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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.651 | Establishing Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board.

Effective:
April 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 254 - 134th General Assembly
(A) A board of county commissioners may appoint a health commissioner of the board of health of a city or general health district that is entirely or partially located in the county in which the board of county commissioners is located to establish a domestic violence fatality review board to review the deaths of individuals over eighteen years of age by domestic violence that occurred in the county.
(B) The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties may, by adopting a joint resolution passed by a majority of the members of each participating board of county commissioners, create a regional domestic violence fatality review board to review the deaths of individuals over eighteen years of age by domestic violence that occurred in the participating counties. The joint resolution shall appoint, for each county participating as part of the regional review board, one health commissioner from a board of health of a city or general health district located at least in part in that county. The health commissioners appointed shall select one of their number as the health commissioner to establish the regional review board.
(C) In any county that, on the effective date of this section, has a body that is acting as a domestic violence fatality review board and is comprised of the members described in division (A)(1) of section 307.652 of the Revised Code, including a public health official or designee, the board of county commissioners of that county, in lieu of having a health commissioner establish a domestic violence fatality review board, may appoint that body to function as the domestic violence fatality review board for the county. The body shall have the same duties, obligations, and protections as a domestic violence fatality review board appointed by a health commissioner.
Last updated February 24, 2023 at 11:21 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.653 | Chairperson of Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board.

Effective:
April 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 254 - 134th General Assembly
(A) If a domestic violence fatality review board is established under section 307.651 of the Revised Code, the board members shall select, by majority vote, a member of the board to serve as the chairperson of the review board.
(B) The chairperson of the review board shall be responsible for all of the following:
(1) Convening board meetings;
(2) Notifying members of board meetings;
(3) Providing members with a list of fatalities to be reviewed during a board meeting;
(4) Ensuring that the review board complies with the procedure for conducting reviews of deaths established in rules adopted under section 3701.0412 of the Revised Code.
Last updated February 24, 2023 at 11:22 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.654 | Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board - Purpose and Duties.

Effective:
April 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 254 - 134th General Assembly
The purpose of a domestic violence fatality review board established under section 307.651 of the Revised Code is to decrease the incidence of deaths occurring as a result of domestic violence by doing all of the following:
(A) Promoting cooperation, collaboration, and communication between all groups, professions, agencies, or entities engaged in the prevention of, and education about, domestic violence;
(B) Maintaining a comprehensive database of all deaths by domestic violence that occur in the county or region served by the review board in order to develop an understanding of the causes and incidence of those deaths;
(C) Recommending and developing plans for implementing local service and program changes and changes to the groups, professions, agencies, or entities that serve local residents that might prevent deaths by domestic violence;
(D) Providing the department of health with aggregate data, trends, and patterns concerning deaths by domestic violence.
Last updated February 24, 2023 at 11:22 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.655 | No Review While Investigation or Prosecution Pending.

Effective:
April 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 254 - 134th General Assembly
A domestic violence fatality review board may not conduct a review of a death while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney agrees to allow the review. The law enforcement agency conducting the criminal investigation, on the conclusion of the investigation, and the prosecuting attorney prosecuting the case, on the conclusion of the prosecution, shall notify the chairperson of the review board of the conclusion.
Last updated February 24, 2023 at 11:22 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.656 | Annual Report.

