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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5571 | Board of Township Trustees › Section 5571.10 | Landscape and Beautification Projects.

Effective:
October 8, 2001
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 174 - 124th General Assembly
As part of improving or maintaining any road, upon petition or otherwise, the board of township trustees may provide for landscape and beautification projects along the road. Such projects may include planting trees or other plants and installing and maintaining decorative pathways, walls, signage, fencing, banners, fountains, and other similar features.
In providing for the projects, the board shall proceed in accordance with Chapter 5575. of the Revised Code.
The cost of the projects may be paid by any of the methods provided in section 5573.07 of the Revised Code, as determined by the board by resolution. If the board finds that the projects will result in general as well as special benefits, the portion of the cost that is found to represent the value of the general benefit may be paid from the general fund of the township treasury.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5571 | Board of Township Trustees › Section 5571.12 | Dragging Graveled and Unimproved Roads Semiannually.

Effective:
June 10, 2004
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 299 - 125th General Assembly
Except as provided in section 5571.20 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees shall cause the graveled and unimproved public roads of the township to be dragged. At the beginning of each fiscal half year, the board, before making any other appropriations from the township road fund, shall appropriate and set aside a sum sufficient to meet the expense of dragging the graveled and unimproved public roads of the township during the ensuing six months. That sum shall not be used for any purpose other than that for which it was appropriated.
The board from time to time shall designate the roads to be dragged and furnish suitable road drags, hones, scrapers, or other tools, which shall be paid for out of the road fund. The work of dragging the graveled and unimproved public roads of the township, or of any road district of the township, shall be done under the supervision of one of the township trustees or the township highway superintendent designated to have charge of the maintenance and repair of roads as provided in section 5571.02 of the Revised Code. That trustee or superintendent shall employ the necessary labor and teams at a price to be fixed by the board. Bills for dragging shall be paid from the dragging fund upon the order of the board.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5571 | Board of Township Trustees › Section 5571.14 | Object Bounding Township Road May Be Declared Public Nuisance.

Effective:
March 31, 2003
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 513 - 124th General Assembly
(A) A board of township trustees or township highway superintendent may determine that an object bounding any township road and located wholly or in part on the land belonging to the road interferes with snow or ice removal from, the maintenance of, or the proper grading, draining, or dragging of the road, causes the drifting of snow on the road, or in any other manner obstructs or endangers the public travel of the road. The board or superintendent then may declare the object to be a public nuisance and order the owner, agent, or occupant of the land on or bordering upon which the object is maintained to remove it within thirty days. If that person refuses or neglects to comply with the order, the board or superintendent shall have the object removed. The expense incurred in that removal shall be certified to the county auditor and entered on the tax duplicate against that land, to be collected in the same manner as other taxes.
(B)(1) The authority granted in this section is in addition to the authority granted in section 5543.14 of the Revised Code to remove vegetation and the authority granted in section 5547.03 of the Revised Code to remove objects or structures constituting obstructions.
(2) The authority granted in this section applies to land belonging to a township road whether owned in fee simple or by easement.
(3) Objects that may be declared to be a public nuisance under this section include a fence, post, pole, athletic or recreational apparatus, rock, or berm, any vegetation, or any other object identified by the board or superintendent as interfering with or obstructing the township road under division (A) of this section.
(C) The authority granted in this section does not apply to an object that is lawfully entitled to be maintained on land belonging to a township road pursuant to a franchise or other grant of public authority.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5571 | Board of Township Trustees › Section 5571.15 | Board of Township Trustees May Improve Roads Without Petition.

Effective:
March 12, 2001
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly
(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the board of township trustees, without the presentation of a petition, may take the necessary steps to construct, reconstruct, resurface, or improve a public road or part thereof, upon the passage of a resolution by unanimous vote declaring the necessity for the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, or improvement. The cost thereof may be paid by any of the methods provided in section 5573.07 of the Revised Code, as determined by the board in the resolution.
(B) If the primary reason for the reconstruction, resurfacing, or improvement of a public road or part thereof is to improve the drainage of water from the surface of the road, as declared by the resolution, and there is no presentation of a petition, the board may proceed upon the passage of the resolution by majority vote. The cost in such case may be paid by either of the methods provided in division (B) of section 5573.07 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5571 | Board of Township Trustees › Section 5571.16 | Obtaining Permit Before Installing Driveway Culvert or Making Excavation in Township Highway or Highway Right-of-Way.

