 27, 2023 at 5:01 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5543.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5543 / § 5543.21
§ 5543.21. Public trail intersection markers
Status: in_force

October 20, 1972 Senate Bill 249 - 109th General Assembly The county engineer shall install and maintain suitable, uniform markers designating intersections with and accesses to state recreational trails, wherever any trail established pursuant to Chapter 1519. of the Revised Code intersects with a county or township road, or along any county or township road that such a trail follows. The county engineer shall similarly install and maintain suitable, uniform markers designating each public recreational trail preserved by the board of county commissioners under section 5553.044 of the Revised Code, wherever such a trial intersects with a county or township road. The markers shall include the words "public trail" and "motorized vehicles prohibited." The costs of such installation and maintenance may be paid from any county road improvement or maintenance and repair funds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5593.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5593 / § 5593.99
§ 5593.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

July 23, 1969 House Bill 826 - 108th General Assembly Whoever violates section 5593.20 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for a first offense; for each subsequent offense such person shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5516.061 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5516 / § 5516.061
§ 5516.061. Requirements for advertising devices outside urban areas
Status: in_force

June 30, 2021 House Bill 74 - 134th General Assembly (A) No advertising device shall be erected outside of urban areas further than six hundred sixty feet from the right-of-way of the main traveled way of a highway on the interstate or primary system if such device would be visible from such main traveled way, except signs lawfully in existence on October 22, 1965, that the director of transportation, subject to the approval of the secretary of the United States department of transportation, has determined to be landmark signs, including signs on farm structures or natural surfaces that are of historic or artistic significance. (B) Any advertising device lawfully in existence prior to November 28, 1975, or lawfully on any highway made a part of the interstate or primary system on or after that date, the erection of which would be illegal under this section, is nonconforming, and may be maintained subject to the permit provisions of section 5516.10 of the Revised Code. An advertising device existing prior to September 16, 2004, which would be illegal under this section shall be considered a nonconforming advertising device and may be maintained subject to the permit provisions of section 5516.10 of the Revised Code. (C) As used in this section, "urban area" means an urbanized area or an urban place as designated by the bureau of the census having a population of five thousand or more, and within boundaries approved by the United States secretary of transportation. Last updated April 12, 2021 at 10:14 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5528.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5528 / § 5528.16
§ 5528.16. Insufficient moneys in highway improvement bond retirement fund
Status: in_force

November 23, 1977 Senate Bill 221 - 112th General Assembly In the event the moneys to the credit of the highway improvement bond retirement fund created by section 5528.12 of the Revised Code are insufficient to meet in full all payments of interest, principal, and charges for the retirement of bonds and other obligations issued pursuant to Section 2g, Article VIII, Ohio Constitution and sections 5528.10 and 5528.11 of the Revised Code due and payable during the current calendar year, except the principal of notes which the commissioners of the sinking fund certify will be retired by the issuance of bonds or renewal notes, the commissioners of the sinking fund may on or before the fifteenth day of January of any such year or any time or times during such calendar year but shall in any event within ten days prior to the time any such payments are due certify to the treasurer of state the total amount of such payments, the amount of moneys to the credit of the highway improvement bond retirement fund created by section 5528.12 of the Revised Code, and the amount of additional money necessary to be credited to such bond retirement fund to meet in full the payment of such interest, principal, or charges when due. Upon the receipt of such certification, or if on presentation for payment when due of either principal or interest on the bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to Section 2g of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, there be insufficient moneys for payment of such principal and interest, the treasurer of state shall transfer the amount required as the additional moneys necessary to meet in full all payments of interest, principal, and charges for the retirement of bonds and other obligations issued pursuant to Section 2g of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and sections 5528.10 and 5528.11 of the Revised Code to the highway improvement bond retirement fund created by section 5528.12 of the Revised Code from the undistributed revenues derived from fees, excise, or license taxes, levied by the state, relating to registration, operation, or use of vehicles on public highways, or to fuels used for propelling such vehicles.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5528.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5528 / § 5528.14
§ 5528.14. Certifying moneys needed to meet all bond payments for year
Status: in_force

December 2, 1964 House Bill 9 - 105th General Assembly The commissioners of the sinking fund shall on or before the fifteenth day of January of each calendar year, certify to the treasurer of state the total amount of moneys required, during the current calendar year, to meet in full all payments of interest, principal, and charges due and payable in that calendar year for the retirement of bonds and other obligations after deducting from such total amount the principal of notes which the commissioners of the sinking fund certify will be paid from the proceeds of bonds or renewal notes, issued pursuant to Section 2g of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution and sections 5528.10 and 5528.11 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.542 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.542
§ 5533.542. U.S. Army Specialist Allen Nolan Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

June 3, 2014 House Bill 19 - 130th General Assembly That portion of the road known as state route number six hundred seventy-six, from mile marker number twenty-two to mile marker twenty-three, in Washington county only, shall be known as the "U.S. Army Specialist Allen Nolan Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5543.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5543 / § 5543.08
§ 5543.08. Assistance of director of transportation
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly The county engineer may request advice and assistance from the director of transportation in all matters relating to the duties of such engineer. In so far as the highways, bridges, and culverts under the control of the state are concerned, the engineer shall be governed, in the conduct of his work, by the instructions of the director, as issued for the guidance of engineers.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.181 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.181
§ 5534.181. Army PFC Noah C. Porter Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 578 - 134th General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the eastbound and westbound lanes of state route number six hundred sixty-five, between the intersection of that route and Borror road and the intersection of that route and Young road, in Franklin county, shall be known as the "Army PFC Noah C. Porter Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name. Last updated February 27, 2023 at 2:45 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.725 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.725
§ 5533.725. Marine Corporal Paul W. Zanowick II Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

