The board shall permit members of the public to express their objections to the consent decree or court-approved settlement agreement at the meeting. (2) Except as otherwise provided in division (E) of this section and subject to division (D) of this section, the township trustees of a township police district, by a two-thirds vote of the board or the joint police district board, by majority vote of its members, shall appoint a chief of police for the district, determine the number of patrol officers and other personnel required by the district, and establish salary schedules and other conditions of employment for the employees of the township or joint police district. Upon the withdrawal of any municipal corporation from a township fire district created under division (C) of this section, the county auditor shall ascertain, apportion, and order a division of the funds on hand, moneys and taxes in the process of collection except for taxes levied for the payment of indebtedness, credits, and real and personal property, either in money or in kind, on the basis of the valuation of the respective tax duplicates of the withdrawing municipal corporation and the remaining territory of the fire district. The board of township trustees may create a waste disposal district under sections 505.27 to 505.33 of the Revised Code, by a unanimous vote of the board and give notice thereof by a publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the township. (F)(1) The board shall prepare a written, dated statement certifying that the written notification required under this section was submitted and that final recommendations were selected regarding needed improvements and the costs of those improvements. (C) If the township fiscal officer does not retain general possession and control of the credit card account and presentation instruments related to the account including cards and checks, the following applies: (1) In a township that has adopted a limited home rule government under Chapter 504. of the Revised Code, the board shall appoint a compliance officer to perform the duties enumerated under division (D) of this section. While the system of preferences is in effect, no township officer or employee with the responsibility for doing so shall award a contract to which the system applies in violation of the preference system. Click for email; Call Us: 937-339-1492; Register for Newsletter; Get Newsletter; . An agreement entered into under this section shall include provisions governing all of the following: (A) The sharing and use of facilities, equipment, and materials necessary for road maintenance, repair, and improvement; (B) The use of township and municipal employees for purposes of the agreement; (C) The payment of costs associated with the maintenance, repair, and improvement of roads conducted under the agreement; (D) Any other matter determined to be necessary for purposes of implementing and executing the agreement. (b) "Scrap metal processing facility" has the same meaning as in section 4737.05 of the Revised Code. (c) The person meets rehabilitation standards established in rules adopted under division (E) of this section. As used in this section, "Chautauqua assembly" has the same meaning as in section 4511.90 of the Revised Code. Any moneys remaining after the dissolution of the district or received from the public sale of property shall be paid into the treasury of the township and may be expended for any public purpose when duly authorized by the township board of trustees. As the first county in Ohio to form a county association, Ashland County led the effort to establish the statewide association. Any law enforcement officer may conduct, at any place within this state at which the officer would be permitted to arrest the person operating the vehicle, an investigatory stop of any motor vehicle displaying a decal issued under this section when the vehicle is being driven between the hours of one a.m. and five a.m. A law enforcement officer may conduct an investigatory stop under this division regardless of whether the officer observes a violation of law involving the vehicle or whether the officer has probable cause to believe that any violation of law involving the vehicle has occurred. That percentage shall not exceed one hundred per cent of the cost of the demolition or abatement as verified and adjusted by the board of township trustees, except that the amount of the credit shall not exceed ten thousand dollars. The costs shall be returned to the township and placed in the township's general fund. Upon service of the cease-and-desist order upon the owner, operator, manager, or other person in charge of the premises, the township law director or, if the township does not have a law director, the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the township is located shall file in the municipal court or county court with jurisdiction over the premises a civil action seeking to confirm the cease-and-desist order and seeking an injunction or other appropriate relief against the premises. The advertisement shall include the time, date, and place where the clerk of the township, or the clerk's designee, will read bids publicly. Township trustees also have responsibilities for ditches, drains and other surface waters; line fences between adjacent properties; township hospitals or township hospital districts; and the control of weeds and brush. The board of township trustees may, in a township containing a harbor or port which is outside a municipal corporation, and in which vessels are accustomed to lie for the purpose of receiving or discharging freights, if it believes the public interest so demands, appoint a suitable person to act as harbor master. (F) As used in this division, "emergency medical service organization" has the same meaning as in section 4766.01 of the Revised Code. Therefore, the Ohio Trust Code (Section 5807.06 (B) ) only permits the removal of a trustee by a court if the trustee has committed a serious breach of trust; if there are co-trustees who cannot cooperate to administer the trust; or