Title [5] V TOWNSHIPS
- Chapter 501: ORIGINAL SURVEYED TOWNSHIPS
- 501.01 Board of education to supervise school and ministerial lands.
- 501.02 Board of education to enforce laws.
- 501.03 Auditor of state and department of administrative services - duties.
- 501.04 Sale or disposition of school lands.
- 501.041 Sale of school lands by divestiture committee.
- 501.05 [Repealed].
- 501.06 Lands appropriated by congress for support of schools and ministerial purposes.
- 501.07 Appraisal and sale of lands.
- 501.08 Substantial improvements added at expense of lessee.
- 501.09 Renewable lease.
- 501.10 Sale or lease anew of lands in default of rent payment.
- 501.101 [Repealed].
- 501.11 Certification of proceedings.
- 501.12 No sale for less than appraised value.
- 501.13 [Repealed].
- 501.14 State policy.
- 501.15 to 501.63 [Repealed].
- Chapter 503: GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 503.01 Corporate powers and duties of civil township.
- 503.02 Township boundaries changed by partition or division.
- 503.03 Area of townships.
- 503.04 Notice of hearing - record of boundaries.
- 503.05 Adjustment of disputed boundaries.
- 503.06 Marking township boundary lines.
- 503.061 Highway signs indicating boundaries of township.
- 503.07 Conformity of boundaries.
- 503.08 Disposition of remainder of township - name.
- 503.09 Petition to erect new township excluding territory of municipal corporation.
- 503.10 Apportionment of indebtedness.
- 503.11 Division of funds on hand, credits, and properties.
- 503.12 Appointment of township officers.
- 503.13 Completion of proceedings.
- 503.14 Method of boundary change.
- 503.15 Boundary change if corporation located in two or more counties.
- 503.16 Change of name of township.
- 503.161 Change of township name election.
- 503.162 Election on name change procedure.
- 503.17 Boundary change effect on contracts.
- 503.18 Taxable property.
- 503.19 Manner of making assessment.
- 503.20 Divided parcels.
- 503.21 Payment of money to board of township trustees by county treasurer.
- 503.22 Election in new township.
- 503.23 [Repealed].
- 503.24 Vacancy in township office.
- 503.241 When township offices deemed vacant.
- 503.25 Notice to officers elected or appointed.
- 503.26 Certificate of oath to be returned and recorded.
- 503.27 Failure to accept office.
- 503.28 Delivery of records and property to successor - forfeiture.
- 503.29 Amended and Renumbered RC 503.53.
- 503.30 Street markers and house numbers in unincorporated areas.
- 503.31 Remnant of township within boundaries of municipal corporation.
- 503.40 Massage establishment definitions.
- 503.41 Regulation and registration of massage establishments and their employees.
- 503.42 Permits - licenses - regulations.
- 503.43 Application for permit to operate massage establishment.
- 503.44 Denial or revocation of permit.
- 503.45 Application for license as massager.
- 503.46 Denial or revocation of license.
- 503.47 Requirements of operation.
- 503.48 Proceedings of board.
- 503.49 Fees deposit and use.
- 503.50 Penalties.
- 503.51 Adult entertainment establishment definitions.
- 503.52 Adult entertainment establishment regulations.
- 503.53 Initiative petition on resolution regulating or restricting adult-oriented businesses.
- 503.54 [Repealed].
- 503.55 [Repealed].
- 503.56 [Repealed].
- 503.57 [Repealed].
- 503.58 [Repealed].
- 503.59 [Repealed].
- 503.60 Residency regulation of sex or child-victim offenders.
- 503.65 [Repealed].
- 503.99 [Repealed].
- Chapter 504: LIMITED HOME RULE GOVERNMENT
- 504.01 Procedure for adopting limited home rule government.
- 504.02 Election for adopting limited home rule government.
- 504.021 Board of township trustees.
- 504.03 Election for terminating limited home rule government.
