Ohio Revised Code Chapter 307 - Board Of County Commissioners - Powers

• Section 307.01 - County Buildings, Offices, Equipment.
  (A) A courthouse, jail, public comfort station, offices for county officers, and a county home shall be provided by the board of county commissioners...
• Section 307.02 - Methods For Providing County Facilities.
  The board of county commissioners of any county, in addition to its other powers, may purchase, for cash or by installment payments, enter into...
• Section 307.021 - Public Purpose And Function To Provide Capital Facilities For Jails, Workhouses Or Community-based Corrections.
  (A) It is hereby declared to be a public purpose and function of the state, and a matter of urgent necessity, that the state...
• Section 307.022 - Lease, Easement, License Or Sale In Connection With Correctional Facility Without Competitive Bidding.
  (A) The board of county commissioners of any county may do both of the following without following the competitive bidding requirements of section 307.86...
• Section 307.023 - Contract For Acquisition Or Use Of Sports Facilities.
  A board of county commissioners may acquire, construct, improve, maintain, operate, lease, or otherwise contract for the acquisition or use of sports facilities, as...
• Section 307.03 - Use Of County Buildings For Public Library.
  The board of county commissioners may, by resolution, permit the use of public grounds or buildings under its control for a public library or...
• Section 307.031 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-05-2001
• Section 307.04 - Light, Heat, And Power Contracts.
  The board of county commissioners may, at any time before or after the completion of any county building, award contracts for supplying such building...
• Section 307.041 - Contracts To Analyze Reducing Energy Consumption In Buildings Owned By County.
  (A) As used in this section, "energy conservation measure" means an installation or modification of an installation in, or remodeling of, an existing building,...
• Section 307.042 - Contracts To Regulate Utility Rates Of Users Of Municipal Utility.
  Unless provided for by contract between a county and a municipal corporation, a county may not regulate the utility rates of users of a...
• Section 307.05 - Ambulance, Emergency Medical And Nonemergency Patient Transport Service Organizations.
  As used in this section, "emergency medical service organization" has the same meaning as in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. A board of...
• Section 307.051 - County Emergency Medical, Fire And Transportation Service Organization Regulated By State Board.
  As used in this section, "emergency medical service organization" has the same meaning as in section 4766.01 of the Revised Code. A board of...
• Section 307.052 - Creating Joint Emergency Medical Services District.
  The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties may, by adoption of a joint resolution by a majority of the members of...
• Section 307.053 - Members Of Board Of Trustees.
  (A) A joint emergency medical services district shall be governed by a board of trustees composed of an equal number of representatives, not to...
• Section 307.054 - Executive Director Duties - Employees.
  (A) The board of trustees of a joint emergency medical services district shall employ an executive director, who shall be in the unclassified service,...
• Section 307.055 - Furnishing Ambulance And Emergency Medical Services.
  (A) Subject to the terms and conditions of the joint resolution creating it, each joint emergency medical services district may furnish ambulance services and...
• Section 307.056 - Powers Of Board Of Trustees.
  In addition to exercising its powers granted by section 307.055 of the Revised Code, the board of trustees of a joint emergency medical services...
• Section 307.057 - Levying Taxes - Issuing Bonds.
  Upon notification by the board of trustees of a joint emergency medical services district to the board of county commissioners of each county located...
• Section 307.058 - Joint Ambulance District Or County May Join Joint Emergency Medical Services District.
  (A) Once a joint emergency medical services district is formed, any joint ambulance district located in a county that is a participant in the...
• Section 307.06 - Board Of County Commissioners May Employ Land Appraisers.
  Whenever it is necessary for the board of county commissioners to determine the value of any real property owned by the county, or which...
• Section 307.07 - Office Of Economic Development.
  (A) The board of county commissioners, by resolution, may create an office of economic development, to develop and promote plans and programs designed to...
• Section 307.08 - Appropriation Of Lands.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, when, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, it is necessary to...
• Section 307.081 - Purchase Or Appropriation Of Real Property For Redevelopment.
  A board of county commissioners may purchase or appropriate real property in the unincorporated territory of the county in order to do all of...
• Section 307.082 - Agreements To Provide For Construction Or Repair Of Public Infrastructure Improvements.
  (A) The board of county commissioners may, by resolution, enter into agreements to provide for the construction or repair of public infrastructure improvements that...
• Section 307.083 - Method For Purchasing Real Estate At Public Auction.
  A board of county commissioners may purchase real estate at public auction by designating an individual to represent the board and tender bids at...
• Section 307.084 - Purchase Or Appropriation Of Real Property For State Or Federal Correctional Facility.
