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Ohio Rev Code § 713.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.03 | Planning Commission Shall Be Platting Commission.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The planning commission of a municipal corporation shall be the platting commission thereof, and all the powers and duties provided by sections 735.17 to 735.26, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall, upon the appointment of a municipal planning commission under section 713.01 of the Revised Code, be transferred to it.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.04 | Control as to Buildings.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may authorize the planning commission to control the height, design, and location of buildings.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.05 | Employment of Architects and Engineers.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The planning commission may control, appoint, or employ such architects, engineers, and other professional service, and may appoint such clerks, draughtsmen, and other subordinates as are necessary for the performance of its functions. The expenditures for such service and employments shall be within the amounts appropriated for such persons by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, and such legislative authority shall provide for the expenses and accommodations necessary for the work of the commission.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.06 | Division of Municipal Corporation Into Zones.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The planning commission of any municipal corporation may frame and adopt a plan for dividing the municipal corporation or any portion thereof into zones or districts, representing the recommendations of the commission, in the interest of the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity, or general welfare, for the limitations and regulation of the height, bulk, and location, including percentage of lot occupancy, set back building lines, and area and dimensions of yards, courts, and other open spaces, and the uses of buildings and other structures and of premises in such zones or districts.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.07 | Restriction in Location of Buildings and Structures.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Whenever the planning commission of any municipal corporation or any board or officer with city planning powers, whether such commission, board, or officer is created by statute or municipal charter, certifies to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation any plan for the districting or zoning thereof according to the uses of buildings and other structures and of premises, such legislative authority, in the interest of the promotion of the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity, or general welfare, may regulate and restrict the location of buildings and other structures and of premises to be used for trade, industry, residence, or other specified uses, and for such purposes may divide the municipal corporation into districts of such number, shape, and area as are best suited to carry out the purposes of this section. Regulations may be imposed for each of such districts, designating the kinds or classes of trades, industries, residences, or other purposes for which buildings or other structures or premises may be permitted to be erected, altered, or used subject to special regulations.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.08 | Restrictions on Height of Buildings and Structures.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Whenever a planning commission, board, or officer certifies to the legislative authority of a municipal corporation any plan for the districting or zoning of the municipal corporation according to the height of buildings and other structures, such legislative authority may, in the interest of the promotion of the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity, or general welfare, regulate and limit the height of buildings and other structures thereafter erected or altered and for such purpose may divide the municipal corporation into districts of such number, shape, and area as are best suited to carry out the purposes of this section. Any such regulation imposing a lower height limitation than that provided by statute shall, within the district for which it is imposed, prevail over such statute.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.081 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.081 | Municipal Small Wind Farm Zoning Regulations.

Effective: October 22, 2019|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 6 - 133rd General Assembly|(A) As used in this section, "small wind farm" means wind turbines and associated facilities that are not subject to the jurisdiction of the power siting board under sections 4906.20 and 4906.201 of the Revised Code. (B) Sections 713.06 to 713.15 of the Revised Code confer power on the legislative authority of a municipal corporation with respect to the location, erection, construction, reconstruction, change, alteration, maintenance, removal, use, or enlargement of any small wind farm as a public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, or the use of land for that purpose, which regulations may be more strict than the regulations prescribed in rules adopted under division (B)(2) of section 4906.20 of the Revised Code.(C) The designation under this section of a small wind farm as a public utility for purposes of sections 713.06 to 713.15 of the Revised Code shall not affect the classification of a small wind farm or any other public utility for purposes of state or local taxation.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.082 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.082 | Compliance With Orc Section 5502.031.

Effective: August 15, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 158 - 129th General Assembly|The legislative authorities of municipal corporations, planning commissions established under section 713.01 of the Revised Code, and administrative boards created under section 713.11 of the Revised Code shall comply with section 5502.031 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.09 | Restrictions on Bulk and Location of Buildings and Structures, Percentage of Lot Occupancy, and Set Back Building Lines.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Whenever any planning commission, board, or officer certifies to the legislative authority any plan for the districting or zoning of the municipal corporation according to the bulk and location of buildings and other structures including percentage of lot occupancy, set back building lines, and area of yards, courts, and other open spaces such legislative authority may, in the interest of the promotion of the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity, or general welfare, regulate the bulk and location of buildings and other structures thereafter erected or altered, including the percentage of lot occupancy, set back building lines, and the area of yards, courts and other open spaces. For such purposes the legislative authority may divide the municipal corporation into districts of such number, shape, and area as is best suited to carry out the purposes of this section. Any such regulation imposing a smaller percentage of lot occupancy, wider or larger courts, deeper yards, or other more strict limitations than those provided by statute shall, within the district for which it is imposed, prevail over such statute.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.10 | Basis of Districting or Zoning - Classification of Buildings and Structures.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The districting or zoning of any municipal corporation or part thereof may be based upon any combination of two or more of the purposes described in sections 713.07 to 713.09, inclusive, of the Revised Code. In the determination and establishment of such districts buildings and other structures may be classified on the basis of the nature or character of trade, industry, profession, or other activity conducted or to be conducted therein, the number of persons, families, or other group units to reside in or use them, the public, quasi-public, or private nature of the use thereof, or upon any other basis relevant to the promotion of the public safety, health, morals, convenience, prosperity, or welfare.The legislative authority of such municipal corporation may amend or change the number, shape, area, or regulations of or within any district, but no such amendment or change shall become effective unless the ordinance proposing it is first submitted to the planning commission, board, or officer for approval, disapproval, or suggestions and the commission, board, or officer is allowed a reasonable time, not less than thirty days, for consideration and report.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.11 | Administrative Board - Powers and Duties.

