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Ohio Rev Code § 5591.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.14 | County May Issue Bonds.

Effective: May 13, 1981|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 95 - 114th General Assembly|For the purpose of raising money to pay its proportion of the cost of the improvement authorized by section 5591.03 of the Revised Code, as fixed or provided in the construction contract, the county may issue its bonds to the necessary amount, under the provisions and limitations of the law with respect to the submission to the voters of the county of the question of issuing bonds for the construction of county bridges, which bonds shall be of such denomination and payable at such places and times as the board of county commissioners determines, and shall bear interest not exceeding the rate provided in section 9.95 of the Revised Code, but not be sold for less than their par value. A tax on the taxable property of the county, not exceeding one-half mill in each year, may be levied to pay the principal and interest of such bonds as they mature, or such cost may be paid from the proceeds of any bond issue authorized for the building of a bridge having the same or approximately the same termini, or connecting the same county roads as those provided in the contract for such joint bridge as provided by section 5591.03 of the Revised Code.After the improvement is completed, a tax may be levied by the county to pay the cost of maintaining and keeping in repair that part of the joint bridge required to be maintained and kept in repair by the county.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.15 | Publication in Newspaper.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|All resolutions and notices provided for in sections 5591.03 to 5591.17 of the Revised Code shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the improvement provided in such sections is to be made, and such publication shall be complete when published once a week, on the same day of the week, for two consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.16 | Majority Action of Commissioners Required.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|All resolutions required in sections 5591.03 to 5591.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to be adopted by a county, or to carry out a contract, shall be adopted by a majority of all members elected or appointed to the board of county commissioners.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.17 | Rights and Title.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Sections 5591.03 to 5591.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not authorize a county in the passage of any resolution, approval of any plans or specifications, execution of any contract, or the acceptance of any dedication on account of the construction, use, or maintenance of any joint bridge, to acquire any other right, title, or interest in or to the lands or rights of any railroad or union depot company other than those which are expressly granted in such contract, and shown upon the dedication plat.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.21 | Bridges - Bonds - Land Acquisition.

Effective: July 1, 1989|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 381 - 118th General Assembly|Except as provided in section 5501.49 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall construct and keep in repair necessary bridges over streams and public canals on or connecting state, county, and improved roads.The board may submit to the electors the question of issuing county bonds for the construction of bridges on proposed state or county roads or connecting state or county roads, one or more of which may be proposed, but such bonds shall not be issued or sold until the proposed roads are actually established.When the board determines it unnecessary in the construction of any bridge and the approaches thereto to acquire the entire land upon and over which the same shall be located, it may acquire such part of the land and easements and rights in the remainder thereof as are necessary and sufficient for such construction.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.23 | Approaches to Bridges.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Except as provided in section 5591.21 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall construct and keep in repair, approaches or ways to all bridges named in such section. When the cost of the construction or repair of the approaches or ways to any such bridge does not exceed fifty dollars, such construction or repair shall be performed by the board of township trustees.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.24 | Construction of Approaches to County Bridges.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners shall construct, without unnecessary delay, good and sufficient approaches or ways to bridges erected by it. The board shall contract for such construction in the same manner as for contracting for the construction of such bridges.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.25 | Board of County Commissioners of One or More Counties May Build Bridges.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When it becomes necessary for the public convenience to bridge a stream of water which is on or near the lines of two or more counties, which are traversed by, or lie on or near the road on which such bridge is needed, the board of county commissioners of such interested counties may build or authorize the building of such bridge jointly, to be paid for, with the approaches thereto, in such proportion as the boards agree upon. The expense of keeping such bridge in repair shall be paid by the counties interested, in the same proportion as the expense of building such bridge was paid.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.26 | Suits for Injuries to Bridges, Roads, and Buildings - Action by Property Owners - Disposition of Money Recovered.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If a bridge, any state or county road, or any public building, the property of or under the control or supervision of a county, is injured or destroyed, or when any state or county road or public highway has been injured or impaired by placing or continuing therein, without authority, any obstruction, or by the changing of the line, filling up or digging out of the bed thereof, or in any manner rendering it less convenient or useful than it had been previously, by a person or corporation, such person or corporation shall be subject to an action for damages. The board of county commissioners of the proper county may sue for and recover of such person or corporation the damages which have accrued by reason thereof, or such as are necessary to remove the obstruction or repair the injury.If the board fails or refuses to bring such action for ten days after being petitioned to do so by at least ten owners of property adjoining such county road or living within one mile of such bridge or public building, any one or more of such owners of property may bring suit, in the name of the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the property is situated, and recover the damages which have accrued, or which are necessary to remove the obstruction or repair the injury.The money so recovered shall be paid into the treasury of the proper county and appropriated by the board thereof in repairing such bridge, building, or road, or removing such obstruction, or to reimburse the county for such expenditures. In case of a recovery, the court may make such order as is deemed necessary to repair the injury or remove the obstruction complained of. The statute of limitations shall not operate in favor of a person or corporation committing any act, injury, or obstruction concerning any such road or public highway.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.27 | Bridge to Replace One Destroyed.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In rebuilding a bridge destroyed or injured by flood or fire, the board of county commissioners may select a new site therefor. Before the change is made, or a contract for that purpose is entered into, the board shall give at least twenty days' notice of the time when the question of change will be considered, and at such hearing, all persons interested may present their views and wishes to the board, either by petition, remonstrance, or orally.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.33 | Bridges Over Millraces.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No person possessed of the right to a water privilege shall be required to erect or keep in repair a bridge over a millrace or watercourse, excavated or constructed by him across a public road or highway for hydraulic purposes.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.34 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.34 | Purchase and Appropriation of Materials.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners may contract for and purchase stone, gravel, earth, dirt, or other material necessary for the construction or keeping in repair of approaches or ways to bridges as required by section 5591.24 of the Revised Code. The cost of constructing such approaches and procuring such material shall be paid from the bridge fund of the county on the order of the board.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.35 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.35 | Lighting of Bridges - Highway Intersections.

