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Ohio Rev Code § 6131.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.22 | Approval and Confirmation of Assessments.

Effective: March 24, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly|(A) At the final hearing on a proposed improvement, if the petition is not dismissed, the board of county commissioners shall hear any evidence offered for or against the assessment proposed to be levied against any owner or on any land as shown by the schedule of assessments filed by the county engineer and shall hear any competent evidence on the question of benefits. (B)(1) The board, from the evidence offered and from an actual view of the premises, shall amend and correct the assessments, and the assessments so amended or corrected shall be approved by the board.  (2) An assessment for benefits to the general public because the improvement is conducive to the public welfare shall be paid by the public and shall be assessed against the county payable from the general fund.  (3) An assessment found to benefit state roads or highways shall be assessed against the state payable from motor vehicle revenues.  (4) An assessment found to benefit county roads or highways shall be assessed against the county payable from motor vehicle revenues.  (5) An assessment found to benefit any political subdivision of the state shall be assessed against the political subdivision and shall be paid out of the general funds or motor vehicle revenues of the political subdivision, except as otherwise provided by law.  (C) Upon approving the assessments, the board shall do all of the following: (1) Order the engineer to receive bids for the construction of the proposed improvement, and fix the date, time, and place for the receiving of bids, which shall be not less than thirty days after the date of the order; (2) Determine when the assessments must be paid; (3) Determine whether bonds or notes must be issued in anticipation of and payable out of the installments of assessments. (D) The board shall enter the orders approving the assessments, the order requiring the engineer to receive bids, and any other orders made at the final hearing in its journal. The clerk of the board of county commissioners shall immediately transmit to the county auditor the schedules listing all assessments as approved by the board. (E) Any owner opposed to the granting of the petition, or any owner opposed to further proceedings in the improvement, or any owner who claims that the assessment levied against the owner is excessive or is not in proportion to benefits, may appeal from any order made pursuant to this section, as provided in section 6131.25 of the Revised Code. (F) An order issued by the board under this section is effective on the day of the hearing at which the board issued it.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.23 | Semiannual Installments for Payment of Assessments.

Effective: March 24, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly|(A) The assessments estimated in accordance with section 6131.14 of the Revised Code shall be payable in not less than two semiannual installments. At the time of the final hearing, in the order approving the levying of the assessments, the board of county commissioners shall determine how long a period of time, in semiannual installments, as taxes are paid, shall be given the owners of land benefited to pay the assessments that are made for an improvement and whether or not bonds or notes shall be issued and sold in anticipation of such payments. If bonds or notes are to be issued, the interest shall be added to the assessments. (B) If the estimated cost of the improvement does not exceed five hundred dollars, not more than two semiannual installments, as taxes are paid, shall be given to owners of lands benefited to pay the assessments that are made for the improvement. If the estimated cost of the improvement exceeds five hundred dollars, the board may determine the number of installments in which the assessments are to be paid. If any such assessment is twenty-five dollars or less, or whenever the unpaid balance of any such assessment is twenty-five dollars or less, the same shall be paid in full, and not in installments, at the time the first or next installment would otherwise become due. (C) When assessments are payable in installments and county general funds are used to pay for the improvement, the assessment shall not exceed thirty semiannual installments and shall be payable upon completion of the contract. (D) When assessments are made payable in installments and bonds or notes have been sold to pay for the improvement, interest shall be added to the installments of assessments at the same rate as is drawn by the bonds or notes issued to pay for the improvements. Any owner may pay the estimated assessments on the owner's land in cash within thirty days after the final hearing without paying any interest thereon. If the legislative authority of a political subdivision chooses to pay the assessments on all parcels within the subdivision, both public and private, in one installment, it shall pass a resolution so stating and shall send the resolution, or a copy thereof, to the board of county commissioners before making the payment. The legislative authority shall pay all subsequent maintenance assessments levied under section 6137.03 of the Revised Code if it chooses to pay the construction assessments on all parcels within the subdivision. (E) Bonds may be sold for any repayment period that the board of county commissioners may determine proper, not to exceed thirty semiannual installments.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.24 | Preliminary Steps for Receiving Bids for Drainage Improvements.

Effective: March 24, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly|(A) The board of county commissioners shall fix a date, time, and place at the final hearing for the county engineer to receive bids. The county engineer shall prepare the necessary bid documents and legal advertisements as provided in sections 307.87 and 307.88 of the Revised Code. (B) If an appeal has been taken to the court of common pleas, as provided in section 6131.25 of the Revised Code, the bids may be received and tabulated, but the bid guaranties with the bids shall immediately be returned to the bidders, and no further steps shall be taken on the bids.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.25 | Appeals.