Effective: September 14, 1992|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 411 - 119th General Assembly|(A) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may create an administrative board to administer the details of the application of the regulations under sections 713.06 to 713.12 of the Revised Code, and may delegate to such board, in accordance with general rules to be set forth in the districting ordinances and regulations, the power to hear and determine appeals from refusal of building permits by building commissioners or other officers, to permit exceptions to and variations from the district regulations in the classes of cases or situations specified in the regulations, and to administer the regulations as specified therein. Such administrative powers and functions may be delegated by the legislative authority to the planning commission or board.(B) If the county in which a village is located administers a county zoning resolution, the legislative authority of the village and the board of county commissioners of the county may contract with each other to have the county administer village zoning regulations, with its powers to include hearing and deciding zoning appeals and authorizing variances.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.12 | Zoning Regulations Notice and Hearing.

Effective: June 1, 1970|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 159 - 108th General Assembly|Before any ordinance, measure, regulation, or amendments thereto, authorized by sections 713.07 to 713.11, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may be passed the legislative authority of the municipal corporation shall hold a public hearing thereon, and shall give at least thirty days' notice of the time and place thereof in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipal corporation. If the ordinance, measure, or regulation intends to re-zone or re-district ten or less parcels of land, as listed on the tax duplicate, written notice of the hearing shall be mailed by the clerk of the legislative authority, by first class mail, at least twenty days before the date of the public hearing to the owners of property within and contiguous to and directly across the street from such parcel or parcels, to the addresses of such owners appearing on the county auditor's current tax list or the treasurer's mailing list and to such other list or lists that may be specified by the legislative authority. The failure of delivery of such notice shall not invalidate any such ordinance, measure, or regulation. During such thirty days the text or copy of the text of such ordinance, measure, or regulation, together with the maps or plans, or copies thereof, forming part of or referred to in such ordinance, measure, or regulation and the maps, plans, and reports submitted by the planning commission, board, or officer shall be on file, for public examination, in the office of the clerk of the legislative authority or in such other office as is designated by the legislative authority. No such ordinance, measure, or regulation which violates, differs from, or departs from the plan or report submitted by the commission, board, or officer shall take effect unless passed or approved by not less than three fourths of the membership of the legislative authority. No ordinance, measure, or regulation which is in accordance with the recommendations, plan, or report submitted by the commission, board, or officer shall be deemed to pass or take effect without the concurrence of at least a majority of the members elected to the legislative authority.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.121 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.121 | Statute of Limitations.

Effective: October 25, 1995|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 50 - 121st General Assembly|No action challenging the validity of a zoning ordinance or regulation or of any amendment to such an ordinance or regulation because of a procedural error in the adoption of the ordinance, regulation, or amendment shall be brought more than two years after the adoption of the ordinance, regulation, or amendment.No action alleging procedural error in the actions of an administrative board created under section 713.11 of the Revised Code, or of any other administrative entity acting under that section, in the granting of zoning variances or conditional use certificates shall be brought more than two years after the variance or certificate was granted.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.13 | Injunction.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No person shall erect, construct, alter, repair, or maintain any building or structure or use any land in violation of any zoning ordinance or regulation enacted pursuant to sections 713.06 to 713.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or Section 3 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution. In the event of any such violation, or imminent threat thereof, the municipal corporation, or the owner of any contiguous or neighboring property who would be especially damaged by such violation, in addition to any other remedies provided by law, may institute a suit for injunction to prevent or terminate such violation.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.14 | Effect of Zoning Regulations.

Effective: September 17, 1957|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 403 - 102nd General Assembly|Sections 713.06 to 713.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not repeal, reduce, or modify any power granted by law or charter to any municipal corporation or the legislative authority thereof, or impair or restrict the power of any municipal corporation under Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution. And where a new municipal corporation is created out of the territory of a county or township or any part thereof in which territory zoning regulations have been previously adopted as provided by sections 303.02 to 303.25, inclusive, or sections 519.02 to 519.25, inclusive, of the Revised Code, such regulations may be adopted and continued in full force and effect by the newly created municipal corporation without following the procedure prescribed by sections 713.07 to 713.11, inclusive, of the Revised Code and the council of such newly incorporated municipal corporation may continue such zoning provisions in effect by the enactment of an emergency ordinance as provided by law.Sections 713.06 to 713.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not authorize a municipal corporation to reserve the use of any private property for future public use for the purpose of extending or widening streets.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.15 | Nonconforming Uses.

