Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.102 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.102
§ 6115.102. Sanitary district advisory council for sanitary district organized wholly for reduction of populations of biting arthropods
Status: in_force

October 9, 1981 House Bill 156 - 114th General Assembly (A) With respect to sanitary districts organized after the effective date of this section wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, there shall be appointed, within thirty days after the court enters the decree incorporating the district, a sanitary district advisory council. The council shall consist of one member to be appointed from each municipal corporation, county, township, city health district, or general health district located wholly or partly within the sanitary district. A member of the council representing a municipal corporation, county, or township shall be appointed by the governing body thereof and shall be a resident thereof. A council member representing a city or general health district shall be appointed by the board of health thereof and shall be a resident of the health district. Appointments to the council shall be made by resolution of the appointing authority. Within ten days after making an appointment to the council, the appointing authority shall submit an authenticated copy of the appointment resolution to the clerk of the court. (B) If the court, in its order confirming the report of the board of appraisers of a sanitary district organized after the effective date of this section wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, directs that additional territory be included within the district and if the inclusion of the additional territory results in the inclusion of all or a portion of the territory of a municipal corporation, county, township, or city or general health district not represented on the advisory council prior to the inclusion, the governing body of the municipal corporation, county, township, or health district shall, within thirty days after the court enters its order confirming the report of the board of appraisers, appoint a representative to the council. If the court, in its order, directs that certain territory be eliminated from the district and if the exclusion results in the exclusion of all of the territory of a municipal corporation, county, township, or city or general health district previously included within a sanitary district, the member of the advisory council representing the municipal corporation, county, township, or health district shall be removed from the board on the date upon which the court enters the order confirming the report of the board of appraisers. (C) If two or more sanitary districts organized wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods are united under section 6115.68 of the Revised Code, the advisory councils of the original districts shall cease to exist on the effective date of the union and an advisory council of the united district shall be appointed in the manner prescribed in division (A) of this section. If the court, in accordance with section 6115.68 of the Revised Code, directs that one or more sanitary districts organized wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods be included within another such district and the inclusion results in the addition of all or a portion of a municipal corporation, county, township, or city or general health district not represented on the council of the district prior to the inclusion, the governing body of each municipal corporation, county, township, or health district not so represented shall, within thirty days after the court directs the inclusion, appoint a representative to the council of the original district. If the original district was organized prior to the effective date of this section, an advisory council shall be appointed within the original district and all the territory included by the court within the original district, in the manner prescribed in this section for the appointment of advisory councils. (D) A majority of the council constitutes a quorum, and a concurrence of the majority in any matter within the council's duties is sufficient for its determination. The council shall appoint one of its members as chairman and one member as secretary. The council shall adopt bylaws governing its proceedings. The council shall meet at least once annually and shall meet upon the call of its chairman, the president of the board of directors of the district, or whenever a majority of the members of the council, by petition filed with the chairman of the council, requests a meeting of the council. The chairman shall call a meeting of the council within thirty days after the receipt of the petition. (E) The council shall: (1) Make appointments to the board of directors in accordance with section 6115.101 of the Revised Code; (2) Annually review and evaluate the receipts and disbursements of funds by the board of directors during the preceding calendar year; (3) Review, evaluate, and make recommendations to the board of directors regarding the operation, policies, programs, and improvements of the district. Last updated October 21, 2022 at 4:22 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.18
§ 6115.18. Powers and duties of board of directors
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The powers of the board of directors of a sanitary district do not include construction and maintenance of lateral sewers, sewerage systems, water mains, and distributing systems or other related improvements for local service within the political subdivisions forming the district, and such improvements shall in every case be provided by the public corporations or persons served by the works of the district. The powers of the board are limited to the construction and maintenance of such works as are necessary to carry out the purposes of the district in improvement of sanitation and water supply as set forth in section 6115.04 of the Revised Code. Sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 , inclusive, of the Revised Code do not limit or interfere with the right of public corporations to install, maintain, and operate sewerage systems and water-works systems as otherwise permitted by law. Such sections do give to the board full power and authority in the construction and maintenance of improvements for the purposes of the district to serve the area included within the district, and the board may require the use of the improvements of the district by public corporations and persons included within the district and for which such improvements were installed. In order to effect the proper collection and disposal of sewage and other liquid wastes produced within the district, to provide a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use within the district, to promote the public health, comfort, convenience, and welfare, and to accomplish all other purposes of the district, the board may: (A) Clean out, straighten, alter, deepen, or otherwise improve any stream, watercourse, or body of water receiving sewage or other liquid wastes and located in or out of said district; (B) Fill up any abandoned or altered stream, watercourse, or body of water located in or out of said district; (C) Construct, preserve, operate, and maintain, in or out of said district, trunk sewers, intercepting sewers, siphons, pumping stations, wells, intakes, pipe lines, purification works, treatment and disposal works, reservoirs, and any other works and improvements deemed necessary to accomplish the purposes of the district; (D) Construct connections to the works of the district for the delivery thereto of sewage and other liquid wastes; (E) Construct connections for the delivery of a water supply from the works of the district to public corporations and persons within the district; (F) Incorporate with the works of the district or otherwise utilize any public sewers, drains, or other sewerage and water supply improvements either without modification or with such repairs, modifications, or changes as are deemed necessary; (G) Construct any of said works and improvements across or through any public or private property in or out of said district; (H) Hold, encumber, control, acquire by donation, purchase, or condemnation, construct, own, lease, use, and sell any real or personal property or easement necessary for right of way or location for the works and improvements of the district, or for any necessary purpose, or for obtaining or storing material to be used in constructing and maintaining said works and improvements.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.25
§ 6117.25. Payment for costs of improvement
Status: in_force

September 23, 2008 House Bill 562 - 127th General Assembly (A) The board of county commissioners may pay the whole or any part of the cost of constructing, maintaining, repairing, or operating any improvement provided for in this chapter, including the payment of a county sanitary engineer and the sanitary engineer's assistants and other necessary expenses. Insofar as such expenses relate to the construction of a permanent improvement, they may be considered as part of the cost of such improvement and bonds may be issued therefor. (B) Bonds and notes in anticipation thereof, including bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of assessments deferred pursuant to sections 6117.061 and 6117.33 of the Revised Code, may be issued by the board pursuant to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, to finance any such improvement, provided that where a separate issue of bonds is issued in anticipation of the collection of deferred assessments, the first principal maturity of such bonds may be not later than five years from the date of such bonds. Bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of assessments deferred pursuant to sections 6117.061 and 6117.33 of the Revised Code and notes issued in anticipation of such bonds shall be considered for all purposes under this chapter and Chapter 133. of the Revised Code as being bonds or notes issued in anticipation of the levy or collection of special assessments. (C) Bonds may be issued by the board under Chapter 165. of the Revised Code to finance such improvements payable solely from revenues generated by the improvements.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.14
§ 6111.14. Agreement for review of plans for extension of sewerage system or increase in number of service connections
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly The director of environmental protection may enter into an agreement with a political subdivision or investor-owned public utility that owns or operates a disposal system and that intends to extend the sewerage lines of its disposal system or to increase the number of service connections to its sewerage system, which agreement authorizes a qualified official or employee of the political subdivision or investor-owned public utility, as determined by the director, to review plans for the extension of the sewerage system or increase in the number of service connections for compliance with this chapter and the rules adopted under it and to certify to the director whether the plans comply with this chapter and the rules adopted under it. If, pursuant to such an agreement, the official or employee of the political subdivision or investor-owned public utility designated in the agreement certifies to the director that the plans comply with this chapter and the rules adopted under it and if the plans and certification are accompanied by an administrative service fee calculated in accordance with division (L)(2) of section 3745.11 of the Revised Code, the director, by final action, shall approve the plans without further review. The director or the director's authorized representative may inspect the construction or installation of an extension of a sewerage system or additional service connections for which plans have been approved under this section. The approval of plans by the director pursuant to this section constitutes the approval of the plans for the purposes of any rules adopted under division (E) of section 6111.03 of the Revised Code that require the approval of plans for extensions of sewerage systems or increases in the number of service connections to sewerage systems. As used in this section, "investor-owned public utility" means a person, other than an individual, that is a sewage disposal system company, as defined in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code, and that is not owned or operated by a municipal corporation or operated not-for-profit.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6155.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6155 / § 6155.03
§ 6155.03. Notice of hearing on petition
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The principal petitioner under section 6155.01 of the Revised Code shall give notice in writing of the filing, pendency, and time of hearing of the petition to the owners of each of the tracts of land sought to be affected by the proceedings. Such notice shall be served no less than ten days before the day fixed for the hearing of the petition, and the original verified notice shall be filed with the county auditor on or before the day of the hearing.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.36
§ 6119.36. Issuing securities in lieu submitting tax levy to electors
Status: in_force

March 12, 2001 House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly In lieu of submitting to the electors for approval the question of a tax levy outside the ten-mill limitation and levying that tax following approval, as provided for in sections 6119.31 and 6119.32 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners may issue securities, as defined in section 133.01 of the Revised Code, including anticipatory securities, for the purpose of paying the cost of the preparation of the data needed or determined to be necessary or appropriate in order to plan for the proper supply, purification, filtration, and distribution of water, the proper collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage, or the proper collection, control, abatement, or treatment of surface and subsurface drainage, each and all within the limits of the county or a part of the county or beyond the limits of the county but within the same drainage area as is in part within the county, and, if the board determines it to be necessary or appropriate, for the purpose of paying the costs of acquiring real estate or interests in real estate for improvements for one or more of those purposes. The data may include, but are not limited to, plans, specifications, estimates of cost, drillings, maps, soundings, surveys, and tentative assessments against properties that are potentially benefited. The securities shall be in an amount not exceeding the total estimated cost of the preparation of the data and of making any acquisitions of real estate or interests in real estate, together with all other items of cost that are incident to that preparation or those acquisitions and that are described in division (B) of section 133.15 of the Revised Code. Prior to the issuance or the first issuance of the securities, the board shall determine that the funds allocated for general operating expenses of the county are insufficient to pay both those operating expenses for the current year and the total estimated cost to be financed under authority of this section. The securities shall be Chapter 133. securities, and their issuance shall be subject to that chapter, except that the maximum maturity of the securities shall not exceed ten years. The proceeds of securities issued for the purpose of paying costs of the improvements for which the data is prepared or for which any acquisition of real estate or interest in real estate is made may be applied, without reduction of their maximum maturity, to retire anticipatory securities issued pursuant to this section. All moneys raised by the issuance of securities pursuant to this section shall be applied to the purposes provided for in section 6119.31 of the Revised Code and in this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.80 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.80
§ 6101.80. Liberal construction of chapter
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly This chapter shall be liberally construed to effect the control, conservation, and drainage of the waters of this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.40
§ 6131.40. Acceptance of bids
Status: in_force

April 9, 1981 House Bill 268 - 113th General Assembly When the time has passed for the receiving of bids referred to in section 6131.37 of the Revised Code, the county engineer shall, as soon as is practicable, open, read aloud, and tabulate the bids and report them to the board of county commissioners with his recommendation of which bid, or combination of bids, in all respects is the best. No bid shall be accepted after the time designated for receiving bids. The board may accept any combination of bids of different bidders for different parts of the work or for furnishing different materials that they find will be more economical or advantageous than the aggregate bid of a single bidder, but no bid shall be accepted for any part or thing that exceeds the estimate of the engineer unless only by such acceptance can a contract for the completion of an entire improvement be let for less than the aggregate estimate of the total improvement. If it is found that all bids for work and material, or all bids for any separate part of work and material, are in excess of the estimates reported by the engineer, the board shall order the readvertisement of the same, or any part thereof, for which the bids are in excess, and they may direct the engineer to re-estimate the same for bids on the new estimate.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6121.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6121 / § 6121.10
§ 6121.10. Water development revenue bonds and notes not a debt of state
Status: in_force

March 7, 1968 House Bill 998 - 107th General Assembly Water development revenue bonds and notes and water development revenue refunding bonds issued under sections 6121.01 to 6121.22 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, do not constitute a debt, or a pledge of the faith and credit, of the state or of any political subdivision thereof, and the holders or owners thereof have no right to have taxes levied by the general assembly or taxing authority of any political subdivision of the state for the payment of the principal thereof or interest thereon, but such bonds and notes are payable solely from the revenues and funds pledged for their payment as authorized by such sections, unless the notes are issued in anticipation of the issuance of bonds or the bonds are refunded by refunding bonds issued under Chapter 6121. of the Revised Code, which bonds or refunding bonds shall be payable solely from revenues and funds pledged for their payment as authorized by such sections. All such bonds and notes shall contain on the face thereof a statement to the effect that the bonds or notes, as to both principal and interest, are not debts of the state or any political subdivision thereof, but are payable solely from revenues and funds pledged for their payment. All expenses incurred in carrying out Chapter 6121. of the Revised Code are payable solely from funds provided under such sections. Such sections do not authorize the Ohio water development authority to incur indebtedness or liability on behalf of or payable by the state or any political subdivision thereof.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6135.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6135 / § 6135.16
§ 6135.16. Approval or amendment of engineer's report
Status: in_force

April 9, 1981 House Bill 268 - 113th General Assembly The joint board of county commissioners shall approve or amend the report filed by the engineers, as required by section 6135.12 of the Revised Code. The report so approved shall be a final division of the estimated costs of construction and the entire costs of location between the states. They shall send a copy of their report, certified by the president and clerk of the joint board, to the proper official of each county affected in the other state and to the county auditor of each county affected in this state. Their adjournment shall be subject to a call of a majority of the members of either state, notice of which shall be given as provided in section 6135.14 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.46 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.46
§ 6117.46. County trunk or main sewers
Status: in_force

