Ohio Revised Code Title VII. Municipal Corporations § 727.012

For the purpose of constructing, maintaining, repairing, cleaning, and enclosing ditches, the legislative authority of such municipal corporation may establish one or more districts in the municipality designating the boundaries thereof, and may each year thereafter, by ordinance, designate the district in which such constructing, maintaining, repairing, cleaning, and enclosing of ditches shall be effected, setting forth an estimate of the cost and providing for the levying of a special assessment upon all the real property in the district, in the amount and in the manner provided in section 727.01 of the Revised Code, for constructing, maintaining, repairing, cleaning, and enclosing ditches. The ordinance shall be adopted as other ordinances and a succinct summary of the ordinance shall be published in the manner provided in section 731.21 of the Revised Code. Bonds and anticipatory notes may be issued in anticipation of the collection of such special assessments, under section 133.17 of the Revised Code.