1728.13 Public utilities. - Ohio Statutes

1728.13 Public utilities.

(A) A community urban redevelopment corporation does not have the power, nor shall any financial agreement made pursuant to Chapter 1728. of the Revised Code, provide that the municipal corporation for its part will undertake, to construct, install, acquire, maintain, or operate any property, slant, equipment, or facilities which would be competitive with any public utility as the same is defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code or used by any public utility subject to regulation, supervision, or control by any federal regulatory body.

(B) A municipal corporation may not acquire by the exercise of the right of eminent domain, for any of the purposes of Chapter 1728. of the Revised Code, any property used by any public utility as the same is defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code or used by any public utility subject to regulation, supervision, or control by any federal regulatory body, in furnishing any commodity or service which, by law, it is authorized to furnish.

(C) If any municipal corporation, or its duly authorized agency, as part of or in connection with any plan, plan of a project or projects initiated or undertaken in accordance with Chapter 1728. of the Revised Code, vacates any street, avenue, highway, road, or other public place or way, referred to in this section as “street,” on, in, or under which is located any property owned or used by any public utility as defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code, or owned or used by any public utility subject to regulation, supervision, or control by any federal regulatory body in furnishing any commodity or service which, by law, it is authorized to furnish, such municipal corporation shall determine, upon the completion of the vacation proceedings, whether the retention of such property in the existing location will interfere with the consummation of the project.

(D) If such municipal corporation, or its duly authorized agency, determines that the retention of such property in such location will interfere with the consummation of the project, it shall make an order requiring the public utility using such property to remove, relocate, rearrange, or change such property in accordance with such order, and the cost and expense of such removal, rearrangement, or change, including the cost of installing such property in a new location or locations or changed condition, and the cost of any lands or any rights or interest in lands and any other rights acquired to accomplish such removal, relocation, rearrangement, or change shall be paid by the municipal corporation or its duly authorized agency as part of the cost of making land available for use by a community urban redevelopment corporation. In case of the relocation of any such property, the public utility using the same, its successors and assigns, may maintain and operate such property with the necessary appurtenances, in the new locations for as long a period and upon the same terms and conditions and with the same franchise rights as it had the right to maintain and operate such property in its former location.

(E) If such municipal corporation, or its duly authorized agency, determines that the retention of such property in its existing location will not interfere with the consummation of the project, it shall express such determination in a writing which shall be delivered to such public utility, and such public utility, its successors and assigns, may enter upon the lands which comprised such street prior to its vacation, for the purpose of maintaining, repairing, renewing, or removing any such property.

(F) If any municipal corporation, or its duly authorized agency, as a part of or in connection with any plan, plan of a project or projects initiated or undertaken in accordance with Chapter 1728. of the Revised Code, determines that any property owned or used by any public utility as defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code, or owned or used by any public utility subject to regulation, supervision, or control by a federal regulatory body, in furnishing any commodity or service which it is authorized by law to furnish, which is located in, on, along, over, or under any street, shall be removed, relocated, rearranged, changed, reconstructed, or abandoned, the cost and expense of the removal, relocation, rearrangement, change, reconstruction, or abandonment of such property, including the cost of installing, reconstructing, and replacing such property in a new location or locations and the cost of any lands or any rights or interest in lands and any other rights acquired to accomplish such removal, relocation, rearrangement, change, reconstruction, or replacement of such property shall be paid by the municipal corporation or its duly authorized agency as a part of the cost of making land available for use by a community urban redevelopment corporation. In case of the relocation of any such property the public utility using the same, its successors and assigns, may maintain and operate such property, with the necessary appurtenances, in the new locations for as long a period and upon the same terms and conditions as it had a right to maintain and operate such property in its former location.

Effective Date: 12-16-1964