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Ohio Rev Code § 723.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.20 | Tax Levy for Sprinkling - Street Railway Companies to Pay Portion of Cost.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|To provide a fund to pay the cost of the sprinkling under sections 723.17 to 723.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board or officer having charge of the repair of streets in the municipal corporation, each year, may estimate the cost thereof and cause a tax to be levied for such purpose upon the general tax duplicate of the municipal corporation, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as other levies for municipal purposes, except that the levy may be in addition to the amount authorized for municipal purposes. Upon such estimate, the levy shall be made by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation. Street railway companies operating within such municipal corporation shall annually pay into the treasury of the municipal corporation one cent per lineal foot of track upon sprinkled streets as their part of the cost of such sprinkling.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.21 | Legislative Authority May Require Street Railway Company to Sprinkle Its Right of Way.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, by resolution, require any interurban or street railway company to sprinkle with water its right of way on any street, alley, or public highway, or any portion thereof lying within the limits of the municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.22 | Municipal Corporation May Contract for Sprinkling.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Upon failure of any interurban or street railway company after sixty days' notice to the person having charge or management of such company in such municipal corporation to comply with the resolution referred to by section 723.21 of the Revised Code, a municipal corporation may sprinkle or contract therefor through its proper officials in accordance with the laws relating to contracts, and the cost thereof shall be charged against such company and shall be a lien upon all the real estate and leasehold interest of the company within the county in which such municipal corporation is situated. Such charge and cost together with a forfeiture of twenty-five dollars for each day of failure on the part of such company to sprinkle as required, may be collected in any court of competent jurisdiction, or the lien may be enforced in the manner provided by law.All charges, costs, and forfeitures collected under this section shall be paid into the general fund of the municipal corporation, to be disposed of as the legislative authority thereof directs.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.23 | Surface Treatment of Streets.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Municipal corporations may treat the surface of streets, alleys, squares, and public roadways with calcium chloride, road oil, light coal tar products, light asphalts, or any other suitable light bituminous substances for the purpose of providing a temporary improvement in laying the dust on and preserving such surface. If it is desired by the legislative authority of a city to have such work performed by contract, such city shall proceed in accordance with sections 735.05 to 735.09, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and, in case of a charter city, pursuant to its charter.For the purpose of this section necessary repairs to the streets of any village, the total cost of which is not more than one thousand dollars, shall be deemed as necessary for emergency repairs. The legislative authority of such village may authorize the making of all emergency repairs on all streets, bridges, and culverts in the village, and the village shall keep a supply of material on hand at all times for the purpose of making such repairs. Upon report to such legislative authority of any street needing immediate attention, the legislative authority shall, if it deems it an emergency repair, proceed at once to authorize such repairs by force account, without preparing plans, specifications, estimates of cost, or forms of contract.The legislative authority of any such village may appropriate a sum of money each year sufficient to enable the village to carry out this section. Such sum shall constitute the "village emergency repair fund." All expenses incurred in employing extra help or in purchasing materials used in such repairs shall be paid from such fund on vouchers signed by the village clerk.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.31 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.31 | Treatment With Oil Regarded as a Cleaning and Repairing of Streets and Alleys.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The treatment with road oil, calcium chloride, light coal tar products, light asphalt, or light bituminous substances as provided by section 723.23 of the Revised Code shall be regarded as a cleaning and repairing of streets and alleys, and the municipal corporation's portion of the cost thereof may be paid from any fund available for the cleaning and repairing of streets or alleys. When the roadways of a public park are ordered to be so treated, the cost thereof may be paid from any fund available for the care or maintenance of such parks.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.32 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.32 | Surface Treatment and Sprinkling of Streets by Board of Education.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Any board of education may provide by private contract for sprinkling with water, or treatment with any of the substances mentioned in section 723.23 of the Revised Code, of the surface of any street abutting on school property, and pay for such work the same as other contingent expenses.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.33 | Legislative Authority May Require Bridge or Railway to Be Lighted.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, when it deems it necessary to have a bridge or railways, or any part thereof, located in whole or in part in the municipal corporation, and owned, possessed, or operated by an individual, company, association, or corporation, lighted, shall pass an ordinance for that purpose requiring such individual, company, association, or corporation to light such bridge or railway within a specified time, but it shall not require such railway or portion thereof to be lighted with electric arc lights.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.34 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.34 | Specifications in Lighting Ordinance.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The ordinance mentioned in section 723.33 of the Revised Code shall specify the manner in which the bridge or railway shall be lighted, the number and style of lamp posts, gas posts, electric lights, or other lights and fixtures, and the time such lights shall be kept burning in each twenty-four hours. No such lights, poles, or fixtures, or any lights, poles, or fixtures located by any municipal corporation on its streets, alleys, or public grounds shall be required to be so placed as to interfere with a clear view of any fixed signal used in the operation of such railway from the points thereon where a clear view is required for safe operation. All lights, poles, or fixtures placed so as to interfere with such clear view shall, within a reasonable time, be relocated. This section does not excuse any railway company from lighting its bridges and tracks when required to do so, or from paying any reasonable assessment or charge therefor.