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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.02 | Agreements for Joint Construction or Management of Public Work, Utility, or Improvement.

Effective:
March 14, 2003
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 675 - 124th General Assembly
(A) Two or more municipal corporations, one or more municipal corporations and one or more other political subdivisions, or two or more political subdivisions other than municipal corporations may enter into an agreement for the joint construction or management, or construction and management, of any public work, utility, or improvement, benefiting each municipal corporation or other political subdivision or for the joint exercise of any power conferred on municipal corporations or other political subdivisions by the constitution or laws of this state, in which each of the municipal corporations or other political subdivisions is interested. Any such agreement shall be approved by ordinance or resolution, as applicable, passed by the legislative body of each municipal corporation or other political subdivision that is a party to the agreement. The ordinance or resolution shall set forth the agreement in full and, when approved, shall be a binding contract.
(B) Any agreement entered into as provided in this section shall provide for the following:
(1) The method by which the work, utility, or improvement specified in it shall be jointly constructed or managed;
(2) The method by which any specified power shall be jointly exercised;
(3) Apportioning among the contracting municipal corporations or other political subdivisions any expense of jointly constructing, maintaining, or managing any work, utility, or improvement or jointly exercising any power.
(C) Any agreement entered into as provided in this section may provide for either of the following:
(1) Assessing the cost, or any specified part of the cost, of the joint construction, maintenance, or management of any public work, utility, or improvement upon abutting property specially benefited thereby;
(2) Assessing the cost, or any specified part of the cost, of constructing, maintaining, or managing any such public work, utility, or improvement upon the property within any district clearly specified in the agreement, in proportion to benefits derived by that property from the work, utility, or improvement.
(D) Each municipal corporation or other political subdivision may issue bonds for its portion of the cost of any such public work, utility, or improvement, if Chapter 133. of the Revised Code would authorize the issuance of those bonds if the municipal corporation or other political subdivision alone were undertaking the construction of the work, utility, or improvement, and subject to the same conditions and restrictions which would then apply.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.03 | Powers by Ordinance or Resolution.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
All municipal corporations have the general powers mentioned in sections 715.01 to 715.67, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and the legislative authority of such municipal corporations may provide by ordinance or resolution for the exercise and enforcement of such powers.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.04 | Compounding or Release of Claims Due From Banks.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
All municipal corporations may compound or release, in whole or in part, any debt, obligation, judgment, or claim, due the municipal corporation from a bank in process of liquidation or operating under a conservatorship. Where a member of the legislative authority is personally interested as a stockholder in such bank, the legislative authority of such municipal corporation shall enter upon its records a statement of the facts and the reasons for such compounding or release.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.06 | Light, Power, and Heat.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
All municipal corporations may:
(A) Establish, maintain, and operate municipal lighting, power, and heating plants;
(B) Furnish the municipal corporation and the inhabitants thereof with light, power, and heat;
(C) Procure everything necessary for such operations;
(D) Acquire by purchase, lease, or otherwise, the necessary lands for such purposes, within and without the municipal corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.07 | Purchase of Gas Without Advertisement or Competitive Bidding.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation owning a municipal gas plant or system of gas distribution may purchase gas and furnish it to such municipal corporation and the inhabitants thereof for the purpose of light, power, and heat. Any municipal corporation may contract to purchase such gas through its appropriate boards or officers for any period, not exceeding ten years, upon the legislative authority of such municipal corporation authorizing and directing the contract to be made. The board or officer may enter into such contract after being so authorized, without advertisement or competitive bidding, irrespective of the amount of money to be expended. Any such municipal corporation may supply to its inhabitants any gas, natural or artificial, so purchased, on such terms and under such regulations as are determined by the proper officers and authorities of the municipal corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.08 | Water Supply.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may provide for a supply of water, by the construction of wells, pumps, cisterns, aqueducts, water pipes, reservoirs, and water works for the protection of such water supply and to prevent the unnecessary waste of water and the pollution thereof. Such municipal corporation may apply moneys received as charges for water to the maintenance, construction, enlargement, and extension of the water system and to the extinguishment of any indebtedness created therefor.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.09 | Limiting Motor Vehicle Parking Tax Rate.

