Ohio Revised Code Chapter 715 - General Powers

• Section 715.01 - General Powers Of Municipal Corporations.
  Each municipal corporation is a body politic and corporate, which shall have perpetual succession, may use a common seal, sue and be sued, and...
• Section 715.011 - Leasing Power.
  Each municipal corporation may lease for a period not to exceed forty years, pursuant to a contract providing for the construction thereof under a...
• Section 715.012 - Real Estate Conveyed By State.
  In addition to any other authority granted to a municipal corporation under the Revised Code or the Ohio Constitution, each municipal corporation may agree...
• Section 715.013 - [Operative Until 1/1/2016] Prohibiting Levy Of Municipal Taxes.
  (A) Except as otherwise expressly authorized by the Revised Code, no municipal corporation shall levy a tax that is the same as or similar...
• Section 715.013 - [Operative 1/1/2016] Prohibiting Levy Of Municipal Taxes.
  (A) Except as otherwise expressly authorized by the Revised Code, no municipal corporation shall levy a tax that is the same as or similar...
• Section 715.014 - Tourism Development Districts.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Tourism development district" means a district designated by a municipal corporation under this section. (2) "Territory of...
• Section 715.02 - Agreements For Joint Construction Or Management Of Public Work, Utility, Or Improvement.
  (A) Two or more municipal corporations, one or more municipal corporations and one or more other political subdivisions, or two or more political subdivisions...
• Section 715.03 - Powers By Ordinance Or Resolution.
  All municipal corporations have the general powers mentioned in sections 715.01 to 715.67, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and the legislative authority of such...
• Section 715.04 - Compounding Or Release Of Claims Due From Banks.
  All municipal corporations may compound or release, in whole or in part, any debt, obligation, judgment, or claim, due the municipal corporation from a...
• Section 715.05 - Police And Fire Departments.
  All municipal corporations may organize and maintain police and fire departments, erect the necessary buildings, and purchase and hold all implements and apparatus required...
• Section 715.06 - Light, Power, And Heat.
  All municipal corporations may: (A) Establish, maintain, and operate municipal lighting, power, and heating plants; (B) Furnish the municipal corporation and the inhabitants thereof...
• Section 715.07 - Purchase Of Gas Without Advertisement Or Competitive Bidding.
  Any municipal corporation owning a municipal gas plant or system of gas distribution may purchase gas and furnish it to such municipal corporation and...
• Section 715.08 - Water Supply.
  Any municipal corporation may provide for a supply of water, by the construction of wells, pumps, cisterns, aqueducts, water pipes, reservoirs, and water works...
• Section 715.09 - Limiting Motor Vehicle Parking Tax Rate.
  A municipal corporation that imposes an excise or any other tax on the parking, housing, or storage of a motor vehicle in a lot,...
• Section 715.10 To 715.12 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-30-1989
• Section 715.13 - Public Band Concerts And Libraries.
  Any municipal corporation may establish, maintain, and regulate free public band concerts and maintain and regulate free public libraries established by the municipal corporation...
• Section 715.14 - Hospitals.
  Any municipal corporation may provide for the rent and compensation for the use of any existing free public hospital established and managed by a...
• Section 715.15 - Ship Canals.
  Any municipal corporation may construct, open, enlarge, excavate, improve, deepen, straighten, or extend, any canal, ship canal, or watercourse located in whole or in...
• Section 715.16 - Places Of Correction - Quarters For Municipal Courts And Offices.
  Any municipal corporation may: (A) Establish, erect, maintain, and regulate jails, morgues, workhouses, station houses, prisons, and farm schools; (B) Agree with the board...
• Section 715.17 - Census.
  Any municipal corporation may take and authenticate a census of the municipal corporation. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 715.18 - Department Of Purchase, Construction, And Repair.
  Any municipal corporation may establish and furnish the necessary equipment for a department of purchase, construction, and repair. Such department shall be under the...
• Section 715.19 - Establish And Care For Streets.
  Any municipal corporation may lay off, establish, plat, grade, open, widen, narrow, straighten, extend, improve, keep in order and repair, light, clean, and sprinkle,...
• Section 715.20 - Shade Trees.
  Any municipal corporation may regulate the planting, trimming, and preservation of shade trees in streets, alleys, and public grounds and places, and may provide...
• Section 715.21 - Power To Acquire, Hold, Lease, Sell, Or Donate Lands.
  Any municipal corporation may hold, improve, protect, and preserve public grounds, parks, park entrances, free recreation centers, and boulevards. Such municipal corporation may acquire...
