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Ohio Rev Code § 743.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.20 | Ownership of Water Works When Municipal Corporations Are Annexed.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Upon the annexation of one municipal corporation to another, the water works theretofore constructed by either shall thereby become the property of the united municipal corporation, and shall thereafter be managed by the director of public service of the city or the board of trustees of public affairs of the village to which such annexation is made.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.21 | Termination of Contract Upon Annexation.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A contract entered into by one municipal corporation for the supply of water to another, as provided by section 743.18 of the Revised Code, shall be terminated by an annexation under section 743.20 of the Revised Code, and so much of the debt incurred by either, in the construction of a water works, as remains unpaid, shall thereafter be a charge upon the united municipal corporation, to the same extent that the separate debt of either was, before the union, a charge upon the municipal corporation which constructed such water works.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.22 | Tax for Payment of Interest, Lien on Property.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|For the purpose of paying the interest on money borrowed for the erection and completion of a water works, during the erection and completion thereof and before the water works is put into operation, a tax of sufficient amount shall be assessed and collected each year, in the usual manner of levying and collecting taxes in the municipal corporation, upon all the taxable property thereof.For the purpose of paying the interest on any money which a municipal corporation has borrowed for the erection or extension of a water works, and after such water works has been placed in operation, and for the building of machinery, a tax of sufficient amount may be assessed and collected each year by the legislative authority thereof, in addition to the amount authorized by law, upon all the taxable property, both real and personal, in such municipal corporation.Such tax, when levied and assessed, shall be a lien upon the property upon which it is levied, and a charge against the owners thereof, and shall be certified to the county auditor, placed upon the tax list in a separate column thereof, collected as other taxes, and paid into and be under the same control as the water-works funds.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.23 | Laying Pipes in Highway.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may prescribe by ordinance for the laying of water pipes in all highways about to be paved, macadamized, or otherwise permanently improved, and for the assessment of the cost and expense thereof upon the lots or parcels of land adjoining or abutting upon the highways in which they are laid. In no case, except as a sanitary measure, shall such legislative authority require any house connections to be built further from the main pipe than the outer line of the curbstone.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.24 | Municipal Corporations May Contract for a Water Supply - Contract to Be Submitted to a Vote.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A municipal corporation may contract with any individual or an incorporated company for supplying water for fire purposes, or for cisterns, reservoirs, streets, squares, and other public places within its limits, or for the purpose of supplying the citizens of such municipal corporation with water for such time, and upon such terms as is agreed upon. Such contract shall not be executed or binding upon the municipal corporation until it has been ratified by a vote of the electors thereof, at a special or general election. The municipal corporation shall have the same power to protect such water supply and prevent the pollution thereof as though the water works were owned by such municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.25 | Jurisdiction of Municipal Corporations to Prevent Water Pollution.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No person shall pollute a running stream, the water of which is used for domestic purposes by a municipal corporation, by putting therein a putrid or offensive substance, injurious to health. The director of public service of a city or board of trustees of public affairs of a village shall enforce this section. The jurisdiction of a municipal corporation to prevent the pollution of its water supply and to provide a penalty therefor shall extend twenty miles beyond the municipal corporation limits.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.26 | Regulation of Price of Electric Light, Gas, Sewage Disposal, and Water.

Effective: September 19, 1961|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 500 - 104th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation in which electric lighting companies, natural or artificial gas companies, gaslight or coke companies, sewage disposal system companies, or companies for supplying water for public or private consumption, are established, or into which their wires, mains, or pipes are conducted, may regulate the price which such companies may charge for electric light, or for gas for lighting or fuel purposes, or for the disposal of sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes, or for water for public or private consumption, furnished by such companies to the citizens, or to the public grounds, buildings, streets, lanes, alleys, avenues, wharves, and landing places, or for fire protection. Such companies shall in no event charge more for electric light, natural or artificial gas, or for sewage disposal services, or water furnished to such municipal corporation or individuals than the price specified by ordinance of the legislative authority. The legislative authority may regulate and fix the price which such companies shall charge for the rent of their meters, and the ordinance may provide that such price shall include the use of meters to be furnished by such companies, which shall be furnished and kept in repair by such companies at no separate charge, either directly or indirectly, for the use or repair of the meters.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.27 | Free Use of Municipally Owned Public Utilities.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of any municipal corporation owning and operating municipal water, gas, or electric light plants, may provide by ordinance that the products of such plants, when used for municipal or public purposes, shall be furnished free of charge.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.28 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.28 | Negotiation of One-Price Schedule Contract.

