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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 513 | Hospitals; Joint Hospital Districts › Section 513.172 | Authority for Board to Form or Acquire Corporation, Llc, or Participate in Nonprofit Enterprise or Venture.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 222 - 134th General Assembly
(A) A joint township district hospital board may do either of the following:
(1) Form, or acquire control of, a domestic nonprofit corporation or a domestic nonprofit limited liability company;
(2) Be a partner, member, owner, associate, or participant in a nonprofit enterprise or nonprofit venture.
(B) A joint township district hospital board forming, acquiring, or becoming involved with a nonprofit corporation, limited liability company, enterprise, or venture under division (A) of this section shall do so in furtherance of any of the following:
(1) To support the joint township hospital district's mission;
(2) To provide for any or all health care or medical services, whether inpatient or outpatient services, diagnostic, treatment, care, or rehabilitation services, wellness services, services involving the prevention, detection, and control of disease, home health services or services provided at or through various facilities, education, training, and other necessary and related services for the health professions;
(3) The management or operation of any hospital facility as defined in division (E) of section 140.01 of the Revised Code;
(4) The management, operation, or participation in programs, projects, activities, and services useful to, connected with, supporting, or otherwise related to the health, wellness, and medical services and wellness programs provided in divisions (B)(2) and (3) of this section;
(5) Any other activities that are in furtherance of the joint township hospital district or the persons served by the joint township hospital district or are necessary to perform the joint township hospital district's mission and functions and respond to change in the health care industry as determined by the joint township district hospital board.
(C) A nonprofit corporation, limited liability company, enterprise, or venture that a joint township district hospital board forms, acquires, or becomes involved with under this section shall be considered an entity separate for all purposes from the joint township district hospital, a township, or other public entity and shall not be considered to be an agency, division, or department of a township or other public entity.
Last updated July 14, 2021 at 8:42 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 513 | Hospitals; Joint Hospital Districts › Section 513.19 | When Code Sections Apply.

Effective:
September 24, 1971
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 343 - 109th General Assembly
Sections 140.03 and 140.05 of the Revised Code are alternatives to sections 513.05, 513.06, 513.071, 513.08, 513.081, 513.09, 513.10, and 513.15 to 513.171, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Those sections of Chapter 513. of the Revised Code shall not be applicable with respect to hospital facilities and services provided for under leases and agreements entered into pursuant to section 140.03 or 140.05 of the Revised Code, except to the extent made applicable by section 140.03 or 140.05 of the Revised Code and the leases and agreements made thereunder.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 515 | Lighting › Section 515.01 | Lighting Unincorporated Districts.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
The board of township trustees may provide artificial lights for any road, highway, public place, or building under its supervision or control, or for any territory within the township and outside the boundaries of any municipal corporation, when the board determines that the public safety or welfare requires that the road, highway, public place, building, or territory shall be lighted. The lighting may be procured either by the township installing a lighting system or by contracting with any person or corporation to furnish lights.
If lights are furnished under contract, the contract may provide that the equipment employed may be owned by the township or by the person or corporation supplying the lights.
If the board determines to procure lighting by contract and the total estimated cost of the contract exceeds the amount specified in section 9.17 of the Revised Code, the board shall prepare plans and specifications for the lighting equipment and shall, for two weeks, advertise for bids for furnishing the lighting equipment, either by posting the advertisement in three conspicuous places in the township or by publication of the advertisement once a week, for two consecutive weeks, in a newspaper of general circulation in the township. Any such contract for lighting shall be made with the lowest and best bidder.
The board may also cause notice to be inserted in trade papers or other publications designated by it or to be distributed by electronic means, including posting the notice on the board's internet web site. If the board posts the notice on its web site, it may eliminate the second notice otherwise required to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the township, provided that the first notice published in such newspaper meets all of the following requirements:
(A) It is published at least two weeks before the opening of bids.
(B) It includes a statement that the notice is posted on the board's internet web site.
(C) It includes the internet address of the board's internet web site.
(D) It includes instructions describing how the notice may be accessed on the board's internet web site.
No lighting contract awarded by the board shall be made to cover a period of more than twenty years. The cost of installing and operating any lighting system or any light furnished under contract shall be paid from the general fund of the township treasury.
No procurement subject to this section shall be divided into component parts, separate projects, or separate items of work in order to avoid the requirements of this section.
Last updated September 12, 2023 at 9:50 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 515 | Lighting › Section 515.02 | Petition for Lighting.

