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...(A) Unless specifically prohibited in the declaration, any owner may install a solar energy collection device on the owner's dwelling unit or other location within the owner's lot if either of the following conditions apply: (1) The cost to insure, maintain, repair, and replace the unit's roof or alternative location within the lot is not a common expense of the owners association and is instead the owner's respons...

...y, local, exempted village, cooperative education, joint vocational school district; a regional student education district created under section 3313.83 of the Revised Code; or a career-technical cooperative education district created under section 3313.831 of the Revised Code. (B) "Municipal corporation" means all municipal corporations, including those that have adopted a charter under Article XVIII, Ohio Consti...

...The aggregate amount of taxes that may be levied on any taxable property in any subdivision or other taxing unit shall not in any one year exceed ten mills on each dollar of tax valuation of such subdivision or other taxing unit, except for taxes specifically authorized to be levied in excess thereof. The limitation provided by this section shall be known as the "ten-mill limitation," and wherever said term is used i...

...(A) The taxing authority of each subdivision may levy taxes annually, subject to the limitations of sections 5705.01 to 5705.47 of the Revised Code, on the real and personal property within the subdivision for the purpose of paying the current operating expenses of the subdivision and acquiring or constructing permanent improvements. The taxing authority of each subdivision and taxing unit shall, subject to the limit...

...The taxing authority of each subdivision shall divide the taxes levied into the following separate levies: (A) The general levy for debt charges within the ten-mill limitation; (B) The general levy for current expense within the ten-mill limitation; (C) Special levies authorized by sections 5705.01 to 5705.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code, within the ten-mill limitation; (D) The general levy for debt charges au...

...s, watershed conservancy districts, and educational television, for the prevention, control, and abatement of air pollution, and for the county's share of the compensation paid judges; (F) In the case of a school district, the amounts necessary for tuition, the state teachers retirement system, and the maintenance, operation, and repair of schools; (G) In the case of a township, the amounts necessary for the relief...

...The following special levies are hereby authorized without vote of the people: (A) A levy for any specific permanent improvement which the subdivision is authorized by law to acquire, construct, or improve, or any class of such improvements which could be included in a single bond issue; (B) A levy for the library purposes of the subdivision, in accordance with the provisions of the Revised Code authorizing levi...

...The taxing authority of any subdivision may make tax levies authorized in excess of the ten-mill limitation by a vote of the people under the law applicable thereto, irrespective of all limitations on the tax rate.

...On or before the first Monday in May of each year, the fiscal officer of each subdivision, except school districts and the city of Cincinnati, shall certify to its taxing authority the amount necessary to provide for the payment of final judgments against the subdivision, except in condemnation of property cases. The taxing authority shall place such certified amount in each budget and in the annual appropriati...

...Each subdivision shall establish the following funds: (A) General fund; (B) Sinking fund whenever the subdivision has outstanding bonds other than serial bonds; (C) Bond retirement fund, for the retirement of serial bonds, notes, or certificates of indebtedness; (D) A special fund for each special levy; (E) A special bond fund for each bond issue; (F) A special fund for each class of revenues derived from a so...

...The board of county commissioners of each county shall establish a county developmental disabilities general fund. Notwithstanding section 5705.10 of the Revised Code, proceeds from levies under section 5705.222 and division (L) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code shall be deposited to the credit of the county developmental disabilities general fund. Accounts shall be established within the county developmental di...

...hip's general fund. (H) If a board of education of a school district disposes of real property under section 3313.41, 3313.411, or 3313.413 of the Revised Code, the proceeds received on or after September 29, 2013, from the sale shall be used for either of the following purposes: (1) The retirement of any debt that was incurred by the district with respect to that real property. Proceeds in excess of the funds ne...

...Whenever lands are removed from the tax duplicate of a county under the act of June 28, 1938, 45 Stat. 535, 33 U.S.C.A. 701b, or the "Flood Control Act of 1954," 68 Stat. 1266, U.S.C.A. 701c-3, and the federal government makes payments to the county in lieu of the general real property taxes, in the form of rents or otherwise, such revenues shall be distributed by the board of county commissioners to the taxing distr...

