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...The judgment and orders of a court or officer made in cases of contempt may be reviewed on appeal. Appeal proceedings shall not suspend execution of the order or judgment until the person in contempt files a bond in the court rendering the judgment, or in the court or before the officer making the order, payable to the state, with sureties to the acceptance of the clerk of that court, in an amount fixed by the review...

... the construction of any improvement to real property, other than an improvement that is used or intended to be used as a single-family, two-family, or three-family detached dwelling house and accessory structures incidental to that use. (B) If any action is brought upon any issue referable to arbitration under an agreement in writing for arbitration, the court in which the action is pending, upon being satisfied th...

...The clerk of the court of claims shall do all of the following: (A) Administer oaths and take and certify affidavits, depositions, and acknowledgments of powers of attorney and other instruments in writing; (B) Prepare the dockets, enter and record the orders, judgments, decisions, awards, and proceedings of the court of claims, and issue writs and process; (C) Maintain an office in Franklin county in rooms ...

...s or to assign dower and appraisers of real or personal property on execution, replevin, or attachment or to fix the value of exempt property, as provided in section 2335.01 of the Revised Code; (D) Deposit of rent with the clerk of court by a resident of a manufactured home park, as provided in section 4781.42 of the Revised Code, or by a tenant of residential premises, as provided in section 5321.08 of the R...

...(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, if a motion for expedited relief is filed under section 2747.02 of the Revised Code, the court shall stay all other proceedings in the action between the moving party and responding party, including discovery and any other pending hearing or motion. (2) Upon request by the moving party, the court may stay a hearing or motion involving another party in the action,...

...g the notice; (6) A description of the real or personal property subject to the notice and of the interest in that property of the person named in the notice, to the extent the property and the interest of the person in it reasonably is known at the time the proceeding is instituted or at the time the notice is filed. (C) A corrupt activity lien notice shall apply only to one person and, to the extent applicable, ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1)(a) "Biological evidence" means any of the following: (i) The contents of a sexual assault examination kit; (ii) Any item that contains blood, semen, hair, saliva, skin tissue, fingernail scrapings, bone, bodily fluids, or any other identifiable biological material that was collected as part of a criminal investigation or delinquent child investigation and that reasonably may ...

...When a defendant is discharged by the trial court otherwise than on a verdict or finding of acquittal, or when the appellate court reverses a conviction and orders the discharge of the defendant and the state or municipality signifies its intention to appeal therefrom, or the record is certified to the supreme court, the defendant shall not be discharged if he is in jail, nor the surety discharged or deposit release...

...(A) Inspection of the sealed records included in a sealing order may be made only by the following persons or for the following purposes: (1) By a law enforcement officer or prosecutor, or the assistants of either, to determine whether the nature and character of the offense with which a person is to be charged would be affected by virtue of the person's previously having been convicted of a crime; (2) By the p...

...If an inmate files a civil action or appeal against a government entity or employee on or after the effective date of this section and if the inmate is ordered to pay court costs, an award of reasonable attorney's fees, or any other fees or expenses the clerk of the court in which the action or appeal is filed shall collect the court costs, reasonable attorney's fees, and other fees or expenses from the inmate using ...

...If an inmate commences a civil action or appeal against a government entity or employee and is granted a judgment for damages in the civil action or appeal, the court shall order that the following be deducted and paid from the award on a pro rata basis before any payment is made to the inmate or the inmate's counsel: (A) Any fine, court costs, or court-ordered restitution imposed upon the inmate for an offense for ...

...(A) The board of county commissioners may adopt, amend, and rescind rules establishing technically feasible and economically reasonable standards to achieve a level of management and conservation practices that will abate wind or water erosion of the soil or abate the degradation of the waters of the state by soil sediment in conjunction with land grading, excavating, filling, or other soil disturbing activities on l...

...(A) In an action for divorce, dissolution, legal separation, or annulment of marriage or an appeal of that action, a court may award all or part of reasonable attorney's fees and litigation expenses to either party if the court finds the award equitable. In determining whether an award is equitable, the court may consider the parties' marital assets and income, any award of temporary spousal support, the conduct of t...

...xes and assessments charged upon real estate specifically as such and penalties and interest charged on any tax list and duplicate or delinquent land list in any county against any entry of real estate, the county treasurer at any time after any installment of such taxes and assessments has been delinquent for more than six months and remains due and unpaid shall apply by petition to the...

...The department of education and workforce shall establish procedures to ensure that children with disabilities and their parents are guaranteed procedural safeguards under this chapter with respect to a free appropriate public education. The procedures shall include, but need not be limited to: (A) An opportunity for the parents of a child with a disability to examine all records related to the child and to par...

...(A) A student, faculty or staff member, or employee of a college or university that receives any state funds in support thereof, arrested for any offense covered by division (D) of section 3345.23 of the Revised Code shall be afforded a hearing, as provided in this section, to determine whether the person shall be immediately suspended from the college or university. The hearing shall be held within not more than fiv...

