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Ohio Rev Code § 5555.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.26 | Each County May Choose Different Method of Apportionment.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When a petition asking for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, or repair of a road in two or more counties, or along the county line between two or more counties in this state, is filed with the board of county commissioners of any one of said counties, the petitioners are not limited to the statement of a single method of paying the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement, but may request in the petition that the share of each interested county be apportioned by a different method, subject to the limitation that as to each county the method requested must be one of the methods provided by section 5555.41 of the Revised Code.A joint board acting by unanimous vote and without the filing of any petition, and ordering the improvement of a road in two or more counties, or along the county line between two or more counties in this state, may order the proportionate part of the compensation, damages, and expenses of each county to be paid in a different method, subject to the limitation that as to each county the method selected must be one of the methods provided by sections 5555.41 to 5555.43, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.27 | Hearing for Objections by Joint Board - Notice.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|As soon as the county engineer has transmitted to the several boards of county commissioners copies of the engineer's surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for the improvement, the joint board of county commissioners shall, except in cases of reconstruction or repair of roads where no lands or property are taken, fix a time and place for hearing objections to said improvement. The joint board shall thereupon, except in cases of reconstruction or repair of roads where no lands or property are taken, publish in a newspaper of general circulation within each interested county, once a week for two consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, a notice that such improvement is to be made and that copies of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications therefor are on file in the office of the board of each interested county for the inspection and examination of all persons interested therein. Such notice shall also state the time and place for hearing objections to said improvement. Proceedings for the appropriation of land needed for such improvement shall be maintained in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.30 | Decision of Joint Board as to Improvement.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|After all questions relating to compensation and damages have been disposed of, the joint board shall decide whether it will proceed with the improvement, and if it decides to proceed therewith, it shall adopt the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for the improvement as reported by the county engineer or with such modifications as the joint board and the engineer agree upon.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.31 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.31 | Procedure When Improvement Is in One County but Within Assessment Distance of Another.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the proposed improvement is wholly within one county but within less than the legal assessment distance of the county line, and a petition is filed asking for such improvement, signed by fifty-one per cent of the persons to be specially assessed therefor, such improvement shall be regarded as joint county improvement, and shall be made in accordance with sections 5555.21 to 5555.30, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.32 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.32 | Joint Board May Place Portion of Improvement Wholly Within One County.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A joint board of county commissioners has jurisdiction to provide for the construction for a portion a road improvement wholly within one county when it is necessary to avoid some place on the county line where the construction thereof would be unusually expensive or difficult.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.33 | Bond Issue by Each County.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If bonds are issued in anticipation of the collection of taxes and assessments on account of the improvement, such bonds as are required shall be issued separately by each county to cover its proportion of the costs and expenses of such improvement.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.34 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.34 | Single County Procedure Applicable to Joint Board.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Sections 5555.01 to 5555.72, inclusive, of the Revised Code relating to improvements wholly within one county shall when applicable apply to improvements authorized by a joint board of county commissioners.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.43 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.43 | All Costs May Be Paid by County - Agreement With Townships to Pay Proportion.

Effective: March 12, 2001|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly|The board of county commissioners, unless acting pursuant to section 5555.022 of the Revised Code, or the joint board of county commissioners, upon a unanimous vote, may order, without a petition, that all of a county's costs for constructing any improvement be paid out of the proceeds of any tax levies for road purposes on the grand duplicate of the county or out of any road improvement fund available for the payment of those costs, or may enter, by a similar vote and without a petition, into an agreement with the boards of township trustees of the townships in which the improvement is situated in whole or in part, whereby the entire cost of the improvement is paid by the county and townships, or one or more of them, in the agreed upon proportion or amount of the cost.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.44 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.44 | Funds From Which Costs Are Paid.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the compensation, damages, and expenses of an improvement, other than the portion thereof to be specially assessed against benefited real estate, are to be paid in part by the county and in part by the townships in which such improvement is situated, under an agreement between the board of county commissioners and the boards of township trustees entered into under section 5555.41 or 5555.43 of the Revised Code, the part of such compensation, damages, and expenses to be paid by the interested townships may be paid from the proceeds of any levy made by the board of county commissioners under section 5555.49 of the Revised Code or from the proceeds of any levy made by the boards of township trustees under section 5573.13 of the Revised Code. When bonds are issued to provide funds for any such improvement, the shares of the county and of the townships and of the real estate specially assessed may be provided by a bond issue by the board of county commissioners under section 5555.51 of the Revised Code; or in lieu of such method of providing the necessary funds, the board of county commissioners may issue bonds under section 5555.51 of the Revised Code in an amount sufficient to provide the share of the county and of the real estate specially assessed and the remainder of the necessary funds, being the share of the interested townships, may be provided by the boards of township trustees by an issue of bonds under section 5573.14 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.45 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.45 | Assessment of Property Separated From Improvement by Canal or Railway.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 361 - 100th General Assembly|If property is separated from an improvement by a canal, street or interurban railway, steam railway, or in any other similar manner, such property shall be regarded for the purpose of assessment under the road improvement laws as properly abutting upon said improvement. Land owned or occupied by such street or interurban railway or steam railroad and the land lying back thereof shall be assessed on account of said improvement in the manner provided by law.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.46 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.46 | Special Duplicate of Assessments - Collection - Installments.