Effective:
April 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 254 - 134th General Assembly
(A) A domestic violence fatality review board shall establish a system for collecting and maintaining information necessary for the review of deaths by domestic violence in the county or region. In an effort to ensure confidentiality, each board shall do all of the following:
(1) Maintain all records in a secure location;
(2) Develop security measures to prevent unauthorized access to records containing information that could reasonably identify any person;
(3) Develop a system for storing, processing, indexing, retrieving, and destroying information obtained in the course of reviewing a death.
(B) For each death reviewed by a board, the board shall collect all of the following:
(1) Demographic information of the deceased and perpetrator, including age, sex, race, and ethnicity;
(2) The year in which the death occurred;
(3) The geographic location of the death;
(4) The cause of death;
(5) Any factors contributing to the death;
(6) Any other information the board considers relevant.
(C) By the first day of April of each year, the person convening a domestic violence fatality review board shall prepare and submit to the department of health in the manner and format prescribed by the department a report that includes all of the following information for the previous calendar year:
(1) The total number of deaths by domestic violence in the county or region;
(2) The total number of deaths by domestic violence reviewed by the board;
(3) A summary of demographic information for the deaths reviewed, including age, sex, race, and ethnicity of both deceased and perpetrators;
(4) A summary of any trends or patterns identified by the board.
The report shall specify the number of deaths by domestic violence that were not reviewed during the previous calendar year.
The report shall include recommendations for actions that might prevent other deaths, as well as any other information the review board determines should be included.
(D) Reports prepared under division (C) of this section shall be considered public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
Last updated February 24, 2023 at 11:23 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.657 | Accessing Confidential Information.

Effective:
April 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 254 - 134th General Assembly
(A)(1) Notwithstanding section 3701.17 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, on the request of the domestic violence fatality review board, any individual, law enforcement agency, or other public or private entity that provided services to any of the following shall submit to the review board a summary sheet of information:
(a) A person whose death is being reviewed by a domestic violence fatality review board;
(b) A person who caused the death of a person whose death is being reviewed by a domestic violence fatality review board;
(c) A child of a person whose death is being reviewed by a domestic violence fatality review board.
(2) With respect to a request made to a health care entity, the summary sheet shall contain only information available and reasonably drawn from the person's or child's medical record created by the health care entity.
(3) With respect to a request made to any other individual or entity, the summary sheet shall contain only information available and reasonably drawn from any record involving the person or child to which the individual or entity has access.
(4) On the request of the review board, an individual or entity may, at the individual or entity's discretion, make any additional information, documents, or reports available to the review board.
(B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, no person, entity, law enforcement agency, or prosecuting attorney shall provide any information to a domestic violence fatality review board while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney has agreed pursuant to section 307.655 of the Revised Code to allow review of the death.
Last updated February 24, 2023 at 11:23 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.658 | Immunity.

Effective:
April 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 254 - 134th General Assembly
(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, members of a domestic violence fatality review board and their agents or employees, if any, are immune from claims and are not subject to any suits, liability, damages, or any other recourse, civil or criminal, arising from any act, proceeding, decision, or determination undertaken or performed or recommendation made by the review board.
No organization, institution, or person furnishing information, data, testimony, reports, or records to the domestic violence fatality review board is civilly or criminally liable or subject to any other recourse for providing the information.
(B) The immunity from criminal liability granted by this section does not extend to violations of division (F) of section 307.652 of the Revised Code or division (B) of section 307.659 of the Revised Code.
Last updated February 24, 2023 at 11:23 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.659 | Unauthorized Dissemination of Confidential Information.

Effective:
April 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 254 - 134th General Assembly
(A) Any information, document, or report presented to a domestic violence fatality review board, all statements made by review board members during meetings of the review board, all work products of the review board, and data submitted by the review board to the department of health, other than the report prepared pursuant to section 307.656 of the Revised Code, are confidential, are not public records open to public inspection and copying under section 149.43 of the Revised Code, and shall be used by the review board, its members, and the department of health only in the exercise of the proper functions of the review board and the department.
(B) No member of a domestic violence fatality review board shall disclose any of the following, except in the exercise of the proper functions of the review board:
(1) Information, documents, or reports presented to the board;
(2) Work products of the review board or data submitted to the department of health other than reports prepared pursuant to division (C) of section 307.656 of the Revised Code.
(C) A review board may disclose the confidential information described in division (A) of this section to a child fatality review board established under section 307.621 of the Revised Code in the same county or region, and otherwise collaborate with a child fatality review board, if the person whose death is being reviewed as a domestic violence fatality was a child.
Last updated February 24, 2023 at 11:23 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.66 | Memorial Day Appropriations.