Effective: March 5, 1987|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 206 - 116th General Assembly|The lawful use of any dwelling, building, or structure and of any land or premises, as existing and lawful at the time of enacting a zoning ordinance or an amendment to the ordinance, may be continued, although such use does not conform with the provisions of such ordinance or amendment, but if any such nonconforming use is voluntarily discontinued for two years or more, or for a period of not less than six months but not more than two years that a municipal corporation otherwise provides by ordinance, any future use of such land shall be in conformity with sections 713.01 to 713.15 of the Revised Code. The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall provide in any zoning ordinance for the completion, restoration, reconstruction, extension, or substitution of nonconforming uses upon such reasonable terms as are set forth in the zoning ordinance.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.231 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.231 | Joint Planning Councils - Organization.

Effective: November 18, 1969|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 285 - 108th General Assembly|Any regional or county planning commission may by agreement join with other regional or county planning commissions to create a joint planning council after approval by at least a majority of the legislative authorities of the municipal corporations participating in the commission and by the participating board or boards of county commissioners.The agreement shall specify the various powers and duties of regional or county planning commissions, including the power to contract, receive, and expend fees, funds and grants, and utilize services from any source, to be exercised by a joint planning council in all or parts of its area as may be specified. The agreement shall specify the area in which the powers and duties of such joint planning council shall be exercised. Such area shall be larger than the area of jurisdiction of any participating regional or county planning commission but within or coextensive with the combined areas of jurisdiction of the member planning commissions.The agreement may also specify how such joint planning council shall be organized, how it shall operate, and how the costs of operation of such joint planning council, over and above such costs as are covered by fees, funds, and grants, shall be apportioned between or among the regional and county planning commissions creating such joint planning council.The regional and county planning commissions participating in the joint planning council may amend the terms of agreement, including terms to include additional regional or county planning commissions, upon consent of all participants. Any participating planning commission may terminate its membership after giving three months' notice to the planning council of its adoption of a resolution to do so or in the manner provided in the agreement, but shall not be relieved of its obligations, including its share of the cost for the calendar year in which the termination occurs or for such other period as the agreement provides.Any plan or modification or part of a plan recommended by such joint planning council shall be the plan of any regional or county planning commission when certified by such regional or county planning commission in the manner provided in section 713.24 of the Revised Code.Any member of a joint planning council may hold any other public office, and may serve as a member of a city, village, regional, and county planning commission except as otherwise provided in the charter of a city or village.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.24 | Certified Copies of Plans to Each Municipal Corporation.

Effective: September 30, 1963|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 719 - 105th General Assembly|The regional planning commission of any region, or the county planning commission of any county, shall, after making the regional or county plan as provided by section 713.23 of the Revised Code, certify a copy thereof to the planning commission of each municipal corporation of the region or county, the board of county commissioners and county or regional planning commission of each county or region or part thereof included in the plan. In the event of the subsequent creation of a planning commission for any municipal corporation within a county having a county planning commission, or for any municipal corporation subsequently incorporated within the area of a region having a regional planning commission, a copy of the county or regional plan shall be immediately certified to such planning commission.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.25 | Effect of Adoption of Plans.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The planning commission of any municipal corporation to which a regional or county plan is certified under section 713.24 of the Revised Code, may adopt such plan, and it shall thereupon have the same force within such municipal corporation as is provided by law or charter for plans prepared and adopted by the local planning commission. The board of county commissioners may adopt such plan so far as it relates to nonmunicipal territory. Thereafter no public building, roadway, bridge, viaduct, or other public improvement or utility, publicly or privated owned, whose construction or location would constitute a departure from the plan, shall be constructed or authorized by the board except by unanimous vote. Such plans shall not designate the specific lots or parcels of land upon which such system, facilities, buildings, and improvements are proposed to be placed, but only the general site or location thereof. The effect of the adoption of such plan by the board shall cease as regards the location of any sewage or garbage disposal plant, and no official action of the board shall be controlled thereby in such respect, unless the site shown on the plan as the location of such plant is purchased within six months after the adoption of the plan by the board, or unless proceedings for the appropriation of the necessary property are commenced within a period of six months and such property is then or thereafter appropriated in such proceedings.
Ohio Rev Code § 713.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 713 | Planning Commissions|Section 713.26 | County Engineer Shall Assist Commission.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The county engineer of any county for which a regional or county planning commission has been organized, shall give such assistance to the commission, within the scope of his resources and without interference with his regular duties, as is requested by it.