Ohio Revised Code Chapter 511 - Memorial Buildings; Halls; Parks

• Section 511.01 - Town Hall.
  If, in a township, a town hall is to be built, improved, enlarged, or removed at a cost greater than fifty thousand dollars, the...
• Section 511.02 - Tax Levy For Town Hall.
  At the election provided for by section 511.01 of the Revised Code, if a majority of all the ballots cast are in the affirmative,...
• Section 511.03 - Control And Leasing Of Hall, Lodge, Or Recreational Facility.
  After an affirmative vote in an election held under sections 511.01 and 511.02 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees may make...
• Section 511.04 - Procurement Of Site For Town Hall.
  The board of township trustees, whenever it has been authorized by an affirmative vote, to purchase a site and erect thereon a town hall,...
• Section 511.05 - Improvement Of Building Jointly By Village And Township.
  The electors of a township in which a village is situated, and the electors of such village, may, if the electors of both so...
• Section 511.06 - Submission Of Question Of Tax To A Vote.
  At the next regular municipal election after the applications for the enlargement, improvement, or erection of a public building have been so filed under...
• Section 511.07 - Two-thirds Vote Necessary.
  If, at an election under section 511.06 of the Revised Code, two thirds of the electors of the township and of the village voting,...
• Section 511.08 - Petition To Build Memorial.
  Whenever a petition is presented to the board of township trustees, signed by not less than fifteen per cent of the electors of the...
• Section 511.09 - Memorial Fund - Application Of Fund - Trustees.
  If a soldier's memorial is to be erected by a single township, the proceeds of bonds issued under section 511.08 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 511.10 - Appointment Of Personnel - Holidays - Maintenance Uniforms.
  The board of township trustees may appoint such superintendents, architects, clerks, laborers, and other employees as are necessary and fix their compensation. Any person...
• Section 511.11 - Acquisition Of Property.
  The board of township trustees may acquire by purchase, appropriation, or otherwise, any private or public lands which it might deem necessary for its...
• Section 511.12 - Plans, Specifications And Contracts.
  The board of township trustees may prepare plans and specifications and make contracts for the construction and erection of a memorial building, monument, statue,...
• Section 511.13 - Interest In Township Contract Prohibited - Exception.
  No member of the board of township trustees or any officer or employee thereof shall be interested in any contract entered into by such...
• Section 511.14 - Commemorative Tablets.
  There shall be provided in a memorial building, erected under sections 511.08 to 511.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, suitable apartments, of sufficient dimensions,...
• Section 511.15 - Memorial Trustees.
  Upon the completion and equipping of a soldier's memorial building, the board of township trustees shall certify such fact to the court of common...
• Section 511.16 - Control And Maintenance.
  The board of permanent memorial trustees shall provide for the maintenance of the township memorial building, monument, statue, or memorial and shall always keep...
• Section 511.17 - Rules And Regulations.
  Under such reasonable rules and regulations as the board of permanent memorial trustees prescribes, the memorial building constructed under section 511.08 of the Revised...
• Section 511.18 - Petition To Organize Park District.
  (A) When any number of electors in a township, including the electors of all municipal corporations in the township, equal to or exceeding one-tenth...
• Section 511.181 - Resolution To Convert Parks Owned And Operated By Park District Into Parks Owned And Operated By Township.
  If the board of park commissioners of a township park district created before 1955 is appointed by the board of township trustees, the board...
• Section 511.19 - Board Of Park Commissioners.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the board of park commissioners shall consist of three electors. The electors may be...
• Section 511.20 - Report Of Board As To Site And Cost.
  Prior to the submission to the electors of the question of whether one or more public parks are to be established as provided in...
• Section 511.21 - Notice Of Submission Of Question.
  Upon the filing of the report of the board of park commissioners as provided by section 511.20 of the Revised Code, the board of...
• Section 511.22 - Form Of Ballot.
  The board of township trustees shall direct the township fiscal officer to file a written notice, not later than four p.m. of the ninetieth...
• Section 511.23 - Powers And Duties Of Park Board.