June 3, 2014 House Bill 19 - 130th General Assembly That portion of the road known as state route number seven hundred twenty-five, commencing at the intersection of that road and Heincke road in the municipal corporation of Miamisburg and extending in an easterly direction to the intersection of that road and state route number seven hundred forty-one, in Montgomery county only, shall be known as the "Marine Corporal Paul W. Zanowick II Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.651 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.651
§ 5534.651. Cpl. Jack O. McClure Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 House Bill 81 - 135th General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the northbound and southbound lanes of state route number eight in the municipal corporation of Cuyahoga Falls, in Summit county, shall be known as the "Cpl. Jack O. McClure Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name. Last updated February 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5531.145 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5531 / § 5531.145
§ 5531.145. Late notices; consequences
Status: in_force

September 11, 2014 House Bill 533 - 130th General Assembly (A) If the toll project operator sends a late notice to the registered owner and the registered owner, within thirty-five days after the date of mailing of the late notice, fails to pay the user fee and any administrative fee contained in the late notice and fails to submit a notice to contest liability for any of those fees, the toll project operator may do either of the following: (1) Issue a motor vehicle certificate of registration issuance prevention order to the registrar of motor vehicles and send a copy of the order to the registered owner. If the registered owner resides in another state or jurisdiction, the toll project operator shall send the order to the department, division, bureau, office, or other unit of government that is functionally equivalent to the bureau of motor vehicles. The order shall have the same effect in another state or jurisdiction as in this state. (2) File a civil suit against the registered owner in the municipal court or county court having jurisdiction over the location of the toll project as provided in section 5531.146 of the Revised Code. (B) If the toll project operator sends a motor vehicle certificate of registration issuance prevention order to the registrar under division (A)(1) of this section, the registered owner may file a request for a hearing in the municipal court or county having jurisdiction over the location of the toll project within thirty-five days after the date the toll project operator sends the order to the registrar. The order shall remain in effect pending the results of the hearing in the municipal court or county court. If the registered owner fails to file an appeal with the municipal court or county court within that thirty-five-day period, the registered owner is considered to have waived the registered owner's right to appeal the issuance of the motor vehicle certificate of registration issuance prevention order. The toll project operator may file a civil suit against the registered owner in the municipal court or county court having jurisdiction over the location of the toll project as provided in section 5531.146 of the Revised Code. (C)(1) If an appeal hearing is requested under division (B) of this section, the municipal court or county court shall determine whether the registered owner is liable for the payment of any user fee or administrative fee and whether the issuance by the toll project operator of the motor vehicle certificate of registration issuance prevention order was valid. If the court finds that the registered owner is not liable for payment of the user fee or administrative fee, the court shall issue a ruling to that effect and dismiss the late notice. The toll project operator immediately shall inform the registrar of the ruling and shall direct the registrar to cancel the motor vehicle certificate of registration issuance prevention order issued under division (A)(1) of this section. (2) If the court finds that the registered owner is liable for payment of the user fee or any administrative fee and that the issuance by the toll project operator of the motor vehicle certificate of registration issuance prevention order was valid, the court shall issue a ruling to that effect. If the court issues such a ruling and payment in full is not made to the toll project operator upon completion of the appeal hearing, the toll project operator shall inform the registrar of motor vehicles of the ruling and the failure by the registered owner to make payment in full, and the motor vehicle certificate of registration issuance prevention order issued under division (A)(1) of this section remains in effect. (3) If the court finds that the registered owner is liable for payment of the user fee or any administrative fee but the issuance by the toll project operator of the motor vehicle certificate of registration issuance prevention order was not valid, the court shall issue a ruling to that effect. If the court issues such a ruling, the toll project operator shall inform the registrar of the ruling and direct the registrar to cancel the motor vehicle certificate of registration issuance prevention order. The registered owner remains liable for payment of the user fee or any administrative fee. The toll project operator may reissue the motor vehicle certificate of registration issuance prevention order. If the toll project operator reissues the order, the registered owner may appeal the order as provided in division (B) of this section. (4) If, upon completion of the appeal hearing, the registered owner pays in full to the toll project operator all user fees and administrative fees for which the court ruled the registered owner was liable, the toll project operator shall inform the registrar of the ruling and the payment in full by the registered owner. The toll project operator also shall direct the registrar to cancel the motor vehicle certificate of registration issuance prevention order. (5) If the court rules under division (C)(2) or (3) of this section that the registered owner is liable for payment of the user fee or any administrative fee, and the registered owner does not pay all such fees within thirty-five days after the court issues the ruling, the toll project operator may file a civil suit against the registered owner in the municipal court or county court having jurisdiction over the location of the toll project as provided in section 5531.146 of the Revised Code. (D) At any time after a toll project operator issues an order under division (A)(1) of this section, the registered owner may pay all user fees and administrative fees owed to the toll project operator. If such payment is made, the toll project operator shall inform the registrar of the payment and shall direct the registrar to cancel the motor vehicle certificate of registration prevention order.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5505.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5505 / § 5505.02
§ 5505.02. State highway patrol pension fund established - membership mandatory
Status: in_force

February 21, 1967 House Bill 1 - 107th General Assembly The state highway patrol retirement system is hereby established for the state highway patrol employees, as defined in division (A) of section 5505.01 of the Revised Code. Membership in the retirement system includes all state highway patrol employees, as defined in section 5505.01 of the Revised Code, and such membership is mandatory for such employees.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5502.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5502 / § 5502.27
§ 5502.27. Regional authority for emergency management
Status: in_force