October 23, 1972 Senate Bill 397 - 109th General Assembly When the director of environmental protection finds that a trunk or main sewer is necessary in a county for sanitary purposes, the board of county commissioners of such county may make surveys thereof and prepare plans and specifications thereof. Upon approval by the director of such plans and specifications, the board may construct and maintain said trunk or main sewer or part thereof within or without the limits of a municipal corporation, regulate the tapping thereof by lateral sewers, and prescribe the conditions of such tapping.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6121.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6121 / § 6121.19
§ 6121.19. Change location of public road, state highway, railroad, or public utility facility in connection with water development project
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly When the Ohio water development authority finds it necessary to change the location of any portion of any public road, state highway, railroad, or public utility facility in connection with the construction of a water development project, it shall cause the same to be reconstructed at such location as the division of government having jurisdiction over such road, highway, railroad, or public utility facility deems most favorable. Such construction shall be of substantially the same type and in as good condition as the original road, highway, railroad, or public utility facility. The cost of such reconstruction, relocation, or removal and any damage incurred in changing the location of any such road, highway, railroad, or public utility facility shall be paid by the authority as a part of the cost of such water development project. When the authority finds it necessary that any public highway or portion thereof be vacated by reason of the acquisition or construction of a water development project, the authority may request the director of transportation, in writing, to vacate such highway or portion thereof in accordance with section 5511.07 of the Revised Code if the highway or portion thereof to be vacated is on the state highway system, or, if the highway or portion thereof to be vacated is under the jurisdiction of the county commissioners, the authority shall request the director, in writing, to petition the county commissioners, in the manner provided in section 5553.041 of the Revised Code, to vacate such highway or portion thereof. The authority shall pay to the director or to the county, as the case may be, as a part of the cost of such water development project, any amounts required to be deposited with any court in connection with proceedings for the determination of compensation and damages and all amounts of compensation and damages finally determined to be payable as a result of such vacation. The authority may make reasonable regulations for the installation, construction, maintenance, repair, renewal, relocation, and removal of railroad or public utility facilities in, on, over, or under any water development project. Whenever the authority determines that it is necessary that any such facilities installed or constructed in, on, over, or under property of the authority pursuant to such regulations be relocated, the public utility owning or operating such facilities shall relocate or remove them in accordance with the order of the authority. The cost and expenses of such relocation or removal, including the cost of installing such facilities in a new location, the cost of any lands, or any rights or interests in lands, and any other rights, acquired to accomplish such relocation or removal, may be paid by the authority as a part of the cost of such water development project. In case of any such relocation or removal of facilities, the railroad or public utility owning or operating them, its successors, or assigns may maintain and operate such facilities, with the necessary appurtenances, in the new location in, on, over, or under the property of the authority for as long a period and upon the same terms as it had the right to maintain and operate such facilities in their former location.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.21
§ 6101.21. Passing boat or other equipment through bridge or grade
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If it is necessary to pass any dredge boat or other equipment through a bridge or grade of any railroad company or other corporation, county, township, or municipal corporation, the board of directors of the conservancy district shall give twenty days' notice to the owner of said bridge or grade that the same shall be removed temporarily to allow the passage of such equipment or that an agreement be immediately entered into in regard thereto. The owner of said bridge or grade shall keep an itemized account of the cost of the removal, and, if necessary, of the replacing of said bridge or grade, and said actual cost shall be paid by the district. If the owner of said bridge or grade refuses to provide for the passage of said equipment, the board may remove such bridge or grade at its own expense, interrupting traffic in the least degree consistent with good work and without delay or unnecessary damage. If the board is prevented from doing so, the owner of said bridge or grade shall be liable for damage for the resulting delay.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.54 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.54
§ 6101.54. Readjustment of appraisal of benefits
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly Whenever the owners or representatives of twenty-five per cent or more of the acreage or value of the lands in a conservancy district or the board of directors of a conservancy district file a petition with the clerk of the court having jurisdiction in the original case, stating that there has been a material change in the values of the property in the district or additional benefits are being derived from the works and the improvements of the district since the last previous appraisal of benefits, and praying for a readjustment of the appraisal of benefits for the purpose of making a more equitable basis for the levy of the maintenance assessment under section 6101.53 of the Revised Code, the clerk shall give notice of the filing and of a hearing of the petition by publication. Upon hearing of the petition, if the court finds there has been a material change in the values of property in the district, or that additional benefits are derived from the works and improvements of the district, or both, since the last previous appraisal of benefits, the court shall order that there be a readjustment of the appraisal of benefits for the purpose of providing a basis upon which to levy the maintenance assessment of the district. The court then shall direct the board of appraisers of the conservancy district to make the readjustment in the manner provided in this chapter, and the board shall make its report. The same proceedings shall be had on it, as nearly as may be, as are provided in this chapter for the appraisal of benefits accruing for original construction. In making the readjustment of the appraisal of benefits, the readjusted appraisal shall not be limited to the aggregate amount of or to the benefits or properties or persons listed in the original or any previous appraisal of benefits, and, after the making of the readjustment, the limitation of the annual maintenance assessment to one per cent of the total appraised benefits shall apply to the amount of the benefits as readjusted. There shall be no readjustment of benefits more often than once in six years. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.03
§ 6101.03. Evidence and forms
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly (A) In any orders of the court, the words "The court now here finds that it hath jurisdiction of the parties to and of the subject matter of this proceeding" are equivalent to a finding that each jurisdictional fact necessary to confer plenary jurisdiction upon the court, beginning with the proper signing and filing of the initial petition to the date of the order containing that recital, has been scrutinized by the court and has been found to meet every legal requirement imposed by this chapter. (B) No other evidence of the legal hypothecation of special assessments to the payment of bonds is required than the passage of a bonding resolution by the board of directors of a conservancy district and the issuance of bonds in accordance with the resolution. (C) In the preparation of any assessment or appraisal record, the usual abbreviations employed by engineers, surveyors, and abstractors may be used. (D) Where properly to describe any parcel of land, it would be necessary to use a long description, the board of appraisers of a conservancy district, after locating the land generally, may refer to the book and page of the public record of any instrument in which the land is described, which reference shall suffice to identify for all the purposes of this chapter the land described in the public record so referred to. (E) It is not necessary in any notice required to be published to specify the names of the owners of the lands or of the persons interested in the lands. A notice may be addressed "To All Persons or Public Corporations Interested" with like effect as though the notice named by name every owner of any lands within the territory specified in the notice, every person interested in the lands, and every lienor, actual or inchoate, with respect to the lands. (F) Every district declared upon hearing to be a conservancy district shall become upon that declaration a political subdivision and a public corporation of the state, invested with all the powers and privileges conferred upon conservancy districts by this chapter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6105.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6105 / § 6105.10
§ 6105.10. Secretary-treasurer - bond
Status: in_force

December 16, 1964 House Bill 5 - 105th General Assembly The secretary-treasurer of a watershed district is the fiscal officer of the district and the custodian of its funds and records and shall assist the board of directors in such particulars as it directs in the performance of its duties. The secretary-treasurer shall, before receiving any moneys belonging to the district, furnish bond in such amount as is determined by the board of directors of the district with surety satisfactory to it, and all funds coming into the hands of the secretary-treasurer shall be deposited by him to the account of the district in such depositories as are qualified to receive deposits of county funds, which deposits shall be secured in the same manner as county funds are required to be secured. No disbursement shall be made from such funds except in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the board of directors of the district.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.55 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.55
§ 6115.55. Annual levy - certificate
Status: in_force

July 8, 1993 Senate Bill 105 - 120th General Assembly The board of directors of a sanitary district shall each year after the original assessment has been levied determine, order, and levy the part of the total assessments levied under this chapter, which shall become due and be collected during each year at the same time that state and county taxes are due and collected, which annual levy shall be evidenced and certified by the board not later than the first day of September of each year to the county auditor of each county in which the real property of the district is located. The certificate of the annual levy shall be substantially as provided in division (F) of section 6115.79 of the Revised Code. A table or schedule shall follow showing: (A) The names of the owners of the property, which may be as they appeared in the decree of the court confirming the appraisals; in case of a county, municipal corporation, or township, the names of individual owners need not be given, but only the name of the county, municipal corporation, or township; (B) The descriptions of the property opposite the names of the owners; (C) The total amount of the annual installment of all assessments on each piece of property for the account of all funds; (D) A blank column in which the auditor shall record the several amounts as collected by him; (E) A blank column in which the auditor shall record the date of payment of the different sums; (F) A blank column in which the auditor shall report the names of the persons paying the several amounts. The certificate and report shall be prepared in triplicate and shall be indorsed and named "Sanitary District Assessment Book of _______________________ District, _____________________ County, Ohio," which indorsement shall also be printed at the top of each page. A separate record shall be maintained in case the purposes of the district include both improved sanitation and improved water supply. Two copies of that part of such triplicate affecting lands in any county shall be forwarded to the county auditor of such county, who shall keep one copy and certify the other copy to the county treasurer. The auditor of each county shall receive the same as a tax book, and shall certify the same as other tax records of the county treasurer of his county. The treasurer shall collect the same according to law. Such tax book or assessment book shall be the treasurer's warrant and authority to demand and receive the assessments due in his county as found in the same. In the event of any failure of the board to determine and order an annual levy for the purpose of paying the interest on and principal of any bonds pursuant to section 6115.50 of the Revised Code, the auditor of the county in which the lands subject to such assessments are situated shall make and complete a levy of the taxes or special assessments necessary for the purpose against the lands in the district, and each piece of property therein against which benefits have been appraised. Any assessment so made and completed by the auditor shall be made and completed by him in the manner provided for the making and completion of an assessment by the board, and shall have the same effect as a levy of assessments determined and ordered by the board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6137.051 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6137 / § 6137.051
§ 6137.051. Drainage repair upon complaint of assessed owners
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) Whenever the owner of any lands assessed for construction of an improvement authorized prior to August 23, 1957, files a written complaint that the improvement is in need of repair, the county engineer or the county engineer's designated representative shall make an inspection of the condition of the improvement within sixty days of receipt of the complaint and shall request the owner to be present at the inspection. (B) If the county engineer finds that a need exists, the county engineer shall make an estimate of the cost of the necessary work and material required for the repair. (C) The board of county commissioners, if it finds the work to be necessary and feasible, may authorize the county engineer to make the repairs at a cost not to exceed twenty-four thousand dollars. (D) For the purpose of paying for the necessary work and materials, the board of county commissioners may establish a drainage repair fund for the improvement to be repaired. The county engineer shall prepare and submit a schedule of assessments upon the benefiting lands to the board of county commissioners in the amount of the actual costs of the repair. The board of county commissioners may revise the estimated assessments as they consider equitable and shall certify the assessments to the county auditor for collection. (E) Not more than ten semiannual installments, as taxes are paid, shall be given to owners to pay for the repair assessments, and if any such assessment is twenty-five dollars or less, or whenever the unpaid balance of any such assessment is twenty-five dollars or less, the same shall be paid in full, and not in installments, at the time the first installment would otherwise become due.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.181 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.181
§ 6101.181. Appropriation of property for sewer construction to address public health nuisance
Status: in_force

May 6, 2005 House Bill 411 - 125th General Assembly (A) For the purposes of this section, either of the following constitutes a public exigency: (1) A finding by the director of environmental protection that a public health nuisance caused by an occasion of unavoidable urgency and suddenness due to unsanitary conditions compels the immediate construction of sewers for the protection of the public health and welfare; (2) The issuance of an order by the board of health of a health district to mitigate or abate a public health nuisance that is caused by an occasion of unavoidable urgency and suddenness due to unsanitary conditions and compels the immediate construction of sewers for the protection of the public health and welfare. (B) If the board of directors of a conservancy district is unable to purchase property for the purpose of the construction of sewers to mitigate or abate the public health nuisance that is the subject of a finding of the director or an order of the board of health, the board of directors may adopt a resolution finding that it is necessary for the protection of the public health and welfare to appropriate property that the board of directors considers needed for that purpose. The resolution shall contain a definite, accurate, and detailed description of the property and the name and place of residence, if known or with reasonable diligence ascertainable, of the owners of the property to be appropriated. The board of directors shall fix in its resolution what it considers to be the value of the property to be appropriated, which shall be the board's determination of the compensation for the property and shall be supported by an independent appraisal, together with any damages to the residue. The board shall deposit the compensation so determined, together with an amount for the damages to the residue, with the probate court or the court of common pleas of the county in which the property, or a part of it, is situated. Except as otherwise provided in this division, the power to appropriate property for the purposes of this division shall be exercised in the manner provided in sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code for an appropriation in the time of public exigency. The board's resolution and a written copy of the independent appraisal shall accompany the petition filed under section 163.05 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.26
§ 6115.26. Surveys and examinations of rainfall, stream flow
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of directors of a sanitary district may establish and maintain stream gauges and rain gauges, and may make such surveys and examinations of rainfall, stream flow, and other scientific and engineering subjects as are necessary and proper for the purposes of the district. The board may issue reports of its findings.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6156.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6156 / § 6156.03
§ 6156.03. Dredging equipment use
Status: in_force

August 26, 1963 House Bill 55 - 105th General Assembly The dredging equipment purchased under section 6156.02 of the Revised Code may be used for any appropriate purpose, including those enumerated in Chapters 6141., 6151., 6153., and 6155. of the Revised Code, notwithstanding any provisions of the Revised Code. Such work shall be done as prescribed by the county board of reclamation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.23
§ 6115.23. Regulations, approval and enforcement
Status: in_force

October 23, 1972 Senate Bill 397 - 109th General Assembly The board of directors of a sanitary district may make and enforce necessary regulations pertaining to the use by public corporations and persons of the works and improvements of the district, and by such regulations the board may: (A) Prescribe the design, construction, and use of sewers within the district; (B) Prescribe the manner in which connections to trunk sewers, intercepting sewers, pipe lines, and other works of the district shall be made; (C) Prescribe the permissible uses of the water supply of the district and the manner of its distribution; (D) Prevent the pollution or unnecessary waste of the water supply; (E) Prohibit discharge into such sewers of any liquid or solid wastes deemed detrimental to the works and improvements of the district. Such regulations shall have no effect until they have been approved by the environmental protection agency. The board may recover by civil action from any person or public corporation violating such regulations, for each offense, not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars together with costs. The board may enforce by mandamus or otherwise all necessary regulations made by it and authorized by sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 of the Revised Code, and may remove any improper construction or close any connection made improperly or in violation of said regulations, and may bring such suits in mandamus in the court of appeals in the first instance, if it deems it advisable. Any public corporation or person who willfully fails to comply with such regulations shall be liable for damages caused by such failure and for the cost of renewing any construction damaged or destroyed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.15
§ 6117.15. Trial in probate court
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If the probate judge finds that an appeal under sections 6117.09 to 6117.24 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, has been properly perfected, and that the proceedings are substantially regular, he shall fix a day not more than twenty days thereafter for the trial of the case, and shall publish at least twice in a newspaper of general circulation within the county a notice that such appeal has been made and stating the time and place of such trial. The first publication shall be at least fifteen days before such trial, and the second publication shall be at least eight days before such trial. At the time so fixed the parties shall offer their evidence to the court upon the matters appealed from. The rules of law and procedure governing civil cases in the court of common pleas shall apply to the trial of the cause in the probate court.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.69 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.69
§ 6101.69. Consolidation of districts
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly If any conservancy district is being organized within, or partly within and partly without, the same territory in which some other district has been or is being organized, one judge of the court of common pleas of each county in which the districts have been or are being organized shall confer at the earliest convenient moment after they ascertain the possibility of a conflict in jurisdiction, the sitting to be had in the county having the largest assessed valuation in the proposed district. At the conference, the several judges shall determine to what extent the several districts should be consolidated or to what extent the boundaries should be adjusted in order to most fully carry out the purposes of this chapter. The judges shall by suitable orders make the determination effective. If notices have been issued or jurisdiction acquired in any proceeding concerning territory which is transferred to the court of common pleas of another county, the notices shall not become void, and jurisdiction so acquired shall not be lost; but, in each case, the court acquiring jurisdiction over the transferred territory shall hold the same without further notice, as if originally embraced in the district. At the conference, the decision of the majority of the judges shall be necessary for the determination of any matter, and, from the decision or from a failure to decide, appeal may be taken. This section and section 6101.68 of the Revised Code do not operate to delay or to interrupt any proceeding under this chapter, until the question of jurisdiction has been finally determined by the courts.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.74 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.74
§ 6115.74. Correction of defective notice
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In any case where a notice is provided for in sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, if the court finds for any reason that due notice was not given, the court shall not thereby lose jurisdiction, and the proceeding in question shall not thereby be void; but the court shall in that case order due notice to be given, and shall continue the hearing until such time as such notice is properly given, and thereupon shall proceed as though notice had been properly given in the first instance. In case any individual appraisal, assessment, or levy is held void for want of legal notice, or in case the board of directors of the sanitary district determines that any notice with reference to any land is faulty, then the board may file a motion in the original cause asking that the court order notice to be given to the owner of such land and set a time for hearing as provided in such sections. If the original notice as a whole was sufficient and was faulty only with reference to publication as to certain tracts, only the owners of and persons interested in those particular tracts need be notified by such subsequent notice. If the publication of any notice in any county was defective or not made in time, publication of the defective notice is necessary only in the county in which the defect occurred.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6135.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6135 / § 6135.05
§ 6135.05. Adjournment
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If the boards of county commissioners of the different counties of the state, or a quorum of the board of each county affected fails to meet as provided in section 6135.03 of the Revised Code, they shall adjourn until such time as they shall again receive like notice as provided by section 6135.02 of the Revised Code for their first meeting.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.25
§ 6131.25. Appeals
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) Any affected owner may appeal to the court of common pleas within thirty days of the date that any order was issued by the board of county commissioners under this chapter, and may appeal any one or more of the following questions: (1) Is the improvement necessary? (2) Will the improvement be conducive to the public welfare? (3) Is the cost of the improvement greater than the benefits conferred? (4) Is the route, termini, or mode of construction the best to accomplish the purpose of the improvement? (5) Are the assessments levied according to benefits? (6) Is the award for compensation or damages just? (B) The appeal may be taken from any order affecting any part of the improvement as well as from any order affecting the entire improvement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6133.041 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6133 / § 6133.041
§ 6133.041. Conduct of proceedings using electronic means
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or Chapter 6131. of the Revised Code to the contrary, a joint board of county commissioners, when practicable, may conduct meetings by video conference or, if video conference is not available, by teleconference. The joint board of county commissioners shall make provisions for public attendance at any location involved in such a meeting. The joint board shall establish the joint board's main office or board room as the primary meeting location for the video conference or teleconference. The conference shall be held at that location in an open meeting at which the public is allowed to attend. (B) Before convening a meeting of a joint board of county commissioners by video conference or by teleconference, designated staff shall send, via electronic mail, facsimile, or United States postal service, a copy of meeting-related documents to each member of the joint board. (C) The minutes of each joint county drainage improvement meeting shall specify who was attending by teleconference, who was attending by video conference, and who was physically present. Any vote taken in a meeting held by teleconference that is not unanimous shall be recorded as a roll call vote. (D) Nothing in section 121.22 of the Revised Code prohibits a joint board of county commissioners from conducting a meeting in a manner authorized by this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.631 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.631
§ 6131.631. New single span bridge or culvert or extension of existing culvert limiting future deepening of public watercourse
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) When construction of a new single span bridge or culvert or extension of an existing culvert that will limit the future deepening of a public watercourse is contemplated in connection with the construction of a state highway or other public improvement, the director of transportation or other public agency proposing the construction shall file plans for the construction with the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the construction or improvement is to be constructed. (B) The clerk shall immediately refer the plans to the county engineer who shall review the proposed location, both horizontal and vertical, of the proposed structures and the effect of the proposed improvements on any other improvements and on any highways in the area. (C) The county engineer shall file, within sixty days, with the clerk of the board of county commissioners and the director of transportation or other public agency a report of the review with such recommendations for change, amendment, or alteration in the plans for the proposed improvement as the engineer may determine to be necessary in the public interest. (D) When the plans for the proposed improvements as presented, or as amended pursuant to the county engineer's recommendations, are approved by the county engineer, the engineer shall file, within sixty days, a certificate of approval with the clerk of the board of county commissioners. If the engineer does not file such a report of the engineer's review with the clerk within sixty days after the date that the plans were referred to the engineer, the engineer's approval shall be presumed by the clerk. (E) The improvement shall then be constructed in accordance with the approved plans at the expense of the department of transportation or other public agency.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.06
§ 6115.06. Bond for expenses to be filed with petition
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly At the time of filing the petition provided for in section 6115.05 of the Revised Code, or at any time subsequent thereto and prior to the time of the hearing on said petition, a bond shall be filed, with security approved by the court, sufficient to pay all the expenses connected with the proceedings in case the court refuses to organize the sanitary district. If at any time during the proceeding the court is satisfied that the bond first executed is insufficient in amount, it may require the execution of an additional bond within a time to be fixed, which shall be not less than ten days distant, and upon failure of the petitioners to execute such additional bond the petition shall be dismissed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.99
§ 6111.99. Penalties
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) Whoever purposely violates section 6111.04 , 6111.042 , 6111.05 , or division (A) or (C) of section 6111.07 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony and shall be fined not more than twenty-five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than four years, or both. Each day of violation is a separate offense. (B) Whoever knowingly violates section 6111.04 , 6111.042 , 6111.045 , 6111.047 , 6111.05 , 6111.45 , or division (A) or (C) of section 6111.07 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Each day of violation is a separate offense. (C) Whoever violates section 6111.46 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. (D) Whoever violates section 6111.42 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for a first offense; for each subsequent offense, the person shall be fined not more than one hundred fifty dollars. (E) Whoever violates section 6111.44 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars. Each day of violation is a separate offense. (F) If a person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of any section of this chapter, in addition to the financial sanctions authorized by this chapter or section 2929.18 or 2929.28 or any other section of the Revised Code, the court imposing the sentence on the person may order the person to reimburse the state agency or a political subdivision for any actual costs that it incurred in responding to the violation, including the cost of restoring affected aquatic resources or otherwise compensating for adverse impact to aquatic resources directly caused by the violation, but not including the costs of prosecution. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 6121.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6121 / § 6121.17
§ 6121.17. Purchase of land - conveyance by other governmental agencies
Status: in_force