• Section 715.211 - Assisting Park Districts.
  The legislative authority of any municipal corporation may make contributions of moneys, supplies, equipment, office facilities, or other personal property or services to any...
• Section 715.22 - Vehicles And Use Of Streets.
  Any municipal corporation may: (A) Regulate the use of carts, drays, wagons, hackney coaches, omnibuses, automobiles, and carriages kept for hire or livery stable...
• Section 715.23 - Impounding And Sale Of Fowl Or Animals.
  Except as otherwise provided in section 955.221 of the Revised Code regarding dogs, a municipal corporation may regulate, restrain, or prohibit the running at...
• Section 715.24 - Regulation Of Street Vendors.
  Any municipal corporation may regulate, license, or prohibit the selling of goods, merchandise, or medicines on the streets. Effective Date: 07-09-1982
• Section 715.25 - Width Of Tires And Rate Of Transportation.
  Any municipal corporation may prescribe the width of the tires of wagons, carts, drays, and other vehicles used in the transportation of persons from...
• Section 715.26 - Regulating Erection, Inspection, And Numbering Of Buildings.
  Any municipal corporation may: (A) Regulate the erection of buildings or other structures and the sanitary condition thereof, the repair of, alteration in, and...
• Section 715.261 - Recovering Total Cost Of Correcting Hazardous Condition Of Building Or Abating Nuisance.
  (A) As used in this section : (1) "Total cost" means any costs incurred due to the use of employees, materials, or equipment of...
• Section 715.262 - Preference Of Appeals On Municipal Building Code Violations.
  In an appeal from an order made under authority of division (A) or (B) of section 715.26 of the Revised Code, a provision of...
• Section 715.263 - Tax Credit For Abating Building Nuisance On Tax Foreclosed Property.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Immediate family" means a spouse who resides in the same household, and children. (2) "Nuisance" means a...
• Section 715.27 - Regulating Fences, Signs, Other Structures, Electrical Equipment, Specialty Contractors.
  (A) Any municipal corporation may: (1) Regulate the erection of fences, billboards, signs, and other structures, within the municipal corporation, and provide for the...
• Section 715.28 - Market Places.
  Any municipal corporation may: (A) Establish, erect, maintain, protect, and regulate public halls, public buildings, and market houses; (B) Establish, maintain, protect, and regulate...
• Section 715.29 - Sanitation.
  Any municipal corporation may: (A) Regulate by ordinance the use, control, repair, and maintenance of buildings used for human occupancy or habitation, the number...
• Section 715.30 - Injunction May Be Granted For Failure To Comply.
  No person shall erect, construct, alter, repair, or maintain any residential building, office, mercantile building, workshop, or factory, including a public or private garage,...
• Section 715.31 - Wharves And Docks.
  Any municipal corporation may: (A) Regulate public landings, public wharves, public docks, public piers, and public basins; (B) Fix the rates of landing, wharfage,...
• Section 715.32 - License And Regulation Of Ferries.
  Any municipal corporation shall have the exclusive power to: (A) Establish, regulate, and license ferries from such municipal corporation, or any landing therein, to...
• Section 715.33 - Streetcars.
  Any municipal corporation may require the employment of conductors on all streetcars within such municipal corporation. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 715.34 - Hot Water And Steam Heating.
  Any municipal corporation may use, or by ordinance grant, for periods not exceeding twenty-five years, the use of its streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, and...
• Section 715.35 - Movable And Rolling Roads.
  Any municipal corporation may use or grant, for periods not exceeding twenty-five years, the use of its streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, and public places...
• Section 715.36 - United States Mail Subways.
  Any municipal corporation may, use, or by ordinance grant to any person, company, or corporation, for periods not exceeding twenty-five years, the use of...
• Section 715.37 - Contagious Diseases.
  Any municipal corporation may: (A) Provide for the public health; (B) Secure the inhabitants of the municipal corporation from the evils of contagious, malignant,...
• Section 715.38 - Maintenance Of Physician - Tax Levy - Election - Anticipatory Notes.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation which, for any reason, is inaccessible from the mainland at some time of the year, may provide...
• Section 715.39 - Assistance By Board Of County Commissioners Authorized.
  Upon the appointment by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation of a resident physician as authorized by section 715.38 of the Revised Code...
• Section 715.40 - Watercourses And Sewers.
  Any municipal corporation may open, construct, and keep in repair, sewage disposal works, treatment plants, and sewage pumping stations, together with facilities and appurtenances...
