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Ohio Rev Code § 5545.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5545 | Highway Improvement Commissions|Section 5545.01 | Commission When Fund Contributed to Assist in Highway Improvement.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the board of county commissioners of any county has determined to improve one or more highways within such county, and any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association desires to contribute a fund for the purpose of assisting in the improvement of such highway, the fund to be not less than ten per cent of the total cost of such improvement, the person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association may apply to a judge of the court of common pleas of the county, who may appoint four suitable and competent freeholders of the county who shall, with the board, constitute a commission for the purpose of the improvement of such road. Such commission shall serve until the completion of the road.Such commissioners shall receive a reasonable compensation for the time actually employed, to be fixed by such court, and, on its approval, paid from the fund providing for such improvement. Their compensation, in the aggregate, shall not exceed one per cent of the amount received by the county from taxes raised, or for the sale of bonds for the purpose of making such improvement.Before entering upon the discharge of their duties, each such commissioner shall take an oath of office and give bond for the faithful and honest discharge of his duties, in such amount as required by the court, with sureties approved by it. Such bond shall be delivered to the county treasurer and kept in his office.The necessary expenses for stationery, postage, correspondence, and other incidental expenses required in the discharge of the duties of the commission, shall be paid from the county treasury on the order of the board and the warrant of the county auditor.In case of the death, resignation, or removal of any member of the commission so appointed, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the judge of the court of common pleas, as provided in this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 5545.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5545 | Highway Improvement Commissions|Section 5545.02 | Surveyor - Estimate.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The commission provided for in section 5545.01 of the Revised Code shall employ a competent surveyor who shall go upon the line of the road proposed to be improved and make such surveys as are necessary, and shall also make an estimate of the cost and expense of such improvement and transmit such estimate to the commission, together with a copy of the plat, profile, cross section, plans, and specifications.
Ohio Rev Code § 5545.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5545 | Highway Improvement Commissions|Section 5545.03 | Awarding Contracts.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|After adopting plans, specifications, and estimates for a proposed road improvement the commission provided for in section 5545.01 of the Revised Code shall invite bids for construction and award the contracts therefor. Until the construction and improvement is completed and accepted by it, the commission may determine all questions connected therewith and shall be governed by the laws relating to the construction and improvement of public highways, with the same power to appropriate land and road material, establish grades of roads, and other rights, given to boards of county commissioners, relating to the repair and improvement of public highways.
Ohio Rev Code § 5545.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5545 | Highway Improvement Commissions|Section 5545.04 | Employees.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The commission provided for in section 5545.01 of the Revised Code may employ engineers, superintendents, and other necessary employees during construction and improvement and fix their compensation and bond.
Ohio Rev Code § 5545.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5545 | Highway Improvement Commissions|Section 5545.05 | Plans and Specifications - Where Filed - Alterations.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When approved by the commission provided for in section 5545.01 of the Revised Code, plans, drawings, profiles, bills of material, specifications of work, and estimates of cost thereof, shall be filed by the county auditor in his office, and shall not be altered, unless such alteration is first drawn, specified, and estimated as required for the original plans and approved by the commission. No such change shall be made until the price to be paid therefor has been agreed upon, in writing, between the commission and the contractor.
Ohio Rev Code § 5545.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5545 | Highway Improvement Commissions|Section 5545.06 | Adoption and Recording of Resolutions.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Resolutions for the adoption or alteration of plans or specifications, awards of contracts, hiring of engineers, superintendents, or other employees and the fixing of their compensation, the approval of bonds, and the allowance of estimates shall be in writing and require for their adoption the votes of five members of the commission provided for in section 5545.01 of the Revised Code taken by yeas and nays and recorded on the journal of the board of county commissioners.When signed by five members of the commission, the county auditor shall draw his warrant on the county treasurer for the payment of all bills and estimates of such commission.
Ohio Rev Code § 5545.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5545 | Highway Improvement Commissions|Section 5545.07 | Record of Proceedings.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Full and accurate records of all proceedings of the commission provided for in section 5545.01 of the Revised Code shall be kept by the county auditor upon the journal of the board of county commissioners. He shall carefully preserve in his office all plans, drawings, profiles, bills of materials, specifications of work, and estimates of costs, in detail and in the aggregate, pertaining to such improvement or construction.
Ohio Rev Code § 5545.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5545 | Highway Improvement Commissions|Section 5545.08 | When Improvement May Be Made Without Petition or Competitive Bidding.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Whenever, in any county in the state, there is a bona fide, voluntary association, incorporated or unincorporated, not for profit, of not less than one thousand citizens of any county, one of the purposes of which is the improvement, maintenance, and repair of the public highways of such county, the commission, as provided for in section 5545.01 of the Revised Code, having the right to expend money in grading, draining, curbing, and improving county roads and state highways by the use of gravel, macadam, stone, brick, slag, or other material, or for improving, maintaining, and repairing such highways from the public funds under its charge and control, applicable for the construction, maintenance, or repair of public highways, may, without the necessity of petition being presented by property owners or of advertising for competitive bids, make contracts with the association, or its proper representatives, to do such work within and for the betterment generally of the highways of the county, and make payments therefor out of any road or bridge funds, in the treasury, or levied for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and improving the public highways in such county, under the control of the commission or board of county commissioners.
