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Sec. 185. - Work done by city.
If such sidewalks be not constructed or repaired within thirty days after the service of the notice provided for in the preceding section, or the completion of the publication thereof, the director of public service may proceed by...
Sec. 186. - Public improvements by contract or direct labor.
Public improvements of all kinds may be made by the appropriate department either by direct employment of the necessary labor and the purchase of the necessary supplies and materials, with separate accounting as to each improvemen...
Sec. 187. - Streets and public grounds.
The council shall provide for the care, supervision, control and improvement of public highways, streets, avenues, alleys, sidewalks, public grounds, bridges, aqueducts and viaducts, within the city, and shall cause them to be kep...
Sec. 188. - Alteration of streets.
When it deems it necessary the council may cause any street, alley or public highway to be opened, straightened, altered, diverted, narrowed, widened or vacated, and shall assess such portion of the cost thereof, not exceeding fif...
Sec. 189. - Assessment bonds and notes.
The council may at any time borrow money and authorize the issuance of bonds or notes in anticipation of the levy or collection of assessments. Such bonds or notes may be in sufficient amount to pay the estimated cost and expense ...
Sec. 190. - Unexpended balances and assessments.
All assessments collected for the improvements for which bonds or notes were issued, and all unexpended balances remaining in the fund after the cost and expenses of the improvement have been paid, shall be applied in the payment ...
Sec. 191. - Dedication of streets.
No street or alley dedicated to public use by the proprietor of ground in the city shall be deemed a public street or alley, or under the care or control of the council, unless the dedication be accepted and confirmed by ordinance...
FRANCHISES
Part of Charter of the City of Columbus.
FRANCHISES
Cross References Franchise for use of streets - see Ohio R.C. 723.41 et seq. Reports - see ADM. 121.03, 121.04
Sec. 192. - Grant.
The council may by ordinance grant permission to any individual, company or corporation to construct and operate a public utility in the streets and public grounds of the city; subject, however, to the provisions of the general la...
Sec. 192-1. - Department of Public Utilities; appointment of director of public utilities; powers and duties of director.
(Repealed 11-5-74.)
Sec. 193. - Period of grants.
No such grant shall be exclusive nor shall it be made for a longer period than twenty-five years. No such grant shall be renewed earlier than two years prior to its expiration unless the city council shall by a vote of at least si...
Sec. 194. - Franchise terms, reports.
No ordinance making such grant, renewal or extension shall be valid unless it shall expressly provide therein, that the grantee shall make to the city at prescribed semi-annual periods, a statement of the assets, liabilities, rece...
Sec. 195. - Right of city to lease or purchase.
All such grants and renewals thereof shall reserve to the city the right to terminate the same and to purchase or lease all the property of the utility in streets and highways in the city and elsewhere, as may be provided in the o...
Sec. 196. - Exclusion of franchise value.
No ordinance making such grant or renewal shall be valid unless it shall expressly provide therein that the price to be paid by the city for the property that may be acquired by it from such utility by lease, purchase, condemnatio...
Sec. 197. - Extension by annexation.
It shall be provided in every such grant that upon the annexation of any territory to the city the portion of any such utility that may be located within such annexed territory and upon the streets, alleys or public grounds thereo...
Sec. 198. - Regulations.
The council shall at all times control the distribution of space in, over or across all streets or public grounds occupied by public utility fixtures. All rights granted for the construction and operation of [the] public utility s...
Sec. 199. - Forfeitures.
If any action shall be instituted and successfully prosecuted directly by the grantee of any such grant, or by any of its stockholders, to set aside or have declared void any of the terms of any such grant, the whole of such grant...