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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retirement System › Section 5505.30 | Lump Sum Death Benefit Payment.

Effective:
April 6, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 520 - 131st General Assembly
On the death of a retirant, a lump-sum payment of five thousand dollars shall be paid to the retirant's surviving spouse or, if there is no surviving spouse, the payment shall be made to the beneficiary designated by the retirant on a form provided by the state highway patrol retirement system. A retirant may designate an individual or a trust as a beneficiary. If there is no surviving spouse or designated beneficiary, the payment shall be made to the retirant's estate.
Application for the payment shall be made on a form provided by the state highway patrol retirement board.
A benefit paid under this section shall be treated as life insurance for purposes of this chapter and shall be funded solely from contributions made under division (B) of section 5505.15 of the Revised Code and any earnings attributable to those contributions.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retirement System › Section 5505.33 | Long-Term Care Insurance Programs.

Effective:
March 23, 2015
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 42 - 130th General Assembly
(A) As used in this section:
(1) "Long-term care insurance" has the same meaning as in section 3923.41 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Retirement systems" has the same meaning as in division (A) of section 145.581 of the Revised Code.
(B) The state highway patrol retirement board may establish a program under which members of the retirement system, employers on behalf of members, and persons receiving service or disability pensions or survivor benefits are permitted to participate in contracts for long-term care insurance. Participation may include dependents and family members. If a participant in a contract for long-term care insurance leaves employment, the person and the person's dependents and family members may, at their election, continue to participate in a program established under this section in the same manner as if the person had not left employment, except that no part of the cost of the insurance shall be paid by the person's former employer. Such program may be established independently or jointly with one or more of the retirement systems.
(C) The board may enter into an agreement with insurance companies, health insuring corporations, or government agencies authorized to do business in the state for issuance of a long-term care insurance policy or contract. However, prior to entering into such an agreement with an insurance company or health insuring corporation, the board shall request the superintendent of insurance to certify the financial condition of the company or corporation. The board shall not enter into the agreement if, according to that certification, the company or corporation is insolvent, is determined by the superintendent to be potentially unable to fulfill its contractual obligations, or is placed under an order of rehabilitation or conservation by a court of competent jurisdiction or under an order of supervision by the superintendent.
(D) The board may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code governing the program. Any rules adopted by the board shall establish methods of payment for participation under this section, which may include establishment of a payroll deduction plan under section 5505.203 of the Revised Code, deduction of the full premium charged from a person's service or disability pension or survivor benefit, or any other method of payment considered appropriate by the board. If the program is established jointly with one or more of the other retirement systems, the rules also shall establish the terms and conditions of such joint participation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retirement System › Section 5505.34 | Recovering Erroneous Payments.

Effective:
March 23, 2015
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 42 - 130th General Assembly
If a person is paid any benefit or payment by the state highway patrol retirement system to which the person is not entitled, the benefit or payment shall be repaid to the retirement system by the person. If the person fails to make the repayment, the retirement system shall withhold the amount due from any benefit or payment due the person or the person's beneficiary or may collect the amount in any other manner provided by law.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retirement System › Section 5505.35 | Authorized Deductions.

Effective:
April 6, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 520 - 131st General Assembly
Any person receiving from the state highway patrol retirement system an allowance, pension, or benefit may authorize the system to make deductions therefrom for the payment of dues and other membership fees to any retirement association or other organization composed primarily of retired state highway patrol employees or retired state highway patrol employees and their spouses if the association or organization adopts a resolution approving payment by that method and not fewer than one hundred persons receiving allowances, pensions, or benefits from the system initially authorize the deduction for payment to the same association or organization. The authorization must be in writing and signed by the person giving it. The system shall make the deductions authorized and pay to the association or organization the amounts deducted, until the authorization is revoked in writing by the person. The system may charge the association or organization an amount not exceeding the actual costs incurred by the system in making the deductions. The system shall adopt rules establishing the method of collecting the amount charged, if any.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retirement System › Section 5505.401 | Transfers of Service Credit and Contributions Between System and Cincinnati Retirement System.