Effective:
December 20, 2005
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 107 - 126th General Assembly
When the owners of more than one-half of the feet front of the lots and lands abutting on the streets and public ways of any unincorporated district in a township sign a petition for artificial lighting of the streets and public ways in the district and file it with the township fiscal officer, the fiscal officer shall give to the board of township trustees a notice of the filing of the petition and a copy of it.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 515 | Lighting › Section 515.03 | Contents and Effect of Petition - Lighting District Limitations.

Effective:
April 14, 1989
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 148 - 118th General Assembly
A petition for the lighting of streets and public ways under section 515.02 of the Revised Code shall specify the metes and bounds of the district in which such lights are to be erected. The signing of such petition by a property owner is a waiver by him of all claims for compensation and damages for lands necessarily appropriated for the purpose of supporting and maintaining such lights.
A lighting district shall neither include lands more than six hundred sixty feet from the streets and public ways to be lighted, nor include any lands not abutting on those streets and public ways, except that any lot whose only access is by way of an easement through land abutting such a street or public way may be included in a lighting district to the extent the land is no more than six hundred sixty feet from that street or public way.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 515 | Lighting › Section 515.04 | Notice of Petition.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
The township fiscal officer shall fix a day, not more than thirty days from the date of notice to the board of township trustees, for the hearing of the petition authorized by section 515.02 or 515.16 of the Revised Code. The township fiscal officer or the fiscal officer's designee shall prepare and deliver to any of the petitioners a notice in writing directed to the lot and land owners and to the corporations, either public or private, affected by the improvement. The notice shall set forth the substance, pendency, and prayer of the petition and the time and place of the hearing on it.
A copy of the notice shall be served upon each lot or land owner or left at the lot or land owner's usual place of residence, and upon an officer or agent of each corporation having its place of business in the district or area, at least fifteen days before the date set for the hearing. On or before the day of the hearing, the person serving the notice shall make return on it, under oath, of the time and manner of service and shall file the return with the township fiscal officer.
The township fiscal officer or the fiscal officer's designee shall give the notice to each nonresident lot or land owner, by publication once, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the district or area is situated, at least two weeks before the day set for hearing. The notice shall be verified by affidavit of the printer or other person knowing the fact and shall be filed with the township fiscal officer or the fiscal officer's designee on or before the day of hearing. No further notice of the petition or the proceedings under it shall thereafter be required.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 515 | Lighting › Section 515.05 | Hearing Procedures.

Effective:
August 14, 2008
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 244 - 127th General Assembly
At the time and place specified in the notice for hearing on a petition authorized by section 515.04 or 515.16 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees shall meet and hear any and all proof offered by any of the parties affected by the improvement, and by other persons competent to testify. The board shall go over and along such streets and public ways, and, by actual view thereof, and of the premises along and adjacent thereto and to be lighted or benefited thereby, it shall determine the necessity of the improvement. The board may find that the improvement will result in general as well as special benefits. The board may adjourn from time to time and to such place as necessity requires.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 515 | Lighting › Section 515.06 | Number of Lights Specified by Board of Township Trustees.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
If the board of township trustees decides in favor of a lighting improvement as provided by section 515.02 of the Revised Code, it shall specify the number of lights it deems necessary for properly lighting the streets and public ways in the district, determine the candle power thereof, locate the points at which the lights shall be located, and the kind of supports for them.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 515 | Lighting › Section 515.07 | Notice to Bidders - Acceptance and Rejection.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
If the total estimated cost of any lighting improvement provided for in section 515.06 of the Revised Code is fifty thousand dollars or less, the contract may be let without competitive bidding. When competitive bidding is required, the board of township trustees shall post, in three of the most conspicuous public places in the district, a notice specifying the number, candle power, and location of lights and the kind of supports for the lights as provided by section 515.06 of the Revised Code, as well as the time, which shall not be less than thirty days from the posting of the notices, and the place the board will receive bids to furnish the lights. The board shall accept the lowest and best bid, if the successful bidder meets the requirements of section 153.54 of the Revised Code. The board may reject all bids.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 515 | Lighting › Section 515.08 | Contract With Successful Bidder to Furnish Artificial Lighting - Assessments.

