2011 Ohio Revised Code
Title [3] III COUNTIES
Chapter 306: COUNTY TRANSIT SYSTEM; REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY; REGIONAL TRANSIT COMMISSION
306.55 Withdrawal from regional transit authority.

Beginning July 1, 2011 and until November 5, 2013, any municipal corporation or township that has created or joined a regional transit authority that levies a property tax and that includes in its membership political subdivisions that are located in a county having a population of at least four hundred thousand according to the most recent federal census, may withdraw from the regional transit authority in the manner provided in this section. The legislative authority of the municipal corporation or board of township trustees of the township proposing to withdraw shall adopt a resolution to submit the question of withdrawing from the regional transit authority to the electors of the territory to be withdrawn and shall certify the proposal to the board of elections for the purpose of having the proposal placed on the ballot at the next general election or at a special election conducted on the day of the next primary election that occurs not less than ninety days after the resolution is certified to the board of elections.

Upon certification of a proposal to the board of elections pursuant to this section, the board of elections shall make the necessary arrangements for the submission of the question to the electors of the territory to be withdrawn from the regional transit authority qualified to vote on the question, and the election shall be held, canvassed, and certified in the same manner as regular elections for the election of officers of the subdivision proposing to withdraw from the regional transit authority, except that the question appearing on the ballot shall read:

“Shall the territory within the …...................... (Name of political subdivision to be withdrawn) be withdrawn from …...................... ......... (Name) regional transit authority?”

If the question is approved by at least a majority of the electors voting on the question, the withdrawal is effective six months from the date of the certification of its passage.

The board of elections to which the resolution was certified shall certify the results of the election to the board or legislative authority of the subdivision that submitted the resolution to withdraw and to the board of trustees of the regional transit authority from which the subdivision proposed to withdraw.

If the question of withdrawing from the regional transit authority is approved, the power of the regional transit authority to levy a tax on taxable property in the withdrawing subdivision terminates.

Added by 129th General Assembly File No. 28, HB 153, § 101.01, eff. 9/29/2011.