Effective:
May 30, 2002
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 123 - 124th General Assembly
The board of county commissioners, annually, shall appropriate, and advance upon application made no more than one hundred twenty days prior to memorial day, to each garrison or naval branch of the Army and Navy Union, U.S.A. and to each chartered post, garrison, or naval branch of any organization of veterans recognized and chartered by the congress, upon request of their officials, in the county, a sum of money not to exceed five hundred dollars to aid in defraying the expenses of memorial day.
Each such organization applying for an advance of funds shall submit with its application a statement of expenses incurred up to the time the application for an advance is submitted. Each such organization receiving money from this appropriation shall file a sworn statement accounting for the complete expenditures of the funds with the board within sixty days after the memorial day for which the funds were provided. Any unexpended funds shall be returned to the board of county commissioners within this period. Any organization failing to file a sworn statement within the prescribed time accounting for the complete expenditure of the funds shall not be eligible to receive an appropriation the following year. Two or more separate veterans' organizations, or two or more posts, garrisons, or naval branches of one or more veterans' organizations, or both, may pool their entitlements to funds and submit a joint or consolidated statement of expenses. Allowable items shall include expenses for arrangement of, support of, or participation in, local or countywide observances as may be desirable in the community; expenses for mapping, marking, and decorating graves of veterans; and other items incidental to these expenses.
The board of township trustees may, on or before the fifteenth day of May in each year, appropriate a sum to be determined by the board for each post within the township, from the general expense fund of the township, for the purpose of properly observing memorial day within the township, and if any post is located within the township, the appropriation shall be made to that post. Any municipal corporation located within a township may cooperate with the township, or with the county, in observing memorial day, and the legislative authority of the municipal corporation may make the necessary appropriation for the observance.
If any posts have become extinct or unable to attend to memorial day services, the appropriation by the board of county commissioners or the board of township trustees shall be made to a post or unit of the sons of union veterans of the civil war, woman's relief corps, or daughters of veterans, or to any civic or patriotic organization willing and able to undertake and perform the work of commemoration and observance of memorial day. If the appropriation by the board of county commissioners is made to a civic organization, it shall not exceed one hundred dollars.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.67 | County May Give Aid to Establish Canal or Waterway.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 361 - 100th General Assembly
Whenever a canal or waterway of substantially definite route is authorized to be constructed by or under the authority, management, and control of the government of the United States, or of this state, either separately or jointly, or in co-operation with any state, or under the authority, management, and control of any state adjoining this state, to connect the great lakes or the ocean with the navigable waters of this state, or with the navigable waters of any adjoining state, by a route situated within or partly within and partly without the state, suitable for steamships, steamboats, barges, or other vessels, any county situated on the route thereof or connected therewith by navigable waters, railroad, or other highway of commerce, in such manner that the construction of such canal or waterway will be for the general public benefit of the community of such county, may give aid by the appropriation of money or the issue of bonds as provided by section 307.68 of the Revised Code.
Provided, that such canal or waterway shall be and remain exclusively a public enterprise, under public management, control, and operation, free from the private management, interest, or possession in any way of any individual company, corporation, association, or institution.
Provided, further, that of any surplus of tolls, rates, and charges accruing from the operation of such canal or waterway, or the sale of water or water power or from other income remaining after payment of the cost of operation, maintenance, and improvement, such county shall receive such proportionate part as its contribution bears to the total sum contributed for the construction of the canal or waterway.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.675 | Using Long Life Expectancy Material in the Construction or Repair of Bridge Deck.

