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Ohio Rev Code § 4939.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4939 | Use of Municipal Public Way|Section 4939.04 | Management, Regulation, and Administration of Public Ways by Municipal Corporations.

Effective: July 2, 2002|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 255 - 124th General Assembly|(A)(1) A municipal corporation shall provide public utilities or cable operators with open, comparable, nondiscriminatory, and competitively neutral access to its public ways.(2) Nothing in division (A)(1) of this section prohibits a municipal corporation from establishing priorities for access to or occupancy or use of a public way by a public utility or cable operator when the public way cannot accommodate all public way occupants or users, which priorities as applied to public utilities or cable operators shall not be unduly discriminatory and shall be competitively neutral.(B) The management, regulation, and administration of a public way by a municipal corporation with regard to matters of local concern shall be presumed to be a valid exercise of the power of local self-government granted by Section 3 of Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution.
Ohio Rev Code § 4939.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4939 | Use of Municipal Public Way|Section 4939.05 | Levy of Public Way Fees by Municipal Corporation.

Effective: July 2, 2002|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 255 - 124th General Assembly|(A) A municipal corporation shall not require any nonmonetary compensation or free service, or levy any tax, for the right or privilege to occupy or use a public way, and shall not levy a public way fee except in accordance with this section.(B)(1) A municipal corporation may levy different public way fees based upon the amount of public ways occupied or used, the type of utility service provided by a public utility, or any different treatment required by the public health, safety, and welfare.(2) A municipal corporation may waive all or a portion of any public way fee for a governmental entity or a charitable organization.(3) A municipal corporation shall not require any person, including a reseller, that does not occupy or use a public way owned or controlled by the municipal corporation to pay it a public way fee.(4) A municipal corporation that charges a franchise fee or otherwise receives free service or other nonmonetary compensation as part of a franchise between a cable operator and the municipal corporation shall grant the cable operator, for the occupancy or use of the public way related to the provision of any services provided by the cable operator, a credit, offset, or deduction against any public way fee or like charge for all such payments and the retail value of the free service or other nonmonetary compensation.(C) Public way fees levied by a municipal corporation shall be based only on costs that the municipal corporation both has actually incurred and can clearly demonstrate are or can be properly allocated and assigned to the occupancy or use of a public way. The costs shall be reasonably and competitively neutrally allocated among all persons occupying or using public ways owned or controlled by the municipal corporation, including, but not limited to, persons for which payments are waived as authorized by division (B) of this section or for which compensation is otherwise obtained. No public way fee shall include a return on or exceed the amount of costs reasonably allocated by the municipal corporation to such occupant or user or pursuant to any reasonable classification of occupants or users.(D) A municipal corporation that levies a public way fee shall establish and maintain a special fund for all such fees remitted to the municipal corporation and, with respect to that special fund, shall be subject to sections 5705.09, 5705.10, 5705.14, 5705.15, 5705.16, 5705.39, 5705.40, 5705.41, 5705.44, and 5705.45 of the Revised Code and any other applicable provision of Chapter 5705. of the Revised Code concerning the establishment or maintenance of a special fund.(E) At least forty-five days prior to the date of enactment of a public way ordinance by a municipal corporation, the municipal corporation shall file with the public utilities commission a notice that the ordinance is being considered.
Ohio Rev Code § 4939.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4939 | Use of Municipal Public Way|Section 4939.06 | Appeal of Levy of Public Way Fee.

Effective: July 2, 2002|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 255 - 124th General Assembly|(A) If a public utility does not accept a public way fee levied against it pursuant to the enactment of an ordinance by a municipal corporation, the public utility may appeal the public way fee to the public utilities commission. The appeal shall be made by filing a complaint that the amount of a public way fee, any related classification of public way occupants or users, or the assignment or allocation of costs to the public way fee is unreasonable, unjust, unjustly discriminatory, or unlawful. The complaint shall be filed not later than thirty days after the date the public utility first becomes subject to the ordinance. The complaint is subject to the same procedures as a complaint filed pursuant to section 4905.26 of the Revised Code. The commission shall act to resolve the complaint by issuance of a final order within one hundred twenty days after the date of the complaint's filing.(B) Only upon a finding by the commission that reasonable grounds are stated for a complaint filed under division (A) of this section, the commission by order shall suspend the public way fee provisions of the municipal ordinance for the duration of the commission's consideration of the complaint. For the purpose of this division, if the commission so suspends an ordinance pursuant to a complaint filed not later than thirty days after the date that the ordinance first takes effect, the suspension shall apply to the public way fee for every occupancy or use of the public way to which the fee would otherwise apply. For any other complaint, the suspension shall apply only to the public utility filing the complaint. The municipal corporation may later collect, for the suspension period, any suspended public way fee only if the commission finds that the public way fee is not unreasonable, unjust, unjustly discriminatory, or unlawful.(C) If the commission finds that the public way fee or classification complained of is unreasonable, unjust, unjustly discriminatory, or unlawful, it shall determine by order the just and reasonable public way fee or classification.
Ohio Rev Code § 4939.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4939 | Use of Municipal Public Way|Section 4939.08 | Relocation of Facilities.