Effective:
September 28, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 413 - 131st General Assembly
The board of township trustees, by resolution, may require any person to obtain a permit before installing a driveway culvert or making any excavation in a township highway or highway right-of-way within its jurisdiction, except an excavation to repair, rehabilitate, or replace a pole already installed for the purpose of providing electric or telecommunications service. The board, as a condition to the granting of the permit, may do any of the following:
(A) Require the applicant to submit plans indicating the location, size, type, and duration of the culvert or excavation contemplated;
(B) Specify methods of excavation, refilling, and resurfacing to be followed;
(C) Require the use of warning devices it considers necessary to protect travelers on the highway;
(D) Require the applicant to indemnify the township against liability or damage as the result of the installation of the culvert or as a result of the excavation;
(E) Require the applicant to post a deposit or bond, with sureties to the satisfaction of the board, conditioned upon the performance of all conditions in the permit.
Applications for permits under this section shall be made to the township fiscal officer upon forms to be furnished by the board. Applications, including, but not limited to, a single application for an excavation project to install six or more poles for the purpose of providing electric or telecommunications service or to install a pole associated with underground electric or telecommunications service, shall be accompanied by a fee of up to fifty dollars per application, which fee shall be returned to the applicant if the application is denied. Except as otherwise provided in this section, no application or fee shall be required for an excavation project to install five or fewer poles for the purpose of providing electric or telecommunications service, but the person making that excavation shall provide verifiable notice of the excavation to the township f iscal officer at least three business days prior to the date of the excavation.
No person shall install a driveway culvert or make an excavation in any township highway or highway right-of-way in violation of any resolution adopted pursuant to this section, except that, in the case of an emergency requiring immediate action to protect the public health, safety, and welfare, an excavation may be made without first obtaining a permit, if an application is made at the earliest possible opportunity.
As used in this section, "person" has the same meaning as in section 1.59 of the Revised Code, and "right-of-way" has the same meaning as in division (UU)(2) of section 4511.01 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5571 | Board of Township Trustees › Section 5571.99 | Penalty.

Effective:
August 16, 1955
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 576 - 101st General Assembly
Whoever violates section 5571.16 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement › Section 5573.01 | Resolution for Road Improvement.

Effective:
September 20, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 187 - 123rd General Assembly
When the board of township trustees has determined that any road shall be constructed, reconstructed, resurfaced, or improved, the board shall determine by resolution, by unanimous vote if acting without a petition, and by a majority vote if acting upon a petition, the route and termini of the road, and the kind and extent of the improvement, and at the same time shall order the county engineer or, if the township has adopted a limited home rule government under Chapter 504. of the Revised Code, hire an independent professional engineer, after notifying the county engineer, to make surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications as are required for the improvement. If an independent professional engineer is hired, the county engineer shall review all of the independent professional engineer's plans for improvements and provide the board of township trustees with comments on those plans within ten working days after receiving them. The county engineer shall monitor all of the independent professional engineer's plans for improvements in order to maintain compliance with existing construction standards and thoroughfare plans, and coordinate construction timelines within the county.
If the board orders the county engineer to act under this section, the board may order the county engineer to make alternate surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications, providing in them for different widths of roadway, or different materials, and approve all or any number of these alternate surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications. The county engineer may, without instructions from the board, prepare alternate surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications, providing in them for different widths of roadways or different materials. When alternate surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications are approved by the board, or submitted by the county engineer on the county engineer's own motion, the board and county engineer shall, after the opening of bids, agree which of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications shall be finally adopted for construction of the improvement.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement › Section 5573.02 | Transmission of Surveys, Plans, and Specifications to Board - Notice.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
Upon the completion of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for a road improvement by the county engineer, the engineer shall transmit to the board of township trustees copies of the same. Except in cases of reconstruction or repair of roads, where no land or property is taken, the board shall then cause to be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the township, once a week for two consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, a notice that such improvement is to be made and that copies of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for it are on file with the board for the inspection and examination of all persons interested.
In the event that land or property is to be taken for such improvement, proceedings shall be had in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement › Section 5573.06 | Order to Proceed With Improvement.