Effective:
April 1, 2001
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 535 - 123rd General Assembly
(A) As used in this section and sections 5505.402 and 5505.403 of the Revised Code, "military service credit" means credit purchased or obtained from the state highway patrol retirement system or city of Cincinnati retirement system for service in the armed forces of the United States.
(B) Service credit and contributions may be transferred between the state highway patrol retirement system and the Cincinnati retirement system as specified in sections 5505.402 and 5505.403 of the Revised Code if both of the following conditions are met:
(1) The Cincinnati city council and the board of trustees of the Cincinnati retirement system take all actions, including the adoption of any ordinance or resolution, necessary to authorize the transfer of service credit and contributions between the retirement systems.
(2) The state highway patrol retirement system and Cincinnati retirement system, through their boards of trustees, enter into an agreement governing the transfers that is consistent with the requirements of sections 5505.402 and 5505.403 of the Revised Code and includes both of the following:
(a) A provision under which the retirement systems agree to transfer the amounts specified in those sections;
(b) A provision that specifies an amount of credit the system to which the transfer is made will grant for a specific period of service earned under the transferring system.
(C) The amount of credit specified under division (B)(2) of this section may be less than the person earned for a specific period of service under the transferring system.
(D)(1) The state highway patrol retirement system, through its board of trustees, and the Cincinnati retirement system, acting pursuant to the authority granted it by the Cincinnati city council, may do either of the following:
(a) By mutual consent, modify the agreement described in this section;
(b) Rescind the agreement described in this section.
(2) Any action taken under division (D)(1) of this section does not affect any transfers made between the systems and grants of credit made by the systems prior to the time action is taken.
(3) Rescinding of an agreement as provided in division (D)(1)(b) of this section does not require mutual consent. The retirement system that rescinds the agreement must promptly notify the other.
(E) If either of the conditions described in division (B) of this section is not met, a member of the state highway patrol retirement system who meets the requirements of section 5505.40 of the Revised Code may purchase credit under division (B)(3) of that section for service in the Cincinnati retirement system.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retirement System › Section 5505.50 | Deferred Retirement Option Plan.

Effective:
June 15, 2006
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 206 - 126th General Assembly
The state highway patrol retirement board shall establish and administer a deferred retirement option plan. In establishing and administering the plan, the board shall comply with sections 5505.51 to 5505.59 of the Revised Code and may do all things necessary to meet the requirements of section 401(a) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," (26 U.S.C. 401(a)) as amended, applicable to governmental plans.
The board shall adopt rules to implement this section and sections 5505.51 to 5505.59 of the Revised Code. The rules shall specify the date of initial implementation of the plan established under this section. The rules may also specify a period during which an election made under section 5505.51 of the Revised Code may be rescinded.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retirement System › Section 5505.51 | Participation in Deferred Retirement Plan - Election Procedure.

Effective:
April 6, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 520 - 131st General Assembly
A state highway patrol retirement system member who meets the following requirements may, at any time prior to applying for retirement under section 5505.16 of the Revised Code, elect to participate in the deferred retirement option plan established under section 5505.50 of the Revised Code:
(A) The member is younger than fifty-eight years of age.
(B) The member is eligible to apply for retirement under section 5505.16 of the Revised Code, except that eligibility to apply for a reduced pension under division (B) of that section does not make a member eligible to elect to participate in the deferred retirement option plan.
The member shall make the election by filing with the retirement system an election form provided by the system. The election is effective on the first day of the employer's first payroll period immediately following the board's receipt of the notice of election.
At the time of making the election to participate in the deferred retirement option plan, the member also shall make an election under section 5505.162 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in that section, the election under section 5505.162 of the Revised Code is irrevocable from the date it is received by the retirement system.
A member electing to participate in the deferred retirement option plan must agree to terminate active service in the state highway patrol and begin receiving the member's pension not later than the earlier of the member's sixtieth birthday or the date that is eight years after the effective date of the election to participate in the plan. If the member refuses or neglects to terminate active service in accordance with the agreement, the state highway patrol retirement board shall deem the member's service terminated.
While participating in the deferred retirement option plan, a member shall not be considered to have elected retirement under section 5505.16 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retirement System › Section 5505.52 | Plan Members Ineligible for Service Credit or Health Benefits.