Effective: March 24, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly|(A) Any affected owner may appeal to the court of common pleas within thirty days of the date that any order was issued by the board of county commissioners under this chapter, and may appeal any one or more of the following questions: (1) Is the improvement necessary? (2) Will the improvement be conducive to the public welfare? (3) Is the cost of the improvement greater than the benefits conferred? (4) Is the route, termini, or mode of construction the best to accomplish the purpose of the improvement? (5) Are the assessments levied according to benefits? (6) Is the award for compensation or damages just? (B) The appeal may be taken from any order affecting any part of the improvement as well as from any order affecting the entire improvement.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.27 | Transcript of Order for Drainage Improvement.

Effective: March 24, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly|If an appeal is filed pursuant to section 6131.25 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall promptly prepare a transcript of the orders made by the board of county commissioners, and shall file such transcript with the clerk of the court of common pleas, together with the permanent files of records of the proceedings maintained by the board of county commissioners and county engineer as required under section 6131.061 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.28 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.28 | Joinder and Separation of Appeals.

Effective: March 24, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly|Several owners may appeal from the orders in the same improvement. If several owners appeal, only one transcript need be made by the clerk of the board of county commissioners. All the appeals shall be filed in one action in the court of common pleas, which court, on any appeal, may separate for hearing or trial the issues appealed to said court, and render its order, judgment, or decree upon the issues as the same are determined. The case on appeal shall be advanced, or tried as soon as the court can hear it.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.30 | Appeal Procedure in Common Pleas Court.

Effective: March 24, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly|(A) The court of common pleas, on appeal, shall hear the matters appealed de novo. The court, exercising equitable jurisdiction, shall bring the entire proceedings before it in order to determine all the issues raised in the proceedings and enter a final judgment, order, or decree for or against the improvement petitioned for and for or against the assessments to be levied and the compensation and damages to be paid. (B) If the court orders the county engineer to make a survey and file the engineer's reports, plans, and schedules, the court also shall enter an order for transfer from the general revenue funds of the county to the general drainage improvement fund a sum of not more than twenty-five per cent of the engineer's preliminary estimate.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.32 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.32 | Right of Trial by Jury.

Effective: March 24, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly|On appeal from an order made by the board of county commissioners allowing or refusing to allow compensation or damages, the owners interested shall have the right of trial by jury. The jury may view the premises, as in other civil cases.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.33 | Jury Verdict Form.

Effective: March 24, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly|If there is more than one appellant in a trial by jury authorized under section 6131.32 of the Revised Code with separate claims on the question of compensation or damages or if there are issues as to different properties, the court may submit all the several claims and issues to the same jury, with appropriate verdicts as to each claim. The court also may direct separate trials for the separate claims and issues. The court shall instruct the jury that it shall not consider or deduct the value of any benefits that such land will receive from the construction of such improvement.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.34 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.34 | Costs and Fees.

Effective: March 24, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly|If the appellants, on claims for compensation or damages, do not recover a judgment for more than the amount of compensation or damages awarded by the board of county commissioners, the costs on the hearing as to compensation or damages on appeal shall be taxed against the appellants. If the amount recovered is greater than the amount awarded by the board, the costs shall be taxed against the county. The prosecuting attorney shall represent the county in all appeals on questions of compensation or damages. On appeals of other matters which are tried to the court sitting as a court of equity, the court shall adjudge the costs as it deems just and equitable except as otherwise provided in section 6131.01 to 6131.64, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.36 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.36 | Certification of Transcript of Common Pleas Proceedings to County Commissioners.

Effective: March 24, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly|(A) After the final judgment, order, or decree upon any appeal is rendered by the court of common pleas, the clerk of the court of common pleas shall, within twenty-one days, make a transcript of the same and shall certify and transmit it with all original papers in the case to the clerk of the board of county commissioners, who shall forthwith enter the judgment, order, or decree upon the journal of the board. If the judgment, order, or decree is in favor of the granting of the improvement, the board shall proceed with the improvement proceedings in compliance with the final judgment, order, or decree from the point at which they were terminated by the appeal or from the point at which the court orders the board to proceed. (B) Upon the expiration of the twenty-one day appeal period provided in section 6131.25 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall transmit the schedules of assessments and damages to the county auditor. The board of county commissioners and the county engineer shall proceed with letting contracts and constructing the improvement, and the county auditor shall proceed to levy and collect assessments and to pay compensation and damages as if no appeal had been taken. If an appeal is filed pursuant to section 6131.25 of the Revised Code, the board and the engineer shall stay their proceedings until the final determination of the proceedings in the court of appeals or in the supreme court.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.37 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.37 | Bids for Drainage Improvements.

Effective: April 9, 1981|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 268 - 113th General Assembly|If no appeal has been taken to the court of common pleas at the time fixed in the notice to receive bids as provided by section 6131.24 of the Revised Code, or if an appeal has been taken at the time as stated in the notice given after the appeal has been determined, the county engineer shall receive bids. The contracts, bids, bonds, and bid guaranties shall be handled in accordance with sections 153.12 to 153.14 and 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code. Any action of the board forfeiting the bidder's deposit or bid guaranty shall be entered on its journal, and the forfeited sum shall be paid into the general drainage improvement fund.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.38 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.38 | Bid Requirements.