Effective:
January 1, 1966
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly
If, after determination of all claims for compensation and damages on account of land or property taken for any road improvement, the board of township trustees is satisfied that the public convenience and welfare require that such improvement be made, and that the costs of such improvement will not be excessive in view of its public utility, such board shall order, by resolution, that such improvement be proceeded with, and shall adopt the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications therefor, as reported by the county engineer, or with such modifications as the board and engineer agree upon. If, in view of the amount of compensation and damages allowed, the board is of the opinion that such improvement should not be made, it shall so order.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement › Section 5573.07 | Apportionment of Compensation, Damages, and Costs - Payment.

Effective:
March 12, 2001
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly
The compensation, damages, and costs of township road improvements shall be apportioned and paid in any of the following methods, as set forth in the petition:
(A) Any part thereof shall be assessed against:
(1) The real estate abutting upon said improvement;
(2) The real estate situated within one-half mile of either side thereof;
(3) The real estate situated within one mile of either side thereof, according to the benefits accruing to such real estate;
(B) Any balance shall be paid:
(1) From the proceeds of any levy for road purposes upon the grand duplicate of all the taxable property in the township;
(2) From any funds in the township treasury available therefor.
When the board of township trustees acts by unanimous vote without the filing of a petition, as permitted by division (A) of section 5571.15 of the Revised Code, the board shall set forth in its resolution that declares the necessity for the improvement the method of apportioning and paying the compensation, damages, and costs of the improvement, which may be any one of the methods provided in this section.
When the board acts by majority vote as permitted by division (B) of section 5571.15 of the Revised Code, the board shall set forth in its resolution the method of paying the compensation, damages, and costs of the improvement, which may be by either of the methods provided in division (B) of this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement › Section 5573.08 | Assessment of Property Separated From Improvement.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When property is separated from a road improvement by a canal, street or interurban railway, steam railroad, or in any similar manner, such property shall be regarded, for the purpose of assessment under the township road improvement laws as property abutting upon the improvement. The land owned or occupied by such street or interurban railway or steam railroad and the land lying back thereof shall be assessed, on account of such improvement.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement › Section 5573.09 | All Costs May Be Paid From Proceeds of Tax Levy.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The board of township trustees, upon a unanimous vote, may, without a petition therefor, order that all compensation, damages, and costs of constructing any road improvement be paid out of the proceeds of any levy for road purposes on the grand duplicate of the township, or out of any road improvement fund available therefor.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement › Section 5573.10 | Estimated Assessment on Real Estate.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
As soon as all questions of compensation and damages have been determined for any road improvement, the county engineer shall make, upon actual view, an estimated assessment, upon the real estate to be charged, of such part of the compensation, damages, and costs of such improvement as is to be specially assessed. Such assessment shall be according to the benefits which will result to the real estate. In making such assessment the engineer may take into consideration any previous special assessment made upon such real estate for road improvements.
The schedule for such assessments shall be filed with the board of township trustees for the inspection of the persons interested. Before adopting the estimated assessment, the board shall publish once each week for two consecutive weeks, in a newspaper of general circulation within such township or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, notice that such assessment has been made and is on file with the board, and the date when objections will be heard to such assessment.
If any owner of property affected desires to make objections, the owner may file objections to such assessments, in writing, with the board, before the time of such hearing. If any objections are filed the board shall hear them and act as an equalizing board, and may change assessments if, in its opinion, any changes are necessary to make them just and equitable. The board shall approve and confirm assessments as reported by the engineer or modified by the board. Such assessments, when approved and confirmed, shall be a lien on the land chargeable therewith.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement › Section 5573.11 | Assessments Certified to County Auditor for Collection - Installments.