...In addition to the funds provided for by sections 5705.09, 5705.121, 5705.13, and 5705.131 of the Revised Code, the taxing authority of a subdivision may establish, with the approval of and in the manner prescribed by the auditor of state, such other funds as are desirable, and may provide by ordinance or resolution that money derived from specified sources other than the general property tax shall be paid directly i...

...A municipal corporation may establish in the manner provided by law a sanitary police pension fund, an urban redevelopment tax increment equivalent fund, or a cemetery fund. A township may establish by law a cemetery fund. A subdivision that levies a tax for the purpose described in division (ZZ) or (AAA) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code shall establish a general capital and infrastructure fund to which t...

...(A) A taxing authority of a subdivision, by resolution or ordinance, may establish reserve balance accounts to accumulate currently available resources for the following purposes: (1) To stabilize subdivision budgets against cyclical changes in revenues and expenditures; (2) Except as otherwise provided by this section, to provide for the payment of claims and deductibles under an individual or joint self-insuran...

...A taxing authority of a subdivision may establish a nonexpendable trust fund for the purpose of receiving donations or contributions that the donor or contributor requires to be maintained intact. The principal of such fund may be invested, and the investment earnings on the principal shall be credited to the fund. The principal of the fund, and any additions to principal arising from sources other than the reinvest...

...In addition to any reserve balance account established under section 5705.13 of the Revised Code, a board of township trustees, by resolution, may establish a reserve balance account to accumulate currently available resources for any purpose for which the board may lawfully expend money of the township other than for the purposes for which a reserve balance account may be established under section 5705.13 of the Rev...

...y, local, exempted village, cooperative education, or joint vocational school district may be transferred to a specific permanent improvement fund provided that the county budget commission of the county in which the school district is located approves the transfer upon its determination that the money transferred will not be required to meet the obligations payable from the bond fund or bond retirement fund. In arri...

...In addition to the transfers authorized in section 5705.14 of the Revised Code, the taxing authority of any political subdivision may, in the manner provided in this section and section 5705.16 of the Revised Code, transfer from one fund to another any public funds under its supervision, except the proceeds or balances of loans, bond issues, special levies for the payment of loans or bond issues, the proceeds or bala...

...A resolution of the taxing authority of any political subdivision shall be passed by a majority of all the members thereof, declaring the necessity for the transfer of funds authorized by section 5705.15 of the Revised Code, and such taxing authority shall submit to the tax commissioner a petition that includes the name and amount of the fund, the fund to which it is desired to be transferred, a copy of such resoluti...

... such limitation to counties, boards of education, and townships, the tax rate in each such municipal corporation is deemed to be the same as the average rate allowed to such municipal corporation within such limitation, or the fifteen-mill limitation prescribed by law prior to January 1, 1934, for the three years next preceding the year in which a charter provision has originally taken effect, except that: (A) For ...

...This section does not apply to school districts, county school financing districts, or lake facilities authorities. The taxing authority of any subdivision at any time and in any year, by vote of two-thirds of all the members of the taxing authority, may declare by resolution and certify the resolution to the board of elections not less than ninety days before the election upon which it will be voted that the amoun...

...y subdivision, other than the board of education of a school district or the taxing authority of a county school financing district, by a vote of two-thirds of all its members, may declare by resolution that the amount of taxes that may be raised within the ten-mill limitation by levies on the current tax duplicate will be insufficient to provide an adequate amount for the necessary requirements of the subdivi...

...(A) For the purposes of this section only, "taxing authority" includes a township board of park commissioners appointed under section 511.18 of the Revised Code. (B) A taxing authority may propose to replace an existing levy that the taxing authority is authorized to levy, regardless of the section of the Revised Code under which the authority is granted, except a school district emergency levy proposed pursuant to...