May 15, 2002 Senate Bill 184 - 124th General Assembly (A) In lieu of establishing a countywide emergency management agency under section 5502.26 of the Revised Code, the boards of county commissioners of two or more counties, with the consent of the chief executives of a majority of the participating political subdivisions of each county involved, may enter into a written agreement establishing a regional authority for emergency management. A representative from each political subdivision entering into the agreement, selected by the political subdivision's chief executive, shall constitute a regional advisory group for the purpose of appointing an executive committee under this section through which the regional authority shall implement emergency management in the counties in accordance with this section and for the purpose of advising the executive committee on matters pertaining to regional emergency management. The executive committee shall consist of at least the following nine members: two county commissioners representing the boards of county commissioners entering into the agreement; six chief executives representing the municipal corporations and townships entering into the agreement; and one nonelected representative. The regional agreement shall specify how many additional members, if any, shall serve on the executive committee and their manner of selection. The authority shall be supported financially by the political subdivisions entering into the regional agreement. The executive committee shall appoint a director/coordinator of emergency management who shall pursue a professional development training program in accordance with rules adopted under section 5502.25 of the Revised Code. The director/coordinator of emergency management may be an official or employee of any political subdivision entering into the regional agreement, except that the director/coordinator shall not be the chief executive of any such political subdivision. A regional authority for emergency management organized under this section shall establish a program for emergency management that: (1) Is in accordance with sections 5502.21 to 5502.51 of the Revised Code, rules adopted under those sections, local ordinances pertaining to emergency management, the "Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act," 88 Stat. 143, 42 U.S.C. 5121, et. seq., as amended, and all applicable rules and regulations adopted under that act; (2) Includes, without limitation, development of an all-hazards emergency operations plan that has been coordinated with all agencies, boards, and divisions having emergency management functions within the regional authority; (3) Includes the preparation and conduct of an annual exercise of the regional authority's all-hazards emergency operations plan; (4) Is applicable to all political subdivisions entering into the regional agreement. The director/coordinator of emergency management for a regional authority organized under this section shall be responsible for coordinating, organizing, administering, and operating emergency management in accordance with the authority's program established under this section, subject to the direction and control of the executive committee. All agencies, boards, and divisions having emergency management functions within each political subdivision within the regional authority shall cooperate in the development of the all-hazards emergency operations plan and shall cooperate in the preparation and conduct of the annual exercise. (B) Nothing in this section requires any political subdivision that is located within a county that has entered into a written agreement under this section establishing a regional authority for emergency management to enter into that agreement, provided that the political subdivision has established a program for emergency management in accordance with section 5502.271 of the Revised Code. (C) A regional authority for emergency management may designate the county auditor and county treasurer of one of the counties in the region as fiscal officers for the regional authority and may designate the prosecuting attorney of one of the counties in the region as legal advisor for the regional authority.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.75 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.75
§ 5533.75. Deputy Ethan Collins Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

March 29, 2007 House Bill 699 - 126th General Assembly That portion of the road known as state route one hundred eighty-eight, located within Fairfield county only, shall be known as the "Deputy Ethan Collins Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name. Last updated February 27, 2023 at 4:53 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5525.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5525 / § 5525.19
§ 5525.19. Payment of costs
Status: in_force

September 16, 1998 Senate Bill 229 - 122nd General Assembly Payment for the cost of the establishment, construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance, and repair of a highway under Chapters 5501., 5503., 5511., 5513., 5515., 5516., 5517., 5519., 5521., 5523., 5525., 5527., 5528., 5529., 5531., 5533., and 5535. of the Revised Code shall be made at intervals of not less than once a month as the work progresses, upon estimates made by the district deputy director of transportation in charge of the improvement and upon approval of the director of transportation. When an estimate is allowed on account of material delivered on the site of the work or in the vicinity thereof, but not yet incorporated therein, the material shall become the property of the state, but if the material is stolen, destroyed, or damaged by casualty before being used, or for any reason becomes unfit for use, the contractor shall replace the material at the contractor's own expense. In addition to the estimates provided for by law, the director, under such conditions as the director prescribes, may allow and pay to a contractor a sum not exceeding the value of the material delivered by the contractor and safely stored at an approved site. When such estimate is allowed, the material on which it is allowed shall become the property of the state, but in case the material is stolen, destroyed, or damaged by casualty before being used, or for any reason becomes unfit for use, the contractor shall replace the material at the contractor's expense. A contractor may insure against loss or damage by fire or otherwise all materials on which estimates have been allowed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.682 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.682
§ 5533.682. Patrolman Jerry R. Neff Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

April 7, 2009 Senate Bill 243 - 127th General Assembly That portion of United States route number sixty-two located in southwestern Franklin county between mile marker number one and mile marker number two shall be known as the "Patrolman Jerry R. Neff Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.75 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.75
§ 5534.75. Sgt. Bruce R. Jones Memorial Bridge
Status: in_force

June 30, 2017 House Bill 26 - 132nd General Assembly The bridge spanning the Meander creek, located in the municipal corporation of Niles in Trumbull county and being a part of the highway known as state route forty-six, shall be known as "Sgt. Bruce R. Jones Memorial Bridge." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers upon the bridge or its approaches indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5501.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5501 / § 5501.24
§ 5501.24. Director may call conference
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly The director of transportation may call into conference any employee of the department of transportation or the officials of any county, township, or municipal corporation for any purpose connected with the director's official duties. Any employee of the department so called into conference shall be entitled to receive his actual and necessary expenses in addition to his salary.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5537.041 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5537 / § 5537.041
§ 5537.041. Appeal of turnpike invoice
Status: in_force