March 7, 1968 House Bill 998 - 107th General Assembly The Ohio water development authority may acquire by purchase, whenever it deems such purchase expedient, any land, property, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements, and other interests in lands as it deems are necessary or convenient for the construction and operation of any water development project, upon such terms and at such price as it considers reasonable and can be agreed upon between the authority and the owner thereof, and take title thereto in the name of the state. All governmental agencies, notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, may lease, lend, grant, or convey to the authority, at its request, upon such terms as the proper authorities of such governmental agencies deem reasonable and fair and without the necessity for an advertisement, auction, order of court, or other action or formality, other than the regular and formal action of the governmental agency concerned, any real property or interests therein including improvements thereto or personal property which is necessary or convenient to the effectuation of the authorized purposes of the authority, including public roads and other real property or interests therein including improvements thereto or personal property already devoted to public use.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.70 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.70
§ 6101.70. Petition for uniting districts by directors
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly (A) If two or more conservancy districts have been organized in a territory which, in the opinion of the board of directors of the conservancy district of any one of the districts, should constitute only one district, the board of any one of the districts may petition the court for an order uniting those districts into a single district. The petition shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of that county that has the greatest valuation of real property within the districts sought to be included, as shown by the tax duplicates of the respective counties. The petition shall set forth the necessity for the union of the two or more districts and that the union of the districts would be conducive to the public health, convenience, safety, or welfare and to the economical execution of the purposes for which the districts were organized. Upon receipt of the petition, the clerk shall give notice by publication or by personal service to the boards of the districts that it is desired to unite with the district of the petitioners. The notice shall contain the time and place where the hearing on the petition will be had and the purpose of the hearing. The hearing shall be had in accordance with this chapter as for an original hearing. If, after the hearing, the court finds that the averments of the petition are true and that the districts, or any of them, should be united, it shall so order, and thereafter those districts shall be united into one and proceed as one. The court shall designate the corporate name of the united district, and further proceedings shall be taken as provided for in this chapter. In accordance with division (A) or (B) of section 6101.10 of the Revised Code, as applicable, the court shall direct in the order who shall be the members of the board of the united district, who shall thereafter have the powers and be subject to the regulations as are provided for the board in districts created in the first instance. (B) All legal proceedings already instituted by or against any of the constituent districts united into a single district under division (A) of this section may be revived and continued against the united district by an order of court substituting the name of the united district for the constituent district, and those proceedings shall then proceed as provided in this chapter. (C) Instead of organizing a new district from the constituent districts, the court may do one of the following: (1) Direct that one or more of the districts described in the petition be included into another of the districts, which other district shall continue under its original corporate name and organization, unless the resulting district includes all or parts of more than sixteen counties, in which case the court shall appoint two additional members whose appointments and terms of office shall comply with the requirements established in division (C) of section 6101.10 of the Revised Code; (2) Direct that the districts absorbed as described in division (C)(1) of this section shall be represented on the board of the original district, designating what members of the board of the original district shall be retired from the new board and what members representing the included districts shall take their places, except that, if the resulting district includes all or parts of more than sixteen counties, the court also shall appoint two additional members whose appointments and terms of office shall comply with the requirements established in division (C) of section 6101.10 of the Revised Code; (3) Direct that the included districts shall become subdistricts of the main district. (D) If the districts sought to be united were organized in different counties, the court to determine the question involved shall consist of one judge from each of the counties in the court of which one of the districts was organized, and a majority shall be necessary to render a decision. From the decision or from a failure to decide, any interested property owner may appeal. No action under this section shall interrupt or delay any proceeding under this chapter, until the questions involved are finally determined.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6121.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6121 / § 6121.01
§ 6121.01. Water development authority definitions
Status: in_force

October 20, 1999 Senate Bill 43 - 123rd General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Beneficial use" means a use of water, including the method of diversion, storage, transportation, treatment, and application, that is reasonable and consistent with the public interest in the proper utilization of water resources, including, without limitation, domestic, agricultural, industrial, power, municipal, navigational, fish and wildlife, and recreational uses. (B) "Governmental agencies" means departments, divisions, or other units of state government, watershed districts, soil and water conservation districts, municipal corporations, counties, townships, and other political subdivisions, special water districts, including county and regional sewer and water districts, conservancy districts, sanitary districts, sewer districts, or any other public corporation or agency having the authority to acquire, construct, or operate waste water or water management facilities, the United States or any agency thereof, and any agency, commission, or authority established pursuant to an interstate compact or agreement. (C) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, association, or corporation, or two or more or any combination thereof. (D) "Waters of the state" means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, that are situated wholly or partly within, or border upon, this state or are within its jurisdiction, except those private waters that do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters. (E) "Water resources" means all waters of the state occurring on the surface in natural or artificial channels, lakes, reservoirs, or impoundments, and underground in subsurface aquifers, that are available or may be made available to agricultural, industrial, commercial, recreational, public, and domestic users. (F) "Project" or "water development project" means either of the following: (1) Any waste water facility or water management facility, including undivided or other interests therein, acquired or constructed or to be acquired or constructed by the Ohio water development authority under this chapter, or acquired or constructed or to be acquired or constructed by a governmental agency or person with all or a portion of the cost thereof being paid from a loan or grant from the authority under this chapter, including all buildings and facilities that the authority considers necessary for the operation of the project, together with all property, rights, easements, and interest that may be required for the operation of the project; (2) Any project or activity qualifying for financial assistance under section 6109.22 , 6111.036 , or 6111.037 of the Revised Code. (G) "Pollution" means the placing of any noxious or deleterious substances in any waters of the state or otherwise affecting the waters or properties of any waters of the state, including the temperature or radioactivity thereof, in a manner that is or renders the waters harmful or inimical to the public health, to animal or aquatic life, or to the use of the waters for domestic water supply, industrial, or agricultural purposes or recreation. (H) "Sewage" means any substance that contains any of the waste products or excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals and that pollutes the waters of the state or that in the absence of a waste water facility would pollute or cause greater pollution of the waters of the state. (I) "Industrial waste" means any liquid, gaseous, or solid waste substance, heat, radioactivity, or radiation, resulting from any process of industry, manufacture, trade, or business, or from the development, processing, or recovery of any natural resource, together with such sewage as is present, that pollutes the waters of the state or that in the absence of a waste water facility would pollute or cause greater pollution of the waters of the state. (J) "Waste water" means any water containing sewage or industrial waste or other pollutants or contaminants derived from the prior use of the water. (K) "Waste water facilities" means facilities, property, or the modification or replacement of property for the purpose of treating, neutralizing, disposing of, stabilizing, dispersing, cooling, segregating, or holding waste water, or for the removal, reduction, containment, alteration, storage, or disposal of sewage or industrial waste or substances containing sewage or industrial waste, or for the prevention or reduction, or reduction of the concentration, of pollution of the waters of the state, including, without limitation, facilities for the withdrawal of waters of the state, facilities for the treatment and disposal of sewage or industrial waste and the residue thereof, facilities for the temporary or permanent impoundment of waste water, both surface and underground, and sanitary sewers and other systems, whether on the surface or underground, designed to transport waste water together with the equipment and furnishings thereof and their appurtenances and systems, whether on the surface or underground, including force mains and pumping facilities therefor when necessary, and facilities or expenditures that qualify as water pollution control facilities under Section 103(C)(4)(F) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, and regulations adopted thereunder, and also includes any property or system to be used in whole or in part for any of the foregoing purposes, whether or not another purpose also is served, and any property or system incidental to or that has to do with or the end purpose of which is any of the foregoing. Waste water facilities as defined in this division for industry, commerce, distribution, or research, including public utility companies, are hereby determined to be those that qualify as facilities for the control of water pollution and thermal pollution related to water under Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution. (L) "Water management facilities" means facilities for the development, use, and protection of water resources, including, without limitation, facilities for water supply, facilities for stream flow improvement, dams, reservoirs, and other impoundments, water transmission lines, water wells and well fields, pumping stations and works for underground water recharge, facilities for the management and treatment of storm water, stream monitoring systems, facilities for the stabilization of stream and river banks and coastal erosion areas, as defined in section 1506.01 of the Revised Code, and facilities for the treatment of streams and rivers, including, without limitation, facilities for the removal of oil, debris, and other solid waste from the waters of the state and stream and river aeration facilities. (M) "Cost" as applied to a water development project means the cost of acquisition and construction, the cost of acquisition of all land, rights-of-way, property rights, easements, franchise rights, and interests required for that acquisition and construction, the cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to which the buildings or structures may be moved, the cost of acquiring or constructing and equipping a principal office and sub-offices of the authority, the cost of diverting highways, interchange of highways, or access roads to private property, including the cost of land or easements therefor, the cost of all machinery, furnishings, and equipment, financing charges, interest prior to and during construction and for no more than eighteen months after completion of construction, engineering costs, expenses of research and development with respect to waste water or water management facilities, legal expenses, the cost of plans, specifications, and surveys, estimates of cost and revenues, working capital, other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of acquiring or constructing any such project, administrative expense, and other expense that may be necessary or incident to the acquisition or construction of the project, the financing of the acquisition or construction including the amount authorized in the resolution of the authority providing for the issuance of water development revenue bonds to be paid into any special funds from the proceeds of the bonds, and the financing of the placing of any such project in operation. Any obligation, cost, or expense incurred by any governmental agency or person for surveys, borings, preparation of plans and specifications, and other engineering services, or any other costs described above, in connection with the acquisition or construction of a project may be regarded as a part of the cost of the project and may be reimbursed out of the proceeds of water development revenue bonds as authorized by this chapter. (N) "Owner" includes all individuals, copartnerships, associations, corporations, or governmental agencies having any title or interest in any property rights, easements, and interests authorized to be acquired by this chapter. (O) "Revenues" means all rentals and other charges for the use or services of any water development project, any gift or grant received with respect thereto, including, without limitation, any moneys received by the authority pursuant to an agreement entered into under section 6109.22 , 6111.036 , or 6111.037 of the Revised Code, any moneys received with respect to the lease, sublease, sale, including installment sale or conditional sale, or other disposition of a project, moneys received in repayment of and for interest on any loan made by the authority to a person or governmental agency, whether from the United States or a department, administration, or agency thereof, or otherwise, proceeds of bonds to the extent that use thereof for payment of principal of, premium if any, or interest on the bonds is authorized by the authority, proceeds from any insurance, condemnation, or guaranty pertaining to a project or property mortgaged to secure bonds or pertaining to the financing of the project, and income and profit from the investment of the proceeds of water development revenue bonds or of any revenues. (P) "Public roads" includes all public highways, roads, and streets in the state whether maintained by the state or a county, municipal corporation, township, or other political subdivision. (Q) "Public utility facilities" includes tracks, pipes, mains, conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles, and other equipment and appliances of any public utility. (R) "Construction," unless the context indicates a different meaning or intent, includes reconstruction, enlargement, improvement, or providing furnishings or equipment. (S) "Water development revenue bonds," unless the context indicates a different meaning or intent, includes water development revenue notes, water development revenue renewal notes, and water development revenue refunding bonds, except that notes issued in anticipation of the issuance of bonds shall have a maximum maturity of five years as provided in section 6121.06 of the Revised Code and notes or renewal notes issued as the definitive obligation may be issued maturing at the time or times that the authority determines with a maximum maturity of forty years from the date of issuance of the original note.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6137.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6137 / § 6137.04
§ 6137.04. Drainage maintenance district
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A)(1) The board of county commissioners, upon recommendation of the county engineer, may combine improvements into a drainage maintenance district, in which the maintenance assessment shall be the same percentage of original cost for each improvement to be maintained. (2) In combining improvements into drainage maintenance districts, the county engineer and the board of county commissioners shall consider similarity of costs, topography, and soil types so that improvements within the same district present substantially the same maintenance issues and costs. The county auditor shall maintain one drainage maintenance fund for each such district. (3) A maintenance district may include all or any part of a county. (B) The board of county commissioners, upon recommendation of the county engineer, may combine improvements in accordance with the type of improvement into one drainage maintenance fund so that ditches or drains that are enclosed in tile, or other improvements having similar maintenance costs, may be administered for maintenance under the same maintenance fund. (C)(1) In the case of each joint county drainage improvement, the county auditor of the lead county shall maintain a separate maintenance fund for the improvement. (2) The owners subject to the original assessment for the improvement shall constitute one maintenance district for the purpose of repair, upkeep, and maintenance of the improvement. (3) The county engineer of the lead county shall serve as the county engineer in charge of maintenance and, after consultation with the engineer of any other county affected, shall annually file a report of inspection with a recommendation as to the amount of the maintenance assessment by the same procedure as provided by section 6137.03 of the Revised Code for assessment in the case of a single county drainage improvement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.46 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.46
§ 6119.46. Filing of resolution of necessity for special assessments
Status: in_force

