Ohio Revised Code Chapter 6115 - Sanitary Districts

• Section 6115.01 - Sanitary District Definitions.
  As used in sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 of the Revised Code: (A) "Publication" means once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper...
• Section 6115.02 - Sanitary District Tax Books And Records.
  The tax books and records provided for in this chapter shall be termed "sanitary district books" or "sanitary district records," and such titles shall...
• Section 6115.03 - Jurisdiction, Evidence, Forms Establishing Sanitary District.
  (A) In any orders of court the words "The court now here finds that it hath jurisdiction of the parties to and of the...
• Section 6115.04 - Establishment And Purpose Of Sanitary Districts.
  The court of common pleas of any county in this state, when the conditions stated in section 6115.05 of the Revised Code are found...
• Section 6115.05 - Petition For Establishment Of Sanitary District.
  Before any court establishes a sanitary district as outlined in section 6115.04 of the Revised Code, a petition shall be filed in the office...
• Section 6115.06 - Bond For Expenses To Be Filed With Petition.
  At the time of filing the petition provided for in section 6115.05 of the Revised Code, or at any time subsequent thereto and prior...
• Section 6115.07 - Notice Of Petition And Hearing - Jurisdiction.
  Immediately after the filing of the petition provided for in section 6115.05 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the court with whom such...
• Section 6115.08 - Hearing - Order Establishing District.
  Any owner of real property in a proposed sanitary district who individually has not signed a petition under section 6115.05 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 6115.09 - Filing And Recording Findings And Decree Of Incorporation Of District.
  Within thirty days after the sanitary district has been declared a corporation by the court, the clerk of such court shall transmit to the...
• Section 6115.10 - Appointment Of Directors.
  Within thirty days after entering the decree incorporating a sanitary district, providing the district is wholly within one county, the court shall appoint one...
• Section 6115.101 - Directors Of Sanitary District Organized Wholly For Reduction Of Populations Of Biting Arthropods.
  The board of directors of a sanitary district organized after the effective date of this section wholly for the reduction of populations of biting...
• Section 6115.102 - Sanitary District Advisory Council For Sanitary District Organized Wholly For Reduction Of Populations Of Biting Arthropods.
  (A) With respect to sanitary districts organized after the effective date of this section wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, there...
• Section 6115.103 - Directors Of Sanitary District Organized Wholly For Purpose Of Providing Water Supply.
  (A) The board of directors of a sanitary district organized wholly for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public...
• Section 6115.104 - Sanitary District Advisory Council For Sanitary District Organized Wholly For Purpose Of Providing Water Supply.
  (A) With respect to a sanitary district organized wholly for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use that...
• Section 6115.11 - Oath, Bond Of Director.
  Each director of a sanitary district, before entering upon his official duties, shall take and subscribe to an oath before an officer authorized to...
• Section 6115.12 - Seal - Records - Transcripts Of Meetings.
  (A) The director or board of directors of a sanitary district shall adopt a seal and shall keep in a well-bound book a record...
• Section 6115.13 - President Of Board - Temporary Director - Quorum.
  Upon taking the oath of office, the board of directors of a sanitary district shall choose one of its members as president of the...
• Section 6115.14 - Secretary - Executive Director - Chief Engineer - Treasurer - Attorney - Employees.
  Upon taking the oath of office, the director or board of directors of a sanitary district shall select some suitable person as secretary. The...
• Section 6115.141 - Certificate Of Available Funds.
  The prohibition and requirements established under division (D) of section 5705.41 of the Revised Code, other than those applicable solely to counties, apply to...
• Section 6115.15 - Plans For Sewage Or Other Liquid Waste Or Treatment Or Disposal Works Submitted To Board.
  If a sanitary district is established for purposes other than the provision of a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use, or for...
• Section 6115.16 - Improvement Plan Approval And Execution.
  Upon its qualification, the board of directors of a sanitary district shall prepare a plan for the improvement for which the district was created....
• Section 6115.17 - Right Of Entry For Surveys And Examinations.
  (A) The board of directors of any sanitary district, or its employees or agents, including contractors and their employees, and the board of appraisers...
