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...The tax commissioner may require county auditors, assessors, and members of county boards of revision to meet and confer with other county auditors, assessors, members of county boards of revision, or with the commissioner on any matter relating to the assessment and valuation of property for taxation at such times and places as are prescribed by the commissioner.

...The tax commissioner shall order a reappraisal of all real property in each county once in each six-year period. The commissioner may order the commencement of any sexennial reappraisal in sufficient time for the county auditor to complete the reappraisal as required by section 5713.01 of the Revised Code. The commissioner may order a reassessment of the real property or any class thereof in any taxing district or su...

...(A) When a reassessment of all real property, or any class of property, situated in the county, township, municipal corporation, or other taxing district is ordered by the tax commissioner, the county auditor, within sixty days of the receipt of such order, shall commence the reassessment in the manner provided by law and by rules prescribed and issued by the commissioner. (B) If a county auditor determines to rea...

...The tax commissioner shall, as changes in the law require, compile the laws relating to the assessment of property for taxation and the levy and collection of taxes, with such annotations, instructions, and references to court decisions concerning the same as the commissioner deems proper. The commissioner shall cause a sufficient number of copies of the same to be distributed to county auditors and such other public...

...(A) Any expense incurred by the tax commissioner as to the annual assessment of real property in any taxing district shall be paid out of the treasury of the county in which such district is located upon presentation of the order of the commissioner certifying the amount thereof to the county auditor, who shall thereupon issue a warrant therefor upon the general fund of the county and direct the warrant to the county...

...To protect the public interests, the tax commissioner may appear and upon his application be heard in any court or tribunal in any proceeding involving the appraisal, valuation, or equalization of real property for the purpose of taxation, or the assessment or collection of taxes. The clerk of any court of record shall immediately transmit to the commissioner by certified mail a copy of the petition filed in any such...

...The tax commissioner may institute proceedings to remedy improper or negligent administration of the real property taxation laws.

...(A) The tax commissioner may remit real property taxes, manufactured home taxes, penalties, and interest found by the commissioner to have been illegally assessed. The commissioner also may remit any penalty charged against any real property or manufactured or mobile home that was the subject of an application for exemption from taxation under section 5715.27 of the Revised Code if the commissioner determines that th...

...County auditors, assistant assessors, and county boards of revision shall perform the duties relating to the assessment of property for taxation or the levy or collection of taxes which the department of taxation directs.

...e accounts or records of any banking or financial institution which is subject to official inspection under the laws of the state or of the United States, nor to demand or receive any list of depositors, stock depositors, members, or others who transact business with such institutions.

...If any county auditor or county board of revision discovers the existence of any taxable property subject to be listed and assessed for taxation in another county, such auditor or board shall notify the tax commissioner and shall transmit to him by mail all the information they have concerning such property.

...f revision shall notify the prosecuting attorney of the proper county of any willful violation by persons, firms, partnerships, associations, or corporations of the laws relating to the assessment of property for taxation for which a penalty, either civil or criminal, is provided by law.

...The prosecuting attorney shall be the legal adviser of the county auditor in all matters relating to property taxation and shall prosecute and defend all actions and proceedings in any court in connection therewith to which the auditor or the county board of revision is a party, and in all respects act as the attorney of the auditor or the board. The prosecuting attorney shall, upon the request of the auditor or boar...

...y auditors, treasurers, and prosecuting attorneys contained in sections 5715.27 to 5715.44 of the Revised Code apply to and shall be exercised and performed with respect to the recoupment charge imposed under sections 5713.33 to 5713.35 of the Revised Code. (B) As used in sections 5715.17 to 5715.22 and 5715.45 to 5715.50 of the Revised Code, "assessment" and "valuation" include the determination of any value used i...

...No county auditor, county treasurer, or officer of the department of taxation shall fail to perform any duty imposed upon such officer by law with reference to the assessment, collection, settlement, or distribution of personal or classified property taxes on or before the date specified by law for the performance thereof.

...No county auditor, member of a county board of revision, or expert, clerk, or other employee of such auditor or board shall refuse or knowingly neglect to perform any duty enjoined on him by law, or consent to or connive at any evasion of Title LVII of the Revised Code, by which property required to be assessed is unlawfully exempted, or the valuation thereof is entered at other than its taxable value.