November 19, 1971 Senate Bill 166 - 109th General Assembly When it is considered necessary to construct a water resource project to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessments levied under Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code, plans, specifications, and profiles of the proposed project showing the anticipated grade of the project after completion with reference to any property abutting thereon, and an estimate of the cost of the project shall be prepared and filed in the office of the secretary of the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district and shall be open to the inspection of all persons with interests therein. After such plans, specifications, profiles, and estimate of cost of the project have been filed in the office of the secretary, the board may declare the necessity of constructing such project by the passage of a resolution. Such resolution shall: (A) State the nature and location of the project and the lots or parcels of land to be assessed for the project; (B) Approve the plans, specifications, profiles, and estimate of cost of the proposed project on file as provided in this section; (C) State that the entire cost of the project is to be specially assessed or state what part of the cost is to be paid for by the district and what part is to be specially assessed; (D) State the method or methods of levying the special assessments in accordance with section 6119.42 of the Revised Code; (E) State the mode of payment and the number of annual installments of the special assessments to be levied; (F) State whether or not bonds shall be issued in anticipation of the collection of the special assessments; (G) Provide for the preparation of a list of estimated assessments in accordance with the method or methods of assessment set forth in the resolution, showing the amount of the assessment against each lot or parcel of land to be assessed. Such list of estimated assessments shall be filed in the office of the secretary of the board of trustees.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.14
§ 6131.14. County engineer's duties
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) Upon the board's determination to proceed with the project survey and design on a proposed improvement under section 6131.12 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall immediately forward a copy of the board's findings and orders to the county engineer. (B) The county engineer shall do all of the following: (1) Conduct all necessary surveys for the proposed improvement; (2) Prepare plans for structures; (3) Create maps showing the location of the land proposed to be assessed; (4) Prepare construction drawings of the improvement; (5) Prepare an estimate of the cost of the improvement, which shall include actual construction cost, the cost of engineering, the cost of the first year maintenance, and the cost of notices, publication, and other incidental expenses. If applicable, the engineer may recommend the maintenance district in which the improvement shall be placed. The assessment of the improvement for maintenance for one year shall be credited to the maintenance fund of the district. (6) Prepare a schedule of damages that includes both of the following: (a) An estimate of the value of land or other property necessary to be acquired through purchase or voluntary transfer or appropriated in accordance with section 163.01 to 163.62 of the Revised Code, and a description of that land or other property; (b) An estimate of the total damages to be sustained by owners as a result of the construction and subsequent maintenance of a proposed improvement, along with the name and address of each owner that is alleged to be damaged, the amount of each owner's estimated damages, and an explanation of each owner's injury. (C) The county engineer shall make a plan of the work proposed to be done, which shall show the grade, the depth, the excavating to be done, the location of the permanent bench marks and their actual elevation based on the most recent United States geological survey data above or below the base elevation used, and such other data as in the judgment of the engineer will aid in retracing lines, levels, or other features of the improvement. The plan shall indicate the profile and the nature of the excavation. (D)(1) The engineer shall transmit copies of the construction drawings to the director of natural resources, the director of transportation when a state highway is affected, and the board of directors of any conservancy district within which any part of the lands or streams affected by the proposed improvement may lie. (2) The director of natural resources, the director of transportation, and the board of directors of the conservancy district shall review the plans submitted and within thirty days file with the county engineer a report indicating approval or, in case that approval cannot be given, a report with recommendations. (3) The approval or report with recommendations, which, where appropriate, shall include recommendations regarding the use of best management practices that are consistent with the prayer of the petition, shall be transmitted by the engineer to the board of county commissioners, who shall take notice of the approval or recommendations and shall authorize the engineer to make any changes or alterations that in the judgment of the board are necessary or desirable. (4) Upon receipt of approval of the plans by the director of natural resources, the director of transportation, and the board of directors of any conservancy districts affected, or upon completion of any changes authorized by the board of county commissioners, the engineer shall file the construction drawings with the clerk of the board of county commissioners. (E) The engineer shall prepare specifications for the construction of the improvement that include all of the following: (1) The route of an improvement, which, as practicable as possible, shall be located to avoid running the improvement diagonally across property and to follow property lines, section lines, and lines of public highways. However, where the line of a public street or highway is followed, approval must be obtained from the governmental entity owning the street or highway. (2) The width of the temporary easement for construction required for the improvement. The specifications shall require the temporary easement to include spreading and leveling of spoil banks and shall prohibit the temporary easement from being more than seventy-five feet from the top of the bank. (3) The width of the permanent easement required for the improvement. The specifications shall provide for erosion and sediment control through the establishment of a sod or seeded strip not fewer than ten feet nor more than fifteen feet wide, measured at right angles to the top of the ditch bank, on both sides of the ditch, except where suitable vegetative cover exists. The strip or other such controls shall be considered a part of the permanent improvement. (F) The county engineer shall provide to the county auditor the acreages of sod or seeded strips established under this section and the county auditor shall remove the entire amount of each sod or seeded strip from the taxable valuation of the property of which they are a part. (G) The engineer shall make a note of all fences, floodgates, culverts, or bridges that will be removed in constructing the improvement and of all culverts or bridges that must be adjusted or the channel of which must be enlarged to construct the improvement. (H) In estimating the cost of an improvement, the engineer may include the cost of installing gates in fences on the reserved right-of-way where needed to provide access for maintenance. The gates shall be kept locked when requested by the owner and shall be considered a part of the original improvement and subject to maintenance as provided by Chapter 6137. of the Revised Code. (I) The engineer shall make an estimate of the cost of inspecting the work as it progresses and shall, with the assistance of the prosecuting attorney, prepare forms for contracts with bidders and forms of bid guaranties that meet the requirements of section 153.54 of the Revised Code. (J) Upon the acceptance of the contract work, the engineer shall file with the county recorder all of the following: (1) A property plat showing the owners of record and parcel numbers along the drainage improvement; (2) The location of the improvement; (3) A statement describing the width of the permanent easement for maintenance as provided for in section 6137.12 of the Revised Code; (4) An affidavit listing the owners of record, complete property descriptions, and parcel numbers subject to the permanent easement. The engineer shall note the property plat in the affidavit. The engineer shall include the permanent easement in the county's geographic information systems or other mapping system, if available. The engineer shall make an itemized bill of the costs and expenses incurred in the proper discharge of duties set forth in this section and shall file the maps, profiles, plans, schedules, and reports with the clerk of the board of county commissioners upon completing them.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.34
§ 6117.34. Complaint of unsanitary conditions
Status: in_force

September 23, 2008 House Bill 562 - 127th General Assembly Whenever the legislative authority or board of health, or the officers performing the duties of the legislative authority or board of health, of a municipal corporation, the board of health of a general health district, or a board of township trustees makes complaint, in writing, to the environmental protection agency that unsanitary conditions exist in any county, the agency's director forthwith shall inquire into and investigate the conditions complained of. If, upon investigation of the complaint, the director finds that it is necessary for the public health and welfare that sanitary or drainage facilities or prevention or replacement facilities be acquired or constructed, maintained, and operated to serve any territory outside municipal corporations in any county, the director shall notify the board of county commissioners of the county of that finding and order that corrective action be taken. The board shall obey the order and proceed as provided in this chapter to establish a county sewer district, if required, to provide the necessary funds, to acquire or construct the facilities, and to maintain and operate the facilities, as required by the order and in a manner that is satisfactory to the director. Any part or all of the cost of the facilities or of the maintenance and operation of the facilities may be assessed upon the benefited properties as provided in this chapter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6123.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6123 / § 6123.03
§ 6123.03. Public policy
Status: in_force

September 28, 1979 House Bill 144 - 113th General Assembly It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the state through the operations of the Ohio water development authority under this chapter to contribute toward one or more of the following: to provide for the comfort, health, safety, and general welfare of all employees and other inhabitants of the state and for the conservation of the land, air and water resources of the state through efficient and proper methods of disposal, salvage and reuse of or recovery of resources from solid wastes thereby eliminating or decreasing accident and health hazards including rodent and insect vectors of disease, public nuisance and the adverse effect on land values caused thereby and the scenic blight marring the landscape, to assist in the financing of solid waste facilities for industry, commerce, distribution and research, including public utility companies, to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities or improve the economic welfare of the people of the state, or to assist and cooperate with governmental agencies in achieving such purposes. In furtherance of such public policy, the Ohio water development authority may initiate, acquire, construct, maintain, repair and operate solid waste facilities or cause the same to be operated pursuant to a lease, sub-lease, or agreement with any person or governmental agency; may make loans and grants to governmental agencies for the acquisition or construction of solid waste facilities by such governmental agencies; may make loans to persons for the acquisition or construction of solid waste facilities by such persons; and may issue development revenue bonds of this state payable solely from revenues, to pay the cost of such projects. Any solid waste facilities shall be determined by the authority to be in compliance with Chapter 3734. of the Revised Code and with the regulations adopted by the director of environmental protection under section 3734.02 of the Revised Code. Any resolution of the authority providing for acquiring or constructing such facilities or for making a loan or grant for such facilities shall include a finding by the authority that such determination has been made. Determinations by resolution of the authority that a facility is a solid waste facility under this chapter and is consistent with the purposes of Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and this chapter shall be conclusive as to the validity and enforceability of the development revenue bonds issued to finance such facility and of the resolutions, trust agreements or indentures, leases, sub-leases, sale agreements, loan agreements and other agreements made in connection therewith, all in accordance with their terms.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6123.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6123 / § 6123.13
§ 6123.13. Charge, alter, and collection of rentals or other charges for use or services of development project
Status: in_force

September 21, 1982 House Bill 379 - 114th General Assembly The Ohio water development authority may charge, alter, and collect rentals or other charges for the use or services of any development project and contract in the manner provided by this section with one or more persons, one or more governmental agencies, or any combination thereof, desiring the use or services thereof, and fix the terms, conditions, rentals, or other charges for such use or services. Such rentals or other charges shall not be subject to supervision or regulation by any other authority, commission, board, bureau, or agency of the state and such contract may provide for acquisition by such person or governmental agency of all or any part of such development project for such consideration payable over the period of the contract or otherwise as the authority in its sole discretion determines to be appropriate, but subject to the provisions of any resolution authorizing the issuance of development revenue bonds or notes or development revenue refunding bonds of the authority or any trust agreement securing the same. Any governmental agency which has power to construct, operate, and maintain development facilities may enter into a contract or lease with the authority whereby the use or services of any development project of the authority will be made available to such governmental agency and pay for such use or services such rentals or other charges as may be agreed to by the authority and such governmental agency. Any governmental agency or combination thereof may cooperate with the authority in the acquisition or construction of a development project and shall enter into such agreements with the authority as are necessary, with a view to effective cooperative action and safeguarding of the respective interests of the parties thereto, which agreements shall provide for such contributions by the parties thereto in such proportion as may be agreed upon and such other terms as may be mutually satisfactory to the parties including, without limitation, the authorization of the construction of the project by one of the parties acting as agent for all of the parties; the ownership and control of the project by the authority to the extent necessary or appropriate for purposes of the issuance of development revenue bonds by the authority; contracting for the operation, leasing, or subleasing for such term and with such person or governmental agency as may be agreed upon; and the sale or other disposition of such project to such governmental agency as may be agreed upon. The authority shall not enter into such a cooperative agreement with any governmental agency if the authority determines that the project to be acquired or constructed under the agreement would undermine the financial feasibility of an existing development project acquired or constructed under a cooperative agreement between the authority and another governmental agency because the proposed project would serve substantially the same geographic area as the existing project. Any governmental agency may provide the funds for the payment of such contribution as is required under such agreements by the levy of taxes, assessments, or rentals and other charges for the use of the utility system of which the development project is a part or to which it is connected, if otherwise authorized by the laws governing such governmental agency in the construction of the type of development project provided for in the agreements, and may pay the proceeds from the collection of such taxes, assessments, utility rentals, or other charges to the authority pursuant to such agreements; or the governmental agency may issue bonds or notes, if authorized by such laws, in anticipation of the collection of such taxes, assessments, utility rentals, or other charges and may pay the proceeds of such bonds or notes to the authority pursuant to such agreements. In addition any governmental agency may provide the funds for the payment of such contribution by the appropriation of money or, if otherwise authorized by law, by the issuance of bonds or notes and may pay such appropriated money or the proceeds of such bonds or notes to the authority pursuant to such agreements. The agreement by the governmental agency to provide such contribution, whether from appropriated money or from the proceeds of such taxes, assessments, utility rentals, or other charges, or such bonds or notes, or any combination thereof, is not subject to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code or any regulations or limitations contained therein. The proceeds from the collection of such taxes or assessments, and any interest earned thereon, shall be paid into a special fund immediately upon the collection thereof by the governmental agency for the purpose of providing such contribution at the times required under such agreements. When the contribution of any governmental agency is to be made over a period of time from the proceeds of the collection of special assessments, the interest accrued and to accrue before the first installment of such assessments is collected, which is payable by such governmental agency on such contribution under the terms and provisions of such agreements, shall be treated as part of the cost of the improvement for which such assessments are levied, and that portion of such assessments as are collected in installments shall bear interest at the same rate as such governmental agency is obligated to pay on such contribution under the terms and provisions of such agreements and for the same period of time as the contribution is to be made under such agreements. If the assessment or any installment thereof is not paid when due, it shall bear interest until the payment thereof at the same rate as such contribution and the county auditor shall annually place on the tax list and duplicate the interest applicable to such assessment and the penalty and any additional interest thereon as otherwise authorized by law. Any governmental agency, pursuant to a favorable vote of the electors in an election held before or after July 13, 1970 for the purpose of issuing bonds to provide funds to acquire, construct, or equip, or provide real estate and interests in real estate for, a solid waste facility, whether or not such governmental agency, at the time of such election, had the authority to pay the proceeds from such bonds or notes issued in anticipation thereof to the authority as provided in this section, may issue such bonds or notes in anticipation of the issuance thereof and pay the proceeds thereof to the authority in accordance with its agreement with the authority; provided, that the legislative authority of the governmental agency finds and determines that the solid waste facility to be acquired or constructed by the authority in cooperation with such governnmental agency will serve the same public purpose and meet substantially the same public need as the facility otherwise proposed to be acquired or constructed by the governmental agency with the proceeds of such bonds or notes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6137.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6137 / § 6137.06
§ 6137.06. County and joint county drainage improvements
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) With regard to a single county improvement, the county engineer has general charge and supervision of the repair and maintenance of all county drainage improvements constructed under Chapters 940., 6131., 6133., and 6135. of the Revised Code. With regard to a joint county improvement, the lead county engineer has general charge and supervision of the repair and maintenance of all joint county drainage improvements constructed under Chapters 940., 6131., 6133., and 6135. of the Revised Code. (B) The duties of the county engineer with respect to maintenance of any drainage improvement begin upon the substantial completion of the improvement. In preparing plans and specifications for repair and maintenance of a drainage improvement, the county engineer shall provide for necessary clearing of tree and brush growth, removal of silt bars, spreading and leveling of spoil banks, and the preservation of a sod or seeded strip as provided in the case of new construction under section 6131.14 of the Revised Code. (C) Any person owning land along a drainage improvement may form an advisory committee for the purpose of notifying the county engineer of any repair and maintenance work that needs to be performed on the improvement. A committee formed for this purpose shall submit recommendations to the county engineer not later than the first day of May of any year in which its members desire to notify the county engineer of needed work. In determining the condition of the improvement in accordance with this section, the county engineer shall consider the committee's recommendations. (D) Before issuing a warrant for any moneys expended by the county for repair or maintenance of any drainage improvement, the county auditor shall require of the county engineer the assignment of the expense to the improvement or the drainage maintenance district in connection with which the expense was incurred. The county auditor shall keep such records as are necessary to show clearly at the close of each year the amount of money expended from the drainage maintenance funds on each drainage improvement or each drainage maintenance district. (E) The county auditor may establish and maintain a rotary fund for the purchase of equipment, materials, and labor related to the general maintenance of drainage improvements under this chapter. The county auditor shall establish and maintain the fund by a proportionate withdrawal from the funds of each drainage improvement or each drainage maintenance district. (F) The county engineer shall establish a rental rate for equipment purchased with the rotary fund. This rate shall be used in charging the equipment, along with material and labor, to the drainage improvement upon which it is used in order to reimburse the rotary fund. Last updated March 23, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 6155.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6155 / § 6155.01
§ 6155.01. Application for removal of milldam
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Applications by the owners of lands adjoining or adjacent to a stream of living water for the removal of a milldam therein shall be made by filing with the county auditor a petition signed by at least two thirds of said owners, stating the necessity for such improvement and the removal of the milldam, with a sufficient bond with sureties to the acceptance of the auditor, conditioned to pay all expenses incurred in case the board of county commissioners refuses to grant the prayer of the petition.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.51 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.51
§ 6131.51. General drainage improvement fund payments
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) All costs and expenses of improvements under this chapter, including contract prices of construction and the costs of locating the improvement, may be paid from the general drainage improvement fund. (B) The letting and approving of any contract for an improvement shall be considered a specific appropriation of the amount of the obligation, and that amount shall be set apart for the purpose of the payment and contingently charged against the fund. If at any time the fund contains the proceeds of bonds or notes issued and sold under such sections, the fund shall not be depleted below the obligations incurred by the bond or note issue unless assessments or levies have been made or ordered made in sufficient amount to redeem the bonds or notes as they fall due. If at any time obligations legally incurred exceed the amount of the drainage improvement fund, an amount of the general revenue funds in the county treasury equal to the deficiency, unless otherwise appropriated, may by resolution of the board of county commissioners be transferred to the general drainage improvement fund. (C) At any time after assessments collected for a drainage improvement exceed the amount allocated to the board for engineering expenses, the board of county commissioners may by resolution transfer from the drainage improvement fund to the general revenue fund of the county an amount equal to that amount as reimbursement of the sum previously transferred under section 6131.12 or 6131.30 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.14
§ 6101.14. Right of entry
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly (A) The board of directors of any conservancy district, or its employees or agents, including contractors and their employees, and the board of appraisers of the conservancy district and its assistants, may enter upon lands within or without the district to make surveys and examinations to accomplish the necessary preliminary purposes of the district, or to have access to the work. They shall be liable, however, for actual damage done, but no unnecessary damage shall be done. (B) No person or corporation shall prevent any entrance upon lands authorized by division (A) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.02
§ 6115.02. Sanitary district tax books and records
Status: in_force

