The board of county commissioners may maintain and operate a zoological park, or it may contract with or contribute to any nonprofit corporation organized to encourage the study and promote the sciences of natural history, to maintain and operate a zoological park, to develop such park, and to provide for the acquisition, disposition, and care of the animals to be exhibited therein.
Operating or contracting for operation of zoological park
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 307.76, under Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers.
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 307.76