• Section 6115.18 - Powers And Duties Of Board Of Directors.
  The powers of the board of directors of a sanitary district do not include construction and maintenance of lateral sewers, sewerage systems, water mains,...
• Section 6115.19 - Improvement Plan For District Organized To Provide Water Supply.
  In case a sanitary district or subdistrict is organized for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use within...
• Section 6115.191 - Assessing Interest On Unpaid Balance Of Water Supply Payments.
  If a municipal corporation, township, or other member or customer of a sanitary district organized wholly for the purpose of providing a water supply...
• Section 6115.20 - Contract Bidding Procedures.
  (A) When it is determined to let the work relating to the improvements for which a sanitary district was established by contract, contracts in...
• Section 6115.201 - Sanitary District Contract Requirements.
  Notwithstanding section 6115.20 of the Revised Code, the board of directors of a sanitary district may comply with section 9.29 of the Revised Code...
• Section 6115.21 - Dominant Right Of Eminent Domain.
  The board of directors of a sanitary district, when it is necessary for the purposes of sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 6115.22 - Condemnation Of Land Or Property.
  The board of directors of a sanitary district may condemn for the use of the district, any land or property within or without said...
• Section 6115.221 - Appropriation Of Property For Sewer Construction To Address Public Health Nuisance.
  (A) For the purposes of this section, either of the following constitutes a public exigency: (1) A finding by the director of environmental protection...
• Section 6115.23 - Regulations, Approval And Enforcement.
  The board of directors of a sanitary district may make and enforce necessary regulations pertaining to the use of public corporations and persons of...
• Section 6115.24 - Regulations For Sanitary District Organized Wholly For Reduction Of Populations Of Biting Arthropods.
  In the case of a sanitary district established wholly or partly for reducing populations of biting arthropods, the board of directors of the sanitary...
• Section 6115.25 - Removal Of Physical Obstructions In, Over, Or Upon Public Streets, Lanes, Alleys, Or Highways.
  All public corporations or persons having buildings, structures, works, conduits, mains, pipes, tracks, or other physical obstructions in, over, or upon the public streets,...
• Section 6115.26 - Surveys And Examinations Of Rainfall, Stream Flow.
  The board of directors of a sanitary district may establish and maintain stream gauges and rain gauges, and may make such surveys and examinations...
• Section 6115.27 - Cooperation Or Assistance By U. S. Government Or Other Governmental Entity.
  The board of directors of a sanitary district may enter into contracts or other arrangements with the United States government or any department thereof,...
• Section 6115.28 - Taking Or Damage To Cemetery.
  Whenever it is necessary for the purposes of a sanitary district to take or damage any cemetery, the board of appraisers of the sanitary...
• Section 6115.29 - Board Of Appraisers Of Sanitary District.
  At the time of making its order organizing a sanitary district or at any suitable time thereafter, the court shall appoint three appraisers to...
• Section 6115.30 - Appraisals Of Compensation And Damages.
  During the preparation of the official plan, the board of appraisers of a sanitary district shall examine and become acquainted with the nature of...
• Section 6115.31 - Appraisals Of Compensation And Damages Beyond The Boundaries Of District.
  If the board of appraisers of a sanitary district finds that lands or other property not embraced within the boundaries of the district will...
• Section 6115.32 - Notice Of Hearing Of Land To Be Included Or Excluded From District.
  If the report of the board of appraisers of a sanitary district includes recommendations that other lands be included in the district, or that...
• Section 6115.321 - Exclusion Of Territory From Sanitary District Established For The Reduction Of Biting Arthropods.
  (A) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation or the board of township trustees of a township all or part of whose territory is...
• Section 6115.33 - Sanitary District Appraisal Record.
  The board of appraisers of a sanitary district shall prepare a report of its findings which shall be arranged in tabular form and bound...
• Section 6115.34 - Notice Of Hearing On Appraisals.
  Upon the filing of the report of the board of appraisers of a sanitary district under section 6115.33 of the Revised Code, the clerk...
