Ohio Code 5555.26 – Each county may choose different method of apportionment
When a petition asking for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, or repair of a road in two or more counties, or along the county line between two or more counties in this state, is filed with the board of county commissioners of any one of said counties, the petitioners are not limited to the statement of a single method of paying the compensation, damages, and expenses of the improvement, but may request in the petition that the share of each interested county be apportioned by a different method, subject to the limitation that as to each county the method requested must be one of the methods provided by section 5555.41 of the Revised Code.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 5555.26
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Road: includes any state or county road or part of any state or county road, or any state or county road and any municipal corporation street, or part of a road or street of those types, which form a continuous road improvement. See Ohio Code 5555.01
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
A joint board acting by unanimous vote and without the filing of any petition, and ordering the improvement of a road in two or more counties, or along the county line between two or more counties in this state, may order the proportionate part of the compensation, damages, and expenses of each county to be paid in a different method, subject to the limitation that as to each county the method selected must be one of the methods provided by sections 5555.41 to 5555.43, inclusive, of the Revised Code.