Effective:
March 14, 2003
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 675 - 124th General Assembly
(A) As used in this section, "long life expectancy material" means any material, including a composite, that, when used for a bridge deck in lieu of steel, concrete, or reinforced concrete, will result in an expected useful life of the bridge deck before replacement of at least thirty years.
(B) A county engineer may make a recommendation to the board of county commissioners for the issuance of indebtedness of the county as provided under division (C) of this section if the county engineer determines that the projected savings from the use of long life expectancy material in the construction or repair of the bridge deck of a bridge for which the county has construction or maintenance responsibility are sufficient to pay any additional debt service costs of that indebtedness. In making this determination, the county engineer shall do all of the following:
(1) Determine the expected useful life of the bridge deck if constructed or repaired using long life expectancy material. In making the determination, the county engineer shall use credible data and shall thoroughly review any data used that is not generated by the engineer.
(2) Determine the additional debt service costs the county would incur issuing indebtedness under division (C) of this section compared to issuing indebtedness to construct or repair the bridge deck using steel, concrete, or reinforced steel;
(3) Compare the additional debt service costs to the projected savings in operating, repair, and future capital improvement costs of the bridge deck over the lesser of fifty years or its expected useful life.
The county engineer also may include in a recommendation under division (B) of this section a recommendation to purchase and install performance monitoring equipment to monitor the physical condition of the bridge so constructed or repaired.
(C) Upon a recommendation of the county engineer pursuant to division (B) of this section, and pursuant to division (C)(7) of section 133.07 of the Revised Code, a board of county commissioners may issue indebtedness of the county subject to, and having a maximum maturity specified in, division (B)(1)(c) of section 133.20 of the Revised Code, for the purpose of constructing or repairing with long life expectancy material the bridge deck of a bridge for which the county has construction or maintenance responsibility and, if also so recommended, for the purpose of purchasing, installing, and maintaining in conjunction with the bridge improvement performance monitoring equipment to monitor the physical condition of the bridge. The authority conferred by this division is in addition to any other statutory authority of a board to issue indebtedness for a bridge improvement, including an improvement using long life expectancy material.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.68 | Board May Issue Bonds Upon Petition.

Effective:
October 30, 1989
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 230 - 118th General Assembly
The board of county commissioners, upon the petition of one hundred or more resident taxpayers and qualified voters of the county, the approval of the court of common pleas of the county, and a favorable vote of the electors in accordance with section 133.18 of the Revised Code, may issue bonds for the purpose of assisting the construction of the canal or waterway mentioned in section 307.67 of the Revised Code. The board may sell such bonds as provided by sections 133.29 to 133.33 of the Revised Code, and pay the proceeds to the proper state or federal authority constructing the canal or waterway.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.69 | Agreements for Protection of Funds Contributed.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
For the purposes of co-operating with and safeguarding the respective interests of the contributing counties in the proportion of their respective contributions, and in respect of such contributions, the respective boards of county commissioners may enter into such proper arrangements and agreements with the secretary of defense, or any other public authority empowered to act in the premises under any act of congress or of the general assembly of this or the legislative authority of any other state, as is necessary for such purposes; and also with counties and other public authorities, of this or other states, with a view to harmonious and efficient action and proportionate contribution, as nearly as may be arrived at or found to be practicable.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.691 | County or Municipal Assistance to Nonprofit Corporations Engaged in Certain Activities Benefiting Public.

Effective:
November 12, 1992
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 98 - 119th General Assembly
The board of county commissioners of any county or the legislative authority of a municipal corporation may cooperate with, give financial assistance to, and provide equipment to any nonprofit corporation engaged in promoting safety in this state, to any nonprofit corporation that provides ambulance service, emergency medical services, or nonemergency patient transport services in this state, to any nonprofit corporation engaged in this state in the development of public interest and understanding of the economic benefits resulting from the building of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway, and to any nonprofit ombudsman corporation engaged in this state in assisting citizens in dealing with governments, including political subdivisions, governmental agencies and instrumentalities, and public officials through the investigation of citizen complaints concerning government services and operations.
The nonprofit corporation shall be required to make an audited account at least once every year of any funds received, and a report of the use and disposition of any equipment received, from the board of county commissioners or the legislative authority of any municipal corporation, to the board of county commissioners or the legislative authority of any municipal corporation from which the funds or equipment is received.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.692 | Expending Funds for Encouraging Economic Development of the County or Area Through Promotion of Tourism.

