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COUNTY ROADS. 



SEC. 4637. [Width of county roads.] All county roads hereafter 

 laid out and established shall not be less than thirty nor more than sixty 

 ieet wide, to be determined by the viewers as hereinafter provided, ex- 

 cept that when the road is upon the state line, the county commissioners 

 :may determine the width not less than fifteen nor more than thirty feet 

 of the land to be taken in this state ; 



[Hamilton county.] And provided, further, that in any case 

 where, in any county containing a city of the first grade of the first class, 

 a steam or electric road has been or may be established on and along any 

 county road or state road under the control or supervision of the county 

 commissioners, the county commissioners may determine the width of 

 the whole, or any part of said road over which said railroad passes, or 

 may pass, not exceeding eighty feet; but in all such cases the damages 

 assessed by the viewers, on account of the establishment or widening of 

 such road, as provided by law in chapter 2, title 7 of the Revised Stat- 

 utes of Ohio, unless voluntarily paid shall be duly assessed upon the 

 property abutting upon the road or part of road so established or widened, 

 by the front foot ; the same to be done and collected in three annual in- 

 stallments, as provided by law, governing assessments by municipal cor- 

 porations. 



SEC. 4637-1. [County roads; power of commissioners.] On a 

 petition therefor signed by the owners of at least a majority of the foot 

 frontage on any county road or part thereof, heretofore established or 

 hereafter to be established, the county commissioners may do any one 

 or more of the following acts or things-: 



'a. Cause the county surveyor to establish a grade along said road, 

 -or part thereof, subject to the approval of said commissioners. 



b. Cause said road or part thereof to be widened, altered or estab- 

 lished to a greater width than sixty feet and not more than one hundred 

 feet, to be determined by the viewers as provided in this chapter. 



c. Grade, drain, curb, pave and improve said road, or part thereof, 

 proceeding in the making of the same in the manner prescribed in section 

 2824(1 of the Revised Statutes. 



[SEC.] 4637-2. [Damages, costs and expenses; how paid.] The 

 county commissioners may assess the damages on account of the widen- 

 ing, altering or establishing of said road or part thereof, also the costs 

 and expenses of any or all of said improvements or such part of said 

 damages, costs and expenses as they may deem equitable under the cir- 

 cumstances upon the taxable property abutting upon such road or part 

 thereof, either according to the foot frontage or according to the bene- 

 fits. The county commissioners are hereby created an assessing board 

 for the purpose of assessing the damages, costs and expenses, as herein 

 set forth, upon the abutting property as aforesaid. 



[SEC.] 4637-3. [Part of expense may be paid from county treas- 

 ury or improvement fund.] The commissioners may order such part 

 of the damages, cost and expense of such improvement as they may deem 

 equitable, to be paid out of the county treasury, or out of any state and 

 county road improvement fund. 



[SEC.] 4637-4. [Notice of assessment] Before adopting the 

 ;assessments so made, the county commissioners shall publish notice for 



