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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 755 | Parks; Recreation › Section 755.42 | Sale of Unused Park Lands at Public Auction.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
Upon the vacation of parks or park lands as provided by section 755.41 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall offer such lands for sale at a public auction. No lands shall be sold until the legislative authority of such municipal corporation gives notice of intention to sell such lands. Such notice shall be published as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code or once a week for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in a municipal corporation in which the sale is to be had. The legislative authority of such municipal corporation or the board or officer having supervision or management of such real estate shall sell such lands to the highest and best bidder, provided that any and all bids made hereunder may be rejected.
When such sale is made, the mayor or other officer of a municipal corporation in which sale is had and in which such lands are located, shall enter into a deed, conveying said lands to the purchaser thereof. At or after the time of sale, the auditor of the county shall place the lands sold hereunder on the tax duplicate of the county at a value to be established by the auditor as in cases where the auditor re-enters property which has been tax exempt on the taxable list of the county.
The proceeds from the sale of lands sold pursuant to this section shall be placed in the general fund of the treasury of the municipal corporation in which such lands are located and may be disbursed as other general fund moneys.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 755 | Parks; Recreation › Section 755.43 | Procedure Where Reversionary Interests Established Upon Vacation of Land.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
When real estate that has been dedicated to or for the use of the public for parks or park lands is vacated by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation pursuant to section 755.41 of the Revised Code, and where reversionary interests have been set up in the event of the non-use of such lands for the dedicated purpose, such reversionary interests shall accelerate and vest in the holders thereof upon such vacation. Thereupon, the auditor of the county shall place the lands on the tax duplicate of the county in the names of such reversionaries as are known to and supplied by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or the board or officer having supervision or management of such real estate. If the legislative authority of such board or officer is unable to furnish the names of such reversioners, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall fix a date on or before which claims to such real estate may be asserted and after which such real estate shall be sold. Notice shall be given of such date and of the sale to be held thereafter, as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code or once each week for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipal corporation wherein such lands are located. In the event that no claims to such lands are asserted or found to be valid, the lands shall be sold pursuant to section 755.42 of the Revised Code, and the title of any holders of reversionary interests shall be extinguished.
Nothing contained in sections 755.41, 755.42, or 755.43 of the Revised Code shall be construed as limiting any of the home rule powers conferred upon municipalities by Article XVIII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 757 | Music; Museums › Section 757.01 | Municipal Band or Orchestra - Tax to Maintain - Submission of Question to Electors.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The taxing authority of any municipal corporation, as defined by section 5705.01 of the Revised Code, shall, upon the filing of a petition therefor, signed by the qualified electors of such municipal corporation equal in number to ten per cent of the votes cast for governor in the last regular election, submit to the vote of the electors of the municipal corporation the question of levying annually for a period of five years a special tax of not to exceed one-half mill outside the ten mill limitation provided for in section 5705.02 of the Revised Code for the purpose of equipping, uniforming, maintaining, and employing a municipal band or orchestra for cultural and entertainment purposes, and to do all things, in so far as funds are available therefor, necessary to accomplish such purpose.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 757 | Music; Museums › Section 757.02 | Certification of Resolution to Board of Elections - Conduct of Election.

Effective:
July 2, 2010
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 48 - 128th General Assembly
Upon the filing of a petition as provided by section 757.01 of the Revised Code, the taxing authority of the municipal corporation shall pass a resolution providing for the submission of the question of levying a tax as provided by such section at the next following municipal election. A copy of such resolution shall be certified by the taxing authority to the board of elections not less than ninety days before the general election in any year in which a municipal election is held, and such board shall submit the question to the electors of the municipal corporation at the succeeding November election. Section 5705.25 of the Revised Code relating to the arrangements for and the conduct of such election, publication thereof, and form of ballot therefor, shall apply to such proposal to the electorate.
If sixty-five per cent of the electors voting on such proposal at the election vote in favor thereof, sections 5705.25 and 5705.26 of the Revised Code, shall apply to the certification and levy of such additional tax.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 757 | Music; Museums › Section 757.03 | Payments to Symphony Associations, Area Arts Councils, Art Museums or Other Similar Organizations by Board of Education.