Effective:
April 26, 1976
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1033 - 111th General Assembly
The legislative authority of a county may appropriate moneys from its general fund to be expended by the county or by joint agreement with one or more other political subdivisions or by private, nonprofit organizations for the public purpose of encouraging economic development of the county or area through promotion of tourism.
Semiannual reports on the use of the expenditures shall be made to the legislative authority by the chief officer implementing the joint agreement, or the chief officer or board of directors of the private nonprofit organizations.
As used in this section, "promotion of tourism" is the encouragement through advertising, educational and informational means, and public relations, both within the state and outside of it, of travel by persons away from their homes for pleasure, personal reasons, or other purposes, except to work, to the county, or to the local area.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.693 | Appropriating Moneys for Convention and Visitors' Bureaus.

Effective:
January 1, 1980
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 355 - 113th General Assembly
A board of county commissioners may appropriate moneys from the general fund to make contributions to convention and visitors' bureaus operating within the county.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.698 | Moneys Spent for Housing Purposes.

Effective:
April 7, 2009
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 353 - 127th General Assembly
The board of county commissioners may spend moneys from the general fund for housing purposes, including the housing purposes of a county land reutilization corporation organized under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.6910 | Operation of Veterans Memorial and Museum.

Effective:
April 7, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 45 - 134th General Assembly
(A) A new nonprofit corporation shall be organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of operating a veterans memorial and museum to be located within the city of Columbus at the site described in division (B) of this section.
(B) The site of the veterans memorial and museum, shall be constructed on the following parcel of real property owned in fee simple by the board of county commissioners of Franklin county:
That property located at 300 West Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio, generally lying north of Broad Street, south of the right-of-way line of Norfolk and Southern Railway, west of the Scioto River and its floodwall, and east of the east line of Belle Street if the same extended north of Broad Street to the railroad right-of-way.
(C) The bylaws of the new nonprofit corporation shall provide for the board of directors to consist of a minimum of fifteen members. The appointments to the board of directors shall be made in accordance with the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the nonprofit corporation. All appointments to the board of directors shall satisfy any qualifications set forth in the nonprofit corporation's bylaws. The appointments to the board of directors shall be made as follows:
(1) The board of county commissioners of Franklin county shall appoint five members.
(2) The articles of incorporation shall provide for the remaining appointments.
(D) The bylaws of the new nonprofit corporation shall provide for a national veterans advisory committee to consist of veterans and family members of veterans. Appointments to the national veterans advisory committee shall be made in accordance with the bylaws of the nonprofit corporation.
(E) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code, meetings of the board of directors of the new nonprofit corporation are not subject to section 121.22 of the Revised Code, and records of the board and of the corporation are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
(F) The board of county commissioners of Franklin county may lease the site described in division (B) of this section together with any adjacent property, without engaging in competitive bidding, to an Ohio nonprofit corporation for the construction, development, and operation of the veterans memorial and museum. A board of county commissioners may appropriate funds to either the nonprofit corporation established as provided in this section or the nonprofit corporation with which the county has leased the property for permanent improvements and operating expenses of the veterans memorial and museum.
Last updated February 28, 2023 at 10:47 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.70 | County Charter Commissions.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
In any county electing a county charter commission, the board of county commissioners shall appropriate money for the expenses of such commission in the preparation of a county charter, or charter amendment, and the study of problems involved. No appropriation shall be made for the compensation of members of the commission for their services. The board shall appropriate money for the printing and mailing or otherwise distributing to each elector in the county, as far as may be reasonably possible, a copy of a charter submitted to the electors of the county by a charter commission or by the board pursuant to petition as provided by Section 4 of Article X, Ohio Constitution. The copy of the charter shall be mailed or otherwise distributed at least thirty days prior to the election. The board shall appropriate money for the printing and distribution or publication of proposed amendments to a charter submitted by a charter commission pursuant to Section 4 of Article X, Ohio Constitution. Notice of amendments to a county charter shall be given by mailing or otherwise distributing a copy of each proposed amendment to each elector in the county, as far as may be reasonably possible, at least thirty days prior to the election or, if the board so determines, by publishing the full text of the proposed amendments once a week for at least two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the county, or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. No public officer is precluded, because of being a public officer, from also holding office as a member of a county charter commission, except that not more than four officeholders may be elected to a county charter commission at the same time. No member of a county charter commission, because of charter commission membership, is precluded from seeking or holding other public office.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.71 | Adoption of Curfew.

