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Ohio Rev Code § 5553.42 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5553 | County Roads - Establishment; Alteration; Vacation|Section 5553.42 | Notice of Filing Petition to Obtain Road Through Lands of Another - Service.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners shall give notice to the owners of lands through which the proposed road will pass of the filing of the petition provided for in section 5553.41 of the Revised Code and the date and place of the hearing thereon. Such notice shall be served on such owners personally, or by leaving a copy of such notice at the usual place of residence of such owners at least five days before the date of the hearing on said petition. Proof of service of such notice shall be made by affidavit of the person serving such notice. If any of such owners are nonresidents of the county, the board shall give notice to such nonresidents by publication once each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. A copy of the newspaper containing such notice shall be mailed by the county auditor to each nonresident whose post-office address is known to such auditor. Such notice shall state the time and place of the hearing on claims for compensation and damages.
Ohio Rev Code § 5553.43 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5553 | County Roads - Establishment; Alteration; Vacation|Section 5553.43 | Establishing Road - Right of Entry.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|If the board of county commissioners finds the road petitioned for will serve the public convenience or welfare, it shall establish such road; or it may establish a road for the use of the public, with such changes or alterations in the route or course thereof as it deems necessary for the protection of the rights of other owners. The amounts of compensation due the owner shall be determined in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.When the petitioner for said road has paid to the owners of lands through which said road will pass the amount found due them for compensation or damages, he may enter upon the premises and open up the road.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.01 | County Road Improvement Definitions.

Effective: March 12, 2001|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly|As used in this chapter:(A) "Cost" or "costs" includes compensation, damages, and expenses that are incident to an improvement covered by this chapter and all items of cost described in division (B) of section 133.15 of the Revised Code that are incident to an improvement covered by this chapter.(B) "Public obligations" has the same meaning as in section 133.01 of the Revised Code.(C) "Road" includes any state or county road or part of any state or county road, or any state or county road and any municipal corporation street, or part of a road or street of those types, which form a continuous road improvement.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.02 | General Powers of Board of County Commissioners Relating to Public Roads.

Effective: June 10, 2004|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 299 - 125th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners may construct a public road by laying out and building a new road, or by improving, reconstructing, or repairing any existing public road or part of an existing public road by grading, paving, widening, altering, straightening, vacating, changing the direction, draining, dragging, graveling, macadamizing, resurfacing, applying dust preventives, or otherwise improving the same, and, where an established road has been relocated, the board may construct and maintain connecting roads between the old and new locations as will provide reasonable access thereto. The board also may place a county road on nonmaintained status pursuant to section 5541.05 of the Revised Code. The board may purchase or lease, erect, and maintain automatic traffic signals at intersections of public highways outside municipal corporations as necessary for the protection of the public traveling upon those highways. Automatic traffic signals shall not be placed at intersections of public highways on the state highway system unless the board first obtains the approval of the director of transportation.This section does not apply to roads or highways on the state highway system, except such portions as the board constructs under plans and specifications approved by the director and under the director's supervision and inspection.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.021 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.021 | Improving Approaches to Rural Mail Boxes.