Effective:
September 15, 2014
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly
As used in sections 757.03 to 757.08 of the Revised Code, "area arts council" means an arts council or other organization the purpose of which is to foster and encourage the development of the arts, including but not limited to, literature, theater, music, the dance, painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, and motion pictures.
In any city or county in which there is a symphony association, area arts council, art museum, or other similar organization, which is incorporated under sections 1702.01 to 1702.58 of the Revised Code, without purpose of profit to any private member or individual, but organized for the purpose of the cultivation and performance of instrumental music, the promotion of the arts, or to maintain a symphony orchestra, the board of education of any school district in such city or the educational service center governing board serving such county, or both, may pay the symphony association, council, art museum, or other organization annually, in quarterly installments, in the case of a school district board of education, a sum of not to exceed one half of one cent on each one hundred dollars of the taxable property of the district and, in the case of an educational service center governing board, a sum of not to exceed one half of one cent on each one hundred dollars of the taxable property of the territory of the service center, as valued on the tax duplicate for the next year before the date of the payment. In order to qualify for such payments, the symphony association, arts council, art museum, or other organization shall, by proper resolution of its board of trustees or other governing body, accept all applicable provisions of sections 757.03 to 757.08 of the Revised Code, and file a certified copy of the resolution with the board of education of such district or with the governing board of such educational service center prior to the date of any payment. The first of such payments may be made in the year after the filing of such certified copy.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 757 | Music; Museums › Section 757.04 | Certification to Board of Education or Educational Service Center Governing Board.

Effective:
September 15, 2014
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly
No symphony association, area arts council, art museum, or other similar organization may receive any of the payments provided for in section 757.03 of the Revised Code until the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization, by a proper resolution adopted by its board of trustees or other governing body, has tendered to the appropriate board of education or the educational service center governing board the following:
(A) The right to nominate as trustees or as members of any other governing body of the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization three members consisting of the following:
(1) One member of the board of education or the educational service center governing board;
(2) Either the superintendent of schools of the school district or an educational service center, or an assistant superintendent of schools of the district or an educational service center;
(3) One member of the music department of the schools maintained by the board of education, to be selected by the superintendent, all three of whom so nominated shall thereupon be elected as trustees or as members of any other governing body.
(B) The right to nominate for membership on the executive committee of the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization one of the three trustees of the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization, representing the board of education or the educational service center governing board as the trustees pursuant to division (A) of this section, who shall thereupon be elected a member of the executive committee;
(C) The right to require the orchestra maintained by the symphony association or any performing groups maintained by the council, art museum, or organization to provide such feasible performances for the public schools or for local school districts within the educational service center system maintained or supervised by the educational service center governing board, as in the joint judgment of the board of trustees of the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization, the superintendent, and the board of education of the school district or the educational service center governing board, will serve the largest interest of the school children of the school district or the area served by the educational service center.
A copy of the resolution, certified by the president and secretary of the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization, shall be filed in the office of the board of education or in the office of the educational service center governing board as a condition precedent to the receipt by the association, council, art museum, or organization of any payments.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 757 | Music; Museums › Section 757.05 | Payments to Symphony Association, Area Arts Council or Organization by City or County.

Effective:
September 15, 2014
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly
In any city or county in which there is a symphony association, an area arts council, an art museum, or other similar organization which is incorporated, organized, and operated in the manner and for the purposes stated in section 757.03 of the Revised Code, such city or county, or both, may pay the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization annually, in quarterly installments, in the case of a city, a sum not to exceed one half of one cent on each one hundred dollars of taxable property of the city as valued on the tax duplicate of the city or, in the case of a county, a sum not to exceed one half of one cent on each one hundred dollars of the taxable property of the county for the year next before the date of each payment. In order to qualify for such payments, the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization shall, by a proper resolution of its board of trustees or other governing body, accept all applicable provisions of sections 757.03 to 757.08 of the Revised Code and file a certified copy of the resolution with the controller of the city or the board of county commissioners prior to the date of any payment. The first of such payments may be made in the year after the filing of such certified copy.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 757 | Music; Museums › Section 757.06 | Certification to the City or County.