Effective:
April 6, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 520 - 131st General Assembly
(A) A member who makes an election under section 5505.51 of the Revised Code shall continue in the active service of the state highway patrol but shall not earn service credit under this chapter for employment after the election's effective date. While the member is in the active service of the state highway patrol, the member shall contribute, and the state shall contribute and report, to the state highway patrol retirement system in accordance with section 5505.15 of the Revised Code.
On and after the effective date of the member's election to participate in the deferred retirement option plan, the member is ineligible to purchase service credit under this chapter.
Neither the member nor the member's spouse and dependents are eligible for any benefit under section 5505.28 of the Revised Code while the member is participating in the deferred retirement option plan.
(B) A member participating in the deferred retirement option plan is eligible to vote in elections for the employee members of the state highway patrol retirement system board, but not eligible to vote in elections for the retirant members of the board.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retirement System › Section 5505.53 | Determination of Plan Member's Pension Amount.

Effective:
June 15, 2006
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 206 - 126th General Assembly
For each member who elects to participate in the deferred retirement option plan, the state highway patrol retirement system shall determine the member's pension amount under section 5505.17 of the Revised Code. In determining the pension amount, the retirement system shall use the member's total service credit and final average salary as of the last day of the employer's payroll period immediately prior to the effective date of the member's election to participate in the plan. The pension amount shall be calculated using the election made by the member under section 5505.162 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retirement System › Section 5505.54 | Accrual of Plan Member's Pension and Contributions.

Effective:
January 7, 2013
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 345 - 129th General Assembly
(A) During the period beginning on the effective date of an election to participate in the deferred retirement option plan and ending on the date participation ceases, a member's monthly pension amount determined under section 5505.53 of the Revised Code shall accrue to the member's benefit. To this amount shall be added any benefit increases the member would be eligible for under section 5505.174 of the Revised Code had the member, on the effective date of the member's election, retired under section 5505.16 of the Revised Code.
(B)(1) The amounts contributed under division (A) of section 5505.15 of the Revised Code by a member participating in the deferred retirement option plan shall be credited as follows:
(a) Ten per cent of the member's annual salary shall accrue to the member's benefit.
(b) Any amount of the member's annual salary that is in excess of ten per cent shall be credited to the employer's accumulation fund.
(2) The state highway patrol retirement system shall credit to the employer's accumulation fund the amounts contributed by the state under section 5505.15 of the Revised Code on behalf of a member participating in the deferred retirement option plan.
(C) During the period beginning on the election's effective date and ending on the date the member ceases participation in the plan, the amounts described in divisions (A) and (B)(1)(a) of this section shall earn interest at an annual rate established by the state highway patrol retirement board and compounded annually using a method established by rule adopted under section 5505.50 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retirement System › Section 5505.55 | Events Terminating Member's Participation in Plan.

Effective:
June 15, 2006
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 206 - 126th General Assembly
A member's participation in the deferred retirement option plan ceases on the occurrence of the earliest of the following:
(A) Termination of the member's active service in the state highway patrol;
(B) The last day of the eight-year period that begins on the effective date of the member's election to participate in the plan;
(C) The member's sixtieth birthday;
(D) Acceptance by the member of a disability benefit awarded by the state highway patrol retirement board under section 5505.18 of the Revised Code;
(E) The member's death.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retirement System › Section 5505.56 | Notice of Termination of Active Service - Distribution of Accrued Amount.

