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Ohio Rev Code § 6101.061 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.061 | Notice of Petition.

Effective: October 23, 1972|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 397 - 109th General Assembly|Upon determining that a sufficient petition has been filed, the judge making such determination shall cause written notice thereof to be given to the director of the department of natural resources, the director of environmental protection, and to the board of directors of any conservancy district having jurisdiction over all or part of the territory affected by the proceeding or within the same major watershed area as defined by the department of natural resources and the director of environmental protection. The director of natural resources, the director of environmental protection, and the directors of such conservancy districts may appear at any hearing considering the establishment, dissolution or merger of any conservancy district or subdistrict thereof, and be heard concerning the need for a conservancy district, the area that should be included, desirable improvements, and any other matters which in their opinion should be brought to the attention of the court.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.09 | Findings and Decree of Court Incorporating Conservancy District.

Effective: August 1, 2003|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 95 - 125th General Assembly|Within thirty days after the conservancy district has been declared a corporation by the court, the clerk of such court shall transmit to the secretary of state, to the director of the department of natural resources, and to the county recorder in each of the counties having lands in the district, copies of the findings and the decree of the court incorporating the district. The same shall be filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state in the same manner as articles of incorporation are required to be filed and recorded under the general law concerning corporations. Copies shall also be filed and become permanent records in the office of the recorder of each county in which a part of the district lies. Each recorder shall receive a base fee of one dollar for filing and preserving such copies and a housing trust fund fee of one dollar pursuant to section 317.36 of the Revised Code, and the secretary of state shall receive for filing and for recording the copies a fee of twenty-five dollars.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.10 | Appointment of Directors of Conservancy District.

Effective: July 19, 1994|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 450 - 120th General Assembly|(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, within thirty days after entering the decree incorporating a conservancy district, the court shall appoint three persons, at least two of whom are residents of counties, all or part of which are included within the territorial limits of the district, as a board of directors of the conservancy district, one for a term of three years, one for a term of five years, and one for a term of seven years. At the expiration of their terms of office, appointments shall be made for terms of five years. The court shall fill any vacancy which may occur on the board for the unexpired term.(B) Within thirty days after entering a decree under section 6101.09 of the Revised Code incorporating a conservancy district that includes all or parts of more than sixteen counties, the court shall appoint five persons, each of whom is a resident of a different county and at least three of whom are residents of counties all or part of which are included within the territorial limits of the district, as a board of directors of the conservancy district. Of the initial appointments made to the board, one shall be for a term of three years, one for a term of four years, one for a term of five years, one for a term of six years, and one for a term of seven years. At the expiration of their terms of office, appointments shall be made for terms of five years. The court shall fill any vacancy which may occur on the board for the unexpired term.(C) Within thirty days after issuing an order under section 6101.30 or 6101.72 of the Revised Code annexing lands to a district and resulting in a district that includes all or parts of more than sixteen counties, the court shall appoint to the board of directors two additional members, each of whom is a resident of a different county and does not reside in the same county as any member of the existing board, for terms of not more than five years, provided that the terms of those two members shall not expire in the same year or in the year in which any existing member's term expires. At the expiration of their terms of office, appointments shall be made for terms of five years. In appointing the two additional members, the court shall ensure that at least three of the five members of the board are residents of counties all or part of which are included within the territorial limits of the district. The court shall fill any vacancy which may occur on the board for the unexpired term and, in filling vacancies or making subsequent appointments, shall ensure that all members of the board reside in different counties.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.11 | Organization, Records of Conservancy District.

Effective: September 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly|Each member of the board of directors of a conservancy district, before entering upon the member's official duties, shall take and subscribe to an oath before a suitable officer that the member will honestly, faithfully, and impartially perform the duties of office and that the member will not be interested directly or indirectly in any contract let by the district. This oath shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the court in the original case. Upon the members' taking of the oath, the board shall choose one of its number as president of the board and may elect another as vice-president. The board shall elect some suitable person secretary of the conservancy district, who shall not be a member of the board.The board shall keep a record of all of its proceedings, minutes of all of its meetings, certificates, contracts, bonds given by employees, and all corporate acts. The record shall be open to the inspection of all owners of property in the district as well as to all other interested parties.The board shall adopt bylaws governing the administration of the affairs of the district.A majority of the board constitutes a quorum, and a concurrence of the majority in any matter within the board's duties is sufficient for its determination. All actions of the board shall be by motion or resolution.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.12 | Secretary, Employees.

Effective: September 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly|The secretary of the conservancy district shall be the custodian of the records of the district and shall assist the board of directors in the particulars it directs in the performance of its duties. The secretary shall attest all certified copies of the official records and files of the district that are required of the secretary by this chapter or by any person ordering copies and paying the reasonable cost of transcription. Any portion of a record so certified and attested prima-facie imports verity. The secretary shall serve also as treasurer of the conservancy district, unless a treasurer is otherwise provided for by the board.The board may employ a chief engineer; an attorney; and other engineers, attorneys, agents, and assistants as are needed, and may provide for their compensation, which, with all other necessary expenditures, shall be taken as a part of the cost of the improvement.The employment of the secretary, treasurer, chief engineer, and attorney for the district shall be evidenced by agreements in writing, which, so far as possible, shall specify the amounts to be paid for their services.The chief engineer shall be superintendent of all the works and improvements, shall make a full report to the board each year, or more often if required, and may make suggestions and recommendations to the board as the chief engineer considers proper.The board may require any officer or employee of the district to give bond for the faithful performance of the officer's or employee's official duties in an amount prescribed by it, the expense of the bond to be paid from the funds of the district.The secretary or treasurer may take and certify the acknowledgment of instruments granting easements or rights-of-way to the district. Acknowledgment and certification, subscribed by the secretary or treasurer, is an acknowledgment and certification for purposes of section 5301.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.14 | Right of Entry.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  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 § 6101.151 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.151 | Property of District Removed From Tax Duplicate.

