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Ohio Rev Code § 6101.68 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.68 | Lands Included in More Than One District.

Effective: September 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly|The same land, if conducive to public health, safety, convenience, or welfare, may be included in more than one conservancy district and be subject to this chapter for each district in which it may be included. No district shall be organized under this chapter in whole or in part within the territory of a district already organized under this chapter until the court determines whether the public health, safety, convenience, or welfare demand the organization of an additional district, or whether it demands that the territory proposed to be organized into an additional district shall be added to the existing district. If the proceedings concerning two or more districts are before the court of common pleas of two or more counties, that determination shall be as provided in section 6101.69 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.69 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.69 | Consolidation of Districts.

Effective: September 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  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 § 6101.73 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.73 | Irrigation Districts.

Effective: September 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly|Irrigation districts may be formed under this chapter by a substantial compliance as near as possible with its provisions. No irrigation district in its construction or operation shall, in any manner, interfere with works for the prevention of floods or the drainage of lands or materially diminish the works' protective value. The court organizing the irrigation district shall require a statement in the petition and proof to the effect that the organization and operation of the irrigation district will not materially interfere with any works or plans for flood prevention or the drainage or protection of lands. No improvement under this chapter shall deprive the owners of lands lying upon any stream of water of the ordinary flow in the stream without compensation.Subject to this section, the board of directors has the same powers as are conferred generally by this chapter insofar as applicable.Assessments shall be levied and bonds issued as provided in this chapter, using the words "Conservancy Assessments" or "Conservancy Bonds."
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.74 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.74 | Remedies and Damages.

Effective: September 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly|(A) If any person or public corporation, within or without any conservancy district, considers itself injuriously affected in any manner by any act performed by any official or agent of the district, or by the execution, maintenance, or operation of the official plan, and if no other method of relief is offered under this chapter, the remedy shall be as follows:(1) The person or public corporation considering itself to be injuriously affected shall petition the court before which the district was organized for an appraisal of damages sufficient to compensate for the injuries.(2) The court shall direct the board of appraisers of the conservancy district to appraise the damages and injuries, and to make a report to the court on or before the time named in the order of the court.(3) Upon the filing of the report of the board of appraisers, the court shall notify the petitioner and the board of directors of the conservancy district of a hearing on the report. At the time of the hearing, the court shall consider the report of the board of appraisers, and may ratify the report or amend it as the court considers equitable, or may return it to the board of appraisers and require it to prepare a new report.(4) Upon the filing of an order of the court approving the report of the board of appraisers, with such modifications as it has made, the order constitutes a final adjudication of the matter unless it is appealed from within twenty days. Appeal to a jury from the order may be had by the petitioner, by the board of directors, or by any person or public corporation that has been assessed for the costs of the district.(B) No damages shall be allowed under this section that would not otherwise be allowed in law. Nothing in this section shall be construed as expressly imposing any liability upon a conservancy district.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.76 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.76 | Removals for Cause.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Any director, appraiser, or other officer of any conservancy district may be removed for cause upon a motion filed in the original case where said district was organized, after a hearing.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.77 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.77 | Writ of Mandamus.

Effective: September 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly|The performance of all duties prescribed in this chapter concerning the organization and administration or operation of the conservancy district may be enforced against any officer of the district by mandamus at the instance of the board of directors of the district or of any person or public corporation interested in any way in the district. The board of directors may institute court proceedings to enforce compliance by any person or public corporation with any order of the board. The board may institute those proceedings in the court of appeals in the first instance.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.78 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.78 | Defective Notice.

Effective: September 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly|If a notice and hearing by the court are provided for in this chapter, the court shall, prior to the conclusion of the hearing, examine the form of the notice and all evidence relating to the giving of the notice and, if the court finds for any reason that due notice was not given in whole or in part, whether by reason of noncompliance with any of the requirements of this chapter or with any applicable constitutional requirements, 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 notice to be given in compliance with the requirements of this chapter to the parties to whom due notice was not given or the court shall order the giving of other and further notice as the court shall prescribe to comply with any applicable constitutional requirements, and shall continue the hearing until the time when the notice is properly given, and then shall proceed as though notice had been properly given in the first instance.In case any appraisal, assessment, or levy is held void for want of legal notice, whether by reason of noncompliance with any of the requirements of this chapter or with any applicable constitutional requirements, or in case the board of directors of the conservancy district determines that any notice with reference to any land or public corporation is faulty for one of the same reasons, the board may file a motion in the original cause asking that the court order that the notice required by this chapter or any applicable constitutional requirements be given to the owner of the land or to the public corporation and set a time for hearing as provided in this chapter, and, upon the granting of the motion and the giving of the notice, the court then shall proceed as though notice had been properly given in the first instance. If the original notice was faulty only with reference to certain public corporations or tracts, only the public corporations or the owners of and persons interested in those particular tracts need be notified by the subsequent notice. If the publication of any notice in any county was defective or not made in time, republication of the defective notice is necessary only in the county in which the defect occurred.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.79 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.79 | Questions of Validity of Organization Advanced in Courts.

