Ohio Revised Code Chapter 723 - Streets; Public Grounds

• Section 723.01 - Legislative Authority To Have Care, Supervision, And Control Of Public Roads, Grounds And Bridges.
  Municipal corporations shall have special power to regulate the use of the streets. Except as provided in section 5501.49 of the Revised Code, the...
• Section 723.011 - Control Of Sidewalks, Curbs, And Gutters.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, in addition to the powers conferred by sections 729.01 to 729.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may...
• Section 723.012 - Wooden Flagpole Along Right-of-way.
  A property owner in a municipal corporation may install a wooden flagpole in a sidewalk or sodded area, for displaying the American flag only,...
• Section 723.02 - Opening Streets.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may open, straighten, alter, divert, narrow, or widen any street, alley, or public highway within the limits...
• Section 723.03 - Dedication Of Streets - Acceptance By Legislative Authority.
  A street or alley, dedicated to public use by the proprietor of ground in any municipal corporation, shall not be a public street or...
• Section 723.04 - Change Of Name, Vacating, Or Narrowing Streets On Petition.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, on petition by a person owning a lot in the municipal corporation praying that a street or...
• Section 723.041 - Permanent Easement In Vacated Street For Public Utility Facilities.
  When any street, alley, or public highway, or a portion thereof, is vacated or narrowed by a municipality pursuant to the provisions of any...
• Section 723.05 - Change Of Name, Vacating, Or Narrowing Streets Without Petition.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, when there are two or more streets, avenues, or alleys of the same name in the...
• Section 723.06 - Notice Not Required.
  Notice of the intention of the legislative authority of a municipal corporation to vacate any street, alley, avenue, or part thereof shall be given...
• Section 723.07 - Notice Of Application To Be Published.
  No street or alley shall be vacated or narrowed unless notice of the pendency and prayer of the petition under section 723.04 of the...
• Section 723.08 - Effect Of Order Of Vacation.
  The order of a legislative authority of a municipal corporation vacating or narrowing a street or alley which has been dedicated to public use...
• Section 723.09 - Vacation Or Establishment Of Street Or Alley By Court.
  The court of common pleas may, upon petition filed in such court by any person owning a lot in a municipal corporation, for the...
• Section 723.10 - Notice Of Petition.
  Notice of the pendency, object, and prayer of a petition for the vacation or establishment of a street or alley under section 723.09 of...
• Section 723.11 - Hearing Of Adverse Claims.
  If a person, other than a petitioner under section 723.09 of the Revised Code, owning a lot in the immediate vicinity of a street...
• Section 723.12 - Street Not To Be Closed Until Damages Paid.
  A street or ally declared vacated under section 723.09 of the Revised Code, shall not be closed or obstructed until the damages assessed under...
• Section 723.121 - Conveyance Of Lands Not Needed For Municipal Purposes By Legislative Authorities.
  The legislative authority of any municipal corporation may convey the fee simple estate or any lesser estate or interest in, or permit the use...
• Section 723.13 - Municipal Corporations May Construct Or Repair Viaduct - Bonds.
  When the legislative authority of a municipal corporation has determined to issue bonds for the purpose of constructing or repairing any viaduct over any...
• Section 723.14 - Expenditure Of Construction Or Repair Funds.
  All funds arising from the sale of bonds for the construction or repair of viaducts of a municipal corporation, or for the purchase or...
• Section 723.15 - Proceeds Of Bond Issue When Authorized By Election.
  When the voters of a municipal corporation determine to issue bonds for the construction or repair of viaducts, or for the purchase or condemnation...
• Section 723.16 - Owner Defined.
  "Owner," as used in sections 723.17 to 723.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, includes the legal or equitable owner, the person in whose name...
• Section 723.17 - Petition For Sprinkling Streets.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, upon the petition of thirty-five per cent of the electors in such municipal corporation, certified by the...
• Section 723.18 - Sprinkling Ordinance.
  The ordinance of a municipal corporation under section 723.17 of the Revised Code, to provide for sprinkling, shall not become operative unless it has...
• Section 723.19 - Procurement.
  Upon the certification of the petition and the passage of the ordinance as provided in sections 723.17 and 723.18 of the Revised Code, the...
• Section 723.20 - Tax Levy For Sprinkling - Street Railway Companies To Pay Portion Of Cost.
  To provide a fund to pay the cost of the sprinkling under sections 723.17 to 723.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board or...
• Section 723.21 - Legislative Authority May Require Street Railway Company To Sprinkle Its Right Of Way.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, by resolution, require any interurban or street railway company to sprinkle with water its right of...
• Section 723.22 - Municipal Corporation May Contract For Sprinkling.
  Upon failure of any interurban or street railway company after sixty days' notice to the person having charge or management of such company in...
• Section 723.23 - Surface Treatment Of Streets.
