Effective: March 20, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 291 – 132nd General Assembly Whenever in any city the legislative authority thereof, by ordinance, declares it essential to the interests of such city that a rapid transit commission, with the powers and duties described in sections 747.01 to 747.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code, be appointed, […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The board of rapid transit commissioners shall elect one of its members president and another vice-president, who in the absence or disability of the president shall perform his duties. The board shall make its own rules, but its meetings shall be open […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The board of rapid transit commissioners may employ clerks, engineers, superintendents, real estate experts, attorneys, and such other employees as are necessary. The chief engineer of the subdepartment of engineering of the department of public service may be employed as the chief […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The board of rapid transit commissioners shall have control and management of the construction of a rapid transit railway system, in, through, under, or upon any lands, including canal lands or parts thereof, together with the streets, alleys, and public ways outside […]
Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly The board of rapid transit commissioners shall have control of the expenditure of all moneys appropriated by the legislative authority of the city, received from the sale of bonds provided for in sections 747.01 to 747.13 of the Revised Code, or from […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The board of rapid transit commissioners may assess upon the abutting, adjacent, contiguous, or other specially benefited lots or lands in a city fifty per cent of the entire cost or expense connected with the construction of any boulevard or parkway authorized […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The taxing authority of a city may pay the preliminary expenses of the board of rapid transit commissioners and include the cost of such preliminary expenses as part of the cost of the rapid transit system for which bonds may be issued. […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The proceeds from the sale of bonds issued under section 747.07 of the Revised Code may be used by the board of rapid transit commissioners for the construction in, through, on, over, upon, or under any canal lands or property leased by […]
Effective: January 1, 1966 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 94 – 106th General Assembly The board of rapid transit commissioners may acquire by purchase or appropriate, enter upon, and hold any real estate or easement, partial or otherwise, therein, thereon, thereunder, or thereover, or any interest therein, both within and without the limits of the city, […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly All rentals, payments, and fees of every description and all other income, earnings, or revenues received from all persons, firms, and corporations for the use of depots, terminals, and railways, shall be kept in a separate and distinct fund, and after paying […]
Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly The board of rapid transit commissioners may grant to any corporation organized for street or interurban railway purposes the right to operate, by lease or otherwise, the depots, terminals, and railways mentioned in section 747.08 of the Revised Code upon such terms […]
Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly Whenever the board of rapid transit commissioners of a city declares by resolution that real estate of the city acquired for rapid transit purposes is not needed for the proper conduct and maintenance of such rapid transit system, such real estate may […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Whenever the board of rapid transit commissioners of a city declares by resolution that certain real estate of the city, acquired for rapid transit purposes and paid for out of rapid transit funds, is not needed for such purposes and is available […]
