Ohio Revised Code Chapter 305 - Board Of County Commissioners - Generally

• Section 305.01 - Board Of County Commissioners - Election, Term.
  The board of county commissioners shall consist of three persons who shall be elected as follows: (A) In November, 1974, and quadrennially thereafter, one...
• Section 305.02 - Vacancy In County Offices Filled By Election Or Appointment.
  (A) If a vacancy in the office of county commissioner, prosecuting attorney, county auditor, county treasurer, clerk of the court of common pleas, sheriff,...
• Section 305.03 - Absence Of Certain County Officers; Office Deemed Vacant.
  (A) (1) Whenever any county officer, except the county auditor or county treasurer, fails to perform the duties of office for ninety consecutive days,...
• Section 305.04 - Bond Of County Commissioners - Oath Of Office.
  Before entering upon the discharge of his duties each county commissioner shall give bond, signed by a bonding or surety company authorized to do...
• Section 305.05 - Organization - Election Of President.
  The board of county commissioners shall organize on the second Monday of January of each year, by the election of one of its members...
• Section 305.06 - Regular Sessions.
  (A) The board of county commissioners shall conduct at least fifty regular sessions each year, at an office provided for the board in the...
• Section 305.07 - Special Sessions.
  (A) Special sessions of the board of county commissioners may be held as often as the commissioners deem it necessary. At a regular or...
• Section 305.08 - Quorum.
  A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum at any regular or special meeting. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 305.09 - Proceedings Of Board Of County Commissioners.
  All the proceedings of the board of county commissioners shall be public, at the office provided for the board in the county seat, or...
• Section 305.10 - Written Or Electronic Record And Index Of Proceedings.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall keep a full written...
• Section 305.11 - Signing Of Record.
  Immediately upon the opening of each day's session of the board of county commissioners, the records of the proceedings of the session of the...
• Section 305.12 - Liability Of Commissioners.
  The board of county commissioners may sue and be sued, and plead and be impleaded, in any court. It may bring, maintain, and defend...
• Section 305.13 - Appointment Of Clerk.
  If the board of county commissioners finds it necessary for the clerk of the board to devote his entire time to the discharge of...
• Section 305.14 - Employment Of Legal Counsel.
  (A) The court of common pleas, upon the application of the prosecuting attorney and the board of county commissioners, may authorize the board to...
• Section 305.15 - Employment Of Engineer.
  When the services of an engineer are required with respect to roads, turnpikes, ditches, bridges, or any other matter, and when, on account of...
• Section 305.16 - Other Employees.
  The board of county commissioners may employ a superintendent, and such watchmen, janitors, and other employees as are necessary for the care and custody...
• Section 305.17 - Compensation Of Employees.
  The board of county commissioners shall fix the compensation of all persons appointed or employed under sections 305.13 to 305.16, inclusive, of the Revised...
• Section 305.171 - Group Insurance Coverage For County Officers And Employees.
  (A) The board of county commissioners of any county may contract for, purchase, or otherwise procure and pay all or any part of the...
• Section 305.172 - Health Savings Account Program.
  As used in this section, "county officer or employee" includes, but is not limited to, a member or employee of the county board of...
• Section 305.18 - Annual Inventory.
  Each county officer or department head shall make an inventory, on the second Monday in January of each year, of all the materials, machinery,...
• Section 305.19 - Duty As To Reports Of County Officers.
  The board of county commissioners shall compare the annual reports and statements made to it by the prosecuting attorney, clerk of the court of...
• Section 305.20 - [Repealed].
  Added by 128th General AssemblyFile No.9, HB 1, §101.01, eff. 10/16/2009. Effective Date: 10-27-1981
• Section 305.21 - May Administer Oaths.
  Any county commissioner may administer any oath necessary in the discharge of the duties of the board of county commissioners. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 305.22 - Shall Provide Place For Holding Courts.
  Until proper buildings are erected for the permanent seat of justice in a county, the board of county commissioners shall provide a suitable place...
• Section 305.23 - Centralized Services For A County Office.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "County office" means the offices of the county commissioner, county auditor, county treasurer, county engineer, county recorder,...
• Section 305.24 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-27-1981
• Section 305.25 - When Contracts Valid.
  No contract entered into by the board of county commissioners, or order made by it, shall be valid unless it has been assented to...
• Section 305.26 - May Release Or Compound Claims.
  The board of county commissioners may compound or release, in whole or in part, a debt, judgment, fine, or amercement due the county and...
• Section 305.27 - Interest In County Contracts Prohibited - Exception.
  No county commissioner shall be concerned, directly or indirectly, in any contract for work to be done or material to be furnished for the...
• Section 305.28 - Criminal Justice Regional Information Fund.
  If a board of county commissioners by resolution elects to participate in a criminal justice regional information system as provided in section 2949.093 of...
• Section 305.29 - County Administrator - Appointment.
  The board of county commissioners may appoint a county administrator, who shall be the administrative head of the county under the direction and supervision...
• Section 305.30 - County Administrator - Powers And Duties.
  The county administrator, under the direction of the board of county commissioners, shall do the following: (A) Assist in the administration, enforcement, and execution...
• Section 305.31 - [Effective Until 1/1/2016] Procedure For Submitting To Referendum Resolution On Additional Tax.
  The procedure for submitting to a referendum a resolution adopted by a board of county commissioners under division (H) of section 307.695 of the...
• Section 305.31 - [Effective 1/1/2016] Procedure For Submitting To Referendum Resolution On Additional Tax.
  The procedure for submitting to a referendum a resolution adopted by a board of county commissioners under division (H) of section 307.695 of the...
• Section 305.32 - Separate Petition Papers.
  Any referendum petition may be presented in separate petition papers, but each petition paper shall contain a full and correct copy of the title...
• Section 305.33 - Filing Certified Copy Of Commissioners' Resolution Before Circulating Referendum Petition.
  Whoever files a referendum petition against any resolution shall, before circulating such petition, file a certified copy of the resolution with the county auditor...
• Section 305.34 - Form Of Petition.
  At the top of each part of the petition mentioned in section 305.33 of the Revised Code, the following words shall be printed in...
• Section 305.35 - Designating Petition Committee.
  The petitioners may designate in any referendum petition a committee of not less than three of their number, who shall be regarded as filing...
• Section 305.36 - Circulator Of Referendum Petition To File Statement.
  (A) The circulator of a referendum petition, or his agent, shall, within five days after such petition is filed with the county auditor, file...
• Section 305.37 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1996
• Section 305.38 - Prohibited Acts.
  No person shall knowingly sign a referendum petition more than once, sign a name other than his own, or sign when not a legal...
• Section 305.39 - Prohibited Act.
  No person shall accept anything of value for signing a referendum petition. Effective Date: 12-12-1967
• Section 305.40 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1996
• Section 305.41 - Prohibited Acts.
  No person shall, directly or indirectly, by intimidation or threats, influence or seek to influence any person to sign or abstain from signing, or...
• Section 305.42 - Provisions Apply To Petitions Filed Under Other Chapters.
  Sections 305.32 to 305.41 and 305.99 of the Revised Code apply to petitions authorized by sections 307.791, 322.021, 324.021, 4504.021, and 5739.022 of the...
• Section 305.99 - Penalty.
  Whoever violates section 305.38, 305.39, or 305.41 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. Effective Date: 07-01-1996

Last modified: October 10, 2016