...No county auditor, member of a county board of revision, deputy county auditor, or expert, clerk, or employee of such board, shall willfully and fraudulently value any real property for taxation except at its taxable value as provided by law.

...rmation acquired in the exercise of the powers vested by the laws relating to taxation, or while claiming to exercise any such powers, as to the transactions, property, or business of any person, company, firm, corporation, association, or partnership. Whoever violates this section shall thereafter be disqualified from acting in any official capacity in connection with the assessment or collection of taxes or recoupm...

...rmation acquired in the exercise of the powers vested therein by any law, or while claiming to exercise such powers, as to the transactions, property, or business of any person, company, firm, corporation, association, or partnership. Whoever violates this section shall thereafter be disqualified from acting in any official capacity in connection with the assessment or collection of taxes or recoupment charges. (B)...

...No assistant, expert, clerk, or other employee of a county board of revision or the department of taxation shall hold any position on or under any committee of a political party, or subscribe or pay any money or other thing of value to any person or organization for the purpose of promoting, defeating, or otherwise influencing any legislation, or circulate any intitiative or referendum petition. Whoever violates this...

...(A) A county board of revision may release a lien imposed on real property situated within the county if all the following apply: (1) The lien has been in existence for at least five years. (2) The lien is for a debt resulting from the cost of environmental cleanup of the property paid from state or local government funds. (3) The amount of the lien is equal to or greater than twelve times the fair market value of...

...The county recorder shall discharge a lien described in section 5715.70 of the Revised Code when the release described in that section is presented to the county recorder. In addition to the discharge on the records by the county recorder, the release shall be recorded in the official records kept by the county recorder. The county recorder is entitled to the fees for such recording as provided by section 317.3...

...(A) Whoever violates section 5715.45 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five dollars for each day that elapses between the date specified by law for performance and the date when the duty is actually performed. (B) Whoever violates section 5715.46 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. (C) Whoever violates section 5715.48 of the Revised Code sh...

...An appeal from a decision of a county board of revision may be taken to the board of tax appeals within thirty days after notice of the decision of the county board of revision is mailed as provided in division (A) of section 5715.20 of the Revised Code. Such an appeal may be taken by the county auditor, the tax commissioner, or any board, legislative authority, public official, or taxpayer authorized by section 5715...

...(A) As used in this chapter, "tax administrator" has the same meaning as in section 718.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Appeals from a final determination of a local board of tax review created under section 718.11 of the Revised Code may be taken by the taxpayer or the tax administrator to the board of tax appeals or may be taken by the taxpayer or the tax administrator to a court of common pleas as otherwise provided ...

...When the assessor has neglected to plat and number the divisions, mentioned in section 5713.13 of the Revised Code or the survey, section, tract, lot, or part thereof, is subdivided after the assessement and appraisal thereof, and the county auditor believes it should be platted and numbered for the purpose of a pertinent description thereof upon his duplicate, the auditor may require the owner or occupier of such se...

...If the owner or occupier of a subdivided survey, section, tract, lot, or part thereof fails to appear when required, and to produce the title papers, or produces them in such manner that the county auditor cannot plat and number said subdivisions without a survey, the auditor may require such owner or occupier to cause such subdivisions to be surveyed, platted, and numbered within twenty days, and to deliver said sur...

...When the title papers are produced to the county auditor, he may plat, allot, and number said subdivisions. The plat made by the auditor shall be recorded upon the records of deeds of the county. After it has been platted and numbered by the auditor, or by the county engineer, it shall be sufficient for all purposes of taxation to enter such subdivisions upon the duplicate by their numbers, as provided by law for se...

...To enable the county auditor to determine the value and location of buildings and other improvements, any person, other than a railroad company or a public utility whose real property is valued for taxation by the tax commissioner, that constructs any building or other improvement costing more than two thousand dollars upon any lot or land within a township or municipal corporation not having a system of building reg...

...When any person lays out a municipal corporation, any addition thereto, or any subdivision of any lot or tract of land before the plat thereof is recorded, he shall present it to the county auditor, who shall assess and return the taxable valuation of each lot or parcel of land described in such plat in the same manner as other such lots or parcels are valued. Thereupon such lots or parcels shall be entered on the ta...

