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Ohio Rev. Code § 5553.02 (2026)

Authority of board of county commissioners to locate, alter, or vacate roads

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Effective:
September 28, 1973
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly
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The board of county commissioners may locate, establish, alter, widen, straighten, vacate, or change the direction of roads as provided in sections 5553.03 to 5553.16 of the Revised Code. This power extends to all roads within the county, except that as to roads on the state highway system the approval of the director of transportation shall be had. However, no public road shall be located or established, by the board of county commissioners, unless the location or establishment begins on a public road and terminates on a public road, or begins on a public road and services a public park, a state supported educational institution, public school, public aviation area, or a public recreation area, or begins on a public road and services at least three private residences or businesses in the first five hundred feet and one private residence or business in each two hundred feet thereafter.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1965–2014 · leading case: State ex rel. Patrick Bros., A Gen. P'ship v. Putnam Cty. Bd. of Commrs., 2014-Ohio-2717.
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State ex rel. Patrick Bros., A Gen. P'ship v. Putnam Cty. Bd. of Commrs., 2014-Ohio-2717. “R.C. 5553.02 grants the authority to the board of county commissioners to widen county roads.”
Dickess v. Stephens, 2013-Ohio-1317. · cites it 5× “12CA8 4 that the proceedings initiated by the Commissioners to widen the road were not in compliance with R.C. 5553.02, in part, because “ORC § 5553.”
O'Neil v. Bd. of Cnty. Commissioners, 209 N.E.2d 393 (Ohio 1965). “Nor is there any basis for appellees’ contention that those sections have been repealed by the enactment of the antecedents of Sections 5553.02 to 5553.17, inclusive, Revised Code.”
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