Ohio Revised Code Chapter 306 - County Transit System; Regional Transit Authority; Regional Transit Commission

• Section 306.01 - Establishing County Transit System.
  (A) Whenever the county commissioners of any county declare, by resolution, that it is essential to the best interests of the county that a...
• Section 306.02 - Members Of Board, Qualifications, Terms.
  A county transit board authorized by section 306.01 of the Revised Code shall consist of seven members. All members shall be electors of the...
• Section 306.03 - Organization Of County Transit Board.
  As soon as possible after the appointment of the initial members, a county transit board shall organize for the transaction of business, elect a...
• Section 306.04 - Powers And Duties Of Board.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, employees of a county transit board or a board of county commissioners operating...
• Section 306.05 - Advancement Of Funds For County Transit System.
  The county commissioners may advance funds from any available fund of the county for purchase or acquisition of a transit system, surveys, planning, and...
• Section 306.06 - Agreements To Provide Transportation Service.
  The county transit board or board of county commissioners operating a transit system may enter into an agreement with any municipal corporation, township, or...
• Section 306.07 - Exempting Revenue And Income From Taxation.
  The operations, revenues, and property of the county transit system and all obligations secured by the real estate or interests therein or revenues of...
• Section 306.08 - Acquiring Publicly Or Privately Owned Transit System.
  Any county transit board or board of county commissioners operating a transit system, that acquires, leases as lessee, or receives a right to use...
• Section 306.09 - Issuing Bonds.
  (A) The board of county commissioners, on its own initiative if it operates a county transit system or at the request of the county...
• Section 306.10 - Issuing Refunding Bonds.
  The county transit board or a board of county commissioners operating a transit system may issue refunding bonds of the county to refund any...
• Section 306.11 - Control Over County Transit System's Revenue And Funds.
  In counties that have a county transit board, that transit board shall have exclusive control over the county transit system's budgets, appropriations, collections, custody,...
• Section 306.12 - Acquiring Publicly Or Privately Owned Transit System - Employee Rights.
  Any board of county commissioners operating a transit system or any county transit board shall, if it acquires any existing transit system, assume all...
• Section 306.13 - Exempting Real And Personal Property From Taxation.
  A board of county commissioners operating a transit system or a county transit board created under sections 306.01 to 306.13 of the Revised Code...
• Section 306.14 - Report On Franchise Agreements.
  (A) If a board of county commissioners awards a franchise to a franchisee on behalf of a county transit board, the county transit board...
• Section 306.30 - Regional Transit Authority Definitions.
  As used in sections 306.30 to 306.53, inclusive, of the Revised Code, "transit facility" means any: (A) Street railway, motor bus, tramline, subway, monorail,...
• Section 306.301 - Resolution Designating Part Of Township Member Of Regional Transit Authority.
  (A) As used in sections 306.30 to 306.71 of the Revised Code, "township" means either of the following: (1) An entire township; (2) Township...
• Section 306.31 - Creating Regional Transit Authority.
  A regional transit authority may be created in the manner provided in section 306.32 of the Revised Code, for any one or more of...
• Section 306.32 - Resolution For Creation Of Regional Transit Authority.
  Any county, or any two or more counties, municipal corporations, or townships, or any combination of these, may create a regional transit authority by...
• Section 306.321 - Inclusion Of Additional Counties, Municipal Corporations, Or Townships In Regional Transit Authority.
  The resolution or ordinance creating a regional transit authority may be amended to include additional counties, municipal corporations, or townships by the adoption of...
• Section 306.322 - Additional Provisions For Joining Additional Counties, Municipal Corporations, Or Townships To The Regional Transit Authority.
  (A) For any regional transit authority that levies a property tax and that includes in its membership political subdivisions that are located in a...
• Section 306.33 - Appointment Of Board Of Trustees.
  Within sixty days after a regional transit authority has been created under section 306.32 of the Revised Code, the board of trustees for such...
• Section 306.331 - Board Of Trustees For Joint County And Municipal Authority.
  Notwithstanding section 306.33 of the Revised Code, the board of trustees of any regional transit authority created by one county and two municipal corporations,...
• Section 306.34 - Power And Authority Of Board Of Trustees.
  All the power and authority granted to a regional transit authority shall be vested in and exercised by its board of trustees which shall...
• Section 306.35 - Regional Transit Authority - Powers And Duties.
  Upon the creation of a regional transit authority as provided by section 306.32 of the Revised Code, and upon the qualifying of its board...
• Section 306.351 - Purchase And Operation Of Flexible Joint Bus.
  A regional transit authority may purchase an articulated bus only if the regional transit authority establishes and follows a preference system for buses that...
• Section 306.352 - Felony Conviction Precludes Or Terminates Employment.
  (A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B) (1) In the exercise...
• Section 306.36 - Power Of Eminent Domain.
  (A) The board of trustees of a regional transit authority may exercise the power of eminent domain to appropriate any land, rights, rights-of-way, franchise,...
• Section 306.37 - Issuing Revenue Bonds.
  A regional transit authority which proposes to acquire by purchase or otherwise, or proposes to construct, replace, improve, extend, enlarge, maintain, or operate any...
• Section 306.38 - Trust Agreement May Secure Revenue Bonds.
  At the discretion of the board of trustees of a regional transit authority, the revenue bonds of the regional transit authority may be secured...
• Section 306.39 - Interest And Maturity Of Revenue Bonds.
  Revenue bonds issued by a regional transit authority shall bear interest at the rate or rates approved by the board of trustees, shall mature...