Effective:
August 14, 2008
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 244 - 127th General Assembly
On accepting a bid for artificial lighting and bond as provided by section 515.07 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees shall enter into a contract with the successful bidder for the furnishing of such lights according to specifications. The contract shall not be for a longer term than ten years. The cost and expenses of furnishing and maintaining such lights, and of the proceedings in relation thereto, shall be paid from a fund raised by special assessments against the lots and lands in the district which are benefited by such lighting, provided, if the board finds that the lighting will result in general as well as special benefits there may be paid from the general fund of the township treasury such portion of the cost and expenses, except for any accrued interest on unpaid assessments, as is found to represent the value of the general benefit.
Special assessments shall not be in excess of the special benefits resulting from such lighting, they shall be paid and collected in equal semiannual installments, equal in number to twice the number of years for which the contract is made, and they shall be paid and collected in the same manner and at the same times that taxes are paid and collected. Any such assessment in the amount of five dollars or less, or with an unpaid balance of five dollars or less, shall be paid in full, and not in installments, at the time the first or next installment would otherwise become due and payable. Such assessments may be made and levied by any one of the following methods:
(A) By a percentage of the tax value of the property assessed;
(B) In proportion to the benefits which may result from the lighting;
(C) By the foot frontage of the property bounding and abutting upon the streets, or public ways so lighted;
(D) In an equal amount against each benefited lot, this amount to be determined by dividing the total cost per semiannual installment by the number of benefited lots in the district.
The board of township trustees, by resolution, may provide for the payment of interest on unpaid assessments, which shall be treated as part of the costs and expenses of furnishing and maintaining the lights. The resolution shall specify the rate of interest, which shall be based on the current prime rate.
After the levy of such special assessment the board may, at any time during any year in which installments thereof become due, pay out of the general fund of the township the full amount of the contract price for that year, provided such amount does not exceed the aggregate amount of the installments due for that year.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 515 | Lighting › Section 515.081 | Contract for Lighting - Petition for Discontinuance.

Effective:
December 20, 2005
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 107 - 126th General Assembly
The board of township trustees, at the expiration of an existing contract for lighting, may award a new contract pursuant to section 515.07 of the Revised Code, unless the owners of lots and lands containing in excess of fifty per cent of the front feet abutting on the streets and public ways of the unincorporated district in the township sign a petition for the discontinuance of the artificial lighting and file the petition with the township fiscal officer not less than thirty days prior to the expiration of the existing contract.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 515 | Lighting › Section 515.09 | Increase in Number of Lights.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
At any time during the term of the contract for the furnishing of artificial lights under section 515.08 of the Revised Code, but not more than once in each year, unless mutually satisfactory to both parties to the contract, the board of township trustees may increase the number of lights to be maintained under the contract, at not more than the same price per light, and the contract shall provide for such change in the number of lights.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 515 | Lighting › Section 515.10 | Inspectors.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The board of township trustees may employ inspectors at such times as it deems proper to test the lights installed as provided by sections 515.08 and 515.09 of the Revised Code and determine whether they comply with the contract. The compensation of such inspectors shall be paid from the general fund of the township.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 515 | Lighting › Section 515.11 | Certificate by Trustees to County Auditor - Assessments.

