Effective: September 21, 2000
Latest Legislation: House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly
Any area or areas situated in one or more counties may be organized as a conservancy district in the manner and subject to the conditions provided by this chapter for any of the following purposes:
(A) Preventing floods;
(B) Regulating stream channels by changing, widening, and deepening the stream channels;
(C) Reclaiming or filling wet and overflowed lands;
(D) Providing for irrigation where it may be needed;
(E) Regulating the flow of streams and conserving their waters;
(F) Diverting or in whole or in part eliminating watercourses;
(G) Providing a water supply for domestic, industrial, and public use;
(H) Providing for the collection and disposal of sewage and other liquid wastes produced within the district;
(I) Arresting erosion along the Ohio shore line of Lake Erie.
This section does not terminate the existence of any district organized prior to July 19, 1937, entirely within a single county.
The purposes of a district may be altered by the same procedure as provided for the establishment of the district.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches
Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts
Section 6101.01 | Conservancy District Definitions.
Section 6101.02 | Conservancy Bonds and Records.
Section 6101.03 | Evidence and Forms.
Section 6101.04 | Purpose and Organization of Conservancy Districts.
Section 6101.05 | Proceedings for Establishment of a Conservancy District.
Section 6101.06 | Petitioners' Bond.
Section 6101.061 | Notice of Petition.
Section 6101.07 | Composition of Court for Hearing on Petition.
Section 6101.08 | Hearing on Petition.
Section 6101.09 | Findings and Decree of Court Incorporating Conservancy District.
Section 6101.10 | Appointment of Directors of Conservancy District.
Section 6101.11 | Organization, Records of Conservancy District.
Section 6101.12 | Secretary, Employees.
Section 6101.13 | Plan for Improvements.
Section 6101.14 | Right of Entry.
Section 6101.15 | Powers of Board.
Section 6101.151 | Property of District Removed From Tax Duplicate.
Section 6101.16 | Contracts for Improvements.
Section 6101.161 | Conservancy District Contract Requirements.
Section 6101.17 | Dominant Right of Eminent Domain.
Section 6101.18 | Eminent Domain.
Section 6101.19 | Conservancy District Rules and Regulations - Enforcement - Prohibitions.
Section 6101.21 | Passing Boat or Other Equipment Through Bridge or Grade.
Section 6101.22 | Surveys and Examinations of Rainfall, Flood Conditions, and Stream Flow.
Section 6101.23 | Co-Operation With United States Government or Other Corporations.
Section 6101.24 | Water Rights and Uses - Rates.
Section 6101.241 | Improvements Outside Boundary of District.
Section 6101.25 | Recreational Facilities Upon Lands Owned or Controlled by District.
Section 6101.26 | Taking or Damaging Cemetery.
Section 6101.27 | Board of Appraisers of Conservancy District.
Section 6101.28 | Appraising of Benefits and Damages.
Section 6101.29 | Effect of Improvement on Land Outside District.
Section 6101.30 | Notice of Land Included or Excluded From District.
Section 6101.31 | Conservancy Appraisal Record.
Section 6101.32 | Notice of Filing Report on Appraisals.
Section 6101.33 | Exceptions to Appraisals.
Section 6101.34 | Court Order on Appraisals.
Section 6101.35 | Appeal From Award of Compensation or Damages.
Section 6101.36 | Possession and Title to Property.
Section 6101.37 | Certified Copy of Decree.
Section 6101.38 | Confirmed Appraisal of Compensation or Damages - Appointment of Magistrate.
Section 6101.39 | Alteration or Addition to Plan.
Section 6101.40 | Appeals Not Permitted to Interrupt or Delay Any Action.
Section 6101.41 | Land of District Exempt From Assessment.
Section 6101.42 | Appraising Lands Not at First Included Within Boundaries of District.
Section 6101.43 | Moneys of District Administered Through Funds.
Section 6101.44 | Moneys of District Administered Through Funds.
Section 6101.441 | Dissolution or Disorganization of Conservancy District.
Section 6101.45 | Defects Not to Invalidate Proceedings Except Where Denial of Justice Results.
Section 6101.46 | Directors May Borrow Money and Issue Notes.
Section 6101.48 | Directors to Levy Assessments.
Section 6101.49 | Paying Assessments.
Section 6101.50 | Issuing Anticipatory Bonds and Notes.
Section 6101.501 | Issuing Bonds to Pay Costs of Improvement.
Section 6101.51 | Issuing Revenue Bonds.
Section 6101.52 | Duties of Treasurer.
Section 6101.53 | Conservancy Maintenance Assessment.
Section 6101.54 | Readjustment of Appraisal of Benefits.
Section 6101.55 | Annual Levy.
Section 6101.56 | Borrowing in Anticipation of Collection of Assessments.
Section 6101.57 | Collecting Assessments.
Section 6101.58 | County Treasurer's Bond.
Section 6101.59 | Conservancy District Assessment Constitutes Lien.
Section 6101.60 | Enforcement of Conservancy District Liens.
Section 6101.61 | Annual Levy Procedures.
Section 6101.62 | Water Department Funds Used to Pay Levy or Assessment.
Section 6101.63 | Additional Rate for Water.
Section 6101.64 | Sewer Rentals Used to Pay Levy or Assessment.
Section 6101.65 | Failure to Pay Collected Assessments.
Section 6101.66 | Annual Report of Directors.
Section 6101.67 | Compensation and Expenses of Directors and Appraisers.
Section 6101.68 | Lands Included in More Than One District.
Section 6101.69 | Consolidation of Districts.
Section 6101.70 | Petition for Uniting Districts by Directors.
Section 6101.71 | Petition for Organizing Subdistricts.
Section 6101.72 | Annexing or Absorbing Territory.
Section 6101.73 | Irrigation Districts.
Section 6101.74 | Remedies and Damages.
Section 6101.75 | Policing District.
Section 6101.76 | Removals for Cause.
Section 6101.77 | Writ of Mandamus.
Section 6101.78 | Defective Notice.
Section 6101.79 | Questions of Validity of Organization Advanced in Courts.
Section 6101.80 | Liberal Construction of Chapter.
Section 6101.81 | Destruction, Injury, Removal of Survey Marks Prohibited.
Section 6101.82 | Liability for Damages.
Section 6101.83 | Unlawful Use of Moneys.