Effective:
September 15, 2014
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly
No symphony association, area arts council, art museum, or other similar organization may receive any of the payments provided for in section 757.05 of the Revised Code until the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization, by a proper resolution adopted by its board of trustees or other governing body, has tendered to the mayor, or to the legislative authority of the city if there is no mayor, or to the board of county commissioners, the following:
(A) The right to nominate as trustees or as members of any other governing body of the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization, three members to be appointed by the mayor, or by the legislative authority of the city if there is no mayor, or by the board of county commissioners, one of which nominees may, in the discretion of such mayor or legislative authority, or board of county commissioners, be the mayor, or a member of the legislative authority, or the board of county commissioners, all three of whom so nominated shall thereupon be elected as trustees or as members of any other governing body;
(B) The right to nominate for membership on the executive committee of the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization, one of the three trustees of the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization, representing the city or county as the trustees pursuant to division (A) of this section, which nominee may, in the discretion of the mayor or the legislative authority of the city if there is no mayor, or the board of county commissioners, be the mayor, or a member of the legislative authority, or the board of county commissioners, which nominee shall thereupon be elected a member of the executive committee;
(C) The right to require the orchestra maintained by the symphony association or any performing groups maintained by the council or organization to provide such feasible popular performances at low cost, as in the joint judgment of the board of trustees of the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization, and the mayor or the legislative authority of the city if there is no mayor, or the board of county commissioners, will serve the largest interests of the citizens of the city or county.
A copy of the resolution, certified by the president and secretary of the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization, shall be filed in the office of the city controller of the city or the board of county commissioners of the county, as a condition precedent to the receipt by the association, council, art museum, or similar organization of any payments.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 757 | Music; Museums › Section 757.07 | Annual Filing of Resolutions Unnecessary.

Effective:
September 15, 2014
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly
After any symphony association, area arts council, art museum, or other similar organization has once filed with the board of education, the city controller, or the board of county commissioners the resolutions provided for in sections 757.03 to 757.06 of the Revised Code, it need not renew the same from year to year, but each original resolution continues in force for the purposes named until, by like resolution, likewise certified and filed, any original resolution is revoked or rescinded.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 757 | Music; Museums › Section 757.08 | Continuation of Payments.

Effective:
September 15, 2014
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly
So long as any symphony association, area arts council, art museum, or other similar organization does all the things it agreed to do as considerations for the benefits to be received by it under sections 757.03 to 757.08 of the Revised Code, or is able, willing, and ready to perform the same, the appropriate board of education and the educational service center governing board and the city and county may continue to make the several payments as provided in such sections.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 757 | Music; Museums › Section 757.21 | Compensation to Private Company for Maintaining Free Museum.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The legislative authority of each city may appropriate from its general funds, or may levy and collect a tax, not to exceed one fourth of one mill on each dollar of the taxable property of the city each year, and pay it to a private corporation or association not for profit maintaining and furnishing a free museum of art, science, or history for the benefit of the inhabitants of the city as compensation for the use and maintenance thereof. The legislative authority may enter into a contract or agreement with such corporation or association setting forth the terms upon which the appropriations are to be made and paid.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.01 | Cemeteries and Crematories.

