State ex rel. Franklin County Conservancy District v. Valentine

Citations

• 94 Ohio St. 440
• 114 N.E. 947
• 1916 Ohio LEXIS 123

Syllabus

<p>Conservancy act — Preliminary fund — Section 6828-43, General Code (104 O. L., 33) — General county funds to be reimbursed, when — Duties of directors of district.</p> <p>1. The levy authorized by Section 6828-43, General Code (Section 43 of the Conservancy Act of Ohio, 104 O. L., 13, 35), of three-tenths of one mill on the assessed valuation of property lying within a conservancy district, constitutes the final and sole source of the preliminary fund defined in Section 42 of the Conservancy Act, and is the primary fund from which the general funds of the county or counties constituting such district should be reimbursed for expenses paid out of these funds under authority of that section.</p> <p>2. The board of directors of a conservancy district has no authority or discretion to delay the reimbursement of the general funds of the county or counties constituting such district, for money advanced to the preliminary fund, after the receipt of funds by the district from any source provided by the statute for the raising of revenues for the use and purposes of a conservancy district.</p>