Effective:
July 19, 1995
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 188 - 121st General Assembly
A municipal corporation that imposes an excise or any other tax on the parking, housing, or storage of a motor vehicle in a lot, building, or other facility used for parking, housing, or otherwise storing motor vehicles shall not impose the tax at a rate greater than eight per cent of the fee or consideration charged for the parking, housing, or storage of the motor vehicle.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.13 | Public Band Concerts and Libraries.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may establish, maintain, and regulate free public band concerts and maintain and regulate free public libraries established by the municipal corporation prior to September 4, 1947. Such municipal corporation may purchase books, papers, maps, and manuscripts for such libraries, receive donations and bequests of money or property for such libraries, in trust or otherwise, and provide for the rent and compensation for the use of any existing free public libraries established and managed by a private corporation or association organized for that purpose.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.15 | Ship Canals.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may construct, open, enlarge, excavate, improve, deepen, straighten, or extend, any canal, ship canal, or watercourse located in whole or in part within such municipal corporation, or lying contiguous thereto.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.16 | Places of Correction - Quarters for Municipal Courts and Offices.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may:
(A) Establish, erect, maintain, and regulate jails, morgues, workhouses, station houses, prisons, and farm schools;
(B) Agree with the board of county commissioners of any county in which such municipal corporation is located for the lease of suitable quarters in county buildings, existing or to be erected, for police and municipal courts, police stations, police prosecutors' offices, probation officers' quarters, and other similar municipal purposes.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.18 | Department of Purchase, Construction, and Repair.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may establish and furnish the necessary equipment for a department of purchase, construction, and repair. Such department shall be under the management of the director of public service, who shall purchase all material, supplies, tools, machinery, and equipment, and shall supervise all construction, alterations, and repairs in each of the municipal departments whether established by law or ordinance.
No such purchase, construction, alteration, or repair shall be made except upon requisition by the director, the officer at the head of the department for which it is to be made or done, or upon the order of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, nor shall any purchase, construction, alteration, or repair for any of such departments be made or done except on authority of the legislative authority and under sections 735.05 to 735.09 of the Revised Code, if the cost thereof exceeds the amount specified in section 9.17 of the Revised Code.
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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.19 | Establish and Care for Streets.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may lay off, establish, plat, grade, open, widen, narrow, straighten, extend, improve, keep in order and repair, light, clean, and sprinkle, streets, alleys, public grounds, places and buildings, wharves, landings, docks, bridges, viaducts, and market places, within such municipal corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.20 | Shade Trees.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may regulate the planting, trimming, and preservation of shade trees in streets, alleys, and public grounds and places, and may provide for the planting, removal, trimming, and preservation of such trees and other ornamental shrubbery.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.21 | Power to Acquire, Hold, Lease, Sell, or Donate Lands.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may hold, improve, protect, and preserve public grounds, parks, park entrances, free recreation centers, and boulevards.
Such municipal corporation may acquire by purchase, lease, with privilege of purchase, gift, devise, condemnation, or otherwise, and hold, real estate or any interest therein and other property for the use of the municipal corporation and may sell, lease, or donate by deed, in fee simple to the state, such property as a site for the erection of an armory.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.211 | Assisting Park Districts.

Effective:
September 12, 1967
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 375 - 107th General Assembly
The legislative authority of any municipal corporation may make contributions of moneys, supplies, equipment, office facilities, or other personal property or services to any board of park commissioners established pursuant to Chapter 1545. of the Revised Code for the expenses of park planning, acquisition, management, and improvement. The board of park commissioners may accept such contributions without the approval of the terms by the probate judge.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.22 | Vehicles and Use of Streets.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may:
(A) Regulate the use of carts, drays, wagons, hackney coaches, omnibuses, automobiles, and carriages kept for hire or livery stable purposes;
(B) License and regulate the use of the streets by persons who use vehicles, or solicit or transact business thereon;
(C) Prevent and punish fast driving or riding of animals, or fast driving or propelling of vehicles through the public highways;
(D) Regulate the transportation of articles through such highways and prevent injury to such highways from overloaded vehicles;
(E) Regulate the speed of interurban, traction, and street railway cars within such municipal corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.23 | Impounding and Sale of Fowl or Animals.