...on, the court shall order that the real estate upon which the building, structure, or premises is or was situated be sold pursuant to Chapter 2329. of the Revised Code, except as otherwise provided in this section. The proceeds of the sale shall be credited to the fire marshal's fund. The fire marshal shall use the proceeds of the sale to cause the repair or demolition of any building, structure, or premises, the rem...

.... (E) Any restrictions on the use of real property for the purpose of the achievement by an owner or operator of applicable standards pursuant to rules adopted under division (B) of this section shall be contained in a deed or in another instrument that is signed and acknowledged by the property owner in the same manner as a deed or an environmental covenant that is entered into in accordance with sections 5301.80...

...wn, hold, improve or use, any property, real, personal or mixed; provided that at all times the Commission shall strive to avoid any appearance of impropriety; 15. To sell, convey, mortgage, pledge, lease, exchange, abandon or otherwise dispose of any property, real, personal or mixed; 16. To remit filing fees to Compacting States as may be set forth in the Bylaws, Rules or Operating Procedures; 17. To enforce com...

...t shall be treated as a distribution of estate assets pursuant to applicable state receivership law dealing with early access disbursements. (P)(1)(a) At any time within one hundred eighty days of the date of the order of liquidation, the association may elect to succeed to the rights and obligations of the ceding member insurer that relate to policies, contracts, or annuities covered, in whole or in part, by the a...

...(A) If the director of job and family services finds that any fraudulent misrepresentation has been made by an applicant for or a recipient of benefits with the object of obtaining benefits to which the applicant or recipient was not entitled, and in addition to any other penalty or forfeiture under this chapter, then the director: (1) Shall within four years after the end of the benefit year in which the fraudulen...

...(A)(1) No person shall operate any vehicle, streetcar, or trackless trolley within this state, if, at the time of the operation, any of the following apply: (a) The person is under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or a combination of them. (b) The person has a concentration of eight-hundredths of one per cent or more but less than seventeen-hundredths of one per cent by weight per unit volume of alcohol...

...(A)(1) As used in this section: (a) "Physical control" has the same meaning as in section 4511.194 of the Revised Code. (b) "Alcohol monitoring device" means any device that provides for continuous alcohol monitoring, any ignition interlock device, any immobilizing or disabling device other than an ignition interlock device that is constantly available to monitor the concentration of alcohol in a person's syste...

...(A) Except as provided in division (A)(5) of section 4511.191 of the Revised Code, the arresting law enforcement officer shall give advice in accordance with this section to any person under arrest for a violation of division (A) or (B) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code, section 4511.194 of the Revised Code or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, or a municipal OVI ordinance. The officer shall give th...

...igible to receive payment from the real estate recovery fund; (4) A person who obtained a final judgment that arose from an act or transaction that only a licensed real estate broker or real estate salesperson is authorized to perform under Chapter 4735. of the Revised Code and that did not involve a violation of this chapter or rules adopted under it. (C) Punitive damages, attorney's fees, court costs, and interes...

...rson holding a recorded interest in the real property that is subject to the environmental covenant; (3) Each person in possession of the real property that is subject to the environmental covenant; (4) Each unit of local government in which the real property that is subject to the environmental covenant is located; (5) Any other person that the agency requires. (B) The validity of an environmental covenant is no...

...An agency is bound by any obligation that it expressly assumes in an environmental covenant, but an agency does not assume obligations merely by signing an environmental covenant. Any other person that signs an environmental covenant is bound by the obligations that the person assumes in the environmental covenant, but signing the environmental covenant does not change obligations, rights, or protections that are gra...

...With respect to interests in real property in existence at the time that an environmental covenant is created or amended, all of the following apply: (A) An interest that has priority under other law is not affected by an environmental covenant unless the person that owns the interest agrees to subordinate that interest to the environmental covenant. (B) Sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code do not requir...

... Revised Code do not authorize a use of real property that is otherwise prohibited by zoning, by law other than sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code regulating use of real property, or by a recorded instrument that has priority over an environmental covenant. An environmental covenant may prohibit or restrict uses of real property that are authorized by zoning or by law other than sections 5301.80 to 5301....

...ty recorder of each county in which the real property that is subject to the environmental covenant is located and shall be recorded in the same manner as a deed to the property. For purposes of indexing, a holder shall be treated as a grantee. (B) Pursuant to Chapter 5309. of the Revised Code, an environmental covenant and any amendment or termination of the environmental covenant in connection with registered land...

...environmental covenant can no longer be realized, a court, under the doctrine of changed circumstances, in an action in which all persons identified in divisions (A) and (B) of section 5301.90 of the Revised Code have been given notice, may terminate the environmental covenant or reduce its burden on the real property that is subject to the environmental covenant. (C) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (A) an...

... current owner of the fee simple of the real property that is subject to the environmental covenant; (3) Each person that originally signed the environmental covenant unless one or more of the following apply: (a) The person waived in a signed record the right to consent; (b) A court finds that the person no longer exists or cannot be located or identified with the exercise of reasonable diligence; (c) Th...

