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Title 7, Title 7. Municipal Corporations

36 chapters · 1,301 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 71,301 Ch 742, Chapter 742 | Police And Fire Pensio…132 Ch 733, Chapter 733 | Officers87 Ch 715, Chapter 715 | General Powers84 Ch 705, Chapter 705 | Plans Of Government68 Ch 718, Chapter 718 | Municipal Income Taxes62 Ch 731, Chapter 731 | Organization62 Ch 709, Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment61 Ch 727, Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally58 Ch 723, Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds53 Ch 759, Chapter 759 | Cemeteries50 Ch 737, Chapter 737 | Public Safety49 Ch 711, Chapter 711 | Plats48 Ch 743, Chapter 743 | Utilities - Electric; …47 Ch 703, Chapter 703 | Classification43

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.171 Sales and use tax levy to retire bonds and notes for joint recreation district
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For the purpose of paying debt charges on bonds issued pursuant to section 755.17 of the Revised Code or notes issued in anticipation of such bonds, the board of county commissioners of a county that is joined in a joint recreation district under section 755.14 of the Revised Cod…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.18 Payment of expenses
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All expenses incurred in the operation of parks, playgrounds, playfields, gymnasiums, swimming pools, public baths, indoor recreation centers, and community centers, established as provided by sections 755.12 to 755.17 of the Revised Code, shall be payable from the treasury of th…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.181 Petition for membership in joint recreation district; withdrawals
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The legislative authority of any municipal corporation, township, township park district, county, or school district desiring to join a joint recreation district created under section 755.14 of the Revised Code may, by resolution, petition the joint recreation district board of t…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.19 Care of property donated for park purposes
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In any municipal corporation which is the owner or trustee of property for park purposes, or of funds to be used in connection therewith, by deed of gift, devise, or bequest, such property or funds shall be managed and administered in accordance with the provisions or conditions …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.20 Board of park trustees for donated property

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When a deed of gift, devise, or bequest of property or funds to a municipal corporation for park purposes requires the investment or change of investment of the principal of such property or funds, or any part thereof, to be made upon the approval of an advisory committee appoint…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.21 Appointment and term - vacancies

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The board of park trustees mentioned in section 755.20 of the Revised Code, shall consist of four resident electors of the municipal corporation, who shall be appointed by the mayor, and shall serve without compensation for the term of four years. The park trustees shall be appoi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.22 Powers of board

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The board of park trustees shall have the entire management and control of any property or funds acquired as provided by section 755.19 of the Revised Code, all improvements within any such park, moneys derived from levies made for park purposes, moneys from the general fund appr…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.23 Compensation - oath - bond

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The members of the board of park trustees shall serve without compensation. Before entering upon the discharge of their duties, they shall each take the oath of office prescribed by section 733.68 of the Revised Code, and, except as otherwise provided in the municipal charter or …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.24 Meetings - rules and regulations

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The board of park trustees shall hold meetings at least once a month, and shall adopt necessary rules for the regulation of its business. It shall keep a complete record of its proceedings, which record, or a copy thereof, certified by the clerk of the board, shall be competent e…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.25 Contracts - rules and regulations

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The board of park trustees may make contracts for the improvements of the grounds, the erection of the necessary bridges and structures therein, and adopt rules for the protection, care, and government of the parks under its charge, and such rules, when approved by the legislativ…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.26 Power to incur liability

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The board of park trustees shall not incur any liability for park purposes beyond the amount of the funds levied therefor or appropriated to its order by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation for such purposes.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.27 Employees of board of park trustees

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The board of park trustees may employ such superintendents, landscape gardeners, and other employees as are necessary for the execution of its duties, and fix their salaries or compensation. Any such persons may be removed by the board at any time.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.28 Control of improvement of natural watercourses

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The board of park trustees shall have the entire management and control of all work of straightening, cleaning, deepening, or otherwise improving any natural watercourse, whether partly or wholly used for sewer purposes or not, within the city, may purchase, acquire, or condemn a…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.29 Bids required

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The board of park trustees, before entering into any contract for the performance of any work, the cost of which exceeds fifty thousand dollars, shall cause plans and specifications and forms of bids to be prepared, and when adopted by the board, shall have them printed for distr…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.30 Notice for proposals