• Section 715.41 - Drainage In Municipal Corporations.
  Any municipal corporation may drain by artificial means, at the expense of the municipal corporation, any lot or land within such municipal corporation on...
• Section 715.42 - Public Conveniences.
  Any municipal corporation may establish, maintain, and regulate public baths and bathhouses, drinking fountains, water troughs, public toilet stations, and municipal lodging houses. Effective...
• Section 715.43 - Refuse Disposal.
  Any municipal corporation may provide for the collection and disposition of sewage, garbage, ashes, animal and vegetable refuse, dead animals, and animal offal, and...
• Section 715.44 - Power To Abate Nuisance And Prevent Injury.
  A municipal corporation may: (A) Abate any nuisance and prosecute in any court of competent jurisdiction, any person who creates, continues, contributes to, or...
• Section 715.45 - Weights And Measures.
  Any municipal corporation may regulate the weighing and measuring of hay, wood, coal, and other articles exposed for sale, and provide for the seizure,...
• Section 715.46 - Inspection.
  Any municipal corporation may provide for the inspection of spirits, oils, milk, breadstuffs, meats, fish, cattle, milk cows, sheep, hogs, goats, poultry, game, vegetables,...
• Section 715.47 - Power To Fill Or Drain Lots And Remove Obstructions - Resolutions.
  A municipal corporation may fill or drain any lot or land within its limits on which water at any time becomes stagnant, remove all...
• Section 715.48 - Regulation By License Of Shows And Games - Trafficking In Tickets - Exceptions.
  Any municipal corporation may: (A) Regulate, by license or otherwise, restrain, or prohibit theatrical exhibitions, public shows, and athletic games, of whatever name or...
• Section 715.49 - Preservation Of Peace And Protection Of Property - Noise Ordinance.
  (A) Any municipal corporation may prevent riot, gambling, noise and disturbance, and indecent and disorderly conduct or assemblages, preserve the peace and good order,...
• Section 715.50 - Police Or Sanitary Regulations For Property Outside Municipal Corporation Limits.
  A municipal corporation owning and using lands beyond its limits for a municipal purpose may provide, by ordinance or resolution, all needful police or...
• Section 715.51 - Billiards, Pool, And Gambling.
  Any municipal corporation may: (A) Regulate billiard and pool tables, nine or ten pin alleys or tables, and shooting and ball alleys; (B) Authorize...
• Section 715.52 - Houses Of Ill Fame.
  Any municipal corporation may: (A) Suppress and restrain disorderly houses and houses of ill fame; (B) Provide for the punishment of all lewd and...
• Section 715.53 - Taverns.
  Any municipal corporation may regulate taverns and other houses for public entertainment. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 715.54 - Vicious Literature.
  Any municipal corporation may restrain and prohibit the distribution, sale, and exposure for sale of books, papers, pictures, and periodicals or advertising matters of...
• Section 715.55 - Liability Arising From Enforcement Of Invalid Adult Entertainment Ordinance.
  (A) As used in this section, "adult entertainment establishment" has the same meaning as in section 2907.39 of the Revised Code. (B) The legislative...
• Section 715.56 To 715.58 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1996
• Section 715.59 - Hospitals For Diseased Prisoners.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may provide suitable hospitals for the reception and care of such prisoners as are diseased or disabled,...
• Section 715.60 - Regulation Of Explosives.
  Any municipal corporation may regulate the transportation, keeping, and sale of gunpowder and other explosives or dangerous combustibles and materials, and provide or license...
• Section 715.61 - Regulation And Licensing Of Certain Occupations And Premises.
  Any municipal corporation may regulate and license manufacturers and dealers in explosives, chattel mortgage and salary loan brokers, peddlers, public ballrooms, scavengers, intelligence officers,...
• Section 715.62 - Evidence.
  In the trial of any action brought under section 715.61 of the Revised Code, the fact that any party to such action represented himself...
• Section 715.63 - License Power - Exception.
  Any municipal corporation may license exhibitors of shows or performances of any kind, hawkers, peddlers, auctioneers of horses and other animals on the highways...
• Section 715.64 - Licensing Transient Dealers And Solicitors.
  Any municipal corporation may license transient dealers, persons who temporarily open stores or places for the sale of goods, wares, or merchandise, and each...
• Section 715.65 - Licensing Of Advertising Mediums And Matters.