Effective:
October 20, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 18 - 123rd General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may provide public cemeteries and crematories for burial or incineration of the dead and regulate public and private cemeteries and crematories. Any cemetery established by a municipal corporation shall register with the division of real estate in the department of commerce pursuant to section 4767.03 of the Revised Code. Any cemetery of that nature is subject to Chapter 4767. and to sections 517.23 to 517.25 and 1721.211 of the Revised Code in addition to being subject to this chapter.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.02 | Cemeteries Outside Corporate Limits.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may provide a place for the interment of the dead outside of the corporate limits, and the police powers of the municipal corporation shall extend to those places.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.03 | Powers of Legislative Authority as to Cemeteries.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The legislative authority of a municipal corporation owning a public burial ground or cemetery, whether within or without the municipal corporation, may pass and provide for the enforcement of ordinances necessary to carry into effect sections 759.02 to 759.48, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and may regulate such public burial grounds and cemeteries, the improvement thereof, the burial of the dead therein, define the tenure and conditions on which lots therein shall be held, and protect such burial grounds and cemeteries and all fixtures thereon.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.04 | Power to Sell Portions of Cemetery.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may sell any portion of the cemetery grounds owned by it and not used for the burial of the dead, which grounds are unsuitable for burial purposes, and may purchase with the proceeds thereof other suitable lands lying contiguous thereto. No such sale shall be made until the legislative authority has contracted for an equal or greater quantity of land suitable for burial purposes. For the purpose of paying any indebtedness arising out of the purchase or improvement of such cemetery, the director of public service in cities, or the board of cemetery trustees in villages, with the consent of the legislative authority, may sell or mortgage such portion of the real estate belonging to the cemetery as has not been used for burial purposes, or as may not, in its opinion, be needed for such purposes, and the money arising from the sale or mortgage thereof shall be applied by it to the payment of the indebtedness, and for no other purpose. Upon such sale, if there is a surplus after the payment of the indebtedness, such surplus money shall be used by the director or the board in the improvement of the cemetery grounds, and for no other purpose.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.05 | Burials Prohibited Within Municipal Corporation.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may prohibit the interment of the dead within the municipal corporation limits, and, for the purpose of making such prohibition effective, may impose proper fines and penalties and cause any body, interred contrary thereto, to be taken up and buried without the limits of the municipal corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.06 | Bond of Officer to Secure Cemetery Funds.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may require the officer authorized to receive and disburse moneys arising from the sale of lots, or otherwise, and to invest, manage, and control the property and funds in his hands, to give a bond to the municipal corporation with sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duty, account for all moneys received by him, and pay over to his successor all moneys or other property unexpended. Such bond shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the municipal corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.07 | Conveyance of Lands Abandoned for Cemetery Purposes.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When a municipal corporation holds land within its limits which has been used as a cemetery or burial ground, in which land interments have been prohibited by the municipal corporation, and it has been decided to remove the bodies interred therein, the legislative authority thereof may sell or otherwise dispose of such land, but the sale or transfer does not give the purchaser possession until the bodies therein interred have been removed, and all monuments and tombstones are removed and re-erected at the place of reinterment of the remains of each person.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.08 | Title Vested in Municipal Corporation.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The title to and right of possession of public cemeteries and burial grounds located within a municipal corporation and set apart and dedicated as public cemeteries or burial grounds, and grounds used as such by the public but not dedicated, except those owned or under the care of a religious or benevolent society, or an incorporated company or association, are hereby vested in the municipal corporation in which such cemetery or burial ground is located.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.09 | Duties of Director of Public Service.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The director of public service shall take possession and charge, and have the entire management, control, and regulation of public burial grounds and cemeteries located in or belonging to the city, subject to its ordinances. The director may direct the laying of such grounds out into lots, avenues, walks, and paths, or other subdivisions, which lots shall be numbered and the avenues named. A plat thereof shall be made so as to exhibit a fair and distinct outline of the grounds, and such plat shall be kept in the office of the auditor of the city for the use of the public.
The director shall direct all the improvements and embellishments of such grounds and lots, protect and preserve them, and, subject to the approval of the legislative authority of the city, appoint necessary superintendents, employees, and agents, and shall determine their term of office and the amount of their compensation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.10 | Institution of Suits.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The director of public service shall, when necessary, institute suits in the name of the city to recover the possession of burial grounds, remove trespassers therefrom, and recover damages for injuries thereto or to any tombstone or monument therein. He shall see that all laws and ordinances passed for the protection of public burial grounds and cemeteries, and the burial of the dead, are enforced.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.11 | Bylaws and Regulations.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The director of public service may make bylaws and regulations, not inconsistent with the ordinance of the city and the constitution and laws of this state, for the management and protection of the burial grounds and cemeteries under his control, and for the burial of the dead therein, and they shall have the same validity as the ordinances of the city. The director shall perform such other duties pertaining to the office as the legislative authority by ordinance prescribes.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.12 | City May Accept and Maintain Permanent Fund for Care of Lots in Cemeteries.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
In the bylaws and regulations provided for by section 759.11 of the Revised Code, the director of public service shall declare the amount of money he will accept by agreement, gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise and hold as a permanent fund of the cemetery. He shall pledge the faith and credit of the city for the perpetual care of the lots designated, using only the interest or income of the money. On receipt of the sum of money so designated, the director shall issue therefor a written receipt and acknowledgment thereof, signed by him, binding the faith and credit of the city to forever hold such money as a permanent fund and to provide perpetual care of the lots therein named, for the use, income, or interest of such money. He shall enter on the minutes of his proceedings full detail of the obligation, and shall enter the receipt and income of the money and the expenditure thereof in detail on his books of accounts, keeping each case separately.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.13 | Price of Lots and Terms of Payment.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The director of public service shall determine the size and price of cemetery lots, the terms of payment therefor, and shall give to each purchaser a receipt, showing the amount paid and a pertinent description of the lots sold. Upon producing such receipt to the proper officer, such purchaser shall be entitled to a deed for the lots described therein.
