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Issue 1 -- REFERENDUM ON SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL
NO. 16 |
Substitute Senate Bill No. 16 would make certain changes to state law that regulates the operation of sexually oriented businesses and adult entertainment establishments. These changes include:
• Requiring the State of Ohio to compensate local governments (townships, cities and villages) who enforce local laws regulating adult entertainment establishments when those local laws have been adopted with the guidance of the Ohio Attorney General and when those laws are found unconstitutional or invalid by a court, with certain exceptions for payment of such compensation,
• Preempting local laws that are found by a court to be in conflict with the proposed state law regulating adult entertainment establishments,
• Prohibiting sexually oriented businesses from being open for business between midnight and 6 a.m., except that sexually oriented businesses with a liquor permit may remain open until the hours specified in the permit if they do not conduct, offer, or allow, sexually oriented entertainment activity in which the performers appear nude,
• Prohibiting customers and employees of sexually oriented businesses who are not immediate family members from touching each other while on the premises of that business and while the employee is nude or seminude, and
• Creating misdemeanor criminal offenses relating to hours of operation and for customers and employees who violate the no touch provisions of the law, setting the penalty at a fourth degree
misdemeanor, except when the touching is in specified anatomical areas, in which case, the penalty is a first degree misdemeanor.
If Substitute Senate Bill No. 16 is approved, it shall become law. |
N/A -- Was Supposed To Be Removed From Ballot Voting |
| Issue 9 -- COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP PROPOSED TAX LEVY - (REPLACEMENT) |
A replacement of a tax for the benefit of COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP for the purpose of OPERATING AND MAINTAINING THE FIRE DEPARTMENT INCLUDING RESCUE SQUAD AND VEHICLE EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT at a rate not exceeding 1.5 mills for each one dollar of valuation, which amounts to $0.15 for each one hundred dollars of valuation, for 5 years, commencing in 2008, first due in calendar year 2009. |
Yes |
| Issue 10 -- COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP PROPOSED TAX LEVY - (RENEWAL) |
A renewal of a tax for the benefit of COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP for the purpose of MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR HOSPITALIZATION IN AND SUPPORT OF SOUTHWEST GENERAL HOSPITAL CENTER at a rate not exceeding 1 mill for each one dollar of valuation,
which amounts to $0.10 for each one hundred dollars of valuation, for 5 years, commencing in 2008, first due in calendar year 2009. |
Yes |
| Issue 17 -- COLUMBIA LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT PROPOSED TAX LEVY - (RENEWAL) |
Shall a levy renewing an existing levy be imposed by the Columbia Local School District for the purpose of PROVIDING FOR THE EMERGENCY REQUIREMENTS OF THE COLUMBIA LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in the sum of $647,000 and a levy of taxes to be made outside of the ten-mill limitation estimated by the County Auditor to average 3.18 mills for each one dollar of valuation, which amounts to $0.318 for each one hundred dollars of valuation, for 5 years, commencing in 2008, first due in calendar year 2009? |
Yes |
| Issue 18 -- COLUMBIA LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT PROPOSED TAX LEVY - (RENEWAL) |
Shall a levy renewing an existing levy be imposed by the Columbia Local School District for the purpose of PROVIDING FOR THE EMERGENCY REQUIRMENTS OF THE COLUMBIA LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in the sum of $950,000 and a levy of taxes to be made outside of the ten-mill limitation estimated by the County Auditor to average 4.68 mills for each one dollar of valuation, which amounts to $0.468 for each one hundred dollars of valuation, for 5 years, commencing in 2008, first due in calendar year 2009? |
Yes |
| Issue 24 -- LORAIN COUNTY PROPOSED TAX LEVY - (RENEWAL) |
A renewal of a tax for the benefit of LORAIN COUNTY for the purpose of PROVIDING ESSENTIAL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AND FACILITIES FOR CHILDREN, ADULTS, AND SENIOR ADULTS at a rate not exceeding 0.6 mill for each one dollar of valuation, which amounts to $0.06 for each one hundred dollars of valuation, for 5 years, commencing in 2008, first due in calendar year 2009. |
Yes |
Issue 25 -- REFERENDUM ON RESOLUTION OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS |
A proposed resolution by the Board of County Commissioners to increase by one-fourth of one percent (1/4%) the existing sales and use tax for the purpose of providing additional revenue for the County for a continuing period of time.
Shall the resolution of the Board of County Commissioners of Lorain County, increasing by ¼ % the rate of the sales and use tax, be approved? |
No |