Whenever the owners of all the lots and lands to be assessed for any water supply improvement provided for in this chapter, by petition in writing, request the board of county commissioners to provide for the acquisition or construction, maintenance, and operation of the improvement, describing the improvement and the lots and lands owned by them respectively to be assessed to pay the cost of acquisition or construction, maintenance, and operation of the improvement and consenting that their lots and lands may be assessed to pay the cost of the acquisition or construction of the improvement and of its maintenance and operation as provided in this chapter, and waive all legal notices otherwise required, the board may have the county sanitary engineer prepare, or otherwise cause to be prepared, the necessary plans, specifications, and estimate of cost of the acquisition or construction, maintenance, and operation of the improvement and a tentative assessment. When the owners state, in writing, that they have examined the estimate of cost and tentative assessment, that they have no objections to them, and that, in case bonds are proposed to be issued prior to the acquisition or construction of the improvement, they waive their right or option to pay the assessments in cash, the board may proceed as provided in this chapter to cause the improvement to be acquired or constructed and to cause provision to be made for the payment of the cost of its acquisition or construction, maintenance, and operation, except that none of the notices otherwise required by law need be given and no opportunity need be provided for the filing of objections to the improvement, its character and termini, the boundaries of the assessment district, or the tentative assessment or, if bonds are issued prior to the acquisition or construction of the improvement, for paying the assessments in cash. The board may proceed to issue or incur public obligations in the required amount, complete the acquisition or construction of the improvement, and levy and collect the assessments authorized by this chapter. No person or public agency shall have the right to appeal from any decision or action of the board in the matter except refusal by the board to proceed with the improvement.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 6103.11

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • County sanitary engineer: means either of the following:

    (1) The registered professional engineer employed or appointed by the board of county commissioners to be the county sanitary engineer as provided in section 6117. See Ohio Code 6103.01

  • improvement: means , without limiting the generality of those terms, water wells and well fields, springs, lakes, rivers, streams, or other sources of water supply, intakes, pumping stations and equipment, treatment, filtration, or purification plants, force and distribution lines or mains, cisterns, reservoirs, storage facilities, necessary equipment for fire protection, other related structures, equipment, and furnishings, and real estate and interests in real estate, necessary or useful in the proper development of a water supply for domestic or other purposes and its proper distribution. See Ohio Code 6103.01
  • in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures; this provision does not affect any law relating to signatures. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • maintenance: means repairs, replacements, and similar actions that constitute and are payable as current operating expenses and that are required to restore water supply facilities to, or to continue water supply facilities in, good order and working condition, but does not include construction of permanent improvements. See Ohio Code 6103.01
  • Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Public agency: means a state and any agency or subdivision of a state, including a county, a municipal corporation, or other subdivision. See Ohio Code 6103.01
  • state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59

The tentative assessment provided for in this section shall be for the information of property owners and shall not be levied or certified to the county auditor for collection. On completion of the improvement, its cost shall be determined, and the county sanitary engineer shall prepare, or otherwise cause to the be prepared, a revised assessment based on the actual cost and in substantially the same proportion as the tentative assessment. The board shall confirm and levy the revised assessment and certify it to the county auditor for collection.