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...The property of an estate that is specifically bequeathed may be delivered over to the legatee entitled to the property. The legatee shall secure its redelivery on demand to the executor or administrator. Otherwise, the property shall remain in the possession or under the control of the executor or administrator to be distributed or sold, as required by law and the condition of the estate.

...(A) A devisee taking real property under a devise in a will, unless the will otherwise provides, or an heir taking real property under the statutes of descent and distribution shall take the real property subject to all taxes, penalties, interest, and assessments that are a lien against that real property. (B) If real property devised in a will is subject to a mortgage lien that exists on the date of the test...

...(A) At any time after the appointment of an executor or administrator, the executor or administrator may distribute to the beneficiaries entitled to assets of the estate under the will, if there is no action pending to set aside the will, or to the heirs entitled to assets of the estate by law, in cash or in kind, any part or all of the assets of the estate. Each beneficiary or heir is liable to return the assets or ...

...General legacies shall bear no interest unless specifically provided in the will.

...hen five months have expired after the appointment of an executor or administrator and the surviving spouse has made an election under section 2106.01 of the Revised Code, a legatee or distributee may apply to the probate court for an order requiring the executor or administrator to distribute the assets of the estate, either in whole or in part, in cash or in kind. Upon notice to the executor or administrator,...

...Before making distribution in kind of property which is not specifically bequeathed, an executor or administrator shall obtain the approval of the probate court or the consent of all of the legatees or distributees whose interests may be affected by such distribution. A distribution in kind may be made to any beneficiary, including an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, and the surviving spouse.

...An executor or administrator is not liable for any distribution made in compliance with sections 2113.53, 2113.54, and 2113.55 of the Revised Code, except that an order of distribution made pursuant to any of such sections may be vacated as provided in section 2109.35 of the Revised Code relating to accounts.

...If by a will the use or income of personal property is given to a person for a term of years or for life and some other person has a remainder interest in the property, the probate court, unless the will otherwise provides, may authorize delivery of the personal property to the person having the limited estate, with or without bond, as the court may determine; or the court may order that the property be held by...

...When a beneficiary of an estate is indebted to such estate, the amount of the indebtedness if due, or the present worth of the indebtedness if not due, may be set off by the executor or administrator against any testate or intestate share of the estate to which such beneficiary is entitled.

...(A)(1) When real property passes by the laws of intestate succession or under a will, the administrator or executor shall file in probate court, at any time after the filing of an inventory that includes the real property but prior to the filing of the administrator's or executor's final account, an application requesting the court to issue a certificate of transfer as to the real property. Real property sold b...

...Upon receipt of the certificate provided for in section 2113.61 of the Revised Code, the county recorder shall record it in the official records and index the certificate in the name of the decedent as grantor and the person to whom the real property passes as grantee in the indexes provided for in section 317.18 of the Revised Code.

...If a sum of money to be distributed to heirs, next of kin, or legatees, or owing from an estate to a creditor of the estate, remains unclaimed prior to the filing of a final account, the court may order it turned into the county treasury as provided in section 2113.65 of the Revised Code, or may order the executor or administrator to invest it as the court directs for a period not to exceed two years, to accumula...

...The person investing unclaimed money under section 2113.64 of the Revised Code shall file in the probate court a memorandum thereof, with the original certificates or evidences of title representing such investment, which shall be allowed as a sufficient voucher for such payment under the order or decree. If the amount is unclaimed at the end of the period of such investment, it shall be turned into the county treasu...

...The statute of limitations shall not be set up as a defense or bar to an action against an executor or administrator who fails or neglects to comply with the requirements of sections 2113.64 and 2113.65 of the Revised Code.

...When a person entitled to the money invested or turned into the county treasury under section 2113.64 of the Revised Code satisfies the probate court of the person's right to receive it, the court shall order it to be paid over and transferred to the person. In case it has been turned into the treasury, the county auditor shall give to the person a warrant for the money upon the certificate of the probate judge...

...The probate judge with whom the certificates or evidences of title required by section 2113.65 of the Revised Code are deposited and each succeeding judge to whom they come, and the judges' sureties, shall be responsible for their safekeeping and application, as provided in sections 2113.64 to 2113.67 of the Revised Code.

...When newly discovered assets come into the possession or under the control of an executor or administrator after the filing of the original inventory required by section 2115.02 of the Revised Code, the executor or administrator shall administer, account for, and distribute those assets in the same manner as if received prior to the filing of the inventory. Within thirty days, the executor or administrator shal...

...An executor or administrator appointed in any other state or country, or the executor's or administrator's legal representatives, may be prosecuted in any appropriate court in this state in the capacity of executor or administrator.

...The several probate courts, courts of common pleas, and superior courts have the same authority over foreign executors and administrators as if they were appointed in this state.