Effective:
October 30, 1969
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 276 - 108th General Assembly
All assessments, with interest accrued thereon, made as provided by sections 5573.07 to 5573.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be certified to the county auditor and by him placed upon a special duplicate, to be collected as other taxes. The principal shall be payable in not more than twenty semiannual installments, extending over a period of not more than ten years, as determined by the board of township trustees. Any assessment in the amount of twenty-five dollars or less, or of which the unpaid balance is twenty-five dollars or less, shall be paid in full and not in installments, at the time the first or next installment would otherwise become due. In the event that bonds are issued to pay the compensation, damages, and costs incident to such improvement, the principal sum of such assessment shall be payable in such number of equal semiannual installments as will provide a fund for the redemption of the bonds and shall bear interest from the date of and at the same rate as the bonds. The interest shall be collected in like manner as the principal of such assessments.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement › Section 5573.12 | Apportionment Between Owners of Life Estate and Fee - Hearing - Appeal.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
If any lands to be assessed for road improvement are subject to a life estate, the assessments shall, upon application of the life tenant to the board of township trustees, be apportioned between the owner of the life estate and the owner of the fee, in proportion to the value of their respective estates. Upon filing of the application the board shall fix a date for hearing the same and cause notice of such hearing to be served on the owner of the fee as provided by section 5573.02 of the Revised Code. Either party to such apportionment may appeal to the probate court of the county, from the decision of the board relating to the apportionment of such assessment, by giving the notice and filing the bond provided for in section 5563.02 of the Revised Code. Such proceedings shall be thereafter had upon such appeal as are provided for appeals in road cases.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement › Section 5573.13 | Township's Proportion of Costs - Payment.

Effective:
December 20, 2005
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 107, House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly
The proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of any road improvement to be paid by the township shall be paid out of any road improvement fund available for it. For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of the township's proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing, or improving roads under sections 5571.01, 5571.06, 5571.07, 5571.15, 5573.01 to 5573.15, and 5575.02 to 5575.09 of the Revised Code, and for the purpose of maintaining, repairing, or dragging any public road or part of any public road under their jurisdiction, in the manner provided in sections 5571.02 to 5571.05, 5571.08, 5571.12, and 5575.01 of the Revised Code, the board of trustees may levy, annually, a tax not exceeding three mills upon each dollar of the taxable property of the township. The levy shall be in addition to all other levies authorized for township purposes, and subject only to the limitation on the combined maximum rate for all taxes now in force. The taxes so authorized shall be placed by the county auditor upon the tax duplicate against the taxable property of the township, and collected by the county treasurer as other taxes. When collected, the taxes shall be paid to the fiscal officer of the township from which they are collected, and the money so received shall be under the control of the board of township trustees for the purposes for which the taxes were levied.
The Legislative Service Commission presents the text of this section as a composite of the section as amended by multiple acts of the General Assembly. This presentation recognizes the principle stated in R.C. 1.52(B) that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement › Section 5573.14 | Trustees May Issue Bonds in Anticipation of Tax.

Effective:
November 8, 1961
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1122 - 104th General Assembly
The board of township trustees, in anticipation of the collection, for road improvements, of taxes and assessments or any part thereof, may, whenever in its judgment it is necessary, sell the bonds of the township in any amount not greater than the aggregate sum necessary to pay the estimated compensation, damages, and costs of such improvement.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement › Section 5573.15 | Joint Improvement by Townships - Procedure.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The boards of township trustees of two or more townships may construct, reconstruct, resurface, or improve a township road or part thereof, along the line between such townships, extending into or through all such townships, or wholly within the township but within less than the legal assessment distance of the township line. In such case the several boards, when acting as a joint board and when acting separately, in the making of assessments and issuing bonds, shall be governed by sections 5555.21 to 5555.34, inclusive, of the Revised Code, in so far as the same are applicable. They shall also have the same power with respect to county roads located as provided in this section, subject to the limitation expressed in section 5571.01 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement › Section 5573.21 | Erection of Road District Outside Municipal Corporation.