Effective:
August 14, 2008
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 244 - 127th General Assembly
The board of township trustees shall certify to the county auditor the boundaries of the district in which lights are to be erected, and, when requested to do so by the board, the auditor shall apportion the valuation for taxation of any lot or parcel of land lying partly within and partly without the district.
The board shall, by resolution, assess against the benefited lots and parcels of land in the district, in accordance with section 515.08 of the Revised Code, such portion of the costs of furnishing and maintaining the lights, for the period of the contract and the proceedings in relation thereto, as does not exceed the special benefits resulting from the lighting, and shall certify such costs to the auditor. The auditor shall annually place upon the tax duplicate, for collection in semiannual installments as provided in that section, the two installments of the assessment for that year, which installments, together with any accrued interest on unpaid assessments, shall be paid and collected as provided in that section.
If the number of lights to be furnished and maintained in a district under any such contract is increased, pursuant to section 515.09 of the Revised Code, the board shall make such additional assessments as are necessary to pay the cost of furnishing and maintaining the additional number of lights. If the cost of providing the lights increases, the board may make such additional assessments as are necessary to pay the additional cost of the lights. The additional assessments shall be made, certified, and collected in the same manner as an original assessment, but shall be only for the unexpired portion of the term of the contract.
The additional assessments and any unpaid interest thereon, when collected, shall go into the township treasury and shall be used by the board only for the purpose for which they were levied and collected.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 515 | Lighting › Section 515.12 | Compensation of Officers - Additional Personnel.

Effective:
August 14, 2008
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 244 - 127th General Assembly
(A) All officers shall receive for services performed under sections 515.01 to 515.16 of the Revised Code the same fees allowed for other similar services.
The township fiscal officer shall receive for the fiscal officer's services the sum of fifty cents from each lot or land owner for whom a notice is prepared and the sum of fifty cents for each annual assessment certified to the county auditor.
All payments for the services of township officials shall be included in the cost of the lighting district or relocation and assessed against the property. The compensation shall be in addition to all other compensation provided by law.
(B) The board of township trustees may, by resolution, employ additional personnel in place of the township fiscal officer to prepare and certify notices for each lot or land owner and shall pay a reasonable sum not to exceed fifty cents for each lot or land owner for whom a notice is prepared and a reasonable sum not to exceed fifty cents for each annual assessment certified to the county auditor. The actual cost of the additional personnel, together with other reasonable expenses incurred by the board, shall be assessed proportionately against each lot or land owner and shall be included in the cost of the lighting district or relocation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 515 | Lighting › Section 515.13 | Combined Contract.

Effective:
September 14, 1961
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 605 - 104th General Assembly
The board of township trustees may combine in a single contract the lighting of streets, public ways, roads, highways, or public places as authorized by sections 515.01 to 515.11, inclusive, of the Revised Code, provided:
(A) That no such contract shall be made to cover a period of more than ten years;
(B) That the procedure for entering into such contract is in accordance with the provisions of section 515.01 of the Revised Code;
(C) That the price per light in the contract is the same throughout the township and for each district within the township.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 515 | Lighting › Section 515.15 | Relocation of Overhead Cables, Wires, Equipment.

Effective:
August 14, 2008
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 244 - 127th General Assembly
A board of township trustees may contract only with the corporation, company, partnership, association, municipal corporation, or person that owns overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment on a street or right-of-way located within the township for the relocation of the overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment underground. Nothing in this section requires the owner of the overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment to agree to a contract that contains terms or conditions that are not acceptable to the owner. Unless a pre-existing arrangement provides otherwise or the parties to the contract agree otherwise, the township shall pay the cost of the relocation as provided in the contract. A proceeding for the relocation may be combined with a proceeding for the furnishing of new street lighting facilities or other street improvement.
A board of township trustees may, by resolution, adopt and enforce regulations requiring owners of property abutting a street in which overhead wires, cables, and appurtenant equipment supplying a utility service have been relocated underground and service connections have been provided to the street, right-of-way, or property line, to install underground wires, cables, or conduits from the street or right-of-way to the buildings or other structures on the property to which the utility service is supplied. The township may pay the cost incurred in installing underground wires, cables, or conduits from the street or right-of-way to the buildings or other structures on the property to which the utility service is supplied.
For the purpose of relocating overhead wires, cables, and appurtenant equipment and installing underground wires, cables, conduits, and appurtenant equipment, a township may enter upon any private land to examine or survey lines for the wires, cables, conduits, and appurtenant equipment and may appropriate as much land as is necessary for the relocation and installation.
The township is not liable for any service outages or other damage caused by the underground relocation project. The owner of the overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment is not liable for any service outages or other damage caused by the underground relocation project, unless the outage or other damage was caused by the owner's negligence. Nothing in this section otherwise alters township liability under Chapter 2744. of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.01 | Acquisition or Appropriation of Land.

