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Ohio Rev Code § 5552.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5552 | Road Access Management|Section 5552.07 | Board to Hear Appeals.

Effective: October 24, 2002|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 366 - 124th General Assembly|A board of county commissioners or board of township trustees that adopts access management regulations under section 5552.02 of the Revised Code shall include in those regulations the designation of a board to hear and decide appeals when it is alleged that there is error in any order, requirement, decision, or determination made by an administrative official in the enforcement of the regulations. This appellate board may be the board itself acting in an administrative capacity, or some other board appointed by the board of county commissioners or board of township trustees, whichever is applicable. The regulations also shall authorize that appellate board to grant variances that are not contrary to the public interest from the terms of the regulations where, owing to special conditions, a literal enforcement of the regulations will result in unnecessary hardship, and so that the spirit of the regulations will be observed and substantial justice done.
Ohio Rev Code § 5552.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5552 | Road Access Management|Section 5552.08 | Permits.

Effective: October 24, 2002|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 366 - 124th General Assembly|(A) A permit issued under access management regulations adopted under section 5552.02 of the Revised Code shall prescribe the limitations on, as well as the permitted uses of, the permit. No modifications or amendments to the permit shall be made once it is issued. To be subject to a different permit, a person shall apply for a new permit that specifically supersedes the existing permit.(B) A board of county commissioners or a board of township trustees, as applicable, may charge a permit fee not to exceed the actual cost of administering the permit.
Ohio Rev Code § 5552.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5552 | Road Access Management|Section 5552.09 | Regulations Effective Date.

Effective: October 24, 2002|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 366 - 124th General Assembly|Any access management regulations adopted under section 5552.02 of the Revised Code become effective on the thirty-first day following the date of their adoption unless otherwise indicated in the regulations. The board adopting the regulations shall publish notice of their adoption, and of their availability at the board's office, in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the county or township, as applicable, within ten days after their adoption. The board also shall provide a copy of the regulations to the department of transportation district deputy director for the district in which the county or township is located.
Ohio Rev Code § 5552.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5552 | Road Access Management|Section 5552.10 | Administering Regulations for Management of Access.

Effective: December 20, 2005|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 107 - 126th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners shall designate the county engineer to administer county access management regulations, except that if the engineer declines to administer the regulations, the board may designate another person, or a planning commission, to administer them. If a board of township trustees adopts access management regulations, the board may administer the regulations or may appoint the township fiscal officer or any other person to administer them, with the advice of the county engineer.If the access management regulations apply to a subdivision and a permit request is filed pertaining to the subdivision, the county engineer, board of township trustees, planning commission, or other person administering the regulations shall approve or disapprove the permit request within the time period for approval of a subdivision without a plat specified in section 711.131 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5552.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5552 | Road Access Management|Section 5552.11 | Rules of Construction.

Effective: October 24, 2002|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 366 - 124th General Assembly|(A) No access management regulation, or amendment to an access management regulation, adopted under section 5552.02 of the Revised Code shall be construed to affect any access point that exists, or on which construction has begun, before the effective date of the regulation or amendment.(B) Division (A) of this section does not prohibit access management regulations adopted under section 5552.02 of the Revised Code from regulating the reconstruction or relocation of access points or from applying when land use is changed in a way that significantly increases the types of traffic or traffic volume on a street or highway.(C) No access management regulation, or amendment to an access management regulation, adopted under section 5552.02 of the Revised Code shall be construed to affect the state highway system or modify any access management standards or procedures established by the director of transportation under sections 5501.31 and 5515.01 of the Revised Code.(D) No access management regulation, or amendment to an access management regulation, adopted under section 5552.02 of the Revised Code shall apply to any streets, highways, or other roadways located in a municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 5552.99 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5552 | Road Access Management|Section 5552.99 | Penalty.