Effective: March 12, 2001|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly|All assessments, with interest accrued on them, made under sections 5555.01 to 5555.72 of the Revised Code shall be placed by the county auditor upon a special duplicate to be collected as taxes, and the principal of the assessments shall be payable in not more than forty semiannual installments extending over a period of not more than twenty years, as determined by the board of county commissioners. If any assessment is twenty-five dollars or less, or if the unpaid balance of any assessment is twenty-five dollars or less, it shall be paid in full, and not in installments, at the time the first or next installment would otherwise become due and payable.If public obligations are issued or incurred to pay the costs of the improvement, the principal sum of the assessments shall be payable in a number of semiannual installments that will provide a fund for the redemption of the public obligations so issued or incurred. The assessments shall bear interest from the date of the issuance of the public obligations and at the same rate or rates as the public obligations, and the interest shall be collected in the same manner as the principal of the assessments.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.47 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.47 | Apportionment Between Owners of Life Estate and Fee - Appeal.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|If any lands to be assessed are subject to a life estate, the assessment made therein shall, upon application of the life tenant to the board of county commissioners, be apportioned between the owner of the life estate and the owner of the fee in proportion to the value of their respective estates. Upon the filing of the application, the board shall fix a date for hearing it and cause notice of such hearing to be served on the owner of the fee in the manner provided by section 5555.09 of the Revised Code. Either party to such apportionment may appeal to the probate court from the decision of the board relating to the apportionment of such assessment by giving the notice provided for in section 5563.02 of the Revised Code and by filing the bond provided for in such section. Thereafter, such proceedings shall be had upon such appeal as are provided in sections 5563.01 to 5563.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.48 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.48 | Payment of County's Share - Tax Levy.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement to be paid by the county shall be paid out of any road improvement fund available therefor.For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of the county's proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of constructing, reconstructing, improving, maintaining, and repairing roads under sections 5555.01 to 5555.72, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners may levy annually a tax not exceeding two mills upon each dollar of the taxable property of the county. Said levy shall be in addition to all other levies authorized by law for county purposes, and subject only to the limitation on the combined maximum rate for all taxes.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.49 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.49 | Payment of Township's Share - Tax Levy.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of the proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement to be paid by the townships in which such improvement is situated in whole or in part, the board of county commissioners may levy a tax not exceeding three mills in any one year upon all the taxable property of such townships. Such levy shall be in addition to all other levies authorized by law for township purposes, and subject only to the limitation on the combined maximum rate for all taxes.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.50 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.50 | Procedure for Paying Expenses Applicable to Joint County Improvement.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Sections 5555.41 to 5555.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code apply to the proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of any improvement to be paid by any county or township if such improvement is authorized and constructed by any joint board of county commissioners, or by agreement entered into between such joint board and the board of township trustees of one or more townships.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.51 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.51 | Issuing Anticipation Public Obligations for Road Improvements.

Effective: March 12, 2001|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly|The board of county commissioners, in anticipation of the collection of taxes, or taxes and assessments, for a road improvement or any part of a road improvement may issue and sell, or incur, public obligations of the county under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code to pay the estimated costs of the improvement. The making of any special assessments referred to in sections 5555.41 to 5555.50 of the Revised Code shall not be a condition precedent to the issuance or incurrence of public obligations under this section, and the special assessments may be made either before or after the issuance or incurrence of the public obligations.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.61 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.61 | Contract for Improvement Not to Exceed Ten per Cent Above Estimates.

Effective: September 27, 1972|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1047 - 109th General Assembly|After the board of county commissioners decides to proceed with the improvement, it shall do so in accordance with sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code. No contract for any improvement shall be awarded at a price more than ten per cent in excess of the estimated cost.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.66 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.66 | Payment on Estimates of Materials Delivered Shall Not Exceed Ninety per Cent.