...A county auditor shall correct any clerical errors, as defined in section 319.35 of the Revised Code, that the auditor discovers concerning the name of the owner, valuation, description, or quantity of any tract or lot contained in the list of real property in the county.

...(A) If the county auditor discovers that any building, structure, or tract of land or any lot or part of either, has been omitted from the list of real property, the auditor shall add it to the list, with the name of the owner, and ascertain the taxable value thereof and place it opposite such property. The county auditor shall compute the sum of the simple taxes for the preceding years in which the property was omit...

...The county auditor, if he ascertains that a mistake was made in the valuation of an improvement or betterment of real property or that its valuation was omitted, shall return the correct taxable value, after giving notice to the owner or agent thereof of his intention to do so. Additions made by the auditor pursuant to this section shall be listed upon the grand duplicate of the county and placed in the hands of the...

...As used in sections 5713.22 to 5713.26 of the Revised Code, "forest land" consists of any land bearing a stand of trees which the chief of the division of forestry determines is suitable for classification under such sections.

...Forest land which the owner thereof declares is devoted exclusively to forestry or timber growing under the rules prescribed under the authority of section 5713.24 of the Revised Code, shall be taxed annually at fifty per cent of the local tax rate upon its value as determined under sections 5701.02 and 5713.04 of the Revised Code. The method of determining forest lands or land bearing forest growth which is subject...

...All rules, forms, and tax blanks that are used in the administration of sections 5713.22 to 5713.26 of the Revised Code shall be prepared by the chief of the division of forestry and become effective when approved by the tax commissioner. The chief also shall determine the amount of a fee, payable to the division of forestry, that shall be submitted with each application seeking a determination of forest lands or lan...

...Forest lands which have been listed for taxation in accordance with section 5713.23 of the Revised Code may be withdrawn from such class upon certification to the chief of the division of forestry of such intention by the owner thereof. The chief shall send a copy of said certification to the county auditor of the county in which such lands are located, who shall thereupon tax such land at the full rate thereafter.

...Any owner of forest land taxed in accordance with section 5713.23 of the Revised Code who in the opinion of the chief of the division of forestry has not exercised reasonable care in the protection and maintenance of the forest or who has violated the rules of the chief as to the care and management of such lands shall receive notice in writing of such violation from the chief. The owner shall be granted, upon his wr...

...As used in sections 5713.31 to 5713.37 and 5715.01 of the Revised Code: (A) "Land devoted exclusively to agricultural use" means: (1) Tracts, lots, or parcels of land totaling not less than ten acres to which, during the three calendar years prior to the year in which application is filed under section 5713.31 of the Revised Code, and through the last day of May of such year, one or more of the following apply:...

...(A) At any time after the first Monday in January and prior to the first Monday in March of any year, an owner of agricultural land may file an application with the county auditor of the county in which such land is located, requesting the auditor to value the land for real property tax purposes at the current value such land has for agricultural use, in accordance with section 5715.01 of the Revised Code and the rul...

...(A) Prior to the first Monday in October, the county auditor shall notify each person who filed an application or an amended application under section 5713.31 of the Revised Code and whose land the auditor determines is not land devoted exclusively to agricultural use, of the reason for such determination. The auditor shall send that notice either by certified mail or, if the auditor has record of an internet identif...

...(A) The county auditor shall make and maintain an "agricultural land tax list," on forms prescribed by the tax commissioner, listing each tract, lot or parcel of land which has been valued for tax purposes as land devoted exclusively to agricultural use under section 5713.31 of the Revised Code, showing: (1) The name of the owner; (2) A description of the land; (3) The current agricultural use value and taxable va...

...al use and a private entity granted the power of eminent domain that acquires by any means and converts land devoted exclusively to agricultural use shall pay the charge levied by division (A) of this section and shall not, directly or indirectly, transfer the charge to the person from whom the land is acquired. A person injured by a violation of this division may recover, in a civil action, any damages resulting fro...

...On or before the second Monday in September the county auditor shall examine the agricultural land tax list maintained under section 5713.33 of the Revised Code and determine if there has been a conversion of land devoted exclusively to agricultural use of any tract, lot, or parcel of land on such list. Upon determining there has been a conversion of land devoted exclusively to agricultural use the auditor shall det...

