323.70 Final hearing on complaint - dismissal on petition.

(A) Subject to this section and to sections 323.71 and 323.72 of the Revised Code, a county board of revision shall conduct a final hearing on the merits of a complaint filed under section 323.69 of the Revised Code not sooner than thirty days nor later than one hundred eighty days after the service of notice of summons and complaint has been perfected in accordance with Civil Rule 4.

(B) If, on or before the twentieth day after service of process is perfected under division (B) of section 323.69 of the Revised Code, the record owner, or a lienholder or other person having a legal or equitable ownership interest or security interest of record in abandoned land, files a petition with the county board of revision requesting that the board order that the complaint be dismissed and that the abandoned land be removed from the list compiled under division (A) of section 323.67 of the Revised Code, the board shall, without conducting a hearing on the matter, immediately dismiss the complaint for foreclosure of that land and order that the land be removed from the list. Thereafter, until the record owner sells or otherwise conveys the owner’s ownership interest, any attempts to collect delinquent taxes, interest, penalties, and charges owed with respect to that land and appearing on the delinquent tax list or delinquent vacant land tax list, whichever the case may be, shall be conducted in accordance with the judicial foreclosure proceedings and other remedies and procedures prescribed under sections 323.25 to 323.28 or under Chapters 5721., 5722., and 5723. of the Revised Code.

Effective Date: 09-28-2006