Effective:
June 23, 1970
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1018 - 118th General Assembly
(A) Whenever the adoption of a curfew for persons under eighteen years of age is deemed necessary by the board of county commissioners for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety in any of the unincorporated areas of such county, the board of county commissioners may adopt a resolution setting forth the provisions of such curfew and the necessity for such curfew together with a statement of the reasons for such necessity, and providing for its enforcement within such unincorporated areas of the county. Upon adoption of the resolution by a majority of the commissioners, the resolution shall become effective immediately.
(B) Any person under the age of eighteen years who violates the provisions of a curfew adopted in accordance with division (A) of this section shall be apprehended and charged as being an unruly child and taken before the juvenile court in the county in which the violation occurred as provided in Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.72 | Appropriating Funds for Police Training.

Effective:
October 2, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 174 - 100th General Assembly
The board of county commissioners may appropriate funds to pay the reasonable expenses of the sheriff or deputy sheriffs while going to, attending, and returning from any police training school, whether within or without the state.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.73 | Contract for Private Construction of Water and Sewer Lines.

Effective:
August 23, 1972
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 193 - 109th General Assembly
The board of county commissioners for any unincorporated portion of the county, upon application by any individual, organization, or agency of private enterprise, may grant permission by resolution to such individual, organization, or agency to construct water or sewer lines, or both, under the supervision of the board. Such resolution, and any contract entered into pursuant to such resolution, shall authorize the collection of prorated shares of the cost of such improvement as provided in this section.
The board shall collect and return to such individual, organization, or agency a prorated share of the cost of such improvement in any instance in which such improvement is tapped into by a nonparticipant in the original cost. The prorated share shall be based on the front footage of improvement to the nonparticipant and shall not be in excess of the amount chargeable to such nonparticipant if such nonparticipant had participated in the aforesaid improvements.
No subsequent assignee or grantee of such individual, organization, or agency shall be considered a nonparticipant in the original cost.
A copy of the resolution granting permission to construct water or sewer lines and authorizing the collection of a prorated share shall be filed by the applicant with the county auditor, who shall keep an index by location of all such resolutions. The filing of such resolution constitutes constructive notice thereof. The county auditor shall charge a fee of one dollar for each resolution filed. No nonparticipant shall be required to pay the prorated share of the cost of such improvement permitted by a resolution adopted after the effective date of this section without such notice.
The county commissioners may make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to administer this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.74 | Purchasing Water From Municipality.

Effective:
August 23, 1957
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 29 - 102nd General Assembly
The board of county commissioners, with the consent of a municipal corporation, may purchase water from said municipal corporation, and may construct and maintain aqueduct or water lines required for the transmission of such water to a county owned or operated property whenever, upon resolution of the board, it is determined necessary for the protection or general use of said county property.
The board, with the authorization of said municipality, may permit such line to be tapped upon application of the property owner on the line of such facilities.
The board shall establish and collect a reasonable tapping fee which shall include a portion of the original cost and maintenance of said line.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.75 | Operating or Contracting for Operation of Police Training Schools.