March 23, 2022 Senate Bill 162 - 134th General Assembly (A)(1) A person that receives an invoice from the Ohio turnpike and infrastructure commission may request an administrative hearing with the commission at the commission's principal office to dispute the invoice. The person may present evidence at the hearing. (2) Notwithstanding sections 1901.18 , 1901.20 , 1907.02 , and 1907.031 of the Revised Code, the commission has exclusive original jurisdiction over a dispute regarding an invoice issued by the commission in accordance with the rules adopted under section 5537.04 of the Revised Code. (3) The commission shall grant a hearing to any person that requests one under this section. The commission shall send reasonable notice in advance to the requestor of the time, date, and location of the hearing. The commission may appoint a hearing officer to administer any requested hearings. (4) A person forfeits the right to an administrative hearing or appeal if either of the following occur: (a) The person does not respond within sixty days after the second invoice is issued in accordance with the rules adopted under section 5537.04 of the Revised Code. (b) The person fails to appear at the requested hearing. (5) The decision of the commission or its designated hearing officer is presumed final unless it is reversed on appeal. A person may appeal the decision in accordance with Chapter 2506. of the Revised Code. Any such appeal shall be commenced in the Cuyahoga county court of common pleas. The court's decision is final and there is no further right to appeal that decision. (B) In accordance with the rules adopted under section 5537.04 of the Revised Code, the commission may notify the registrar of motor vehicles if either of the following occur: (1) A person fails to remit payment of a toll or fee or fails to dispute an invoice with the commission within sixty days after the provision of the second invoice in accordance with the rules adopted under section 5537.04 of the Revised Code; (2) A person fails to pay any remaining balance due after appeal to the Cuyahoga county court of common pleas. (C) If the registrar receives a notice from the commission under division (B) of this section, neither the registrar nor any deputy registrar shall accept any application for the registration or transfer of registration of any motor vehicle owned or leased by the person named in the notice, until the registrar receives notice from the commission that the remaining balance for the toll or fee has been paid or dismissed. Last updated January 19, 2022 at 5:38 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.648 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.648
§ 5533.648. Deputy Suzanne Hopper Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

March 22, 2013 House Bill 325 - 129th General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, that portion of the highway known as interstate route number seventy, commencing at the intersection of that highway and interstate route number six hundred seventy-five and proceeding in an easterly direction to the point where that highway crosses over Enon road, within Clark county, shall be known as the "Deputy Suzanne Hopper Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.765 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.765
§ 5533.765. Army Sgt. Keith Kline Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

September 23, 2011 House Bill 65 - 129th General Assembly Those portions of the roads known as state route numbers one hundred five and one hundred sixty-three within the municipal corporation of Oak Harbor in Ottawa county only, commencing at Union Cemetery on west state route one hundred five and proceeding in an easterly direction past the point where that state route ceases and joins state route one hundred sixty-three and ending at the address eight thousand four hundred forty-four west state route one hundred sixty-three, shall be known as the "Army Sgt. Keith Kline Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name. Last updated February 27, 2023 at 4:54 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5593.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5593 / § 5593.21
§ 5593.21. Conveying property to bridge commission
Status: in_force

August 27, 1981 House Bill 73 - 114th General Assembly Any municipal corporation or other political subdivision, and all public agencies and commissions of the state notwithstanding any contrary law may lease, lend, grant, or convey to a bridge commission, at its request, upon such terms as the proper authorities of such municipal corporations, other political subdivisions, or public agencies and commissions of the state determines reasonable and fair, and without the necessity for an advertisement, order of court, or other action or formality, other than the regular and formal action of the authorities concerned, any real property which is necessary or convenient to the effectuation of the authorized purposes of the commission, including public roads and other real property already devoted to public use. On or before the first day of February in each year the commission shall make an annual report of its activities for the preceding calendar year to the governor and the general assembly. Each such report shall set forth a complete operating and financial statement covering the commission's operations during the year. The commission shall submit a copy of its proposed annual budget for each calendar year to the general assembly, the office of budget and management, and the legislative budget office of the legislative service commission at the same time such budget is submitted to the trustees of the commission's bond holders. The commission shall cause an audit of its books and accounts to be made at least once each year by certified public accountants and cost thereof may be treated as a part of the cost of construction or of operations of any bridges then in operation or in course of construction, such cost to be apportioned among said bridges in the discretion of the commission, but not in contravention of any existing trust agreement to which the commission is a party.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.95 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.95
§ 5533.95. William Holmes McGuffey Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

May 31, 2010 House Bill 27 - 128th General Assembly That portion of the road known as interstate six hundred eighty, commencing at the intersection of state route number seven hundred eleven and extending in a southeasterly direction to the intersection with state route number seven within Mahoning county, shall be known as the "William Holmes McGuffey Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5545.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5545 / § 5545.04
§ 5545.04. Employees
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The commission provided for in section 5545.01 of the Revised Code may employ engineers, superintendents, and other necessary employees during construction and improvement and fix their compensation and bond.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.649 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.649
§ 5533.649. Officer William J. Hetrick Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

June 3, 2014 House Bill 19 - 130th General Assembly That portion of the road known as state route number fifty-one, commencing at the intersection of that route and Witty road and proceeding in a northwesterly direction to the intersection of that route and state route number seven hundred ninety-five within Ottawa county only, shall be known as the "Officer William J. Hetrick Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5555.66 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5555 / § 5555.66
§ 5555.66. Payment on estimates of materials delivered shall not exceed ninety per cent
Status: in_force