Effective:
July 10, 1987
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 352 - 117th General Assembly
Except as otherwise provided in section 955.221 of the Revised Code regarding dogs, a municipal corporation may regulate, restrain, or prohibit the running at large, within the municipal corporation, of cattle, horses, swine, sheep, goats, geese, chickens, or other fowl or animals, impound and hold the fowl or animals, and, on notice to the owners, authorize the sale of the fowl or animals for the penalty imposed by any ordinance, and the cost and expenses of the proceedings.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.25 | Width of Tires and Rate of Transportation.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may prescribe the width of the tires of wagons, carts, drays, and other vehicles used in the transportation of persons from one part of such municipal corporation to another, or used in the transportation of coal, wood, stone, lumber, iron, or other articles in the municipal corporation.
Such municipal corporation may:
(A) Establish stands for hackney coaches, cabs, or omnibuses;
(B) Enforce the observance and use thereof;
(C) Fix the rates and prices for the transportation of persons and property in such coaches or other vehicles from one part of the municipal corporation to another.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.262 | Preference of Appeals on Municipal Building Code Violations.

Effective:
November 19, 1969
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 451 - 108th General Assembly
In an appeal from an order made under authority of division (A) or (B) of section 715.26 of the Revised Code, a provision of a municipal charter which has the same or a similar purpose as such divisions, or an ordinance or regulation adopted under such authorities, and in any appeal relating to violation of an ordinance or regulation adopted under authority of such divisions or provision of a municipal charter, the court shall give preference to all proceedings in connection with such appeal over all civil cases, irrespective of the position of the proceedings on the calendar of the court.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.28 | Market Places.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may:
(A) Establish, erect, maintain, protect, and regulate public halls, public buildings, and market houses;
(B) Establish, maintain, protect, and regulate a market place, by and with the consent of the abutting property owner, or his lessee , on any street, square, or public grounds or part thereof, within such municipal corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.29 | Sanitation.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may:
(A) Regulate by ordinance the use, control, repair, and maintenance of buildings used for human occupancy or habitation, the number of occupants, and the mode and manner of occupancy, for the purpose of insuring the healthful, safe, and sanitary environment of the occupants thereof;
(B) Compel the owners of such buildings to alter, reconstruct, or modify them, or any room, store, compartment, or part thereof, for the purpose of insuring the healthful, safe, and sanitary environment of the occupants thereof;
(C) Prohibit the use and occupancy of such buildings until such rules, regulations, and provisions have been complied with.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.30 | Injunction May Be Granted for Failure to Comply.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person shall erect, construct, alter, repair, or maintain any residential building, office, mercantile building, workshop, or factory, including a public or private garage, or other structure, within any municipal corporation wherein ordinances or regulations have been enacted pursuant to sections 715.26 to 715.29, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or Section 3 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution, unless said ordinances or regulations are fully complied with. In the event any building or structure is being erected, constructed, altered, repaired, or maintained in violation of any such ordinances or regulations, or there is imminent threat of violation, the municipal corporation, or the owner of any contiguous or neighboring property who would be especially damaged by such violation, in addition to any other remedies provided by law, may institute a suit for injunction to prevent or terminate such violation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.31 | Wharves and Docks.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 361 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may:
(A) Regulate public landings, public wharves, public docks, public piers, and public basins;
(B) Fix the rates of landing, wharfage, dockage, and the use of such facilities.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.32 | License and Regulation of Ferries.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation shall have the exclusive power to:
(A) Establish, regulate, and license ferries from such municipal corporation, or any landing therein, to the opposite shore, or from one part of the municipal corporation to another;
(B) Impose such reasonable terms and restrictions, in relation to the keeping of such ferries, and as to the time, manner, and rates of the carriage and transportation of persons and property, as are proper;