  When the board of county commissioners determines that it serves the interests of the county, the board may procure real estate within the county...
• Section 307.09 - Sale, Lease, Or Rent Of County Real Estate - Proceeds.
  (A) If the interests of the county so require, the board of county commissioners may sell any real property belonging to the county and...
• Section 307.091 - Sale Of County Medical Facility To State Medical School Or College.
  The board of county commissioners may sell, lease, or transfer all or any part of the property and assets of a hospital or medical...
• Section 307.092 - Sale, Lease, Or Transfer Of County Property To Nonprofit Senior Citizens Organizations.
  Notwithstanding section 307.09 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners may sell, lease, or transfer any real property belonging to the county...
• Section 307.10 - Procedure For Sale, Lease, Transfer Or Granting Of Rights In Real Property.
  (A) No sale of real property, or lease of real property used or to be used for the purpose of airports, landing fields, or...
• Section 307.11 - Board Of County Commissioners May Execute Leases Of Mineral Lands.
  When the county would be benefited, the board of county commissioners may make, execute, and deliver contracts or leases to mine iron ore, stone,...
• Section 307.12 - Resolution For Disposal Of Unneeded, Obsolete Or Unfit Personal Property.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (D), (E), and (G) of this section, when the board of county commissioners finds, by resolution, that...
• Section 307.13 - Contracting For Services Of Electrical Safety Inspector.
  The board of county commissioners may contract for the services of an electrical safety inspector, as defined in section 3783.01 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 307.14 - Legislative Authority And Contracting Subdivision Definitions.
  As used in sections 307.14 to 307.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Legislative authority" means the board of county commissioners, board of township...
• Section 307.15 - Contracts With Other Governmental Entities.
  (A) (1) Subject to division (C) of this section, the board of county commissioners may enter into an agreement with the legislative authority of...
• Section 307.151 - Agreement With Municipalities For Control Of Air And Water Pollution.
  The board of county commissioners may enter into an agreement with the legislative authority of any municipal corporation, and such legislative authority may enter...
• Section 307.152 - Agreements With Planning Commission For Comprehensive Transportation And Land Use Studies.
  A board of county commissioners may enter into an agreement with a county, municipal, or regional planning commission, or county engineer for the preparation...
• Section 307.153 - Agreements With Board Of Health.
  A board of health of a city or general health district may enter into an agreement with the board of county commissioners of the...
• Section 307.16 - Agreement To Provide Method Of Payment.
  Every agreement entered into under sections 307.14 to 307.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall provide, either in specific terms or by prescribing a...
• Section 307.17 - Duration Of Agreement - Rescission.
  In the absence from an agreement entered into under sections 307.14 to 307.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, of a specification of its own...
• Section 307.18 - Transfer Of Property To County Commissioners.
  Any agreement entered into under sections 307.14 to 307.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may provide for the transfer to the board of county...
• Section 307.19 - Application Of Sections.
  Sections 307.14 to 307.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, do not repeal or abrogate other sections of the Revised Code authorizing contracts or agreements...
• Section 307.20 - Powers Over Air Navigation Facilities.
  The board of county commissioners, in addition to its other powers, shall have the same authority, subject to the same limitations, with respect to...
• Section 307.201 - Acquisition And Operation Of Subway Transportation System.
  The board of county commissioners, in addition to its other powers, shall have the authority to acquire, construct, own, lease, and operate subways for...
• Section 307.202 - Development Of Rail Property And Rail Service.
  As used in this section, "rail property" and "rail service" have the same meanings as in section 4981.01 of the Revised Code. The board...
• Section 307.203 - Appropriating Moneys For Railroad Grade Crossing Improvement Fund.
  A board of county commissioners may appropriate moneys from the general fund for any purposes for which moneys in the railroad grade crossing improvement...
• Section 307.204 - Procedure Concerning Construction Or Expansion Of Concentrated Animal Feeding Facility.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Concentrated animal feeding facility" and "major concentrated animal feeding facility" have the same meanings as in section...
• Section 307.21 - Bequests For War Memorial.
  The board of county commissioners may receive bequests, donations, and gifts for the purpose of erecting, within its county, a monument in memory of...
• Section 307.22 - Bequests For Educational Purposes.
  The board of county commissioners may receive bequests, donations, and gifts of real and personal property and money to promote and advance the cause...
• Section 307.23 - Historical Society Appropriations.
  The board of county commissioners of any county may appropriate, out of the revenue fund not otherwise appropriated, money to be paid to the...
• Section 307.24 - Itemized Account.
  No allowance for expenses, provided for in section 307.23 of the Revised Code, shall be made or paid unless an itemized account of such...
