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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. § 715.18 Department of purchase, construction, and repair
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Any municipal corporation may establish and furnish the necessary equipment for a department of purchase, construction, and repair. Such department shall be under the management of the director of public service, who shall purchase all material, supplies, tools, machinery, and eq…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.19 Establish and care for streets
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Any municipal corporation may lay off, establish, plat, grade, open, widen, narrow, straighten, extend, improve, keep in order and repair, light, clean, and sprinkle, streets, alleys, public grounds, places and buildings, wharves, landings, docks, bridges, viaducts, and market pl…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.20 Shade trees
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Any municipal corporation may regulate the planting, trimming, and preservation of shade trees in streets, alleys, and public grounds and places, and may provide for the planting, removal, trimming, and preservation of such trees and other ornamental shrubbery.
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.21 Power to acquire, hold, lease, sell, or donate lands
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Any municipal corporation may hold, improve, protect, and preserve public grounds, parks, park entrances, free recreation centers, and boulevards.Such municipal corporation may acquire by purchase, lease, with privilege of purchase, gift, devise, condemnation, or otherwise, and h…

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.211 Assisting park districts

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The legislative authority of any municipal corporation may make contributions of moneys, supplies, equipment, office facilities, or other personal property or services to any board of park commissioners established pursuant to Chapter 1545. of the Revised Code for the expenses of…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.22 Vehicles and use of streets

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Any municipal corporation may:(A) Regulate the use of carts, drays, wagons, hackney coaches, omnibuses, automobiles, and carriages kept for hire or livery stable purposes;(B) License and regulate the use of the streets by persons who use vehicles, or solicit or transact business …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.23 Impounding and sale of fowl or animals

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Except as otherwise provided in section 955.10 of the Revised Code regarding dogs, a municipal corporation may regulate, restrain, or prohibit the running at large, within the municipal corporation, of cattle, horses, swine, sheep, goats, geese, chickens, or other fowl or animals…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.24 Regulation of street vendors

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Any municipal corporation may regulate, license, or prohibit the selling of goods, merchandise, or medicines on the streets.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.25 Width of tires and rate of transportation

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Any municipal corporation may prescribe the width of the tires of wagons, carts, drays, and other vehicles used in the transportation of persons from one part of such municipal corporation to another, or used in the transportation of coal, wood, stone, lumber, iron, or other arti…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.26 Regulating erection, inspection, and numbering of buildings

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Any municipal corporation may: (A) Regulate the erection of buildings or other structures and the sanitary condition thereof, the repair of, alteration in, and addition to buildings or other structures;(B) Provide for the inspection of buildings or other structures and for the re…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.261 Recovering total cost of correcting hazardous condition of building or abating nuisance

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(A) As used in this section: (1) "Total cost" means any costs incurred due to the use of employees, materials, or equipment of the municipal corporation or its agent pursuant to division (E) of this section, any costs arising out of contracts for labor, materials, or equipment, a…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.262 Preference of appeals on municipal building code violations

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In an appeal from an order made under authority of division (A) or (B) of section 715.26 of the Revised Code, a provision of a municipal charter which has the same or a similar purpose as such divisions, or an ordinance or regulation adopted under such authorities, and in any app…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.263 Tax credit for abating building nuisance on tax foreclosed property

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(A) As used in this section:(1) "Immediate family" means a spouse who resides in the same household, and children.(2) "Nuisance" means a building that is structurally unsafe, unsanitary, or not provided with adequate safe egress; that constitutes a fire hazard, is otherwise dange…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.27 Regulating fences, signs, other structures, electrical equipment, specialty contractors

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(A) Any municipal corporation may: (1) Regulate the erection of fences, billboards, signs, and other structures, within the municipal corporation, and provide for the removal and repair of insecure billboards, signs, and other structures; (2) Regulate the construction and repair …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.28 Market places

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Any municipal corporation may:(A) Establish, erect, maintain, protect, and regulate public halls, public buildings, and market houses;(B) Establish, maintain, protect, and regulate a market place, by and with the consent of the abutting property owner, or his lessee , on any stre…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.29 Sanitation