Effective:
June 15, 2006
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 206 - 126th General Assembly
(A) A member participating in the deferred retirement option plan who terminates active service in the state highway patrol shall notify the state highway patrol retirement system of the date of termination on a form prescribed by the retirement system. The member is not eligible to make another election under section 5505.51 of the Revised Code.
(B)(1) With regard to a member who was younger than age fifty-two on the effective date of the election to participate in the plan, if the date of termination of the member's active service occurs on or after the first day of the fourth year after the effective date of the election, the entire amount that has accrued to the member's benefit under the deferred retirement option plan shall be distributed to the member pursuant to the member's selection under section 5505.57 of the Revised Code.
If the date of termination occurs earlier than four years after the effective date of the election to participate, the member shall forfeit the interest credited under division (C) of section 5505.54 of the Revised Code.
(2) With regard to a member who, on the effective date of the election to participate in the plan, was age fifty-two or older, if the date of termination of the member's active service occurs on or after the first day of the third year after the effective date of the election, the entire amount that has accrued to the member's benefit under the deferred retirement option plan shall be distributed to the member pursuant to the member's selection under section 5505.57 of the Revised Code.
If the termination of active service occurs earlier than three years after the effective date of the election to participate, the member shall forfeit the interest credited under division (C) of section 5505.54 of the Revised Code.
(C) Once a member ceases participation in the deferred retirement option plan as described in division (A), (B), or (C) of section 5505.55 of the Revised Code, the member's monthly pension amount determined under section 5505.53 of the Revised Code shall be paid to the member, commencing the day following the member's last day of active service in the state highway patrol.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retirement System › Section 5505.57 | Method and Timing of Distribution of Accrued Amount.

Effective:
June 15, 2006
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 206 - 126th General Assembly
(A) On ceasing participation in the deferred retirement option plan as described in division (A), (B), or (C) of section 5505.55 of the Revised Code, a member shall select as the method of distribution of the amount accrued to the member under the plan one of the distribution options provided under section 401(a) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," (26 U.S.C. 401(a)) as amended, applicable to governmental plans.
(B) The retirement system shall distribute the amount accrued to a member's benefit under the deferred retirement option plan as follows:
(1) For a member who was younger than fifty-two years of age on the date of the election to participate in the plan, distribution shall not commence until the first day of the fourth year after the effective date of the member's election to participate in the plan.
(2) For a member who was fifty-two years of age or older on the date of the election to participate in the plan, distribution shall not commence until the first day of the third year after the effective date of the member's election to participate in the plan.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retirement System › Section 5505.58 | Plan Member Qualifying for Disability Retirement.

Effective:
June 15, 2006
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 206 - 126th General Assembly
(A) A member participating in the deferred retirement option plan who qualifies for disability retirement under division (B)(1) of section 5505.18 of the Revised Code shall elect to receive one of the following:
(1) The applicable pension provided for in section 5505.53 of the Revised Code, plus any amounts that have accrued under section 5505.54 of the Revised Code to the member's benefit under the deferred retirement option plan.
(2) The disability pension provided for by division (B)(1) of section 5505.18 of the Revised Code. Acceptance of a disability pension requires forfeiture of all amounts accrued under section 5505.54 of the Revised Code to the member's benefit under the deferred retirement option plan, and those amounts shall be treated as if the member had continued in the active service of the state highway patrol and not participated in the plan. The member shall be granted service credit for the period the member was participating in the plan.
(B) A member participating in the deferred retirement option plan who qualifies for disability retirement under division (B)(2) of section 5505.18 of the Revised Code shall receive the applicable pension provided for in section 5505.53 of the Revised Code, plus any amounts that have accrued under section 5505.54 of the Revised Code to the member's benefit under the deferred retirement option plan.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retirement System › Section 5505.59 | Plan Member Dying While Participant - Distribution of Benefits.