July 8, 1993 Senate Bill 105 - 120th General Assembly The tax books and records provided for in this chapter shall be termed "sanitary district books" or "sanitary district records," and such titles shall be printed, stamped, or written thereon.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6105.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6105 / § 6105.15
§ 6105.15. Expenditure budget
Status: in_force

December 14, 1967 House Bill 791 - 107th General Assembly On or before the first day of June of each year, the board of directors of a watershed district shall submit to the board of county commissioners of each watershed county an expenditure budget for the watershed district for the next succeeding calendar year.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6109.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6109 / § 6109.04
§ 6109.04. Director of environmental protection to administer and enforce
Status: in_force

December 29, 2023 Senate Bill 131 - 134th General Assembly (A) The director of environmental protection shall administer and enforce this chapter and rules adopted under it. (B) The director shall adopt, amend, and rescind such rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as may be necessary or desirable to do both of the following: (1) Govern public water systems in order to protect the public health; (2) Govern public water systems to protect the public welfare, including rules governing contaminants in water that may adversely affect the suitability of the water for its intended uses or that may otherwise adversely affect the public health or welfare. (C) The director may do any or all of the following: (1) Adopt, amend, and rescind such rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as may be necessary or desirable to do any or all of the following: (a) Govern the granting of variances and exemptions from rules adopted under this chapter, subject to requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act; (b) Govern the certification of operators of public water systems, including establishment of qualifications according to a classification of public water systems and of provisions for examination, grounds for revocation, renewal of certification, and other provisions necessary or desirable for assurance of proper operation of water systems; (c) Carry out the powers and duties of the director under this chapter. (2) Provide a program for the general supervision of operation and maintenance of public water systems; (3) Maintain an inventory of public water systems; (4) Adopt and implement a program for conducting sanitary surveys of public water systems; (5) Establish and maintain a system of record keeping and reporting of activities of the environmental protection agency under this chapter; (6) Establish and maintain a program for the certification of laboratories conducting analyses of drinking water; (7) Issue, modify, and revoke orders as necessary to carry out the director's powers and duties under this chapter and primary enforcement responsibility for public water systems under the "Safe Drinking Water Act." Orders issued under this chapter are subject to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (D) Before adopting, amending, or rescinding a rule authorized by this chapter, the director shall do all of the following: (1) Mail notice to each statewide organization that the director determines represents persons who would be affected by the proposed rule, amendment, or rescission at least thirty-five days before any public hearing thereon; (2) Mail a copy of each proposed rule, amendment, or rescission to any person who requests a copy, within five days after receipt of the request; (3) Consult with appropriate state and local government agencies or their representatives, including statewide organizations of local government officials, industrial representatives, and other interested persons. Although the director is expected to discharge these duties diligently, failure to mail any such notice or copy or to consult with any person does not invalidate any proceeding or action of the director. (E) The director shall issue a certification as an operator of a public water system in accordance with Chapter 4796. of the Revised Code to an applicant if either of the following applies: (1) The applicant holds a certification or license in another state. (2) The applicant has satisfactory work experience, a government certification, or a private certification as described in that chapter as an operator of a public water system in a state that does not issue that certification or license. Last updated December 29, 2023 at 5:38 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 6135.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6135 / § 6135.08
§ 6135.08. Engineer - adjournment - capacity of Improvement,
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If the joint board of county commissioners finds it necessary, it may employ an engineer to determine the proper route on which a ditch or its branches shall be located. No engineer shall be employed by such joint board until it has determined that the improvement is necessary for the public welfare, health, or convenience. In their view of such route and in their deliberations over it, the members of the joint board of county commissioners from this state may adjourn from time to time, not exceeding in the aggregate sixty days. The joint board of county commissioners may determine upon the necessary capacity of the part of such improvement located in this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.43 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.43
§ 6115.43. Appraising lands not at first included within the boundaries of district
Status: in_force

October 9, 1981 House Bill 156 - 114th General Assembly In case any real property within or without any sanitary district is benefited which for any reason was not appraised in the original proceedings, or was not appraised to the extent of benefits received, or in case any person, public corporation, or other district makes use of or profits by the works of any district to a degree not compensated for in the original appraisal, or in case the board of directors of the sanitary district finds it necessary, subsequent to the time when the first appraisals are made, to take or damage any additional property, the board of directors, at any time that condition becomes evident, shall direct the board of appraisers of the sanitary district to appraise the benefits or enhanced benefits received by that property, or the damages or value of property taken. Proceedings outlined in sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 of the Revised Code for appraising lands not at first included within the boundaries of the district shall in all matters be conformed with, including notice to the parties, or the board of directors may make any suitable settlement with the person, public corporation, or other district for the use, benefit, damage, or property taken. In the case of a district organized wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, if the board of appraisers determines that each parcel of real property in the district receives a portion of the benefits received by the entire district in the same proportion that its taxable value bears to the taxable value of all the real property in the district, and the court confirms the determination of the board, the assessments for the reduction of such populations shall be uniformly apportioned throughout the district on that basis.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6121.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6121 / § 6121.22
§ 6121.22. Liberal construction of chapter
Status: in_force

March 7, 1968 House Bill 998 - 107th General Assembly Sections 6121.01 to 6121.22 , inclusive, of the Revised Code being necessary for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.29
§ 6119.29. Construction of main sewers and drains and branch sewers and drains without adoption of plan
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If in its opinion it is expedient, the board of trustees of a regional water and sewer district may provide for the construction of main sewers and drains and branch sewers and drains connecting therewith without previously adopting any plan of sewerage or division of the area or any part thereof into districts, and may assess the cost and expense of such construction upon such lots and lands as are designated in the resolution to improve, or such cost and expense may be paid from the general fund of the district, as the board determines. Such proceedings shall be had in respect to such improvements and assessments as are provided for in sections 6119.01 to 6119.42 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, for the construction of main or branch sewers according to a previously adopted plan.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6135.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6135 / § 6135.14
§ 6135.14. Notice of receipt of reports, plans, and schedules
Status: in_force

April 9, 1981 House Bill 268 - 113th General Assembly On the receipt of the reports, plans, and schedules required by section 6135.12 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the petition was filed shall notify the joint board of county commissioners of the receipt thereof as in the case of the filing of a petition and bond as provided in section 6135.02 of the Revised Code. The clerk shall send a copy of the report to all of the appropriate officials of each state. He shall proceed in a like manner to fix a time and place for the meeting of the joint board, after which he shall notify it of the receipt of the report and the time and place of the meeting.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.16
§ 6101.16. Contracts for improvements
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly When it is determined to let the work relating to the improvements for which a conservancy district was established by contract, contracts in excess of the amount specified in section 9.17 of the Revised Code shall be advertised after notice calling for bids has been published once a week for two consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, with the last publication to occur at least eight days prior to the date on which bids will be accepted, in a newspaper of general circulation within the conservancy district where the work is to be done. If the bids are for a contract for the construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction of an improvement, the board of directors of the conservancy district may let the contract to the lowest responsive and most responsible bidder who meets the requirements of section 153.54 of the Revised Code. If the bids are for a contract for any other work relating to the improvements for which a conservancy district was established, the board of directors of the district may let the contract to the lowest responsive and most responsible bidder who gives a good and approved bond, with ample security, conditioned on the carrying out of the contract. The contract shall be in writing and shall be accompanied by or refer to plans and specifications for the work to be done prepared by the chief engineer. The plans and specifications shall at all times be made and considered a part of the contract. The contract shall be approved by the board and signed by the president of the board and by the contractor and shall be executed in duplicate. In case of sudden emergency when it is necessary in order to protect the district, the advertising of contracts may be waived upon the consent of the board, with the approval of the court or a judge of the court of common pleas of the county in which the office of the district is located. No project subject to this section shall be divided into component parts, separate projects, or separate items of work in order to avoid the requirements of this section. Last updated February 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 6123.041 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6123 / § 6123.041
§ 6123.041. Industry, commerce, distribution, or research projects financing arrangements
Status: in_force

September 28, 1994 Senate Bill 221 - 120th General Assembly (A) With respect to projects, and the financing thereof, for industry, commerce, distribution, or research, including public utility companies, under agreements whereby the person to whom the project is to be leased, sub-leased, or sold or to whom a loan is to be made for the project is to make payments sufficient to pay all of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the development revenue bonds issued for the project, the Ohio water development authority, in addition to other powers under this chapter, may do any or all of the following: (1) Make loans for the acquisition or construction of the project to the person upon such terms as the authority may determine or authorize, including secured or unsecured loans, and, for and in connection with, enter into loan agreements, accept notes and other forms of obligation to evidence such indebtedness and mortgages, liens, pledges, assignments, or other security interests to secure such indebtedness, which may be prior or subordinate to or on a parity with other indebtedness, obligations, mortgages, pledges, assignments, other security interests, or liens or encumbrances, and take such actions as may be determined appropriate by it to protect such security and safeguard against losses, including, without limitation, foreclosure and the bidding upon and purchase of property upon foreclosure or other sale; (2) Sell the project under such terms as it may determine, including, without limitation, sale by conditional sale or installment sale, under which title may pass prior to or after completion of the project or payment or provisions for payment of all principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such bonds, or at any other time provided in the agreement pertaining to the sale, and including sale under an option to purchase at a price that may be a nominal amount or less than true value at the time of purchase; (3) Grant a mortgage, lien, or other encumbrance on, or pledge or assignment of, or with respect to, all or any part of the project, revenues, reserve funds or other funds established in connection with such bonds, or on, of, or with respect to any lease, sub-lease, sale, conditional sale or installment sale agreement, loan agreement, or other agreement pertaining to the lease, sub-lease, sale, or other disposition of a project or pertaining to a loan made for a project, or any guaranty or insurance agreement made with respect thereto, or any interest of the authority therein, or any other interest granted, assigned, or released to secure payments of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the bonds or to secure any other payments to be made by the authority, which mortgage, lien, encumbrance, pledge, assignment, or other security interest may be prior or subordinate to or on a parity with any other mortgage, pledge, assignment, other security interest, or lien or encumbrance; (4) Provide that the interest on the bonds may be at a variable rate or rates changing from time to time in accordance with a base or formula as authorized by the authority; (5) Contract for the acquisition or construction of the project or any part thereof and for the leasing, sub-leasing, sale, or other disposition of the project, which may be made in a manner determined by the authority in its sole discretion, without necessity for competitive bidding or performance bonds. (B) Property comprising a project, other than a voluntary action, is not subject to taxes or assessments as long as the bonds or notes issued to finance the costs of the project are outstanding, and the transfer of title to or possession of the property to the person to whom a loan or installment sale or conditional sale with respect to the project is made is not subject to the taxes levied pursuant to Chapters 5739. and 5741. of the Revised Code. The authority shall certify the property comprising a project that is exempt from taxes and assessments pursuant to this division and shall send, by certified mail, copies of the certification to the owner of the exempt property, to the tax commissioner, and to the county auditor of the county or counties in which the exempt property is located. Each county auditor shall maintain a separate list of all property exempt pursuant to this division and sections 3706.041 and 6121.044 of the Revised Code, in addition to the list of exempt property required to be maintained pursuant to section 5713.07 of the Revised Code. (C) The authority, in the lease, sale, or loan agreement with respect to a project referred to in division (A) of this section, shall make appropriate provision for adequate maintenance of the project. The source of the payments sufficient to pay all of the principal, premium, if any, and interest required by that division shall be limited to revenue derived from rentals or other charges for the use of the services of the project, and the revenue may be derived from such rentals or charges and paid to the person or the authority by governmental agencies that receive the use or services of the project, including governmental agencies that are parties to an agreement for cooperation in the acquisition or construction of the development project pursuant to section 6123.13 of the Revised Code. (D) With respect to the projects referred to in this section, the authority granted by this section is cumulative and supplementary to all other authority granted in this chapter. The authority granted by this section does not alter or impair any similar authority granted elsewhere in this chapter with respect to other projects.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.50 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.50
§ 6119.50. Claims for damages
Status: in_force

November 19, 1971 Senate Bill 166 - 109th General Assembly An owner of a lot or parcel of land claiming that he will sustain damages by reason of a proposed project, to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessments, shall, within twenty-eight days from the date of completion of the notice required under section 6119.47 of the Revised Code, file a claim in writing with the secretary of the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district, setting forth the amount of the damages claimed and a general description of the property with respect to which it is claimed that such damages will accrue. An owner who fails to file such claim shall be deemed to have waived damages and shall be barred from filing a claim or receiving damages. This section applies to all damages which will obviously result from the project, but shall not deprive the owner of his right to recover damages arising, without his fault, from the acts of the district or its agents. If, subsequent to the filing of such claim, the owner sells the property, or any part thereof, the assignee has the same right to damages which the owner would have had without the transfer. When claims for damages are filed under this section and the board determines in the resolution adopted under section 6119.51 of the Revised Code that the damages shall be assessed before commencing such project, the board shall, within ten days after the passage of the resolution to proceed with the project under such section, make a written application to the court of common pleas for a jury. If the board determines that the damages shall be assessed after the completion of the project, the board shall make such written application within ten days after the completion of such project. The court shall direct the summoning of a jury in the manner provided by section 163.10 of the Revised Code, and shall fix the time and place for the inquiry and the assessment of such damages, which inquiry and assessment shall be confined to such claims. The jury summoned under this section shall be sworn to inquire into and assess the actual damages in each case separately, under such rules and instructions as are given it by the court. When the jury cannot agree, it may be discharged, but the court may receive its verdict as to one or more of the claimants and discharge it with respect to the parties concerning whose claims it cannot agree. In case of the discharge of the jury because of such disagreement, a new jury shall be summoned and the same proceedings shall be had with respect to the claims concerning which there was no verdict. If the jury summoned under this section finds no damages, the costs of the inquiry shall be taxed against the claimant or claimants and collected on execution. In other cases, the costs shall be paid by the district. This section does not apply to an application for an injunction or other proceeding to which it may be necessary for such applicant to resort in case of urgent necessity.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.31
§ 6117.31. Actual costs - collection
Status: in_force

