755.181 Petition for membership in joint recreation district.
755.181 Petition for membership in joint recreation district.
The legislative authority of any municipal corporation, township, township park district, county, or school district desiring to join a joint recreation district may, by resolution, petition the joint recreation district board of trustees for membership. If the joint recreation district does not impose a tax, the petitioning subdivision becomes a member upon approval by the joint recreation district’s board of trustees. If the joint recreation district imposes a tax, the petitioning subdivision becomes a member after approval by the joint recreation district’s board of trustees and after approval of the tax by the electors of the petitioning subdivision.
Upon certification by the board of trustees of the joint recreation district to the appropriate boards of election, the boards of election shall make the necessary arrangements for the submission of the question to the electors of the petitioning subdivision qualified to vote thereon. The election shall be held, canvassed, and certified in the manner provided for the submission of tax levies under section 5705.19 of the Revised Code, except that the question appearing on the ballot shall read:
“Shall the territory within . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Name of the subdivision to be added) be added to . . . . . . . . . . . joint recreation district, and a property (Name) tax at a rate of taxation not exceeding . . . . . (here insert tax rate) be in effect for . . . . . . . . . . (here insert the number of years the tax is to be in effect)?” If the question is approved by at least a majority of the electors voting on it, the joinder shall be effective as of the first day of January of the year following approval, and on that date, the joint recreation district tax shall be extended to the taxable property within the territory that has been added.
The legislative authority of any subdivision that is a member of a joint recreation district may withdraw from it upon certification of a resolution proclaiming a withdrawal to the joint recreation district’s board of trustees. Any subdivision with-drawing from a joint recreation district shall continue to have levied against its tax duplicate any tax levied by the district on the effective date of the withdrawal until it expires or is renewed. Members of a joint recreation district’s board of trustees who represent the withdrawing subdivision are deemed to have resigned their position upon certification of a withdrawal resolution.
Effective Date: 08-31-1976