Effective:
May 11, 2018
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 362 - 132nd General Assembly
If a member dies while participating in the deferred retirement option plan, all of the following apply:
(A) The amounts accrued to the member's benefit shall be paid to the member's surviving spouse or, if there is no surviving spouse, the beneficiary designated by the member on a form provided by the state highway patrol retirement system. A member may designate an individual or a trust as a beneficiary. If there is no surviving spouse or designated beneficiary, the amounts accrued to the member's benefit shall be paid to the member's estate.
Any payment made under this division to a member's estate shall be made in the form of a single lump sum payment. A surviving spouse or designated beneficiary may select as the method of distribution of the amount accrued to the member under the plan one of the distribution options provided under section 401(a) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 26 U.S.C. 401(a), as amended, applicable to governmental plans.
(B) The member's surviving spouse shall receive a pension as follows:
(1) For the surviving spouse of a member who made an election under section 5505.51 of the Revised Code before the effective date of this amendment, a pension as described in division (A)(3)(b)(iii) of section 5505.17 of the Revised Code, utilizing the pension amount calculated under section 5505.53 of the Revised Code;
(2) For the surviving spouse of a member that made an election under section 5505.51 of the Revised Code on or after the effective date of this amendment, a pension as described in division (A)(3)(c) of section 5505.17 of the Revised Code.
(C) If eligible, each surviving child of a member shall receive a pension as described in division (A)(4) of section 5505.17 of the Revised Code.
(D) If the member has no surviving spouse or surviving children, but has a parent or parents dependent on the member for support, the parent or parents shall receive a pension determined under division (A)(6) of section 5505.17 of the Revised Code.
(E) The lump sum payment described in section 5505.30 of the Revised Code shall be paid to the member's surviving spouse or, if there is no surviving spouse, the beneficiary designated by the member on a form provided by the state highway patrol retirement system. A member may designate an individual or a trust as a beneficiary. If there is no surviving spouse or designated beneficiary, the payment shall be made to the member's estate.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retirement System › Section 5505.99 | Penalty.

Effective:
September 15, 2004
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly
(A) Whoever violates division (A) of section 5505.045 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for each day of the violation.
(B) Whoever violates division (B) of section 5505.045 of the Revised Code shall be imprisoned for not more than six months or fined not more than five thousand dollars, or both.
(C) Fines imposed by the Ohio elections commission under this section shall be paid into the Ohio elections commission fund created under section 3513.10 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5511 | State Highway System › Section 5511.02 | Limited Access Highways and Freeways.

Effective:
June 30, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 26 - 132nd General Assembly
(A)(1) The director of transportation may lay out, establish, acquire, open, construct, improve, maintain, regulate, vacate, or abandon limited access highways or freeways in the same manner in which the director may lay out, establish, acquire, open, construct, improve, maintain, regulate, vacate, or abandon highways. The director, board, or municipal authority shall have all additional authority relative to such limited access highways or freeways as the director possesses relative to highways, including the authority to acquire by gift, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise land required for right of way.
(2) Prior to the director establishing any road, highway, or street as a limited access highway or freeway, the director shall provide notice in the same manner as the director provides notice of a road closure. The director shall, at a minimum, publish notice of the proposal at least twice in a newspaper of general circulation in each county where the limited access highway or freeway is proposed to be established. The director also shall provide the notice to each statewide organization that represents farmers within this state at least four weeks prior to taking action on the proposal. The notice shall include all of the following information:
(a) The location of the proposed limited access highway or freeway;
(b) The manner by which comments regarding the proposal may be submitted, as established by the director;
(c) The date by which comments must be received, which shall be not less than thirty days after the last date of publication in a newspaper of general circulation.
(B) Where an existing highway, in whole or part, has been designated as, or included within, a limited access highway or freeway, existing easements of access may be extinguished by purchase, gift, agreement, or by condemnation.
(C) As an adjunct of any limited access highway or freeway the director, board, or municipal authority may lay out and construct highways and drives, to be designated as service highways, to provide access from areas adjacent to a limited access highway or freeway.
(D) A "limited access highway" or "freeway" is a highway especially designed for through traffic and over which abutting property owners have no easement or right of access by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such highway, and access to which may be allowed only at highway intersections designated by the director.
(E) Limitations imposed on the mileage of state highways shall not apply to highways established under this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5511 | State Highway System › Section 5511.03 | Highway Facilities for State Institutions.