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The board of park trustees shall not enter into any contract for work or supplies, where the estimated cost thereof exceeds fifty thousand dollars, without first giving thirty days' notice in one newspaper of general circulation in the municipal corporation that sealed proposals …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.31 Bond to accompany bids

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Each bid for a contract for the construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction of an improvement to be performed for the board of park trustees shall meet the requirements of section 153.54 of the Revised Code. Each bid concerning other work to be performed for t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.32 Bids shall be under seal

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Bids for work and supplies to be furnished the board of park trustees shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope and deposited with the clerk of the board, such envelope shall have indorsed thereon the nature of the bid, and all bids shall be opened at the time, date, and place speci…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.33 Awarding contracts

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The board of park trustees shall enter into the contract mentioned in section 755.29 of the Revised Code with the lowest responsible bidder. The board shall be the final judge as to who are the responsible bidders. Where the contract is for other than the construction, demolition…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.34 Reports and estimates

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The board of park trustees, on the first Monday of January each year, shall make a written report to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation of its proceedings, with a detailed statement of its receipts and expenditures during the year. The board shall at the prope…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.41 Vacation of unimproved and unused park lands

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When lands lying within the limits of a municipal corporation have been dedicated to or for the use of the public for parks or park lands, and where such lands have remained unimproved and unused by the public for a period of twenty-one years and there appears to be little or no …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.42 Sale of unused park lands at public auction

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Upon the vacation of parks or park lands as provided by section 755.41 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall offer such lands for sale at a public auction. No lands shall be sold until the legislative authority of such municipal corporati…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 755.43 Procedure where reversionary interests established upon vacation of land

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When real estate that has been dedicated to or for the use of the public for parks or park lands is vacated by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation pursuant to section 755.41 of the Revised Code, and where reversionary interests have been set up in the event of th…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 757.01 Municipal band or orchestra - tax to maintain - submission of question to electors

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The taxing authority of any municipal corporation, as defined by section 5705.01 of the Revised Code, shall, upon the filing of a petition therefor, signed by the qualified electors of such municipal corporation equal in number to ten per cent of the votes cast for governor in th…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 757.02 Certification of resolution to board of elections - conduct of election

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Upon the filing of a petition as provided by section 757.01 of the Revised Code, the taxing authority of the municipal corporation shall pass a resolution providing for the submission of the question of levying a tax as provided by such section at the next following municipal ele…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 757.03 Payments to symphony associations, area arts councils, art museums or other similar organizations by board of education

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As used in sections 757.03 to 757.08 of the Revised Code, "area arts council" means an arts council or other organization the purpose of which is to foster and encourage the development of the arts, including but not limited to, literature, theater, music, the dance, painting, sc…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 757.04 Certification to board of education or educational service center governing board

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No symphony association, area arts council, art museum, or other similar organization may receive any of the payments provided for in section 757.03 of the Revised Code until the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization, by a proper resolution adopted by its boa…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 757.05 Payments to symphony association, area arts council or organization by city or county

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In any city or county in which there is a symphony association, an area arts council, an art museum, or other similar organization which is incorporated, organized, and operated in the manner and for the purposes stated in section 757.03 of the Revised Code, such city or county, …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 757.06 Certification to the city or county

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No symphony association, area arts council, art museum, or other similar organization may receive any of the payments provided for in section 757.05 of the Revised Code until the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization, by a proper resolution adopted by its boa…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 757.07 Annual filing of resolutions unnecessary

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After any symphony association, area arts council, art museum, or other similar organization has once filed with the board of education, the city controller, or the board of county commissioners the resolutions provided for in sections 757.03 to 757.06 of the Revised Code, it nee…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 757.08 Continuation of payments

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So long as any symphony association, area arts council, art museum, or other similar organization does all the things it agreed to do as considerations for the benefits to be received by it under sections 757.03 to 757.08 of the Revised Code, or is able, willing, and ready to per…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 757.21 Compensation to private company for maintaining free museum

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The legislative authority of each city may appropriate from its general funds, or may levy and collect a tax, not to exceed one fourth of one mill on each dollar of the taxable property of the city each year, and pay it to a private corporation or association not for profit maint…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.01 Cemeteries and crematories

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Any municipal corporation may provide public cemeteries and crematories for burial or incineration of the dead and regulate public and private cemeteries and crematories. Any cemetery established by a municipal corporation shall register with the division of real estate in the de…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.02 Cemeteries outside corporate limits