- 504.04 Exercise of powers under limited home rule government.
- 504.05 Imposition of civil fines.
- 504.06 Citations for violation of township resolutions.
- 504.07 Answer to citation.
- 504.08 Enforcement of resolution.
- 504.09 Proceedings of township board.
- 504.10 Form and reading of resolutions.
- 504.11 Voting on resolutions.
- 504.12 Revision or amendment of resolutions.
- 504.13 Building and standard codes - effect of county adoption of building and standard codes.
- 504.14 Filing initiative and referendum petitions.
- 504.15 Law director of township.
- 504.151 Appointments by township law director.
- 504.16 Police protection.
- 504.17 Acts prior to establishment of limited home rule.
- 504.18 Supplying water or sewer services.
- 504.19 Adopting general plan of water supply or sewer services.
- 504.20 Construct, maintain, improve, repair, operate, and pay costs of water supply facilities or sewer improvements.
- 504.21 Rules governing soil erosion or water degradation from nonfarm development.
- Chapter 505: TRUSTEES
- 505.01 Board of township trustees - election and term.
- 505.011 Trustee may serve as volunteer fireman or policeman.
- 505.02 Bond of township trustees.
- 505.03 Additional or new bond.
- 505.031 Appointment of township administrator.
- 505.032 Powers and duties of township administrator.
- 505.04 Annual inventory.
- 505.05 Program recognizing outstanding employee performance.
- 505.06 Abatement of building nuisances.
- 505.07 Settlement of court action - zoning issue subject to referendum.
- 505.08 Emergency contracts.
- 505.09 Duty of trustees at elections.
- 505.10 Acceptance and disposition of property.
- 505.101 Contracts with state or other public agency.
- 505.102 Real property transactions with senior citizens' organization.
- 505.103 Model system of preferences for products mined or produced in Ohio and the United States and for Ohio-based contractors.
- 505.104 Exchange or transfer of real property without bidding.
- 505.105 Property recovered by police department.
- 505.106 Neglect or refuse to deposit property in possession of a person arrested.
- 505.107 Restoration of property to claimant or accused person.
- 505.108 Disposition of unclaimed property.
- 505.109 Payment of storage and selling expenses.
- 505.11 Leases of real property or mining rights in township.
- 505.12 Solid waste facilities.
- 505.13 Operation of scow or lighter.
- 505.14 Residence for physician - tax levy - election - anticipatory notes.
- 505.15 Airports, landing fields, or other air navigation facilities.
- 505.16 Harbor masters.
- 505.17 Regulations for engine noise and vehicle parking.
- 505.171 Drive-in theater screens.
- 505.172 Noise control.
- 505.173 Storage of junk motor vehicles.
- 505.18 Joint issue of bonds.
- 505.19 Annual meeting of trustees of divided township.
- 505.20 Tax for drilling oil or gas well.
- 505.21 Copy of Revised Code for township officers.
- 505.22 Volunteer fire department definitions.
- 505.23 Insurance for members of volunteer department - joint fire department.
- 505.24 Compensation of trustees.
- 505.241 Dues for township government association.
- 505.25 Additional compensation for certain trustees.
- 505.26 Additional powers of trustees.
- 505.261 Establishing township park.
- 505.262 Township buildings finance and construction.
- 505.263 Water supply improvement contracts.
- 505.264 Evaluating township buildings for energy conservation measures.
- 505.265 Issuing securities for payment of accrued liability to police and firemen's disability and pension fund.
- 505.266 Procedure for establishing or increasing concentrated animal feeding facility.
- 505.267 Lease-purchase agreements.
- 505.27 Collection, transfer, and disposal of solid wastes.
- 505.28 Creation of waste disposal district.
- 505.29 Tax levy for waste and leaf disposal service - service charge.
- 505.30 Liability for damages.
- 505.31 Collection of service charges - waste collection fund - use of fund.
- 505.32 Compensation of fiscal officer - bond.