  Municipal corporations may treat the surface of streets, alleys, squares, and public roadways with calcium chloride, road oil, light coal tar products, light asphalts,...
• Section 723.24 To 723.30 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1962
• Section 723.31 - Treatment With Oil Regarded As A Cleaning And Repairing Of Streets And Alleys.
  The treatment with road oil, calcium chloride, light coal tar products, light asphalt, or light bituminous substances as provided by section 723.23 of the...
• Section 723.32 - Surface Treatment And Sprinkling Of Streets By Board Of Education.
  Any board of education may provide by private contract for sprinkling with water, or treatment with any of the substances mentioned in section 723.23...
• Section 723.33 - Legislative Authority May Require Bridge Or Railway To Be Lighted.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, when it deems it necessary to have a bridge or railways, or any part thereof, located in...
• Section 723.34 - Specifications In Lighting Ordinance.
  The ordinance mentioned in section 723.33 of the Revised Code shall specify the manner in which the bridge or railway shall be lighted, the...
• Section 723.35 - Notice Of Lighting Requirement Shall Be Given.
  Notice of the requirement that a bridge or railway be lighted shall be given at least twenty days before any forfeiture or charge is...
• Section 723.36 - Procedure On Failure Of Owner To Light Bridge Or Railway.
  If the person, company, or corporation, owning, possessing, or operating a railway or bridge, neglects or fails to provide lighting in conformity with the...
• Section 723.37 - Assessment For Expense Of Lighting.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may direct the manner in which the expense of lighting a bridge or railway shall be assessed...
• Section 723.38 - Terms Of Construction And Operation Of Street Railway Fixed By Legislative Authority.
  No corporation or individual shall perform any work in the construction of a street railway until application for permission is made in writing to...
• Section 723.39 - Notice Required Of Application To Establish Street Railway Route.
  Nothing mentioned in section 723.38 of the Revised Code shall be done, no ordinance or resolution to establish or define a street railway route...
• Section 723.40 - Consent Of Property Owners Necessary.
  No grant for the construction of a street railway under section 723.28 of the Revised Code shall be made, except to the corporation or...
• Section 723.41 - Grant Not Valid For More Than Twenty-five Years.
  No grant or renewal of a grant for the construction or operation of a street railway shall be valid for a greater period than...
• Section 723.42 - Grade Of Streets When Street Railway Is Constructed.
  Before a street railway is constructed on any street less than sixty feet in width, with a roadway of thirty-five feet or under, the...
• Section 723.43 - Pavement Of Streets Where Railways Are Constructed.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may require any part of the track between the rails of any street railway constructed within the...
• Section 723.431 - Removal Or Repair Of Street Railway.
  At the time of or subsequent to the adoption by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation of a resolution declaring it necessary to...
• Section 723.44 - Extension Of Street Railway May Be Granted.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may grant permission, by ordinance, to any corporation, individual, or company, owning or having the right to...
• Section 723.45 - Franchises To Interurban Railways For The Purpose Of Securing Terminals.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may grant a franchise upon such terms as it prescribes for the building of any interurban railway...
• Section 723.46 - Condemnation Proceedings.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may permit an interurban railway company referred to in section 723.45 of the Revised Code to make...
• Section 723.47 - Term Of Grant.
  No grant or franchise shall be made to an interurban railway company for longer than twenty years, and no franchise so granted shall be...
• Section 723.48 - Regulation Of Rate Of Speed.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, when a railroad track is laid in the municipal corporation, by ordinance, regulate the speed of...
• Section 723.49 - Damage From Excavation.
  If the owner or possessor of any lot or land in any municipal corporation digs, or causes to be dug, any cellar, pit, vault,...
• Section 723.50 - Depth Of Excavation Allowable.
  The owner or possessor of any lot or land in any municipal corporation may dig, or cause to be dug, any cellar, pit, or...
• Section 723.51 - Municipal Corporations May Change Streams And Highways.
  Any municipal corporation, when it is necessary in the construction and protection of wells, pumps, cisterns, aqueducts, water pipes, dams, reservoirs, reservoir sites, sewers,...
• Section 723.52 - Estimate Of Cost Of Construction By Force Account - Competitive Bidding - Rejection Of Bids.
  Before letting or making any contract for the construction, reconstruction, widening, resurfacing, or repair of a street or other public way, the director of...
• Section 723.53 - Account Of Cost Of Construction By Force Account Or Direct Labor.
  Where the proper officers of any municipal corporation construct, reconstruct, widen, resurface, or repair a street or other public way by force account or...
• Section 723.54 - Inspection Of Bridges.
  The legislative authority of a municipality shall designate a municipal official to have responsibility for inspection of all or portions of bridges within such...
• Section 723.55 - Restriction Upon Contract To Construct Or Repair Bridges.
  A municipality shall not contract for or undertake construction or repair of a bridge, for which the cost of such work exceeds fifty thousand...

Last modified: October 10, 2016