Effective:
September 29, 2013
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly
The director of transportation shall examine the existing highway facilities serving the several hospitals, educational institutions, and correctional and other similar institutions belonging to the state, and located outside municipal corporations. Where the director finds that any such state institution is not located on a state highway or connected with a highway by a suitable road, affording in its present condition adequate transportation facilities to those having occasion to visit such institution, the director may establish a state highway leading to such institution from a convenient point on an existing highway. Where the director finds that any such institution is not served by adequate highway facilities connecting it with the railroad delivery point from which it principally obtains fuel, provisions, and supplies, the director may establish a highway connecting such institution and railroad delivery point. Limitations imposed on the mileage of state highways shall not apply to highways established under this section.
The director may construct at state expense all highways established under authority of this section and pay the entire cost thereof from the state highway operating fund. Such highways shall be maintained by the department of transportation and the cost shall be paid from the highway operating fund of the department.
The directors of transportation, mental health and addiction services, developmental disabilities, and rehabilitation and correction may cooperate in the establishment, construction, reconstruction, maintenance, and repair of roads within the limits of state institutions. The cost shall be paid from funds appropriated for highway purposes and from the funds appropriated to the department of mental health and addiction services, department of developmental disabilities, or the department of rehabilitation and correction for capital improvements or maintenance in such proportion as may be agreed upon by the directors of transportation, mental health and addiction services, developmental disabilities, and rehabilitation and correction.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5511 | State Highway System › Section 5511.04 | Roads for Conservancy Districts.

Effective:
September 21, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly
The director of transportation may relocate and for that purpose construct or reconstruct the relocated portions of all roads, highways, and streets, within, leading through, or adjacent to any lands owned by a conservancy district organized under Chapter 6101. of the Revised Code or lands on which any conservancy district has a flood easement, construction easement, or right-of-way.
The director may cooperate in the construction, reconstruction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of roads leading from a state highway to any public park, forest preserve, or recreational area, or within the boundary of any public park, forest preserve, or recreational area, under the control and custody of a conservancy district.
The director shall confer with the board of directors of a conservancy district upon the construction, reconstruction, location, or relocation of any roads or highways that must be in conformity with the general engineering plans of the district.
With respect to any such road improvement projects, the director may, upon the terms mutually agreed between the director and the board of the district, in view of the benefits to be derived, enter into any contracts with the district as may be necessary or convenient to carry out the general plans of the district.
The costs of the improvements shall be paid in the same manner as for a state highway improvement, provided the expenditures in any one year shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars.
This section does not derogate or limit the powers of the director to add additional mileage to the state highway system.
This section does not derogate or limit the power and authority conferred upon a district and its board by Chapter 6101. of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5511 | State Highway System › Section 5511.05 | Construction and Maintenance of Access Roads.

Effective:
September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 141 - 131st General Assembly
The director of transportation may establish, construct, reconstruct, improve, repair, and maintain roads leading from a state highway to any state park, including all such parks and properties under the control and custody of the department of natural resources and the Ohio history connection, or roads leading from a state highway to any state property used for military purposes, or any road which leads along the side of or through school lands which are owned by the state. The director shall confer with the authority in control of any such park or property before deciding upon the location and character of any such improvement. The director may add such roads to the state highway system. Such additional mileage is in addition to and not subject to section 5511.01 of the Revised Code.
The director may establish, construct, reconstruct, improve, repair, and maintain roads within the boundary of any state park, including all such parks and properties under the control and custody of the department of natural resources and the Ohio history connection or used for military purposes, provided the officer or board which has control of or supervision over such property first requests in writing the establishment, construction, reconstruction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of such road. Thereafter the director may cause to be prepared the necessary engineering plans and specifications for construction and reconstruction, which plans and specifications shall be subject to the approval of the officer or board which has control of or supervision over such property. Such roads shall be maintained in a manner agreed upon between the director and such officer or board.
The director may install and maintain suitable, uniform markers designating intersections with and accesses to state recreational trails, where trails established pursuant to Chapter 1519. of the Revised Code intersect with a state highway. The director may cooperate with the director of natural resources in providing appropriate means for such trails to cross highways.
The costs of such establishment, construction, installation, reconstruction, improvement, repair, and maintenance shall be paid from highway operating funds.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5511 | State Highway System › Section 5511.06 | Park Drives or Park Roads.

