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Ohio Rev Code § 5571.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5571 | Board of Township Trustees|Section 5571.15 | Board of Township Trustees May Improve Roads Without Petition.

Effective: March 12, 2001|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly|(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the board of township trustees, without the presentation of a petition, may take the necessary steps to construct, reconstruct, resurface, or improve a public road or part thereof, upon the passage of a resolution by unanimous vote declaring the necessity for the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, or improvement. The cost thereof may be paid by any of the methods provided in section 5573.07 of the Revised Code, as determined by the board in the resolution.(B) If the primary reason for the reconstruction, resurfacing, or improvement of a public road or part thereof is to improve the drainage of water from the surface of the road, as declared by the resolution, and there is no presentation of a petition, the board may proceed upon the passage of the resolution by majority vote. The cost in such case may be paid by either of the methods provided in division (B) of section 5573.07 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5571.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5571 | Board of Township Trustees|Section 5571.16 | Obtaining Permit Before Installing Driveway Culvert or Making Excavation in Township Highway or Highway Right-of-Way.

Effective: September 28, 2016|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 413 - 131st General Assembly|The board of township trustees, by resolution, may require any person to obtain a permit before installing a driveway culvert or making any excavation in a township highway or highway right-of-way within its jurisdiction, except an excavation to repair, rehabilitate, or replace a pole already installed for the purpose of providing electric or telecommunications service. The board, as a condition to the granting of the permit, may do any of the following:(A) Require the applicant to submit plans indicating the location, size, type, and duration of the culvert or excavation contemplated;(B) Specify methods of excavation, refilling, and resurfacing to be followed;(C) Require the use of warning devices it considers necessary to protect travelers on the highway;(D) Require the applicant to indemnify the township against liability or damage as the result of the installation of the culvert or as a result of the excavation;(E) Require the applicant to post a deposit or bond, with sureties to the satisfaction of the board, conditioned upon the performance of all conditions in the permit. Applications for permits under this section shall be made to the township fiscal officer upon forms to be furnished by the board. Applications, including, but not limited to, a single application for an excavation project to install six or more poles for the purpose of providing electric or telecommunications service or to install a pole associated with underground electric or telecommunications service, shall be accompanied by a fee of up to fifty dollars per application, which fee shall be returned to the applicant if the application is denied. Except as otherwise provided in this section, no application or fee shall be required for an excavation project to install five or fewer poles for the purpose of providing electric or telecommunications service, but the person making that excavation shall provide verifiable notice of the excavation to the township f iscal officer at least three business days prior to the date of the excavation.No person shall install a driveway culvert or make an excavation in any township highway or highway right-of-way in violation of any resolution adopted pursuant to this section, except that, in the case of an emergency requiring immediate action to protect the public health, safety, and welfare, an excavation may be made without first obtaining a permit, if an application is made at the earliest possible opportunity.As used in this section, "person" has the same meaning as in section 1.59 of the Revised Code, and "right-of-way" has the same meaning as in division (UU)(2) of section 4511.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5571.99 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5571 | Board of Township Trustees|Section 5571.99 | Penalty.

Effective: August 16, 1955|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 576 - 101st General Assembly|Whoever violates section 5571.16 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
Ohio Rev Code § 5573.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement|Section 5573.01 | Resolution for Road Improvement.

Effective: September 20, 1999|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 187 - 123rd General Assembly|When the board of township trustees has determined that any road shall be constructed, reconstructed, resurfaced, or improved, the board shall determine by resolution, by unanimous vote if acting without a petition, and by a majority vote if acting upon a petition, the route and termini of the road, and the kind and extent of the improvement, and at the same time shall order the county engineer or, if the township has adopted a limited home rule government under Chapter 504. of the Revised Code, hire an independent professional engineer, after notifying the county engineer, to make surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications as are required for the improvement. If an independent professional engineer is hired, the county engineer shall review all of the independent professional engineer's plans for improvements and provide the board of township trustees with comments on those plans within ten working days after receiving them. The county engineer shall monitor all of the independent professional engineer's plans for improvements in order to maintain compliance with existing construction standards and thoroughfare plans, and coordinate construction timelines within the county.If the board orders the county engineer to act under this section, the board may order the county engineer to make alternate surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications, providing in them for different widths of roadway, or different materials, and approve all or any number of these alternate surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications. The county engineer may, without instructions from the board, prepare alternate surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications, providing in them for different widths of roadways or different materials. When alternate surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications are approved by the board, or submitted by the county engineer on the county engineer's own motion, the board and county engineer shall, after the opening of bids, agree which of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications shall be finally adopted for construction of the improvement.
Ohio Rev Code § 5573.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement|Section 5573.02 | Transmission of Surveys, Plans, and Specifications to Board - Notice.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|Upon the completion of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for a road improvement by the county engineer, the engineer shall transmit to the board of township trustees copies of the same. Except in cases of reconstruction or repair of roads, where no land or property is taken, the board shall then cause to be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the township, once a week for two consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, a notice that such improvement is to be made and that copies of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for it are on file with the board for the inspection and examination of all persons interested. In the event that land or property is to be taken for such improvement, proceedings shall be had in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5573.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement|Section 5573.06 | Order to Proceed With Improvement.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|If, after determination of all claims for compensation and damages on account of land or property taken for any road improvement, the board of township trustees is satisfied that the public convenience and welfare require that such improvement be made, and that the costs of such improvement will not be excessive in view of its public utility, such board shall order, by resolution, that such improvement be proceeded with, and shall adopt the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications therefor, as reported by the county engineer, or with such modifications as the board and engineer agree upon. If, in view of the amount of compensation and damages allowed, the board is of the opinion that such improvement should not be made, it shall so order.
Ohio Rev Code § 5573.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement|Section 5573.07 | Apportionment of Compensation, Damages, and Costs - Payment.

