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...A person having a lien upon real estate may pay the taxes which are a lien thereon, and the amount paid shall be a lien upon such real estate from the time of payment in preference to all other liens. The money paid may be recovered from the person liable for the payment of the taxes.

...If a tract of land is owned by two or more persons as joint tenants pursuant to a joint tenancy created prior to the effective date of this amendment, or as tenants with a right of survivorship, coparceners, or tenants in common, and one of them has paid the tax, interest, and penalty charged or chargeable on his proportion of such tract, and one of those remaining has failed to pay his proportion of the tax, interes...

...(A) If land held by tenants in common is sold upon proceedings in partition, or taken by the election of any of the parties to such proceedings, or real estate is sold by administrators, executors, guardians, or trustees, the court shall order that the taxes, penalties, and assessments then due and payable, and interest on those taxes, penalties, and assessments, that are or will be a lien on such land or real estate...

...n of such lands, and he may enforce the collection of such amount with interest, as any other lien or charge.

...ll other means provided by law for collecting taxes 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 remai...

...or the receiver's agent shall not be required to give bond other than the treasurer's official bond. Upon application of any proper party, the court shall, after a full hearing, order the receiver or the receiver's agent to pay out of the rents, issues, and income collected by the receiver or the receiver's agent from such property such expenses in connection with the maintenance and ...

...The prosecuting attorney shall represent the county treasurer in all proceedings authorized by sections 323.49 and 323.50 of the Revised Code. Upon motion of the prosecuting attorney, any such proceeding shall be taken out of its order upon the docket and assigned for trial at the earliest practicable day. Neither the treasurer nor the prosecuting attorney shall be entitled to any additional compensation for the ser...

...ices as are necessary for the expedient collection of taxes. The treasurer or his deputies may attend at such offices and receive payment of all taxes, or if adequate security protection is afforded all county funds involved, he may appoint a bank or bank cashier, without compensation, as his agent or deputy for the collection of taxes. The reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by the treasurer in the collectio...

...At the request of the county treasurer, a board of county commissioners may enter into a contract with any financial institution under which the financial institution, in accordance with the terms of the contract, receives real property and manufactured home tax payments at a post office box, opens the mail delivered to that box, processes the checks and other payments received in such mail and deposits them into the...

...The county treasurer may fix the time and place at which taxes will be received, as provided in section 323.61 of the Revised Code. Notice of such time and place shall be given by publication using at least one of the following methods: (A) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation in the municipal corporation within which the tax receiving office is located or, if no such newspaper exis...

...y bank of deposit located at a place of collection any money received in the payment of taxes, as provided by section 323.61 of the Revised Code. A bank receiving any such deposits shall deposit with or pledge to the treasurer such securities as he deems sufficient to meet the requirements of section 135.37 of the Revised Code. The liability of the treasurer for any losses of money so collected or deposited shall be...

...As used in sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code: (A) "Abandoned land" means delinquent lands or delinquent vacant lands, including any improvements on the lands, that are unoccupied and that first appeared on the list compiled under division (C) of section 323.67 of the Revised Code, or the delinquent tax list or delinquent vacant land tax list compiled under section 5721.03 of the Revised Code, at w...

...1) A county board of revision may adopt rules as are necessary to administer cases subject to its jurisdiction under Chapter 5715. or adjudicated under sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code, as long as the rules are consistent with rules adopted by the tax commissioner under Chapter 5715. of the Revised Code. Rules adopted by a board shall be limited to rules relating to hearin...

... prosecuting attorney, for purposes of collecting the delinquent taxes, interest, penalties, and charges levied on those parcels and expeditiously restoring them to the tax list, may proceed to foreclose the lien for those impositions in the manner prescribed by sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code. (2) If a certificate holder or county land reutilization corporation compiles a list...

...(A)(1) For each parcel subject to foreclosure under sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code, the prosecuting attorney shall cause a title search to be conducted for the purpose of identifying any lienholders or other persons having a legal or equitable ownership interest or other security interest of record in such abandoned land. (2) If a certificate holder or a county la...

...ties of record in accordance with Civil Rules 4 and 5, except that service by publication in any case requiring such service shall require that any such publication shall be advertised in the manner, and for the time periods and frequency, prescribed in section 5721.18 of the Revised Code. Any inadvertent noncompliance with those rules does not serve to defeat or terminate the case, or subject the case to dismissal, ...

..., plea, or appear in the proceeding as required in Civil Rule 12. In any action transferred to a court, the prosecuting attorney shall serve the notice of transfer upon all parties to the action except those parties deemed to be in default under division (D) of section 323.69 of the Revised Code. (C) Upon journalization of the order of transfer, the clerk of court shall proceed as if the transferred complaint ...

...ard of revision, in accordance with the Rules of Civil Procedure, may issue subpoenas compelling the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, accounts, and testimony as necessary to conduct a hearing under this section or to otherwise adjudicate a case under sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code.

...(A)(1) If the county board of revision, upon its own motion or pursuant to a hearing under division (A)(2) of this section, determines that the impositions against a parcel of abandoned land that is the subject of a complaint filed under section 323.69 of the Revised Code exceed the fair market value of that parcel as currently shown by the latest valuation by the auditor of the county in which the land is loca...

...(A)(1) At any time after a complaint is filed under section 323.69 of the Revised Code, and before a decree of foreclosure is entered, the record owner or another person having a legal or equitable ownership interest in the abandoned land may plead only that the impositions shown by the notice to be due and outstanding have been paid in full or are invalid or inapplicable in whole or in part, and may raise issu...

...easurer's delinquent tax and assessment collection fund to reimburse the fund for costs paid from the fund for the transfer, redemption, or sale of abandoned land at public auction. Not more than one-half of the twenty per cent may be used by the treasurer for community development, nuisance abatement, foreclosure prevention, demolition, and related services or distributed by the treasurer to a land reutilization cor...

... county treasurer may waive, but is not required to waive, some or all of the impositions against the abandoned land or costs apportioned to the land under section 323.75 of the Revised Code. (F) Upon a transfer under this section, all liens for taxes due at the time the deed of the property is conveyed to a purchaser or transferred to a community development organization, school district, municipal corporation, co...

... from the delinquent tax and assessment collection funds created under section 321.261 of the Revised Code, allocated equally among the respective funds of the county treasurer and of the prosecuting attorney; (b) From the community development organization, school district, municipal corporation, county, or township, whichever is applicable. (3) If the abandoned land in question is transferred to a certifica...

...Upon the sale of abandoned land at public auction pursuant to section 323.73 or 323.74 of the Revised Code, or upon the county board of revision's order to the sheriff to transfer abandoned land to a community development organization, school district, municipal corporation, county, or township under section 323.74 of the Revised Code, any common law or statutory right of redemption shall ...

...(A) As used in this section, "electing subdivision" has the same meaning as in section 5722.01 of the Revised Code. (B) At any time from the date the complaint for foreclosure is filed under section 323.69 of the Revised Code, but not later than sixty days after the date on which the land was first offered for sale, an electing subdivision or a county land reutilization corporation may give the county ...