Ohio Rev Code § 5547.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5547 | County Highways - Use; Obstruction|Section 5547.01 | Undermining or Crossing Public Roads.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Any person, partnership, or corporation owning land or an interest therein in fee or otherwise, containing coal, clay, or stone, and over any portion of which passes a state, county, or township road or public highway, with the consent of the board of county commissioners if state or county roads, or with the consent of the board of township trustees if township roads, may excavate, mine, and quarry through or under such road.Before the work is commenced such person, partnership, or corporation shall execute and deliver to the board of county commissioners a bond, with good and sufficient surety, in amount sufficient to cover all damages that may accrue to be approved by the board of county commissioners, conditioned, that while crossing over, mining, or quarrying under such road, a safe and unobstructed passageway shall be kept open by the individual, partnership, or corporation for public use, and as soon as practicable such road shall be fully restored to its original safe and passable condition.
Ohio Rev Code § 5547.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5547 | County Highways - Use; Obstruction|Section 5547.02 | Owner of Land May Lay Pipe Line for Water Within Line of Road.

Effective: September 28, 1973|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly|A person owning land abutting a public road, not within a municipal corporation, when approved by the director of transportation if upon a state highway, board of county commissioners if upon a county road, or the board of township trustees if upon a township road, may lay a pipe line, within the line of the road, for the purpose of conveying water for public and other purposes. The laying of such pipe line shall in no way interfere with public travel or damage such road, and shall be done upon such conditions as the director, board of county commissioners, or board of township trustees prescribes.
Ohio Rev Code § 5547.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5547 | County Highways - Use; Obstruction|Section 5547.03 | Removal of Structures Constituting Obstructions or Interference.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|All persons, partnerships, and corporations using or occupying any part of a highway, bridge, or culvert with telegraph or telephone lines, steam, electrical, or industrial railways, oil, gas, water, or other pipes, mains, conduits, or any object or structure, other than by virtue of a franchise legally granted, shall remove from the bounds of such highway, bridge, or culvert, their poles and wires connected therewith, or any and all tracks, switches, spurs, or oil, gas, or water pipes, mains, conduits, or other objects or structures when, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, they constitute obstructions in any highway, other than the state highway system; or the bridges or culverts thereon, or interfere or may interfere with the proposed improvement of such highways, bridges, or culverts or the use thereof by the traveling public. By obtaining the consent and approval of the board, such persons, partnerships, and corporations may relocate their properties within the bounds of such highways, bridges, or culverts in such manner as the board prescribes. The giving of such consent and approval by the board does not grant any franchise rights.Persons, partnerships, or corporations occupying any part of a highway, bridge, or culvert, under and by virtue of a franchise legally granted, shall relocate their properties within the bounds of such highway, bridges, or culverts when in the opinion of the county engineer, they constitute obstructions or interfere with the construction, improvement, maintenance, or repair of such highways, bridges, or culverts, or the use thereof by the traveling public.If, in the opinion of the engineer, such persons, partnerships, or companies have obstructed any such highway, bridges, or culverts, or if any of their properties are, in his opinion, so located that they do or may interfere with the proposed improvement, maintenance, or repair the board shall notify such person, partnership, or corporation directing the removal or relocation of the obstruction or property, and, if they do not within five days proceed to so remove or relocate and complete the removal or relocation within a reasonable time, the board may do so by employing the necessary labor. The expense incurred shall be paid in the first instance out of any moneys available for highway purposes, and not encumbered for any other purpose, and the amount shall be certified to the proper officials to be placed on the tax duplicate against the property of such person, partnership, or corporation, to be collected as other taxes and in one payment, and the proper fund shall be reimbursed out of the money so collected, or the account thereof may be collected from such person, partnership, or corporation by civil action by the state on the relation of the board.
Ohio Rev Code § 5547.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5547 | County Highways - Use; Obstruction|Section 5547.04 | Removal of Obstructions by Landowners - Consent and Approval - Signs and Advertising.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The owner or occupant of lands situated along the highways shall remove all obstructions within the bounds of the highways, which have been placed there by them or their agents, or with their consent.By first obtaining the consent and approval of the board of county commissioners, obstructions erected prior to July 16, 1925 in highways other than roads and highways on the state highway system or bridges or culverts thereon, may be permitted to remain, upon such conditions as the officials may impose, provided such obstructions do not interfere with traffic or with the construction or repair of such highways.No person, partnership, or corporation shall erect, within the bounds of any highway or on the bridges or culverts thereon, any obstruction without first obtaining the approval of the board in case of highways other than roads and highways on the state highway system and the bridges and culverts thereon.All advertising or other signs and posters erected, displayed, or maintained on, along, or near any public highway, and in such a location as to obstruct, at curves or intersecting roads, the view of drivers using such highway, are obstructions, but this section has no application to crossing signs erected in compliance with section 4955.33 of the Revised Code, at the crossings of highways and railroads.The board shall enforce this section and, in so doing, may avail itself of section 5547.03 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5549.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5549 | Purchase of Machinery and Equipment|Section 5549.01 | Purchase of Machinery, Equipment, or Wearing Apparel - Care and Custody - Inventory - Storage - Agreement for Construction of Switch.