- 505.33 Delinquent list certified to county auditor - collection.
- 505.34 Compounding or release of claims due from banks.
- 505.35 Expenditure of funds.
- 505.36 Bond issue for viaduct construction or improvement.
- 505.37 Fire protection services.
- 505.371 Joint fire district creation.
- 505.372 Bond of clerk of the board of fire district trustees.
- 505.373 Adoption of fire code.
- 505.374 Fire code violations.
- 505.375 Fire and ambulance district creation.
- 505.376 Bids on fire and ambulance district contracts.
- 505.38 Appointment of firefighting personnel.
- 505.381 Criminal records check.
- 505.39 Tax levy for fire protection.
- 505.391 Assessment of charge for false alarm from an automatic fire alarm system at a commercial establishment.
- 505.40 Bond issue for fire protection measures limited.
- 505.401 Issuing bonds for firefighting purposes.
- 505.41 Members of volunteer fire companies are township employees.
- 505.42 Fire equipment fund.
- 505.43 Police protection.
- 505.431 Resolution to provide police protection to other public entity.
- 505.432 Contract with port authority or Chautauqua assembly.
- 505.44 Contracts for ambulance service.
- 505.441 Renumbered RC 505.43.
- 505.442 [Repealed].
- 505.443 Renumbered RC 505.44.
- 505.45 Schooling of officers and firemen of fire department.
- 505.46 Township trustees may construct and maintain footbridges.
- 505.47 Payment of costs of footbridges - approval of tax levy required.
- 505.48 Township police district.
- 505.481 Joint township police district board.
- 505.482 Unincorporated territory may be added to district - contents of ballot.
- 505.49 Rules necessary for operation of township police district.
- 505.491 Police officer guilty in performance of official duty.
- 505.492 Hearing of charge against police officer.
- 505.493 Suspension of officer pending hearing.
- 505.494 Subpoena power.
- 505.495 Oaths - compelling testimony.
- 505.50 Equipment and buildings for police protection.
- 505.51 Police district tax levy.
- 505.511 Fee for false alarms resulting from malfunction of same commercial or residential security alarm system.
- 505.52 Police equipment fund.
- 505.53 Police district notes.
- 505.54 Additional training or skills for police personnel.
- 505.541 Parking enforcement unit.
- 505.55 Dissolution of township police district.
- 505.56 Excise tax on transactions by which lodging is furnished to transient guests.
- 505.57 Use of proceeds of lodging tax receipts by local school district.
- 505.58 Contributions to convention and visitors' bureaus from general fund.
- 505.60 Health insurance for township officers and employees.
- 505.601 Reimbursement of officers and employees for health care premiums.
- 505.602 Group life insurance for township officers and employees.
- 505.603 Benefits to officers and employees through a cafeteria plan.
- 505.61 Liability insurance for police personnel.
- 505.62 Appropriations for potential or pending annexation actions.
- 505.63 Liability insurance for firefighting personnel.
- 505.64 Authorizing use of township credit card.
- 505.66 Snow removal on public school property.
- 505.67 Voluntary motor vehicle decal registration program.
- 505.69 Acquire, rehabilitate, and develop rail property and rail service.
- 505.70 Financial assistance to and cooperate with other agencies for senior citizen services.
- 505.701 Community improvement corporations.
- 505.702 Neighborhood crime watch programs.
- 505.703 Funds to county office of economic development.
- 505.704 Participation and contribution to regional cooperation and improvement organization.
- 505.705 Appropriations for water or sewerage systems.
- 505.706 Money for providing and maintaining services and facilities for senior citizens.
- 505.707 Appropriations for organization serving community purpose.
- 505.71 Joint ambulance district.
- 505.72 Joint ambulance district employees.
- 505.721 Joint ambulance district - reasonable charges for use of services.
- 505.73 Model or standard building code.
- 505.74 Model or standard building code violations.
- 505.75 Township residential building code.
