Ohio Revised Code Chapter 5553 - County Roads - Establishment; Alteration; Vacation

• Section 5553.01 - Improvement Defined.
  As used in sections 5553.02 to 5553.16, inclusive, of the Revised Code, "improvement" means any location, establishment, alteration, widening, straightening, vacation, or change in...
• Section 5553.02 - Authority Of Board Of County Commissioners To Locate, Alter, Or Vacate Roads.
  The board of county commissioners may locate, establish, alter, widen, straighten, vacate, or change the direction of roads as provided in sections 5553.03 to...
• Section 5553.03 - Width Of County Roads.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, all public roads located and established by the board of county commissioners subsequent to...
• Section 5553.04 - Procedure For Establishing, Altering, Or Vacating Road - Petition.
  When the board of county commissioners is of the opinion that it will be for the public convenience or welfare to locate, establish, alter,...
• Section 5553.041 - Procedure For Establishing, Altering, Or Vacating Road - Petition By Director Of Transportation.
  When in the construction or improvement of a state highway, in the opinion of the director of transportation, it is in the public interest...
• Section 5553.042 - Losing Right To Abandoned, Unused Township Road.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Electric cooperative" has the same meaning as in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Service facilities"...
• Section 5553.043 - Railroad Or Public Utility Company Deemed To Have Permanent Easement In Vacated Portion Of Road.
  When any street, highway, or road, or a portion of any street, highway, or road, is vacated pursuant to any section of this chapter...
• Section 5553.044 - Roads For Public Nonmotorized Vehicular Recreational Use.
  In any proceeding on a petition or resolution to vacate a road which begins on a public road and ends on a public road,...
• Section 5553.045 - Petition By Township Trustees To Vacate Township Road - Title To Pass To Abutting Landowners.
  (A) As used in this section, "road" means a road, or portion of a road, which is not used to calculate distributions of the...
• Section 5553.05 - Hearing On Petition For Vacation Of Road.
  (A) In the resolution required by section 5553.04 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall fix a date when it will...
• Section 5553.06 - Plat And Survey - Report Of County Engineer.
  If the board of county commissioners, after viewing the proposed improvement, considers such improvement of sufficient public importance, it shall instruct the county engineer...
• Section 5553.07 - Report Of Engineer Read At Final Hearing - Testimony - Resolution To Proceed.
  The board of county commissioners shall at the date of the final hearing on the proposed improvement read the report of the county engineer,...
• Section 5553.08 - Determination To Proceed With Improvement After Modification Of Plan.
  The board of county commissioners, acting in accordance with sections 5553.04 to 5553.07, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may determine to proceed with the...
• Section 5553.09 - Payment Of Compensation And Damages.
  If the board of county commissioners is of the opinion that the proposed improvement is of sufficient importance to the public to cause the...
• Section 5553.10 - Record Of Proceedings - Board Shall Make Improvement And Furnish Map - Unopened Road Shall Be Vacated.
  When, on the final hearing on the proposed improvement, the board of county commissioners finds in favor of such improvement, and determines to proceed...
• Section 5553.11 - Proceedings After Improvement Ordered.
  If the proceeding is for an improvement other than the vacation of a road and the board of county commissioners, at its final hearing...
• Section 5553.12 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1966
• Section 5553.13 - Improvement On County Line.
  When the proposed improvement is along or upon a county line or crosses such county line or extends as a continuous road from one...
• Section 5553.14 - View And Hearing By Joint Board - Resolution.
  If the joint board of county commissioners is of the opinion that it is for the public convenience or welfare to make the proposed...
• Section 5553.15 - Record Of Proceedings Of Joint Board - Copies Sent To Other Counties.
  The board of county commissioners of the county having the greatest population of any of the interested counties participating in the proposed improvement shall...
• Section 5553.16 - Cost Of Joint Improvement Divided Among Interested Counties.
  The compensation and damages awarded in case of a joint improvement, together with the expenses thereof, shall be divided among the counties interested, as...
• Section 5553.17 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1966
• Section 5553.18 - Determining True Line Of Road - Petition.
  When the place of beginning the true course or boundaries of a road is uncertain by reason of the removal of any monument or...
• Section 5553.19 - Notice Of Hearing Upon Report Of County Engineer - Objections.
  The county engineer shall view and survey the road as provided in section 5553.18 of the Revised Code, and shall make a return of...
• Section 5553.20 - Civil Action To Establish True Line Of Road.
  When the county engineer is unable to ascertain with certainty the true course and boundary line of a road, the board of county commissioners...
• Section 5553.21 - Establishing True Line Of Road By Agreement.
  Whenever the place of beginning, true course, or boundaries of a road are uncertain by reason of the removal of any monument or witness...
• Section 5553.22 - Determining Boundaries Of Road Located In Two Or More Counties - Joint Meeting.
  When any road, the true course of which it is sought to fix, establish, and determine, is located in two or more counties, the...
• Section 5553.23 - Petition By Landowner To Relocate Road Or Trail - Vacation Of Unimproved Public Roads.
  If a person through whose land a public road has been established, which is under the jurisdiction of the board of county commissioners, desires...
• Section 5553.24 - Survey And Report Of County Engineer On Desired Change In Road.
  Upon the receipt of the petition provided for in section 5553.23 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall order the county...
• Section 5553.25 - Hearing Upon Petition To Change Road - Finding Of Board.
  At the hearing had upon the petition provided for in section 5553.23 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners may hear evidence...
• Section 5553.26 - Petitioner Shall Pay Cost Of Changing Road - Bond.
  Upon receiving satisfactory evidence that the road has been changed as authorized by it under section 5553.25 of the Revised Code, and opened to...
• Section 5553.27 - Procedure To Change Road Located In Two Or More Counties - Proceedings By Joint Board.
  If the road which a landowner proposes to turn or change as provided in section 5553.23 of the Revised Code is located in two...
• Section 5553.28 - Majority Vote Of Joint Board Required.
  In all hearings before a joint board of county commissioners under sections 5553.01 to 5553.27, inclusive, of the Revised Code, a majority vote of...
• Section 5553.29 - Adjournment Of Hearing - Proceedings Of Joint Board Certified To Other Counties.
  The board of county commissioners or the joint board of county commissioners may adjourn any hearings under sections 5553.01 to 5553.27, inclusive, of the...
• Section 5553.30 - Appeal From Order Dismissing Or Refusing To Grant Petition For Improvement.
  Any petitioner may appeal from the order of the board of county commissioners, or joint board of county commissioners, dismissing or refusing to grant...
• Section 5553.31 - Dedication Of Land For Road Purposes - Proceedings.
  Any person may, with the approval of the board of county commissioners, dedicate lands for road purposes. A definite description of the lands to...
• Section 5553.41 - Petition To Obtain Road Through Lands Of Another.
  Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to secure for the use of the public a road leading from any land owned by said person,...
• Section 5553.42 - Notice Of Filing Petition To Obtain Road Through Lands Of Another - Service.
  The board of county commissioners shall give notice to the owners of lands through which the proposed road will pass of the filing of...
• Section 5553.43 - Establishing Road - Right Of Entry.
  If the board of county commissioners finds the road petitioned for will serve the public convenience or welfare, it shall establish such road; or...

Last modified: October 10, 2016