Effective: September 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly|All cases in which there arises a question of the validity of the organization of conservancy districts shall be advanced as a matter of immediate public interest and concern, and heard in all courts at the earliest practicable moment.The court shall be open at all times for the purposes of this chapter.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.80 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.80 | Liberal Construction of Chapter.

Effective: September 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  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 § 6101.81 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.81 | Destruction, Injury, Removal of Survey Marks Prohibited.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No person shall willfully destroy, injure, or remove any bench marks, witness marks, stakes, or other reference marks placed by the surveyors or engineers of the conservancy district or by contractors in constructing the works of such district.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.82 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.82 | Liability for Damages.

Effective: October 12, 1959|Latest Legislation:  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 § 6101.83 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.83 | Unlawful Use of Moneys.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No officer of a conservancy district or any other public officer shall make a profit, directly or indirectly, out of any contracts entered into by the district, or, for the purpose of profit, use any money belonging to a district by loaning it or otherwise using it, or by depositing it in any manner, contrary to law, or by removal of any money by any such officer or by his consent and placing it elsewhere than is prescribed either by law or by the official acts of the board of directors of the conservancy district. The officer offending shall be liable personally and upon his official bond for all losses to such district and for all profits realized by such unlawful use of moneys.
Ohio Rev Code § 6101.99 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts|Section 6101.99 | Penalty.

Effective: July 1, 1996|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly|(A) Whoever violates division (B) of section 6101.14 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.(B) Whoever violates division (B) of section 6101.19 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars.(C) Whoever violates section 6101.81 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.(D) Whoever violates division (B) of section 6101.82 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars.(E) Whoever violates section 6101.83 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree, and the court may impose an additional fine of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars.
Ohio Rev Code § 6103.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6103 | County Water Supply Systems|Section 6103.01 | County Water Supply System Definitions.

Effective: October 16, 2009|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly|As used in this chapter: (A) "Public water supply facilities," "water supply facilities," "water supply improvement," or "improvement" means, without limiting the generality of those terms, water wells and well fields, springs, lakes, rivers, streams, or other sources of water supply, intakes, pumping stations and equipment, treatment, filtration, or purification plants, force and distribution lines or mains, cisterns, reservoirs, storage facilities, necessary equipment for fire protection, other related structures, equipment, and furnishings, and real estate and interests in real estate, necessary or useful in the proper development of a water supply for domestic or other purposes and its proper distribution.(B) "Current operating expenses," "debt charges," "permanent improvement," "public obligations," and "subdivision" have the same meanings as in section 133.01 of the Revised Code.(C) "Construct," "construction," or "constructing" means construction, reconstruction, enlargement, extension, improvement, renovation, repair, and replacement of water supply facilities, but does not include repairs, replacements, or similar actions that do not constitute and qualify as permanent improvements.(D) "Maintain," "maintaining," or "maintenance" means repairs, replacements, and similar actions that constitute and are payable as current operating expenses and that are required to restore water supply facilities to, or to continue water supply facilities in, good order and working condition, but does not include construction of permanent improvements.(E) "Public agency" means a state and any agency or subdivision of a state, including a county, a municipal corporation, or other subdivision.(F) "County sanitary engineer" means either of the following:(1) The registered professional engineer employed or appointed by the board of county commissioners to be the county sanitary engineer as provided in section 6117.01 of the Revised Code;(2) The county engineer, if, for as long as and to the extent that engineer by agreement entered into under section 315.14 of the Revised Code is retained to discharge the duties of a county sanitary engineer under this chapter.(G) "Homestead exemption" means the reduction of taxes allowed under division (A) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code.(H) "Low- and moderate-income persons" has the same meaning as in section 175.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 6103.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6103 | County Water Supply Systems|Section 6103.03 | Authority of County Commissioners as to Facilities Within a Municipal Corporation.