(C) Provide for the revocation of any such license, and for the punishment by proper fines and penalties for the violation of any ordinance prohibiting unlicensed ferries, or regulating those established and licensed.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.34 | Hot Water and Steam Heating.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may use, or by ordinance grant, for periods not exceeding twenty-five years, the use of its streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, and public places to lay pipes, conduits, manholes, drains, and other necessary fixtures and appliances under the surface thereof, to be used for supplying such municipal corporation and its inhabitants with stream or hot water, or both, for heat or power purposes, or both.
In all such grants the municipal corporations shall reserve the right to regulate, at intervals of not less than five years, the prices which the grantee may charge for such heat or power.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.35 | Movable and Rolling Roads.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may use or grant, for periods not exceeding twenty-five years, the use of its streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, and public places for the construction of inclined movable or rolling roads, for the conveying or moving of freight, vehicles, animals, and other property, and those in charge thereof, upon such terms as the legislative authority of such municipal corporation deems proper, but in all such grants, the municipal corporation shall reserve the right to regulate, at intervals of not less than five years, the prices which the grantee charges for such conveying or moving. No such grant shall be made until there is produced to the legislative authority the written consent of the private property owners of more than two thirds of the feet front of the lots and lands abutting on the street, avenue, alley, lane, or public place, or part thereof, upon or over which it is proposed to construct the inclined movable or rolling road.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.36 | United States Mail Subways.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may, use, or by ordinance grant to any person, company, or corporation, for periods not exceeding twenty-five years, the use of its streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, and public places for the purpose of constructing, laying, maintaining, and operating subways and underground conduits, together with manholes and all other necessary appliances, for transmitting United States mail under such streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, and public places.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.37 | Contagious Diseases.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may:
(A) Provide for the public health;
(B) Secure the inhabitants of the municipal corporation from the evils of contagious, malignant, and infectious diseases;
(C) Purchase or lease property or buildings for pesthouses;
(D) Erect, maintain, and regulate pesthouses, hospitals, and infirmaries.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.38 | Maintenance of Physician - Tax Levy - Election - Anticipatory Notes.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The legislative authority of a municipal corporation which, for any reason, is inaccessible from the mainland at some time of the year, may provide for the maintenance of a physician when, in the opinion of a majority of the members of the legislative authority, it is necessary for the preservation of the public health and welfare.
An additional tax may be levied upon all the taxable property in the municipal corporation, in such amount as the legislative authority determines, to provide for such maintenance. The question of levying such tax, and the amount thereof, shall be separately submitted to the qualified electors of the municipal corporation at a general or special election. Twenty days' notice thereof shall be previously given by posting in at least three public places in the municipal corporation. Such notice shall state specifically the amount to be raised and the purpose thereof. If a majority of all votes cast at such election upon the proposition are in favor thereof, the tax provided for shall be authorized.
Upon authorization of the tax levy as provided by this section, the legislative authority may issue notes in anticipation of such revenues, to mature in not more than two years from the date of issue, and to bear interest at not more than four per cent per annum.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.39 | Assistance by Board of County Commissioners Authorized.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Upon the appointment by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation of a resident physician as authorized by section 715.38 of the Revised Code to act as the physician, the board of county commissioners may pay to the treasurer of such municipal corporation a sum not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum to defray the cost of the services performed by such physician.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.40 | Watercourses and Sewers.