August 27, 1976 Senate Bill 330 - 111th General Assembly In addition to the estimates provided for by section 153.13 of the Revised Code, the county engineer may, under such conditions as he prescribes, allow and pay to a contractor a sum not exceeding ninety per cent of the value of material delivered by such contractor, and safely stored at a railroad station or siding or other point in the vicinity of the work. When such estimate is allowed, the material on which it is allowed shall thereupon become the property of the county, but in case such material is stolen, destroyed, or damaged by casualty before being used, or for any reason becomes unfit for use, the contractor shall replace it at his own expense. A contractor may insure against loss or damage, by fire or otherwise, all materials upon which estimates have been allowed under this or any other section of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5591.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5591 / § 5591.25
§ 5591.25. Board of county commissioners of one or more counties may build bridges
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When it becomes necessary for the public convenience to bridge a stream of water which is on or near the lines of two or more counties, which are traversed by, or lie on or near the road on which such bridge is needed, the board of county commissioners of such interested counties may build or authorize the building of such bridge jointly, to be paid for, with the approaches thereto, in such proportion as the boards agree upon. The expense of keeping such bridge in repair shall be paid by the counties interested, in the same proportion as the expense of building such bridge was paid.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5529.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5529 / § 5529.11
§ 5529.11. Planting trees and shrubs may be permitted
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly The director of transportation may, by a permit in writing, authorize the owners of property adjoining inter-county and state highways, at their own expense, to locate and plant trees and shrubs along such highways, subject to his approval as to kind, size, and location. The county engineer shall have the same authority on county roads and the board of township trustees on township roads.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5553.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5553 / § 5553.42
§ 5553.42. Notice of filing petition to obtain road through lands of another - service
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly The board of county commissioners shall give notice to the owners of lands through which the proposed road will pass of the filing of the petition provided for in section 5553.41 of the Revised Code and the date and place of the hearing thereon. Such notice shall be served on such owners personally, or by leaving a copy of such notice at the usual place of residence of such owners at least five days before the date of the hearing on said petition. Proof of service of such notice shall be made by affidavit of the person serving such notice. If any of such owners are nonresidents of the county, the board shall give notice to such nonresidents by publication once each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. A copy of the newspaper containing such notice shall be mailed by the county auditor to each nonresident whose post-office address is known to such auditor. Such notice shall state the time and place of the hearing on claims for compensation and damages.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5515.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5515 / § 5515.04
§ 5515.04. Attaching guideposts or signs to utility poles
Status: in_force

April 5, 2001 Senate Bill 295 - 123rd General Assembly Utility poles along the public highway may be used for the purpose of attaching thereto or placing thereon, signposts, guideposts, warning signs, or other signs when prescribed by the director of transportation or county engineer.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5531.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5531 / § 5531.04
§ 5531.04. Defense highway act
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly The director of transportation may co-operate with the United States or any department or agency thereof in carrying out provisions of the "Defense Highway Act of 1941" and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto. Such co-operation shall follow the procedural provisions of the Revised Code, applicable to the state highway system. Acts of co-operation in connection with projects not upon the system shall place no obligation of maintenance upon the director. Any expenditures of money by the director in connection with co-operation authorized by this section shall be payable from any funds available to the director.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5512.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5512 / § 5512.03
§ 5512.03. Council review of selection process
Status: in_force

June 30, 1997 House Bill 210 - 122nd General Assembly Upon completing the written project selection process for the prioritization of new transportation capacity projects, the director of transportation shall submit it to the transportation review advisory council. The council shall review the process, and approve it or make revisions.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.375 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.375
§ 5533.375. Army Specialist Four Robert J. Urbassik Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

September 23, 2011 House Bill 65 - 129th General Assembly The portion of the road known as interstate highway number four hundred eighty located between exits twelve and thirteen shall be known as the "Army Specialist Four Robert J. Urbassik Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name. Last updated February 27, 2023 at 3:43 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5551.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5551 / § 5551.03
§ 5551.03. Resolution to acquire railway right of way
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of county commissioners may, by resolution adopted by unanimous vote, find that the public convenience and welfare require the acquisition of right of way or lands and the removal, relocation, or both, of tracks, sidings, and other facilities of a street or interurban railway company in connection with a proposed improvement or construction. The resolution shall state the location and extent of lands to be acquired and of any lands proposed to be conveyed to such company in exchange therefor if they are within or contiguous to the bounds of the road to be improved or constructed. After passage of the resolution all subsequent proceedings of the board with respect to such matters may be had by a majority vote. When a petition, signed by at least fifty-one per cent of the land or lot owners who are to be specially assessed, praying for the acquisition of any part of such right of way or other lands and the removal, relocation, or both, of tracks, sidings, and other facilities is filed with the board as provided in section 5555.03 of the Revised Code, such matters may be determined and all orders with reference thereto made by a majority vote of the board, but otherwise the procedure shall be the same as where the commissioners proceed without a petition.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5540.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5540 / § 5540.17
§ 5540.17. Political subdivision need not consent or approve
Status: in_force

June 30, 1995 House Bill 107 - 121st General Assembly Notwithstanding any other section of the Revised Code to the contrary, the approval, consent, or cooperation of a political subdivision is not required for a transportation improvement district project that involves constructing or improving a street or highway that runs through the territory of the political subdivision, connects to a highway that is part of the interstate system, and has been journalized by the director of transportation prior to the effective date of this section. Last updated April 21, 2022 at 3:49 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5505.51 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5505 / § 5505.51
§ 5505.51. Participation in deferred retirement plan - election procedure
Status: in_force