• Section 306.40 - Issuing General Obligation Bonds.
  The regional transit authority may submit to the electors within its territorial boundaries the question of issuing bonds of such authority and also the...
• Section 306.41 - Income And Profit From Binds Exempt From Taxation.
  Bonds issued under sections 306.37 to 306.40, inclusive, of the Revised Code, their transfer, and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the...
• Section 306.42 - Secretary-treasurer Of Regional Transit Authority Duties.
  (A) The secretary-treasurer of the regional transit authority shall be the fiscal officer of the regional transit authority and the custodian of its funds...
• Section 306.43 - Contracts - Competitive Bidding.
  (A) The board of trustees of a regional transit authority or any officer or employee designated by such board may make any contract for...
• Section 306.44 - Contracts With Other Governmental Entities.
  The board of trustees of a regional transit authority may enter into such contracts or other arrangements with the United States government or any...
• Section 306.45 - Officers And Employees Are Eligible For Public Employees Retirement System.
  All officers and employees of a regional transit authority shall be considered as public employees within the meaning of section 145.01 of the Revised...
• Section 306.46 - Counties And Municipalities - Powers Not Limited.
  Nothing in sections 306.30 to 306.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall limit the exercise of the power or authority granted to counties or...
• Section 306.47 - Appropriation For County Funds For Expenses.
  The board of county commissioners of any county included within a regional transit authority may appropriate annually, from moneys to the credit of the...
• Section 306.48 - Group Insurance For Officers And Employees.
  A regional transit authority may procure and pay all or any part of the cost of group hospitalization, surgical, major medical, or sickness and...
• Section 306.49 - Annual Tax Levy.
  (A) Upon the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the qualified electors within the territorial boundaries of the regional transit authority voting...
• Section 306.50 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-30-1989
• Section 306.51 - Conveyance, Lease, Or Exchange Of Personal Or Real Property.
  The legislative authority of any municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision or taxing district, may convey or lease to, or...
• Section 306.52 - Real And Personal Property Exempt From Taxation.
  (A) A regional transit authority created under sections 306.30 to 306.53 of the Revised Code, shall be exempt from and shall not be required...
• Section 306.53 - Cooperation With Other Governmental Agencies.
  A regional transit authority may cooperate with other governmental agencies of this state, or of the United States, to carry out the purposes set...
• Section 306.54 - Dissolution Or Modification In Membership.
  Subject to making due provisions for the payment and performance of its obligations, the resolution or ordinance creating the regional transit authority may provide...
• Section 306.55 - Withdrawal From Regional Transit Authority.
  Beginning July 1, 2011 and until November 5, 2013, the legislative authority of any municipal corporation or the board of township trustees of any...
• Section 306.551 - Contract For Transit Services After Withdrawal.
  Any municipal corporation or township that withdraws from a regional transit authority under section 306.55 of the Revised Code may enter into a contract...
• Section 306.70 - Resolution Levying Tax For Regional Transit Purposes.
  A tax proposed to be levied by a board of county commissioners or by the board of trustees of a regional transit authority pursuant...
• Section 306.71 - Election On Question Of Decrease In Tax Rate.
  The question of the decrease of the rate of a tax approved for a continuing period of time by the voters of a county...
• Section 306.73 - Notice Of Change In Transit System's Territorial Boundaries.
  The county transit board or a board of county commissioners operating a transit system, or the board of trustees of a regional transit authority,...
• Section 306.80 - Agreement For Regional System Between Governmental Instrumentalities Of Adjacent States.
  One or more contiguous counties of this state, or one or more municipal corporations which are in the same county or in contiguous counties,...
• Section 306.81 - Adjacent States Definitions.
  As used in sections 306.80 to 306.90, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Public agency" means this state or any adjacent state, or any...
• Section 306.82 - Provisions To Include In Agreement.
  An agreement entered into pursuant to section 306.80 of the Revised Code may, with respect to a regional transit commission created by such agreement,...
• Section 306.83 - Advancement Or Donation Of Money.
  Any political subdivision of this state within the territorial boundaries of a regional transit commission may advance or donate moneys to such regional transit...
• Section 306.84 - No Property To Be Included In More Than One Regional Commission.
  No property within this state shall be included within the territorial boundaries of more than one regional transit commission, nor shall any regional transit...
• Section 306.85 - Bonds Are Lawful Investments.
  Bonds of a regional transit commission are lawful investments of banks, savings banks, mutual savings banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, deposit guaranty...
• Section 306.86 - Conveyance, Lease, Or Exchange Of Personal Or Real Property.
  Any municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision or taxing district, or commission, board, or authority of this state, may convey...
• Section 306.87 - Real And Personal Property Exempt From Taxation.
  A regional transit commission authorized under sections 306.80 to 306.90, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is exempt from and is not required to pay...
• Section 306.88 - Filing Certified Copy Of Agreement With County Recorder.
  A certified copy of any agreement made pursuant to sections 306.80 to 306.90, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be filed with the recorder...
• Section 306.89 - Federal And State Approval Necessary.
  The powers and duties provided in any agreement made pursuant to sections 306.80 to 306.90, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall become effective only...
• Section 306.90 - Severability.
  Each agreement made pursuant to sections 306.80 to 306.90, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be entered into and become effective in accordance with...
• Section 306.99 - Penalty.
  (A) No person shall violate any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to division (N) of section 306.04 of the Revised Code and whoever violates...

Last modified: October 10, 2016