Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Park districts may be created which include all or a part of the territory within a county, and the boundary lines of such district shall be so drawn as not to divide any existing township or municipal corporation within such county.
Effective: August 22, 1995 Latest Legislation: House Bill 99 – 121st General Assembly Application for the creation of a park district shall be made to the probate judge of the county within which the district is to be located. Such application shall either be signed by a majority of the electors residing within the proposed […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Upon the filing of the application provided for in section 1545.02 of the Revised Code, the probate judge shall fix a time for the hearing of such application which shall not be less than twenty nor more than forty days subsequent to […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly At a hearing on an application for the creation of a park district, evidence may be taken as in other civil cases in the probate court, and the probate judge shall hear all arguments for and against the creation of such district. […]
Effective: September 13, 2022 Latest Legislation: House Bill 140 – 134th General Assembly (A) Any township park district created pursuant to section 511.18 of the Revised Code that includes park land located outside the township in which the park district was established may be converted under the procedures provided in this section into a park […]
Effective: April 12, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 444 – 133rd General Assembly (A) Upon the creation of a park district, the probate judge shall appoint three commissioners who shall take office immediately and whose terms shall expire one, two, and three years, respectively, from the first day of January next after the date of […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Any park commissioner may be removed at the discretion of the probate judge, either upon complaint filed with such judge or upon his own motion. No such removal shall be made without giving such commissioner not less than ten days’ notice and […]
Effective: September 28, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 509 – 129th General Assembly The commissioners appointed in accordance with section 1545.05 or pursuant to section 1545.041 of the Revised Code shall constitute the board of park commissioners of the park district. Such board shall be a body politic and corporate, and may sue and be […]
Effective: September 29, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 59 – 130th General Assembly The board of park commissioners of any park district may procure and pay all or any part of the cost of group insurance policies that may provide benefits for hospitalization, surgical care, major medical care, disability, dental care, eye care, medical care, […]
Effective: November 2, 2018 Latest Legislation: House Bill 312 – 132nd General Assembly (A) Not later than three months after the effective date of this amendment, a board of park commissioners of a park district that holds a credit card account on the effective date of this amendment shall adopt a written policy for the […]
Effective: November 25, 1971 Latest Legislation: House Bill 595 – 109th General Assembly The board of park commissioners shall compile and publish reports and information relating to the park district and to the proceedings and functions of the board. The board shall keep an accurate and permanent public record of all its proceedings.
Effective: March 22, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 522 – 132nd General Assembly Notwithstanding division (C)(1)(b) of section 9.03 of the Revised Code, the board of park commissioners of a park district may use public funds to publish, advertise, or otherwise communicate information regarding activities related to a permit issued to the park district under […]
Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly (A) The board of park commissioners shall adopt such bylaws and rules as the board considers advisable for the preservation of good order within and adjacent to parks and reservations of land, and for the protection and preservation of the parks, parkways, […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The board of park commissioners may contract for a term not exceeding three years, upon such terms as the board deems expedient, with any private corporation or association not for profit maintaining a museum of natural history in any county within which […]
Effective: October 20, 1972 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 247 – 109th General Assembly The board of park commissioners may acquire lands either within or without the park district for conversion into forest reserves and for the conservation of the natural resources of the state, including streams, lakes, submerged lands, and swamplands, and to those ends […]
Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, if the board of park commissioners finds that any lands that it has acquired are not necessary for the purposes for which they were acquired by the board, it may sell and […]
Effective: January 1, 2004 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 124th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, “felony” has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B) The employees that the board of park commissioners designates for that purpose may exercise all the powers of police officers within and […]
Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly The board of park commissioners of a park district may enter into contracts with one or more townships, township police districts, joint police districts, municipal corporations, or county sheriffs of this state, with one or more township park districts created pursuant to […]
Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly The police force or law enforcement department of any park district may provide police protection to any county, municipal corporation, township, township police district, or joint police district of this state, to any other park district or any township park district created […]
Effective: August 4, 1961 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 30 – 104th General Assembly A board of park commissioners may by agreement with the legislative or other public authority in control of parks or park lands either within or without the park district, assume control of all or a portion of any existing parks or park […]
