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Title 55, Title 55. Roads-Highways-Bridges

46 chapters · 1,506 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 551,506 Ch 5534, Chapter 5534 | Memorial Highways336 Ch 5533, Chapter 5533 | Memorial Highways276 Ch 5505, Chapter 5505 | Highway Patrol Retire…88 Ch 5502, Chapter 5502 | Department of Public …77 Ch 5501, Chapter 5501 | Department Of Transpo…70 Ch 5555, Chapter 5555 | County Road Improvement51 Ch 5553, Chapter 5553 | County Roads - Establ…38 Ch 5591, Chapter 5591 | County Bridges35 Ch 5537, Chapter 5537 | Ohio Turnpike And Inf…33 Ch 5531, Chapter 5531 | Federal Cooperation30 Ch 5525, Chapter 5525 | Construction Contracts27 Ch 5589, Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating To …24 Ch 5577, Chapter 5577 | Load Limits On Highways23 Ch 5543, Chapter 5543 | Duties Of County Engineer21

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.25 Method of payment and proportion of costs - notice of assessments - apportionment by director of transportation
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When a joint board of county commissioners is proceeding upon a petition for a road improvement, the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement shall be apportioned and paid in the method specified in the petition, which may be any one of the methods provided by secti…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.26 Each county may choose different method of apportionment
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When a petition asking for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, or repair of a road in two or more counties, or along the county line between two or more counties in this state, is filed with the board of county commissioners of any one of said counties, the petitioners…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.27 Hearing for objections by joint board - notice
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As soon as the county engineer has transmitted to the several boards of county commissioners copies of the engineer's surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for the improvement, the joint board of county commissioners shall, except in cases of rec…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.30 Decision of joint board as to improvement

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After all questions relating to compensation and damages have been disposed of, the joint board shall decide whether it will proceed with the improvement, and if it decides to proceed therewith, it shall adopt the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifica…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.31 Procedure when improvement is in one county but within assessment distance of another

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When the proposed improvement is wholly within one county but within less than the legal assessment distance of the county line, and a petition is filed asking for such improvement, signed by fifty-one per cent of the persons to be specially assessed therefor, such improvement sh…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.32 Joint board may place portion of improvement wholly within one county

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A joint board of county commissioners has jurisdiction to provide for the construction of a portion a road improvement wholly within one county when it is necessary to avoid some place on the county line where the construction thereof would be unusually expensive or difficult. La…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.33 Bond issue by each county

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If bonds are issued in anticipation of the collection of taxes and assessments on account of the improvement, such bonds as are required shall be issued separately by each county to cover its proportion of the costs and expenses of such improvement.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.34 Single county procedure applicable to joint board

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Sections 5555.01 to 5555.72, inclusive, of the Revised Code relating to improvements wholly within one county shall when applicable apply to improvements authorized by a joint board of county commissioners.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.41 Apportionment of costs

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The compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement shall be apportioned and paid in any one of the following methods, as set forth in the petition described in section 5555.03 of the Revised Code:(A) Not less than thirty-five nor more than fifty per cent thereof shall be …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.42 Application to court if equitable assessment cannot be made

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A board of county commissioners desiring to construct a county road improvement, and finding that no equitable method of apportioning the compensation, damages, and expenses thereof is provided by section 5555.41 of the Revised Code, or finding that an equitable assessment cannot…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.43 All costs may be paid by county - agreement with townships to pay proportion

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The board of county commissioners, unless acting pursuant to section 5555.022 of the Revised Code, or the joint board of county commissioners, upon a unanimous vote, may order, without a petition, that all of a county's costs for constructing any improvement be paid out of the pr…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.44 Funds from which costs are paid

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When the compensation, damages, and expenses of an improvement, other than the portion thereof to be specially assessed against benefited real estate, are to be paid in part by the county and in part by the townships in which such improvement is situated, under an agreement betwe…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.45 Assessment of property separated from improvement by canal or railway

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If property is separated from an improvement by a canal, street or interurban railway, steam railway, or in any other similar manner, such property shall be regarded for the purpose of assessment under the road improvement laws as property abutting upon said improvement. Land own…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.46 Special duplicate of assessments - collection - installments

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All assessments, with interest accrued on them, made under sections 5555.01 to 5555.72 of the Revised Code shall be placed by the county auditor upon a special duplicate to be collected as taxes, and the principal of the assessments shall be payable in not more than forty semiann…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.47 Apportionment between owners of life estate and fee - appeal