• Section 307.25 - Distribution Of Books.
  The publications provided for in section 307.23 of the Revised Code shall be placed in the custody of the incorporated historical societies and be...
• Section 307.26 - Organization And Maintenance Of Civic And Social Centers.
  The board of county commissioners may, provide for the organization and maintenance of civic and social centers throughout the county, employ an expert director...
• Section 307.27 - Contributions To Soil Conservation Districts.
  Boards of county commissioners may make contributions of money, supplies, equipment, office facilities, and other property or services, which will be of value or...
• Section 307.28 - Grant Of Use Of Land In Parks For Art Buildings.
  The board of county commissioners vested with the legal title to real estate dedicated and used for park purposes may grant the use and...
• Section 307.281 - Contributions For Park Projects.
  The board of county commissioners of any county may make contributions of moneys, supplies, equipment, office facilities, and other personal property or services to...
• Section 307.282 - Creating Community Improvements Board.
  A board of county commissioners of any county that intends to adopt a resolution levying a tax under section 5739.026 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 307.283 - Community Improvements Board - Powers And Duties.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Grant revenue" means revenues from a tax imposed under section 5739.026 or 5741.023 of the Revised Code...
• Section 307.284 - Issuing Bonds To Make Grants In Excess Of Community Improvement Fund.
  As used in this section, "bonds" means notes or bonds. When the county commissioners elect pursuant to section 307.283 of the Revised Code to...
• Section 307.29 - County May Lease To Municipal Corporation.
  The board of county commissioners may, by agreement with the city council, the director of public safety or his successor, or the person or...
• Section 307.30 - Annual Report.
  The board of county commissioners may publish an annual report, to be made available to the residents of the county, setting forth information showing...
• Section 307.31 - Order For Survey Of County Lines.
  When it appears to the board of county commissioners that the boundary lines of the county are not sufficiently ascertained, the board shall issue...
• Section 307.32 - Notice To Board Of County Commissioners Of County Affected.
  The board of county commissioners of a county where the county lines are to be run, shall give notice to the board of each...
• Section 307.33 - Return Of Survey.
  Each county engineer shall make a return of the survey provided for by section 307.31 of the Revised Code to the clerk of the...
• Section 307.34 - Action To Establish Lines Between Counties.
  When the board of county commissioners is unable to ascertain the boundary lines of the county with certainty, or having ascertained the boundary line,...
• Section 307.35 - Decree As To Taxes Collected.
  The court of common pleas of the county in which an action is brought, as provided in section 307.34 of the Revised Code, may...
• Section 307.36 - Corners Of Originally Surveyed Townships.
  When the board of county commissioners considers that the public good so requires, it shall authorize and require the county engineer to ascertain, by...
• Section 307.37 - Adoption Of County Building Code.
  (A) As used in division (B)(3) of this section, "proposed new construction" means a proposal to erect, construct, repair, alter, redevelop, or maintain a...
• Section 307.38 - County Building Inspector - Duties.
  (A) To administer and enforce any local building regulations or existing structures code the board of county commissioners adopts under section 307.37 of the...
• Section 307.381 - Establishing County Board Of Building Appeals.
  (A) The board of county commissioners of any county that has a building department certified pursuant to section 3781.10 of the Revised Code may...
• Section 307.39 - Publication Of Building Regulations.
  Building regulations, as adopted, amended, or changed by the board of county commissioners, shall be made available to the public at the office of...
• Section 307.40 - Injunction.
  (A) (1) No person shall erect, construct, alter, repair, or maintain any residential building as defined in section 3781.06 of the Revised Code, within...
• Section 307.41 - Purchase Or Lease Of Motor Vehicles.
  Whenever the board of county commissioners deems it necessary to purchase or lease motor vehicles for its use, or for the use of any...
• Section 307.42 - Use Of Vehicles To Be Regulated.
  Motor vehicles purchased or leased as provided by section 307.41 of the Revised Code shall be for the use of the county commissioners or...
• Section 307.43 - Use Of County Vehicle Except For Official Business Prohibited.
  No person shall use or drive any automobile, motorcycle, or other conveyance owned, hired, or leased by the board of county commissioners for the...
• Section 307.44 - Liability Insurance For Motor Vehicles Owned By County.
  The board of county commissioners may procure policies of insurance insuring officers and employees of the county against liability on account of damage or...
• Section 307.441 - Errors And Omissions Insurance For Officers, Employees And Judges.
  (A) The board of county commissioners of each county may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring the county recorder and the clerk...