...If the county auditor has determined under section 5713.35 of the Revised Code that a conversion of land has occurred with respect to any tract, lot, or parcel on the agricultural land tax list because of a failure to file an initial or renewal application, and if the auditor, upon application of the owner and payment by the owner of a twenty-five-dollar fee, finds that the land would be land devoted exclusively to a...

...On or before the fifteenth of January of each year, the county auditor shall mail to each current owner of land that was valued as land devoted exclusively to agricultural use during the next preceding calendar year, an application for the valuation of such land as land devoted exclusively to an agricultural use for the current calendar year.

...No person shall knowingly give any false information in an application filed under section 5713.31 of the Revised Code.

...Notwithstanding section 5713.31 of the Revised Code, in any year in which the county auditor has not advertised the completion of his reappraisal or equalization or notified the owner of agricultural land of a change in the valuation of such land prior to the date on which the owner may file an application requesting the auditor to value the land for real property tax purposes at the current value such land has for a...

...Whoever violates section 5713.37 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...(A) The tax commissioner shall direct and supervise the assessment for taxation of all real property. The commissioner shall adopt, prescribe, and promulgate rules for the determination of true value and taxable value of real property by uniform rule for such values and for the determination of the current agricultural use value of land devoted exclusively to agricultural use. (1) The uniform rules shall prescribe...

...The attorney general may appoint, with salaries fixed pursuant to section 124.15 or 124.152 of the Revised Code, such assistants and may employ such stenographers and clerks as may be necessary to carry out sections 109.23 to 109.33 of the Revised Code. The attorney general may also employ experts for assistance in any specific matter at a reasonable rate of compensation.

...bmit all of the following: (1) Audited financial statements for the nonprofit health care entity for the three fiscal years prior to the date the nonprofit health care entity submitted the notice to the attorney general; (2) A valuation statement prepared by an independent, qualified expert, including an investment banker, actuary, appraiser, certified public accountant, or other expert, that assesses the full and ...

... 2505. of the Revised Code. (I)(1) The powers of the attorney general under this section and section 109.34 of the Revised Code are in addition to the attorney general's powers held at common law and under sections 109.23 to 109.33 of the Revised Code. This section and section 109.34 of the Revised Code do not limit or otherwise affect any of the following: (a) Any other civil or criminal right, claim, or defense ...

...As used in this section and sections 109.361 to 109.366 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) "Officer or employee" means any of the following: (a) A person who, at the time a cause of action against the person arises, is serving in an elected or appointed office or position with the state or is employed by the state. (b) A person that, at the time a cause of action against the person, partnership, or corporation arises...

...request by any officer or employee, the attorney general, except as provided in section 109.362 of the Revised Code, except under the circumstances described in division (E) of section 120.06 of the Revised Code, and except for civil actions in which the state is the plaintiff, shall represent and defend the officer or employee in any civil action instituted against the officer or employee. All expenses and court cos...

...ection 109.361 of the Revised Code, the attorney general shall conduct an investigation of the facts to determine whether the requirements of this section have been met. If the attorney general determines that any officer who holds an elective state office was acting manifestly outside the scope of his official responsibilities or that any other officer or employee was acting manifestly outside the scope of his emplo...

...t officer or employee shall provide the attorney general with a written report indicating the present or former position, job title, or classification of the officer or employee with the state and, citing pertinent facts, whether in its opinion the officer or employee meets the requirements of section 109.362 of the Revised Code. In addition, the employer shall provide any additional information that is requested by ...

...If the attorney general denies representation to an officer or employee who made a request for representation under section 109.361 of the Revised Code, the officer or employee may, upon the termination of the action for which he requested the representation, commence an action in the court of claims against the employer pursuant to sections 2743.01 to 2743.20 of the Revised Code for the reasonable expenses incurred ...

...Information obtained by the attorney general pursuant to his investigation to determine whether to defend an officer or employee is privileged and is not admissible as evidence against the officer or employee in any legal action or proceeding and no reference to the information may be made in any trial or hearing. The decision of the attorney general to defend or not defend an officer or employee is not admissible as...

...The attorney general may promulgate any rules that are necessary for the implementation of sections 109.36 to 109.366 of the Revised Code.