April 2, 1970 Senate Bill 466 - 108th General Assembly Upon the completion of any improvement under sections 6117.01 to 6117.45 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, the actual cost thereof shall be ascertained and to such actual cost shall be added an amount equal to the interest accrued and to accrue before the first installment of such assessment is collected upon certificates of indebtedness and upon bonds authorized by such sections or upon the contribution of the county to be paid from the assessment under an agreement pursuant to section 6121.13 of the Revised Code, between the county and the Ohio water development authority, for the construction of an improvement for which the county can levy assessments as provided in Chapter 6117. of the Revised Code, and the sum so arising, less the portion thereof to be paid by the county at large, shall be assessed against the lots and parcels of land within the assessment district found to be benefited by such improvement. For the purpose of paying the county sanitary engineer provided for in section 6117.01 of the Revised Code, and for paying his assistants and all of his other necessary expenses, and for the purpose of paying that part of the cost of the improvement to be paid by the county or of the interest to accrue thereon, the board of county commissioners may levy taxes in addition to all other taxes authorized by law. Such levy shall be subject to all the limitations provided by law upon the aggregate amount, rate, maximum rate, and combined maximum rate of taxation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6109.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6109 / § 6109.19
§ 6109.19. Additional charges for water supply to pay for improvements
Status: in_force

December 14, 1978 Senate Bill 445 - 112th General Assembly Where an order of the director of environmental protection to a person owning and operating a public water system whose rates are regulated by the public utilities commission is final and it is claimed by such person that the revenues derived from the operation of such system is not sufficient to warrant the expense of making the improvements or changes so ordered, an application may be made to the public utilities commission for authority to make and collect additional charges from the water consumers and users of the utility's service. Upon the filing of such application the commission shall fix a time for the hearing thereof and give notice thereof to the mayor of the municipal corporation and the director. If upon hearing the commission finds that the rates theretofore authorized to be charged will not provide revenue sufficient to operate said system and make a reasonable return upon the investment after such improvements and changes are made, it shall by order authorize the collection of such additional charges and compensation as may be just and reasonable.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.31
§ 6101.31. Conservancy appraisal record
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly The board of appraisers of a conservancy district shall prepare a report of its findings that shall be known as the conservancy appraisal record. The record shall contain the name of the owner of property appraised as it appears on the tax duplicate or the deed records if ascertainable from them, the tax mailing address or other known address of the owner if ascertainable, a description of the property appraised, the amount of benefits appraised, the amount of damages appraised, and the appraised value of land or other property that may be taken for the purposes of the district. In case benefits are appraised accruing to a public corporation as an entity, the name and, if ascertainable, address of the public corporation and the amount of the benefit appraised shall be entered in the record. The board shall also report any other benefits or damages or any other matter that, in its opinion, should be brought to the attention of the court. No error in the names or addresses of the owners of real property or in the descriptions of the property shall invalidate the appraisal or the levy of assessments based on it, if sufficient description is given to identify the real property. When the report is completed, it shall be signed by at least a majority of the board and deposited with the clerk of the court, who shall file it in the original case. At the same time, copies of that part of the report giving the appraisal of benefits and appraisals of land to be taken and of damages in any county shall be made and certified to and filed with the clerk of the court of common pleas of that county.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.38
§ 6115.38. Possession of property after verdict and award
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No property shall be taken under sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, until compensation has been paid according to law. But where a trial is had by jury, and a verdict has been rendered which has been confirmed by the court, the board of directors of the sanitary district may pay the amount allowed into court in money with the costs, and thereupon the court shall make an order admitting the district into possession of the property and confirming its title thereto, although the owner may take steps to take the case to a higher court. Thereupon the board may enter into undisturbed possession of the property and rights involved.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6155.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6155 / § 6155.10
§ 6155.10. Appeal procedure
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Upon failure to agree with the owner of the milldam sought to be removed under section 6155.01 of the Revised Code, or if there has been agreement but objections are made thereto by the petitioners, then the proceedings as to appeals, applications for damages, and in all other respects, taken to determine the amount of damages to be awarded to landowners affected, shall be as is provided by law for the location and establishment of county ditches. If the lands affected are situated in two or more counties, the proceedings shall be governed by said law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.51 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.51
§ 6111.51. Criteria for three levels of credible data related to surface water monitoring and assessment
Status: in_force

September 17, 2014 Senate Bill 3 - 130th General Assembly (A)(1) The director of environmental protection shall adopt rules that establish criteria for three levels of credible data related to surface water monitoring and assessment. The rules pertaining to each level shall establish requirements for data assessment, sample collection and analytical methods, and quality assurance and quality control procedures that must be followed in order to classify data as credible at that level. The rules shall provide that level three credible data are collected by employing the most stringent methods and procedures, level two credible data are collected using methods and procedures that are less stringent than methods and procedures used to collect level three credible data, but more stringent than methods and procedures used to collect level one, and level one credible data are collected by employing the least stringent methods and procedures. The requirements established in the rules for each level of credible data shall be commensurate with, and no more stringent than necessary to support, the purposes for which the data will be used. In adopting rules under this section, the director shall consider the cost of data collection methods and procedures to persons or entities collecting data, and the burden of compliance with those methods and procedures for those persons or entities, while ensuring the degree of accuracy commensurate with the purpose for which the data will be used. No data shall be classified as credible data unless they have been collected in compliance with the applicable methods and procedures for collecting the data established in rules adopted under this section. (2) The director shall file the rules required to be adopted under division (A)(1) of this section with the secretary of state, the director of the legislative service commission, and the joint committee on agency rule review in accordance with divisions (B) and (C) of section 119.03 of the Revised Code not later than one year after October 21, 2003. As soon as practicable thereafter, the director shall proceed to adopt the rules in accordance with all other applicable provisions of Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Level three credible data shall be used for the purposes specified in section 6111.52 of the Revised Code. (2) Levels two and three credible data shall be used for the purpose of evaluating the effectiveness of pollution controls for point sources and nonpoint sources and initial screening of water quality problems to determine if additional study is needed. (3) Levels one, two, and three credible data shall be used for public awareness and education activities. (C) No data shall be considered credible unless the data originate from studies and samples collected by the environmental protection agency, its contractors, federal or state environmental agencies, or qualified data collectors. However, data submitted pursuant to the requirements of a permit issued by an agency of the state or submitted as a result of findings and orders issued by the director or pursuant to a court order shall be considered credible unless the director identifies reasons why the data are not credible. (D) If the director has obtained credible data for a surface water, the director also may use historical data for the purpose of determining whether any water quality trends exist for that surface water. (E) Sections 6111.50 to 6111.56 of the Revised Code do not apply to civil or criminal enforcement actions brought under section 6111.07 of the Revised Code. (F) The director's use of credible data shall be consistent with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. (G) Nothing in sections 6111.50 to 6111.56 of the Revised Code is an exception to statutory, common, or municipal law of trespass.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6137.111 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6137 / § 6137.111
§ 6137.111. Alternative levy of assessments apportioned according to tax value
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) In lieu of the permanent assessment base and procedure specified in section 6137.11 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners may by resolution levy upon the benefited property assessments apportioned according to tax value. The assessments shall be in the amount determined by the board to be necessary to obtain funds for the maintenance fund. (B) Prior to the adoption of a resolution levying the assessments, the board shall give at least ten days' notice in one newspaper of general circulation in the county, which shall state the time and place when and where the resolution shall be taken up for consideration. At that time and place or at any adjournment thereof, of which no further published notice need be given, the board shall hear all persons whose properties are proposed to be assessed, shall correct any errors and make any revisions that appear to be necessary or just, and may then pass a resolution levying upon the properties determined to be benefited such assessments as so corrected and revised. (C) Any owner of property to be so assessed may appeal to the court of common pleas from the resolution made by the board of county commissioners, in the manner provided by sections 6131.25 to 6131.36 of the Revised Code, the question of whether any such assessment is levied according to benefits. (D) The assessments levied by the board's resolution shall be certified to the county auditor for collection as other taxes in the year or years in which they are payable. Any increase or reduction of the assessments levied under this section shall be made at the regular six-year reappraisal of all property in the county under section 5713.01 of the Revised Code or through adjustments made for property divisions, improvements, and changes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.101 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.101
§ 6119.101. Regional water and sewer district contract requirements
Status: in_force

June 30, 2010 Senate Bill 85 - 128th General Assembly Notwithstanding section 6119.10 of the Revised Code, the board of trustees of a regional water and sewer district may comply with section 9.29 of the Revised Code regarding any contract for the engineering, repair, sustainability, water quality management, and maintenance of a water storage tank and appurtenant facilities.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.33
§ 6115.33. Sanitary district appraisal record
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of appraisers of a sanitary district shall prepare a report of its findings which shall be arranged in tabular form and bound in book form, and which shall be known as the "sanitary district appraisal record." In case the purposes of the district include both improved sanitation and improved water supply, the board shall prepare a separate report for each purpose. Such record shall contain the name of the owner of property appraised as it appears on the tax duplicate or the deed records, a description of the property appraised, the amount of benefits appraised, the amount of damages appraised, and the appraised value of land or other property which may be taken for the purposes of the district. The board shall also report any other benefits or damages or any other matter which in its opinion should be brought to the attention of the court. No error in the names of the owners of real property or in the descriptions thereof shall invalidate said appraisal or the levy of assessments or taxes based thereon, if sufficient description is given to identify such real property. When such report is completed, it shall be signed by at least a majority of the board and deposited with the clerk of the court who shall file it in the original case. At the same time copies of that part of the report giving the appraisal of benefits and appraisals of land to be taken and of damages in any county shall be made, certified to, and filed with the clerk of the court of common pleas of such county.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6103.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6103 / § 6103.28
§ 6103.28. Proceedings prior to May 10, 1927 are valid
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly All proceedings for the creation of sewer districts and for construction of sewer and water improvements under sections 6117.01 to 6117.45 , inclusive, and 6103.02 to 6103.30 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, prior to May 10, 1927, and all petitions granted, or the letting or awarding of contracts, or all contracts made and entered into, or proceedings preliminary to or in connection therewith, or certificates of indebtedness or bonds issued or to be issued or taxes and assessments levied or to be levied on account thereof, are hereby declared to be valid notwithstanding any defect or irregularity therein or any failure to conform strictly to sections 6117.01 to 6117.45 , inclusive, and 6103.02 to 6103.30 , inclusive, of the Revised Code. In any proposed district where the contract has not yet been let, the proceedings shall not be ratified unless state land to be benefited shall be included therein, with the power to assess such state land in proportion to its benefits the same as land privately owned, including the cost of preliminary surveys. Boards of county commissioners or other officials may complete all improvements in process of construction under such sections, levy taxes and assessments for such improvements, sell bonds to pay for the construction of such improvements, and do all things contemplated by such sections necessary for the completion of such improvements.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6133.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6133 / § 6133.07
§ 6133.07. Duties of lead county auditor and lead county treasurer
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A)(1) The county auditor and county treasurer of the lead county are the fiscal agents of all the counties interested in the proposed improvement. (2) The clerk of the joint board shall present bills for payment to the fiscal agents in the same manner as a request for payment would be made with respect to a single county drainage improvement. (3) The fiscal agents shall process and pay each bill for the joint board of county commissioners presented. (B) The auditor of the lead county shall certify to the auditor of the other counties a schedule of the assessments to be levied for the cost of locating and constructing the improvement and the auditor of such other county shall place such assessment upon the duplicates. The assessments so certified for collection to an auditor of another county shall be a lien on the land within such county from the date such certificate is received by the auditor of such other county. (C) The treasurer of each county shall proceed to collect the assessments pursuant to the orders made in the proceedings for a joint drainage improvement, and shall pay the assessments to the treasurer of the lead county. (D) The auditor and the treasurer of the lead county shall receive and account for such funds in the same manner as they receive and account for assessments collected for single county improvements and with their bonders shall be liable on their official bonds for any misappropriation of such funds. (E) All warrants for the payment of costs of location and for costs of construction of a joint county improvement shall be drawn by the auditor of the lead county on the treasurer of the lead county, payable out of the general drainage improvement fund of the lead county. (F) If a petition for a joint drainage improvement is dismissed after the costs and expenses have been incurred in making the lead county engineer's reports and schedules provided for in section 6133.08 of the Revised Code, such costs shall be paid by the several counties respectively, as the joint board of county commissioners deems just and equitable. All assessments when collected in all the counties and any amount which another county should pay shall be paid into the treasury of the lead county and credited to the general drainage improvement fund of the lead county.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6133.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6133 / § 6133.02
§ 6133.02. Hearing - filing petition
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) When an improvement is proposed to be located in or benefits or damages land in two or more counties, the proceeding shall be conducted by a joint board of county commissioners consisting of the members of the boards of county commissioners of the several counties in which land may be benefited or damaged by the proposed improvement. (B) The petition for a joint county drainage improvement shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the lead county.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.46 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.46
§ 6101.46. Directors may borrow money and issue notes
Status: in_force

May 13, 1981 House Bill 95 - 114th General Assembly In order to facilitate the preliminary work, the board of directors of a conservancy district may borrow money and issue notes therefor at a rate or rates of interest not exceeding the rate provided in section 9.95 of the Revised Code and in an amount not greater than seventy-five per cent of the unencumbered proceeds derived or derivable from the preliminary assessment levied, or which the board has authority to levy, under section 6101.45 of the Revised Code, which assessment shall be pledged for the repayment thereof if and when levied. If no preliminary assessment is levied or the proceeds of the assessment levied are found insufficient to pay the interest and retire the notes issued, the same may be paid from the improvement fund. At any time after the levy of a preliminary assessment, on request of the board of directors and authorization by the board of county commissioners, the county auditor of any county having lands within the district shall make advances to the district from the general fund of the county, or from the undistributed proceeds of such assessment, not in excess of the amount of such assessment levied and collectible within the county. This section does not apply to or affect the validity of any warrants, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness issued prior to July 19, 1937, under authority of this section. Such warrants, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness may be renewed for a period not to exceed two years, and such renewal obligations may at the option of the board of directors be exchanged for outstanding obligations or sold at private or public sale according to the law governing the original issue.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.58 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.58
§ 6131.58. Fees
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The fees to be charged and collected for services required of any public officer under sections 6131.01 to 6131.64 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, if not specifically otherwise designated, shall be the fees allowed for like services in that office. If he is an officer receiving a salary, then such fees collected shall be in a like manner accounted for. Publication of notices as required in such sections shall be paid at the legal rate provided for similar matter originating in the court of common pleas.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.47
§ 6119.47. Notice of estimates of special assessments
Status: in_force

November 19, 1971 Senate Bill 166 - 109th General Assembly Notice of the passage of a resolution of necessity and the filing of the estimated assessments under section 6119.46 of the Revised Code shall, after the estimated assessments have been prepared and filed as provided by such section, be served by the secretary of the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district, or a person designated by such secretary, upon the owners of the lots or parcels of land to be assessed for the proposed project, in the same manner as service of summons in civil cases, or by certified mail addressed to such owners at their last known addresses or to the addresses to which tax bills are sent, or by a combination of the foregoing methods. If it appears by the return of service or the return of the certified mail notice that one or more of the owners cannot be found, such owners shall be served by publication of the notice once in at least one newspaper having a general circulation within the district. The notice shall also set forth the place where such estimated assessments are on file and are open for public inspection. The return of the person serving the notice or a certified copy thereof or a returned receipt for notice forwarded by certified mail accepted by the addressee or anyone purporting to act for him shall be prima-facie evidence of the service of notice under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.104 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.104
§ 6115.104. Sanitary district advisory council for sanitary district organized wholly for purpose of providing water supply
Status: in_force

