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Ohio Revised Code - Title LV Roads - Highways - Bridges - Chapter 5555: County Road Improvement

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• 5555.01 County road improvement definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Cost" or "costs" includes compensation, damages, and expenses that are incident to an improvement covered by this chapter and...
• 5555.02 General powers of board of county commissioners relating to public roads.
  The board of county commissioners may construct a public road by laying out and building a new road, or by improving, reconstructing, or repairing any...
• 5555.021 Improving approaches to rural mail boxes.
  The board of county commissioners may construct, improve, maintain, or repair the berm of any road under its jurisdiction, in order to provide a hard...
• 5555.022 Improving roads where no special assessment levied.
  (A) A board of county commissioners, by resolution adopted by a majority vote and acting without regard to or the necessity for a petition, may...
• 5555.03 Petition to board by fifty-one per cent of landowners.
  When a petition is presented to the board of county commissioners asking for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, or repair of any public road or part...
• 5555.04 Landowners must be specially taxed to be counted as petitioners.
  Lot or land owners who are not otherwise taxed than to raise the proportion of the cost and expenses of the improvement, petitioned for pursuant...
• 5555.05 Certain persons shall not be counted as petitioners.
  In determining whether the required number of persons necessary to give the board of county commissioners jurisdiction of the improvement have signed the petition described...
• 5555.06 Resolution by board - plans by county engineer.
  The board of county commissioners may by resolution adopted by a unanimous vote find that the public convenience and welfare require the improving of any...
• 5555.07 Copies of surveys, plans, and estimates transmitted to board - notice, hearing.
  The county engineer shall prepare and file with the board of county commissioners, by the time fixed therefor by the board, copies of the surveys,...
• 5555.08 Confirmation of estimated assessments - certification to county auditor.
  A board of county commissioners may defer its consideration, adjustment, approval, and confirmation of the estimated assessments until all questions of compensation and damages have...
• 5555.09 Appropriation of land for improvements.
  If the surveys, plans, profiles, and cross sections prepared by the county engineer pursuant to section 5555.07 of the Revised Code show that lands will...
• 5553.10 to 5553.12 Repealed.
  Effective Date: 01-01-1966
• 5555.13 Order after determination.
  After the determination of claims for compensation for lands taken, if the board of county commissioners is still satisfied that the public convenience and welfare...
• 5555.21 Petition relating to improvement in more than one county.
  When the proposed improvement is in two or more counties or along the county line between two or more counties in this state or extends...
• 5555.22 Action by joint board on petition.
  The boards of county commissioners shall meet as a joint board at the time and place designated by the board of the county where the...
• 5555.23 Improvement by joint board without petition.
  The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties, acting as a joint board, may, by a resolution passed by unanimous vote, order the...
• 5555.24 Appointment of county engineer by joint board - copies of surveys transmitted to each board.
  After the joint board of county commissioners has granted the improvement, it shall appoint a county engineer of one of the counties interested, who shall...
• 5555.25 Method of payment and proportion of costs - notice of assessments - apportionment by director of transportation.
  When a joint board of county commissioners is proceeding upon a petition for a road improvement, the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement shall...
• 5555.26 Each county may choose different method of apportionment.
  When a petition asking for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, or repair of a road in two or more counties, or along the county line between...
• 5555.27 Hearing for objections by joint board - notice.
  As soon as the county engineer has transmitted to the several boards of county commissioners copies of his surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and...
• 5555.30 Decision of joint board as to improvement.
  After all questions relating to compensation and damages have been disposed of, the joint board shall decide whether it will proceed with the improvement, and...
• 5555.31 Procedure when improvement is in one county but within assessment distance of another.
  When the proposed improvement is wholly within one county but within less than the legal assessment distance of the county line, and a petition is...
• 5555.32 Joint board may place portion of improvement wholly within one county.
  A joint board of county commissioners has jurisdiction to provide for the construction of a portion of a road improvement wholly within one county when...
• 5555.33 Bond issue by each county.
  If bonds are issued in anticipation of the collection of taxes and assessments on account of the improvement, such bonds as are required shall be...
• 5555.34 Single county procedure applicable to joint board.
  Sections 5555.01 to 5555.72, inclusive, of the Revised Code relating to improvements wholly within one county shall when applicable apply to improvements authorized by a...
• 5555.41 Apportionment of costs.
  The compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement shall be apportioned and paid in any one of the following methods, as set forth in the...
• 5555.42 Application to court if equitable assessment cannot be made.