Effective: August 18, 1955|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 878 - 101st General Assembly|The board of county commissioners may provide for the proper lighting of bridges over streams, highway intersections, highway or railroad grade separations or interchange areas erected by it. The cost of such lighting shall be paid from the bridge fund of the county, or from any funds available for highway construction or maintenance and repair, on the order of the board. This section does not apply where the board has constructed three or more bridges within the limits of a municipal corporation. In such case the municipal corporation shall light the bridges within its limit at its own expense.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.36 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.36 | Guardrails for Bridge or Steep Embankment.

Effective: April 9, 2003|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 106 - 124th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners shall erect and maintain on county roads, where not already done, one or more guardrails on each end of a county bridge, viaduct, or culvert more than five feet high. The board also shall protect, by guardrails, all embankments with a rise of more than eight feet in height and with a downward slope of greater than seventy degrees, where the embankments have an immediate connection with a county road.The expense for a guardrail required under this section shall be paid out of the county bridge fund.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.37 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.37 | Noncompliance.

Effective: April 9, 2003|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 106 - 124th General Assembly|Negligent failure to comply with section 5591.36 of the Revised Code shall render the county liable for all accidents or damages resulting from that failure.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.38 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.38 | Board of County Commissioners May Purchase Toll Bridge.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners of a county in which there is a toll bridge, or a bridge owned by a person or corporation authorized by law to charge and collect toll for crossing it, may purchase such bridge, with the approaches, at a price agreed upon by the board and the owners of the bridge. If such board is unable to agree with the owners upon such purchase and sale the board may appropriate the bridge.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.39 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.39 | Appropriation of Bridge - Toll to Cease.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|For the purpose of appropriating a bridge as authorized by section 5591.38 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall have made an accurate survey and description of the bridge and approaches and the land occupied thereby, and shall proceed in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Upon payment of the agreed price, or payment into court of the compensation assessed, the right to charge or collect toll shall cease.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.40 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.40 | Right to Bridge Forfeited.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the board of county commissioners appropriates a bridge, as provided in sections 5591.38 and 5591.39 of the Revised Code, and fails to pay for it within three months after the assessment of compensation, the right of the board to make such appropriation on the terms of the assessment so made shall cease and such bridge shall be relieved from all encumbrances on account of the proceedings in such case. The judgment or order of the court, directing such award or assessment to be paid, shall cease to be of effect, except as to the costs adjudged against the board.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.41 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.41 | County May Establish a Free Ferry.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If a county bridge has been destroyed by fire, flood, or any other cause, the board of county commissioners may cause to be established a free ferry in lieu thereof. The board may also cause to be established a free ferry over any of the interior streams of the state where it is not expedient to build a bridge, and may cause it to be maintained and operated. The cost of maintaining and operating such ferry shall not exceed the interest on the probable cost of constructing a bridge across the stream.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.42 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.42 | Carrying Capacity of Bridges - Warning Notice.