Effective:
October 8, 2001
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 174 - 124th General Assembly
The board of township trustees of a township in which there is located a municipal corporation or a part thereof, may, by resolution, erect that portion of the township not included within the corporate limits of the municipal corporation into a road district, whenever in its opinion it is expedient and necessary and for the public convenience and welfare, for the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing, or improving the public roads within such district. The district so created shall be given an appropriate name by which it shall be designated.
After such a district has been created, the board shall have all the powers and duties that it has under sections 5571.01, 5571.06, 5571.07, 5571.10, 5571.15, 5573.01 to 5573.12, 5573.14, and 5575.02 to 5575.09 of the Revised Code, and it shall proceed in like manner in the constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing, improving, maintaining, repairing, and dragging of township roads, or part thereof, in such cases as provided for the board in township road construction.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement › Section 5573.211 | Payment of Township Road District's Proportion of Compensation, Damages, and Costs.

Effective:
December 20, 2005
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 107 - 126th General Assembly
The proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of any road improvement to be paid by a township road district shall be paid out of any road improvement fund available for it. For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of a township road district's proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing, improving, maintaining, repairing, and dragging township road district roads or parts of those roads, the board of trustees of a township in which a township road district has been erected as provided in section 5573.21 of the Revised Code may levy, annually, a tax not exceeding three mills upon each dollar of the taxable property of the township road district. The levy shall be in addition to all other levies authorized for township or township road district purposes, and subject only to the limitation on the combined maximum rate for all taxes in force. The taxes so authorized shall be placed by the county auditor upon the tax duplicate against the taxable property of the township road district, and collected by the county treasurer as other taxes. When collected, the taxes shall be paid to the fiscal officer of the township in which the township road district has been erected, and the money so received shall be under the control of the board of township trustees for the purposes for which the taxes were levied.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5573 | Township Road Improvement › Section 5573.22 | Construction and Repair in Township Road Districts Outside Municipal Corporations.

Effective:
September 28, 1973
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly
The board of township trustees of a township in which there is located a municipal corporation or a part of a municipal corporation, and in which that portion of the township not included within the limits of such municipal corporation has been erected into a road district, may enter into an agreement with the board of county commissioners of the county within which such township is situated, providing for the construction, improvement, maintenance, or repair by the board of county commissioners of a road within such district.
The board of township trustees may assume, on behalf of such district, the proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of such improvement as is proper.
The remainder of the compensation, damages, and costs of such improvement shall be paid in part by the county and shall in part be assessed against the real estate abutting upon the improvement, or situated within one-half mile of either side thereof, or situated within one mile of either side thereof, or situated within two miles of either side thereof, as may be fixed by the terms of the agreement between the board of county commissioners and the board of township trustees.
For the payment of that part of the compensation, damages, and costs assumed by the board of township trustees on behalf of such district, the board of township trustees may levy taxes against such district and issue the bonds of the district. The district shall pay the county treasurer its agreed proportion of the estimated compensation, damages, and costs of such improvement, as fixed in the agreement between the board of county commissioners and the board of township trustees, out of the proceeds of any such tax levies or bond issues. All proceedings relating to the letting of the contract, supervision of the work, making of assessments, and all other proceedings in connection with such improvement, except as provided for by this section, shall be conducted by the board of county commissioners as in the construction, improvement, maintenance, and repair of county roads.
The board of township trustees may enter into an agreement with the board of county commissioners providing for construction by the department of transportation, upon the application of such board of county commissioners, of a road improvement within such district, and may assume on behalf of the district such proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of the improvement as to it seems proper. In the event of its making such an agreement, the board may levy taxes upon and issue the bonds of the district and pay to the board of county commissioners, out of the proceeds of such tax levies and bond issues, their agreed proportion of such compensation, damages, and costs.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5575 | Maintenance and Repair - Contract; Force Account › Section 5575.02 | Advertisements for Bids - Award of Contract.

