Bill Text: OH HB15 | 2011-2012 | 129th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: To require supportive resolutions from affected local governments to name highways by statute, to allow local governments to erect appropriate markers naming highways, and to prohibit the use of state funds to erect new markers naming state highways.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-11 - To Transportation, Public Safety & Homeland Security [HB15 Detail]

Download: Ohio-2011-HB15-Introduced.html

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As Introduced

129th General Assembly Regular Session 2011-2012

H. B. No. 15

Representative Sears 

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A BILL

To enact section 5533.00 of the Revised Code to

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require supportive resolutions from affected local

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governments to name highways by statute, to allow

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local governments to erect appropriate markers

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naming highways, and to prohibit the use of state

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funds to erect new markers naming state highways.

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BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section 1. That section 5533.00 of the Revised Code be	7
enacted to read as follows:	8

Sec. 5533.00.  (A)(1) Legislation proposing enactment by	9
statute of a distinctive name for a bridge or a portion of a	10
highway shall be supported by a resolution from the governing	11
legislative body of each county, township, or municipal	12
corporation in which the bridge is located or through which the	13
portion of the highway being named extends, endorsing the proposed	14
name.	15

(2) Except as may otherwise be specifically provided by law,	16
after the effective date of this section, the director of	17
transportation shall not be required to implement any legislation	18
that names a bridge or a portion of a state highway unless the	19
proposed name is supported by a resolution from the governing	20
legislative body of each county, township, or municipal	21
corporation in which the bridge is located or through which the	22
portion of the state highway being named extends.	23

(B)(1) The director of transportation may erect markers along	24
a bridge or state highway indicating a name enacted by statute	25
that becomes effective after the effective date of this section	26
only if the department of transportation receives contributions	27
sufficient to pay all costs of manufacturing, erecting, and	28
maintaining the markers. The department shall not accept	29
contributions under this section unless it first has determined	30
that placement of the markers at the designated location is	31
permissible under applicable laws and in accordance with the	32
directives for the signing of named memorial highways in the	33
manual adopted by the department under section 4511.09 of the	34
Revised Code. Any money received by the department for these	35
purposes shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit	36
of the state highway operating fund. The department may continue	37
to repair, replace, and maintain any markers in place on the	38
effective date of this section without receiving contributions to	39
pay such costs.	40

(2) Any county, township, or municipal corporation that	41
supports by a resolution a name for the bridge or highway enacted	42
by statute, at its own expense, may erect markers indicating the	43
name of the bridge or highway within its own jurisdiction, but any	44
marker so erected shall be permissible under applicable laws and	45
in accordance with the directives for the signing of named	46
memorial highways in the manual adopted by the department of	47
transportation under section 4511.09 of the Revised Code.	48