Ohio Revised Code Chapter 735 - Public Service

• Section 735.01 - Director Of Public Service - Qualifications - Powers.
  In each city there shall be a department of public service which shall be administered by a director of public service. The director shall...
• Section 735.02 - General Duties - Records.
  The director of public service shall manage and supervise all public works and undertakings of the city, except as otherwise provided by law. The...
• Section 735.03 - Management And Operation Of Municipally Owned Public Utilities By Board.
  Whenever the legislative authority of any city, by ordinance, declares it essential to the best interests of such city, the duties relating to the...
• Section 735.04 - Subdepartment - Employment Of Superintendents, Inspectors, Clerks, And Laborers.
  The director of public service may establish such subdepartment as is necessary and determine the number of superintendents, deputies, inspectors, engineers, harbor masters, clerks,...
• Section 735.05 - Contracts, Material, And Labor.
  The director of public service may make any contract, purchase supplies or material, or provide labor for any work under the supervision of the...
• Section 735.051 - Emergency Conditions Obviate Formal Bidding And Advertising For Contracts.
  In the case of a real and present emergency arising in connection with the operation and maintenance of the department of public service, including...
• Section 735.052 - Purchasing Used Equipment Without Bidding.
  The legislative authority of any city or village may authorize, by ordinance, the director of public service, director of public safety, mayor, city manager,...
• Section 735.053 - Purchasing From Other Political Subdivision Without Bidding.
  The legislative authority of any city or village may authorize, by ordinance, the director of public service, director of public safety, mayor, city manager,...
• Section 735.054 - Municipal Corporations Contract Requirements.
  Notwithstanding sections 715.18, 731.14, 731.141, 733.22, and 735.05 of the Revised Code, any municipal corporation that may be required by law to award contracts...
• Section 735.06 - Proceedings On Opening Of Bids.
  Bids for work under the supervision of the department of public service shall be opened at the time, date, and place specified in the...
• Section 735.07 - Contract - Alterations Or Modifications.
  The contract referred to by section 735.05 of the Revised Code shall be between the city and the bidder, and the city shall pay...
• Section 735.071 To 735.073 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 08-27-1976
• Section 735.074 - Schedule Of Payments.
  The amounts and time of payments of any contract made by a city or village, or any board, commission, or agency thereof, shall be...
• Section 735.08 - Director Of Public Service May Contract For Furnishing Water Power.
  In a city in which a water works, electric light plant, artificial or natural gas plant, or other similar public utility is owned by...
• Section 735.09 - Execution Of Contracts.
  All contracts made by the director of public service shall be executed by him in the name of the city, one copy of which...
• Section 735.10 - Appointment Of Commission To Erect And Furnish City Hall.
  When a city has in contemplation the building of, or is in the process of constructing or furnishing, a city hall, the director of...
• Section 735.11 - Powers And Duties Of City Hall Commission.
  Subject to the approval of the director of public service, the commission appointed under section 735.10 of the Revised Code may acquire in the...
• Section 735.12 - Appointment Of Commission To Construct Market House.
  When a city has a market house or public hall in connection therewith in contemplation or in process of construction, the director of public...
• Section 735.13 - Powers And Duties Of Commission To Build Market House.
  Subject to the approval of the director of public service, the commission appointed under section 735.12 of the Revised Code may contract in the...
• Section 735.14 - Erection Of Public Buildings.
  When a city, or the county in which such city is located, has in contemplation or in process of construction, buildings for public, municipal,...
• Section 735.15 - Duties Of Persons Appointed To Locate And Erect Certain Public Buildings.
  Under the supervision of the director of public service, persons under section 735.14 of the Revised Code shall have control of the location of...
• Section 735.16 - Commission To Construct, Rebuild, And Combine Public Utilities.
  When a city has in contemplation the construction or rebuilding of a public hall, municipal water-works system, municipal electric lighting system, or the rebuilding...
• Section 735.17 - Platting Commissioner.
  The director of public service shall be the platting commissioner of the city, and shall provide regulations governing the platting of all lands to...
• Section 735.18 - Employment Of Engineer And Assistants.
  When acting as the platting commissioner, the director of public service may employ an engineer and such assistants as he finds necessary, and fix...
• Section 735.19 - Powers And Duties Of Platting Commissioner.
  The platting commissioner shall cause a plat to be made of the territory which he is ordered to lay out, as soon as it...
• Section 735.20 - Notice Of Completion Of Plans.
  When a whole plan, or any portion thereof, as provided in section 735.19 of the Revised Code is completed, or when the location of...
• Section 735.21 - Objections To Plans - Alterations.
  The platting commissioner of a city, at least once each week during the six-weeks period provided under section 735.20 of the Revised Code, at...
• Section 735.22 - Copies Of Plans To Be Deposited.
  At the end of the six-weeks period provided by section 735.20 of the Revised Code, the platting commissioner shall cause copies of the plat...
• Section 735.23 - Effect Of Platting.
  No streets or alleys, except those laid out on a plan made by the platting commissioner pursuant to sections 735.19 to 735.22, inclusive, of...
• Section 735.24 - Acceptance Of Plan By Owner - Dedication Of Streets.
  The owners of any portion of the ground platted under sections 735.19 to 735.23, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by a declaration of their...
• Section 735.25 - Joint Platting Commission By Adjoining Municipal Corporations.
  When municipal corporations adjoin each other, the legislative authorities thereof may agree, in any manner they determine, upon the appointment of a joint commission...
• Section 735.26 - Amendment Of Plans.
  Plans made under sections 735.19 to 735.24, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may be amended after adoption, by like proceedings by which they were...
• Section 735.27 - Care, Supervision, And Management Of Public Institutions In Villages.
  The legislative authority of a village shall provide by resolution or ordinance for the care, supervision, and management of all public parks, baths, libraries,...
• Section 735.271 - Establishing Position Of Village Administrator.
  The legislative authority of the village may establish the position of village administrator by ordinance. The village administrator established under this section shall have...
• Section 735.272 - Board Of Trustees Of Public Affairs Abolished Upon Establishment Of Village Administrator Position.
  Upon the establishment of the position of village administrator, his appointment by the mayor and confirmation by the legislative authority of the village, as...
• Section 735.273 - Village Administrator Powers And Duties.
  The village administrator appointed under section 735.271 of the Revised Code shall manage, conduct, and control the water works, electric light plants, artificial or...
• Section 735.28 - Village Board Of Trustees Of Public Affairs - Appointment - Election - Organization.
  In each village in which a water works, electric light plant, artificial or natural gas plant, or other similar public utility is situated, or...
• Section 735.29 - General Powers And Duties.
  The board of trustees of public affairs appointed under section 735.28 of the Revised Code shall manage, conduct, and control the waterworks, electric light...
• Section 735.30 - Special Tax For Municipal Plant.
  When water works and electric light plants, or either of them, are owned and operated by a village which receives its street lighting and...
• Section 735.31 - Street Commissioner - Appointment - Qualifications.
  Except in villages that have provided for the appointment of a village administrator under section 735.271 of the Revised Code, a street commissioner shall...
• Section 735.32 - General Duties.
  Under the direction of the mayor or other chief executive officer of a municipal corporation, the street commissioner, or an engineer, when one is...
• Section 735.33 - Assistants.
  The street commissioner or engineer mentioned in section 735.32 of the Revised Code shall have such assistants as the legislative authority of the municipal...

Last modified: October 10, 2016