Effective:
January 1, 1966
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly
The board of township trustees may accept a conveyance of, or purchase, and enclose, improve, and protect lands in one or more places within the township as it deems necessary and proper for cemetery purposes. If suitable lands cannot be procured by contract on reasonable terms, such board may appropriate lands therefor, not to exceed ten acres, by proceedings in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
No lands shall be so appropriated within one hundred yards of a dwelling house, or other building.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.02 | Public Road to Cemetery.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When twenty-five interested persons petition for it, the board of township trustees shall provide a public road to any township cemetery over which it has control, in the same manner as provided by section 517.01 of the Revised Code for establishing cemeteries and obtaining the land therefor.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.03 | Levy and Taxes for Expenses.

Effective:
September 28, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 413 - 131st General Assembly
To defray the expenses of the purchase or appropriation, and the enclosing, care, supervision, repair, and improving of lands for cemetery purposes, and of maintaining and improving entombments, including mausoleums, columbariums, and other interment rights, the board of township trustees may levy a tax sufficient for that purpose.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.04 | Vote on Establishment of Cemetery.

Effective:
September 28, 1961
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 733 - 104th General Assembly
Before a purchase or appropriation of land for cemetery purposes is made or a conveyance is accepted, except where funds may be available for such purchase or appropriation of land for cemetery purposes under section 517.08 of the Revised Code, the question of the establishment of such cemetery, on the order of the board of township trustees or the written application of any six electors of the township, shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of such township at a regular annual election. Such order or application shall specify as nearly as possible the proposed location of the cemetery, and the estimated cost thereof, including enclosing and improving it.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.05 | Notice of Election - Ballots.

Effective:
July 2, 2010
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 48 - 128th General Assembly
On the making of an order or the filing of an application as provided by section 517.04 of the Revised Code, the township fiscal officer shall certify the order or application to the board of elections not later than four p.m. of the ninetieth day before the day of the election, and, at least twenty days before an election, the fiscal officer shall post written notices in at least three public places in the township that a vote will be taken on the question of the establishment of a cemetery. If a majority of the votes cast at the election on the proposition is in favor of establishing a cemetery, the board of township trustees shall procure the lands for that purpose and levy taxes as provided by section 517.03 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.06 | Cemetery Plat.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
The board of township trustees shall have the cemetery laid out in lots, avenues, and paths, shall number the lots, and shall have a suitable plat of the lots made, which plat shall be carefully kept by the township fiscal officer. The board shall make and enforce all needful rules and regulations for the division of the cemetery into lots, for the allotment of lots to families or individuals, and for the care, supervision, and improvement of the lots. The board also may make and enforce all needful rules and regulations for burial, interment, reinterment, or disinterment. The board shall require the grass and weeds in the cemetery to be cut and destroyed at least twice each year. Suitable provision shall be made in the cemetery for persons whose burial is at the expense of the township.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.071 | Rules Governing Product of Fetal Death.

Effective:
September 12, 2008
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 175 - 127th General Assembly
(A) As used in this section and section 517.072 of the Revised Code, "fetal death" has the same meaning as in section 3705.01 of the Revised Code.
(B) A board of township trustees may adopt rules for any township cemetery over which it has control for the burial, re-interment, or disinterment of the product of a fetal death.
(C) With regard to the product of a fetal death, on the request of the mother and in compliance with cemetery rules, a township cemetery shall inter the product of the fetal death in accordance with one of the following:
(1) In a single grave within the cemetery that contains, or will contain, the remains of a parent, sibling, or grandparent;
(2) In another location of the cemetery, including a separate burial ground for infants, on a temporary or permanent basis.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.072 | Reinterment or Disinterment of Product of Fetal Death.