Effective: March 12, 2001|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly|The authority of a board of county commissioners to acquire, construct, maintain, and operate water supply facilities for a county sewer district in territory of a municipal corporation, or a regional district established under Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code, that is in whole or in part within the county sewer district is the same as provided by law with respect to territory within a county sewer district that is wholly outside a municipal corporation or a regional district, subject to the following in the case of facilities within a municipal corporation:(A) The acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of the facilities shall first be authorized by an ordinance or resolution of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation.(B) All road surfaces, curbs, sidewalks, sewers, water supply facilities, or other public improvements or property that may be disturbed or damaged by the construction of the facilities shall be replaced or restored within a reasonable time by the county, and the cost shall be treated as a part of the cost of the facilities.(C) The municipal corporation, with prior approval of or by agreement with the board, may make use of the facilities in accordance with rules established by the board and subject to any applicable requirements of the director of environmental protection.
Ohio Rev Code § 6103.031 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6103 | County Water Supply Systems|Section 6103.031 | Contract With Township for Constructing, Maintaining, Repairing, or Operating Water Supply Improvement.

Effective: March 1, 1990|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 75 - 118th General Assembly|After the establishment of any sewer district, the board of county commissioners may enter into a contract with the board of township trustees of a township located wholly or partly within the district, upon mutually agreed terms, to have the township pay all or any part of the cost of constructing, maintaining, repairing, or operating any water supply improvement that is supplying or will supply water within the limits of the township. This section does not limit or restrict the power of the board of county commissioners to determine how much of the cost of any water supply improvement authorized under this chapter shall be specially assessed upon the benefited properties and to fix and change the rates to be charged for water supplied.
Ohio Rev Code § 6103.051 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6103 | County Water Supply Systems|Section 6103.051 | Deferment of Collection of Assessment.

Effective: October 24, 1961|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 851 - 104th General Assembly|At any time prior to the expiration of the five-day period provided by section 6103.05 of the Revised Code for the filing of written objections, any owner of property to be assessed for an improvement under sections 6103.02 to 6103.30, inclusive, of the Revised Code may file with the board of county commissioners a request in writing for deferment of the collection of his assessment. Such request shall identify the property in connection with which the request for deferment is made, shall describe its present use, shall state its estimated market value, showing separately the value of the land and the value of the buildings thereon, shall state the reasons why a portion of the assessment should be deferred, and the amount to be deferred. The board shall promptly consider such request and, if he finds that it will be inequitable to certify the entire amount of such assessment upon completion of the improvement to the county auditor for collection, the board may order that the collection of a portion of such assessment, not exceeding seventy-five per cent thereof, shall be deferred as provided in section 6103.16 of the Revised Code. In determining whether it is inequitable to certify an assessment for immediate collection upon completion of the improvement, the board shall consider as significant the following factors: whether or not the property is presently unimproved; whether or not it is being used for farming or agricultural purposes; the extent to which it is in immediate need of water service; whether the tentative assessment is a disproportionately high percentage of the estimated market value of the property after the improvement will have been completed. All requests for the deferment of the collection of assessments shall be considered by the board before it adopts the improvement resolution provided for by section 6103.06 of the Revised Code, and, if the board orders any part of any assessment to be deferred for collection, the sanitary engineer shall forthwith revise the list of tentative assessments to accord with the order of the board thereby showing the amount of each assessment to be collected upon the completion of the improvement and the amount of each assessment to be deferred for collection. The decision of the board on any request for deferment shall be final and no appeal therefrom may be taken.The board may, for good cause shown and notwithstanding the failure of a property owner to file such request within the period provided in this section, consider a request for the deferment of an assessment at any time prior to the adoption of the resolution confirming the revised assessment provided for by section 6103.15 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 6103.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6103 | County Water Supply Systems|Section 6103.07 | Beginning Construction of Water Supply Improvement.

Effective: March 12, 2001|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly|After the adoption of a resolution to proceed with an improvement as provided in section 6103.06 of the Revised Code, the construction of the improvement shall be deferred until ten days have elapsed. If, at the expiration of that period, no appeal has been effected by any property owner as provided in sections 6117.09 to 6117.24 of the Revised Code, the action of the board of county commissioners shall be final, and the board may proceed to issue or incur public obligations and construct the improvement. If, at the end of that ten days, any owner of property to be assessed for the improvement has effected an appeal, the construction of the improvement shall be deferred until the matters appealed from have been disposed of in court.