  (A) When the vote under section 511.22 of the Revised Code is in favor of establishing one or more public parks, the board of...
• Section 511.231 - Appraisal Of Park District Property.
  Whenever it is necessary for the board of park commissioners of a township park district to determine the value of any real property owned...
• Section 511.232 - Law Enforcement In Park District.
  (A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B) The employees designated by...
• Section 511.233 - Liability Insurance.
  A board of park commissioners of a township park district may purchase a policy or policies of insurance to insure the members of the...
• Section 511.234 - Authorizing Use Of Park District Credit Card.
  (A) The board of park commissioners of a township park district may authorize an officer, employee, or appointee of the board to use a...
• Section 511.235 - Mutual Aid Contracts For Law Enforcement Purposes.
  The board of park commissioners of a township park district may enter into contracts with one or more townships, township police districts, joint police...
• Section 511.236 - Providing Police Services Without A Contract.
  The police force or law enforcement department of any township park district may provide police protection to any county, municipal corporation, township, township police...
• Section 511.24 - Appropriating Land And Materials For Park Purposes.
  When the board of park commissioners cannot, by deed of gift or by purchase, procure the lands or materials desired for park purposes upon...
• Section 511.241 - Exchange Of Real Property With Township.
  The board of park commissioners may acquire lands for use by the township park district through an exchange of real property in which the...
• Section 511.25 - Sale And Disposal Of Park Lands.
  If the board of park commissioners of a township park district finds that any lands that the board has acquired are not necessary for...
• Section 511.26 - Disposition Of Money From Sale Of Park Lands.
  Money arising from the sale of park land under section 511.25 of the Revised Code may be expended by the board of park commissioners...
• Section 511.261 - Disposition Of Moneys For Sale Or Lease Of Park District Mineral Rights.
  If a township park district enters into an agreement for the sale or lease of mineral rights regarding a park within the district, any...
• Section 511.27 - Tax Levy To Defray Expenses Of Park District.
  (A) To defray the expenses of the township park district and for purchasing, appropriating, operating, maintaining, and improving lands for parks or recreational purposes,...
• Section 511.28 - Submission Of Tax Levy - Form Of Ballot.
  A copy of any resolution for a tax levy adopted by the township board of park commissioners as provided in section 511.27 of the...
• Section 511.29 - Collection Of Tax - Bond Issue.
  When a tax is levied under sections 511.27 and 511.28 of the Revised Code, the township board of park commissioners shall cause it to...
• Section 511.30 - Issuance Of Revenue Securities.
  (A) In addition to any power granted to township park districts to issue securities under other provisions of the Revised Code, a township park...
• Section 511.31 - Obligations Of Park Board.
  Every township board of park commissioners regardless of the manner in which it was created shall function under and be governed by sections 511.18...
• Section 511.32 - Improvement Of Public Parks, Squares, And Grounds.
  The board of township trustees of any township having within its limits a public park, public square, or grounds devoted to public uses for...
• Section 511.33 - Appropriations And Tax Levy.
  In paying any expenses of park management and of improvements authorized by section 511.32 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees may...
• Section 511.34 - Care And Maintenance Of Parks - Tax Levy.
  In townships composed of islands, and on one of which islands lands have been conveyed in trust for the benefit of the inhabitants of...
• Section 511.35 - Construction And Meaning.
  It is hereby declared that the proper construction and meaning of sections 511.18 to 511.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, heretofore, has been that...
• Section 511.36 - Sale Of Public Grounds For Park Purposes To Annexing Municipality.
  The board of park commissioners or the township trustees may sell to an annexing municipality, upon terms and conditions mutually agreed upon, the whole...
• Section 511.37 - Contributions Of Property Or Funds To Park Districts With Overlapping Territory.
  The board of township trustees of any township may make contributions of moneys, lands, supplies, equipment, office facilities, and other personal property or services...
• Section 511.99 - Penalty.
  Whoever violates division (F) of section 511.23 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for a first offense; for each subsequent...

Last modified: October 10, 2016