Effective: September 29, 2005|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners may purchase such machinery, tools, or other equipment, including special wearing apparel, for the construction, improvement, maintenance, or repair of the highways, bridges, and culverts under its jurisdiction as it deems necessary. The board may also purchase, hire, or lease automobiles, motorcycles, or other conveyances and maintain them for the use of the county engineer and the engineer's assistants when on official business. All such machinery, tools, and equipment, including special wearing apparel, and conveyances belonging to the county shall be under the care and custody of the engineer, and shall be plainly and conspicuously marked as the property of the county.The engineer annually shall file with the board written recommendations as to what machinery, tools, and equipment, including special wearing apparel, and conveyances should be purchased for the use of the county during the ensuing year and the probable cost thereof.The board shall provide a suitable place for housing and storing machinery, tools, and equipment, including special wearing apparel, materials, and conveyances owned by the county, and may purchase the necessary material and construct, or enter into an agreement with a railroad company to construct, one switch or spur track from the right of way of such railroad company to land or storage house owned by the county. All expenditures authorized by this section shall be paid out of any available road funds of the county.Purchases, hiring, or leasing made by the board pursuant to this section shall be governed by sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5549.021 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5549 | Purchase of Machinery and Equipment|Section 5549.021 | Issuing General Obligation Bonds.

Effective: October 21, 2003|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 97 - 125th General Assembly|(A) A board of township trustees may purchase machinery, tools, trucks, and other equipment for use in constructing, maintaining, and repairing roads and, subject to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, may issue for that purpose general obligation bonds of the township for which the full faith and credit of the township shall be pledged.(B) A board of township trustees may enter into a lease for machinery, tools, trucks, and other equipment for use in constructing, maintaining, and repairing roads, including a lease with an option to purchase. Any lease with an option to purchase shall require the board to pay a cash down payment of at least three-twentieths of the total cost. If the board sells used equipment as part of a lease with option to purchase, the cash down payment may be reduced by the amount of the selling price of the used equipment. A lease with an option to purchase may be entered into only with the lowest responsive and responsible bidder of the equipment after advertising for bids in the manner provided in section 5575.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5549.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5549 | Purchase of Machinery and Equipment|Section 5549.03 | Purchase of Road Material.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners or the county engineer, when authorized by the board of county commissioners or the board of township trustees, may purchase from any public institution within the state any road material, machinery, tools, or equipment, quarried, mined, prepared, or manufactured by such institution.
Ohio Rev Code § 5549.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5549 | Purchase of Machinery and Equipment|Section 5549.04 | Purchase of Materials - Appropriation of Land.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners or board of township trustees may contract for and purchase such material as is necessary for the purpose of constructing, improving, maintaining, or repairing any highways, bridges, or culverts within the county, and may also appropriate additional land necessary for cuts and fills together with a right of way to or from such land for the removal of material. If the board of county commissioners or board of township trustees, and the owner of such material or land, cannot agree on the price therefor, the board of county commissioners or board of township trustees may proceed in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5549.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5549 | Purchase of Machinery and Equipment|Section 5549.21 | Purchase of Machinery, Materials, and Supplies.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|The board of township trustees may purchase or lease such machinery and tools as are necessary for use in constructing, reconstructing, maintaining, and repairing roads and culverts within the township, and shall provide suitable places for housing and storing machinery and tools owned by the township. It may purchase such material and employ such labor as is necessary for carrying into effect this section, or it may authorize the purchase or employment of such material and labor by one of its number, or by the township highway superintendent, at a price to be fixed by the board. All payments on account of machinery, tools, material, and labor shall be made from the township road fund. Except as otherwise provided in sections 505.08, 505.101, and 5513.01 of the Revised Code, all purchases of materials, machinery, and tools shall, if the amount involved exceeds fifty thousand dollars, be made from the lowest responsible bidder after advertisement, as provided in section 5575.01 of the Revised Code. If, in compliance with section 505.10 of the Revised Code, the board wishes to sell machinery, equipment, or tools owned by the township to the person from whom it is to purchase other machinery, equipment, or tools, the board may offer, if the amount of the purchase alone involved does not exceed fifty thousand dollars, to sell such machinery, equipment, or tools and have the amount credited by the vendor against the purchase of the other machinery, equipment, or tools. If the purchase price of the other machinery, equipment, or tools alone exceeds fifty thousand dollars, the board may give notice to the competitive bidders of its willingness to accept offers for the purchase of the old machinery, equipment, or tools, and those offers shall be subtracted from the selling price of the other machinery, equipment, or tools as bid, in determining the lowest responsible bidder. Notice of the willingness of the board to accept offers for the purchase of the old machinery, equipment, or tools shall be made as a part of the advertisement for bids.