April 6, 2017 House Bill 520 - 131st General Assembly A state highway patrol retirement system member who meets the following requirements may, at any time prior to applying for retirement under section 5505.16 of the Revised Code, elect to participate in the deferred retirement option plan established under section 5505.50 of the Revised Code: (A) The member is younger than fifty-eight years of age. (B) The member is eligible to apply for retirement under section 5505.16 of the Revised Code, except that eligibility to apply for a reduced pension under division (B) of that section does not make a member eligible to elect to participate in the deferred retirement option plan. The member shall make the election by filing with the retirement system an election form provided by the system. The election is effective on the first day of the employer's first payroll period immediately following the board's receipt of the notice of election. At the time of making the election to participate in the deferred retirement option plan, the member also shall make an election under section 5505.162 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in that section, the election under section 5505.162 of the Revised Code is irrevocable from the date it is received by the retirement system. A member electing to participate in the deferred retirement option plan must agree to terminate active service in the state highway patrol and begin receiving the member's pension not later than the earlier of the member's sixtieth birthday or the date that is eight years after the effective date of the election to participate in the plan. If the member refuses or neglects to terminate active service in accordance with the agreement, the state highway patrol retirement board shall deem the member's service terminated. While participating in the deferred retirement option plan, a member shall not be considered to have elected retirement under section 5505.16 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.096 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.096
§ 5533.096. Second Lieutenant David E. Rylander Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

July 10, 2014 Senate Bill 222 - 130th General Assembly That portion of the road known as state route number eight, located within the municipal corporation of Stow in Summit county, commencing at the intersection of that route with Graham road and proceeding in a northerly direction to the intersection of that route with Seasons road, shall be known as the "Second Lieutenant David E. Rylander Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.984 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.984
§ 5533.984. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jody L. Egnor Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

March 22, 2013 House Bill 325 - 129th General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, that portion of the highway known as state route number seven hundred forty-seven, commencing at the intersection of that route and Tylersville road and proceeding in a northerly direction to the intersection of that route and state route number one hundred twenty-nine in Liberty township in Butler county, shall be known as the "Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jody L. Egnor Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5552.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5552 / § 5552.09
§ 5552.09. Regulations effective date
Status: in_force

October 24, 2002 House Bill 366 - 124th General Assembly Any access management regulations adopted under section 5552.02 of the Revised Code become effective on the thirty-first day following the date of their adoption unless otherwise indicated in the regulations. The board adopting the regulations shall publish notice of their adoption, and of their availability at the board's office, in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the county or township, as applicable, within ten days after their adoption. The board also shall provide a copy of the regulations to the department of transportation district deputy director for the district in which the county or township is located.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5529.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5529 / § 5529.07
§ 5529.07. Interstate rest area flags
Status: in_force

March 22, 2013 Senate Bill 222 - 129th General Assembly (A) The director of transportation shall display the following flags at each rest area that is along the interstate system located within this state: (1) The flag of the United States; (2) The flag of Ohio; (3) The flag that depicts the profile of a prisoner of war against the background of a prisoner of war camp watchtower, commonly known as the POW/MIA flag. (B) In purchasing flags to comply with division (A) of this section, the director shall, to the maximum extent possible, conform to the preference requirements of sections 125.09 and 125.11 of the Revised Code and all rules adopted under those sections to ensure the purchase and use of products made in Ohio and the United States.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5501.48 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5501 / § 5501.48
§ 5501.48. Toll bridge inspection
Status: in_force