Effective:
September 29, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly
After the board of township trustees has decided to proceed with a road improvement, it shall advertise for bids once, not later than two weeks prior to the date fixed for the letting of contracts, in a newspaper of general circulation within the township. Such notice shall state that copies of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, and specifications for such improvement are on file with the board, and the time within which bids will be received. The board may let the work as a whole or in convenient sections, as it determines. The contract shall be awarded to the lowest and best bidder who meets the requirements of section 153.54 of the Revised Code, and shall be let upon the basis of lump sum bids, unless the board orders that it be let upon the basis of unit price bids, in which event it shall be let upon such basis.
The board is not required to provide notice of the project cost estimate when advertising for bids under this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5575 | Maintenance and Repair - Contract; Force Account › Section 5575.03 | Contract Shall Not Be Awarded at More Than Estimated Cost - Rejection of Bids.

Effective:
September 29, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly
No contract for any road improvement shall be awarded at a price more than ten per cent in excess of the estimated cost. The bids received shall be opened at the time stated in the notice. If no bids are made that equal one hundred ten per cent of the estimate or less, the board of township trustees shall either readvertise based upon the original estimate, or request an amended estimate from the county engineer, who shall proceed to make such an estimate as provided in section 5575.01 of the Revised Code, and proceed to advertise based upon the amended estimate. The board is not required to provide notice of the estimate or amended estimate when readvertising under this section.
No contract shall be awarded for any road improvement without the certification as to funding required under section 5705.41 of the Revised Code. The board may reject all bids.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5575 | Maintenance and Repair - Contract; Force Account › Section 5575.04 | Bond of Contractor.

Effective:
December 20, 2005
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 107 - 126th General Assembly
Before entering into a contract, the board of township trustees shall require a bond indemnifying the township against damages that may be suffered by failure to perform the contract according to the contract's provisions and in accordance with the specifications for the improvement.
The township fiscal officer shall not draw a warrant in favor of any contractor for estimates, on account of a contract let under sections 5575.02 and 5575.03 of the Revised Code, until the affidavit of the contractor, or an officer or agent in the case of a corporation, that all indebtedness of the contractor on account of material incorporated into the work or delivered on the site of the improvement and labor performed has been paid, is filed with the fiscal officer. In lieu of the affidavit, the contractor may file the written consent of all persons who have furnished material, incorporated into the work or delivered on the site of the improvement, or performed labor on the improvement, that any estimate then due may be paid. The consent shall be accompanied by the affidavit of the contractor, or an officer or agent in the case of a corporation, that the consent bears the signatures of all persons who have furnished material, incorporated in the work or delivered on the site of the improvement, or performed labor on the improvement, and have not been paid in full for the labor or material. This section does not prevent the payment out of any estimate that is due, upon the assignment by the contractor to any person who has furnished material for the work or performed labor on the improvement, of the amount due for the material or labor.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5575 | Maintenance and Repair - Contract; Force Account › Section 5575.05 | New Contract for Extra Work - Procedure.