  A board of county commissioners desiring to construct a county road improvement, and finding that no equitable method of apportioning the compensation, damages, and expenses...
• 5555.43 All costs may be paid by county - agreement with townships to pay proportion.
  The board of county commissioners, unless acting pursuant to section 5555.022 of the Revised Code, or the joint board of county commissioners, upon a unanimous...
• 5555.44 Funds from which costs are paid.
  When the compensation, damages, and expenses of an improvement, other than the portion thereof to be specially assessed against benefited real estate, are to be...
• 5555.45 Assessment of property separated from improvement by canal or railway.
  If property is separated from an improvement by a canal, street or interurban railway, steam railway, or in any other similar manner, such property shall...
• 5555.46 Special duplicate of assessments - collection - installments.
  All assessments, with interest accrued on them, made under sections 5555.01 to 5555.72 of the Revised Code shall be placed by the county auditor upon...
• 5555.47 Apportionment between owners of life estate and fee - appeal.
  If any lands to be assessed are subject to a life estate, the assessment made therein shall, upon application of the life tenant to the...
• 5555.48 Payment of county's share - tax levy.
  The proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement to be paid by the county shall be paid out of any road improvement...
• 5555.49 Payment of township's share - tax levy.
  For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of the proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement to...
• 5555.50 Procedure for paying expenses applicable to joint county improvement.
  Sections 5555.41 to 5555.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code apply to the proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of any improvement to be paid...
• 5555.51 Issuing anticipation public obligations for road improvements.
  The board of county commissioners, in anticipation of the collection of taxes, or taxes and assessments, for a road improvement or any part of a...
• 5555.61 Contract for improvement not to exceed ten per cent above estimates.
  After the board of county commissioners decides to proceed with the improvement, it shall do so in accordance with sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the...
• 5555.62 to 5555.64 Repealed.
  Effective Date: 12-09-1967
• 5555.65 Repealed.
  Effective Date: 08-27-1976
• 5555.66 Payment on estimates of materials delivered shall not exceed ninety per cent.
  In addition to the estimates provided for by section 153.13 of the Revised Code, the county engineer may, under such conditions as he prescribes, allow...
• 5555.67 Limitation of time for completion - account of expenditures.
  Each contract let under section 5555.61 of the Revised Code, shall contain a provision to the effect that if such contract is not completed within...
• 5555.68 Completion of improvement on failure of contractor.
  If, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, the contractor has not commenced his work within a reasonable time, does not carry such...
• 5555.69 Allowances and contracts for extra work.
  In case of an unforeseen contingency not contemplated by a contract, allowances for extra work may be made by a board of county commissioners, but...
• 5555.71 Repealed.
  Effective Date: 12-17-1971
• 5555.72 Record of cost.
  When the board of county commissioners constructs, reconstructs, widens, resurfaces, repairs, or improves a road by force account, and the estimated cost of the work,...
• 5555.81 Improvement of state line road.
  When it is desired to construct, improve, or repair a road on or along the line between this state and an adjoining state, the board...
• 5555.82 Assessment and levy of county proportion.
  The proportion of the cost and expense of a road improvement on or along the line between this state and an adjoining state to be...
• 5555.83 Powers of joint boards.
  In exercising the powers enumerated and granted in sections 5555.81 and 5555.82 of the Revised Code, joint boards of county commissioners shall be governed and...
• 5555.91 Annual tax levy.
  After the annual estimate for the county has been filed with the board of county commissioners by the county engineer, and the board has made...
• 5555.92 County maintenance and repair fund.
  The board of county commissioners shall provide annually by taxation an adequate fund for the maintenance and repair of improved county highways. Such fund shall...
• 5555.93 Powers of board of county commissioners and board of township trustees.
  Whenever the board of county commissioners or the board of township trustees may levy on the general duplicate of the county or of any township...
• 5555.94 Repair of damaged roads.
  The board of county commissioners shall repair all substantial damage caused to county or township roads by the transportation of materials or equipment over such...
• 5555.95 Tax levy for road repairs.
  When one or more of the principal highways of a county, or part thereof, have been destroyed or damaged by freshet, landslide, wear of watercourses,...
• 5555.96 How surplus of tax to be disposed of.
  All money assessed and collected under section 5555.95 of the Revised Code, which remains in the hands of the county treasurer, unexpended and unappropriated, for...
• 5555.97 County road districts.
  The board of county commissioners of a county in which there is located municipal corporations or a part thereof, may, by resolution, create that portion...

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