Effective: March 12, 2001|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly|The compensation, damages, and costs of township road improvements shall be apportioned and paid in any of the following methods, as set forth in the petition:(A) Any part thereof shall be assessed against:(1) The real estate abutting upon said improvement;(2) The real estate situated within one-half mile of either side thereof;(3) The real estate situated within one mile of either side thereof, according to the benefits accruing to such real estate;(B) Any balance shall be paid:(1) From the proceeds of any levy for road purposes upon the grand duplicate of all the taxable property in the township;(2) From any funds in the township treasury available therefor.When the board of township trustees acts by unanimous vote without the filing of a petition, as permitted by division (A) of section 5571.15 of the Revised Code, the board shall set forth in its resolution that declares the necessity for the improvement the method of apportioning and paying the compensation, damages, and costs of the improvement, which may be any one of the methods provided in this section.When the board acts by majority vote as permitted by division (B) of section 5571.15 of the Revised Code, the board shall set forth in its resolution the method of paying the compensation, damages, and costs of the improvement, which may be by either of the methods provided in division (B) of this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 5573.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement|Section 5573.08 | Assessment of Property Separated From Improvement.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When property is separated from a road improvement by a canal, street or interurban railway, steam railroad, or in any similar manner, such property shall be regarded, for the purpose of assessment under the township road improvement laws as property abutting upon the improvement. The land owned or occupied by such street or interurban railway or steam railroad and the land lying back thereof shall be assessed, on account of such improvement.
Ohio Rev Code § 5573.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement|Section 5573.09 | All Costs May Be Paid From Proceeds of Tax Levy.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The board of township trustees, upon a unanimous vote, may, without a petition therefor, order that all compensation, damages, and costs of constructing any road improvement be paid out of the proceeds of any levy for road purposes on the grand duplicate of the township, or out of any road improvement fund available therefor.
Ohio Rev Code § 5573.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement|Section 5573.10 | Estimated Assessment on Real Estate.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|As soon as all questions of compensation and damages have been determined for any road improvement, the county engineer shall make, upon actual view, an estimated assessment, upon the real estate to be charged, of such part of the compensation, damages, and costs of such improvement as is to be specially assessed. Such assessment shall be according to the benefits which will result to the real estate. In making such assessment the engineer may take into consideration any previous special assessment made upon such real estate for road improvements. The schedule for such assessments shall be filed with the board of township trustees for the inspection of the persons interested. Before adopting the estimated assessment, the board shall publish once each week for two consecutive weeks, in a newspaper of general circulation within such township or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, notice that such assessment has been made and is on file with the board, and the date when objections will be heard to such assessment.If any owner of property affected desires to make objections, the owner may file objections to such assessments, in writing, with the board, before the time of such hearing. If any objections are filed the board shall hear them and act as an equalizing board, and may change assessments if, in its opinion, any changes are necessary to make them just and equitable. The board shall approve and confirm assessments as reported by the engineer or modified by the board. Such assessments, when approved and confirmed, shall be a lien on the land chargeable therewith.
Ohio Rev Code § 5573.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement|Section 5573.11 | Assessments Certified to County Auditor for Collection - Installments.

Effective: October 30, 1969|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 276 - 108th General Assembly|All assessments, with interest accrued thereon, made as provided by sections 5573.07 to 5573.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be certified to the county auditor and by him placed upon a special duplicate, to be collected as other taxes. The principal shall be payable in not more than twenty semiannual installments, extending over a period of not more than ten years, as determined by the board of township trustees. Any assessment in the amount of twenty-five dollars or less, or of which the unpaid balance is twenty-five dollars or less, shall be paid in full and not in installments, at the time the first or next installment would otherwise become due. In the event that bonds are issued to pay the compensation, damages, and costs incident to such improvement, the principal sum of such assessment shall be payable in such number of equal semiannual installments as will provide a fund for the redemption of the bonds and shall bear interest from the date of and at the same rate as the bonds. The interest shall be collected in like manner as the principal of such assessments.
Ohio Rev Code § 5573.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement|Section 5573.12 | Apportionment Between Owners of Life Estate and Fee - Hearing - Appeal.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If any lands to be assessed for road improvement are subject to a life estate, the assessments shall, upon application of the life tenant to the board of township trustees, be apportioned between the owner of the life estate and the owner of the fee, in proportion to the value of their respective estates. Upon filing of the application the board shall fix a date for hearing the same and cause notice of such hearing to be served on the owner of the fee as provided by section 5573.02 of the Revised Code. Either party to such apportionment may appeal to the probate court of the county, from the decision of the board relating to the apportionment of such assessment, by giving the notice and filing the bond provided for in section 5563.02 of the Revised Code. Such proceedings shall be thereafter had upon such appeal as are provided for appeals in road cases.
Ohio Rev Code § 5573.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement|Section 5573.13 | Township's Proportion of Costs - Payment.