No more shall be charged for lots than is necessary to reimburse the city for the expense of lands purchased or appropriated for cemetery purposes, and to keep in order and embellish the grounds. Provision shall be made for the interment in such cemetery of persons buried at the expense of the city.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.14 | Sale of Lots - Laying Off and Embellishing of Grounds - Donations.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The director of public service shall have entire charge and control of receipts from the sale of cemetery lots, and of laying off and embellishing the grounds. He may receive donations by bequest, devise, deed of gift, or otherwise, or money or other property, the principal or interest of which is to be used for the enlargement, improvement, embellishment, or care of the cemetery grounds generally, or for any particular parts or lots therein, as the donor directs, or as the director determines if no such direction is given. The director shall sell lots, receive payment therefor, direct the improvements, and make the expenditures under such rules and orders as he prescribes, and shall invest, manage, and control property received by donations and surplus funds in his hands from any source.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.15 | Funds of Cemeteries to Be Deposited - Investment - Payments.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The director of public service shall turn over to the legislative authority of the city property on hand under his control or held by him as a permanent fund, for cemetery purposes, or such money as may thereafter come to him for such purposes, and shall render a full statement thereof, by whom, when, and for what purpose paid. The legislative authority shall acknowledge receipt thereof to the director in writing signed by its clerk.
By resolution duly passed and entered on the minutes of its proceedings, the legislative authority shall pledge the faith and credit of the city to forever hold such money as a permanent fund, and pay to the director in semiannual payments as interest on the funds, a sum sufficient to provide perpetual care of the lots as agreed by the director. The legislative authority shall invest such funds and keep them invested in interest-bearing debts of the city, and if no such debts are owed by the city, then in safe interest-bearing bonds, or in interest-bearing certificates of deposit in financial institutions within this state authorized by law to accept deposits and subject to inspection by either the United States or this state. All such money and the income thereof shall be exempt from taxation, the same as other cemetery property.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.17 | Annual and Quarterly Report to Legislative Authority.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
On the first Monday of January each year, or as soon thereafter as is practicable, the director of public service shall report in writing to the legislative authority of the city the number of cemetery lots sold, to whom sold, and the amount received therefor, during the year preceding, and a detailed statement of the expenditures during the same period, showing the time and purpose of each payment and to whom made.
Such report shall contain a pertinent statement as to whether any funds on hand are invested, the character of the securities therefor, and such other matters as the director deems expedient or the legislative authority requires.
The director shall report quarterly to the legislative authority all the moneys received and disbursed by him in the management of the cemetery.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.18 | Enlargement of Grounds.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When, in his judgment , an enlargement of any burial or cemetery grounds becomes necessary, or grounds for additional cemeteries should be provided, the director of public service shall report such fact to the legislative authority of the city, and recommend such action as he deems most expedient.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.19 | Transfer of Village Cemetery - Powers and Duties of Township Trustees.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
In all cases in which the legislative authority of a village which has title to a cemetery fails to take proper care thereof, and the township in which the village is located desires to control such cemetery, the village may, by ordinance, transfer any real property acquired for cemetery purpose to the board of township trustees, upon such terms as are agreed to between the village and the board.
