Ohio Revised Code Title VII. Municipal Corporations § 743.44

A municipal corporation authorized by law to purchase or lease lands, purchase, lease, or sink natural gas wells, procure rights of way, and purchase and lay pipes for the purpose of supplying such municipal corporation or the citizens thereof with natural gas may exercise any such powers outside of its limits, and in addition thereto shall have all the rights and powers conferred upon municipal corporations by sections 743.39 to 743.43, inclusive, of the Revised Code, subject to all the restrictions therein.