• Section 307.442 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-07-1986
• Section 307.443 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-06-1988
• Section 307.45 - Using Property Tax Levied For Criminal Justice Services.
  (A) A board of county commissioners shall use money raised by a property tax levied for criminal justice services under division (LL) of section...
• Section 307.46 - Expenses Of Arrest - Payment.
  When a recognizance, given in a case of felony, is collected, in addition to the fees allowed by law, the board of county commissioners...
• Section 307.47 - Relief For Persons Injured In Automobiles Commandeered By Police Officer.
  The board of county commissioners shall provide for the relief, out of the general funds of the county, of any person temporarily or permanently...
• Section 307.48 - Proof Of Validity Of Claim.
  The board of county commissioners may require such proof as it deems necessary to establish the validity of any claim under section 307.47 of...
• Section 307.49 - Reward For Apprehension Of Criminals.
  The board of county commissioners may offer such rewards as the nature of the case requires, for the detection or apprehension of any person...
• Section 307.50 - Expenses Of Pursuit And Return Of Felon.
  When any person charged with a felony has fled to any other state, territory, or country, and the governor has issued a requisition for...
• Section 307.51 - County Law Library Resources Board.
  (A) As used in this section, "county office" means any officer, department, board, commission, or agency of a county. (B) There is hereby created...
• Section 307.511 - Law Library Resources Board Members.
  (A) The five members of the county law library resources board shall be residents of the county and shall be appointed as follows: (1)...
• Section 307.512 - Law Library Resources Board Meetings.
  Within fifteen days after July 1, 2009, the county law library resources board shall hold its initial meeting at the office of the board...
• Section 307.513 - Annual Board Budget - Appropriations From General Fund.
  (A) The county law library resources board shall prepare an annual estimate of the revenue and expenditures of the board for the calendar year...
• Section 307.514 - County Law Library Resources Fund.
  There is hereby created in each county treasury a county law library resources fund, effective January 1, 2010. The fund shall receive all revenue...
• Section 307.515 - Allowance To Law Libraries From Fines And Penalties Of Municipal Courts.
  (A) All fines and penalties collected by, and moneys arising from forfeited bail in, a municipal court for offenses and misdemeanors brought for prosecution...
• Section 307.516 - Multi-county Law Library Resources Commission.
  (A) Upon the recommendation of the county law library resources boards of two or more adjacent counties, the boards of county commissioners of those...
• Section 307.52 - Expert Witnesses.
  Upon the certificate of the prosecuting attorney or his assistant that the services of an expert or the testimony of expert witnesses in the...
• Section 307.53 - Procedure When County Auditor Unable To Sign Bonds Due To Absence Or Disability.
  Whenever, in the issuing of bonds by the board of county commissioners or by the board of township trustees, the signature of the county...
• Section 307.54 - Registry And Redemption Of Bonds.
  All bonds issued by the board of county commissioners shall be correctly numbered in the order in which issued, and registered by the county...
• Section 307.55 - Allowance And Payment Of Claims Against County.
  (A) No claims against the county shall be paid otherwise than upon the allowance of the board of county commissioners, upon the warrant, including...
• Section 307.56 - Appeal From Decision Of Board Of County Commissioners.
  A person aggrieved by the decision of the board of county commissioners may appeal to the court of common pleas, as provided by and...
• Section 307.561 - Settlement May Include Rezoning Agreement Or Development Plan Approval.
  Notwithstanding any contrary provision in another section of the Revised Code, section 303.12 of the Revised Code, or any vote of the electors on...
• Section 307.57 - May Execute Bonds Of Indemnity.
  If the county owns any securities of the United States, or any other securities, and they have been lost, destroyed, or stolen, the board...
• Section 307.58 - Transcribing Of Certain Records.
  The board of county commissioners may have any of the records or books in the office of the county auditor, county recorder, or county...
• Section 307.59 - Transcribing Of Court Records.
  When a record, journal, or other book belonging to any of the courts, is so worn or defaced as to require transcribing, the board...
• Section 307.60 - Appropriation For Compensation Or Recruitment Of Physicians Or Other Medical Personnel.
  (A) The board of county commissioners may allow a physician or surgeon making a post mortem examination at the instance of the coroner or...
• Section 307.61 - Institutions Subject To Inspection Of Commissioners Or Board Of Health.
  Each public or private hospital, reformatory home, house of detention, private asylum, and correctional institution shall be open at all times to the inspection...
• Section 307.62 - Crime Victim Assistance Program - Appropriating Moneys.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "County agency" includes any department, authority, commission, office, or board of the county. (2) "Crisis intervention services"...
• Section 307.621 - Establishing Child Fatality Review Board.