June 30, 2021 House Bill 74 - 134th General Assembly The operator of a toll bridge located entirely or partly in the state shall inspect such bridge on a schedule established by the director of transportation, but at least once every twenty-four months. The operator shall file a copy of the inspection report with the director. Inspection shall be made or supervised by a professional engineer. Last updated April 12, 2021 at 9:55 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5547.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5547 / § 5547.01
§ 5547.01. Undermining or crossing public roads
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Any person, partnership, or corporation owning land or an interest therein in fee or otherwise, containing coal, clay, or stone, and over any portion of which passes a state, county, or township road or public highway, with the consent of the board of county commissioners if state or county roads, or with the consent of the board of township trustees if township roads, may excavate, mine, and quarry through or under such road. Before the work is commenced such person, partnership, or corporation shall execute and deliver to the board of county commissioners a bond, with good and sufficient surety, in amount sufficient to cover all damages that may accrue to be approved by the board of county commissioners, conditioned, that while crossing over, mining, or quarrying under such road, a safe and unobstructed passageway shall be kept open by the individual, partnership, or corporation for public use, and as soon as practicable such road shall be fully restored to its original safe and passable condition.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5505.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5505 / § 5505.16
§ 5505.16. Application for retirement
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 Senate Bill 154 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "member" has the same meaning as in section 5505.01 of the Revised Code, except that it also includes a former member who has earned service credit and has not received a refund of accumulated contributions under section 5505.19 of the Revised Code. A member who became a member of the state highway patrol before January 1, 2020, may be granted retirement under this division if the member has twenty-five years of service credit according to the rules adopted by the state highway patrol retirement board and has attained age forty-eight. If the member is under age forty-eight, retirement under this division shall be deferred until age forty-eight. (B) A member who has twenty years of service credit according to the rules adopted by the retirement board, may be granted retirement under this division if the member has attained age fifty-two. If the member is under age fifty-two, retirement under this division shall be deferred until age fifty-two, except that any such member who has twenty years of service credit may, on or after attaining age forty-eight but before attaining age fifty-two, elect to retire and receive a reduced pension under this division of the greater of nine hundred dollars or an amount computed as follows: Attained Age Reduced Pension 48 75% of normal service pension 49 80% of normal service pension 50 86% of normal service pension 51 93% of normal service pension The reduced pension is payable from the later of the date of the member's most recent birthday or the date the member becomes eligible to receive the reduced pension. A member who has elected to receive a reduced pension in accordance with the schedule provided in this division and has received a payment in connection therewith may not change the election. (C) Any member who attains the age of sixty years and has twenty years of service credit according to the rules adopted by the board, shall file application for retirement with the board, and if the member refuses or neglects to do so, the board may deem the member's application to have been filed on the member's sixtieth birthday. The member may, upon written application approved by the superintendent of the state highway patrol, be continued in service after attaining the age of sixty years, but only until the member has accumulated twenty years of service credit in accordance with rules adopted by the board. (D)(1) As used in this division: (a) "Service in the uniformed services" means the performance of duty on a voluntary or involuntary basis in a uniformed service under competent authority and includes active duty, active duty for training, initial active duty for training, inactive duty training, full-time national guard duty, and a period for which a person is absent from a position of employment for the purpose of an examination to determine the fitness of the person to perform any such duty. (b) "Uniformed services" of the United States includes both: (i) Army, navy, air force, marine corps, coast guard, space force, or any reserve components of these services; auxiliary corps as established by congress; army nurse corps; navy nurse corps; service as red cross nurse with the army, navy, air force, or hospital service of the United States, or serving full-time with the American red cross in a combat zone; and such other service as is designated by congress as included therein; (ii) Personnel of the Ohio national guard, the Ohio military reserve, the Ohio naval militia, and the reserve components of the armed forces enumerated in division (D)(1) of this section who are called to active duty pursuant to an executive order issued by the president of the United States or an act of congress. (2) A member's total service credit may include periods not to exceed a total of seven years, while the member's employment with the state highway patrol is or was interrupted due to service in the uniformed services of the United States. Such military service shall be credited to the member towards total service as provided by this chapter and to the extent approved by the board, provided that: (a) The member is or was honorably discharged from service in the uniformed services; (b) The member is or was re-employed by the state highway patrol within ninety days immediately following termination of service in the uniformed services; (c) The member, subject to board rules, pays into the retirement system to the member's credit in the employees' savings fund an amount equal to the total contributions the member would have paid had state highway patrol employment not been so interrupted. Such payment may be made at any time prior to receipt of a pension. (3) If the member meets the requirements of division (D)(2) of this section, on receipt of contributions from the member, the state highway patrol shall be billed for the employer contribution that would have been paid pursuant to section 5505.15 of the Revised Code if the member had not rendered service in the uniformed services, subject to board rules. (4) If under division (D)(2)(c) of this section a member pays all or any portion of the contributions later than the lesser of five years or a period that is three times the member's period of service in the uniformed services beginning from the member's date of re-employment, an amount equal to compound interest at a rate established by the board from the member's date of re-employment to the date of payment shall be added to the remaining amount to be paid by the member to purchase service credit under this section. (5) Credit purchased by a member under division (D)(2) of this section shall be used to determine the member's eligibility for retirement under this section and section 5505.17 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5521.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5521 / § 5521.12
§ 5521.12. Advance purchase of right-of-way for cooperative projects
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may submit preliminary plans to the director of transportation for any project wherein co-operation between the municipal corporation and the state is contemplated ultimately under Chapter 5521. of the Revised Code. The director may give conditional approval to such project by the issuance of a letter of intent directed to the municipal corporation, and thereupon the municipal corporation may expend its own funds for detailed engineering plans and the acquisition of right-of-way for such project and shall be entitled to reimbursement therefor by the state in accordance with the conditions of such letter of intent upon the submission of satisfactory proof of the expenditure made, and that sufficient title has been acquired, and that such lands are necessary for the construction of the project. The reimbursement may be in the form of a credit against that portion of the cost of the project which is to be borne by the municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.774 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.774
§ 5533.774. Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Highway and Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Trail
Status: in_force

March 22, 2013 House Bill 325 - 129th General Assembly (A)(1) That portion of the road known as state route one hundred four, commencing at its intersection with United States route twenty-three and extending to its intersection with Lockbourne road, shall be known as the "Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Highway." (2) In addition to the designations in sections 5533.24 and 5533.241 of the Revised Code, that portion of the road known as interstate route seventy-five, running throughout Ohio in a northerly and southerly direction, from the Michigan border in Lucas county, through the counties of Wood, Hancock, Allen, Auglaize, Shelby, Miami, Montgomery, Warren, and Butler, to the Kentucky border in Hamilton county, shall be known as the "Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Trail." (B) The director of transportation may erect suitable markers upon the designated portion of each highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5540.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5540 / § 5540.14
§ 5540.14. Enforcing rights of bondholder
Status: in_force

June 30, 1993 House Bill 154 - 120th General Assembly The exercise of the powers granted by this chapter is in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, for the increase of their commerce and prosperity, and for the improvement of their health and living conditions, and as the construction, maintenance, and repair of projects by a transportation improvement district constitute the performance of essential governmental functions, the district shall not be required to pay any state or local taxes or assessments upon any project, or upon revenues or any property acquired or used by the district under this chapter, or upon the income therefrom. The bonds issued under this chapter, their transfer, and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at all times be free from taxation within the state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5533.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5533 / § 5533.19
§ 5533.19. Tom Jenkins Memorial Highway
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly The road known as United States route number fifty-two running through Lawrence county only, in a northwesterly and southeasterly direction, shall be known as the "Tom Jenkins Memorial Highway." The director of transportation shall erect suitable markers upon said highway indicating its name. Last updated February 27, 2023 at 3:29 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 5557.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5557 / § 5557.09
§ 5557.09. Road improvements boundary line of municipal corporation within side lines and adjoining road to be improved
Status: in_force