- 505.76 Availability of township residential building code.
- 505.77 Building prohibitions.
- 505.78 Effective date of building regulations.
- 505.79 Collection and disposal of tree leaves.
- 505.80 Encouraging economic development of township or area through promotion of tourism.
- 505.82 Emergency resolutions.
- 505.83, 505.831 [Repealed].
- 505.84 Reasonable charges for use of ambulance or emergency medical services.
- 505.85 Disposal, storage or impoundment of motor vehicles.
- 505.86 Removal, repair or securance of insecure, unsafe buildings or structures.
- 505.87 Abatement, control, or removal of vegetation, garbage, refuse, and other debris.
- 505.871 Removal of junk motor vehicle.
- 505.88 Special assessment upon facilities directly or indirectly benefiting from maintenance and improvement of waterways.
- 505.89 Curfew - violations.
- 505.90 [Repealed].
- 505.91 [Repealed].
- 505.92 [Repealed].
- 505.93 Prohibiting boxing matches or exhibitions.
- 505.94 Registration and regulation of transient vendors.
- 505.95 Regulating resale of tickets to public amusements.
- 505.99 Penalty.
- 505.991 Penalty - neglect or refuse to deposit property in possession of a person arrested.
- Chapter 507: CLERK
- 507.01 Township fiscal officer.
- 507.02 Deputy township fiscal officer.
- 507.021 Assistants to fiscal officer - compensation.
- 507.03 Bond.
- 507.04 Personal attendance at board meetings - request for copies of township records.
- 507.05 Books to be provided to fiscal officer.
- 507.051 Notifying board of elections of vacancies in office and boundary changes.
- 507.06 Oaths.
- 507.07 Detailed statement of receipts and expenditures.
- 507.08 Recording of bonds of constables.
- 507.09 Compensation of fiscal officer.
- 507.10 Payment of funds collected for joint township cemetery.
- 507.11 Officers and employees may incur obligations - payment of money.
- 507.99 [Repealed].
- Chapter 509: CONSTABLES
- 509.01 Designation of police constables.
- 509.02 Bond.
- 509.03 [Repealed].
- 509.04 Parking enforcement unit.
- 509.05 Powers and duties of police constables.
- 509.06 Aid of sheriff.
- 509.07 Return of process.
- 509.08 Time of receiving writ.
- 509.09 Return of not found.
- 509.10 Arrest on view or warrant - keep the peace.
- 509.11 Copy of process to be left with jailer.
- 509.12 Payment of moneys.
- 509.13 Forfeiture.
- 509.14 [Repealed].
- 509.15 Fees of constables.
- 509.16 [Repealed].
- Chapter 511: MEMORIAL BUILDINGS; HALLS; PARKS
- 511.01 Town hall.
- 511.02 Tax levy for town hall.
- 511.03 Control and leasing of hall, lodge, or recreational facility.
- 511.04 Procurement of site for town hall.
- 511.05 Improvement of building jointly by village and township.
- 511.06 Submission of question of tax to a vote.
- 511.07 Two-thirds vote necessary.
- 511.08 Petition to build memorial.
- 511.09 Memorial fund - application of fund - trustees.
- 511.10 Appointment of personnel - holidays - maintenance uniforms.
- 511.11 Acquisition of property.
- 511.12 Plans, specifications and contracts.
- 511.13 Interest in township contract prohibited - exception.
- 511.14 Commemorative tablets.
- 511.15 Memorial trustees.
- 511.16 Control and maintenance.
- 511.17 Rules and regulations.
- 511.18 Petition to organize park district.
- 511.181 Resolution to convert parks owned and operated by park district into parks owned and operated by township.
- 511.19 Board of park commissioners.
- 511.20 Report of board as to site and cost.
- 511.21 Notice of submission of question.
- 511.22 Form of ballot.
- 511.23 Powers and duties of park board.
- 511.231 Appraisal of park district property.
- 511.232 Law enforcement in park district.