Effective:
October 2, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may open, construct, and keep in repair, sewage disposal works, treatment plants, and sewage pumping stations, together with facilities and appurtenances necessary and proper therefor, sewers, drains, and ditches, and establish, repair, and regulate water closets and privies.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.41 | Drainage in Municipal Corporations.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may drain by artificial means, at the expense of the municipal corporation, any lot or land within such municipal corporation on which water at any time accumulates and becomes stagnant, in a way prejudicial to the public health, convenience, or welfare by reason of not having a natural drainage outlet, or which cannot be drained by natural channels. In case such drainage is beneficial to the owner of any lot or land so drained, such owner shall bear that part of the expense of the drainage in proportion to the benefits which result from the improvement, in accordance with the provision for assessment as provided by section 727.01 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.42 | Public Conveniences.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may establish, maintain, and regulate public baths and bathhouses, drinking fountains, water troughs, public toilet stations, and municipal lodging houses.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.43 | Refuse Disposal.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may provide for the collection and disposition of sewage, garbage, ashes, animal and vegetable refuse, dead animals, and animal offal, and may establish, maintain, and regulate plants for the disposal thereof.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.44 | Power to Abate Nuisance and Prevent Injury.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
A municipal corporation may:
(A) Abate any nuisance and prosecute in any court of competent jurisdiction, any person who creates, continues, contributes to, or suffers such nuisance to exist;
(B) Regulate and prevent the emission of dense smoke, prohibit the careless or negligent emission of dense smoke from locomotive engines, declare each of such acts a nuisance, and prescribe and enforce regulations for the prevention of such acts;
(C) Prevent injury and annoyance from any nuisance;
(D) Regulate and prohibit the use of steam whistles;
(E) Provide for the regulation of the installation and inspection of steam boilers and steam boiler plants.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.45 | Weights and Measures.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may regulate the weighing and measuring of hay, wood, coal, and other articles exposed for sale, and provide for the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of weights, measures, implements, and appliances for measuring and weighing, which are imperfect or liable to indicate false or inaccurate weight or measure, or which do not conform to the standards established by law, and which are known, used, or kept for weighing or measuring articles purchased, sold, or offered or exposed for sale.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.46 | Inspection.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may provide for the inspection of spirits, oils, milk, breadstuffs, meats, fish, cattle, milk cows, sheep, hogs, goats, poultry, game, vegetables, and all food products.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.47 | Power to Fill or Drain Lots and Remove Obstructions - Resolutions.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
A municipal corporation may fill or drain any lot or land within its limits on which water at any time becomes stagnant, remove all putrid substances from any lot, and remove all obstructions from culverts, covered drains, or private property, laid in any natural watercourse, creek, brook, or branch, which obstruct the water naturally flowing therein, causing it to flow back or become stagnant, in a way prejudicial to the health, comfort, or convenience of any of the citizens of the neighborhood. If such culverts or drains are of insufficient capacity, the municipal corporation may make them of such capacity as reasonably to accommodate the flow of such water at all times. The legislative authority of such municipal corporation may, by resolution, direct the owner to fill or drain such lot, remove such putrid substance or such obstructions, and if necessary, enlarge such culverts or covered drains to meet the requirements thereof.
After service of a copy of such resolution, or after a publication thereof, in a newspaper of general circulation in such municipal corporation or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, for two consecutive weeks, such owner, or such owner's agent or attorney, shall comply with the directions of the resolution within the time therein specified.
In case of the failure or refusal of such owner to comply with the resolution, the work required thereby may be done at the expense of the municipal corporation, and the amount of money so expended shall be recovered from the owner before any court of competent jurisdiction. Such expense from the time of the adoption of the resolution shall be a lien on such lot, which may be enforced by suit in the court of common pleas, and like proceedings may be had as directed in relation to the improvement of streets.
The officers connected with the health department of every such municipal corporation shall see that this section is strictly and promptly enforced.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.48 | Regulation by License of Shows and Games - Trafficking in Tickets - Exceptions.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may:
(A) Regulate, by license or otherwise, restrain, or prohibit theatrical exhibitions, public shows, and athletic games, of whatever name or nature, for which money or other reward is demanded or received;
(B) Regulate, by license or otherwise, the business of trafficking in theatrical tickets, or other tickets of licensed amusements, by parties not acting as agents of those issuing them.
Public school entertainments, lecture courses, and lectures on historic, literary, or scientific subjects do not come within this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.49 | Preservation of Peace and Protection of Property - Noise Ordinance.