October 30, 1989 House Bill 230 - 118th General Assembly Whenever the boundary line of a municipal corporation is located within or along the side lines of a street, avenue, road, or other public highway and adjoins unincorporated territory, such municipal corporation may enter into an agreement with the board of county commissioners for the improvement of such street, avenue, road, or other public highway in such manner as the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and the board of county commissioners may determine. The agreement may provide for any of the improvements specified in section 727.01 of the Revised Code, and the cost and expense thereof may be assessed upon the property specially benefited. By the agreement, the cost of the entire improvement shall be apportioned between the municipal corporation and the board of county commissioners as the legislative authority and the board may agree and the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and the board of county commissioners shall each determine whether or not any portion of the cost to be paid by it shall be specially assessed or paid from other funds of the municipal corporation or county available for such purpose. Such agreement shall designate either the municipal corporation or the board of county commissioners to take exclusive charge of the details of the improvement, including advertising for bids and awarding the contract. Such contract may be entered into by such municipal corporation or board when the necessary funds have been provided therfor, and when the amount to be paid by the other has been paid to the municipal corporation or board authorized to supervise such construction. Assessments made by a municipal corporation under such agreement shall be made in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in sections 727.01 to 727.49 of the Revised Code. Assessments made by a board of county commissioners under such agreement shall be made in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in sections 5555.06 and 5555.07 of the Revised Code. Bonds may be issued and sold in anticipation of the collection of the assessments by either the municipal corporation or the board levying the assessments, and bonds may likewise be issued and sold by either the municipal corporation or the board for the purpose of paying its share of such improvement under the conditions and limitations, and in the manner provided by Chapter 133. of the Revised Code. "Improvement" as used in this section includes constructing, reconstructing, grading, draining, curbing, paving, repaving, straightening, widening, and repairing the street, avenue, road, or other public highway and also includes the constructing and reconstructing of sidewalks, drainage ditches, storm sewers, bridges, and culverts. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.822 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.822
§ 5534.822. Veterans Suicide Memorial Mile
Status: in_force

June 10, 2020 House Bill 276 - 133rd General Assembly In addition to any other name prescribed by the Revised Code or otherwise, the northbound and southbound lanes of interstate route number seventy-one between state mile marker twenty-two and state mile marker twenty-three in Warren county shall be known as the "Veterans Suicide Memorial Mile." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5591.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5591 / § 5591.34
§ 5591.34. Purchase and appropriation of materials
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of county commissioners may contract for and purchase stone, gravel, earth, dirt, or other material necessary for the construction or keeping in repair of approaches or ways to bridges as required by section 5591.24 of the Revised Code. The cost of constructing such approaches and procuring such material shall be paid from the bridge fund of the county on the order of the board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5553.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5553 / § 5553.16
§ 5553.16. Cost of joint improvement divided among interested counties
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly The compensation and damages awarded in case of a joint improvement, together with the expenses thereof, shall be divided among the counties interested, as the joint board of county commissioners agrees and determines. In case of failure to agree on the proportion which each county is to pay, the joint board shall certify that fact to the director of transportation who shall thereupon make such apportionment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5553.042 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5553 / § 5553.042
§ 5553.042. Losing right to abandoned, unused township road
Status: in_force

June 10, 2004 House Bill 299 - 125th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Electric cooperative" has the same meaning as in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Service facilities" includes any conduit, cable, wire, tower, pole, or other equipment or appliance of a public utility or electric cooperative. (B) A township shall lose all rights in and to any public road, highway, street, or alley which has been abandoned and not used for a period of twenty-one years, after formal proceedings for vacation as provided in sections 5553.04 to 5553.11 of the Revised Code have been taken. Upon petition for vacation of such a public road, highway, street, or alley filed with the board of county commissioners by any abutting landowner, if the board finds that the public road, highway, street, or alley has been abandoned and not used for a period of twenty-one years as alleged in the petition, the board, by resolution, may order the road, highway, street, or alley vacated, and the road, highway, street, or alley shall pass, in fee, to the abutting landowners, as provided by law, and subject to all of the following: (1) Any existing right of way in, over, or under the road, highway, street, or alley for the service facilities of any public utility or electric cooperative for as long as the public utility or electric cooperative continues to render service to the public; (2) The right of ingress and egress for a public utility or electric cooperative to service and maintain its service facilities as provided under section 5553.043 of the Revised Code; (3) The right to trim or remove any trees, shrubs, brush, or other obstacles growing in or encroaching onto the right of way that may affect the operation, use, or access to service facilities; (4) Any right of way for public nonmotorized vehicular recreational use as provided under section 5553.044 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5534.752 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5534 / § 5534.752
§ 5534.752. Damascus Bridge
Status: in_force

June 10, 2020 House Bill 276 - 133rd General Assembly The bridge spanning the Maumee river in Henry county and being a part of the highway known as state route one hundred nine shall be known as the "Damascus Bridge." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers upon the bridge or its approaches indicating its name.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5549.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 55 / Chapter 5549 / § 5549.22
§ 5549.22. Townships may join in purchase of property for road materials - election of superintendent - duties
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of township trustees may join with the boards of other townships of the same county or an adjoining county for the purpose of purchasing real property containing suitable stone or gravel for road materials, and the necessary machinery for operating such property, as provided in this section and section 5549.24 of the Revised Code. When one or more townships have so joined together the property purchased by them shall be held and owned by the townships in common, for the use and benefit of all. They shall, at a meeting of all the trustees of such townships after such purchase, organize a joint board and elect one of their members president and one secretary of the board, and they shall select a manager or superintendent to manage said property. The trustees shall provide rules and regulations for the conduct and management of such property. Such manager or superintendent shall be selected by a majority vote of all the trustees of the townships interested in the property, and they shall, in such session fix his bond and approve the sureties of such bond, and he may be employed for a period not to exceed two years. The joint board shall meet at such time and place as provided in its rules and regulations. Any township owning or purchasing real property containing suitable stone or gravel may, by a majority vote of the board of township trustees, sell an interest to any other township in the same county or an adjoining county, but the interest sold must be an equal undivided interest between all the townships so interested. No township shall purchase an interest in such property until the question of the purchase has been submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of such township as provided by section 5549.24 of the Revised Code.