Effective: August 1, 2018|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 478 - 132nd General Assembly|If requested by a municipal corporation, in order to accomplish construction and maintenance activities directly related to improvements for the health, safety, and welfare of the public, an operator shall relocate or adjust its facilities within the public way at no cost to the municipal corporation, as long as such request similarly binds all users in or on such public way. Such relocation or adjustment shall be completed in accordance with local law. Last updated May 28, 2021 at 5:37 PM
Ohio Rev Code § 4939.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4939 | Use of Municipal Public Way|Section 4939.09 | Exceptions for Prior Franchises or Agreements.

Effective: August 1, 2018|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 478 - 132nd General Assembly|(A) Nothing in sections 4939.01 to 4939.08 of the Revised Code applies to a franchise or to any agreement with a public utility, cable operator, or operator, for the balance of its term, if the franchise or agreement meets all of the following, as applicable:(1)(a) With respect to a public utility or cable operator, the franchise was granted, or the agreement was authorized by ordinance or otherwise and was entered into, by a municipal corporation prior to July 2, 2002.(b) With respect to an operator, the agreement was authorized by ordinance or otherwise and was entered into by a municipal corporation and the operator prior to the effective date of the amendments to this section by S.B. 331 of the 131st general assembly.(2) The franchise or agreement authorizes the occupation or use of public ways.(3) The public utility or operator agrees with the applicable public way fees, or nonmonetary compensation, if any, or the cable operator pays the applicable fee or utilizes the credit, offset, or deduction specified in division (B)(4) of section 4939.05 of the Revised Code.(B)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A) of section 4939.06 of the Revised Code, nothing in sections 4939.01 to 4939.08 of the Revised Code applies to an ordinance both governing public ways and enacted by a municipal corporation prior to September 29, 1999, unless, on or after that date, the ordinance is materially modified.(2) Division (B)(1) of this section does not apply to operators and their facilities.(C) Nothing in sections 4939.01 to 4939.08 of the Revised Code authorizes a municipal corporation to levy a fee, other than a public way fee authorized by section 4939.05 of the Revised Code, on a pipeline company or an operator of a pipeline facility regulated under the "Accountable Pipeline Safety and Partnership Act of 1996," 110 Stat. 3793, 49 U.S.C.A. 60101, or on an operating partner or affiliated business unit operating under guidelines of the federal energy regulatory commission as they relate to the construction and operation of a pipeline.(D) Nothing in sections 4939.01 to 4939.08 and this section of the Revised Code prohibits a municipal corporation from doing either of the following:(1) Charging a cable operator a franchise fee in accordance with the "Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984," 98 Stat. 2779, 47 U.S.C.A. 542;(2) Allowing a credit, offset, or deduction against the payment of a construction permit fee for any franchise fee a cable operator pays to the municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.01 | Authority to Construct Street Railways.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Street railways, with single or double tracks, sidetracks, and turnouts, may be constructed or extended within or without, or partly within and partly without, any municipal corporation. Offices, depots, and other necessary buildings for street railways may be constructed.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.02 | Grant of Right to Construct.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The right to construct or extend a street railway within or beyond the limits of a municipal corporation may be granted only by its legislative authority by ordinance. The right to construct such street railway without the limits of a municipal corporation may be granted only by the board of county commissioners by an order entered on its journal. The legislative authority or the board may fix the conditions upon which such street railways may be constructed, operated, extended, and consolidated.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.03 | Grantee Not to Be Released From Obligation.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|After a grant to construct or extend a street railway, or the renewal of any such grant, has been made by general or special ordinance or by the order of the board of county commissioners, neither the municipal corporation nor the board shall release a grantee from any obligations or liabilities imposed by the grant or renewal during the term for which such grant or renewal was made.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.04 | Right to Occupy Tracks of Existing Companies.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No right shall be given by municipal or county authorities to occupy the track, single or double, or other structure, of existing street railways for more than one eighth of the distance between the termini of the route, as actually constructed, operated, and run over, of the company or person to whom such grant is made. In granting permission to extend existing routes in cities, the cities and companies owning such route shall have all the rights and powers which they possess under existing laws and contracts.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.05 | Extension to Be Constructed as New Route.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No extension of a street railway located wholly outside a city, or of one wherever located, which is built in pursuance of a right obtained from authority other than that of a municipal corporation, shall be made within the limits of such city, except as a new route.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.06 | Written Consent of Property Owners Required.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No grant referred to in section 4951.02 of the Revised Code shall be made until there is produced to the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or the board of county commissioners the written consent of the owners of more than one half of the front footage of the lots and lands abutting on the street or public way along which it is proposed to construct such street railway or extension, and evidence that ordinances of the legislative authority relating to such grant have in all respects been complied with, whether the railway proposed is an extension of an old or the granting of a new route.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.07 | Written Consent Not Required.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When a grant is made by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, either for a new route or as an extension of an existing route, in case the number of tracks is not increased beyond the number for which consent originally was obtained, on and along any part of a street or public way upon which a street railway has been operated within one year preceding under a grant or renewal of a grant which has expired or within two years will expire or when such a grant is made by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or the board of county commissioners of a county on and along any part of a street or public way upon the order or finding of any court of competent jurisdiction, or a judge of such court, in a hearing upon or growing out of a grade crossing elimination proceeding, in which hearing such court or judge has determined that the reasonable and practical solution of the manner of eliminating a grade crossing requires that such a street railway or interurban railroad be relocated or rerouted for a certain distance fixed by the court, it shall not be necessary to produce to the legislative authority or board any written consents from the owners of the lots and land abutting on such part of a street or public way.This section does not permit a person owning property abutting on a street along, in, or over which a street railway is about to be constructed to withdraw his consent after an ordinance granting the right to construct and operate it has been read the second time, if at least thirty days elapsed since the first reading of such ordinance, in the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or other body authorized to make the grant.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.08 | Appropriating Property.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|When the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or board of county commissioners makes a grant as provided in section 4951.02 of the Revised Code, the company or person to whom it is made may appropriate, in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, property necessary for the street railway if the owner fails expressly to waive his claim to damages by reason of the construction and operation of the railway.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.11 | Appropriation of Property by Directors.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|When it is deemed necessary by a majority of the directors of a domestic or foreign corporation owning or operating a street railway in a municipal corporation to appropriate private property in such municipal corporation, in order to avoid dangerous or difficult curves or grades or unsafe or unsubstantial ground or foundations, to extend or shorten its railway line, or to provide land on which to extend its power plant, such corporation may appropriate so much private property as is necessary for the extension of such power plant, or for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the tracks, poles supports, wires, cables, and necessary appliances of such railway other than power houses, machine shops, stations, or substations, in the manner provided by and subject to sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.For the purposes provided in this section such corporation may change the location of any part of its railway.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.12 | Use of Public Highways.