Effective: October 24, 2002|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 366 - 124th General Assembly|Whoever violates an access management regulation adopted under section 5552.02 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars for each offense. Each day of violation is a separate offense.
Ohio Rev Code § 5553.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5553 | County Roads - Establishment; Alteration; Vacation|Section 5553.01 | Improvement Defined.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|As used in sections 5553.02 to 5553.16, inclusive, of the Revised Code, "improvement" means any location, establishment, alteration, widening, straightening, vacation, or change in the direction of a public road, or part thereof, as determined upon by a board of county commissioners or joint board of county commissioners by resolution.
Ohio Rev Code § 5553.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5553 | County Roads - Establishment; Alteration; Vacation|Section 5553.02 | Authority of Board of County Commissioners to Locate, Alter, or Vacate Roads.

Effective: September 28, 1973|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners may locate, establish, alter, widen, straighten, vacate, or change the direction of roads as provided in sections 5553.03 to 5553.16 of the Revised Code. This power extends to all roads within the county, except that as to roads on the state highway system the approval of the director of transportation shall be had. However, no public road shall be located or established, by the board of county commissioners, unless the location or establishment begins on a public road and terminates on a public road, or begins on a public road and services a public park, a state supported educational institution, public school, public aviation area, or a public recreation area, or begins on a public road and services at least three private residences or businesses in the first five hundred feet and one private residence or business in each two hundred feet thereafter.
Ohio Rev Code § 5553.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5553 | County Roads - Establishment; Alteration; Vacation|Section 5553.03 | Width of County Roads.

Effective: February 24, 1986|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 221 - 116th General Assembly|(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, all public roads located and established by the board of county commissioners subsequent to September 6, 1915, shall be of such width, not less than thirty feet, as is determined by the board. If a public road is established upon a county or state line, the board may determine the width of the strip of land in the county to be used for such purposes, but such width shall not be less than fifteen feet.(B) The board of county commissioners may locate and establish public roads that are less than thirty but not less than twenty feet in width, when all of the following conditions are met:(1) The roads have been in continuous existence and use as private roads since at least 1952, and are located in land platted as a subdivision outside of the limits of a municipal corporation;(2) It is proved to the satisfaction of the board that the acquisition of additional land necessary to meet the width otherwise applying under division (A) of this section will involve or result in damage to structures or dwellings adjacent to the roads;(3) The county engineer submits to the board a detailed report on the kinds and amount of traffic using the roads, and showing that the lesser width is adequate to serve anticipated traffic volumes without endagering persons using the roads.
Ohio Rev Code § 5553.041 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5553 | County Roads - Establishment; Alteration; Vacation|Section 5553.041 | Procedure for Establishing, Altering, or Vacating Road - Petition by Director of Transportation.

Effective: September 28, 1973|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly|When in the construction or improvement of a state highway, in the opinion of the director of transportation, it is in the public interest to vacate or close a public highway or any portion thereof under the jurisdiction of the county commissioners, said director may petition the county commissioners to vacate or close such highway in the same manner the freeholders may petition under sections 5553.04 to 5553.11 of the Revised Code.The county commissioners shall act upon said petition within thirty days and in the event they refuse to vacate or close said highways as requested shall show such action by a proper resolution. The director or an owner of property abutting on the portion of the highway to be vacated or closed may within thirty days appeal to the court of common pleas of the county in which such highway is located upon the reasonableness of the action of the commissioners and the court may affirm or revoke the action of the commissioners and may direct the commissioners to proceed with said vacation or closing as petitioned for. At said hearing before said common pleas court evidence may be introduced for or against the reasonableness and necessity for said requested vacation or closing. The decision of the common pleas court may be appealed to the court of appeals and the supreme court as in other cases.When the vacation or closing is approved in accordance with the above procedure, the compensation and damages, if any, due any property owners abutting the portion of the highway to be vacated or closed shall be paid by the director as part of the costs of acquiring the right-of-way for the state highway improvement and pursuant to procedures provided by law relating to the director. Such payment by the director shall be in lieu of any payment required to be paid by the county under sections 5553.10 and 5553.11 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5553.042 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5553 | County Roads - Establishment; Alteration; Vacation|Section 5553.042 | Losing Right to Abandoned, Unused Township Road.