Effective:
September 14, 1995
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 12 - 121st General Assembly
(A) In case of an unforeseen contingency not contemplated by a road improvement contract, allowances for extra work may be made by a board of township trustees, but the board must first enter into a new contract in writing for the extra work. If the estimate for extra work is less than twenty-five thousand dollars for any particular line item listed in the new contract and the overall total estimate for the extra work does not exceed ten per cent of the total of the original contract, the contract for the extra work may be let by the board by private contract without complying with section 5575.02 of the Revised Code. Section 5575.02 of the Revised Code applies to all other new contracts for extra work, except that if an emergency exists and the time required for complying with section 5575.02 of the Revised Code would unduly delay the completion of the project, the board, after making a finding of emergency and entering it on its records, may contract for the extra work by private contract without complying with that section.
(B) No contract shall be awarded for extra work at any price in excess of the original contract unit price for the same class or kind of work in connection with the original contract. In case of any new class or kind of work, the board and contractor shall agree as to the price to be paid. The contractor shall submit a bid in writing and, if the bid is accepted by the board, the board immediately shall enter into a written contract covering the extra work. The costs of the extra work shall be paid by the board out of any funds available therefor, and the amount paid shall be charged to the cost of construction of the improvement and apportioned as the original contract price.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5575 | Maintenance and Repair - Contract; Force Account › Section 5575.06 | Donations of Labor or Material.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The board of township trustees may accept donations of labor or material for a proposed road improvement, and in determining which road shall first be improved it may, when acting by unanimous vote and without a petition, take into consideration the amount of such donations. The board may require the persons donating labor or material to enter into a contract that such labor will be performed and material furnished at the time required by the board. Such contract shall set forth the value of the labor or material, and in case of failure to furnish such labor or material the value fixed in the contract shall be conclusive in any suit brought by the board for damages for the breach of contract.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5575 | Maintenance and Repair - Contract; Force Account › Section 5575.07 | Supervision by County Engineer - Appointment of Inspector.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The work of road improvement shall be done under the general supervision and direction of the county engineer and he may appoint some competent person to act as inspector during the construction of such improvement. The person appointed as inspector shall receive, for each day actually employed at such work, a sum not to exceed four dollars, to be fixed by the engineer and paid out of any fund available for the construction of the improvement, upon the order of the board of township trustees with the approval of the engineer.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5575 | Maintenance and Repair - Contract; Force Account › Section 5575.09 | Record of Proceedings for Improvement.

Effective:
December 20, 2005
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 107 - 126th General Assembly
The board of township trustees shall provide the township fiscal officer with a suitable book in which the fiscal officer shall keep a complete record of proceedings for the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, or improvement of public roads. For making the record, the fiscal officer shall receive ten cents for each one hundred words, and, for all other services in connection with keeping the record, the fiscal officer shall receive the reasonable compensation allowed by the board.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5575 | Maintenance and Repair - Contract; Force Account › Section 5575.10 | Maintenance and Repair Fund.

Effective:
October 29, 1975
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 124 - 111th General Assembly
After the annual estimate for each township has been filed with the board of township trustees by the county engineer, such board may increase or reduce the amount of any items contained in the estimate, and at its first meeting after such estimate is filed the board shall make its levies for the purposes set forth in the estimate and for creating a fund for dragging, maintenance, and repair of roads, upon all the taxable property of the township outside of any municipal corporation or part thereof, not exceeding, in the aggregate, three mills in any one year upon each dollar of the valuation of such property. Such levies shall be in addition to all other levies authorized for township purposes, and subject only to the limitation upon the combined maximum rate for taxes now in force. This section does not prevent the expenditures of any portion of the regular levy of two mills for township purposes, but is in addition thereto. The board shall provide annually by taxation, under this section or under section 5573.13 of the Revised Code, or under both, an adequate fund for the maintenance and repair of township roads.
The maintenance and repair fund so provided shall not be less than one hundred dollars for each mile of improved township road and twenty dollars for each mile of unimproved township road. Such levies for maintenance and repair purposes shall be separately set forth in the annual budget of the board presented to the budget commission, and the maintenance and repair levies made by the board, pursuant to this section, shall be preferred levies as against any others made for township road purposes by the board. Should the budget commission of any county be unable to allow all of the road levies made by the board, such reductions as are necessary shall be first made in levies other than for maintenance and repair purposes made under this section. The fund produced by such levies for maintenance and repair purposes shall be subject to transfer, in the manner provided in sections 5705.15 and 5705.16 of the Revised Code. This section does not prevent the board from using any other available road funds for the maintenance and repair of township roads.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.01 | Load Limits on Highways Definitions.

