As Reported by House Local Government and Townships Committee    1            

123rd General Assembly                                             4            

   Regular Session                               H. B. No. 705     5            

      1999-2000                                                    6            


    REPRESENTATIVES ASLANIDES-HARRIS-PRINGLE-PETERSON-CAREY-       8            

    METZGER-SCHURING-TRAKAS-WILSON-DISTEL-VAN VYVEN-GRENDELL-      9            

  TERWILLEGER-WILLAMOWSKI-METTLER-CATES-KREBS-JACOBSON-SCHULER-    10           

  DePIERO-TAYLOR-VERICH-OGG-CLANCY-TIBERI-BENDER-ALLEN-BUEHRER-    11           

         HOLLISTER-GARDNER-EVANS-KRUPINSKI-YOUNG-BARRETT           12           


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                          A   B I L L                                           

             To amend section 517.30 of the Revised Code to        15           

                permit a board of township trustees, on its own    16           

                initiative, to erect a monument commemorating                   

                deceased members of the armed forces and to        17           

                increase the maximum appropriation for the                      

                monument from $500 to $5,000.                      18           




BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:        20           

      Section 1.  That section 517.30 of the Revised Code be       22           

amended to read as follows:                                        23           

      Sec. 517.30.  Whenever there is presented to the A board of  32           

township trustees, a petition signed by not less than thirty per   34           

cent of the electors of such township as shown by the most recent  35           

general election held therein, requesting the erection of MAY      37           

ERECT a suitable monument to commemorate the soldiers and sailors  39           

MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES who died in the service of the United  40           

States or of this state, such.  THE board may, by a majority       41           

vote, MAY appropriate and expend not more than five hundred        43           

THOUSAND dollars from the township funds for the purpose of        44           

erecting such THE monument, according to plans and specifications  45           

furnished or approved by such THE board.                           47           

      Section 2.  That existing section 517.30 of the Revised      49           

Code is hereby repealed.                                           50