Effective:
September 9, 1957
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 227 - 102nd General Assembly
The board of county commissioners may operate or may contract with an accredited university or college to operate a police training school, a law enforcement training and research school, a police science laboratory for criminal investigation, or a crime prevention activity program, for the use of police officers, sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, marshals, and deputy marshals within such county and such county may contract for such training or schooling with and on behalf of the municipalities within such county.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.76 | Operating or Contracting for Operation of Zoological Park.

Effective:
August 10, 1961
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 91 - 104th General Assembly
The board of county commissioners may maintain and operate a zoological park, or it may contract with or contribute to any nonprofit corporation organized to encourage the study and promote the sciences of natural history, to maintain and operate a zoological park, to develop such park, and to provide for the acquisition, disposition, and care of the animals to be exhibited therein.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.761 | Facility to Promote Sciences and Natural History.

Effective:
March 30, 2006
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 530 - 126th General Assembly
A board of county commissioners may maintain and operate a facility to encourage the study of and promote the sciences and natural history, or it may contract with or contribute to a nonprofit corporation to develop, maintain, and operate such a facility if the nonprofit corporation is organized, in whole or in part, for the purpose of encouraging the study of and to promote the sciences and natural history.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.77 | Giving Aid to Units of Government for Water Management.

Effective:
November 24, 1967
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 402 - 107th General Assembly
The board of county commissioners of any county may give aid to any of the units of government set forth in division (A) of this section by the appropriation of money or by the issuance of bonds and payment of proceeds as provided by section 307.771 of the Revised Code for a public improvement whenever:
(A) The public improvement is authorized to be constructed, acquired, maintained, or operated by or under the management and control of a department or agency of the United States, or of this state, or of any state adjoining this state, or of one or more counties of this state, or of any municipal corporation or political subdivision of this or an adjoining state, either separately or jointly or co-operatively; and
(B) The public improvement is authorized to be constructed, acquired, maintained, or operated:
(1) To alleviate and reduce damage from floods; regulate stream channels by changing, widening, and deepening the same; or to impound water in a reservoir and regulate the release thereof for the purpose or purposes of lessening the flow of a stream in times of floods, or augmenting the flow of a stream in times of below average runoff, or providing a supply of water for domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, conservational, or other public uses, not including commercial water transportation; or
(2) To provide dams, ditches, or other facilities for a water supply system, or for the removal and disposition of surplus water, or for abatement or alleviation of pollution, or for betterment of sanitary conditions; and
(C) The board of county commissioners finds that the public improvement will serve one or more of the purposes set forth in division (B)(1) and (2) of this section in such a manner and by such method that it will be for the general public benefit of the county in an amount corresponding with or greater than the amount of aid which the county will contribute.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.771 | Issuing Bonds for Water Management.

Effective:
October 30, 1989
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 230 - 118th General Assembly
The board of county commissioners of any county, pursuant to a favorable vote of the electors, may, subject to the conditions prescribed in section 307.77 of the Revised Code, issue bonds for the purpose of assisting the construction, acquisition, maintenance, or operation of a public improvement of a kind set forth in division (B)(1) or (2) of section 307.77 of the Revised Code. The proceedings for the authorization and sale of such bonds shall, in other respects, be governed by Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, and the board may pay the proceeds to the United States, the state, county, or other public authority or subdivision which is constructing, acquiring, maintaining, or operating the improvement.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.772 | Agreements for Facilitating Water Management Projects.

Effective:
April 19, 1961
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 446 - 104th General Assembly
For the purposes of facilitating any project set forth in section 307.77 of the Revised Code and safeguarding the respective interests of the contributing counties, the respective boards of county commissioners may enter into such agreements with any public authority empowered to act with respect to any public improvement set forth in division (B)(1) and (2) of section 307.77 of the Revised Code under any act of congress or of the general assembly of this state, or the legislative authority of any other state, and also with counties and other subdivisions set forth in division (A) of section 307.77 of the Revised Code, as are necessary, with a view to effective co-operative action and providing for contributions in such proportion to benefits as may be agreed upon or found practicable.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.78 | Making Contributions to Community Improvement Corporations.