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If any lands to be assessed are subject to a life estate, the assessment made therein shall, upon application of the life tenant to the board of county commissioners, be apportioned between the owner of the life estate and the owner of the fee in proportion to the value of their …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.48 Payment of county's share - tax levy

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The proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement to be paid by the county shall be paid out of any road improvement fund available therefor.For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of the county's proportion of the compensation, …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.49 Payment of township's share - tax levy

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For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of the proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement to be paid by the townships in which such improvement is situated in whole or in part, the board of county commissioners may levy a tax …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.50 Procedure for paying expenses applicable to joint county improvement

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Sections 5555.41 to 5555.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code apply to the proportion of the compensation, damages, and expenses of any improvement to be paid by any county or township if such improvement is authorized and constructed by any joint board of county commissioners, or …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.51 Issuing anticipation public obligations for road improvements

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The board of county commissioners, in anticipation of the collection of taxes, or taxes and assessments, for a road improvement or any part of a road improvement may issue and sell, or incur, public obligations of the county under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code to pay the estim…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.61 Contract for improvement not to exceed ten per cent above estimates

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After the board of county commissioners decides to proceed with the improvement, it shall do so in accordance with sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code. No contract for any improvement shall be awarded at a price more than twenty per cent in excess of the estimated cost.…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.66 Payment on estimates of materials delivered shall not exceed ninety per cent

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In addition to the estimates provided for by section 153.13 of the Revised Code, the county engineer may, under such conditions as he prescribes, allow and pay to a contractor a sum not exceeding ninety per cent of the value of material delivered by such contractor, and safely st…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.67 Limitation of time for completion - account of expenditures

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Each contract let under section 5555.61 of the Revised Code, shall contain a provision to the effect that if such contract is not completed within the time therein fixed, the county engineer shall, after the expiration of the time fixed for the completion of such contract, keep a…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.68 Completion of improvement on failure of contractor

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If, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, the contractor has not commenced his work within a reasonable time, does not carry such work forward with reasonable progress, is improperly performing his work, or has abandoned or failed to complete a contract entered int…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.69 Allowances and contracts for extra work

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(A) In case of an unforeseen contingency not contemplated by a contract, allowances for extra work may be made by a board of county commissioners, but the board must first enter into a new contract in writing for the extra work. In all cases in which the amount of the original co…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.72 Record of cost

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When the board of county commissioners constructs, reconstructs, widens, resurfaces, repairs, or improves a road by force account, and the estimated cost of the work, as defined in section 5543.19 of the Revised Code, exceeds three thousand dollars per mile, such board shall caus…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.81 Improvement of state line road

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When it is desired to construct, improve, or repair a road on or along the line between this state and an adjoining state, the board of county commissioners of any county of this state may join with the proper authorities of any adjoining state, or subdivision thereof, in such co…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.82 Assessment and levy of county proportion

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The proportion of the cost and expense of a road improvement on or along the line between this state and an adjoining state to be paid by any county in this state may be assessed or levied upon the property of this state by the board of county commissioners of such county in any …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.83 Powers of joint boards

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In exercising the powers enumerated and granted in sections 5555.81 and 5555.82 of the Revised Code, joint boards of county commissioners shall be governed and act in accordance with sections 5555.01 to 5555.72, inclusive, of the Revised Code, in so far as such sections are appli…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.91 Annual tax levy

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After the annual estimate for the county has been filed with the board of county commissioners by the county engineer, and the board has made such changes and modifications in the estimate as it deems proper, the board shall then make its levy, for the purposes set forth in the e…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.92 County maintenance and repair fund

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The board of county commissioners shall provide annually by taxation an adequate fund for the maintenance and repair of improved county highways. Such fund shall be provided by levies made under sections 5555.48, 5555.49, and 5555.91 of the Revised Code and sections amendatory th…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.93 Powers of board of county commissioners and board of township trustees

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Whenever the board of county commissioners or the board of township trustees may levy on the general duplicate of the county or of any township therein any portion of the cost and expense of the construction or improvement of any public road, and such levy is, in pursuance of suc…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.94 Repair of damaged roads

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The board of county commissioners shall repair all substantial damage caused to county or township roads by the transportation of materials or equipment over such roads for use in constructing or repairing any road by such board. Such repairs shall be made immediately upon the co…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.95 Tax levy for road repairs