Effective:
September 29, 1994
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 264 - 120th General Assembly
(A) Any municipal corporation may prevent riot, gambling, noise and disturbance, and indecent and disorderly conduct or assemblages, preserve the peace and good order, and protect the property of the municipal corporation and its inhabitants.
(B) Anytime a noise ordinance of a municipal corporation is violated, but the source of the noise is located outside the borders of that municipal corporation in an adjoining municipal corporation, the municipal corporation with the ordinance may enforce the ordinance against that source as long as there is a written agreement between the two municipal corporations permitting such enforcement.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.50 | Police or Sanitary Regulations for Property Outside Municipal Corporation Limits.

Effective:
January 1, 1976
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 205 - 111th General Assembly
A municipal corporation owning and using lands beyond its limits for a municipal purpose may provide, by ordinance or resolution, all needful police or sanitary regulations for the protection of such property and may prosecute violations thereof in the municipal court of such municipal corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.51 | Billiards, Pool, and Gambling.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may:
(A) Regulate billiard and pool tables, nine or ten pin alleys or tables, and shooting and ball alleys;
(B) Authorize the destruction of instruments or devices used for the purpose of gambling.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.52 | Houses of Ill Fame.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may:
(A) Suppress and restrain disorderly houses and houses of ill fame;
(B) Provide for the punishment of all lewd and lascivious behavior in the streets and other public places.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.54 | Vicious Literature.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may restrain and prohibit the distribution, sale, and exposure for sale of books, papers, pictures, and periodicals or advertising matters of an obscene or immoral nature.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.59 | Hospitals for Diseased Prisoners.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may provide suitable hospitals for the reception and care of such prisoners as are diseased or disabled, under such regulations and the charge of such persons as the legislative authority directs.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.60 | Regulation of Explosives.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may regulate the transportation, keeping, and sale of gunpowder and other explosives or dangerous combustibles and materials, and provide or license magazines therefor.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.61 | Regulation and Licensing of Certain Occupations and Premises.

Effective:
July 22, 1994
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 376 - 120th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may regulate and license manufacturers and dealers in explosives, chattel mortgage and salary loan brokers, peddlers, public ballrooms, scavengers, intelligence officers, billiard rooms, bowling alleys, livery, sale, and boarding stables, dancing or riding academies or schools, race courses, ball grounds, street musicians, secondhand dealers, junk shops, and all persons engaged in the trade, business, or profession of manicuring, massaging, or chiropody. In the granting of any license a municipal corporation may charge such fees as the legislative authority deems proper and expedient.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.62 | Evidence.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
In the trial of any action brought under section 715.61 of the Revised Code, the fact that any party to such action represented himself as engaged in any business or occupation, for the transaction of which a license is required, or as the keeper, proprietor, or manager of the thing for which a license is required, or that such party exhibits a sign indicating such business or calling, or such proprietorship or management, shall be conclusive evidence of the liability of the party to pay such license fee.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.63 | License Power - Exception.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may license exhibitors of shows or performances of any kind, hawkers, peddlers, auctioneers of horses and other animals on the highways or public grounds of the municipal corporation, vendors of gunpowder and other explosives, taverns, houses of public entertainment, and hucksters in the public streets or markets. The municipal corporation may, in granting such license, charge such fee as is reasonable. No municipal corporation may require of the owner of any product of his own raising, or the manufacturer of any article manufactured by him, a license to vend or sell, by himself or his agent, any such article or product. The legislative authority of such municipal corporation may delegate to the mayor of the municipal corporation the authority to grant, issue, and revoke licenses.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.64 | Licensing Transient Dealers and Solicitors.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may license transient dealers, persons who temporarily open stores or places for the sale of goods, wares, or merchandise, and each person who, on the streets or traveling from place to place about such municipal corporation, sells, bargains to sell, or solicits orders for goods, wares, or merchandise by retail. Such license shall be granted as provided by section 715.63 of the Revised Code.
This section does not apply to persons selling by sample only, nor to any agricultural articles or products offered or exposed for sale by the producer.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.65 | Licensing of Advertising Mediums and Matters.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may license bill-posters, advertising sign painters, bill distributors, card tackers, and advertising matter of any article or compound which has not been manufactured or compounded within such municipal corporation. In granting such license the legislative authority of such municipal corporation may fix such license fees as are expedient, and may delegate to the mayor thereof the authority to grant, issue, and revoke such license.
This section does not authorize such legislative authority to charge merchants doing business therein a license fee for advertising their own business.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.66 | Vehicle License for Undertakers - Money to Be Used for Street Repairs.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may license the owners of vehicles used for the transportation of persons or property, for hire, and all undertakers and owners of hearses.
The owners of such vehicles may be made liable for the breach of any ordinance regulating the conduct of the drivers thereof.
All moneys and receipts, in any municipal corporation, which are derived from the enforcement of any ordinance or law requiring the payment of a vehicle license fee, shall be credited and paid into a separate fund, which fund shall be known as "the public service street repair fund." All moneys and receipts credited to such fund shall be used for the sole purpose of repairing streets, avenues, alleys, and lanes within such municipal corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.67 | Violation of Ordinances May Be Made a Misdemeanor.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any municipal corporation may make the violation of any of its ordinances a misdemeanor, and provide for the punishment thereof by fine or imprisonment, or both. The fine, imposed under authority of this section, shall not exceed five hundred dollars and imprisonment shall not exceed six months.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.68 | Municipal Corporation May Not Adopt Plans for Public Improvement Under Certain Circumstances.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No municipal corporation shall adopt plans or specifications for a public improvement, required by law to be made by contract let after competitive bidding, which requires the exclusive use of a patented article or process, protected by a trademark or an article or process wholly controlled by any person, firm, corporation, or combination thereof.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.79 | Annexation, Merger, or Consolidation Proceedings Barred.

