Ohio Revised Code Chapter 351 - Convention Facilities Authorities

• Section 351.01 - Convention Facilities Authority Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Convention facilities authority" means a body corporate and politic created pursuant to section 351.02 of the Revised Code....
• Section 351.02 - Creating Convention Facilities Authority.
  A county may create a convention facilities authority by resolution of the county commissioners, provided that in no case shall the same county create...
• Section 351.021 - Levying Excise Taxes On Lodging Transactions.
  (A) The resolution of the county commissioners creating a convention facilities authority, or any amendment or supplement to that resolution, may authorize the authority...
• Section 351.03 - No County Financing Or Subsidizing Operation Of Authority.
  (A) Except as provided in division (A)(3) of section 5739.09 or in section 5739.026 of the Revised Code, no county creating a convention facilities...
• Section 351.04 - Organization Of Board Of Directors.
  A convention facilities authority shall be governed by a board of directors consisting of the following members: (A) Six directors appointed by the county...
• Section 351.05 - Immunity.
  (A) Except for civil actions that arise out of the operation of a motor vehicle and civil actions in which the convention facilities authority...
• Section 351.06 - Applicability Of Prevailing Wage Law.
  A facility to be constructed pursuant to this chapter is a public improvement and a convention facilities authority is a public authority for purposes...
• Section 351.07 - Employees Of Authority.
  (A) (1) A convention facilities authority shall employ and fix the qualifications, duties, and compensation of employees and enter into contracts for professional services...
• Section 351.08 - Group Insurance For Employees.
  (A) A convention facilities authority may procure and pay any or all of the cost of group hospitalization, surgical, major medical, sickness and accident...
• Section 351.09 - Rentals Or Other Charges For Use Or Services Of Any Facility.
  A convention facilities authority may charge, alter, and collect rentals or other charges for the use or services of any facility and contract in...
• Section 351.10 - Cooperating With Governmental Agencies.
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, a governmental agency may cooperate with the convention facilities authority in the acquisition or construction of facilities...
• Section 351.11 - Lawful Investments.
  Convention facilities authority bonds and notes issued under this chapter are lawful investments of banks, societies for savings, trust companies, savings and loan associations,...
• Section 351.12 - Exemption From Tax.
  As used in this section, "private enterprise" means a person whose ownership and use of the property leased to it or used exclusively by...
• Section 351.13 - Power To Lease, Sell Or Encumber Facility.
  (A) With respect to facilities and the financing thereof, and under agreements whereby the party to whom the facility is to be leased, subleased,...
• Section 351.14 - Issuing Bonds.
  A convention facilities authority may at any time issue revenue bonds and notes in such principal amount as, in the opinion of the authority,...
• Section 351.141 - Issuing Anticipation Bonds.
  A convention facilities authority that levies any of the excise taxes authorized by division (B) or (C) of section 351.021 of the Revised Code...
• Section 351.15 - Issuance Of Convention Facilities Authority Bonds And Notes Exempt From Bond Laws.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, sections 9.98 to 9.983 of the Revised Code apply to convention facilities authority bonds and notes issued...
• Section 351.16 - Bonds Secured By Trust Agreement.
  In the discretion of the convention facilities authority, any convention facilities authority bonds and notes issued under this chapter may be secured by a...
• Section 351.17 - Protection And Enforcement Of Rights Of Bondholder And Trustees.
  Any holder of convention facilities authority revenue bonds or convention facilities authority tax anticipation bonds issued under this chapter, or any of the coupons...
• Section 351.18 - Bonds Not A Debt Of State.
  Convention facilities authority bonds and notes issued under this chapter do not constitute a debt, or a pledge of the faith and credit, of...
• Section 351.19 - Moneys, Funds, Properties, And Assets Held In Trust.
  All moneys, funds, properties, and assets acquired by a convention facilities authority under this chapter, whether as proceeds from the sale of convention facilities...
• Section 351.20 - Investing Money.
  Moneys in the funds of a convention facilities authority, except as otherwise provided in any resolution authorizing the issuance of its convention facilities authority...
• Section 351.21 - Acquiring Real Property - Transfers Of Real Or Personal Property From Governmental Agencies.
  A convention facilities authority may acquire by purchase, whenever it finds such purchase expedient, any land, property, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements, and other interests...
• Section 351.22 - Eminent Domain.
  A convention facilities authority may acquire by appropriation pursuant to division (L) of section 351.06 of the Revised Code any public or private lands,...
• Section 351.23 - Relocating Public Road, State Highway, Railroad, Or Public Utility Facility.
  When a convention facilities authority finds it necessary to change the location of any portion of any public road, state highway, railroad, or public...
• Section 351.24 - Records Of Convention Facilities Authority.
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, all final actions of a convention facilities authority shall be journalized and such journal and the records...
• Section 351.25 - Liberal Construction Of Chapter.
  Sections 351.01 to 351.25 of the Revised Code being necessary for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants shall be liberally construed to...
• Section 351.26 - Election On Convention Facility Authority Tax For Construction Or Renovation Of Sports Facility.
  (A) The board of directors of a convention facilities authority may adopt a resolution requesting the board of county commissioners of the county in...
• Section 351.99 - Penalty.
  Whoever violates division (J)(2) of section 351.06 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. Effective Date: 02-20-1986

Last modified: October 10, 2016