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When one or more of the principal highways of a county, or part thereof, have been destroyed or damaged by freshet, landslide, wear of watercourses, or other casualty, or, by reason of the large amount of traffic or from neglect or inattention to repair, they have become unfit fo…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.96 How surplus of tax to be disposed of

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All money assessed and collected under section 5555.95 of the Revised Code, which remains in the hands of the county treasurer, unexpended and unappropriated, for a period of six months after the annual September settlement for the fiscal year during which the tax was collected, …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5555.97 County road districts

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The board of county commissioners of a county in which there is located municipal corporations or a part thereof, may, by resolution, create that portion of the county not included within the corporate limits of such municipal corporations into a road district, whenever in its op…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5557.01 Road defined

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As used in sections 5557.02 to 5557.07, inclusive, of the Revised Code, "road" includes any state or county roads, or the streets of any municipal corporation, or any part of such roads or streets, which forms a continuous road improvement.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5557.02 Road improvement into, within, or through municipal corporation

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The board of county commissioners may construct a proposed road improvement into, within, or through a municipal corporation, when the consent of the legislative authority of such municipal corporation has been first obtained. Such consent shall be evidenced by the proper action …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5557.03 Copy of surveys, profiles, and proposed proportion of cost filed with legislative authority

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If any part of the cost of the proposed road improvement is assumed by the municipal corporation, the board of county commissioners, after the approval by it of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications, shall cause a copy of the surveys, profile…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5557.04 Payment of estimated proportion of cost and expense of proposed road improvement

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A municipal corporation shall pay to the county treasurer its estimated proportion of the cost and expense of the proposed road improvement, as fixed in the agreement between the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and the board of county commissioners, out of any …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5557.05 Levying assessment against property benefited by road improvement

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The board of county commissioners may provide for a road improvement within a municipal corporation by levying against the property benefited by such improvement in the same manner as provided in sections 5555.41, 5555.45, 5555.46, and 5555.47 of the Revised Code. The municipal c…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5557.06 Bidding and contract for improvement

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The board of county commissioners shall receive bids and let the contract for improving such portion of a road as lies within the municipal corporation, in connection with the remainder of a proposed road improvement or separately, as the board determines. The total cost of such …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5557.07 Proceedings when greater width desired by municipal corporation

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Whenever any portion of a road to be improved by the board of county commissioners lies within the corporate limits of a municipal corporation, and the legislative authority of such municipal corporation desires to improve any part of the road within such municipal corporation to…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5557.08 Continuous road improvement through municipal corporation consent required

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The board of county commissioners may repair that portion of a county road extending into or through a municipal corporation, or a part of a county road and a municipal corporation's streets extending into or through a municipal corporation and forming a continuous road improveme…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5557.09 Road improvements boundary line of municipal corporation within side lines and adjoining road to be improved

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Whenever the boundary line of a municipal corporation is located within or along the side lines of a street, avenue, road, or other public highway and adjoins unincorporated territory, such municipal corporation may enter into an agreement with the board of county commissioners f…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5559.01 Maintenance of streets in newly platted territory

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Whenever any territory outside the limits of a municipal corporation having a planning commission or a platting commissioner, and within three miles of the corporate limits of such municipal corporation, has been platted into building lots and the plan of the streets approved by …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5559.02 Grading, draining, and paving of platted lands outside of municipal corporations

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The board of county commissioners may, as provided in sections 5559.03 to 5559.16, inclusive, of the Revised Code, improve by grading, draining, paving, constructing storm sewers, sidewalks, curbs, and gutters, any road, street, alley, or portion thereof lying within or bounded o…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5559.03 Petition by owners

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When a petition is presented to the board of county commissioners asking for the improvement as provided by section 5559.02 of the Revised Code, and specifying the general character of the improvement desired, signed by at least fifty-one per cent of the land or lot owners, resid…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5559.04 Persons not to be counted

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In determining whether the required number of persons have signed the petition asking for a road improvement, necessary to give the board of county commissioners jurisdiction thereof, the following persons shall not be counted, either for or against the improvement:(A) Owners of …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5559.05 County road improvement

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When the board of county commissioners has determined that any road, street, or alley, or portion thereof shall be improved as provided for in section 5559.02 to 5559.16, inclusive, of the Revised Code, such board shall, by a majority vote, determine the route and termini of such…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5559.06 Copies of plans - notice of hearing

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Upon the completion of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for an improvement under section 5559.02 of the Revised Code by the county engineer, the engineer shall transmit to the board of county commissioners copies of such surveys, plans, …