Effective: September 16, 1957|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 615 - 102nd General Assembly|When real property is acquired which is located either within or without the acquiring conservancy district and which is removed from the tax duplicate, the board of directors of the conservancy district shall pay annually to the county treasurer of the county in which such property is located, commencing with the tax year after the removal of such property from the tax duplicate, an amount of money in lieu of taxes equal to the smaller of the following:(A) The last annual installment of taxes due from the acquired property before removal from the tax duplicate;(B) An amount equal to the difference between the combined revenue from real estate taxes of all the taxing districts in which such property is located in the tax year immediately prior to the removal of such acquired property from the tax duplicate, and (1) the total revenue which would be produced by the tax rate of each such taxing district in the tax year immediately prior to the removal of such acquired property from the tax duplicate, applied to the real estate tax duplicate of each of such taxing districts in each tax year subsequent to the year of removal, or (2) the combined revenue from real estate taxes of all such taxing districts in each tax year subsequent to the year of removal, whichever is the greater.The county auditor of each county in which such property is located shall apportion each such annual payments PAYMENT to each taxing district as if such annual payment had been levied and collected as a tax.Such annual payments shall never again be made after they have ceased.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.16 | Contracts for Improvements.

Effective: September 29, 2015|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 64 - 131st 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 amounts to exceed fifty thousand dollars 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.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.161 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.161 | Conservancy District Contract Requirements.

Effective: June 30, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 85 - 128th General Assembly|Notwithstanding section 6101.16 of the Revised Code, the board of directors of a conservancy 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 § 6101.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.17 | Dominant Right of Eminent Domain.

Effective: September 13, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly|The board of directors of a conservancy district, when it is necessary for the purposes of this chapter, shall have a dominant right of eminent domain over the right of eminent domain of railroad, telephone, gas, water power, and other companies and corporations, and over townships, counties, and municipal corporations. In the exercise of this right, due care shall be taken to do no unnecessary damage to other public utilities, and, in case of failure to agree upon the mode and terms of interference, not to interfere with their operation or usefulness beyond the actual necessities of the case, due regard being paid to the other public interests involved.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.18 | Eminent Domain.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|The board of directors of a conservancy district may condemn for the use of the district, any land or property within or without said district not acquired or condemned by the court on the report of the board of appraisers of the conservancy district, in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, instead of having appraisals and assessments made by the board of appraisers.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.181 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.181 | Appropriation of Property for Sewer Construction to Address Public Health Nuisance.

Effective: May 6, 2005|Latest Legislation:  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 § 6101.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.19 | Conservancy District Rules and Regulations - Enforcement - Prohibitions.

Effective: September 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly|(A) The board of directors of a conservancy district may make and enforce rules and regulations it considers necessary and advisable to do the following:(1) To protect and preserve the works, improvements, and properties owned or controlled by the district, prescribe the manner of their use by public corporations and persons, and preserve order within and adjacent to the works, improvements, and properties;(2) To prescribe the manner of building bridges, roads, or fences or other works in, into, along, or across any channel, reservoir, or other construction of the district;(3) To prescribe the manner in which ditches, sewers, pipe lines, or other works shall be adjusted to or connected with the works of the district or any watercourse in the district and the manner in which the watercourses of the district may be used for sewer outlets or for disposal of waste;(4) To prescribe the permissible uses of the water supply provided by the district and the manner of its distribution, and to prevent the pollution or unnecessary waste of the water supply;(5) To prohibit or regulate the discharge into the sewers of the district of any liquid or solid wastes considered detrimental to the works and improvements of the district.The rules and regulations shall not be inconsistent with the laws of the state or the rules or requirements of the director of environmental protection, and shall be published before taking effect.(B) No person shall violate any rule or regulation adopted in accordance with this section.(C) The board may enforce by mandamus or otherwise all necessary regulations made by it and authorized by this chapter, may remove any harmful or improper construction or obstruction or close any opening or connection made improperly or in violation of the rules and regulations, and may bring suits in mandamus in the court of appeals in the first instance, if it considers it advisable. Any person or public corporation that willfully fails to comply with the rules and regulations shall be liable for damage caused by the failure and for the cost of renewing any construction damaged or destroyed.(D) No person or public corporation shall erect within the drainage area of the district any dam or reservoir upon any stream or watercourse in it, or any work or obstruction diminishing the cross section of any stream or watercourse in it, until a copy of the plans for the dam, reservoir, work, or obstruction has been filed with the secretary of the conservancy district for the board's examination.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.21 | Passing Boat or Other Equipment Through Bridge or Grade.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  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 § 6101.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.22 | Surveys and Examinations of Rainfall, Flood Conditions, and Stream Flow.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The board of directors of a conservancy district may establish and maintain stream gauges, rain gauges, and a flood warning service with telephone or telegraph lines or telephone or telegraph service, and may make such surveys and examinations of rainfall and flood conditions, 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.