Sections 743.39 and 743.40 of the Revised Code do not confer power to appropriate or confer any right in any portion of a street, alley, highway, public way, or land situated within a municipal corporation, without its consent.
Property not to be appropriated without consent of municipal corporation
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 743.41, under Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water.
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 743.41