Ohio · statute · Ohio Rev. Code ch. 4583 · 16 active provisions
(A) No person shall keep a ferry across a stream running through or bounding on a county in this state, without having obtained a license therefor from the court of common pleas of such county.(B) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than thirty dollars.
The person applying for a ferry license shall produce satisfactory evidence to the court of common pleas, by the affidavit of the applicant or otherwise, that he has given notice by advertisement posted in at least three public places in the township or neighborhood where a ferry is proposed to be kept, twenty days pri…
The court of common pleas, upon being satisfied that the notice required by section 4583.02 of the Revised Code, has been given, that a ferry is needed at such place, and that the applicant for a ferry license is a suitable person, may grant to such applicant a license to keep such ferry for the term of one year, on hi…
The person owning land on both sides of a stream where a ferry is proposed to be established shall have exclusive right of a license for a ferry at such place. When the opposit banks are owned by different persons, the right to the ferry shall be mutual. If such owner does not apply, the court of common pleas shall gra…
When a person applies for a renewal of his ferry license at the same place where he kept a ferry the preceding year, it may be granted or renewed without notice or petition.
When a ferry license expires in vacation, and the person obtaining it procures a renewal thereof, the renewal license shall include the time from the expiration of the former in addition to the time to which it shall extend in the future. The applicant shall pay a ratable proportion for the whole time therein mentioned…
A person may ferry passengers across a small stream in high water, and the court of common pleas may direct the clerk of the court of common pleas to give a person a permit for that purpose, when in its opinion, the stream is too small to justify the expense of a license.
At the time it grants a license to keep a ferry, the court of common pleas shall fix the rate of ferriages which the ferrykeeper may demand and receive for the transportation of persons and property. The clerk of the court of common pleas shall furnish a person taking out a license to keep a ferry with a list of the ra…
A person obtaining a license to keep a ferry shall provide and keep in complete repair a sufficient boat for the safe conveyance of persons and property. When the stream over which such ferry is kept is passable, he shall give due attendance from daylight in the morning until dark in the evening with sufficient hands t…
The county auditor shall inform against offenders and prosecute violations of sections 4583.01 to 4583.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Actions brought under sections 4583.01 to 4583.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be in the name of the state and the court taking cognizance thereof shall keep a record of all fines and forfeitures recovered thereunder. Sheriffs, constables, and other officers shall pay all moneys within thirty days after recei…
A keeper of a ferry demanding and receiving a higher rate or sum for ferriage than that allowed by the court of common pleas of the county in which such ferry is kept shall forfeit and pay for each offense not exceeding ten dollars, recoverable before a judge of a county court or judge of a municipal court having juris…
A person having obtained a ferry license, and failing or neglecting to perform the duties provided in section 4583.10 of the Revised Code, shall forfeit and pay for each offense not exceeding five dollars, to be recovered before a judge of a county court or judge of a municipal court having jurisdiction, by a person pr…
If the court of common pleas refuses to renew the license of a ferryman, he shall be exonerated from the penalties of sections 4583.01 to 4583.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by paying into the county treasury, previous to a prosecution being commenced against him, such sum, for the time which has elapsed between t…
Any officer neglecting or failing to comply with sections 4583.01 to 4583.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall forfeit and pay for each offense not exceeding fifty dollars, at the discretion of any judge before whom it may be recovered, for the use of the county.
County court judges, municipal court judges, and clerks of the courts of common pleas before whom the fines provided for in sections 4583.01 to 4583.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are recovered, shall present an accurate account thereof to the county auditor on or before the first day of June annually. Clerks shal…