  A board of county commissioners shall appoint a health commissioner of the board of health of a city or general health district that is...
• Section 307.622 - Members Of Child Fatality Review Board.
  (A) The health commissioner of the board of health of a city or a general health district who is appointed under section 307.621 of...
• Section 307.623 - Child Fatality Review Board - Purpose And Duties.
  The purpose of the child fatality review board is to decrease the incidence of preventable child deaths by doing all of the following: (A)...
• Section 307.624 - Organization Of Child Fatality Review Board.
  The board of county commissioners, or if a regional child fatality review board is established, the group of health commissioners appointed to select the...
• Section 307.625 - No Review While Investigation Pending.
  A child fatality review board may not conduct a review of the death of a child described in section 307.624 of the Revised Code...
• Section 307.626 - Annual Report.
  (A) By the first day of April of each year, the person convening the child fatality review board shall prepare and submit to the...
• Section 307.627 - Accessing Confidential Information.
  (A) (1) Notwithstanding section 3701.243 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, any individual; public children services agency, private child...
• Section 307.628 - Immunity.
  (A) An individual or public or private entity providing information, documents, or reports to a child fatality review board is immune from any civil...
• Section 307.629 - Unauthorized Dissemination Of Confidential Information.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and sections 5153.171 to 5153.173 of the Revised Code, any information, document, or report...
• Section 307.63 - Establishing Countywide Public Safety Communications System.
  (A) As used in this section, "countywide public safety communications system" means a system of communications facilities, equipment, and services that helps to provide...
• Section 307.64 - Appropriating Moneys From Tax Levies For Economic Development.
  The board of county commissioners of any county may appropriate moneys derived from a tax levied pursuant to division (EE) of section 5705.19 of...
• Section 307.65 - Harbor Improvements.
  The board of county commissioners of any county bordering Lake Erie may construct, open, enlarge, excavate, improve, deepen, straighten, or extend any harbor located...
• Section 307.66 - Memorial Day Appropriations.
  The board of county commissioners, annually, shall appropriate, and advance upon application made no more than one hundred twenty days prior to memorial day,...
• Section 307.67 - County May Give Aid To Establish Canal Or Waterway.
  Whenever a canal or waterway of substantially definite route is authorized to be constructed by or under the authority, management, and control of the...
• Section 307.671 - Cooperative Agreement For Sales Tax Levy And Bond Issuance For Port Authority Educational And Cultural Facility.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Bonds" means, as the context requires: general obligation bonds of the county, or notes in anticipation thereof,...
• Section 307.672 - Cooperative Agreement For Sales Tax Levy And Bond Issuance With Nonprofit Corporation For Municipal Education And Cultural Facility.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Bonds" means general obligation bonds, or notes in anticipation thereof, of the county described in division (B)(1)(b)...
• Section 307.673 - Cooperative Agreement For Sales Tax Levy And Bond Issuance For Construction Or Renovation Of Professional Sports Facilities.
  This section applies only in a county in which a tax is levied under section 307.697, 4301.421, 5743.024, or 5743.323 of the Revised Code...
• Section 307.674 - Cooperative Agreement For Sales Tax Levy And Bond Issuance For Educational And Cultural Performing Arts Facilities.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Bonds" means: (a) Revenue bonds of the port authority described in division (B)(2)(a) of this section; (b)...
• Section 307.675 - Using Long Life Expectancy Material In The Construction Or Repair Of Bridge Deck.
  (A) As used in this section, "long life expectancy material" means any material, including a composite, that, when used for a bridge deck in...
• Section 307.676 - Tax On Retail Sale Of Food And Beverages Consumed On Premises - General Fund Revenue.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Food and beverages" means any raw, cooked, or processed edible substance used or intended for use in...
• Section 307.677 - Tax On Retail Sale Of Food And Beverages Consumed On Premises - Funding Convention Center.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Food and beverages" means any raw, cooked, or processed edible substance used or intended for use in...
• Section 307.678 - Stadium Cooperative Agreements.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Stadium" means an open-air structure designed and developed to provide a venue for public entertainment, cultural activities...
• Section 307.679 - Sports Parks; Cooperative Agreements; Bonds.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Sports park" means any facility designed and constructed as a venue for public entertainment and recreation by...
• Section 307.68 - Board May Issue Bonds Upon Petition.
  The board of county commissioners, upon the petition of one hundred or more resident taxpayers and qualified voters of the county, the approval of...
• Section 307.69 - Agreements For Protection Of Funds Contributed.
  For the purposes of co-operating with and safeguarding the respective interests of the contributing counties in the proportion of their respective contributions, and in...