Effective: October 11, 1955|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 70 - 101st General Assembly|Companies incorporated under section 1701.04 of the Revised Code, for the purpose of owning or operating street railway companies, may construct, maintain, and operate street railways for the transportation of passengers, packages, express matter, United States mail, baggage, and freight upon the highways in this state outside of municipal corporations or upon private right of ways.Such companies may occupy and use for their tracks, cars, necessary fixtures, and appliances, the public highways outside of municipal corporations with the consent of the public authorities in charge of or controlling such highways, and with the written consent of the majority, measured by the front foot, of the property holders abutting on each of such highways.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.13 | Consent of Authority Controlling Public Highway.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If the public highway along which a street railway is to be constructed is owned by a person or company, or is within the control or management of the board of public works or other public officer, such owner or officer may agree with the person or company constructing the railway as to the conditions upon which the highway may be occupied.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.14 | Crossings.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|Whenever it is deemed necessary by a majority of the board of directors of a street railway company to cross the streets, avenues, alleys, ways, or any part thereof, of any municipal corporation or any public highway outside of a municipal corporation, the legislative authority of such municipal corporation, or the public officers owning or having charge of such highways outside of municipal corporations, may agree with such company as to the manner and mode of such crossing and the compensation to be paid for it. If the parties fail to agree, such company may proceed in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. In its final order the court shall fix the manner and mode of such crossing. Upon compliance with such decree, the company may construct and maintain such crossing in accordance with the order in said cause.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.15 | Appropriation of Private Property.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|Street railways and interurban or suburban railroads using other than steam as motive power, when necessary, may enter upon and use private property in the construction, alteration, and operation of its railway or any part of it. For such purpose they have all rights and powers of appropriation that railroad companies possess and shall proceed in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.16 | Appropriation of Property for Depots.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|Where the tracks of any street railway extend into or through any municipal corporation and the street railway company deems it necessary to enter upon and use any private property within such municipal corporation for the construction and maintenance of either passenger stations or freight depots to be used in the operation of such railway, such company may appropriate private property within municipal corporations for such purposes in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.18 | Leases, Purchases, and Traffic Arrangements.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Street railway and suburban and interurban railroad companies may lease, purchase, or make traffic arrangements with any other street railway company as to so much of its tracks and other property as is necessary or desirable to enable them to enter or pass through a municipal corporation, upon the conditions applicable to other street railways. Any existing railway company owning or operating a railway shall receive the cars, freight, packages, or passengers of any other railway upon the same conditions as they carry for the general public.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.19 | Consolidation.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Street railway companies referred to by section 4951.18 of the Revised Code may consolidate on the terms applicable to the consolidation of railroad companies. No increase of fare shall be allowed on any street railway route by reason of such consolidation.Such companies shall be subject to the regulations provided for street railways and have all the powers, insofar as they are applicable, that other street railway companies possess.