...; (5) A person whose interest in the real property or whose collateral or liability may be affected by the alleged violation of the environmental covenant; (6) A unit of local government in which the real property that is subject to the environmental covenant is located; (7) An original signatory of the environmental covenant who is no longer an owner of the real property that is subject to the environmental...

...Sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code modify, limit, or supersede the "Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act," 114 Stat. 464 (2000), 15 U.S.C. 7001 et seq., as amended, except that sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code do not modify, limit, or supersede section 101 of that act, 15 U.S.C. 7001(a), as amended, or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in se...

...n energy. (2) "Qualifying residential real property" means a single family residential dwelling, or other residential dwelling of three or fewer units. (3) "Residential PACE lien" means the encumbrance on the qualifying residential real property created by the special assessment for a residential PACE loan. (4) "Residential PACE loan" means the extension of financing that is offered to pay for the installation ...

...five percent of the market value of the real property or mineral or mining rights about which information must be filed with the secretary of state pursuant to section 5301.254 of the Revised Code. (B) Whoever violates section 5301.61 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...The forms set forth in sections 5302.05, 5302.07, 5302.09, 5302.11, 5302.12, 5302.14, 5302.17, and 5302.31 of the Revised Code may be used and shall be sufficient for their respective purposes. They shall be known as "Statutory Forms" and may be referred to as such. They may be altered as circumstances require, and the authorization of those forms shall not prevent the use of other forms. Wherever the phrases defined...

...ss is __________________, the following real property: (description of land or interest therein and encumbrances, reservations, and exceptions, if any) Prior Instrument Reference: Volume _____, Page _____ _______________, wife (husband) of the grantor, releases all rights of dower therein. Executed this _______________ day of ________________ _______________________________ (Signature of Grantor) (Execu...

...g address is ___________, the following real property: (description of land or interest therein and encumbrances, reservations, and exceptions, if any) Prior Instrument Reference: Volume _____, Page _____ ___________, wife (husband) of said grantor, releases to said grantee all rights of dower therein. Executed this _______________ day of __________________ ______________________________ (Signature of Gra...

...ng address is __________, the following real property: (description of land or interest therein and encumbrances, reservations, and exceptions, if any) Prior Instrument Reference: Volume _______, Page ______ _______________, wife (husband) of the grantor, releases all rights of dower therein. Executed this _______________ day of ___________ _______________________________ (Signature of Grantor) (Executi...

...current mailing address), the following real property: (Description of land or interest in land and encumbrances, reservations, and exceptions, if any.) (A reference to the last recorded instrument through which the mortgagor claims title. The omission of the reference shall not affect the validity of the mortgage.) This mortgage is given, upon the statutory condition, to secure the payment of _________________...

...tle, in the same manner as mortgages of real property.

...porated by reference in any mortgage of real property situated in the county where such master mortgage form is recorded, by stating in such mortgage the volume and page number of the record of mortgages where such master mortgage form is recorded, and, if only a part of such master mortgage form is to be incorporated in the mortgage, the part or parts to be excluded. A copy of such master mortgage form shall be furn...

...A deed conveying any interest in real property to two or more persons, and in substance following the form set forth in this section, when duly executed in accordance with Chapter 5301. of the Revised Code, creates a survivorship tenancy in the grantees, and upon the death of any of the grantees, vests the interest of the decedent in the survivor, survivors, or the survivor's or survivors' separate heirs and assigns....

... a trust, which trustee holds title to real property, the successor trustee or any co-trustee of the trust shall file with the county auditor and the county recorder of the county in which the real property is located, as soon as is practical, an affidavit reciting the name of the immediately preceding trustee and any co-trustees, the addresses of all trustees, a reference to the deed or other instrument vesti...

...A deed in which a grantor is also a grantee is effective to convey the interest in the title of the grantor or grantors to all of the grantees in the proportion and manner indicated in the deed.

...of the Revised Code, if any interest in real property is conveyed or devised to two or more persons, such persons hold title as tenants in common and the joint interest created is a tenancy in common.

...of the Revised Code, if any interest in real property is conveyed or devised to two or more persons for their joint lives and then to the survivor or survivors of them, those persons hold title as survivorship tenants, and the joint interest created is a survivorship tenancy. Any deed or will containing language that shows a clear intent to create a survivorship tenancy shall be liberally construed to do so. The use ...

...do not affect conveyances or devises of real property to two or more persons for their joint lives and then to the survivor or survivors of them, that occurred prior to the effective date of this section and that did not involve tenancies by the entireties. These conveyances and devises, if they are valid on the effective date of this section, continue to be valid on and after that date. Unless persons so holding pro...

...(A) The transfer of a deceased owner's real property or interest in real property as designated in a transfer on death designation affidavit provided in section 5302.22 of the Revised Code shall be recorded by presenting to the county auditor of the county in which the real property is located and filing with the county recorder of that county an affidavit of confirmation executed by any transfer on death benef...