Effective: September 28, 1979|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 156 - 113th General Assembly|(A) Where the legislative authority of a municipal corporation fixes the price at which a company shall furnish electricity or either natural or artificial gas to the citizens or to public buildings, or for the purpose of lighting the streets, alleys, avenues, wharves, landing places, public grounds, or other places, or for other purposes, for a period not exceeding ten years, and the company or person to furnish such utility assents thereto, by written acceptance, filed in the office of the auditor or clerk of the municipal corporation, the legislative authority may, for the purpose of exercising the rights of the municipal corporation under division (B) of this section, at any time during such period negotiate with the company a new contract establishing the one-price schedule provided for under division (B) of this section, provided said new contract will not take effect until the expiration of the existing contract and such new contract will remain in effect for the balance of the existing term of the new one-price schedule.(B) Two or more municipal corporations may agree to negotiate one price schedule under which a gas, natural gas, or electric light company shall furnish its service to the residents of the municipal corporations so agreeing. Such a schedule shall apply uniformly in such municipal corporations for a period no longer than ten years. Upon written receipt of a joint notification by the mayors of a group of municipal corporations that they have each, by ordinance, expressed their intent to negotiate jointly, a gas, natural gas, or electric light company shall, within ninety days, commence joint negotiation of a price schedule with such municipal corporations. Where such negotiation does not, within ninety days after its commencement, result in an agreement between the group of municipal corporations and the company, the group may exercise the rights of a municipal corporation under section 743.26 of the Revised Code on the same basis as if it were a single municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.29 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.29 | Surveys for Construction and Repair of Public Works of Municipal Corporations.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authorities of municipal corporations may make surveys of water works, sewerage systems, or other public works or improvements which they are by law authorized to construct, operate, maintain, or repair, the construction, improvement, enlargement, or repair of which is contemplated, whether governmental or proprietary, and they may proceed in the manner provided in this section.The legislative authority of municipal corporations desiring to make such a survey shall adopt a resolution declaring the purpose and necessity therefor. In making such surveys, such legislative authorities may call upon engineering officers or employees regularly employed by the municipal corporation, whether elected or appointed, or they may authorize or enter into, as the case may be, contracts for the services of registered professional engineers to make such surveys.The surveys authorized by this section may include drawings, plans, specifications, estimates of cost of labor and materials, and other items of cost, and such other facts, material, data, reports, and other information and recommendations as the legislative authority deems advisable or necessary for the planning and construction of the improvement proposed or the enlargement, improvement, replacement, or repair of an existing improvement or work.Agreements entered into for such surveys shall be deemed contracts for professional services and may provide for preliminary surveys or the making of detailed plans, or both, and may also provide for engineer-supervision of the work. No such contract shall be valid unless one or more of the services to be performed thereunder are begun within one year after the contract date.Such contracts shall be executed in triplicate and shall be signed by the proper officers of the municipal corporation, as in the case of other contracts of such municipal corporation, and by the engineer agreeing to perform such service, and one copy thereof shall be filed with the fiscal officer of the municipal corporation, whose certificate as provided in section 5705.41 of the Revised Code shall not be required. Payment therefor may be from the general fund or any other fund legally available for such use at such times as are agreed upon, and, where bonds or notes are sold to pay the cost of work to which such survey related, such funds may be used to pay any part of the consideration under such contract or to reimburse the fund from which payment was made.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.30 | Occupation of Streets by Legislative Authority for Gas Purposes.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If at any time any company, mentioned in section 743.28 of the Revised Code, required by the legislative authority to lay pipes and light a street, alley, avenue, wharf, landing place, or public ground or building, refuses or neglects for six months after being notified by the legislative authority to comply with such requirement, the legislative authority may lay pipes and erect gasworks for lighting such streets, alleys, or public grounds, and all other such places not already lighted, and such company shall be precluded from using or occupying any of the streets, alleys, or public grounds or buildings not already furnished with gas pipes of the company and the legislative authority may open any street for the purpose of so conveying gas.At any time after such default, the legislative authority may permit such companies to use and occupy the streets, alleys, and public grounds of the municipal corporation for the purpose of lighting them and furnishing gas to the citizens and public buildings.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.31 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.31 | Forfeiture of Charter for Neglect to Furnish Gas - Exception.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Any gaslight company which neglects to furnish gas to the citizens and other consumers of gas or to the municipal corporation in accordance with the prices fixed and established by the legislative authority shall forfeit all rights of such company under the charter by which it has been established, and the legislative authority may proceed to erect, or, by ordinance, empower any person to erect gasworks for the supply of gas to such municipal corporation and its citizens.A temporary failure to furnish gas shall not operate as a forfeiture, unless such failure is through the neglect or misconduct of such gaslight or gaslight and coke company.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.32 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.32 | Provision by Legislative Authority for Electric Current and Gas Inspection.