Effective: October 13, 1965|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 256 - 106th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners may construct, improve, maintain, or repair the berm of any road under its jurisdiction, in order to provide a hard surface or other improved approach to rural mail boxes located on public highways.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.03 | Petition to Board by Fifty-One per Cent of Landowners.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When a petition is presented to the board of county commissioners asking for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, or repair of any public road or part thereof and signed by at least fifty-one per cent of the land or lot owners, residents of such county, who are to be specially taxed or assessed for said improvement, the board shall, within thirty days after such petition is presented, go upon the line of the proposed improvement and, after viewing it, determine whether the public convenience and welfare require that such improvement be made. The petition shall state the method of paying the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement desired by the petitioners, who may request that such compensation, damages, and expenses be apportioned and paid in any one of the methods provided by section 5555.41 of the Revised code.When such a petition is filed with the board, said improvement may be determined upon and all orders with reference thereto may be made by a majority vote of the board. The procedure for such improvement shall otherwise be the same as it is when the board proceeds without a petition.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.04 | Landowners Must Be Specially Taxed to Be Counted as Petitioners.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Lot or land owners who are not otherwise taxed than to raise the proportion of the cost and expenses of the improvement, petitioned for pursuant to section 5555.03 of the Revised Code, to be paid by the township, or by the county as a whole, shall not be considered as specially taxed or assessed for said improvement, and such persons shall not be counted either for or against the improvement in determining whether the required number of persons have signed the petition for said improvement.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.05 | Certain Persons Shall Not Be Counted as Petitioners.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In determining whether the required number of persons necessary to give the board of county commissioners jurisdiction of the improvement have signed the petition described in section 5555.03 of the Revised Code asking for such improvement, the following persons shall not be counted either for or against the improvement:(A) Resident landowners whose only real estate within the legal assessment distance of the improvement is located in a municipal corporation shall not be counted.(B) Owners of life and leasehold estates shall not be counted.(C) Minors and other persons under legal disability shall not be counted unless represented by legal guardians, in which case the action of such guardian shall be binding upon such persons.(D) All tenants in common of any undivided estate, resident within the county, shall be counted as a unit, and if all are not united, either for or against the improvement, none of such tenants in common shall be counted in determining whether the requisite number of persons have signed such petition.No person signing a petition shall be permitted to withdraw therefrom unless the board finds there was fraud or misrepresentation in obtaining his signature.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.06 | Resolution by Board - Plans by County Engineer.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners may by resolution adopted by a unanimous vote find that the public convenience and welfare require the improving of any public road or part thereof by grading, draining, paving, straightening, or widening such road and constructing or reconstructing any bridges and culverts necessary for such improvement. The resolution shall fix the route and termini of such improvement, and shall apportion the cost thereof, which apportionment may be made upon different bases for various portions of any road to be improved. Such cost shall be apportioned and paid in any one of the methods provided by section 5555.41 of the Revised Code.The board shall in said resolution order the county engineer to prepare the necessary surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates of cost, and specifications for the improvement, together with an estimated assessment, based upon the estimates of cost upon the real estate to be charged therewith, of such part of the estimated damages and expenses of such improvement as are to be specially assessed. Such estimated assessment shall be according to the benefits which will result to such real estate. In making such estimated assessment, the engineer may take into consideration any previous special assessment made upon such real estate for road improvements.The board may order the engineer to make alternate surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications, providing therein for different widths of roadway, different materials, or other similar variations. The engineer may, without instructions from the board, prepare and submit to the board alternate surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications, providing therein for different widths of roadway, different materials, or other similar variations.If alternate surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications are approved by the board of county commissioners or submitted by the engineer on his own motion, the board of county commissioners and the engineer acting together shall constitute a board for the selection of the particular plan, profile, cross sections, estimate, and specifications to be used and shall, after the opening of bids, determine by a majority vote of such board which of said surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications shall be finally adopted for the improvement.After the passage of the resolution provided for in this section, all subsequent proceedings of the board of county commissioners with respect to said improvement may be had by a majority vote.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.07 | Copies of Surveys, Plans, and Estimates Transmitted to Board - Notice, Hearing.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|The county engineer shall prepare and file with the board of county commissioners, by the time fixed therefor by the board, copies of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates of costs, and specifications for the improvement and estimated assessments upon lands benefited thereby. Thereupon such board shall file such copies in its office for the inspection and examination of all persons interested. Except in a case involving the improvement of a public road in which no land or property is taken or assessed, the board shall publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, for the period of two weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, notice that a resolution has been adopted providing for said improvement, and that copies of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications, together with estimated assessments upon the lands benefited by such improvement for the proportion of the cost thereof to be assessed therefor, are on file in the office of the board for the inspection of persons interested therein. Such notice shall state the time and place for hearing objections to said improvement and to such estimated assessments. In a case involving the improvement of a public road in which no land or property is taken or assessed, the board shall publish the notice required by this section once a week for two consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. At such hearing the board may order said surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications to be changed or modified and shall make such adjustments of the estimated assessments as seem just to it. Thereupon the board may approve such surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, specifications, and estimates and approve and confirm estimated assessments as made by the engineer or as modified and changed by the board. Such assessments when so approved and confirmed shall be certified to the county auditor of the county and shall thereupon become a lien upon the land charged therewith. The board may declare against said improvement.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.08 | Confirmation of Estimated Assessments - Certification to County Auditor.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A board of county commissioners may defer its consideration, adjustment, approval, and confirmation of the estimated assessments until all questions of compensation and damages have been determined and until the contract for the improvement has been let and the exact cost of the improvement, including compensation and damages, has been ascertained. If a board approves and confirms the estimated assessments, as made by the county engineer, or as modified and changed by the board, under authority of section 5555.07 of the Revised Code and prior to the determination of the exact cost of the improvement, such board shall, after all questions of compensation and damages have been determined, and after the improvement has been completed, cause the exact cost thereof to be determined. The board shall thereupon certify to the county auditor the estimated cost and the actual cost, including all compensation and damages allowed, and the auditor shall thereupon correct and adjust the assessment against each parcel of real estate, so that the total amount to be paid by the owner of each such parcel is based upon the actual cost of the improvement, including compensation and damages.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.09 | Appropriation of Land for Improvements.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|If the surveys, plans, profiles, and cross sections prepared by the county engineer pursuant to section 5555.07 of the Revised Code show that lands will be required for the improvement, the board of county commissioners shall proceed in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.13 | Order After Determination.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|After the determination of claims for compensation for lands taken, if the board of county commissioners is still satisfied that the public convenience and welfare require that such improvement be made, and that the cost of such improvement will not be excessive in view of the public utility thereof, the board shall order by resolution that it proceed with such improvement. The board shall adopt the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for such improvement, together with the assessments against property benefited by such improvement, as reported by the county engineer, or with any modifications made by the board or court, and shall order an assessment upon lands benefited by said improvement in accordance with such report of estimated assessments, or in accordance with any modification thereof made by the board or by the court on appeal.If, in view of the amount of compensation and damages allowed by the court, the board is of the opinion that said improvement should not be made, the board shall so order.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.21 | Petition Relating to Improvement in More Than One County.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the proposed improvement is in two or more counties or along the county line between two or more counties in this state or extends from one county into or through one or more adjoining counties in this state, the petition described in section 5555.03 of the Revised Code may be filed with the board of county commissioners of any one of the interested counties. The board with which said petition is filed shall cause a certified copy thereof to be filed with the board of each of the other counties in which some part of the proposed improvement is situated.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.22 | Action by Joint Board on Petition.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The boards of county commissioners shall meet as a joint board at the time and place designated by the board of the county where the original petition is filed pursuant to section 5555.21 of the Revised Code. The time so designated for the joint meeting shall be within thirty days from the date of the filing of the petition. Such joint board shall determine whether the petition has been signed by the requisite number of landowners who are to be specially assessed for such improvement, and it shall thereupon go upon the line of the road and shall jointly act in the same manner as though the proceedings were had before a single board. A majority of such joint board may order the construction of such road, but such majority shall be composed of at least one commissioner from each county in which the improvement is located.No person signing a petition shall be permitted to withdraw therefrom unless the joint board finds there was fraud or misrepresentation in obtaining his signature.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.23 | Improvement by Joint Board Without Petition.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties, acting as a joint board, may, by a resolution passed by unanimous vote, order the construction, reconstruction, improvement, or repair of any road located in said counties, or extending from one of said counties into or through adjoining counties, or along the line between said counties, and the joint board shall thereupon proceed with the improvement as if it were constructed upon a petition filed therefor.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.24 | Appointment of County Engineer by Joint Board - Copies of Surveys Transmitted to Each Board.

