Ohio Code § 743.28
Ohio Code § 743.28. Reproduced from the official Ohio Revised Code, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 743.28.
(A) Where the legislative authority of a municipal corporation fixes the price at which
a company shall furnish electricity or either natural or artificial gas to the citizens
or to public buildings, or for the purpose of lighting the streets, alleys, avenues,
wharves, landing places, public grounds, or other places, or for other purposes, for
a period not exceeding ten years, and the company or person to furnish such utility
assents thereto, by written acceptance, filed in the office of the auditor or clerk
of the municipal corporation, the legislative authority may, for the purpose of exercising
the rights of the municipal corporation under division (B) of this section, at any
time during such period negotiate with the company a new contract establishing the
one-price schedule provided for under division (B) of this section, provided said
new contract will not take effect until the expiration of the existing contract and
such new contract will remain in effect for the balance of the existing term of the
new one-price schedule. (B) Two or more municipal corporations may agree to negotiate one price schedule under
which a gas, natural gas, or electric light company shall furnish its service to the
residents of the municipal corporations so agreeing. Such a schedule shall apply uniformly in such municipal corporations for a period
no longer than ten years. Upon written receipt of a joint notification by the mayors of a group of municipal
corporations that they have each, by ordinance, expressed their intent to negotiate
jointly, a gas, natural gas, or electric light company shall, within ninety days,
commence joint negotiation of a price schedule with such municipal corporations. Where such negotiation does not, within ninety days after its commencement, result
in an agreement between the group of municipal corporations and the company, the group
may exercise the rights of a municipal corporation under section 743.26 of the Revised Code on the same basis as if it were a single municipal corporation.
Source: official Ohio text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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- Citation: Ohio Revised Code § 743.28
- Jurisdiction: Ohio
- Code: Ohio Revised Code
- Text: transcribed from the official source (verify below)
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