Effective:
September 13, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 182 - 131st General Assembly
(A) No annexation proceeding pursuant to Chapter 709. of the Revised Code that proposes the annexation to, merger of, or consolidation with a municipal corporation of any unincorporated territory within a joint economic development zone that is subject to division (I)(2) of section 715.691 of the Revised Code, shall be commenced for a period of three years after the contract creating the zone is approved by the majority of the electors under section 715.691 of the Revised Code. This division does not apply if the contract is terminated during this period or if each board of township trustees whose territory is included within the zone and whose territory is proposed to be annexed, merged, or consolidated adopts a resolution consenting to the commencement of the proceeding. Each such board of township trustees shall file a copy of the resolution with the clerk of the legislative authority of each county within which a contracting party is located.
(B) The contract creating a joint economic development zone that is subject to division (I)(2) of section 715.691 of the Revised Code may prohibit any annexation proceeding by a contracting municipal corporation of any unincorporated territory within zone beyond the three-year period described in division (A) of this section.
(C) No contracting party is divested or relieved of its rights or obligations under the contract creating a joint economic development zone that is subject to division (I)(2) of section 715.691 of the Revised Code because of annexation, merger, or consolidation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.80 | Binding Agreements Concerning Zoning, Other Regulatory and Proprietary Matters.

Effective:
September 13, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 182 - 131st General Assembly
Contracting parties may enter into binding agreements pursuant to the contract creating a joint economic development zone that is subject to division (I)(2) of section 715.691 of the Revised Code with respect to the substance and administration of zoning and other land-use regulations, building codes, permanent public improvements, and other regulatory and proprietary matters determined to be for a public purpose. No contract, however, shall exempt the territory within the zone from the procedures of land use regulation applicable pursuant to municipal corporation, township, and county regulations, including, but not limited to, zoning procedures.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.81 | Authority of Municipal Corporations and Townships.

Effective:
September 13, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 182 - 131st General Assembly
When exercising a power or performing a function or duty under a contract entered into under section 715.691 of the Revised Code, a township may exercise all of the powers of a township, and may perform all the functions and duties of a township, within the joint economic development zone that is subject to division (I)(2) of section 715.691 of the Revised Code pursuant to and to the extent consistent with the contract.
No political subdivision shall grant any tax exemption under Chapter 1728. or section 3735.67, 5709.62, 5709.63, or 5709.632 of the Revised Code on any property located within the zone that is subject to division (I)(2) of section 715.691 of the Revised Code, without the consent of the contracting parties. The prohibition against granting a tax exemption under this section does not apply to any exemption filed, pending, or approved before the effective date of the contract entered into under section 715.691 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 715 | General Powers › Section 715.82 | Issuing Industrial Development Bonds.

Effective:
April 12, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 444 - 133rd General Assembly
A municipal corporation may issue bonds and exercise all other powers under Chapter 165. of the Revised Code for one or more projects or parts thereof located in a joint economic development district created pursuant to a contract entered into under section 715.70, 715.71, or 715.72 of the Revised Code to which the municipal corporation is a party, or in a township adjacent to that municipal corporation, if the legislative authority of the municipal corporation determines that the project is in furtherance of the public purposes of the state to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities and to improve the economic welfare of the people of the municipal corporation and the township. As used in this section, "project" has the same meaning as in section 165.01 of the Revised Code, except that a project described in this section is not required to be located within the territorial boundaries of the municipal corporation.