6137.03 Annual ditch maintenance assessment. - Ohio Statutes

6137.03 Annual ditch maintenance assessment.

The maintenance fund shall be maintained, as needed, by an assessment levied not more often than once annually upon the benefited owners, as defined in section 6131.01 of the Revised Code, apportioned on the basis of the estimated benefits for construction of the improvement. An assessment shall represent such a percentage of the estimated benefits as is estimated by the engineer and found adequate by the board or joint board to effect the purpose of section 6137.02 of the Revised Code, except that at no time shall a maintenance fund have an unencumbered balance greater than twenty per cent of all construction costs of the improvement. The minimum assessment shall be two dollars.

The maintenance assessment shall be made by the board of county commissioners in the case of a single county improvement, or by the joint board in the case of a joint county improvement, upon the substantial completion of an improvement and on or before the first day of July in each year thereafter. The assessment shall be certified by the clerk of the board to the county auditor in case of a single county improvement, and to the county auditor of each county interested in the case of a joint county improvement, and shall be placed by the auditor or auditors on the next succeeding tax duplicate to be collected and paid as other special assessments are collected and paid.

Effective Date: 04-09-1981