- 511.233 Liability insurance.
- 511.234 Authorizing use of park district credit card.
- 511.235 Mutual aid contracts for law enforcement purposes.
- 511.236 Providing police services without a contract.
- 511.24 Appropriating land and materials for park purposes.
- 511.241 Exchange of real property with township.
- 511.25 Sale and disposal of park lands.
- 511.26 Disposition of money from sale of park lands.
- 511.27 Tax levy to defray expenses of park district.
- 511.28 Submission of tax levy - form of ballot.
- 511.29 Collection of tax - bond issue.
- 511.30 Issuance of revenue securities.
- 511.31 Obligations of park board.
- 511.32 Improvement of public parks, squares, and grounds.
- 511.33 Appropriations and tax levy.
- 511.34 Care and maintenance of parks - tax levy.
- 511.35 Construction and meaning.
- 511.36 Sale of public grounds for park purposes to annexing municipality.
- 511.37 Contributions of property or funds to park districts with overlapping territory.
- 511.99 Penalty.
- Chapter 513: HOSPITALS; JOINT HOSPITAL DISTRICTS
- 513.01 Tax for hospital purposes.
- 513.02 Compensation - annual report - unauthorized payment.
- 513.03 Exemption from tax levy.
- 513.04 Certification by county auditor of amount collected from levy.
- 513.05 Agreement with nonprofit corporation or municipality for the erection and management of hospital.
- 513.06 Submission of question to electors.
- 513.07 Joint township district hospital board.
- 513.071 Municipal participation in formation of joint township district hospital board.
- 513.08 Agreement for participation in construction and maintenance of municipal hospital - bond issue submitted to electors.
- 513.081 Agreement with county hospital commission.
- 513.09 Contributions by district - appropriation - tax levy.
- 513.10 District or county representatives on municipal hospital board.
- 513.11 Contiguous township may join with municipal hospital.
- 513.12 Issuance of bonds.
- 513.13 Submission of tax levy for operation of hospital facilities.
- 513.14 Advertisement of proposed question.
- 513.15 Title and interest - appropriation of lands - devise - bequest.
- 513.16 Board of hospital governors.
- 513.17 Operation of joint township general hospital.
- 513.171 Lease of hospital to charitable organization.
- 513.18 Contiguous township may become part of joint township hospital district.
- 513.19 When code sections apply.
- Chapter 515: LIGHTING
- 515.01 Lighting unincorporated districts.
- 515.02 Petition for lighting.
- 515.03 Contents and effect of petition - lighting district limitations.
- 515.04 Notice of petition.
- 515.05 Hearing procedures.
- 515.06 Number of lights specified by board of township trustees.
- 515.07 Notice to bidders - acceptance and rejection.
- 515.08 Contract with successful bidder to furnish artificial lighting - assessments.
- 515.081 Contract for lighting - petition for discontinuance.
- 515.09 Increase in number of lights.
- 515.10 Inspectors.
- 515.11 Certificate by trustees to county auditor - assessments.
- 515.12 Compensation of officers - additional personnel.
- 515.13 Combined contract.
- 515.15 Relocation of overhead cables, wires, equipment.
- 515.16 Petition to relocate overhead wires, cables, and equipment.
- Chapter 517: CEMETERIES
- 517.01 Acquisition or appropriation of land.
- 517.02 Public road to cemetery.
- 517.03 Levy and taxes for expenses.
- 517.04 Vote on establishment of cemetery.
- 517.05 Notice of election - ballots.
- 517.06 Cemetery plat.
- 517.07 Sale of cemetery lots.
- 517.071 Rules governing product of fetal death.
- 517.072 Reinterment or disinterment of product of fetal death.
- 517.08 Expenditure of proceeds - exception.
- 517.09 No levy on lots.
- 517.10 Title to certain burial grounds vested in board of township trustees.
- 517.11 Care of cemetery.
