Ohio · statute · Ohio Rev. Code ch. 719 · 10 active provisions
Any municipal corporation may appropriate, enter upon, and hold real estate within its corporate limits:(A) For opening, widening, straightening, changing the grade of, and extending streets, and all other public places, and for this purpose, the municipal corporation may appropriate the right of way across railway tra…
Any impacted city, as defined in division (C) of section 1728.01 of the Revised Code, in order to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities and to improve the economic welfare of the people of such impacted city, may appropriate, enter upon, and hold real estate within its corporate limits for either:(A) The…
In order to rehabilitate a building or structure that a municipal corporation determines to be a blighted property as defined in section 1.08 of the Revised Code, a municipal corporation may appropriate, in the manner provided in sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code, any such building or structure and the real…
In the appropriation of property for any of the purposes named in section 719.01 of the Revised Code, the municipal corporation may, when reasonably necessary, acquire property outside the limits of the municipal corporation.If real property so acquired is removed from the tax duplicate, the municipal corporation shall…
No land shall be purchased for public cemeteries within two hundred yards of a dwelling house without the consent, in writing, of the owner of the tract of land on which such house is situated. If the consent, in writing, of the owner of the tract of land on which such house is situated cannot be obtained, the municipa…
Whenever it is necessary in the construction and in the protection by any municipal corporation, of dams, reservoirs, and reservoir sites, for supplying water to itself and its inhabitants, to take or damage any cemetery, such municipal corporation, after such taking, shall have the same powers regarding the removal of…
The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall, whenever it is deemed necessary to appropriate property, pass a resolution declaring such intent, defining the purpose of the appropriation, and setting forth a pertinent description of the land and the estate or interest therein desired to be appropriated.
The mayor of a municipal corporation shall, immediately upon the passage of a resolution under section 719.04 of the Revised Code, declaring an intent to appropriate property, for which but one reading is necessary, cause written notice to be given to the owner of, person in possession of, or person having an interest…
Before or after the passage of an ordinance for opening a street or other public highway, any person may execute his bond, payable to the municipal corporation to the acceptance of its legislative authority, conditioned for the payment of all damage which may be assessed by a jury. Such bond shall be good in law, and i…
When application is made to a common pleas court by a city to assess the amount of compensation to be paid by the city to the owner or owners of real property, the court shall give preference to all proceedings under such application over all other civil cases, except proceedings under sections 119.01 to 119.13, inclus…