Ohio Revised Code Chapter 5591 - County Bridges

• Section 5591.01 - Definition Of Joint Bridge.
  "Joint bridge" as used in sections 5591.01 to 5591.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, means a bridge constructed, used, or maintained or to be...
• Section 5591.02 - Commissioners Must Build Certain Bridges.
  The board of county commissioners shall construct and keep in repair all necessary bridges in municipal corporations on all county roads and improved roads...
• Section 5591.03 - Joint County And Railroad Bridges.
  When the board of county commissioners is of the opinion that the welfare and convenience of the public will be served by the use...
• Section 5591.04 - Contract For Construction.
  The bridge construction contract provided for by section 5591.03 of the Revised Code shall provide for the construction, use, and maintenance of that part...
• Section 5591.05 - Board May Establish New Highway And Change Existing Grades.
  Whenever, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, it is for the best interests, security, and convenience of the public in carrying...
• Section 5591.06 - Appropriation Of Property - Approaches - Damages - Vacation Of Highways.
  The board of county commissioners may in the making of a contract for the construction, use, and maintenance of a joint bridge, provide for...
• Section 5591.07 - Resolution To Modify Or Alter Bridge - Exhibits.
  In the event it is necessary in the construction, use, or maintenance of a joint bridge to establish, alter, narrow, change the grade, or...
• Section 5591.08 - Notice To Be Served On Property Owners.
  Notice of the passage of the resolution provided for in section 5591.07 of the Revised Code shall be served upon the owners of property...
• Section 5591.09 - Resolution To Determine To Proceed.
  After the passage of the resolution provided for by section 5591.07 of the Revised Code the board of county commissioners shall determine whether or...
• Section 5591.10 - Contents Of Resolution.
  The resolution provided for by section 5591.09 of the Revised Code shall contain a general description of the land or property required by the...
• Section 5591.11 - Dedication Of Highway.
  After the resolution provided for by section 5591.09 of the Revised Code has gone into effect and the county and railroad or union depot...
• Section 5591.12 - Proceedings To Be The Same As In Other County Roads.
  In the establishment or making of any change in the location of any highway as shown on the plan or required by the construction...
• Section 5591.13 - Lands To Be Purchased Or Appropriated.
  The land or property required to make the alternation in a street or highway necessitated by a proposed improvement as provided in sections 5591.03...
• Section 5591.14 - County May Issue Bonds.
  For the purpose of raising money to pay its proportion of the cost of the improvement authorized by section 5591.03 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 5591.15 - Publication In Newspaper.
  All resolutions and notices provided for in sections 5591.03 to 5591.17 of the Revised Code shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation...
• Section 5591.16 - Majority Action Of Commissioners Required.
  All resolutions required in sections 5591.03 to 5591.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to be adopted by a county, or to carry out a...
• Section 5591.17 - Rights And Title.
  Sections 5591-03 to 5591.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not authorize a county in the passage of any resolution, approval of any plans...
• Section 5591.21 - Bridges - Bonds - Land Acquisition.
  Except as provided in section 5501.49 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall construct and keep in repair necessary bridges over...
• Section 5591.22 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-22-1973
• Section 5591.23 - Approaches To Bridges.
  Except as provided in section 5591.21 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall construct and keep in repair, approaches or ways...
• Section 5591.24 - Construction Of Approaches To County Bridges.
  The board of county commissioners shall construct, without unnecessary delay, good and sufficient approaches or ways to bridges erected by it. The board shall...
• Section 5591.25 - Board Of County Commissioners Of One Or More Counties May Build Bridges.
  When it becomes necessary for the public convenience to bridge a stream of water which is on or near the lines of two or...
• Section 5591.26 - Suits For Injuries To Bridges, Roads, And Buildings - Action By Property Owners - Disposition Of Money Recovered.
  If a bridge, any state or county road, or any public building, the property of or under the control or supervision of a county,...
• Section 5591.27 - Bridge To Replace One Destroyed.
  In rebuilding a bridge destroyed or injured by flood or fire, the board of county commissioners may select a new site therefor. Before the...
• Section 5591.31, 5591.32 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1989
• Section 5591.33 - Bridges Over Millraces.
  No person possessed of the right to a water privilege shall be required to erect or keep in repair a bridge over a millrace...
• Section 5591.34 - Purchase And Appropriation Of Materials.
  The board of county commissioners may contract for and purchase stone, gravel, earth, dirt, or other material necessary for the construction or keeping in...
• Section 5591.35 - Lighting Of Bridges - Highway Intersections.
  The board of county commissioners may provide for the proper lighting of bridges over streams, highway intersections, highway or railroad grade separations or interchange...
• Section 5591.36 - Guardrails For Bridge Or Steep Embankment.
  The board of county commissioners shall erect and maintain on county roads, where not already done, one or more guardrails on each end of...
• Section 5591.37 - Noncompliance.
  Negligent failure to comply with section 5591.36 of the Revised Code shall render the county liable for all accidents or damages resulting from that...
• Section 5591.38 - Board Of County Commissioners May Purchase Toll Bridge.
  The board of county commissioners of a county in which there is a toll bridge, or a bridge owned by a person or corporation...
• Section 5591.39 - Appropriation Of Bridge - Toll To Cease.
  For the purpose of appropriating a bridge as authorized by section 5591.38 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall have made...
• Section 5591.40 - Right To Bridge Forfeited.
  When the board of county commissioners appropriates a bridge, as provided in sections 5591.38 and 5591.39 of the Revised Code, and fails to pay...
• Section 5591.41 - County May Establish A Free Ferry.
  If a county bridge has been destroyed by fire, flood, or any other cause, the board of county commissioners may cause to be established...
• Section 5591.42 - Carrying Capacity Of Bridges - Warning Notice.
  The board of county commissioners together with the county engineer or an engineer to be selected by the board, or the director of transportation,...
• Section 5591.43 - Arrest Of Certain Persons On View.
  A constable of a township, a marshal of a village, or a police officer of a city may arrest upon view, and without process,...
• Section 5591.44 - Prosecutions.
  Prosecution under sections 5591.42 and 5591.43 of the Revised Code shall be in the name of the state and be commenced within three months...
• Section 5591.99 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 05-31-1988

Last modified: October 10, 2016