The board may receive and accept transfer, and receive and accept from any other source or acquire in any other manner, any real property for the purpose of such cemetery, and may use and apply it for such purpose and enter into any contract relating thereto. After such transfer has been completed the board shall regulate the cemetery as provided in sections 517.01 to 517.32, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.20 | Board of Cemetery Trustees.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The mayor of a village owning a public burial ground or cemetery may appoint a board to be known as the board of cemetery trustees. Such board shall consist of three members, whose term of office shall be three years, but the term of office of the members first appointed shall extend until the first municipal election thereafter, and until the officers chosen at such election are qualified and placed in office. Thereafter the mayor shall appoint a board of three trustees as follows: One for a term of six years, one for a term of four years, and one for a term of two years. Biennially thereafter, after each municipal election has been held and the newly elected officers have been qualified and placed in office, the mayor shall at the first meeting of the legislative authority of such village appoint one member to the board whose term of office shall be for six years.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.21 | Vacancies.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
In case of vacancy in the board of cemetery trustees in any village appointed as provided in section 759.20 of the Revised Code by reason of death, disability, or removal from office of a member, the mayor shall appoint a member to fill such vacancy. An appointment to fill a vacancy shall be made at the first meeting of the legislative authority of the village after such vacancy has been brought to the attention of the mayor and the legislative authority.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.22 | Removals.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The mayor of a village in which there is a board of cemetery trustees appointed under section 759.20 of the Revised Code may remove from office any member of such board for misconduct, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.23 | Organization of Board of Trustees for Village Cemeteries.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The board of cemetery trustees shall have the powers and perform the duties prescribed by sections 759.09 to 759.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code, for the director of public service in cities.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.25 | Villages May Tax for Funeral Coach or Vault on Vote of Electors.

Effective:
July 2, 2010
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 48 - 128th General Assembly
The legislative authority of a village may levy a tax for the purchase of a funeral coach or the construction of a vault for the dead, for the use of the village. Such resolution shall be filed with the board of elections not later than four p.m. of the ninetieth day before the day of the election. The question of levying such tax, for either or both purposes, and the amount asked therefor, shall be separately submitted to the electors of the village at a general election. Twenty days' notice of such election shall be given by posting in at least three public places in the village. The notice shall state specifically the amount to be raised, and for what purpose. If a majority of all the votes cast at the election is in favor of either or both propositions, they shall be considered adopted and the tax authorized. The funeral coach and vault shall be under the control of the board of cemetery trustees of the village where there is such board, otherwise under the control of the legislative authority or person appointed by it.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.26 | Form of Ballot.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The electors of a village voting at an election as provided by section 759.25 of the Revised Code shall have placed on their ballots the words, "Tax for Funeral Coach--Yes," or "Tax for Funeral Coach--No," and upon the same ballot, "Tax for Vault--Yes," or "Tax for Vault--No," and may vote for one proposition and against the other, or for or against both.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.27 | Union of Municipal Corporations and Townships for Cemetery Purposes.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The legislative authorities of two or more municipal corporations, or of one or more municipal corporations and the boards of township trustees of one or more townships, when conveniently located for that purpose, may unite in the establishment and management of a cemetery, by the purchase or appropriation of land therefor not exceeding one hundred acres, to be paid for as provided by section 759.30 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.28 | Appropriation of Land for Cemetery Purposes.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When an appropriation of land for cemetery purposes mentioned in section 759.27 of the Revised Code becomes necessary, it shall be made by the municipal corporation, or if there is more than one such municipal corporation, then by the one having the largest number of inhabitants at the last federal census. Such municipal corporation, in making the appropriation, shall act for itself and any other municipal corporation or township uniting with it, and the proceedings therefor shall be the same as provided in section 719.01 to 719.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, where the appropriation is to be made for the use of the corporation alone.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.29 | Titles Vested.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The title to the grounds of the cemetery provided for in section 759.27 of the Revised Code, whether by purchase or otherwise, shall vest in and be held by the municipal corporation making the appropriation, in trust for the use of its inhabitants and the inhabitants of the other municipal corporations or townships in common. Provisions shall be made for the interment in such cemetery of all persons buried at the expense of the municipal corporation or township.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.30 | Apportionment of Expense.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The expense of the purchase, or of the proceedings in case of appropriation and the damages awarded, or both, for land for cemetery purposes under section 759.27 of the Revised Code, shall be borne by the municipal corporations and townships in proportion to the property of each on the duplicate for taxation. The amount of bonds issued by each for such cemetery purposes shall be in the same proportion, and the percentage of taxation for all such cemetery purposes shall be the same in the municipal corporations and townships, but moneys in the hands of the board of cemetery trustees, derived from any source, not needed to keep in order or embellish the grounds, by resolution of the legislative authorities of the municipal corporations and the boards of township trustees, may be applied to the expenses of purchase, or of appropriation and damages awarded, or both, in securing additional lands for the cemetery.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.31 | Control and Management - Compensation.