• Section 307.691 - County Or Municipal Assistance To Nonprofit Corporations Engaged In Certain Activities Benefiting Public.
  The board of county commissioners of any county or the legislative authority of a municipal corporation may cooperate with, give financial assistance to, and...
• Section 307.692 - Expending Funds For Encouraging Economic Development Of The County Or Area Through Promotion Of Tourism.
  The legislative authority of a county may appropriate moneys from its general fund to be expended by the county or by joint agreement with...
• Section 307.693 - Appropriating Moneys For Convention And Visitors' Bureaus.
  A board of county commissioners may appropriate moneys from the general fund to make contributions to convention and visitors' bureaus operating within the county....
• Section 307.694 - Expending Funds For Senior Citizens Services Or Facilities.
  The board of county commissioners may spend moneys for the support of senior citizens services or facilities. Effective Date: 11-15-1981
• Section 307.695 - Agreement For Sales Tax Levy And Bond Issuance To Construct And Equip A Convention Center.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Arena" means any structure designed and constructed for the purpose of providing a venue for public entertainment...
• Section 307.696 - Agreement For Sales Tax Levy And Bond Issuance To Construct And Operate A Sports Facility.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "County taxes" means taxes levied by the county pursuant to sections 307.697, 4301.421, 5743.024, and 5743.323 of...
• Section 307.697 - Voting On Question Of Levying Liquor Tax To Support Facility.
  (A) For the purpose of section 307.696 of the Revised Code and to pay any or all of the charge the board of elections...
• Section 307.698 - Moneys Spent For Housing Purposes.
  The board of county commissioners may spend moneys from the general fund for housing purposes, including the housing purposes of a county land reutilization...
• Section 307.699 - Annual Service Payment In Lieu Of Taxes On The Exempt Property Used By Major League Professional Athletic Team.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Sports facility" has the same meaning as in section 307.696 of the Revised Code. (2) "Residual cash"...
• Section 307.6910 - Operation Of Veterans Memorial And Museum.
  (A) A new nonprofit corporation shall be organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of operating a veterans memorial and museum...
• Section 307.70 - County Charter Commissions.
  In any county electing a county charter commission, the board of county commissioners shall appropriate money for the expenses of such commission in the...
• Section 307.71 - Adoption Of Curfew.
  (A) Whenever the adoption of a curfew for persons under eighteen years of age is deemed necessary by the board of county commissioners for...
• Section 307.72 - Appropriating Funds For Police Training.
  The board of county commissioners may appropriate funds to pay the reasonable expenses of the sheriff or deputy sheriffs while going to, attending, and...
• Section 307.73 - Contract For Private Construction Of Water And Sewer Lines.
  The board of county commissioners for any unincorporated portion of the county, upon application by any individual, organization, or agency of private enterprise, may...
• Section 307.74 - Purchasing Water From Municipality.
  The board of county commissioners, with the consent of a municipal corporation, may purchase water from said municipal corporation, and may construct and maintain...
• Section 307.75 - Operating Or Contracting For Operation Of Police Training Schools.
  The board of county commissioners may operate or may contract with an accredited university or college to operate a police training school, a law...
• Section 307.76 - Operating Or Contracting For Operation Of Zoological Park.
  The board of county commissioners may maintain and operate a zoological park, or it may contract with or contribute to any nonprofit corporation organized...
• Section 307.761 - Facility To Promote Sciences And Natural History.
  A board of county commissioners may maintain and operate a facility to encourage the study of and promote the sciences and natural history, or...
• Section 307.77 - Giving Aid To Units Of Government For Water Management.
  The board of county commissioners of any county may give aid to any of the units of government set forth in division (A) of...
• Section 307.771 - Issuing Bonds For Water Management.
  The board of county commissioners of any county, pursuant to a favorable vote of the electors, may, subject to the conditions prescribed in section...
• Section 307.772 - Agreements For Facilitating Water Management Projects.
  For the purposes of facilitating any project set forth in section 307.77 of the Revised Code and safeguarding the respective interests of the contributing...
• Section 307.78 - Making Contributions To Community Improvement Corporations.
  (A) The board of county commissioners of any county may make contributions of moneys, supplies, equipment, office facilities, and other personal property or services...
• Section 307.781 - Unpaid Or Delinquent Tax Line Of Credit.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Current year unpaid taxes" and "current year delinquent taxes" have the same meanings as in section 321.341...
• Section 307.79 - Administrative Rules.
  (A) The board of county commissioners may adopt, amend, and rescind rules establishing technically feasible and economically reasonable standards to achieve a level of...
