Ohio Revised Code Chapter 6117 - Sewer Districts; County Sewers

• Section 6117.01 - Power To Establish Sewer Districts - Sanitary Engineering Department.
  (A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Sanitary facilities" means sanitary sewers, force mains, lift or pumping stations, and facilities for the treatment, disposal,...
• Section 6117.011 - Surveys Of Water Supply, Sanitary, Or Drainage Facilities.
  A board of county commissioners in the manner provided in this section may make surveys of water supply, sanitary facilities, drainage facilities, or prevention...
• Section 6117.012 - Rules For Disconnection And Reconnection Or Relocation Of Improper Inflows Into Sewers.
  (A) A board of county commissioners may adopt rules requiring owners of property within the district whose property is served by a connection to...
• Section 6117.02 - Sanitary Rates, Charges, Or Penalties Fixed Or Established.
  (A) The board of county commissioners shall fix reasonable rates, including penalties for late payments, for the use, or the availability for use, of...
• Section 6117.021 - Contracts For Purpose Of Complying With Phase II Of Storm Water Program.
  At any time after the formation of a county sewer district, the board of county commissioners may enter into a contract, on terms and...
• Section 6117.03 - Resolution To Lay Out, Establish, And Maintain One Or More Sewer Districts Within County.
  Whenever authorized by the legislative authority of any municipal corporation, the board of county commissioners may by resolution lay out, establish, and maintain one...
• Section 6117.04 - Authority Of Board Of County Commissioners To Acquire, Construct, Maintain, And Operate Sanitary Or Drainage Facilities.
  The authority of a board of county commissioners to acquire, construct, maintain, and operate sanitary or drainage facilities or prevention or replacement facilities for...
• Section 6117.05 - Continuing Jurisdiction Where Area Is Incorporated Into Or Annexed To Municipal Corporation.
  (A) Whenever any portion of a sewer district is incorporated as, or annexed to, a municipal corporation, the area so incorporated or annexed shall...
• Section 6117.06 - General Plan Of Sewerage Or Drainage.
  (A) After the establishment of any sewer district, the board of county commissioners, if a sanitary or drainage facility or prevention or replacement facility...
• Section 6117.061 - Deferment Of Collection Of Assessment.
  At any time prior to the expiration of the five-day period provided by section 6117.06 of the Revised Code for the filing of written...
• Section 6117.062 - Deferment Of Collection Of Assessments For Certain Lines Providing Sewer Facilities To Industrial Or Residential Developments.
  (A) At any time prior to the expiration of the five-day period provided by section 6117.06 of the Revised Code for the filing of...
• Section 6117.07 - Determination To Proceed With Construction.
  After the expiration of the period of five days provided for in section 6117.06 of the Revised Code for the filing of written objections,...
• Section 6117.08 - Proceed To Issue Or Incur Public Obligations And Construct The Improvement.
  After the adoption of a resolution to proceed with an improvement as provided for in section 6117.07 of the Revised Code, the construction of...
• Section 6117.09 - Appeal To Probate Court.
  Any owner of property to be assessed or taxed for an improvement under sections 6117.01 to 6117.45 or sections 6103.01 to 6103.30 of the...
• Section 6117.10 - Appeal When Improvement Is Located In Two Or More Counties.
  Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to appeal to the probate court as provided in section 6117.09 of the Revised Code, when the improvement...
• Section 6117.11 - Appeal When Petition For Improvement Is Dismissed.
  In case the petition for an improvement is dismissed, or the prayer thereof is not granted, then a person, firm, or corporation desiring to...
• Section 6117.12 - Appeal By Guardian Of Minors Or Other Persons Under Disability.
  The guardian of minors or other persons under disability may appeal to the probate court as provided in sections 6117.09 to 6117.11, inclusive, of...
• Section 6117.13 - Transmission Of Original Papers In Proceedings And Certified Transcript Of Record.
  Within ten days after the filing of an appeal bond provided for in section 6117.10 or 6117.11 of the Revised Code, or the making...
• Section 6117.14 - Hearing On Appeal.
  The probate judge shall designate a day not exceeding five days after the docketing of the cause as provided in section 6117.13 of the...
• Section 6117.15 - Trial In Probate Court.
  If the probate judge finds that an appeal under sections 6117.09 to 6117.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, has been properly perfected, and that...
• Section 6117.16 - Action When More Than One Party Appeals.
  If more than one party appeals in regard to the same improvement, the probate court shall order the cases to be consolidated and tried...
• Section 6117.17 - Court Findings.
  At the conclusion of the trial provided for in section 6117.15 of the Revised Code, the probate court shall find separately upon each claim...
• Section 6117.18 - Record - Costs.
  The probate judge shall make a record of all proceedings before him, and tax the cost in favor of the prevailing party and against...
• Section 6117.19 - Appeal Made In Reference To Necessity Of Improvement.
  If an appeal has been made in reference to the necessity of the improvement as provided in section 6117.09 of the Revised Code, and...
• Section 6117.20 - Appeal Made In Reference To Boundaries Of Assessment District Or To Tentative Assessment.
  If an appeal has been made in reference to the boundaries of the assessment district or to the tentative assessment as provided in section...
• Section 6117.21 - Judgment Establishing Improvement.
  If an appeal is taken from the order of the board of county commissioners dismissing or refusing to grant the prayer of the petition,...
• Section 6117.22 - Fees And Compensation Of Officers.
  For their services required on appeal the officers and other persons mentioned in sections 6117.01 to 6117.40, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are entitled...