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In a municipal corporation in which gasworks are constructed, the legislative authority thereof may provide, by ordinance, for the appointment of an officer, to be known as inspector of gas, whose compensation shall be fixed by the legislative authority, and whose duty it shall be to inspect all gas and gas meters, certify the correctness of all bills against consumers of gas, make photometric tests, and perform such other duties as are prescribed by ordinance. The legislative authority may also provide for the inspection and testing of meters used for measuring electric current for electric light, power, or other purposes, furnished by any individual or company within the municipal corporation, and may prescribe a suitable charge for such inspection and testing, and the manner of collecting it.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.33 | Exclusive Monopoly Shall Not Be Allowed to Gas Companies.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall not agree by ordinance, contract, or otherwise with any person for the construction or extension of gasworks for manufacturing or supplying the municipal corporation or its inhabitants with gas, which gives or continues to such person the exclusive privilege of using the streets, lanes, commons, or alleys for the purpose of conveying gas to the municipal corporation or the citizens thereof, or which deprives the legislative authority of the right to designate, inspect, or regulate the kind of meter to be used for the correct measurement of the gas furnished under such agreement, or which does not specify the exact quality of the gas to be furnished, and reserve to the legislative authority the right to enforce an exact compliance with such specification under such rules as it prescribes. The legislative authority shall not make any such agreement which does not secure to it the right to purchase such works, and all the appurtenances belonging thereto, at any time within the existence of such contract or agreement.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.34 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.34 | Legislative Authority May Erect or Purchase Gas or Electric Works.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may erect gasworks or electric works at the expense of the municipal corporation, or purchase any such works already erected therein.If the legislative authority and the owner of such works are unable to agree upon the compensation to be paid therefor, the legislative authority may proceed in the manner provided in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. A contract existing between any village and such person, company, or corporation for the public or street lighting shall be considered as an element of value in fixing the compensation to be paid for such works.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.35 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.35 | Sale of Natural Gas to Village.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When a municipal corporation is the owner of a natural gas plant by which the citizens thereof are supplied with natural gas, and such natural gas is so supplied through pipes, from a point beyond the limits of such municipal corporation, which pass through the limits of a village, the municipal corporation may sell natural gas to such village, or to a company, for the use of such village and the citizens thereof. Such gas shall be delivered at a reducing station located within one hundred feet of the main pipe line.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.36 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.36 | Delivery of Gas Outside of Municipal Corporation - Sales for Manufacturing Purposes.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When a municipal corporation is the owner of a natural gas plant for the purpose of supplying the citizens thereof with natural gas for fuel, the legislative authority thereof may provide for supplying natural gas, at rates to be determined by it, to persons living outside of and in the vicinity of such municipal corporation, and to county homes, children's homes, and other public institutions within or without such municipal corporation.To encourage the location or establishment of manufacturing industries within such municipal corporation, the legislative authority may reduce the price of gas to be used to operate such manufacturing, or may donate it for a term of years for such purpose. This section shall be inoperative if the municipal corporation or the citizens thereof are thereby deprived of a full supply of such gas.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.37 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.37 | Laying of Gas Pipes - Assessment of Costs.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may prescribe, by ordinance, for the laying down of gas pipes in highways about to be paved, macadamized, or otherwise permanently improved, and for the assessment of the cost and expense thereof upon the lots or parcels of land adjoining or abutting upon the highways in which they are laid. In no case, excepting as a sanitary measure, shall the legislative authority require house connections to be built further from the main pipe than the outer line of the curbstone.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.38 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.38 | Contracts to Supply Municipal Corporation With Electric Light or Gas.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A municipal corporation may contract with any company for supplying such municipal corporation with electric light and natural or artificial gas for the purpose of lighting or heating the streets, squares, and other public places and buildings therein.
Ohio Rev Code § 743.39 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water|Section 743.39 | Right of Eminent Domain in Municipal Corporations for Public Service Enterprises.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|For the purpose of erecting or building dams across rivers or streams to raise and maintain a head of water, constructing and maintaining canals, locks, and race ways to regulate and carry such head of water to a plant or power house where electricity is to be generated, erecting and maintaining poles whereon to attach or sink wires or cables to carry and transmit electricity, transporting natural gas, petroleum, water, or electricity through or by means of tubing, pipes, conduits, wires, or cables, storing, transporting, or transmitting water, natural gas, or petroleum, or generating and transmitting electricity, a municipal corporation may enter upon any private land to examine or survey lines for such tubing, pipes, conduits, poles and wires, reservoirs, dams, canals, race ways, plant, or power house and to ascertain the number of acres overflowed by reason of the construction of such dams. The municipal corporation may appropriate so much thereof as is necessary for the laying down or building of such facilities and for the erection of tanks and reservoirs for the storage of water for transporting stations along such lines, and such buildings as are necessary for such purpose, as well as land overflowed.