§ 6101.01 Conservancy district definitions
§ 6101.02 Conservancy bonds and records
§ 6101.03 Evidence and forms
§ 6101.04 Purpose and organization of conservancy districts
§ 6101.05 Proceedings for establishment of a conservancy district
§ 6101.06 Petitioners’ bond
§ 6101.061 Notice of petition
§ 6101.07 Composition of court for hearing on petition
§ 6101.08 Hearing on petition
§ 6101.09 Findings and decree of court incorporating conservancy district
§ 6101.10 Appointment of directors of conservancy district
§ 6101.11 Organization, records of conservancy district
§ 6101.12 Secretary, employees
§ 6101.13 Plan for improvements
§ 6101.14 Right of entry
§ 6101.15 Powers of board
§ 6101.151 Property of district removed from tax duplicate
§ 6101.16 Contracts for improvements
§ 6101.161 Conservancy district contract requirements
§ 6101.17 Dominant right of eminent domain
§ 6101.18 Eminent domain
§ 6101.181 Appropriation of property for sewer construction to address public health nuisance
§ 6101.19 Conservancy district rules and regulations – enforcement – prohibitions
§ 6101.20 Plan requiring building, modification, removal, or rebuilding of bridge, grade, or aqueduct
§ 6101.21 Passing boat or other equipment through bridge or grade
§ 6101.22 Surveys and examinations of rainfall, flood conditions, and stream flow
§ 6101.23 Co-operation with United States government or other corporations
§ 6101.24 Water rights and uses – rates
§ 6101.241 Improvements outside boundary of district
§ 6101.25 Recreational facilities upon lands owned or controlled by district
§ 6101.26 Taking or damaging cemetery
§ 6101.27 Board of appraisers of conservancy district
§ 6101.28 Appraising of benefits and damages
§ 6101.29 Effect of improvement on land outside district
§ 6101.30 Notice of land included or excluded from district
§ 6101.31 Conservancy appraisal record
§ 6101.32 Notice of filing report on appraisals
§ 6101.33 Exceptions to appraisals
§ 6101.34 Court order on appraisals
§ 6101.35 Appeal from award of compensation or damages
§ 6101.36 Possession and title to property
§ 6101.37 Certified copy of decree
§ 6101.38 Confirmed appraisal of compensation or damages – appointment of magistrate
§ 6101.39 Alteration or addition to plan
§ 6101.40 Appeals not permitted to interrupt or delay any action
§ 6101.41 Land of district exempt from assessment
§ 6101.42 Appraising lands not at first included within boundaries of district
§ 6101.43 Moneys of district administered through funds
§ 6101.44 Moneys of district administered through funds
§ 6101.441 Dissolution or disorganization of conservancy district
§ 6101.45 Defects not to invalidate proceedings except where denial of justice results
§ 6101.46 Directors may borrow money and issue notes
§ 6101.48 Directors to levy assessments
§ 6101.49 Paying assessments
§ 6101.50 Issuing anticipatory bonds and notes
§ 6101.501 Issuing bonds to pay costs of improvement
§ 6101.51 Issuing revenue bonds
§ 6101.52 Duties of treasurer
§ 6101.53 Conservancy maintenance assessment
§ 6101.54 Readjustment of appraisal of benefits
§ 6101.55 Annual levy
§ 6101.56 Borrowing in anticipation of collection of assessments
§ 6101.57 Collecting assessments
§ 6101.58 County treasurer’s bond
§ 6101.59 Conservancy district assessment constitutes lien
§ 6101.60 Enforcement of conservancy district liens
§ 6101.61 Annual levy procedures
§ 6101.62 Water department funds used to pay levy or assessment
§ 6101.63 Additional rate for water
§ 6101.64 Sewer rentals used to pay levy or assessment
§ 6101.65 Failure to pay collected assessments
§ 6101.66 Annual report of directors
§ 6101.67 Compensation and expenses of directors and appraisers
§ 6101.68 Lands included in more than one district
§ 6101.69 Consolidation of districts
§ 6101.70 Petition for uniting districts by directors
§ 6101.71 Petition for organizing subdistricts
§ 6101.72 Annexing or absorbing territory
§ 6101.73 Irrigation districts
§ 6101.74 Remedies and damages
§ 6101.75 Policing district
§ 6101.76 Removals for cause
§ 6101.77 Writ of mandamus
§ 6101.78 Defective notice
§ 6101.79 Questions of validity of organization advanced in courts
§ 6101.80 Liberal construction of chapter
§ 6101.81 Destruction, injury, removal of survey marks prohibited
§ 6101.82 Liability for damages
§ 6101.83 Unlawful use of moneys
§ 6101.84 Illustrative forms
§ 6101.99 Penalty

Terms Used In Ohio Code > Chapter 6101 - Conservancy Districts

  • Acquittal:
    1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
    2. A verdict of "not guilty."
     
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • agriculture: includes farming; ranching; aquaculture; algaculture meaning the farming of algae; apiculture and related apicultural activities, production of honey, beeswax, honeycomb, and other related products; horticulture; viticulture, winemaking, and related activities; animal husbandry, including, but not limited to, the care and raising of livestock, equine, and fur-bearing animals; poultry husbandry and the production of poultry and poultry products; dairy production; the production of field crops, tobacco, fruits, vegetables, nursery stock, ornamental shrubs, ornamental trees, flowers, sod, or mushrooms; timber; pasturage; any combination of the foregoing; the processing, drying, storage, and marketing of agricultural products when those activities are conducted in conjunction with, but are secondary to, such husbandry or production; and any additions or modifications to the foregoing made by the director of agriculture by rule adopted in accordance with Chapter 119 of the Revised Code. See Ohio Code 1.61
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
  • 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.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Bond: includes an undertaking. See Ohio Code 1.02
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Court: means the court of common pleas in which the petition for the organization of a conservancy district is filed and granted, as presided over by the judges provided for in section 6101. See Ohio Code 6101.01
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • 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
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Oath: includes affirmation, and "swear" includes affirm. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Plea agreement: An arrangement between the prosecutor, the defense attorney, and the defendant in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for special considerations. Source:
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • political subdivision: means counties, townships, municipal corporations, school districts, road districts, ditch districts, park districts, levee districts, and all other governmental entities vested with the power to levy assessments or taxes. See Ohio Code 6101.01
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • published: means once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties where the publication is to be made. See Ohio Code 6101.01
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
  • Whoever: includes all persons, natural and artificial; partners; principals, agents, and employees; and all officials, public or private. See Ohio Code 1.02