Effective:
July 1, 1989
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 381 - 118th General Assembly
The director of transportation may cooperate in the construction, reconstruction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of park drives or park roads within the boundaries of parks created under sections 511.18 to 511.34 and 1545.01 to 1545.22 of the Revised Code, together with roads leading from state highways to and into any such park.
The director, after agreement with the board of park commissioners of any such park district, may proceed with the construction, reconstruction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of any such drives or roads within such park, or roads leading from state highways to such park areas. Such construction, reconstruction, improvement, repair, and maintenance shall be in conformity with the general engineering plans of the park district.
The director may, with respect to any such park drive or road improvement, under such terms as are mutually agreed upon between him and any such board, because of benefits to be derived thereby, enter into a contract with any such park district that may be necessary or convenient to carry out the general plans of the park district, insofar as they relate to park roadway or drive improvement or repair.
The cost of such construction, reconstruction, improvement, repair, and maintenance shall be paid in the same manner as provided for state highway improvement, provided the expenditures in any one year, for the purposes set forth in this section, shall not exceed one and one-half million dollars.
This section does not derogate or limit the powers of the director to add additional mileage to the state highway system, and limitations imposed on the mileage of state highways shall not apply to work done under this section.
This section does not derogate or limit the power and authority conferred upon park districts and boards of commissioners created by sections 511.18 to 511.34 and 1545.01 to 1545.22 of the Revised Code, or of any amendatory or supplementary acts thereto.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5511 | State Highway System › Section 5511.07 | Procedure for Vacating Highway.

Effective:
April 5, 2001
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 295 - 123rd General Assembly
In pursuance of section 5501.31 of the Revised Code, the director of transportation, in vacating any highway or portion thereof on the state highway system that the director finds is no longer necessary for the purposes of a public highway, shall issue such a finding, which shall contain a description of the highway or part thereof to be vacated. Notice of such finding shall be published once a week, for two consecutive weeks, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the highway, or part thereof, to be vacated lies, and a copy of the notice shall be served as in civil cases, or by registered first class mail, return receipt requested, upon each owner of property abutting on the portion of the highway to be vacated, and upon the director of natural resources. Any owner whose place of residence is unknown, or who is a nonresident of the state, shall be specifically named in the notice of publication and shall be directed in the finding to take due notice of the contents thereof. The director shall make any vacation of a highway or portion of a highway to an abutting landowner or current underlying fee owner of record at no cost.
The notice shall fix a date, not less than twenty days after the date of the final publication of the notice, and shall contain a determination that on or before that date claims for compensation and damage, or either, by reason of the vacation proceedings, must be filed in writing, in duplicate, with the district deputy director of transportation in whose district lies any portion of the highway to be vacated. Failure to file claims in that manner is a waiver of any claim for damage by reason of the vacation.
After considering any claims filed, the director shall make awards as the director considers just and equitable, and if, within ten days, the amount so awarded has not been accepted and waivers therefor signed, that amount shall be deposited in the probate court or court of common pleas of the county in which the vacation lies, wholly or in part, and the procedure to adjudicate such claims shall be that provided under section 5519.01 of the Revised Code.
No final determination shall be made by the director in vacating such highway or portion thereof until all awards are accepted, or deposit therefor made, in the probate court or court of common pleas.
No public utility shall be required to move or relocate any of its facilities that may be located in or on any highway or portion thereof being vacated. Any deed, transfer, or other instrument or conveyance made by reason of the vacation shall indicate the right of any public utility to continue its use or occupation of the highway or portion of the highway being vacated.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5511 | State Highway System › Section 5511.09 | Procedure for Naming of Highway.

Effective:
August 22, 2008
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 44 - 127th General Assembly
Within a county, any highway or bridge that is part of the state highway system may be officially assigned a distinctive name, commemorative of an historical event or personage or a commonly accepted and appropriate name, by which the highway or bridge is known. Upon agreement of the governing bodies of the county and each township and municipal corporation within the county through which the highway extends or in which the bridge is located, a request for approval of the highway or bridge name may be submitted to the director of transportation. The agreement shall be indicated by a resolution from each governing body in support of the proposed highway or bridge name. The resolution may not be withdrawn, amended, or repealed for thirty days following receipt of the resolution by the requesting authority, or during the time the request is pending before the director.
Within thirty days after receipt of such a request, the director shall inform the requesting authority of the director's decision. If the director approves the request, the requesting authority, at its own expense, may erect markers indicating the name of the highway or bridge within the county, provided that any marker so erected shall conform to the law of this state and to federal law and shall be in accordance with the directives for the signing of named memorial highways included in the manual adopted by the department of transportation under section 4511.09 of the Revised Code.
Only one name per county shall be assigned to a highway or a bridge under this section, and the name shall apply to the entire extension of the highway or the entire portion of the bridge within the county. A name assigned to a state highway or part thereof or a bridge under this section may be altered or abolished, pursuant to approval of the director, in the same manner as provided for assignment of the original name.
This section shall not in any way modify, limit, or restrict the authority of a municipal corporation to designate within the municipal corporation, the name of a highway or a bridge that is part of the state highway system. If a municipal corporation has acted pursuant to its authority and designated the name of a highway or bridge within the municipal corporation, no other name may be assigned to that highway or bridge under this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5511 | State Highway System › Section 5511.10 | Signs in Area of Part of National Park System.