- 517.12 Regulating hours of access to cemeteries.
- 517.13 Additions to cemetery grounds.
- 517.14 Public cemetery on township lines - joint township cemetery.
- 517.15 Cemetery endowment fund.
- 517.16 to 517.18 [Repealed].
- 517.19 Tax levy for buildings upon grounds of cemetery - bond issue.
- 517.20 Appointment of directors of township cemetery.
- 517.21 Abandonment or discontinuance of cemetery - removal of bodies and stones.
- 517.22 Public sale of cemetery.
- 517.23 Disinterment of body buried in cemetery.
- 517.24 Form of application for disinterment.
- 517.25 Writ of mandamus.
- 517.26 Removal of dead.
- 517.27 Transfer of cemeteries to board of township trustees.
- 517.28 Abandonment of cemetery owned by municipal corporation.
- 517.29 Neglect of order by municipal corporation shall cause execution sale.
- 517.30 Trustees may erect monument commemorating members of armed forces.
- 517.31 Care of monument.
- 517.32 Enclosure of abandoned cemetery.
- 517.99 [Repealed].
- Chapter 519: TOWNSHIP ZONING
- 519.01 Township zoning - agriculture defined.
- 519.02 Board of township trustees may regulate location, size and use of buildings and lands in unincorporated territory.
- 519.021 Planned-unit development regulations.
- 519.022 Prior planned-unit development regulations.
- 519.03 Adoption of resolution of intention to proceed with township zoning.
- 519.04 Township zoning commission.
- 519.05 Recommendations of zoning plan by commission - powers and duties of commission.
- 519.06 Public hearings on recommendations - notice.
- 519.07 Proposed zoning resolution to county or regional planning commission - approval - public hearing if resolution disapproved - certification to township trustees.
- 519.08 Public hearing on zoning plan.
- 519.09 Changes in text or maps - second public hearing.
- 519.10 Trustees to vote upon adoption of resolution.
- 519.11 Zoning plan to be submitted to electors - majority vote required for approval.
- 519.12 Zoning amendments.
- 519.121 Ratification of zoning amendments.
- 519.122 Statute of limitation on procedural challenges.
- 519.13 Township board of zoning appeals.
- 519.14 Powers of township board of zoning appeals.
- 519.141 Conditional zoning certificates for surface mining activities.
- 519.15 Rules, meetings and procedures of board.
- 519.16 Enforcement of zoning regulations - township zoning inspector.
- 519.161 Township zoning inspector's bond.
- 519.17 Zoning certificate required.
- 519.171 Architectural review board authorized - standards and procedures.
- 519.18 Township regulations not applicable within municipal corporations - exception.
- 519.19 Nonconforming use of buildings and land not affected by zoning.
- 519.20 Outdoor advertising classified as business use.
- 519.21 Powers not conferred on township zoning commission by chapter.
- 519.211 Limits on township zoning power - telecommunications towers.
- 519.212 Location of permanently sited manufactured home.
- 519.213 Township small wind farm zoning regulations.
- 519.22 County rural zoning regulations to take precedence.
- 519.23 Prohibition against violating resolution.
- 519.24 Actions instituted to prevent violations of zoning regulations - special counsel.
- 519.25 Township zoning plan may be repealed - procedure.
- 519.99 Penalty.
- Chapter 521: PRIVATE SEWAGE COLLECTION TILES
- 521.01 Maintenance and repair private sewage collection tiles.
- 521.02 Petition for maintenance and repair private sewage collection tiles.
- 521.03 Notice of hearing on petition.
- 521.04 Hearing on petition.
- 521.05 Contracts for maintenance and repair private sewage collection tiles.
- 521.06 Special assessments for maintenance and repair private sewage collection tiles.
- 521.07 Collecting and disposing of assessments.
- 521.08 [Repealed].
- 521.09 [Repealed].
- 521.10 to 521.13 [Repealed].
- 521.14 to 521.21 [Repealed].