...esented in a criminal proceeding by an attorney selected pursuant to division (B) of this section when all of the following apply: (1) The employee used deadly force that resulted in the death of another. (2) The use of deadly force occurred within the scope and in the course of the employee's assigned duties. (3) The employee's use of deadly force is being investigated by a prosecuting attorney or other cri...

...se or overreach, including assertion of power inconsistent with the United States Constitution. The center shall have at least one attorney dedicated to the center whose primary job responsibility is to monitor federal executive orders, federal statutes, and federal regulations for possible overreach. If the center determines a federal executive order, federal statute, or federal regulation is not supported by law, t...

..., as a section within the office of the attorney general, an office of correctional facility inspection services. The office shall establish and maintain a continuing program of inspection of each state correctional institution used for the custody, control, training, and rehabilitation of persons convicted of crime and of each private correctional facility; any local correctional institution used for the same purpos...

...The attorney general shall compile all statutes relative to obscenity in a convenient pamphlet or paper and may distribute this compilation, without charge, to such sheriffs, police chiefs, county prosecutors, city prosecutors, mayors, constables, judges of the courts of common pleas, county court judges, municipal judges, and other interested parties, as may request such distribution, and make available a reasonable...

...abandoned, or on any other grounds, the attorney general may, after making diligent effort to notify the owner of the property and failing in the same, act as attorney in fact for the Ohio owner to claim the property. Upon taking custody of the property, the attorney general shall deposit same in the general fund of Ohio, or if the property be in kind, the attorney general shall cause the same to be sold pursuant to ...

...(A) The attorney general shall prepare and make available a compilation of all constitutional provisions and statutes relative to victim's rights in which the attorney general lists and explains the constitutional provisions and statutes in the form of a victim's bill of rights. The attorney general shall make the compilation available to all sheriffs, marshals, municipal corporation and township police departments, ...

...on 149.43 of the Revised Code. (B) The attorney general shall develop, provide, and certify training programs and seminars for all elected officials or their appropriate designees, and for all future officials who choose to satisfy the training requirement before taking office, in order to enhance the officials' knowledge of the duty to provide access to public records as required by section 149.43 of the Revised Co...

...al assembly or donated to the fund. The attorney general shall administer the domestic violence program fund. The attorney general may not use more than five per cent of the moneys appropriated or deposited into the fund to pay costs associated with administering the fund, and shall use at least ninety-five per cent of the moneys appropriated or deposited into the fund for the purpose of providing funding to domestic...

... is hereby created in the office of the attorney general, a bureau of criminal identification and investigation to be located at the site of the London correctional institution. The attorney general shall appoint a superintendent of said bureau. The superintendent shall appoint, with the approval of the attorney general, such assistants as are necessary to carry out the functions and duties of the bureau as contained...

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" means any of the following: (1) An offense committed in this state that is a felony under the law of this state; (2) An offense committed in a state other than this state, or under the law of the United States, that, if committed in this state, would be a felony under the law of this state. (B) The superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation shall...

...The bureau of criminal identification and investigation may operate and maintain a criminal analysis laboratory and mobile units thereof, create a staff of investigators and technicians skilled in the solution and control of crimes and criminal activity, keep statistics and other necessary data, assist in the prevention of crime, and engage in such other activities as will aid law enforcement officers in solving crim...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the bureau of criminal identification and investigation asset forfeiture and cost reimbursement fund. All amounts awarded to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation as a result of shared federal and state asset forfeiture and state and local moneys designated as restitution for reimbursement of the costs of investigations and all amounts received by the bu...

...The bureau of criminal identification and investigation shall be supplied with furniture, fixtures, apparatus, vehicles, and materials necessary to carry out the functions and duties of the bureau as contained in sections 109.51 to 109.63, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...y sheriff, chief of police, prosecuting attorney, village solicitor, city director of law, or similar chief legal officer with the name, address, and telephone number of any person contained in the list.

...ice that is not authorized by law. The power and duties conferred by this section on the bureau of criminal identification and investigation are supplementary to, and in no way a limitation on, the power and duties of sheriffs or other peace officers of the state or a political subdivision of the state. (2) An investigator, pursuant to the policy established by the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identific...