65 Ohio App. 2d 5 - Thomas v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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1. ““Any municipal corporations within the limits of which there is included a part of the shore of the waters of Lake Erie may, in aid of navigation and water commerce, construct, maintain, use, and operate, piers, docks, wharves, and connecting ways, places, tracks, and other water terminal improvements with buildings and appurtenances necessary or incidental to such use, on any land belonging to the municipal corporation held under title permitting such use, and also over and on any submerged or artificially filled land made by accretion resulting from artificial encroachments, title to which is in the state, within the territory covered or formerly covered by the waters of Lake Erie in front of littoral land within the limits of such municipal corporation, whether such littoral land is privately owned or not. “Any such municipal corporation may, by ordinance, subject to federal legislation, establish harbor lines and other regulations for such territory and prohibit the placing, maintaining, or causing or permitting to be placed therein any unlawful encroachments on such territory. “The territory to which this section applies is limited to that within the limits of the municipal corporation and extending into Lake Erie to the distance of two miles from the natural shore line. For all purposes of government and exercise of such powers the limits of any such municipal corporation shall be held to extend out, in, over, and under such water and land made or that may be made withi”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 71 Ohio Misc. 2d 40 - City of Toledo v. Kilburn

2. “within the projected boundaries of the waterfront property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 796 So. 2d 322 - Cove Properties, Inc. v. Walter Trent Marina, Inc.