Effective:
September 12, 2008
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 175 - 127th General Assembly
(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, re-interment or disinterment of the product of a fetal death buried in accordance with division (C)(2) of section 517.071 of the Revised Code is not subject to section 517.24 of the Revised Code if one or both surviving parents provide written consent for the re-interment or disinterment to the township cemetery and comply with any rules adopted under division (B) of section 517.071 of the Revised Code.
(B) If two surviving parents are indicated on the township cemetery's burial documents for the product of a fetal death buried in accordance with division (C)(2) of section 517.071 of the Revised Code and only one has given consent under division (A) of this section, prior to re-interment or disinterment, the cemetery promptly shall give notice of the consent to the parent who did not give consent. The notice shall be sent by registered mail, return receipt requested, to the parent's last known address and contain a statement that the re-interment or disinterment will occur if the cemetery does not receive written objection within thirty days from the date the notice is sent. That parent may object to the re-interment or disinterment by giving notice to the cemetery by registered mail, return receipt requested, not later than thirty days after the cemetery's notice is sent. If the cemetery receives timely notice of the objection, the re-interment or disinterment is subject to section 517.24 of the Revised Code.
(C) The cemetery shall re-inter or disinter the product of a fetal death if both surviving parents provide written consent for the re-interment or disinterment or if one parent consents and the cemetery does not receive timely notice of any objection under division (B) of this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.08 | Expenditure of Proceeds - Exception.

Effective:
September 28, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 413 - 131st General Assembly
The proceeds arising from the sale of cemetery lots under section 517.07 of the Revised Code shall be used in maintaining, improving, beautifying, and embellishing such grounds, and for maintaining and improving entombments, including mausoleums, columbariums, and other interment rights, except that upon unanimous consent of the board of township trustees, such proceeds may be used in the purchase or appropriation of additional land for cemetery purposes in accordance with sections 517.01 and 517.13 of the Revised Code; and the board of township trustees may build and maintain proper and secure fences around all such cemeteries, to be paid for from the township funds.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.10 | Title to Certain Burial Grounds Vested in Board of Township Trustees.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The title to, right of possession, and control of all public cemeteries located outside any municipal corporation, which have been set apart and dedicated as public cemeteries, and any grounds which have been used as such by the public, but not expressly dedicated as a cemetery, except such as are owned or under the care of a religious or benevolent society, or an incorporated company or association, or under the control of the authorities of any municipal corporation, shall, severally be vested in the board of township trustees.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.11 | Care of Cemetery.

Effective:
September 28, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 413 - 131st General Assembly
The board of township trustees shall provide for the protection and preservation of cemeteries under its jurisdiction, and shall prohibit interments therein when new grounds have been procured for township cemeteries or burial grounds. Where such old cemeteries are in or near village plats, and the public health is liable to be injured by further interments therein, the board shall institute suits to recover possession thereof, remove trespassers therefrom, and may recover damages for injuries thereto or any part thereof, or to any fence or hedge enclosing them, or to any tomb or monument therein.
The board may enclose cemeteries under its jurisdiction with a substantial fence or hedge, and shall keep any such fence or hedge in good repair. It may re-erect any fallen tombstones, regardless of the cause of the falling, in such cemeteries. The board, as it considers necessary, may purchase, maintain, and improve entombments, including mausoleums, columbariums, and other interment rights. The board may levy a tax to meet any costs incurred for these purposes, not to exceed one-half mill in any one year, upon all the taxable property of the township.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.12 | Regulating Hours of Access to Cemeteries.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
The board of township trustees may make rules specifying the times when cemeteries under its control shall be closed to the public. The board shall cause the rules to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the township or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, and may post appropriate notice in the township as considered necessary.
The purposes of such rules shall be to assure a reasonable time of access to the cemeteries in view of the differences in attendance anticipated from past experience as to each, to exclude attendance at times when no proper purposes could normally be expected, to permit exceptions to the normal hours of access on reasonable request with adequate reason provided, and to facilitate the task of protecting the premises from vandalism, desecration, and other improper usage.
Whoever violates these rules is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.13 | Additions to Cemetery Grounds.