Effective:
June 30, 1993
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 154 - 120th General Assembly
(A) As used in sections 5577.01 to 5577.14 of the Revised Code:
(1) "Axle" means one or more load-carrying wheels mounted in a single transverse vertical plane.
(2) "Spacing between axles" means the distance between any two successive such planes.
(3) "Maximum axle load" means the gross weight of vehicle and load imposed by any axle upon the road surface.
(4) "Maximum wheel load" means the proportionate gross weight of vehicle and load imposed by any wheel upon the road surface.
(5) "Automobile transporter" means any vehicle combination designed and used expressly for the transport of assembled motor vehicles.
(6) "Stinger-steered automobile transporter" means any automobile transporter configured as a semitrailer combination in which the fifth wheel is located on a drop frame located behind and below the rearmost axle of the power unit.
(7) "Boat transporter" means any vehicle combination, including a straight truck towing a trailer typically using a ball and socket connection, designed and used specifically for the transport of boat hulls and boats, whether the hulls or boats are assembled or partially disassembled to facilitate transportation.
(8) "Stinger-steered boat transporter" means a boat transporter configured as a semitrailer combination in which the fifth wheel is located on a drop frame located behind and below the rearmost axle of the power unit.
(9) "Assembled" means, in regard to motor vehicles, capable of being driven.
(10) "B-train assembly" means any rigid frame extension that is attached to the rear frame of one semitrailer and provides a fifth wheel connection point for a second semitrailer.
(11) "Saddlemount vehicle transporter combination" means any combination of vehicles in which a straight truck or commercial tractor tows one or more straight trucks or commercial tractors, each connected by a saddle to the frame or fifth wheel of the straight truck or commercial tractor in front of it. Such a combination may include a fullmount, in which a smaller vehicle is mounted completely on the frame of either the first or last straight truck or commercial tractor in the saddlemount combination.
(B) "Vehicle," as used in section 5577.04 of the Revised Code, means any single vehicle when not in combination, or any combination of vehicles, as defined in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.02 | Operation of Vehicle on Highways in Excess of Prescribed Weights Forbidden.

Effective:
June 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 74 - 134th General Assembly
No person shall operate or move a trackless trolley, traction engine, steam roller, or other vehicle, load, object, or structure, whether propelled by muscular or motor power, over or upon the improved public streets, highways, bridges, or culverts in this state, that weighs in excess of the weights prescribed in sections 5577.01 to 5577.14 of the Revised Code, unless the person has been issued a permit under section 4513.34 of the Revised Code. The prohibition in this section applies regardless of whether the weight is moved upon wheels, rollers, or otherwise. Any weight determination shall include the weight of the vehicle, object, structure, contrivance, and load.
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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.03 | Weight of Load - Width of Tire.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person, firm, or corporation shall transport over the improved public streets, alleys, intercounty highways, state highways, bridges, or culverts, in any vehicle propelled by muscular, motor, or other power, any burden, including weight of vehicle and load, greater than the following:
(A)(1) In vehicles having metal tires three inches or less in width, a load of five hundred pounds for each inch of the total width of tire on all wheels;
(2) When the tires on such vehicles exceed three inches in width, an additional load of eight hundred pounds shall be permitted for each inch by which the total width of the tires on all wheels exceeds twelve inches.
(B) In vehicles having tires of rubber or other similar substances, for each inch of the total width of tires on all wheels, as follows:
(1) For tires three inches in width, a load of four hundred fifty pounds;
(2) For tires three and one-half inches in width, a load of four hundred fifty pounds;
(3) For tires four inches in width, a load of five hundred pounds;
(4) For tires five inches in width, a load of six hundred pounds;
(5) For tires six inches and over in width, a load of six hundred fifty pounds.
The total width of tires on all wheels shall be, in case of solid tires of rubber or other similar substance, the actual width in inches of all such tires between the flanges at the base of the tires, but in no event shall that portion of the tire coming in contact with the road surface be less than two thirds the width so measured between the flanges.
In the case of pneumatic tires, of rubber or other similar substance, the total width of tires on all wheels shall be the actual width of all such tires, measured at the widest portion thereof when inflated and not bearing a load.
In no event shall the load, including the proportionate weight of vehicle that can be concentrated on any wheel, exceed six hundred fifty pounds to each inch in width of the tread as defined in this section for solid tires, or each inch in the actual diameter of pneumatic tires measured when inflated and not bearing a load.