if the trustee is unfit or unwilling to administer the trust effectively, or has failed to do so. (A)(1) A board of township trustees may adopt local residential building regulations governing residential buildings as defined in section 3781.06 of the Revised Code. The securities shall be signed by the board and attested by the signature of the township fiscal officer, and the maximum maturity of those securities is subject to the limitations in section 133.20 of the Revised Code. Those chapters include code guidelines for the following: original surveyed townships; general provisions; limited home-rule government; trustees; clerk; constables; memorial buildings, halls and parks; hospitals and joint hospital districts; lighting; cemeteries; township zoning; private sewage collection tiles; and merged townships. No officer, or other member of an organized police department of a township, a township police district, a joint police district, or the office of a township constable shall neglect or refuse to deposit property taken or found by the officer or other member in possession of a person arrested. Both boards shall adopt a joint resolution ratifying the agreement and setting a date on which the fire and ambulance district shall come into being. The board of township trustees may, by resolution, adopt by incorporation by reference a standard code pertaining to fire, fire hazards, and fire prevention prepared and promulgated by the state or any department, board, or other agency of the state, or any such code prepared and promulgated by a public or private organization that publishes a model or standard code. (B) Except as otherwise provided in this section and section 505.17 of the Revised Code, a board of township trustees may adopt regulations and orders that are necessary to control noise within the unincorporated territory of the township that is generated at any premises to which a D permit has been issued by the division of liquor control or that is generated within any areas zoned for residential use. Priority may be given on the basis that the purposes of a nonprofit organization have a direct relationship to specific public purposes of programs provided or administered by the board. (B) Upon the withdrawal of any township or municipal corporation from a joint police district, the county auditor shall ascertain, apportion, and order a division of the funds on hand and moneys and taxes in the process of collection, except for taxes levied for the payment of indebtedness, credits, and real and personal property, either in money or in kind, on the basis of the valuation of the respective tax duplicates of the withdrawing township or municipal corporation and the remaining territory of the joint police district. Section 505.012 | Appointment or election of board member to district governing body. They attend township board meetings. The Legislative Service Commission staff updates the Revised Code on an ongoing basis, as it completes its act review of enacted legislation. When the voters of a township determine to issue bonds for the construction or repair of viaducts, or for the purchase or condemnation of the land necessary for such improvements, the authority to make such improvements is hereby conferred and the money arising from the sale of the bonds shall be expended in the manner provided by section 505.35 of the Revised Code. (B) When, in its opinion, the township would be benefited, the board of township trustees may execute and deliver contracts or leases to mine iron ore, stone, coal, petroleum, gas, salt, and other minerals upon lands owned by the township, to any person complying with the terms prescribed by the board as to consideration, rights of way, and occupancy of ground for necessary purposes. Chapter 2744. of the Revised Code, insofar as it applies to the operation of police departments, shall apply to any township police department or township police district and to its members when such members are rendering police services pursuant to this section outside the township or township police district by which they are employed. (A) A township may enter into an agreement with the board of trustees of the police and firemen's disability and pension fund in accordance with section 742.30 of the Revised Code. A board of township trustees may expend money from the general fund to make contributions to convention and visitors' bureaus operating within the county in which the township is located. The remaining fifty per cent of those moneys shall be deposited in the county's general fund. If that claimant establishes to the satisfaction of the court that the claimant is the rightful owner, the money or property shall be restored to the claimant; otherwise, it shall be returned to the accused person, personally, and not to any attorney, agent, factor, or clerk of the accused person, except upon special order of the head of the organized police department of the township, township police district, joint police district, or office of a township constable, as the case may be, after all liens and claims in favor of the township have first been discharged and satisfied. The policy shall include provisions addressing all of the following: (1) The officers, positions, or appointees authorized to use a credit card account; (2) The types of expenses of which a credit card account may be used; (3) The procedure for acquisition, use, and management of a credit card account and presentation instruments related to the account including cards and checks; (4) The procedure for submitting itemized receipts to the fiscal officer or the fiscal officer's designee; (5) The procedure for credit card issuance, credit card reissuance, credit card cancellation, and the process for reporting lost or stolen credit cards; (6) The township's credit card account's maximum credit limit or limits; (7) The actions or omissions by an officer, employee, or appointee that qualify as misuse of a credit card account. Jamie Sanor (330) 501-7365 JamieS@knoxtownship.org. If the township police district imposes a tax, any territory proposed