(A)

(1) After the formation of any county sewer district, the board of county commissioners may contract with a person, political subdivision, unincorporated area, or public agency located outside of the district for any of the following:

(a) Depositing sewage or drainage from outside of the district in facilities acquired or constructed or to be acquired or constructed by the county to serve the district ;

(b) The treatment, disposal, and disposition of the sewage or drainage, on terms that the board considers equitable;

(c) The provision of water supply services.

(2) A person, political subdivision, unincorporated area, or public agency located outside of a county sewer district may apply to the board of county commissioners for the provision of the services specified in division (A)(1)(a), (b), or (c) of this section.

(3) The amount to be paid by the person, political subdivision, unincorporated area, or public agency to reimburse the county for costs of acquiring or constructing those facilities shall not be less than the original or comparable assessment for similar property within the district or, in the absence of an original or comparable assessment, an amount that is found by the board to be reasonable and fairly reflective of that portion of the cost of those facilities attributable to the properties to be served. The board shall appropriate any moneys received for that service to and for the use and benefit of the district. The board may collect the amount to be paid by the person, political subdivision, unincorporated area, or public agency in full, in cash or in installments as a part of a connection charge to be collected in accordance with division (B) or (D) of section 6117.02 of the Revised Code, or if the properties to be served are located within the county, the same amount may be assessed against those properties, and, in that event, the manner of making the assessment, together with the notice of it, shall be as provided in this chapter.

(B) Whenever sanitary or drainage facilities or prevention or replacement facilities have been acquired or constructed by, and at the expense of, a person, political subdivision, unincorporated area, or public agency and the board considers it appropriate to acquire the facilities or any part of them for the purpose of providing sewerage or drainage service to territory within a sewer district, the county sanitary engineer, at the direction of the board, shall examine the facilities. If the county sanitary engineer finds the facilities properly designed and constructed, the county sanitary engineer shall certify that fact to the board. The board may determine to purchase the facilities or any part of them at a cost that, after consultation with the county sanitary engineer, it finds to be reasonable.

Subject to and in accordance with this division and division (B) or divisions (C), (D), and (E) of section 6117.06 of the Revised Code, the board may purchase the facilities or any part of them by negotiation. For the purpose of paying the cost of their acquisition, the board may issue or incur public obligations and assess the entire cost, or a lesser designated part of the cost, of their acquisition against the benefited properties in the manner provided in this chapter for the construction of original or comparable facilities.

(C) As used in this section, "located outside of the district" includes an area located in a different county than the county in which the county sewer district is located.

Amended by 132nd General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 49, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2017.

Effective Date: 03-12-2001; 2008 HB562 09-22-2008 .