May 6, 1998 House Bill 26 - 122nd General Assembly (A) With respect to a sanitary district organized wholly for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use that includes two municipal corporations in two counties, there shall be appointed, within sixty days of the effective date of this section, a sanitary district advisory council. The council shall consist of one member who uses water supplied directly or indirectly by the district to be appointed from each municipal corporation or township that receives all or part of its water supply directly or indirectly from the district. Appointments to the council shall be made by resolution of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or the township, as appropriate. Within ten days after making an appointment to the council, the appointing authority shall submit an authenticated copy of the appointment resolution to the board of directors of the sanitary district and to the clerk of the court. (B) If a municipal corporation or township that, prior to the effective date of this section, did not receive any of its water supply from a sanitary district described in division (A) of this section begins to receive all or part of its water supply either directly or indirectly from such a district and the municipal corporation or township is not represented on the advisory council of that district, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or township, within sixty days after it begins receiving all or part of its water supply from the district, shall appoint a representative to the council and make the submittals as provided in division (A) of this section. If a municipal corporation or township that, on the effective date of this section, receives all or part of its water supply from such a district ceases to receive any of its water supply either directly or indirectly from the district, the member on the advisory council representing that municipal corporation or township shall no longer serve on the council. (C) A majority of the council constitutes a quorum, and a concurrence of the majority in any matter within the council's duties is sufficient for its determination. The council shall appoint one of its members as chairperson and one member as secretary. The council shall adopt bylaws governing its proceedings. The council shall meet at least once annually and shall meet upon the call of its chairperson or of the president of the board of directors of the district, or whenever a majority of the members of the council, by petition filed with the chairperson of the council, requests a meeting of the council. The chairperson shall call a meeting of the council within thirty days after the receipt of the petition. (D) The council shall do both of the following: (1) Annually review and evaluate the receipts and disbursements of funds by the board of directors during the preceding calendar year; (2) Review, evaluate, and make recommendations to the board of directors regarding the operation, policies, programs, and improvements of the district. The board shall consider all recommendations made under division (D)(2) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6112.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6112 / § 6112.99
§ 6112.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

May 6, 1998 House Bill 26 - 122nd General Assembly Whoever violates section 6112.02 or 6112.04 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.36
§ 6115.36. Court approval, confirmation or return of plan
Status: in_force

July 8, 1993 Senate Bill 105 - 120th General Assembly If it appears to the satisfaction of the court after having heard and determined all the exceptions filed pursuant to section 6115.35 of the Revised Code, that the estimated cost of constructing or acquiring the improvement contemplated in the official plan is less than the benefits appraised, then the court shall approve and confirm the report of the board of appraisers of a sanitary district as modified and amended, and such findings and appraisals are final and incontestable. If the court finds that the estimated benefits appraised are less than the total costs of the execution of the official plan, exclusive of interest on any bonds issued to finance the official plan, or that the official plan is not suited to the requirements of the district, it may return the official plan to the board of directors of the sanitary district with the order for it to prepare new or amended plans, or it may disorganize the district after having provided for the payment of all expenditures.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6109.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6109 / § 6109.14
§ 6109.14. Notification of danger of contamination - hearing
Status: in_force

December 14, 1978 Senate Bill 445 - 112th General Assembly When the director of environmental protection finds, upon investigation, that water in a public water system is subject to the danger of contamination by reason of unsatisfactory location, protection, construction, operation, or maintenance of the system, or by reason of the existence of an unsafe emergency system or connection to an unsafe private or auxiliary system, or if the director finds upon investigation that the public health is endangered by reason of the existence of an inadequate public water system, or that the system does not contain quantities of fluoride as required by section 6109.20 of the Revised Code, he shall notify the municipal corporation, county, public institution, or person, owning or operating such public water system of his findings and of the time and place, when and where a hearing may be had. Such notice shall be by personal service, or shall be sent by certified mail to the mayor or managing officer or officers of the municipal corporation, county, or public institution or to the person owning or operating such supply.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.82 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.82
§ 6101.82. Liability for damages
Status: in_force

October 12, 1959 House Bill 673 - 103rd General Assembly (A) All persons and corporations shall be liable for damage done to works of a conservancy district by themselves, their agents, their employees, or by their livestock. (B) No person shall damage any works, improvements or property of a conservancy district. Whoever violates this division of this section shall be liable for all damages and costs. The board of directors of the conservancy district may repair such damage at the expense of the person or corporation committing it.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.51 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.51
§ 6117.51. New public sewer construction projects
Status: in_force

May 6, 2005 House Bill 411 - 125th General Assembly If the board of health of the health district within which a new public sewer construction project is proposed or located passes a resolution stating that the reason for the project is to reduce or eliminate an existing health problem or a hazard of water pollution, the board of county commissioners of the county, by resolution, may order the owner of any premises located in a sewer district in the county, the owner's agent, lessee, or tenant, or any other occupant of the premises to connect the premises to the sewer for the purpose of discharging sewage or other waste that the board determines is originating on the premises, to make use of the connection, and to cease the discharge of the sewage or other waste into a cesspool, ditch, private sewer, privy, septic tank, semipublic disposal system as defined in division (B)(1)(a) of section 3709.085 of the Revised Code, or other outlet if the board finds that the sewer is available for use and is accessible to the premises following a determination and certification to the board by a registered professional engineer designated by it as to the availability and accessibility of the sewer. This section does not apply to any of the following: (A) Any discharge authorized by a permit issued under division (J) of section 6111.03 of the Revised Code other than a discharge to or from a semipublic disposal system as defined in division (B)(1)(a) of section 3709.085 of the Revised Code; (B) Wastes resulting from the keeping of animals; (C) Any premises that are not served by a common sewage collection system when the foundation wall of the structure from which sewage or other waste originates is more than two hundred feet from the nearest boundary of the right-of-way within which the sewer is located; (D) Any premises that are served by a common sewage collection system when both the foundation wall of the structure from which the sewage or other waste originates and the common sewage collection system are more than two hundred feet from the nearest boundary of the right-of-way within which the public sewer is located; (E) Any dwelling house located on property that is listed on the county's agricultural land tax list as being valued for tax purposes as land devoted exclusively to agricultural use under section 5713.31 of the Revised Code, when the foundation wall of the dwelling house is two hundred feet or less from the nearest boundary of the right-of-way within which the sewer is located, if both of the following also apply: (1) The sewer right-of-way for the property on which the dwelling house is located was obtained by appropriation due to a public exigency pursuant to division (B) of section 307.08 , 6101.181 , 6115.211 , 6117.39 , or 6119.11 of the Revised Code. (2) The local health department has certified that the household sewage disposal system is functioning properly. The board shall not direct an order under this section to a resident tenant unless it determines that the terms of the tenancy are such that the owner lacks sufficient rights of access to permit the owner to comply with the terms of the order. An owner, agent, lessee, tenant, or occupant shall comply with the order of the board within ninety days after the completion of service of the order upon that person as provided in this section. The board, upon written application filed prior to the expiration of the ninety-day period, may waive compliance with any order either temporarily or permanently and conditionally or unconditionally. In its resolution, the board shall direct its clerk, or the clerk's designee, to serve its order upon the owner, agent, lessee, tenant, or occupant. Service of the order shall be made personally, by leaving the order at the usual place of residence with a person of suitable age and discretion then residing therein, or by certified mail addressed to the owner, agent, lessee, tenant, or occupant at that person's last known address or to the address to which tax bills are sent. If it appears by the return of service or the return of the order forwarded by certified mail that the owner, agent, lessee, tenant, or occupant cannot be found, that person shall be served by publication of the order once in a newspaper of general circulation within the county, or if that person refuses service, that person shall be served by ordinary mail addressed to that person's last known address or to the address to which tax bills are sent. The return of the person serving the order or a certified copy of the return, or a returned receipt for the order forwarded by certified mail accepted by the addressee or anyone purporting to act for the addressee, is prima-facie evidence of the service of the order under this section. The return of the person attempting to serve the order, or the return to the sender of the order forwarded by certified mail with an indication on the return of the refusal of the addressee to accept delivery, is prima-facie evidence of the refusal of service. No owner, agent, lessee, tenant, or occupant shall violate an order issued under this section. Upon request of the board, the prosecuting attorney shall prosecute in a court of competent jurisdiction any owner, agent, lessee, tenant, or occupant who violates an order issued under this section. Each day that a violation continues after conviction for the violation of an order issued under this section and the final determination thereof is a separate offense. The court, for good cause shown, may grant a reasonable additional period of time for compliance after conviction. Any owner, agent, lessee, tenant, or occupant violating an order issued under this section also may be enjoined from continuing in violation. Upon request of the board, the prosecuting attorney shall bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction for an injunction against the owner, agent, lessee, tenant, or occupant violating an order. The Ohio water development authority created under section 6121.02 of the Revised Code, in addition to its other powers, has the same power and shall be governed by the same procedures in a waste water facilities service area, or in any area adjacent to a public sewer operated by the authority, as a board of county commissioners in a county sewer district under this section, except that the authority shall act by order, and the attorney general, upon request of the authority, shall prosecute any person who violates an order of the authority issued under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.60 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.60
§ 6131.60. Personal interest of county commissioner
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly If one or more members of a board of county commissioners are petitioners for an improvement or own land that will be taken, benefited, or damaged by the improvement petitioned for, the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall notify the judge of the court of common pleas of the county who shall within ten days appoint as many disinterested owners of the county as are necessary to take the place of the interested members. The appointees shall perform all the duties of the disqualified members and may receive from the general drainage improvement fund the same per diem rate as the disqualified members receive.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6105.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6105 / § 6105.08
§ 6105.08. Budget
Status: in_force

December 14, 1967 House Bill 791 - 107th General Assembly At the meeting called under section 6105.06 of the Revised Code, the president or duly authorized representative of the board of county commissioners of each watershed county shall, by a majority vote of such presidents or representatives, adopt an expenditure budget for the watershed district for the remainder of the current calendar year and for the next succeeding calendar year. The total amount of each of such budgets shall be apportioned among the several watershed counties in the ratio that the taxable value of the real and personal property within such county and within the territorial boundaries of the district bears to the taxable value of all real and personal property within the territorial boundaries of the district. The amount of the budget for the current calendar year apportioned to each county shall be certified to the board of county commissioners of such county, in writing, by the chairman of the meeting where the apportionment was made. Upon the receipt of the certification under the next preceding paragraph of this section such board of county commissioners shall adopt an appropriation resolution appropriating the amount so certified, payable out of any moneys to the credit of the general fund of the county not otherwise appropriated, to the order of the watershed district. Upon the passage of such resolution the county auditor shall draw his warrant on the county treasurer to the order of the watershed district in the amount so appropriated and shall, upon the appointment of a secretary-treasurer for the district under section 6105.09 of the Revised Code, deliver such warrant to such secretary-treasurer. The amount of the budget for the next succeeding calendar year apportioned to each county shall be certified to the board of county commissioners of such county, in writing, by the chairman of the meeting where the apportionment was made. Such board of county commissioners shall include such amount in the appropriation resolution for the next succeeding calendar year and upon the passage of such resolution the county auditor shall draw his warrant on the treasurer of the county to the order of the watershed district for the amount so appropriated and shall deliver such warrant to the secretary-treasurer of the district.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6161.011 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6161 / § 6161.011
§ 6161.011. Real property instrument to identify state agency for whose use and benefit an interest in real property is acquired
Status: in_force

October 26, 1999 House Bill 19 - 123rd General Assembly Any instrument by which real property is acquired pursuant to section 6161.01 of the Revised Code shall identify any agency of the state that has the use and benefit of the real property as specified in section 5301.012 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.52 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.52
§ 6115.52. Revenue obligations issued to pay costs arising from execution of official plan
Status: in_force

July 8, 1993 Senate Bill 105 - 120th General Assembly (A) The board of directors of a sanitary district may issue revenue obligations as provided in this section to pay the costs of the acquisition, construction, improvement, furnishing, and equipping of real and personal property appropriate for execution of the official plan. Such revenue obligations shall be authorized by resolution of the board of directors of a sanitary district. (B) Revenue obligations may be secured by a pledge of and lien on all or such part of the revenues received by the sanitary district as provided in the bond proceedings, subject to any pledge of such revenues previously made to the contrary and any existing restrictions on the use thereof. Such obligations may be additionally secured by covenants of the sanitary district to make, fix, adjust, collect, and apply such charges, rates, fees, rentals, and other items of revenues as will produce pledged revenues sufficient to meet bond service charges, reserve, and other requirements provided for in the bond proceedings. (C) Such revenue obligations shall not be general obligations, debt, or bonded indebtedness of any sanitary district or any other political subdivision. The holders or owners of the obligations shall not be given the right, and have no right, to have excises or taxes levied by the sanitary district or any other political subdivision for the payment of bond service charges thereon, and each such obligation shall bear on its face a statement to that effect and to the effect that the right to such payment is limited to the revenues and special funds pledged to such purpose under the bond proceedings. (D) The bond proceedings for such obligations shall provide for the purpose thereof, the principal amount, the principal maturity or maturities, the interest rate or rates, the date of the obligations and the dates of payment of interest thereon, their denominations, the manner of sale thereof, and the establishment within or outside the state of a place or places of payment of bond service charges on such obligations. The bond proceedings shall also provide for a pledge of and lien on revenues of the sanitary district as provided in division (B) of this section, and a pledge of and lien on such fund or funds provided in the bond proceedings arising from revenues, which pledges and liens may provide for parity with obligations theretofore or thereafter issued by the sanitary district. The revenues so pledged and thereafter received by the sanitary district and the funds so pledged are immediately subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any such pledge is valid and binding against all parties having claims of any kind against the sanitary district, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof, and create a perfected security interest for all purposes of Chapter 1309. of the Revised Code, without the necessity for separation or delivery of funds or for the filing or recording of the bond proceedings by which such pledge is created or any certificate, statement, or other document with respect thereto. The pledge of such available receipts and funds shall be effective and the money therefrom and thereof may be applied to the purposes for which pledged without necessity for any further act of appropriation. (E) The bond proceedings may contain additional provisions as to: (1) The acquisition, construction, reconstruction, equipment, furnishing, improvement, operation, leasing, alteration, enlargement, maintenance, insurance, and repair of real and personal property appropriate for the execution of the official plan, and the duties of the sanitary district with reference thereto; (2) The terms of the obligations, including provisions for their redemption prior to maturity at the option of the sanitary district at such price or prices and under such terms and conditions as are provided in the bond proceedings; (3) Limitations on the purposes to which the proceeds of the obligations may be applied; (4) The rates or other charges for the use of or right to use the facilities financed by the obligations, or other properties the revenues or receipts from which are pledged to the obligations, and regulations for assuring use, including limitations upon the right to modify such rates, other charges, or regulations; (5) The use and expenditure of the pledged revenues in such manner and to such extent as shall be determined; (6) Limitations on the issuance of additional obligations; (7) The terms of any trust agreement or indenture securing the obligations or under which the same may be issued; (8) The deposit, investment, and application of funds, and the safeguarding of funds on hand or on deposit without regard to Chapter 131. or 135. of the Revised Code, and any bank or trust company which acts as depository of any moneys under the bond proceedings shall furnish such indemnifying bonds or shall pledge or hypothecate such securities as required by the bond proceedings or otherwise by the sanitary district; (9) The binding effect of any or every provision of the bond proceedings upon such officer, board, commission, authority, agency, department, or other person or body as may from time to time have the authority under law to take such actions as may be necessary to perform all or any part of the duty required by such provisions; (10) Any provision which may be made in a trust agreement or indenture under division (I) of this section; (11) Any other or additional agreements with respect to the real or personal property of the sanitary district, their operation, the revenues and funds pledged, and insurance of such property and of the sanitary district, its officers, and employees. (F) Such obligations may have the seal of the district or a facsimile thereof affixed thereto or printed thereon and shall be executed by such officer or officers as are designated in the bond proceedings, which execution may be by facsimile signatures. Any obligations may be executed by an officer who, on the date of execution, is the proper officer although on the date of such obligations such person was not the proper officer. In case any officer whose signature or a facsimile of whose signature appears on any such obligations ceases to be such officer before delivery thereof, such signature or facsimile is valid and sufficient for all purposes as if he had remained such officer until such delivery; and in case the seal of the district has been changed after a facsimile of the seal has been imprinted on such obligations, such facsimile seal continues to be sufficient as to such obligations, and obligations issued in substitution or exchange therefor. (G) All such obligations are negotiable instruments and securities under Chapter 1308. of the Revised Code, subject to the provisions of the bond proceedings as to registration. The obligations may be issued as provided in section 9.96 of the Revised Code. (H) Pending preparation of definitive obligations, the board of directors of the sanitary district may issue interim receipts or certificates which shall be exchanged for such definitive obligations. (I) Such obligations may be secured additionally by a trust agreement or indenture between the district and a corporate trustee which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or outside this state but authorized to exercise trust powers within this state. Any such agreement or indenture may contain, as part thereof, any of the bond proceedings, and may contain any provision that may be included in the bond proceedings as authorized by this section, and other provisions which are customary or appropriate in an agreement or indenture of such type, including but not limited to: (1) The maintenance of such pledge, trust agreement, indenture and mortgage, or other instrument comprising part of the bond proceedings until the sanitary district has fully paid the bond service charges on the obligations secured thereby, or provision therefor has been made; (2) In the event of default in any payments required to be made by the bond proceedings, or any other agreement of the sanitary district made as a part of the contract under which the obligations were issued, enforcement of such payments or agreement by mandamus, the appointment of a receiver, foreclosure, or any other legal remedy; (3) The rights and remedies of the holders of obligations and of the trustee, and provisions for protecting and enforcing them, including limitations on rights of individual holders of obligations; (4) The replacement of any obligations that become mutilated or are destroyed, lost, or stolen; (5) Such other provisions as the trustee and the sanitary district agree upon, including limitations, conditions, or qualifications relating to any of the foregoing. (J) Each duty of the sanitary district and its officers or employees, undertaken pursuant to the bond proceedings or any agreement or lease made under authority of this chapter, is hereby established as a duty of such district, and of each such officer or employee having authority to perform such duty, specially enjoined by law resulting from an office, trust, or station within the meaning of section 2731.01 of the Revised Code. The persons who are at the time the members of the board of directors of the district or its officers or employees shall not be liable in their personal capacities on such obligations, bond proceedings, lease, or other agreement of the district. (K) The authority to issue such obligations includes authority to issue obligations in the form of anticipatory securities and to renew the same from time to time by the issuance of new anticipatory securities. Such anticipatory securities are payable solely from the revenues and funds that may be pledged to the payment of such bonds, or from the proceeds of such bonds or renewal anticipatory securities, or both, as the board of directors provides in its resolution authorizing such anticipatory securities. Such anticipatory securities may be additionally secured by covenants of the board of directors to the effect that it will do such or all things necessary for the issuance of such bonds or renewal anticipatory securities in appropriate amount, and either exchange such bonds or renewal anticipatory securities therefor or apply the proceeds thereof to the extent necessary, to make full payment of the principal of and interest on such anticipatory securities at the time or times contemplated as provided in such resolution. Subject to this division, all references to obligations in this section are applicable to such anticipatory securities. (L) The authority to issue such obligations includes authority to issue revenue obligations to refund, including funding and retirement of, obligations previously issued to pay costs of real and personal property whether issued under authority of this section or other law authorizing such issuance. Such refunding obligations may be issued in amounts sufficient for payment of the principal amount of the obligations to be so refunded, any redemption premiums thereon, principal maturities of any obligations maturing prior to the redemption of the obligations to be so refunded, interest accrued or to accrue to the maturity date or dates of redemption of such obligations, and any financing costs incurred or to be incurred in connection with such refunding or the issuance of the obligations.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.34
§ 6101.34. Court order on appraisals
Status: in_force