• Section 6115.35 - Filing Exceptions To Reports Or Appraisals.
  Any property owner may accept the appraisals in his favor of benefits and of damages and of lands to be taken made by the...
• Section 6115.36 - Court Approval, Confirmation Or Return Of Plan.
  If it appears to the satisfaction of the court after having heard and determined all the exceptions filed pursuant to section 6115.35 of the...
• Section 6115.37 - Appeal Of Award As To Compensation Or Damages.
  Any person or public or private corporation desiring to appeal from an award as to compensation or damages shall, within twenty days from the...
• Section 6115.38 - Possession Of Property After Verdict And Award.
  No property shall be taken under sections 6115.01 to 6115.79, inclusive, of the Revised Code, until compensation has been paid according to law. But...
• Section 6115.39 - Certified Copy Of The Decree.
  Upon the entry of the order of the court approving the report of the board of appraisers of a sanitary district, the clerk of...
• Section 6115.40 - Alterations Or Additions To Official Plan.
  The board of directors of a sanitary district may at any time, when necessary to fulfill the objects for which the district was created,...
• Section 6115.41 - Appeal Not To Delay Action Or Prosecution Of Work.
  No appeal under sections 6115.01 to 6115.79, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be permitted to interrupt or delay any action or the prosecution...
• Section 6115.42 - Appraisal And Assessment Of Lands Losing Tax Exemption.
  If any lands in any sanitary district are not liable for taxation or assessment at the time of the execution of the work, but...
• Section 6115.43 - Appraising Lands Not At First Included Within The Boundaries Of District.
  In case any real property within or without any sanitary district is benefited which for any reason was not appraised in the original proceedings,...
• Section 6115.44 - Immaterial Irregularities Or Defects.
  No fault in any notice or other proceedings shall affect the validity of any proceeding under sections 6115.01 to 6115.79, inclusive, of the Revised...
• Section 6115.45 - Sanitary District Funds.
  The moneys of every sanitary district shall consist of three separate funds: (A) The "preliminary fund" consisting of the proceeds of the ad valorem...
• Section 6115.46 - Preliminary Costs And Expenses To Be Repaid.
  After the filing of a petition for the organization of a sanitary district, and before the district is organized, the costs of publication and...
• Section 6115.47 - Borrowing Power Of Board Of Directors.
  In order to facilitate the preliminary work, the board of directors of a sanitary district may borrow money at a rate of interest not...
• Section 6115.48 - Sanitary District Assessment Record.
  (A) After the list of real property, with the appraised benefits as approved by the court, or that part thereof from which no appeal...
• Section 6115.49 - Assessment Payments.
  When the assessment roll is placed on file in the office of the sanitary district, notice by publication shall be given to property owners...
• Section 6115.50 - Bonds In Anticipation Of The Levy And Collection Of Special Assessments.
  (A) For the purpose of acquiring, constructing, rehabilitating, furnishing, and equipping real and personal property necessary or appropriate for the execution of the official...
• Section 6115.51 - Treasurer's Duties - Bonds - Investments.
  The treasurer of a sanitary district shall, at the time of taking office, execute and deliver to the president of the board of directors...
• Section 6115.52 - Revenue Obligations Issued To Pay Costs Arising From Execution Of Official Plan.
  (A) The board of directors of a sanitary district may issue revenue obligations as provided in this section to pay the costs of the...
• Section 6115.53 - Sanitary District Maintenance Assessment - Sale Of Water.
  To maintain, operate, and preserve the reservoirs, sewers, pumping stations, treatment and disposal works, or other improvements made pursuant to this chapter, other than...
• Section 6115.54 - Readjustment Of Appraisal Of Benefits For More Equitable Basis For Levy Of Maintenance Assessment.
  Whenever the owners or representatives of twenty-five per cent or more of the acreage or value of the lands in a sanitary district file...
• Section 6115.55 - Annual Levy - Certificate.
  The board of directors of a sanitary district shall each year after the original assessment has been levied determine, order, and levy the part...
• Section 6115.56 - Collection Of Assessments.
