As Reported by the Senate State and Local Government          2            

                 and Veterans Affairs Committee                    2            

123rd General Assembly                                             5            

   Regular Session                               H. B. No. 705     6            

      1999-2000                                                    7            


    REPRESENTATIVES ASLANIDES-HARRIS-PRINGLE-PETERSON-CAREY-       9            

    METZGER-SCHURING-TRAKAS-WILSON-DISTEL-VAN VYVEN-GRENDELL-      10           

  TERWILLEGER-WILLAMOWSKI-METTLER-CATES-KREBS-JACOBSON-SCHULER-    11           

  DePIERO-TAYLOR-VERICH-OGG-CLANCY-TIBERI-BENDER-ALLEN-BUEHRER-    12           

     HOLLISTER-GARDNER-EVANS-KRUPINSKI-YOUNG-BARRETT-SALERNO       13           


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                          A   B I L L                                           

             To amend section 517.30 of the Revised Code to        16           

                permit a board of township trustees, on its own    17           

                initiative, to erect a monument commemorating                   

                deceased members of the armed forces and to        18           

                increase the maximum appropriation for the                      

                monument from $500 to $5,000.                      19           




BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:        21           

      Section 1.  That section 517.30 of the Revised Code be       23           

amended to read as follows:                                        24           

      Sec. 517.30.  Whenever there is presented to the A board of  33           

township trustees, a petition signed by not less than thirty per   35           

cent of the electors of such township as shown by the most recent  36           

general election held therein, requesting the erection of MAY      38           

ERECT a suitable monument to commemorate the soldiers and sailors  40           

MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES who died in the service of the United  41           

States or of this state, such.  THE board may, by a majority       42           

vote, MAY appropriate and expend not more than five hundred        44           

THOUSAND dollars from the township funds for the purpose of        45           

erecting such THE monument, according to plans and specifications  46           

furnished or approved by such THE board.                           48           

      Section 2.  That existing section 517.30 of the Revised      50           

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Code is hereby repealed.                                           51