• Section 307.791 - Election On Repeal Of County Sediment Control Rule.
  The question of repeal of a county sediment control rule adopted under section 307.79 of the Revised Code may be initiated by filing with...
• Section 307.80 - Establishing County Microfilming Board.
  The board of county commissioners of any county may, by resolution, establish a county microfilming board. The county microfilming board shall consist of the...
• Section 307.801 - Organization Of Board.
  Within ninety days after a county microfilming board has been established, it shall hold its initial meeting at such time as the secretary of...
• Section 307.802 - Powers And Duties Of Board.
  The county microfilming board shall coordinate the use of all microfilming or image processing equipment, software, or services in use throughout the county offices...
• Section 307.803 - Funds Of Board.
  The board of county commissioners may purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire any microfilming or image processing equipment, software, or services that the board determines...
• Section 307.804 - Chief Administrator - Employees.
  The county recorder shall be the chief administrator of the county microfilming board and may employ a deputy who shall serve under his direction....
• Section 307.805 - Annual Estimate Of The Revenues And Expenditures - Report.
  The county recorder shall prepare an annual estimate of the revenues and expenditures of the microfilming center for the ensuing fiscal year and submit...
• Section 307.806 - Contract For Services With Other Public Entities.
  The county microfilming board may enter into a contract with the legislative authorities of any municipal corporation, township, port authority, water or sewer district,...
• Section 307.81 - Vacating Unused Parks And Park Lands.
  (A) Where lands have been dedicated to or for the use of the public for parks or park lands, and where such lands have...
• Section 307.82 - Selling Unused Parks And Park Lands.
  Upon the vacation of parks or park lands, the board of county commissioners shall offer such lands for sale at a public auction at...
• Section 307.83 - Reversionary Interest In Parks And Park Lands.
  When real estate which has been dedicated to or for the use of the public for parks or park lands is vacated by the...
• Section 307.84 - Establishing Automatic Data Processing Board.
  The board of county commissioners of any county may, by resolution, establish a county automatic data processing board. The board shall consist of the...
• Section 307.841 - Organization Of Board.
  Within ninety days after a county automatic data processing board has been established, it shall hold its initial meeting at the office of the...
• Section 307.842 - County Automatic Data Processing Board - Powers And Duties.
  The county automatic data processing board shall coordinate the use of all automatic or electronic data processing or record-keeping equipment, software, or services in...
• Section 307.843 - Acquiring Data Processing Or Record Keeping Equipment, Software, Or Services.
  The board of county commissioners may purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire any automatic or electronic data processing or record-keeping equipment, software, or services that...
• Section 307.844 - Chief Administrator - Automatic Data Processing Center.
  The county auditor shall be the chief administrator of the county automatic data processing board and may employ a deputy who shall serve under...
• Section 307.845 - Annual Estimate Of The Revenues And Expenditures - Report.
  The county auditor shall prepare an annual estimate of the revenues and expenditures of the automatic data processing center for the ensuing fiscal year...
• Section 307.846 - Contract For Services With Other Public Entities.
  The county automatic data processing board may enter into a contract with the legislative authorities of any municipal corporation, township, port authority, water or...
• Section 307.847 - Coordination Of Information By County Automatic Data Processing Board.
  (A) In lieu of having a county records commission and a county microfilming board, a board of county commissioners may, by resolution, require the...
• Section 307.85 - Cooperation With Other Agencies In Operating Federal Programs.
  (A) The board of county commissioners of any county may participate in, give financial assistance to, and cooperate with other agencies or organizations, either...
• Section 307.851 - Contracting With Corporation Or Association, Profit Or Nonprofit, To Provide Health And Human Services Or Social Services.
  (A) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Revised Code, a board of county commissioners of a county that has enacted a tax levy...
• Section 307.86 - Competitive Bidding Required - Exceptions.
  Anything to be purchased, leased, leased with an option or agreement to purchase, or constructed, including, but not limited to, any product, structure, construction,...
• Section 307.861 - Renewing Leases For Electronic Data Processing Equipment, Services, Or Systems, Or Radio Communications System.
  The county or contracting authority, as defined in section 307.92 of the Revised Code, may renew a lease which has been entered into for...
• Section 307.862 - Competitive Sealed Proposals - Procedure.
  (A) When a county contracting authority uses competitive sealed proposals pursuant to section 307.86 of the Revised Code, the county contracting authority shall do...
• Section 307.863 - Bidding Process For Franchises.
  (A) Notwithstanding section 307.86 of the Revised Code, a board of county commissioners that awards a franchise to a franchisee on behalf of a...