Effective: November 2, 1989|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 258 - 118th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners together with the county engineer or an engineer to be selected by the board, or the director of transportation, may ascertain the safe carrying capacity of the bridges on roads or highways under their jurisdiction. Where the safe carrying capacity of any such bridge is ascertained and found to be less than the load limit prescribed by sections 5577.01 to 5577.12 of the Revised Code, warning notice shall be conspicuously posted near each end of the bridge. The notice shall caution all persons against driving on the bridge a loaded conveyance of greater weight than the bridge's carrying capacity.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.43 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.43 | Arrest of Certain Persons on View.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A constable of a township, a marshal of a village, or a police officer of a city may arrest upon view, and without process, a person violating section 5591.42 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.44 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.44 | Prosecutions.

Effective: July 1, 1989|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 111 - 118th General Assembly|Prosecution under sections 5591.42 and 5591.43 of the Revised Code shall be in the name of the state and be commenced within three months after the offense is committed. Sections 5591.33 to 5591.43 of the Revised Code do not take away from the board of county commissioners a right of action for damages, which it may have against a person for injury done to a bridge.
Ohio Rev Code § 5593.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5593 | Bridge Commissions|Section 5593.01 | Bridge Commissions Definitions.

Effective: September 4, 1982|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 98 - 114th General Assembly|As used in Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code:(A) "Bridge" includes all property, rights, easements, and franchises relating thereto including approaches.(B) "Improvements" means such repairs, replacements, reconstructions, additions, and betterments of and to a bridge acquired or constructed under such chapter, including such approach facilities thereto, as such commission determines necessary to place it in a safe and efficient condition for the use of the public.(C) "Cost of bridge" as applied to a bridge to be constructed or acquired by purchase or condemnation includes the estimated cost of construction or the cost of acquisition, cost of improvements, financing charges, interest during the period of construction and for a period not exceeding one year thereafter, interest during any period of disuse before completion of improvements, costs of traffic estimates, engineering and legal expenses, plans, specifications, surveys, estimates of cost and revenues, other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of the enterprise, administrative expense, and such other expenses as are necessary or incident to the financing authorized by Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code, the construction or acquisition of the bridge, and the placing of the bridge in operation.(D) "County bridge commission" or "city bridge commission" means the bridge commission provided for in such sections of any such county or city, or if such commission is abolished, any board or officer succeeding to the principal functions thereof or upon whom the powers given by such sections to such commissions are given by law.(E) "Owner" includes all individuals, incorporated companies, societies, or associations having any title or interest in any bridge properties, rights, easements, or franchises to be acquired.(F) "Approach facilities" means such bridge approaches, entrance plazas, overpasses, underpasses, toll booths, toll plazas, exits, and approach highways as the state bridge commission or any county or city bridge commission determines necessary to place any bridge constructed or acquired under Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code, in a safe and efficient condition for the public and to control and expedite adequately the flow of traffic to and from the bridge and past the bridge in both directions to places on public roads where traffic becomes normal and uncongested.(G) "Revenues" means all tolls, rentals, gifts, grants, receipts, moneys, and all other funds coming into the possession, or under the control, of the state bridge commission or any county or city bridge commission, by virtue of Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code, except the proceeds from the sale of bonds issued under authority of such sections.
Ohio Rev Code § 5593.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5593 | Bridge Commissions|Section 5593.03 | Construction and Acquisition of Bridges.

Effective: September 4, 1982|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 98 - 114th General Assembly|Any county or city bridge commission may:(A) Construct, acquire by purchase or condemnation, and improve, operate, and maintain bridges entirely within the state or such county or city, or over rivers and navigable waters which form a boundary of the state, or such county or city, notwithstanding that the waters of such river or navigable water may not at all times extend to or reach said boundary line, whenever the bridge, any part thereof, or the approach facilities thereto will extend within the boundary of the state or of such county or city;(B) Pay the costs of such construction, acquisition, improvement, operation, and maintenance;(C) Issue bridge revenue bonds of the state, or of such county or city, as provided by Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code.No bridge shall be constructed by a bridge commission until the director of transportation has approved the location and determined, after public hearing as provided in section 5511.01 of the Revised Code, that such construction is in the public interest. The determination and finding shall be journalized. Before any contracts may be awarded for the construction of such bridge, the plans and specifications shall be approved by the director.
Ohio Rev Code § 5593.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5593 | Bridge Commissions|Section 5593.04 | Resolution.

Effective: July 23, 1969|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 826 - 108th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners or the legislative authority of any city desiring to take advantage of Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code, shall pass a resolution declaring that the construction or acquisition of a bridge, or the partial acquisition and partial construction, together with adequate repairs and rehabilitation if such bridge is already completed, or adequate completion of construction if such bridge is in process of construction, will be a convenience, necessity, and benefit to such county or city.