  Any municipal corporation may license billposters, advertising sign painters, bill distributors, card tackers, and advertising matter of any article or compound which has not...
• Section 715.66 - Vehicle License For Undertakers - Money To Be Used For Street Repairs.
  Any municipal corporation may license the owners of vehicles used for the transportation of persons or property, for hire, and all undertakers and owners...
• Section 715.67 - Violation Of Ordinances May Be Made A Misdemeanor.
  Any municipal corporation may make the violation of any of its ordinances a misdemeanor, and provide for the punishment thereof by fine or imprisonment,...
• Section 715.68 - Municipal Corporation May Not Adopt Plans For Public Improvement Under Certain Circumstances.
  No municipal corporation shall adopt plans or specifications for a public improvement, required by law to be made by contract let after competitive bidding,...
• Section 715.69 - Contract Establishing Joint Economic Development Zone.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Contracting party" means a municipal corporation that has entered into a joint economic development zone contract or...
• Section 715.691 - Alternative Procedures And Requirements For Creating Joint Economic Development Zone.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Contracting party" means a municipal corporation that has entered into a joint economic development zone contract or...
• Section 715.692 - Creation Of Joint Economic Development Review Council.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Assessed value" means the assessed value of a parcel listed on the most recent tax list and...
• Section 715.70 - Contract Creating Joint Economic Development District.
  (A) This section and section 715.71 of the Revised Code apply only to: (1) Municipal corporations and townships within a county that has adopted...
• Section 715.71 - Election Concerning Alternative Procedures And Requirements For Creating Joint Economic Development District.
  (A) This section provides alternative procedures and requirements to those set forth in section 715.70 of the Revised Code for creating and operating a...
• Section 715.72 - Alternative Procedures And Requirements For Creating Joint Economic Development District.
  (A) As used in sections 715.72 to 715.81 of the Revised Code: (1) "Contracting parties" means one or more municipal corporations , one or...
• Section 715.73 - Criteria For Including Areas.
  The area or areas to be included in a joint economic development district shall meet all of the following criteria: (A) The area or...
• Section 715.74 - Contract Provisions.
  (A) The contract creating a joint economic development district shall provide for the amount or nature of the contribution of each contracting party to...
• Section 715.75 - Hearing And Notice.
  Before the legislative authority of any of the contracting parties adopts an ordinance or resolution approving a contract to create a joint economic development...
• Section 715.76 - Ordinances And Resolution Approving Contract.
  After the public hearings required under section 715.75 of the Revised Code have been held, each contracting party may adopt an ordinance or resolution...
• Section 715.761 - Adding Area By Amendment.
  (A) The contracting parties may amend the contract to add to a joint economic development district any area that was not originally included in...
• Section 715.77 - Election On Contract Approval.
  (A) (1) A board of township trustees that is a party to a contract creating a joint economic development district pursuant to sections 715.72...
• Section 715.771 - Filing Documents With Director Of Development.
  Upon the creation of or addition to a joint economic development district under section 715.72 or 715.761 of the Revised Code, one of the...
• Section 715.78 - Board Of Directors Of Joint Economic Development District.
  (A) A board of directors shall govern each joint economic development district created under section 715.72 of the Revised Code. (1) If there are...
• Section 715.79 - Annexation, Merger, Or Consolidation Proceedings Barred.
  (A) No annexation proceeding pursuant to Chapter 709. of the Revised Code that proposes the annexation to, merger of, or consolidation with a municipal...
• Section 715.80 - Binding Agreements Concerning Zoning, Other Regulatory And Proprietary Matters.
  Contracting parties may enter into binding agreements pursuant to the contract creating a joint economic development district, or joint economic development zone that is...
• Section 715.81 - Authority Of Municipal Corporations And Townships.
  The powers granted under sections 715.72 to 715.81 of the Revised Code are in addition to and not in the derogation of all other...
• Section 715.82 - Issuing Industrial Development Bonds.
  A municipal corporation may issue bonds and exercise all other powers under Chapter 165. of the Revised Code for one or more projects or...
• Section 715.83 - Unincorporated Area Or Township Eligible For Certain Projects.
  If any unincorporated area or township is a party to a joint economic development district created pursuant to a contract entered into under section...
• Section 715.84 - Cost Sharing Agreements.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Contracting party" means a municipal corporation that has entered into a municipal utility district contract or any...
• Section 715.90 - No Regulation Of County Utility User Rates.
  Unless provided for by contract between a county and a municipal corporation, a municipal corporation may not regulate rates and charges of users imposed...

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