Effective: June 30, 2021
Latest Legislation: House Bill 74 - 134th General Assembly
Before letting or making any contract for the construction, reconstruction, widening, resurfacing, or repair of a street or other public way, the director of public service in a city, or the legislative authority in a village, shall make an estimate of the cost of such work using the force account project assessment form developed by the auditor of state under section 117.16 of the Revised Code. In municipal corporations having an engineer, or an officer having a different title but the duties and functions of an engineer, the estimate shall be made by the engineer or other officer. Where the total estimated cost of any such work is thirty thousand dollars or less, the proper officers may proceed by force account.
Where the total estimated cost of any such work exceeds thirty thousand dollars, the proper officers of the municipal corporation shall be required to invite and receive competitive bids for furnishing all the labor, materials, and equipment and doing the work, after newspaper advertisement as provided by law. The officers shall consider and may reject such bids. If the bids are rejected, the officers may order the work done by force account or direct labor. When such bids are received, considered, and rejected, and the work done by force account or direct labor, such work shall be performed in compliance with the plans and specifications upon which the bids were based. It shall be unlawful to divide a street or connecting streets into separate sections for the purpose of defeating this section and section 723.53 of the Revised Code.
On the first day of July of every odd-numbered year beginning in 2021, the threshold amount established in this section shall increase by an amount not to exceed the lesser of three per cent, or the percentage amount of any increase in the department of transportation's construction cost index as annualized and totaled for the prior two calendar years. The director of transportation shall notify each appropriate engineer or other officer of the increased amount.
"Street," as used in such sections, includes portions of connecting streets on which the same or similar construction, reconstruction, widening, resurfacing, or repair is planned or projected.
Last updated April 9, 2021 at 1:19 PM
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 7 | Municipal Corporations
Chapter 723 | Streets; Public Grounds
Section 723.011 | Control of Sidewalks, Curbs, and Gutters.
Section 723.012 | Wooden Flagpole Along Right-of-Way.
Section 723.02 | Opening Streets.
Section 723.03 | Dedication of Streets - Acceptance by Legislative Authority.
Section 723.04 | Change of Name, Vacating, or Narrowing Streets on Petition.
Section 723.041 | Permanent Easement in Vacated Street for Public Utility Facilities.
Section 723.05 | Change of Name, Vacating, or Narrowing Streets Without Petition.
Section 723.06 | Notice Not Required.
Section 723.07 | Notice of Application to Be Published.
Section 723.08 | Effect of Order of Vacation.
Section 723.09 | Vacation or Establishment of Street or Alley by Court.
Section 723.10 | Notice of Petition.
Section 723.11 | Hearing of Adverse Claims.
Section 723.12 | Street Not to Be Closed Until Damages Paid.
Section 723.121 | Conveyance of Lands Not Needed for Municipal Purposes by Legislative Authorities.
Section 723.13 | Municipal Corporations May Construct or Repair Viaduct - Bonds.
Section 723.14 | Expenditure of Construction or Repair Funds.
Section 723.15 | Proceeds of Bond Issue When Authorized by Election.
Section 723.16 | Owner Defined.
Section 723.17 | Petition for Sprinkling Streets.
Section 723.18 | Sprinkling Ordinance.
Section 723.20 | Tax Levy for Sprinkling - Street Railway Companies to Pay Portion of Cost.
Section 723.22 | Municipal Corporation May Contract for Sprinkling.
Section 723.23 | Surface Treatment of Streets.
Section 723.31 | Treatment With Oil Regarded as a Cleaning and Repairing of Streets and Alleys.
Section 723.32 | Surface Treatment and Sprinkling of Streets by Board of Education.
Section 723.33 | Legislative Authority May Require Bridge or Railway to Be Lighted.
Section 723.34 | Specifications in Lighting Ordinance.
Section 723.35 | Notice of Lighting Requirement Shall Be Given.
Section 723.36 | Procedure on Failure of Owner to Light Bridge or Railway.
Section 723.37 | Assessment for Expense of Lighting.
Section 723.39 | Notice Required of Application to Establish Street Railway Route.
Section 723.40 | Consent of Property Owners Necessary.
Section 723.41 | Grant Not Valid for More Than Twenty-Five Years.
Section 723.42 | Grade of Streets When Street Railway Is Constructed.
Section 723.43 | Pavement of Streets Where Railways Are Constructed.
Section 723.431 | Removal or Repair of Street Railway.
Section 723.44 | Extension of Street Railway May Be Granted.
Section 723.45 | Franchises to Interurban Railways for the Purpose of Securing Terminals.
Section 723.46 | Condemnation Proceedings.
Section 723.47 | Term of Grant.
Section 723.48 | Regulation of Rate of Speed.
Section 723.49 | Damage From Excavation.
Section 723.50 | Depth of Excavation Allowable.
Section 723.51 | Municipal Corporations May Change Streams and Highways.
Section 723.53 | Account of Cost of Construction by Force Account or Direct Labor.
Section 723.54 | Inspection of Bridges.
Section 723.55 | Restriction Upon Contract to Construct or Repair Bridges.