Effective: December 20, 2005|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 107, House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly|The proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of any road improvement to be paid by the township shall be paid out of any road improvement fund available for it. For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of the township's proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing, or improving roads under sections 5571.01, 5571.06, 5571.07, 5571.15, 5573.01 to 5573.15, and 5575.02 to 5575.09 of the Revised Code, and for the purpose of maintaining, repairing, or dragging any public road or part of any public road under their jurisdiction, in the manner provided in sections 5571.02 to 5571.05, 5571.08, 5571.12, and 5575.01 of the Revised Code, the board of trustees may levy, annually, a tax not exceeding three mills upon each dollar of the taxable property of the township. The levy shall be in addition to all other levies authorized for township purposes, and subject only to the limitation on the combined maximum rate for all taxes now in force. The taxes so authorized shall be placed by the county auditor upon the tax duplicate against the taxable property of the township, and collected by the county treasurer as other taxes. When collected, the taxes shall be paid to the fiscal officer of the township from which they are collected, and the money so received shall be under the control of the board of township trustees for the purposes for which the taxes were levied.  The Legislative Service Commission presents the text of this section as a composite of the section as amended by multiple acts of the General Assembly. This presentation recognizes the principle stated in R.C. 1.52(B) that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation.
Ohio Rev Code § 5573.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement|Section 5573.14 | Trustees May Issue Bonds in Anticipation of Tax.

Effective: November 8, 1961|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1122 - 104th General Assembly|The board of township trustees, in anticipation of the collection, for road improvements, of taxes and assessments or any part thereof, may, whenever in its judgment it is necessary, sell the bonds of the township in any amount not greater than the aggregate sum necessary to pay the estimated compensation, damages, and costs of such improvement.
Ohio Rev Code § 5573.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement|Section 5573.15 | Joint Improvement by Townships - Procedure.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The boards of township trustees of two or more townships may construct, reconstruct, resurface, or improve a township road or part thereof, along the line between such townships, extending into or through all such townships, or wholly within the township but within less than the legal assessment distance of the township line. In such case the several boards, when acting as a joint board and when acting separately, in the making of assessments and issuing bonds, shall be governed by sections 5555.21 to 5555.34, inclusive, of the Revised Code, in so far as the same are applicable. They shall also have the same power with respect to county roads located as provided in this section, subject to the limitation expressed in section 5571.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5573.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement|Section 5573.21 | Erection of Road District Outside Municipal Corporation.

Effective: October 8, 2001|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 174 - 124th General Assembly|The board of township trustees of a township in which there is located a municipal corporation or a part thereof, may, by resolution, erect that portion of the township not included within the corporate limits of the municipal corporation into a road district, whenever in its opinion it is expedient and necessary and for the public convenience and welfare, for the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing, or improving the public roads within such district. The district so created shall be given an appropriate name by which it shall be designated.After such a district has been created, the board shall have all the powers and duties that it has under sections 5571.01, 5571.06, 5571.07, 5571.10, 5571.15, 5573.01 to 5573.12, 5573.14, and 5575.02 to 5575.09 of the Revised Code, and it shall proceed in like manner in the constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing, improving, maintaining, repairing, and dragging of township roads, or part thereof, in such cases as provided for the board in township road construction.
Ohio Rev Code § 5573.211 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement|Section 5573.211 | Payment of Township Road District's Proportion of Compensation, Damages, and Costs.

Effective: December 20, 2005|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 107 - 126th General Assembly|The proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of any road improvement to be paid by a township road district shall be paid out of any road improvement fund available for it. For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of a township road district's proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing, improving, maintaining, repairing, and dragging township road district roads or parts of those roads, the board of trustees of a township in which a township road district has been erected as provided in section 5573.21 of the Revised Code may levy, annually, a tax not exceeding three mills upon each dollar of the taxable property of the township road district. The levy shall be in addition to all other levies authorized for township or township road district purposes, and subject only to the limitation on the combined maximum rate for all taxes in force. The taxes so authorized shall be placed by the county auditor upon the tax duplicate against the taxable property of the township road district, and collected by the county treasurer as other taxes. When collected, the taxes shall be paid to the fiscal officer of the township in which the township road district has been erected, and the money so received shall be under the control of the board of township trustees for the purposes for which the taxes were levied.