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.35 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.35 | Notice of Lighting Requirement Shall Be Given.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Notice of the requirement that a bridge or railway be lighted shall be given at least twenty days before any forfeiture or charge is imposed for default, and such notice may be given by delivering a written or printed copy of the ordinance to an owner or part owner, or any person having possession, charge or management of such bridge or railway. When such ordinance requires the lighting of a railway, service of such written or printed copy of the ordinance upon a ticket or freight agent of the railway company in such municipal corporation, and, if there is no such ticket or freight agent, upon any ticket or freight agent of the company in the county in which the municipal corporation is located, shall be sufficient, and shall charge the person, company, corporation, or partnership owning or operating such railway with notice of the passage of the ordinance and the requirements thereof.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.36 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.36 | Procedure on Failure of Owner to Light Bridge or Railway.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If the person, company, or corporation, owning, possessing, or operating a railway or bridge, neglects or fails to provide lighting in conformity with the ordinance under section 723.34 of the Revised Code for twenty days after notice under section 723.35 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation may immediately cause the lighting to be done at the expense of such person, company, or corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.37 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.37 | Assessment for Expense of Lighting.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may direct the manner in which the expense of lighting a bridge or railway shall be assessed and collected. When so assessed, the amount shall be a debt due against and payable by the person, company, or corporation owning, possessing, or operating such bridge or railway, and shall be a lien, to be enforced as any other lien, on such bridge and the land on which it is built, or upon the real estate of the railway company or leasehold interest within the county in which such municipal corporation is located.The charge for the expense of such lighting may be collected or the lien enforced in the manner provided for the assessment of damages and expenses for making public improvements.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.38 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.38 | Terms of Construction and Operation of Street Railway Fixed by Legislative Authority.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No corporation or individual shall perform any work in the construction of a street railway until application for permission is made in writing to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, and until such legislative authority, by ordinance, has granted permission and prescribed the terms upon and the manner in which such railway shall be constructed and operated, and the streets and alleys to be used and occupied therefor. The legislative authority may renew any such grant at its expiration upon such conditions as are considered conducive to the public interest.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.39 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.39 | Notice Required of Application to Establish Street Railway Route.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Nothing mentioned in section 723.38 of the Revised Code shall be done, no ordinance or resolution to establish or define a street railway route shall be passed, no action inviting proposals to construct and operate such railway shall be taken by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, and no ordinance for the purpose specified in such section shall be passed, until public notice of the application therefor has been given by the clerk of such legislative authority, once a week for at least three consecutive weeks in one or more of the daily papers published in such municipal corporation, if there be such, and if not, then in one or more weekly papers published therein.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.40 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.40 | Consent of Property Owners Necessary.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No grant for the construction of a street railway under section 723.38 of the Revised Code shall be made, except to the corporation or individual that agrees to carry passengers upon such proposed railway at the lowest rates of fare, and has previously obtained the written consent of a majority of the property holders upon each street or part thereof, on the line of the proposed railway, as represented by the foot frontage of the property abutting on the several streets along which such railway is proposed to be constructed. When, within the year preceding, a street railway has been operated upon such street or part thereof under a grant or renewal of a grant which has expired or will expire within two years, it shall not be necessary to obtain the consent of the property holders abutting thereon if the number of tracks on the street, public way, or part thereof, is not increased beyond the number for which consent was originally obtained.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.41 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.41 | Grant Not Valid for More Than Twenty-Five Years.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No grant or renewal of a grant for the construction or operation of a street railway shall be valid for a greater period than twenty-five years from the date of such grant or renewal, and after such grant or renewal is made, whether by special or general ordinance, the municipal corporation shall not, during the term of the grant or renewal, release the grantee from any obligation or liability imposed by the terms of such grant or renewal.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.42 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.42 | Grade of Streets When Street Railway Is Constructed.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Before a street railway is constructed on any street less than sixty feet in width, with a roadway of thirty-five feet or under, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall provide that the crown of the street shall be made a nearly flat uniform curve from curb to curb, without ditch gutters, and in such manner as to give wheeled vehicles the full use of the roadway up to the face of the curb. When the tracks of two street railways, or of a street railway and a railroad, cross each other at a convenient grade on a street, such crossings shall be made with crossing-frogs of the most approved pattern and materials, and shall be kept in repair at the joint expense of the companies owning such tracks.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.43 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.43 | Pavement of Streets Where Railways Are Constructed.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may require any part of the track between the rails of any street railway constructed within the municipal corporation limits to be paved with stone, gravel, boulders, or wooden or asphaltic pavement, but beyond such limits paving between the rails with stone, boulders, or wooden or asphaltic pavement shall not be required.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.431 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.431 | Removal or Repair of Street Railway.