Effective:
October 9, 1978
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 216 - 112th General Assembly
In any township in which there is a cemetery owned or partly owned by such township, if in the opinion of the board of township trustees, it is desirable to add to the area of such cemetery by the purchase of additional grounds, and if suitable lands cannot be procured by contract on reasonable terms, the board may appropriate lands, not exceeding ten acres, by proceedings in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code, for the expansion of an existing cemetery if the township zoning ordinances do not prohibit such use. Lands appropriated for the expansion of a cemetery shall not be appropriated within fifty feet of a dwelling house or other building and shall be considered a part of the original cemetery even though separated therefrom by a road or highway.
For such purpose the board may expend funds as provided in section 517.08 of the Revised Code, or the board may levy a tax, not to exceed one-half of one mill, on the taxable property of the township, for a period not to exceed five years, which tax shall be collected as other taxes, and appropriated for the purchase or appropriation of such additional cemetery grounds which shall become part of the township cemetery.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.14 | Public Cemetery on Township Lines - Joint Township Cemetery.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When a public cemetery, located on or near a township line, is used by the people of two or more townships for burying purposes, the boards of township trustees of such townships shall jointly take possession thereof, and care for and keep it in repair, as in the case of cemeteries belonging to a township. The board of each township shall levy taxes needed for such cemetery, not to exceed one-fourth per cent in any year. Two or more townships may join in establishing and maintaining a cemetery, and for such purpose the boards shall have the same powers, be governed by the same rules, and proceed in the same manner as provided for municipal corporations and townships uniting for that purpose under sections 759.27 to 759.48, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.15 | Cemetery Endowment Fund.

Effective:
September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
A board of township trustees may create a permanent cemetery endowment fund for the purpose of maintaining, improving, and beautifying township cemeteries and burial lots in township cemeteries. The fund shall consist of money arising from the following sources:
(A) Gifts, devises, or bequests received for the purpose of maintaining, improving, or beautifying township cemeteries;
(B) Charges added to the price regularly charged for burial lots for the purpose of maintaining, improving, or beautifying township cemeteries;
(C) Contributions of money from the township general fund;
(D) An individual agreement with the purchaser of a burial lot providing that a part of the purchase price is to be applied to the purpose of maintaining, improving, or beautifying any burial lot designated and named by the purchaser;
(E) Individual gifts, devises, or bequests made for the maintenance, improvement, and beautification of any burial lot designated and named by the person making the gift, devise, or bequest.
Upon unanimous consent of the board of trustees, the board may use the principal of the fund if the board is unable to maintain, improve, and beautify township cemeteries using only the income from the fund.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.19 | Tax Levy for Buildings Upon Grounds of Cemetery - Bond Issue.

Effective:
May 13, 1981
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 95 - 114th General Assembly
Where the township owns a burial place within the grounds of a cemetery association, the board of township trustees may levy a tax, not exceeding five mills on the dollar of the tax duplicate of the township, for the purpose of erecting permanent buildings upon such cemetery grounds.
Such tax, when it has been assessed and collected, shall be paid to the officers of such cemetery association, and shall be applied by them to the erection of such permanent buildings as in their judgment are requisite for the accommodation of the patrons of the cemetery.
In anticipation of such tax, the officers of such cemetery association may issue and sell bonds, to bear interest at a rate not to exceed the rate provided in section 9.95 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.20 | Appointment of Directors of Township Cemetery.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The board of township trustees may appoint three directors to take charge of any cemetery in the township, the control of which is vested in such board. The first appointments shall be for one, two, and three years respectively. The order appointing a director shall designate, by name, the cemeteries over which he shall have supervision. Each year one director shall be appointed to serve for three years from the second Monday of May succeeding his appointment. When appointed, such directors shall be governed, in the discharge of their duties, by sections 517.01 to 517.32, inclusive, of the Revised Code, so far as applicable.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.21 | Abandonment or Discontinuance of Cemetery - Removal of Bodies and Stones.