December 18, 1964 House Bill 19 - 105th General Assembly If it appears to the satisfaction of the court after having heard and determined all the exceptions filed pursuant to section 6101.33 of the Revised Code that the estimated cost of constructing the improvement contemplated in the official plan is less than the benefits appraised, then the court shall approve and confirm the report of the board of appraisers of a conservancy district as modified and amended, and, except as otherwise provided in sections 6101.43 , 6101.54 , 6101.60 , and 6101.78 of the Revised Code, such findings and appraisals are final and incontestable. In considering the appraisals made by the board, the court shall take cognizance of the official plan and of the degree to which it is effective for the purposes of the district. If the court finds that the estimated benefits appraised are less than the total costs of the execution of the official plan, exclusive of interest on deferred payments, it shall disapprove the report of the board of appraisers and may return said official plan to the board of directors of the conservancy district with the order for it to prepare new or amended plans or it may disorganize the district after having provided for the payment of all expenditures.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.17
§ 6117.17. Court findings
Status: in_force

March 17, 1987 House Bill 412 - 116th General Assembly At the conclusion of the trial provided for in section 6117.15 of the Revised Code, the probate court shall find separately upon each claim for adjustment of the apportionment of the tentative assessment, if the appeal is from the judgment of the board of county commissioners in reference to apportionment of such assessment. The court shall determine whether the improvement petitioned for or granted will be necessary for the public health, convenience, or welfare, or whether the cost of it will exceed the benefit resulting from such improvement, or whether the boundaries of the assessment district should be modified, if the appeal is from an order establishing the proposed improvement or dismissing or refusing to grant the prayer of the petition or establishing the boundaries of the assessment district. If the court finds that the cost of the improvement will exceed the benefit resulting from it, it shall declare that the improvement is not necessary for the public health, convenience, or welfare. No property shall be added to the assessment district until the owners of it have been given an opportunity to be heard by the court. A notice of such hearing shall be served on such property owners by the court in the manner provided for the service of summons in civil actions. If such owners are not residents of the county, or if in any case it appears by the return of the notice that such owner cannot be found, the notice shall be published at least twice in a newspaper of general circulation within the county, and the date of such hearing shall be at least one week after service of notice or of the second publication of such notice. If a new trial is not granted for cause shown, the court shall render a judgment ordering such modification of the tentative assessment, or of the boundaries of the assessment district as the court determines. The court shall also make a finding for or against the improvement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.06
§ 6117.06. General plan of sewerage or drainage
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly (A) After the establishment of any sewer district, the board of county commissioners, if a sanitary or drainage facility or prevention or replacement facility improvement is to be undertaken, may have the county sanitary engineer prepare, or otherwise cause to be prepared, for the district, or revise as needed, a general plan of sewerage or drainage that is as complete in each case as can be developed at the time and that is devised with regard to any existing sanitary or drainage facilities or prevention or replacement facilities in the district and present as well as prospective needs for additional sanitary or drainage facilities or prevention or replacement facilities in the district. After the general plan, in original or revised form, has been approved by the board, it may adopt a resolution generally describing the improvement that is necessary to be acquired or constructed in accordance with the particular plan, declaring that the improvement is necessary for the preservation and promotion of the public health and welfare, and determining whether or not special assessments are to be levied and collected to pay any part of the cost of the improvement. (B) If special assessments are not to be levied and collected to pay any part of the cost of the improvement, the board, in the resolution provided for in division (A) of this section or in a subsequent resolution, including a resolution authorizing the issuance or incurrence of public obligations for the improvement, may authorize the improvement and the expenditure of the funds required for its acquisition or construction and may proceed with the improvement without regard to the procedures otherwise required by divisions (C), (D), and (E) of this section and by sections 6117.07 to 6117.24 of the Revised Code. Those procedures are required only for improvements for which special assessments are to be levied and collected. (C) If special assessments are to be levied and collected pursuant to a determination made in the resolution provided for in division (A) of this section or in a subsequent resolution, the procedures referred to in division (B) of this section as being required for that purpose shall apply, and the board may have the county sanitary engineer prepare, or otherwise cause to be prepared, detailed plans, specifications, and an estimate of cost for the improvement, together with a tentative assessment of the cost based on the estimate. The tentative assessment shall be for the information of property owners and shall not be levied or certified to the county auditor for collection. The detailed plans, specifications, estimate of cost, and tentative assessment, if approved by the board, shall be carefully preserved in the office of the board or the county sanitary engineer and shall be open to the inspection of all persons interested in the improvement. (D) After the board's approval of the detailed plans, specifications, estimate of cost, and tentative assessment, and at least twenty-four days before adopting a resolution pursuant to division (E) of this section, the board, except to the extent that appropriate waivers of notice are obtained from affected owners, shall cause to be sent a notice of its intent to adopt the resolution to each owner of property proposed to be assessed that is listed on the records of the county auditor for current agricultural use value taxation pursuant to section 5713.31 of the Revised Code and that is not located in an agricultural district established under section 929.02 of the Revised Code. The notice shall satisfy all of the following: (1) Be sent by first class or certified mail; (2) Specify the proposed date of the adoption of the resolution; (3) Contain a statement that the improvement will be financed in whole or in part by special assessments and that all properties not located in an agricultural district established pursuant to section 929.02 of the Revised Code may be subject to a special assessment; (4) Contain a statement that an agricultural district may be established by filing an application with the county auditor. If it appears, by the return of the mailed notices or by other means, that one or more of the affected owners cannot be found or are not served by the mailed notice, the board shall cause the notice to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county not later than ten days before the adoption of the resolution. (E) After complying with divisions (A), (C), and (D) of this section, the board may adopt a resolution declaring that the improvement, which shall be described as to its nature and its location, route, and termini, is necessary for the preservation and promotion of the public health and welfare, referring to the plans, specifications, estimate of cost, and tentative assessment, stating the place where they are on file and may be examined, and providing that the entire cost or a lesser designated part of the cost will be specially assessed against the benefited properties within the district and that any balance will be paid by the county at large from other available funds. The resolution also shall contain a description of the boundaries of that part of the district to be assessed and shall designate a time and place for objections to the improvement, to the tentative assessment, or to the boundaries of the assessment district to be heard by the board. The date of that hearing shall be not less than twenty-four days after the date of the first publication of the notice of the hearing required by this division. The board shall cause a notice of the hearing to be published once a 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. On or before the date of the second publication, the board shall cause to be sent by first class or certified mail a copy of the notice to every owner of property to be assessed for the improvement whose address is known. The notice shall set forth the time and place of the hearing, a summary description of the proposed improvement, including its general route and termini, a summary description of the area constituting the assessment district, and the place where the plans, specifications, estimate of cost, and tentative assessment are on file and may be examined. Each mailed notice also shall include a statement that the property of the addressee will be assessed for the improvement. The notice also shall be sent by first class or certified mail, on or before the date of the second publication, to the clerk, or to the official discharging the duties of a clerk, of any municipal corporation any part of which lies within the assessment district and shall state whether or not any property belonging to the municipal corporation is to be assessed and, if so, shall identify that property. At the hearing, or at any adjournment of the hearing, of which no further published or mailed notice need be given, the board shall hear all parties whose properties are proposed to be assessed. Written objections to or endorsements of the proposed improvement, its character and termini, the boundaries of the assessment district, or the tentative assessment shall be received by the board for a period of five days after the completion of the hearing, and no action shall be taken by the board in the matter until after that period has elapsed. The minutes of the hearing shall be entered on the journal of the board, showing the persons who appear in person or by attorney, and all written objections shall be preserved and filed in the office of the board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.24
§ 6117.24. Manifest error in proceedings
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Any court in which an action is brought to enjoin, reverse, or declare void the proceedings by which any improvement has been made or ordered to be made under sections 6117.01 to 6117.45 , inclusive, or 6103.02 to 6103.30 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, or to enjoin a collection of a tax or assessment levied for such purpose, or any part thereof, or to which appeal is taken under section 6117.09 of the Revised Code to declare the improvement unnecessary or to amend the boundaries of any assessment district, or to modify the tentative assessment prior to the construction of any improvement, if there is manifest error in such proceedings affecting the right of the plaintiff in such action, may set such proceedings aside as to him without affecting the rights or liabilities of the other parties in interest. The court shall allow parol testimony that said improvement will be conducive to the public health, convenience, and welfare and that any steps required by law for an improvement have been substantially complied with, notwithstanding any errors or defects in any record required to be kept by any board or officer, and without finding error the court may correct any gross injustice in the assessment made by the board of county commissioners. The court on the final hearing shall make such order as it deems equitable, and order any tax or assessment levied against the plaintiff to remain on the duplicate for collection, or order it to be levied in whole or in part, or perpetually enjoin it or any part thereof, or if it has been paid under protest, order the whole or such part thereof as it deems proper to be refunded. The cost of such action shall be apportioned among the parties or paid out of the county treasury as the court directs.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.046 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.046
§ 6111.046. Annual permit fee - underground injection control fund
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) Each person who is issued an injection well operating permit or a renewal of an injection well operating permit for a class I injection well shall pay an annual permit fee of twelve thousand five hundred dollars, except that a person who is issued such a permit or renewal of such a permit for a class I injection well that disposes of any hazardous waste identified or listed in rules adopted under section 3734.12 of the Revised Code and that is located on the premises where the hazardous waste injected into the well is generated shall pay an annual permit fee of thirty thousand dollars. The appropriate permit fee shall be paid to the director of environmental protection within thirty days after the issuance of the injection well operating permit or renewal of such a permit. Annually thereafter during the term of the permit or renewal, the appropriate annual permit fee shall be paid to the director on or before the anniversary of the date of issuance of the injection well operating permit or renewal of such a permit. The director, by rules adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall prescribe the procedures for collecting the annual permit fees established in this section and may prescribe other requirements necessary to carry out this section. No person shall fail to comply with this division. (B) All moneys received by the director under division (A) of this section shall be credited to the underground injection control fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. Beginning July 1, 1992, and annually thereafter, the director shall request the office of budget and management to, and the office shall, transfer fifteen per cent of the moneys in the fund to the geological mapping fund created in section 1505.09 of the Revised Code for the purpose of paying the expenses of the department of natural resources incurred in executing its duties under sections 6111.043 to 6111.047 of the Revised Code. The director shall use the remainder of the moneys credited to the underground injection control fund solely to administer and enforce the requirements of sections 6111.043 to 6111.047 of the Revised Code and rules adopted under them pertaining to class I injection wells.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.42
§ 6117.42. Compensation to other public agencies providing services
Status: in_force

September 23, 2008 House Bill 562 - 127th General Assembly All contracts under section 6117.41 of the Revised Code shall provide for the payment of compensation to the county or other public agency owning, acquiring, or constructing, or agreeing to acquire or construct, the sanitary or drainage facilities or prevention or replacement facilities to be jointly used in an amount agreed upon as the other party's share of the cost of acquiring or constructing the facilities. The contract also shall provide for payment of compensation to the county or other public agency owning, acquiring, or constructing the facilities and operating and maintaining them in an amount agreed upon as the other party's share of the cost of operating and maintaining them or, in lieu of all other or differing payments, and agreed price per unit of flow. A county or other public agency owning, acquiring, or constructing, or agreeing to acquire or construct, any of the facilities and agreeing to their use by another public agency shall retain full control and management of the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of the facilities, unless otherwise provided in the contract and except, in the case of a county, when conveyed to a municipal corporation as provided in division (B) of section 6117.05 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.37
§ 6131.37. Bids for drainage improvements
Status: in_force

April 9, 1981 House Bill 268 - 113th General Assembly If no appeal has been taken to the court of common pleas at the time fixed in the notice to receive bids as provided by section 6131.24 of the Revised Code, or if an appeal has been taken at the time as stated in the notice given after the appeal has been determined, the county engineer shall receive bids. The contracts, bids, bonds, and bid guaranties shall be handled in accordance with sections 153.12 to 153.14 and 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code. Any action of the board forfeiting the bidder's deposit or bid guaranty shall be entered on its journal, and the forfeited sum shall be paid into the general drainage improvement fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.038 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.038
§ 6111.038. Surface water protection fund
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly There is hereby created in the state treasury the surface water protection fund, consisting of moneys distributed to it. The director of environmental protection shall use moneys in the fund solely for administration and implementation of surface water protection programs, including at least programs required under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and programs necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Those programs shall include at least the development of water quality standards; the development of wasteload allocations; the establishment of water quality-based effluent limits; the monitoring and analysis of chemical, physical, and biological surface water quality; the issuance, modification, and renewal of NPDES permits and permits to install; the ensurance of compliance with permit conditions; the management and oversight of pretreatment programs; the provision of technical assistance to publicly owned treatment works; and the administration of the water pollution control loan fund created in section 6111.036 of the Revised Code.