Effective:
June 30, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 26 - 132nd General Assembly
(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, signs that indicate the presence of an area that is part of the national park system and are erected on highways that are part of the state highway system shall display the arrowhead symbol of the national park service as described in 36 C.F.R. 11.1 next to the name of the area.
(B) All signs erected as of the effective date of this section that indicate the presence of an area that is part of the national park system but that do not display the arrowhead symbol of the national park service shall not be required to display the symbol. When the sign is replaced according to the standard procedures and schedule of replacement as established by the department of transportation, the new sign shall comply with division (A) of this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5512 | Transportation Review Advisory Council › Section 5512.01 | Strategic Initiatives of Department of Transportation.

Effective:
June 30, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 210 - 122nd General Assembly
The director of transportation shall develop the strategic initiatives of the department of transportation. Not more than six months after the effective date of this section, the director shall submit the strategic initiatives of the department to the transportation review advisory council.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5512 | Transportation Review Advisory Council › Section 5512.02 | Project Selection Process for Prioritization of New Transportation Capacity Projects.

Effective:
June 30, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 210 - 122nd General Assembly
(A) The director of transportation shall develop a written project selection process for the prioritization of new transportation capacity projects. The director shall include the following in the process:
(1) A description of how strategic initiatives submitted by the director are advanced by the process;
(2) A definition of the kinds of projects to which the process applies;
(3) Criteria that are used to rank proposed projects by how effectively a project contributes to the advancement of the strategic initiatives;
(4) Data that is necessary to apply the ranking criteria;
(5) Any other provisions the director considers appropriate.
(B) In developing the project selection process, the director shall seek and consider public comment on the process. In doing so, the director may hold public hearings in various locations around the state.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5512 | Transportation Review Advisory Council › Section 5512.03 | Council Review of Selection Process.

Effective:
June 30, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 210 - 122nd General Assembly
Upon completing the written project selection process for the prioritization of new transportation capacity projects, the director of transportation shall submit it to the transportation review advisory council. The council shall review the process, and approve it or make revisions.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5512 | Transportation Review Advisory Council › Section 5512.04 | Biennial Fiscal Forecasts.

Effective:
June 30, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 210 - 122nd General Assembly
At least once every two years, the director of transportation shall prepare a fiscal forecast predicting or indicating the amount of funding expected to be available for construction of new transportation capacity projects during the period of the forecast. The forecast shall be consistent with the biennial budget approved by the general assembly.
The transportation review advisory council shall develop and approve a list of projects that will not cause spending to significantly exceed the funding predicted to be available by the fiscal forecast.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5512 | Transportation Review Advisory Council › Section 5512.05 | Public Hearing for Public Comment Related to Project Selection Process.

Effective:
June 30, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 210 - 122nd General Assembly
In performing its duty to develop the project selection process, and list of projects, the transportation review advisory council shall conduct no more than six public hearings per year at various locations around the state. At the hearings, the council shall accept public comment related to the project selection process, and on the merits of major new transportation projects. Members of the council shall attend the hearings in person.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5512 | Transportation Review Advisory Council › Section 5512.06 | Biennial Reports to Governor and General Assembly.

Effective:
June 30, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 210 - 122nd General Assembly
The director of transportation, with the approval of the transportation review advisory council, shall submit biennial reports to the governor and the general assembly on the conduct of the project selection process for prioritizing transportation capacity projects, and on the progress of those projects undertaken.