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Any municipal corporation may:(A) Regulate by ordinance the use, control, repair, and maintenance of buildings used for human occupancy or habitation, the number of occupants, and the mode and manner of occupancy, for the purpose of insuring the healthful, safe, and sanitary envi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.30 Injunction may be granted for failure to comply

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No person shall erect, construct, alter, repair, or maintain any residential building, office, mercantile building, workshop, or factory, including a public or private garage, or other structure, within any municipal corporation wherein ordinances or regulations have been enacted…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.31 Wharves and docks

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Any municipal corporation may:(A) Regulate public landings, public wharves, public docks, public piers, and public basins;(B) Fix the rates of landing, wharfage, dockage, and the use of such facilities.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.32 License and regulation of ferries

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Any municipal corporation shall have the exclusive power to:(A) Establish, regulate, and license ferries from such municipal corporation, or any landing therein, to the opposite shore, or from one part of the municipal corporation to another;(B) Impose such reasonable terms and r…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.33 Streetcars

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Any municipal corporation may require the employment of conductors on all streetcars within such municipal corporation.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.34 Hot water and steam heating

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Any municipal corporation may use, or by ordinance grant, for periods not exceeding twenty-five years, the use of its streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, and public places to lay pipes, conduits, manholes, drains, and other necessary fixtures and appliances under the surface thereof…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.35 Movable and rolling roads

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Any municipal corporation may use or grant, for periods not exceeding twenty-five years, the use of its streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, and public places for the construction of inclined movable or rolling roads, for the conveying or moving of freight, vehicles, animals, and oth…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.36 United States mail subways

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Any municipal corporation may, use, or by ordinance grant to any person, company, or corporation, for periods not exceeding twenty-five years, the use of its streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, and public places for the purpose of constructing, laying, maintaining, and operating sub…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.37 Contagious diseases

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Any municipal corporation may:(A) Provide for the public health;(B) Secure the inhabitants of the municipal corporation from the evils of contagious, malignant, and infectious diseases;(C) Purchase or lease property or buildings for pesthouses;(D) Erect, maintain, and regulate pe…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.38 Maintenance of physician - tax levy - election - anticipatory notes

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The legislative authority of a municipal corporation which, for any reason, is inaccessible from the mainland at some time of the year, may provide for the maintenance of a physician when, in the opinion of a majority of the members of the legislative authority, it is necessary f…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.39 Assistance by board of county commissioners authorized

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Upon the appointment by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation of a resident physician as authorized by section 715.38 of the Revised Code to act as the physician, the board of county commissioners may pay to the treasurer of such municipal corporation a sum not to …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.40 Watercourses and sewers

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Any municipal corporation may open, construct, and keep in repair, sewage disposal works, treatment plants, and sewage pumping stations, together with facilities and appurtenances necessary and proper therefor, sewers, drains, and ditches, and establish, repair, and regulate wate…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.41 Drainage in municipal corporations

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Any municipal corporation may drain by artificial means, at the expense of the municipal corporation, any lot or land within such municipal corporation on which water at any time accumulates and becomes stagnant, in a way prejudicial to the public health, convenience, or welfare …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.42 Public conveniences

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Any municipal corporation may establish, maintain, and regulate public baths and bathhouses, drinking fountains, water troughs, public toilet stations, and municipal lodging houses.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.43 Refuse disposal

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Any municipal corporation may provide for the collection and disposition of sewage, garbage, ashes, animal and vegetable refuse, dead animals, and animal offal, and may establish, maintain, and regulate plants for the disposal thereof.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.44 Power to abate nuisance and prevent injury

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A municipal corporation may:(A) Abate any nuisance and prosecute in any court of competent jurisdiction, any person who creates, continues, contributes to, or suffers such nuisance to exist;(B) Regulate and prevent the emission of dense smoke, prohibit the careless or negligent e…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.45 Weights and measures

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Any municipal corporation may regulate the weighing and measuring of hay, wood, coal, and other articles exposed for sale, and provide for the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of weights, measures, implements, and appliances for measuring and weighing, which are imperfect or …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.46 Inspection

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Any municipal corporation may provide for the inspection of spirits, oils, milk, breadstuffs, meats, fish, cattle, milk cows, sheep, hogs, goats, poultry, game, vegetables, and all food products.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.47 Power to fill or drain lots and remove obstructions - resolutions