• Section 6117.23 - Appeal From Probate Court.
  The final judgment of the probate court may be reviewed on appeal as in other cases. If an appeal is prosecuted from the judgment...
• Section 6117.24 - Manifest Error In Proceedings.
  Any court in which an action is brought to enjoin, reverse, or declare void the proceedings by which any improvement has been made or...
• Section 6117.25 - Payment For Costs Of Improvement.
  (A) The board of county commissioners may pay the whole or any part of the cost of constructing, maintaining, repairing, or operating any improvement...
• Section 6117.251 - Sanitary Or Drainage Facility Improvements.
  (A) After the establishment of any county sewer district, the board of county commissioners may determine by resolution that it is necessary to provide...
• Section 6117.26 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-12-2001
• Section 6117.27 - Contracts For Construction Of Improvements.
  After the issuance and sale of bonds or certificates of indebtedness, as provided in sections 6117.01 to 6117.45, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the...
• Section 6117.28 - Petition By Landowners For Improvements.
  Whenever the owners of all the lots and lands to be assessed for any sanitary or drainage facility improvement or any prevention or replacement...
• Section 6117.29 - Cost Of Improvement To Include Engineering, Necessary Publications, Inspection, Interest On Public Obligations.
  The cost of any improvement provided for in this chapter and the cost of its maintenance and operation shall include, in addition to the...
• Section 6117.30 - Assessment District Assessments.
  The cost of the acquisition or construction of sanitary or drainage facilities or prevention or replacement facilities to be paid by assessments shall be...
• Section 6117.31 - Actual Costs - Collection.
  Upon the completion of any improvement under sections 6117.01 to 6117.45, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the actual cost thereof shall be ascertained and...
• Section 6117.311 - Levying Tax And Issuing Bonds To Pay Costs Of Improvement.
  For the purpose of paying for a part or all of the cost of any improvement under this chapter in a sewer district created...
• Section 6117.32 - Revised Assessment.
  The county sanitary engineer, upon the completion of any improvement in accordance with this chapter, shall prepare, or otherwise cause to be prepared, and...
• Section 6117.33 - Annual Certification Of Assessments.
  On or before the second Monday in September, annually, the board of county commissioners shall certify all of the assessments provided for in section...
• Section 6117.34 - Complaint Of Unsanitary Conditions.
  Whenever the legislative authority or board of health, or the officers performing the duties of the legislative authority or board of health, of a...
• Section 6117.35 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-23-1972
• Section 6117.36 - Writ Of Mandamus.
  If the board of county commissioners fails after thirty days after the notice and order given to it by the director of environmental protection...
• Section 6117.37 - Recovery Of Fine, Forfeiture, Or Penalty.
  An action may be commenced and prosecuted for the recovery of any fine, forfeiture, or penalty mentioned in sections 6117.01 to 6117.40, inclusive, of...
• Section 6117.38 - Sewerage Or Drainage Outside District.
  (A) At any time after the formation of any county sewer district, the board of county commissioners, when it considers it appropriate, on application...
• Section 6117.39 - Acquisition Or Purchase Of Property.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, whenever, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, it is necessary to...
• Section 6117.40 - Sewer Construction Within Municipal Corporation.
  Whenever in the opinion of the board of county commissioners it becomes necessary to construct a sewer within the boundaries of a municipal corporation...
• Section 6117.41 - Contracts With Other Public Agencies.
  At any time after the formation of any county sewer district, the board of county commissioners may enter into a contract, upon the terms...
• Section 6117.42 - Compensation To Other Public Agencies Providing Services.
  All contracts under section 6117.41 of the Revised Code shall provide for the payment of compensation to the county or other public agency owning,...
• Section 6117.43 - Payment Of Agreed Compensation By Levy Of Taxes Or Special Assessments.
  A county or other public agency contracting as provided in sections 6117.41 and 6117.42 of the Revised Code for the joint use of any...
• Section 6117.44 - Credit Of Compensation.
  A county or other public agency receiving the compensation provided for in section 6117.42 of the Revised Code shall credit the amount so received...
• Section 6117.45 - Violations - Fines.
  No person or public agency shall tamper with or damage any sanitary or drainage facility or any prevention or replacement facility acquired or constructed...
• Section 6117.46 - County Trunk Or Main Sewers.
  When the director of environmental protection finds that a trunk or main sewer is necessary in a county for sanitary purposes, the board of...
• Section 6117.47 - Purchase Or Appropriation Of Property For County Trunk Or Main Sewers.
  The board of county commissioners may acquire by purchase or appropriation proceedings all real and personal property necessary for the proper construction and maintenance...
• Section 6117.48 - Eminent Domain Proceedings.
  When it is necessary to procure real estate or a right of way or an easement therein for a trunk or main sewer provided...
• Section 6117.49 - Sale Or Disposition Of County Sanitary Or Drainage Facilities.
  (A) If the board of county commissioners determines by resolution that the best interests of the county and those served by the sanitary or...
• Section 6117.51 - New Public Sewer Construction Projects.
  If the board of health of the health district within which a new public sewer construction project is proposed or located passes a resolution...
• Section 6117.60 - Amendments To Chapter Are Subject To 4 Of Hb 549 Of The 123rd General Assembly.
  It is the intent of the general assembly that the amendments made to this chapter by Sub. H.B. 549 of the 123rd general assembly...
• Section 6117.99 - Penalty.
  Whoever violates section 6117.45 or 6117.51 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. Effective Date: 08-25-1976

Last modified: October 10, 2016