Effective: June 10, 2004|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 299 - 125th General Assembly|(A) As used in this section:(1) "Electric cooperative" has the same meaning as in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code.(2) "Service facilities" includes any conduit, cable, wire, tower, pole, or other equipment or appliance of a public utility or electric cooperative.(B) A township shall lose all rights in and to any public road, highway, street, or alley which has been abandoned and not used for a period of twenty-one years, after formal proceedings for vacation as provided in sections 5553.04 to 5553.11 of the Revised Code have been taken. Upon petition for vacation of such a public road, highway, street, or alley filed with the board of county commissioners by any abutting landowner, if the board finds that the public road, highway, street, or alley has been abandoned and not used for a period of twenty-one years as alleged in the petition, the board, by resolution, may order the road, highway, street, or alley vacated, and the road, highway, street, or alley shall pass, in fee, to the abutting landowners, as provided by law, and subject to all of the following:(1) Any existing right of way in, over, or under the road, highway, street, or alley for the service facilities of any public utility or electric cooperative for as long as the public utility or electric cooperative continues to render service to the public;(2) The right of ingress and egress for a public utility or electric cooperative to service and maintain its service facilities as provided under section 5553.043 of the Revised Code;(3) The right to trim or remove any trees, shrubs, brush, or other obstacles growing in or encroaching onto the right of way that may affect the operation, use, or access to service facilities;(4) Any right of way for public nonmotorized vehicular recreational use as provided under section 5553.044 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5553.043 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5553 | County Roads - Establishment; Alteration; Vacation|Section 5553.043 | Railroad or Public Utility Company Deemed to Have Permanent Easement in Vacated Portion of Road.

Effective: June 10, 2004|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 299 - 125th General Assembly|When any street, highway, or road, or a portion of any street, highway, or road, is vacated pursuant to any section of this chapter or Chapter 5571. of the Revised Code, and the relocation of any conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles, sewer lines, steam lines, pipelines, gas and water lines, tracks, or other equipment or appliances of any electric cooperative, railroad, or public utility, whether owned privately or by any governmental authority, located on, over, or under the portion of the street, highway, or road affected by the vacation, are not required for purposes of the vacating authority, any affected electric cooperative, railroad, or public utility company shall be deemed to have a permanent easement in the vacated portion of the street, highway, or road for the purpose of accessing, maintaining, operating, renewing, reconstructing, and removing those utility facilities. The permanent easement also confers a right of ingress and egress to service and maintain those utility facilities and a right to trim or remove any trees, shrubs, brush, or other obstacles growing in or encroaching onto the permanent easement that may affect the operation, use, or access to those utility facilities.Nothing in this section shall be construed to relieve an owner of the right to mine coal who petitions for a proposed improvement from the obligation to pay the relocation costs and expenses of public utility or electric cooperative facilities as provided in this chapter or Chapter 5571. of the Revised Code.As used in this section, "electric cooperative" has the same meaning as in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5553.044 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5553 | County Roads - Establishment; Alteration; Vacation|Section 5553.044 | Roads for Public Nonmotorized Vehicular Recreational Use.

