Ohio Code § 719.01

§ 719.01.

Any municipal corporation may appropriate, enter upon, and hold real estate within

its corporate limits: (A) For opening, widening, straightening, changing the grade of, and extending streets,

and all other public places, and for this purpose, the municipal corporation may appropriate

the right of way across railway tracks and lands held by railway companies, where

such appropriation will not unnecessarily interfere with the reasonable use of such

property, and for obtaining material for the improvement of streets and other public

places; (B) For parks, park entrances, boulevards, market places, and children's playgrounds; (C) For public halls and offices, and for all buildings and structures required for the

use of any municipal department; (D) For prisons, workhouses, houses of refuge and correction, and farm schools; (E) For hospitals, pesthouses, reformatories, crematories, and cemeteries; (F) For levees, wharves, and landings; (G) For bridges, aqueducts, viaducts, and approaches thereto; (H) For libraries, university sites, and grounds therefor; (I) For constructing, opening, excavating, improving, or extending any canal or watercourse,

located in whole or in part within the limits of the municipal corporation or adjacent

and contiguous thereto, and which is not owned in whole or in part by the state, or

by a company or individual authorized by law to make such improvement; (J) For sewers, drains, ditches, public urinals, bathhouses, water closets, and sewage

and garbage disposal plants and farms; (K) For natural and artificial gas, electric lighting, heating, and power plants, and

for supplying the product thereof; (L) For establishing esplanades, boulevards, parkways, park grounds, and public reservations

in, around, and leading to public buildings, and for the purpose of reselling such

land with reservations in the deeds as to the future use of such lands, so as to protect

public buildings and their environs, and to preserve the view, appearance, light,

air, and usefulness of public grounds occupied by public buildings and esplanades

and parkways leading thereto; (M) For providing a water supply for itself and its inhabitants by the construction of

wells, pumps, cisterns, aqueducts, water pipes, dams, reservoirs, reservoir sites,

and water works, and for the protection thereof;  and to provide for a supply of water

for itself and its inhabitants, any municipal corporation may appropriate property

within or without its limits;  and for such purpose and 1 such municipal corporation may appropriate, in the manner provided in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code , any property or right or interest therein, previously acquired by any private corporation

for any purpose by appropriation proceedings or otherwise, and either party to such

appropriation proceedings shall have the same right to change of venue as is given

in the trial of civil actions; (N) For the construction or operation of street, interurban, suburban, or other railways

or terminals and the necessary tracks, way stations, depots, terminals, workshops,

conduits, elevated structures, subways, tunnels, offices, sidetracks, turnouts, machine

shops, bridges, and other appurtenances for the transportation of persons, packages,

express matter, freight, and other matter, in, from, into, or through the municipal

corporation;  and for such purpose any municipal corporation may appropriate any property

within or without its corporate limits;  and any municipal corporation may appropriate

any property, right, or interest therein previously acquired by any private or public

utility corporation for any purpose by appropriate proceedings, as well as the right

to cross on, over, or under any street, avenue, alley, way, or public place or part

thereof of any other municipal corporation, township, or county; (O) For establishing airports, landing fields, or other air navigation facilities, either

within or without the limits of a municipal corporation for aircraft and transportation

terminals, with power to impose restrictions on any part thereof and leasing such

part thereof as is desired for purposes associated with or incident to such airports,

landing fields, or other air navigation facilities and transportation terminals, including

the right to appropriate a right of way for highways, electric, steam, and interurban

railroads leading from such airport or landing field to the main highways or the main

line of such steam, electric, or interurban railroads, as are desired;  all of which

are hereby declared to be public purposes. Division (O) of this section does not authorize a municipal corporation to take or

disturb property or facilities belonging to any public utility or to a common carrier

engaged in interstate commerce, which property or facilities are required for the

proper and convenient operation of such utility or carrier, unless provision is made

for the restoration, relocation, or duplication of such property or facilities elsewhere,

at the sole cost of the municipal corporation. The powers conferred upon municipal corporations by this section shall be exercised

for the purposes and in the manner provided in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code . “ Airport ,” “ landing field ,” and “ air navigation facility ,” as defined in section 4561.01 of the Revised Code , apply to division (O) of this section. 1

 Prior and current versions differ, although no amendment to this language was indicated

in 131 S 94;  “and” appeared as “any” in 1953 H 1.