Effective:
November 24, 1995
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 328 - 121st General Assembly
When a public or private cemetery has been abandoned, or when the board of township trustees or the trustees or directors of a cemetery association are of the opinion that the further use for burial purposes of a cemetery will be detrimental to the public welfare or health, and a cemetery in the near vicinity is open for public use, the board, trustees, or directors may order that the abandoned cemetery or the cemetery whose further use for burial purposes is believed to be detrimental to the public welfare or health be discontinued and provide for the removal of all remains buried in that cemetery, for the removal of all stones and monuments marking the graves of that cemetery, for the reinterment of the remains, and for the re-erection of those stones and monuments in suitable public ground in the near vicinity, all of which shall be paid for from the township treasury.
Before providing for any removal described in this section, the board, trustees, or directors shall first give notice to the family, friends, or next of kin of the decedent involved, if known, of the discontinuance order and of the time within which, not less than thirty days, the removal must be made. The notice shall state that it is desired that the removal be made by the family, friends, or next of kin of the decedent. If, at the expiration of the thirty-day period, the removals have not been made, the board, trustees, or directors may make the removals as provided by this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.22 | Public Sale of Cemetery.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
The board of township trustees or the trustees or directors of a cemetery association, after notice has first been given in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, may dispose of, at public sale, and convey any cemetery under their control that they have determined to discontinue as burial grounds, but possession of the cemetery shall not be given to a grantee until after the remains buried in that cemetery, together with stones and monuments, have been removed as provided by section 517.21 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.25 | Writ of Mandamus.

Effective:
April 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 202 - 134th General Assembly
If the board of township trustees, the trustees or board of a cemetery association, or the other officers in charge of a cemetery refuse to disinter or grant permission for disinterment after a person makes application under division (A)(1) of section 517.23 or under division (B)(1) of section 517.24 of the Revised Code, the probate court of the county in which the decedent is buried shall issue a writ of mandamus requiring the officers to disinter the remains or to grant permission for their disinterment.
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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.26 | Removal of Dead.

Effective:
November 24, 1995
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 328 - 121st General Assembly
When remains laid in a vault or other receptacle become offensive, on the complaint of a householder of the township, the board of township trustees immediately shall issue an order to the sexton or other person in charge of the vault or receptacle to have the remains immediately interred. If the interment is neglected for three days after the complaint, any judge of the county court within the county may issue a written order to a householder of the township to inter the remains at the expense of the board and shall allow a reasonable charge for the service.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 517 | Cemeteries › Section 517.27 | Transfer of Cemeteries to Board of Township Trustees.

Effective:
April 12, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 444 - 133rd General Assembly
(A) When a public cemetery in a township is not under the control of a municipal corporation, and the title or control is vested in an association or its board of trustees, or is vested in a religious society, whether incorporated or not, or in its board of trustees, and such cemetery is used exclusively for cemetery purposes, such association, society, or board of trustees may convey such grounds to the board of township trustees and its successors in office. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, and subject to the rights of the original grantor, the original grantor's heirs or assigns, the board of township trustees shall accept and take possession of the grounds, and take care of, keep in repair, hold, treat, and manage them in all respects as required by sections 517.01 to 517.32, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
(B) A board of township trustees is not required to accept and take possession of the grounds of a public cemetery, or to take care of, keep in repair, hold, treat, or manage the grounds as described in division (A) of this section, if, as a result of the conveyance, any parcel abutting the cemetery grounds or from which the grounds were partitioned or subdivided satisfies any of the following conditions:
(1) The parcel is owned by the association or its trustees or the religious society that conveyed the cemetery grounds or by an association, its trustees, or a religious society that is a successor to the association, trustees, or religious society that conveyed the cemetery grounds.
(2) Any part of the parcel, including any building or structure situated on the parcel, is used for social, educational, recreational, or religious activities of the association or religious society or of an association or religious society that is a successor to the association, trustees, or religious society that conveyed the cemetery grounds.
(3) Any part of the parcel, including any building or structure situated on the parcel, is exempted from property taxation under section 5709.07 or 5709.14 of the Revised Code, or under division (B) of section 5709.12 of the Revised Code on the basis of being used exclusively for charitable purposes by the association or religious society that conveyed the cemetery grounds.
(C) When a cemetery association or religious society conveys a cemetery under this section, all cemetery records and funds shall be transferred to the township. Transferred funds shall be used exclusively for cemetery purposes as set forth in section 1721.06 of the Revised Code and any other similar provisions of the Revised Code that require funds to be held in trust for cemetery purposes.