• Section 307.87 - Notice Of Competitive Bidding.
  Where competitive bidding is required by section 307.86 of the Revised Code, notice thereof shall be given in the following manner: (A) Notice shall...
• Section 307.88 - Bid Contents.
  (A) Bids submitted pursuant to sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code shall be in a form prescribed by the contracting authority and...
• Section 307.89 - Accepting Bids.
  When a bid is accepted for a contract other than for the construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction of an improvement, the contracting authority...
• Section 307.90 - Contract Award - Preferences.
  (A) The award of all contracts subject to sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code shall be made to the lowest and best...
• Section 307.91 - Rejecting All Bids.
  When the contracting authority rejects all bids it may either readvertise, using the original estimate, or amend the estimate and proceed to advertise in...
• Section 307.92 - Contracting Authority Defined.
  As used in sections 307.86 to 307.91, inclusive, of the Revised Code, "contracting authority" means any board, department, commission, authority, trustee, official, administrator, agent,...
• Section 307.921 - Policy To Assist Minority Business Enterprises.
  From any contracts to be awarded under sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code, the contracting authority, as defined in section 307.92 of...
• Section 307.93 - Joint Establishment Of A Multicounty Correctional Center.
  (A) The boards of county commissioners of two or more adjacent counties may contract for the joint establishment of a multicounty correctional center, and...
• Section 307.931 - Submitting Health Insurance Claims For Inmates Of Correctional Center.
  (A) For each person who is confined in a multicounty, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal correctional center as provided in section 307.93 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 307.932 - Community Alternative Sentencing Centers.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Division of parole and community services" means the division of parole and community services of the department...
• Section 307.933 - Issuance Of Securities.
  (A) A corrections commission formed under section 307.93 of the Revised Code may issue securities of the commission, in an amount determined by the...
• Section 307.94 - Petitioning For Election On Adoption Of County Charter.
  Electors of a county, equal in number to ten per cent of the number who voted for governor in the county at the most...
• Section 307.95 - Determining Validity Of Petitions.
  (A) When a county charter petition has been certified to the board of elections pursuant to section 307.94 of the Revised Code, the board...
• Section 307.96 - Charter Or Amendment Effective Date.
  Except as provided by Section 3 of Article X, Ohio Constitution, a county charter or amendment shall become effective if it has been approved...
• Section 307.97 - Filing Sworn Itemized Statement Of Financial Transactions.
  (A) The circulator of a county charter petition, or his agent, shall, within five days after such petition is filed with the county commissioners,...
• Section 307.98 - Written Partnership Agreement With Director Of Job And Family Services.
  As used in this section, "county grantee" has the same meaning as in section 5101.21 of the Revised Code. Each board of county commissioners...
• Section 307.981 - Designating Entities As Family Services Agencies.
  (A) (1) As used in the Revised Code: (a) "County family services agency" means all of the following: (i) A child support enforcement agency;...
• Section 307.982 - Contracts To Perform Family Services Duty Or Workforce Development Activity.
  (A) To the extent permitted by federal law, including subpart F of 5 C.F.R. part 900, and subject to any limitations established by the...
• Section 307.983 - Plan Of Cooperation To Enhance Administration Of Ohio Works First Program, Prevention, Retention, And Contingency Program, And Other Family Services Duties And Workforce Development Activities.
  Each board of county commissioners shall enter into a written plan of cooperation with the county family services agencies and workforce development agency serving...
• Section 307.984 - Regional Plans Of Cooperation To Enhance The Administration, Delivery, And Effectiveness Of Family Services Duties And Workforce Development Activities.
  (A) To enhance the administration, delivery, and effectiveness of family services duties and workforce development activities, a board of county commissioners may enter into...
• Section 307.985 - Transportation Work Plan Regarding The Transportation Needs Of Low Income Residents.
  Each board of county commissioners shall develop a written transportation work plan that establishes policies regarding the transportation needs of low income residents of...
• Section 307.986 - Procedures For Providing Services To Children Whose Families Relocate Frequently.
  Each board of county commissioners shall establish procedures for providing services to children in the county whose families relocate frequently, causing the children to...
• Section 307.987 - Permitting Exchange Of Information Needed To Improve Services And Assistance To Individuals And Families And The Protection Of Children.
  To the extent federal and state law permit, a contract entered into under section 307.981 or 307.982, a plan of cooperation entered into under...
• Section 307.988 - Federal Requirements For Contracts With Religious Organization.
  If a board of county commissioners contracts with a religious organization under section 307.981 or 307.982 of the Revised Code, the religious organization shall...
• Section 307.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 307.42 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for each...

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