Effective: October 20, 1972|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 247 - 109th General Assembly|In any proceeding on a petition or resolution to vacate a road which begins on a public road and ends on a public road, the board of county commissioners may determine the suitability of the road for public nonmotorized vehicular recreational use. Such uses include, but are not limited to, hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, and ski touring. They do not include use by motorcycles, snowmobiles, all purpose vehicles, or any other form of motorized vehicle. If the board finds that such uses will not unreasonably interfere with current land uses along the road, it may vacate the road subject to the preservation of a public right of way at least thirty feet wide within such roadway for such uses.
Ohio Rev Code § 5553.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5553 | County Roads - Establishment; Alteration; Vacation|Section 5553.05 | Hearing on Petition for Vacation of Road.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|(A) In the resolution required by section 5553.04 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall fix a date when it will view the proposed improvement, and also a date for a final hearing thereon. The board shall give notice of the time and place for both such view and hearing by publication once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where such improvement is located or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. Such notice, in addition to the date and place of such view and place and time of the final hearing, shall state briefly the character of such improvement.(B) If the board adopts a resolution to vacate a public road as provided in section 5553.04 of the Revised Code, or if a petition to vacate a public road is filed, the board shall, in addition to the notice of the time and place for hearing prescribed in division (A) of this section, send written notice of the hearing by first class mail at least twenty days before the date of the public hearing to owners of property abutting upon that portion of the road to be vacated, and to the director of natural resources. Such notice shall be mailed to the addresses of such owners appearing on the county auditor's current tax list or the treasurer's mailing list, and such other list or lists that may be specified by the board. The failure of the delivery of such notice does not invalidate any such vacating of the road authorized in the resolution.
Ohio Rev Code § 5553.051 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5553 | County Roads - Establishment; Alteration; Vacation|Section 5553.051 | Fees to Cover Costs of Notice.

Effective: July 1, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 51 - 130th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners may establish a fee to cover the actual costs the county incurs in providing published notice and mailed notice as required by section 5553.05 of the Revised Code. The board may require an initial deposit to be paid at the time a petition for vacation of a road is filed under section 5553.04 of the Revised Code or promptly thereafter. The clerk of the board shall maintain an accurate and detailed accounting of all funds received under this section and expended in providing the required published and mailed notice.
Ohio Rev Code § 5553.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5553 | County Roads - Establishment; Alteration; Vacation|Section 5553.06 | Plat and Survey - Report of County Engineer.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If the board of county commissioners, after viewing the proposed improvement, considers such improvement of sufficient public importance, it shall instruct the county engineer to make an accurate survey and plat of such improvement and furnish an accurate and detailed description describing therein the center line and right of way lines. The engineer shall also furnish an accurate and detailed description of each tract of land which he believes it is necessary to take in the event such improvement is made, together with the name of each owner. The engineer shall, at the time of making such survey, set stakes at the termini of each right of way line, at all angles between such termini, and at sufficient other points on the right of way lines so that the bounds of such improvement are discernible to property owners and other interested persons. The engineer shall make a report in writing to the board on or before the date fixed for the final hearing. Such report shall set forth the opinion of the engineer for or against such improvement. In case it is proposed to locate or establish a road, such report shall state the width to which the improvement shall be opened, shall be accompanied by said plat and detailed and accurate descriptions, and shall be filed with the board.
Ohio Rev Code § 5553.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5553 | County Roads - Establishment; Alteration; Vacation|Section 5553.07 | Report of Engineer Read at Final Hearing - Testimony - Resolution to Proceed.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners shall at the date of the final hearing on the proposed improvement read the report of the county engineer, and it shall hear any testimony bearing upon the necessity of the improvement for the public convenience or welfare and offered either for or against proceeding with the improvement by any interested persons.If the board finds such improvement will serve the public convenience and welfare, it shall by resolution enter such finding on its journal and determine to proceed with the improvement. If it finds such improvement will not serve the public convenience and welfare, it shall refuse to proceed with the improvement.
Ohio Rev Code § 5553.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5553 | County Roads - Establishment; Alteration; Vacation|Section 5553.08 | Determination to Proceed With Improvement After Modification of Plan.

Effective: January 9, 1961|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 104th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners, acting in accordance with sections 5553.04 to 5553.07, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may determine to proceed with the proposed improvement with such modifications and changes in the route and termini as in its judgment the public convenience and welfare require. In making such modifications or changes, the board shall cause an accurate and detailed description thereof to be entered on its journal.