Effective:
September 9, 1988
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 704 - 117th General Assembly
A cemetery owned in common as provided by section 759.27 of the Revised Code, shall be under the control and management of the board of township trustees and the legislative authorities of the municipal corporations, and their authority over it and duties in relation thereto shall be the same as where the cemetery is the exclusive property of a single municipal corporation.
A board of union cemetery trustees may fix the compensation of the members thereof, and such compensation shall be in accordance with the time actually consumed by such members in the discharge of their official duties, but such compensation shall not exceed fifteen dollars for each meeting nor exceed one hundred eighty dollars per year. Such compensation shall be in addition to compensation received as a member of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or of the board of township trustees.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.32 | Power to Enforce Ordinances.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The legislative authority of a municipal corporation owning a cemetery in common with any other municipal corporation or township may pass and enforce all ordinances necessary to carry into effect sections 759.27 to 759.44, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and such as are deemed necessary for the preservation and regulation of the cemetery and the protection thereof, and for the punishment of any person violating the ordinances, rules, and regulations, relating to the cemetery. The mayor and police officers of the municipal corporation shall have complete jurisdiction and authority to enforce all ordinances, rules, and regulations, as if the cemetery grounds were located within or owned exclusively by such municipal corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.33 | Discrimination Forbidden.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No distinction or discrimination of any kind shall be made by the board of cemetery trustees of a cemetery owned in common as provided in section 759.27 of the Revised Code in favor of one municipal corporation against another, or in favor of a municipal corporation against a township, or in favor of a township against a municipal corporation, but the affairs of the cemetery shall in all respects be managed as though it were owned and governed in the interests of the municipal corporation or township alone.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.34 | Joint Meeting.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
In case of a union for cemetery purposes between a municipal corporation and a township as provided by section 759.27 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and the board of township trustees shall have a joint meeting at the council-chamber of the municipal corporation, on the day of the first regular meeting of the legislative authority in the month of May each year, for the purpose of determining the rate of tax to be levied upon the taxable property of the municipal corporation and the township for such purposes. Upon the passage of a joint resolution by a majority of the members of the legislative authority and the board of township trustees, fixing the rate of taxation, the clerk of the municipal corporation shall certify such rate to the county auditor for assessment and collection. If there is more than one municipal corporation or township united for such purposes, the legislative authorities and boards shall become such joint body with the same powers as if there has been one municipal corporation and one township, and the clerk of the municipal corporation containing the greatest number of inhabitants shall certify to the auditor as provided by this section, the rate of taxation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.341 | Union Cemetery District.

Effective:
October 20, 1987
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 140 - 117th General Assembly
The legislative authority of each municipal corporation and the board of township trustees of each township that has united in the establishment and management of a cemetery under section 759.27 of the Revised Code, by an affirmative vote of a majority of each legislative authority and board, may form a union cemetery district comprised of all of the territory within the united municipal corporation and township for the purpose of levying taxes within the territory of the district for the establishment, operation, and maintenance of the cemetery. The legislative authority and board, acting jointly, shall constitute the taxing authority of the union cemetery district. Notwithstanding sections 759.37, 5705.19, and 5705.191 of the Revised Code, in order to adopt a resolution to levy a tax in excess of the ten-mill limitation within the district, a majority of the members of each legislative authority and board of township trustees constituting the taxing authority must vote in favor of the resolution. In all other matters, when the legislative authority and board are acting jointly as the taxing authority of the union cemetery district, each member of the legislative authority and board shall have one vote as described in section 759.37 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 759 | Cemeteries › Section 759.35 | Joint Meetings to Make Rules.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The boards of township trustees of townships or the legislative authorities of municipal corporations which have a cemetery owned in common as provided in section 759.27 of the Revised Code may at any time call a joint meeting of such legislative authorities and boards on a reasonable notice given by either, for the purpose of making joint rules and regulations for the government of the cemetery, or changing them, and making such orders as are found necessary for the application of moneys arising from the sale of lots, taxes, or otherwise.