  The county treasurer of each county in which lands of a sanitary district lie shall make due report to the county auditor of the...
• Section 6115.57 - Bond Of County Treasurer For Probable Amount Of Assessments.
  Before receiving the assessment book provided for by section 6115.55 of the Revised Code the county treasurer of each county in which lands or...
• Section 6115.58 - Sanitary District Assessments And Taxes Constitute A Lien.
  All sanitary district assessments and taxes provided for in this chapter, together with all penalties for default in payment of the same, and all...
• Section 6115.59 - Suits For The Collection Of Delinquent Taxes Or Assessments.
  The "delinquent assessment book" of a sanitary district is prima-facie evidence in all courts of all matters therein contained. The liens established and declared...
• Section 6115.60 - Procedures For Levying, Collection, And Distribution Of Assessments.
  Whenever, under this chapter, an assessment is made against a county, municipal corporation, or township, the governing or taxing body of such political subdivision,...
• Section 6115.61 - Appropriation Of Fund Of Water Department For Payment Of Assessments Or Water Charges.
  To pay a portion of the amount of an assessment or annual levy of a sanitary district organized for the purpose of water supply,...
• Section 6115.62 - Retirement Of Principal And Interest On Bonds.
  In addition to the uniform rates for water provided for by sections 6115.19 and 6115.53 of the Revised Code, the board of directors of...
• Section 6115.63 - Failure To Pay Over Assessments.
  If any county treasurer or other person entrusted with the collection of assessments fails to make prompt payment of the assessment or any part...
• Section 6115.64 - Surplus Funds - Reports To Court And Advisory Council.
  Any surplus funds in the treasury of the sanitary district may be used for retiring bonds, for reducing the rate of assessment, or for...
• Section 6115.65 - Compensation, Expenses - Salaries Of Extra Clerical Force.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the members of the board of directors of a sanitary district and the...
• Section 6115.66 - Land In More Than One Sanitary District.
  The same land, if conducive to public health, safety, convenience, or welfare, may be included in more than one sanitary district and be subject...
• Section 6115.67 - Conflicts In Jurisdiction.
  In case any sanitary district is being organized within, or partly within and partly without, the same territory in which some other district has...
• Section 6115.68 - Union Of Districts.
  (A) If two or more sanitary districts have been organized in a territory which, in the opinion of the board of directors of the...
• Section 6115.69 - Subdistricts Established And Organized.
  Whenever it is desired to construct improvements wholly within or partly within and partly without any sanitary district, which improvements will affect only a...
• Section 6115.70 - Remedies For Injuries.
  If any person or public corporation, within or without any sanitary district, considers itself injuriously affected in any manner by any act performed by...
• Section 6115.71 - Protection Of District Works.
  The board of directors of a sanitary district may police the works of the district, and in times of great emergency may compel assistance...
• Section 6115.72 - Removal Of Officers Or Employees.
  Any director, appraiser, member of the advisory council, or other officer or employee of any sanitary district may be removed for or without cause...
• Section 6115.73 - Enforcement By Mandamus.
  The performance of all duties prescribed in sections 6115.01 to 6115.79, inclusive, of the Revised Code, concerning the organization and administration or operation of...
• Section 6115.74 - Correction Of Defective Notice.
  In any case where a notice is provided for in sections 6115.01 to 6115.79, inclusive, of the Revised Code, if the court finds for...
• Section 6115.75 - Question Of The Validity Of The Organization Of Sanitary Districts.
  All cases in which there arises a question of the validity of the organization of sanitary districts shall be advanced as a matter of...
• Section 6115.76 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1974
• Section 6115.77 - Liability For Damages To District Works.
  (A) All persons and corporations shall be liable for damage done to works of a sanitary district by themselves, their agents, their employees, or...
• Section 6115.78 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1974
• Section 6115.79 - Substantial Requirements For Forms.
  The following forms illustrate the character of the procedure contemplated by this chapter, and if substantially complied with, those things being changed which should...
• Section 6115.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates division (B) of section 6115.17 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than fifty dollars. (B) Whoever violates section...

Last modified: October 10, 2016