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The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may provide a place for the interment of the dead outside of the corporate limits, and the police powers of the municipal corporation shall extend to those places.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.03 Powers of legislative authority as to cemeteries

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The legislative authority of a municipal corporation owning a public burial ground or cemetery, whether within or without the municipal corporation, may pass and provide for the enforcement of ordinances necessary to carry into effect sections 759.02 to 759.48, inclusive, of the …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.04 Power to sell portions of cemetery

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The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may sell any portion of the cemetery grounds owned by it and not used for the burial of the dead, which grounds are unsuitable for burial purposes, and may purchase with the proceeds thereof other suitable lands lying contiguou…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.05 Burials prohibited within municipal corporation

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The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may prohibit the interment of the dead within the municipal corporation limits, and, for the purpose of making such prohibition effective, may impose proper fines and penalties and cause any body, interred contrary thereto, to …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.06 Bond of officer to secure cemetery funds

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The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may require the officer authorized to receive and disburse moneys arising from the sale of lots, or otherwise, and to invest, manage, and control the property and funds in his hands, to give a bond to the municipal corporation …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.07 Conveyance of lands abandoned for cemetery purposes

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When a municipal corporation holds land within its limits which has been used as a cemetery or burial ground, in which land interments have been prohibited by the municipal corporation, and it has been decided to remove the bodies interred therein, the legislative authority there…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.08 Title vested in municipal corporation

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The title to and right of possession of public cemeteries and burial grounds located within a municipal corporation and set apart and dedicated as public cemeteries or burial grounds, and grounds used as such by the public but not dedicated, except those owned or under the care o…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.09 Duties of director of public service

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The director of public service shall take possession and charge, and have the entire management, control, and regulation of public burial grounds and cemeteries located in or belonging to the city, subject to its ordinances. The director may direct the laying of such grounds out …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.10 Institution of suits

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The director of public service shall, when necessary, institute suits in the name of the city to recover the possession of burial grounds, remove trespassers therefrom, and recover damages for injuries thereto or to any tombstone or monument therein. He shall see that all laws an…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.11 Bylaws and regulations

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The director of public service may make bylaws and regulations, not inconsistent with the ordinance of the city and the constitution and laws of this state, for the management and protection of the burial grounds and cemeteries under his control, and for the burial of the dead th…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.12 City may accept and maintain permanent fund for care of lots in cemeteries

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In the bylaws and regulations provided for by section 759.11 of the Revised Code, the director of public service shall declare the amount of money he will accept by agreement, gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise and hold as a permanent fund of the cemetery. He shall pledge the fa…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.13 Price of lots and terms of payment

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The director of public service shall determine the size and price of cemetery lots, the terms of payment therefor, and shall give to each purchaser a receipt, showing the amount paid and a pertinent description of the lots sold. Upon producing such receipt to the proper officer, …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.14 Sale of lots - laying off and embellishing of grounds - donations

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The director of public service shall have entire charge and control of receipts from the sale of cemetery lots, and of laying off and embellishing the grounds. He may receive donations by bequest, devise, deed of gift, or otherwise, or money or other property, the principal or in…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.15 Funds of cemeteries to be deposited - investment - payments

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The director of public service shall turn over to the legislative authority of the city property on hand under his control or held by him as a permanent fund, for cemetery purposes, or such money as may thereafter come to him for such purposes, and shall render a full statement t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.16 Appointment of clerk

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The director of public service shall appoint a clerk, and shall keep accurate minutes of all proceedings concerning cemeteries.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.17 Annual and quarterly report to legislative authority

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On the first Monday of January each year, or as soon thereafter as is practicable, the director of public service shall report in writing to the legislative authority of the city the number of cemetery lots sold, to whom sold, and the amount received therefor, during the year pre…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.18 Enlargement of grounds

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When, in his judgment , an enlargement of any burial or cemetery grounds becomes necessary, or grounds for additional cemeteries should be provided, the director of public service shall report such fact to the legislative authority of the city, and recommend such action as he dee…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 759.19 Transfer of village cemetery - powers and duties of township trustees

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In all cases in which the legislative authority of a village which has title to a cemetery fails to take proper care thereof, and the township in which the village is located desires to control such cemetery, the village may, by ordinance, transfer any real property acquired for …