Sec. 715.021. (A)(1) When authorized by their respective | 7 |
legislative authorities, any municipal corporation may enter into | 8 |
an agreement with any other municipal corporation or with the | 9 |
legislative authority of any township, port authority, water or | 10 |
sewer district, school district, library district, health | 11 |
district, park district, soil and water conservation district, | 12 |
water conservancy district, or other taxing district, or with the | 13 |
board of county commissioners of any county, and such legislative | 14 |
authorities may enter into agreements with any municipal | 15 |
corporation, whereby the municipal corporation agrees to exercise | 16 |
any power, perform any function, or render any service for the | 17 |
contracting subdivision, that the municipal corporation is | 18 |
otherwise legally authorized to exercise, perform, or render, or | 19 |
whereby the legislative authority of any such contracting | 20 |
subdivision agrees to exercise any power, perform any function, or | 21 |
render any service for the municipal corporation that the | 22 |
contracting subdivision is otherwise legally authorized to | 23 |
exercise, perform, or render. | 24 |
(2) In the absence in the agreement of provisions determining | 25 |
by what officer, office, department, agency, or authority the | 26 |
powers and duties of the municipal corporation shall be exercised | 27 |
or performed, the legislative authority of the municipal | 28 |
corporation shall determine and assign such powers and duties. In | 29 |
the absence in the agreement of provisions determining by what | 30 |
officer, office, department, agency, or authority the powers and | 31 |
duties of any contracting subdivision shall be exercised or | 32 |
performed, the legislative authority of such contracting | 33 |
subdivision shall determine and assign such powers and duties. Any | 34 |
agreement authorized by this section shall not suspend the | 35 |
possession by a contracting subdivision of any power or function | 36 |
exercised or performed by the municipal corporation, or the | 37 |
possession by a municipal corporation of any power or function | 38 |
exercised or performed by the contracting subdivision, in | 39 |
pursuance of the agreement. | 40 |
(C) Chapter 2744. of the Revised Code, insofar as it applies | 46 |
to the operation of a political subdivision, applies to the | 47 |
political subdivisions that are parties to an agreement authorized | 48 |
by this section and to their employees when they are rendering a | 49 |
service outside the boundaries of their employing political | 50 |
subdivision under such an agreement. Employees acting outside the | 51 |
boundaries of their employing political subdivision while | 52 |
providing a service under an agreement authorized by this section | 53 |
may participate in any pension or indemnity fund established by | 54 |
the political subdivision to the same extent as while acting | 55 |
within the boundaries of the political subdivision, and are | 56 |
entitled to all the rights and benefits of Chapter 4123. of the | 57 |
Revised Code, to the same extent as while they are performing a | 58 |
service within the boundaries of the political subdivision. | 59 |