Effective: January 1, 1962|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 262 - 104th General Assembly|At the time of or subsequent to the adoption by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation of a resolution declaring it necessary to improve, pave, repave, surface, or resurface a street or other public thoroughfare, in which are located rails, ties, roadbed, or tracks owned or operated by a street railway company which have become worn out or defective, such legislative authority may by resolution declare the necessity of requiring such company, at the time the street or thoroughfare is torn up for such improvement to remove, renew, replace, repair, or reconstruct the rails, ties, roadbed, and tracks therein in accordance with the plans and specifications prepared by the engineer of such municipal corporation. Such plans and specifications, together with the engineer's estimate of the cost shall be on file and open to public inspection in the office of the clerk of the legislative authority.A certified copy of such resolution, together with a written notice setting forth the time in which the company may file objections shall be sent to the company by certified mail. Such objections shall be heard by the legislative authority at the next regular meeting and the decision of the legislative authority shall be final.If such objections are filed, and after holding such hearing, the legislative authority may, by ordinance, order and require that at the time at which the street or other public thoroughfare is torn up for such improvement, paving, repaving, surfacing, or resurfacing, the company owning or operating such rails, ties, roadbed, and tracks shall renew, replace, reconstruct, or repair them in accordance with the plans and specifications. Any modifications or corrections thereof that are made by the legislative authority and a certified copy of such ordinance shall be sent to such company by certified mail.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.44 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.44 | Extension of Street Railway May Be Granted.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may grant permission, by ordinance, to any corporation, individual, or company, owning or having the right to construct a street railway, to extend the track, subject to the laws relating to the construction, operation and extension of street railways, within or without, or partly within or without any municipal corporation, on any street where the legislative authority deems such extension beneficial to the public. The charge for carrying passengers on such extended railway and its connections made with any other railway, by consolidation, shall not be increased by reason of such extension or consolidation.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.45 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.45 | Franchises to Interurban Railways for the Purpose of Securing Terminals.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may grant a franchise upon such terms as it prescribes for the building of any interurban railway having, constructing, or building ten miles or more of track outside of such municipal corporation, to any company using electric or other motive power, except steam, for the purpose of securing to such company access to or terminals within the municipal corporation. The legislative authority may authorize such company to build and construct tracks and to operate cars thereon, on any street, or parts of streets, of such municipal corporation, upon which tracks have not already been laid and where the consent of the owners of a majority foot frontage has already been obtained by such company.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.46 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.46 | Condemnation Proceedings.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may permit an interurban railway company referred to in section 723.45 of the Revised Code to make use of the tracks or parts of the tracks of any existing street railway company within the limits of the municipal corporation by agreement with such existing company. If no such agreement can be arrived at, the interurban company may be authorized by such legislative authority to condemn the right to make use of the tracks of such existing street railway company, upon the payment of proper compensation. But the interurban company shall be permitted to condemn and make use of not more than one eighth of the trackage of such existing street railway company within the municipal corporation, or so much as is necessary to give the interurban company access to terminals within the municipal corporation or to enable it to secure a right of way over such tracks through the municipal corporation. The interurban company seeking permission to enter or pass through a municipal corporation shall not be required to submit to competitive bidding on such routes.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.47 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.47 | Term of Grant.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No grant or franchise shall be made to an interurban railway company for longer than twenty years, and no franchise so granted shall be used for the purpose of operating a municipal streetcar system.
Ohio Rev Code § 723.48 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds|Section 723.48 | Regulation of Rate of Speed.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, when a railroad track is laid in the municipal corporation, by ordinance, regulate the speed of all locomotives and railroad cars within the municipal corporation limits. Such ordinance shall not require a rate of speed of less than four miles an hour, and in villages having a population of two thousand or less, it shall not require a rate of less than eight miles an hour. The municipal corporation authorities, by civil action, may recover from an engineer, conductor, or company violating such ordinance, not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for each offense.