for addition to the district shall become part of the district only after all of the following have occurred: (1) Adoption by two-thirds vote of the board of township trustees of a resolution approving the expansion of the territorial limits of the district; (2) Adoption by a two-thirds vote of the board of township trustees of a resolution recommending the extension of the tax to the additional territory; (3) The board requests and obtains from the county auditor the information required for a tax levy under section 5705.03 of the Revised Code, in the same manner required under that section, except that the levy's annual collections shall be estimated assuming that the additional territory has been added to the township police district. After adoption of the resolution, the board shall publish, in a newspaper of general circulation in the township, notice of its intent to donate unneeded, obsolete, or unfit-for-use township property to eligible nonprofit organizations. The rules shall include rehabilitation standards a person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to an offense listed in division (C)(1) of this section must meet for the appointing authority to appoint or employ the person as a permanent, full-time paid firefighter or a volunteer firefighter. The board shall include in the report a proper description of the premises and a statement of all costs incurred in providing for the abatement, control, or removal of any vegetation, garbage, refuse, or other debris as provided in division (E) of this section, including the board's charges for its services, the costs incurred in providing notice, any fees or interest paid to borrow moneys, and the amount paid for labor, materials, and equipment. (2)(a) The board of trustees of a joint ambulance district created under section 505.71 of the Revised Code and the board of fire district trustees of a joint fire district created under section 505.371 of the Revised Code may negotiate to combine their two joint districts into a single fire and ambulance district for the delivery of both fire and ambulance services, if the geographic area covered by the combining joint districts is exactly the same. "Transient vendor" does not include any person who represents any entity exempted from taxation under section 5709.04 of the Revised Code, or any person licensed under Chapter 4707. of the Revised Code. The contracts or leases shall be forfeited to the township for noncompliance with any of the terms set forth in the contracts or leases, and shall not operate as a conveyance of the fee to any part of the realty. (B)(1) The fire chief of the township or fire district may request that the superintendent of BCII obtain information from the federal bureau of investigation as a part of the criminal records check requested pursuant to division (A) of this section. (A)(1) No person shall erect, construct, alter, repair, or maintain any residential building, as defined in section 3781.06 of the Revised Code, within the unincorporated portion of any township in which a building department has authority to administer and enforce local residential building regulations or an existing structures code unless that person complies with the regulations and code. (Opinions of Attorney General June 14, 1944) The township trustee must reside within the township as provided in Article 6, Section 6 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana. (E) A board of township trustees of any township or a board of fire district trustees of a fire district created under section 505.371 of the Revised Code may purchase a policy or policies of liability insurance for the officers, employees, and appointees of the fire department, fire district, or joint fire district governed by the board that includes personal injury liability coverage as to the civil liability of those officers, employees, and appointees for false arrest, detention, or imprisonment, malicious prosecution, libel, slander, defamation or other violation of the right of privacy, wrongful entry or eviction, or other invasion of the right of private occupancy, arising out of the performance of their duties. The township shall comply with the procedures for the employment, promotion, and discharge of police personnel provided by Chapter 124. of the Revised Code, except as otherwise provided in divisions (C)(2) and (3) of this section. Assessments under this section shall be levied only upon the residential property that is subject to the eligible project. (5) No person shall receive an original appointment as a permanent full-time paid member of the fire department of the township described in this division unless the person has received a certificate issued under former section 3303.07 or section 4765.55 of the Revised Code evidencing the satisfactory completion of a firefighter training program. The board of trustees shall certify each resolution adopted under division (B)(2) of this section and the county auditor's certification under division (B)(3) of this section to the board of elections in accordance with section 5705.19 of the Revised Code. Canfield Township is a semi-rural community located in the center of Mahoning County in Northeast Ohio. The board may remove, by resolution, its emergency medical service organization from the jurisdiction of the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services. The board of township trustees of a township that withdraws or proposes by resolution to withdraw the unincorporated territory of the township from a regional transit authority under section 306.55 of the Revised Code may levy a tax on taxable property in the unincorporated area of the township under section 5705.72 of the Revised Code to provide transportation services for the movement of persons within, from, or to the unincorporated area of the township. If mediation fails to resolve the differences, the board and the person first shall attempt to resolve the differences through any legal remedies before seeking redress through a court of common pleas. 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