Effective: April 9, 1981|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 268 - 113th General Assembly|The county engineer shall prepare the documents as specified in section 6131.24 of the Revised Code. If the improvement requires both labor and material that is used in and remains a part of the improvement, the bids referred to in section 6131.37 of the Revised Code shall state separately the bidder's offer upon each and for each bid item indicated on the form. If the plans or specifications do not name a specific grade, quality, kind, or size of any material of which different standard grades, qualities, kinds, or sizes are used, then the bids shall specify the grade, quality, kind, or size proposed to be furnished. Unless the specifications otherwise provide, all bids for material shall be considered to be for delivery at the location of the improvement and at such place as is designated by the engineer in charge of the work, except that tile or pipe of any kind shall be along the line of the improvement where the same are to be used, provided the location is accessible. Any bidder may submit a bid for any portion of the improvement that is the subject of a special estimate, whether of construction or material, providing it is for work or material that can be done or furnished independently of other work or material.The bid form shall indicate the time that the contract shall be completed or be left blank for the bidder to establish such a time.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.40 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.40 | Acceptance of Bids.

Effective: April 9, 1981|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 268 - 113th General Assembly|When the time has passed for the receiving of bids referred to in section 6131.37 of the Revised Code, the county engineer shall, as soon as is practicable, open, read aloud, and tabulate the bids and report them to the board of county commissioners with his recommendation of which bid, or combination of bids, in all respects is the best. No bid shall be accepted after the time designated for receiving bids. The board may accept any combination of bids of different bidders for different parts of the work or for furnishing different materials that they find will be more economical or advantageous than the aggregate bid of a single bidder, but no bid shall be accepted for any part or thing that exceeds the estimate of the engineer unless only by such acceptance can a contract for the completion of an entire improvement be let for less than the aggregate estimate of the total improvement.If it is found that all bids for work and material, or all bids for any separate part of work and material, are in excess of the estimates reported by the engineer, the board shall order the readvertisement of the same, or any part thereof, for which the bids are in excess, and they may direct the engineer to re-estimate the same for bids on the new estimate.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.41 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.41 | Contracts for Drainage Improvement.

Effective: April 9, 1981|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 268 - 113th General Assembly|The acceptance of the bids in accordance with section 6131.40 of the Revised Code shall be approved by the board of county commissioners. Upon the acceptance of any bid for the whole or any part of an improvement, the bidder shall within ten days enter into a contract in writing to perform the work or furnish the material bid for as prepared by the county engineer. The board by an order entered on its journal shall record the time within which the work shall be completed and material furnished, but if an improvement requires both labor and material and contracts therefor are given to different persons, the time of furnishing the material and completing the labor shall correspond with the time provided for its use in the progress of the work. An upper contractor shall not be required to complete his contract until an outlet is furnished by the work done by a lower contractor.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.42 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.42 | Actions Against Contractor and Bondsmen.

Effective: March 24, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly|Any owner who is assessed for the construction of any improvement may bring an action to enjoin the payment of any money owed a contractor who has not constructed the work according to the contract and specifications until the contractor has constructed the improvement according to the contract and specifications. The remedies provided in this section are in addition to all other remedies provided by law.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.45 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.45 | Extending the Contract Time.

Effective: April 9, 1981|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 268 - 113th General Assembly|The time fixed in a contract for the performance of any work or the furnishing of any material, on good cause shown by affidavit, may be extended by the board of county commissioners with the approval of the county engineer for any definite period that it finds is reasonably necessary to complete the work or furnish the material under the contract. In case of such extensions the contractor's bond and any sureties thereon shall remain liable as if the extended time had been originally named in the bond or contract. The board shall not extend the contract time of furnishing any material to be used by a contractor unless by consent of the contractor the time for performance of his contract is correspondingly extended. Any order extending or refusing to extend the contract time shall be by resolution entered on the journal of the board. The affidavit shall be filed in the proceedings.Upon the recommendations of the county engineer, the board of county commissioners may deduct the costs of engineering and inspection incurred by the county during the tenure of the authorized extensions of time as liquidated damages from any money due or to become due the contractor or his bondsmen unless the extension of time is due to an unforeseeable cause beyond the control and without the fault or negligence of the contractor.
Ohio Rev Code § 6131.46 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainage Improvements|Section 6131.46 | Supervision and Inspection of County Engineer or Deputy.

Effective: April 9, 1981|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 268 - 113th General Assembly|All work on an improvement and all materials furnished for use therein shall be under the supervision and inspection of the county engineer or a deputy appointed by him for the purpose. All material furnished under the specifications and contract shall be inspected by him before use and within a reasonable time after the same is delivered and placed upon the line of the improvement or such other place as is designated.