Effective: August 27, 1976|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 330 - 111th General Assembly|In addition to the estimates provided for by section 153.13 of the Revised Code, the county engineer may, under such conditions as he prescribes, allow and pay to a contractor a sum not exceeding ninety per cent of the value of material delivered by such contractor, and safely stored at a railroad station or siding or other point in the vicinity of the work. When such estimate is allowed, the material on which it is allowed shall thereupon become the property of the county, but in case such material is stolen, destroyed, or damaged by casualty before being used, or for any reason becomes unfit for use, the contractor shall replace it at his own expense. A contractor may insure against loss or damage, by fire or otherwise, all materials upon which estimates have been allowed under this or any other section of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.67 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.67 | Limitation of Time for Completion - Account of Expenditures.

Effective: December 9, 1967|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 428 - 107th General Assembly|Each contract let under section 5555.61 of the Revised Code, shall contain a provision to the effect that if such contract is not completed within the time therein fixed, the county engineer shall, after the expiration of the time fixed for the completion of such contract, keep an accurate account of all expenditures for inspection, supervision, and all other similar engineering services in connection with the improvement, that the contractor shall pay all such expenses incurred in connection with the improvement after the expiration of the time fixed for the completion of such contract, and that the amount of such expenditures shall be retained out of any estimates due or to become due to such contractor. When the engineer allows an estimate to any contractor after the time fixed in the contract for the completion of the improvement, such engineer shall deduct from such estimate any expense for supervision, inspection, or other similar engineering services incurred after the date set for the completion of such contract. The contractor need not pay the cost of such inspection, supervision, and other similar engineering services when the board of county commissioners, for good cause shown, extends the time for the completion of the contract.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.68 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.68 | Completion of Improvement on Failure of Contractor.

Effective: August 1, 1980|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 157 - 113th General Assembly|If, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, the contractor has not commenced his work within a reasonable time, does not carry such work forward with reasonable progress, is improperly performing his work, or has abandoned or failed to complete a contract entered into, the board shall make a finding to that effect, enter such finding on its journal, and so notify the contractor in writing, and the right of the contractor to control and supervise the work shall immediately cease. The board shall forthwith give written notice to the sureties on any bond of the contractor of such action. If, within ten days after receipt of such notice, such sureties, or any one or more of them, notify the board in writing of their intention to enter upon and complete the work covered by such contract, such sureties shall be permitted to do so and the board shall allow them twenty days after the receipt of such notice in writing from such sureties within which to enter upon the work and resume construction, unless the time is extended by the board upon good cause shown. If such sureties, entering upon the work, do not carry such work forward with reasonable progress or improperly perform, abandon, or fail to complete the work covered by such contract, the board shall complete the work in the manner provided in this section.If, after receiving notice of the action of the board in terminating the control of the contractor over the work covered by his contract, the sureties on such contractor's bond do not within ten days give the board the written notice provided in this section, the board shall complete the work. The board shall first advertise the work for letting as provided by section 5555.61 of the Revised Code, and the estimated cost at which the work shall be advertised shall be the difference between the original contract price and the amount paid to the original contractor, and at such letting the contract for the completion of the work shall not be let at a price in excess of such estimate. If no bids to complete the work are received, the board shall cause that part of the work still uncompleted to be re-estimated, shall re-advertise it at the amended estimate, and shall let the work for not more than such re-estimate. In reletting uncompleted work in the manner provided in this section, the contract shall be awarded by the board in accordance with sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code. If the cost of completing the contract exceeds the amount of the balance of the fund set up for the original contract, the board may pay such excess out of any available funds for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance, or repair of highways. When the estimated cost of completing a defaulted contract does not exceed five thousand dollars, the board may complete it by force account, or by contract let without advertising.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.69 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.69 | Allowances and Contracts for Extra Work.

Effective: September 14, 1995|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 12 - 121st General Assembly|(A) In case of an unforeseen contingency not contemplated by a contract, allowances for extra work may be made by a board of county commissioners, but the board must first enter into a new contract in writing for the extra work. In all cases in which the amount of the original contract price is less than twenty-five thousand dollars for any particular line item listed in the new contract and the overall total estimate for the extra work does not exceed ten per cent of the total of the original contract, the contract for the extra work may be let by the board at private contract without publication or notice. Section 5555.61 of the Revised Code applies to all other new contracts for extra work, except that if an emergency exists and the time required for complying with section 5555.61 of the Revised Code would unduly delay the completion of the project, the board, after making a finding of emergency and entering it on its records, may contract for the extra work by private contract without complying with that section.(B) No contract shall be awarded for extra work at any price in excess of the original contract unit price for the same class or kind of work in connection with the original contract. If there is any new class or kind of work, the board and contractor shall agree as to the price to be paid. The contractor shall submit a bid in writing, and if the board accepts the bid, the board immediately shall enter its acceptance on the journal. The costs of the extra work shall be paid by the board out of any funds available therefor, and shall be charged to the cost of construction of the improvement and apportioned as the original contract price for the improvement.