Effective: September 28, 1973|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly|After the joint board of county commissioners has granted the improvement, it shall appoint a county engineer of one of the counties interested, who shall make such surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications as are necessary and transmit copies of them to each board interested in said improvement. If a majority of the joint board is unable to agree as to the appointment of an engineer, the joint board shall thereupon certify that fact to the director of transportation who shall designate a county engineer of one of the interested counties.
Ohio Rev Code § 5555.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement|Section 5555.25 | Method of Payment and Proportion of Costs - Notice of Assessments - Apportionment by Director of Transportation.

Effective: September 28, 1973|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly|When a joint board of county commissioners is proceeding upon a petition for a road improvement, the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement shall be apportioned and paid in the method specified in the petition, which may be any one of the methods provided by section 5555.41 of the Revised Code. When a joint board acts by unanimous vote and without the filing of a petition, it shall set forth in its resolution declaring the necessity for the improvement the method of apportioning and paying the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement, which may be any one of the methods provided by such section. The joint board shall also determine the proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of such improvement to be paid by each of the several counties interested in the improvement.The board of each interested county shall, with the assistance of the county engineer of that county, make the assessments against the real estate within said county to be charged therewith of the proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of said improvement to be raised by special assessment against the benefited real estate within such county. In making such assessments, like notice shall be given and the same proceedings had by each interested board as in the case of improvements wholly within one county.If the joint board cannot agree on the apportionment of the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement among the several counties interested in such improvement, the joint board shall certify that fact to the director of transportation who shall thereupon make such apportionment.