Effective:
September 8, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 166 - 131st General Assembly
(A) The board of county commissioners of any county may make contributions of moneys, supplies, equipment, office facilities, and other personal property or services to any community improvement corporation organized pursuant to Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code to defray the expenses of the corporation. The community improvement corporation may use the board's contributions for any of its functions under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code.
(B) Any moneys contributed by the board for such purposes shall be drawn from the general fund of the county not otherwise appropriated. The board may anticipate the contributions of money for such purposes and enter the amount of such contributions in its annual statement to the county budget commission for inclusion in the budget upon which rates of taxation are based.
(C) The board of county commissioners of any county may pledge, as security for the repayment of moneys borrowed by a community improvement corporation under division (A)(1) of section 1724.02 of the Revised Code, revenue appropriated to a county treasurer under section 321.261 of the Revised Code, subject to annual appropriation of specific amounts of such revenues, and any other specified revenue lawfully available for the purposes for which such a corporation is organized.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.791 | Election on Repeal of County Sediment Control Rule.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
The question of repeal of a county sediment control rule adopted under section 307.79 of the Revised Code may be initiated by filing with the board of elections of the county not less than ninety days before the general or primary election in any year a petition requesting that an election be held on such question. Such petition shall be signed by qualified electors residing in the county equal in number to ten per cent of those voting for governor at the most recent gubernatorial election in the county.
After determination by it that such petition is valid, the board of elections shall submit the question to the electors of the county at the next general or primary election. The election shall be conducted, canvassed, and certified in the same manner as regular elections for county offices in the county. Notice of the election shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county once a week for two consecutive weeks prior to the election or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. If the board of elections operates and maintains a web site, notice of the election also shall be posted on that web site for thirty days prior to the election. The notice shall state the purpose, time, and place of the election and a succinct summary of each rule sought to be repealed. The form of the ballot cast at such election shall be prescribed by the secretary of state. The question covered by such petition shall be submitted as a separate proposition, but it may be printed on the same ballot with any other proposition submitted at the same election other than the election of officers. If a majority of the qualified electors voting on the question of repeal approve the repeal, the result of the election shall be certified immediately after the canvass by the board of elections to the board of county commissioners, who shall thereupon rescind the rule.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.80 | Establishing County Microfilming Board.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
The board of county commissioners of any county may, by resolution, establish a county microfilming board. The county microfilming board shall consist of the county treasurer or the treasurer's representative, the county auditor or the auditor's representative, the clerk of the court of common pleas or the clerk's representative, a member or representative of the board of county commissioners chosen by the board of county commissioners, and the county recorder or the recorder's representative who shall serve as secretary.
After the initial meeting of the county microfilming board, no county office shall purchase, lease, operate, or contract for the use of any microfilming or other image processing equipment, software, or services without prior approval of the board.
As used in sections 307.80 to 307.806 of the Revised Code, "county office" means any officer, department, board, commission, agency, court, or other office of the county and the court of common pleas. The county hospital shall not be considered a "county office" when the county hospital uses microfilming to record and store for future access physical and psychiatric examinations or treatment records of its patients. The county hospital shall participate, at the request of the county microfilming board, in purchasing film and equipment and in entering into contracts for services for microfilming.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.801 | Organization of Board.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
Within ninety days after a county microfilming board has been established, it shall hold its initial meeting at such time as the secretary of the board determines. Thereafter, the board shall meet annually on the second Monday in January and at such other times and places as the secretary determines. The secretary shall, within five days after receiving a written request from any other member of the board, call the board together for a meeting. A majority of the board constitutes a quorum at any regular or special meeting.
The board may, by unanimous consent, adopt such rules as it considers necessary for its operation, but no rule of the board shall derogate the authority or responsibility of any elected official.