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A municipal corporation may fill or drain any lot or land within its limits on which water at any time becomes stagnant, remove all putrid substances from any lot, and remove all obstructions from culverts, covered drains, or private property, laid in any natural watercourse, cre…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.48 Regulation by license of shows and games - trafficking in tickets - exceptions

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Any municipal corporation may:(A) Regulate, by license or otherwise, restrain, or prohibit theatrical exhibitions, public shows, and athletic games, of whatever name or nature, for which money or other reward is demanded or received;(B) Regulate, by license or otherwise, the busi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.49 Preservation of peace and protection of property - noise ordinance

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(A) Any municipal corporation may prevent riot, gambling, noise and disturbance, and indecent and disorderly conduct or assemblages, preserve the peace and good order, and protect the property of the municipal corporation and its inhabitants.(B) Anytime a noise ordinance of a mun…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.50 Police or sanitary regulations for property outside municipal corporation limits

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A municipal corporation owning and using lands beyond its limits for a municipal purpose may provide, by ordinance or resolution, all needful police or sanitary regulations for the protection of such property and may prosecute violations thereof in the municipal court of such mun…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.51 Billiards, pool, and gambling

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Any municipal corporation may:(A) Regulate billiard and pool tables, nine or ten pin alleys or tables, and shooting and ball alleys;(B) Authorize the destruction of instruments or devices used for the purpose of gambling.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.52 Houses of ill fame

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Any municipal corporation may:(A) Suppress and restrain disorderly houses and houses of ill fame;(B) Provide for the punishment of all lewd and lascivious behavior in the streets and other public places.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.53 Taverns

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Any municipal corporation may regulate taverns and other houses for public entertainment.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.54 Vicious literature

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Any municipal corporation may restrain and prohibit the distribution, sale, and exposure for sale of books, papers, pictures, and periodicals or advertising matters of an obscene or immoral nature.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.55 Liability arising from enforcement of invalid adult entertainment ordinance

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(A) As used in this section, "adult entertainment establishment" has the same meaning as in section 2907.39 of the Revised Code. (B) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may request the attorney general to provide legal guidance and assistance in developing, formu…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.59 Hospitals for diseased prisoners

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The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may provide suitable hospitals for the reception and care of such prisoners as are diseased or disabled, under such regulations and the charge of such persons as the legislative authority directs.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.60 Regulation of explosives

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Any municipal corporation may regulate the transportation, keeping, and sale of gunpowder and other explosives or dangerous combustibles and materials, and provide or license magazines therefor.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.61 Regulation and licensing of certain occupations and premises

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Any municipal corporation may regulate and license manufacturers and dealers in explosives, chattel mortgage and salary loan brokers, peddlers, public ballrooms, scavengers, intelligence officers, billiard rooms, bowling alleys, livery, sale, and boarding stables, dancing or ridi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.62 Evidence

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In the trial of any action brought under section 715.61 of the Revised Code, the fact that any party to such action represented himself as engaged in any business or occupation, for the transaction of which a license is required, or as the keeper, proprietor, or manager of the th…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.63 License power - exception

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Any municipal corporation may license exhibitors of shows or performances of any kind, hawkers, peddlers, auctioneers of horses and other animals on the highways or public grounds of the municipal corporation, vendors of gunpowder and other explosives, taverns, houses of public e…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.64 Licensing transient dealers and solicitors

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Any municipal corporation may license transient dealers, persons who temporarily open stores or places for the sale of goods, wares, or merchandise, and each person who, on the streets or traveling from place to place about such municipal corporation, sells, bargains to sell, or …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.65 Licensing of advertising mediums and matters

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Any municipal corporation may license bill-posters, advertising sign painters, bill distributors, card tackers, and advertising matter of any article or compound which has not been manufactured or compounded within such municipal corporation. In granting such license the legislat…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.66 Vehicle license for undertakers - money to be used for street repairs

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Any municipal corporation may license the owners of vehicles used for the transportation of persons or property, for hire, and all undertakers and owners of hearses.The owners of such vehicles may be made liable for the breach of any ordinance regulating the conduct of the driver…