...Any court of common pleas may compel a foreign administrator or executor residing in this state, or having assets or property in this state, to account at the suit of an heir, distributee, or legatee, who is resident in this state, and make distribution of the amount found in the possession or under the control of the foreign administrator or executor to the respective heirs, distributees, or legatees according...

...If a foreign administrator or executor has wasted, misapplied, or converted assets of an estate, or has insufficient property to discharge the foreign administrator's or executor's liability on account of the trust, or the foreign administrator's or executor's sureties are irresponsible, the distributees, heirs, or legatees, in any court of common pleas or probate court may compel the foreign administrator or e...

...The several provisional remedies and proceedings authorized by sections 2113.70 to 2113.73 of the Revised Code against a foreign executor or administrator also apply to the person and property of a foreign administrator or executor. The probate court or the court of common pleas may make any order or decree touching a foreign executor's or administrator's property and effects, or the assets of the estate, nece...

...An executor or administrator appointed in any other state or country may commence and prosecute an action or proceeding in any court in this state, in the capacity as executor or administrator, in the same manner and under the same restrictions as a nonresident is permitted to sue.

...If it appears that a legatee or a distributee, or a beneficiary of a trust not residing within the United States or its territories will not have the benefit, use, or control of the money or other property due the legatee or distributee from the estate or due the beneficiary from the trust, because of circumstances prevailing at the place of residence of the legatee or distributee, or the beneficiary of the tru...

...When a person entitled to money or other property invested or turned into the county treasurer or to a trustee under section 2113.81 of the Revised Code satisfies the probate court of the person's right to receive it, the court shall order the county treasurer or the trustee to pay it over to the person.

...5.08 of the Revised Code, in making the appointments, shall fix a time and place for the first meeting of the board and shall give the trustees notice of such meeting. The time of such first meeting shall be not more than fifteen days after the date of their appointment. The board shall meet at the time and place appointed, and shall organize by the selection of a president, a vice-president, and a secretary, who nee...

... shall hold office from the date of his appointment until the end of the term for which he was appointed. A vacancy in the office of a member representing a generator or the general interests of citizens or the public member shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. A member representing a generator or the general interests of citizens or a public member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring pri...

...ommission in the same manner as initial appointments. Each trustee of the thoroughbred horsemen's health and retirement fund appointed by the commission shall be active as a thoroughbred horseman while serving a term as a trustee and shall have been active as a thoroughbred horseman for at least five years immediately prior to the commencement of any such term. Each trustee of the harness horsemen's health and retire...

...5.271 of the Revised Code, the board of trustees of public affairs, if such a board has been created in accordance with section 735.28 of the Revised Code, shall be abolished and the term of office of members of such board shall terminate. All contracts entered into by said board of trustees of public affairs and rules and regulations and other action taken by such board shall continue in effect until they have term...

...cipal corporations, boards of township trustees of the townships, boards of township park commissioners, boards of county commissioners of the counties, and boards of education of the school districts joined in the operation and maintenance of parks or recreation facilities under section 755.16 of the Revised Code may, by resolution, establish a joint recreation board which may possess all the powers and be su...

...mber shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed, except that the term of any member who is a county commissioner or township trustee shall end when the member ceases to serve as a county commissioner or township trustee. Members may be reappointed. Vacancies shall be filled in the manner provided for original appointments. Any member appointed to fill ...

.... (3) Not later than thirty days after appointment of an arbitrator, each owner and the board shall deliver to the arbitrator a recommendation for the assignment of responsibility for building or maintaining in good repair the partition fence. Not later than sixty days after appointment of the arbitrator, the arbitrator shall approve one of the recommendations submitted or assign responsibility for building or...

...trict or a member of the district. The appointment of a proxy or designee may be changed by filing a new form with the district's secretary. The most current form filed with the secretary is the valid appointment. Service of any notice upon a proxy or designee at the proxy's or designee's address as shown on that form satisfies any requirements for notification of the director. (C) Notice of the time, date, pl...

...ers of the same political party. Of the appointments made by the board of county commissioners, one member shall be the chief executive of a municipal corporation in the county that is not the municipal corporation with the greatest population residing in the county, one member shall be a trustee of a township in the county, and one member shall be appointed from among the following: a chief executive of a municipal ...

... of the Revised Code do not prevent the appointment and employment of assistants, clerks, and stenographers to assist the prosecuting attorney as provided in sections 309.01 to 309.15 of the Revised Code, or the appointment by the court of common pleas or the court of appeals of an attorney to assist the prosecuting attorney in the trial of a criminal cause pending in that court, or the board of county commissioners ...

...mber shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which appointed. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of that term. Any member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office, or...

...air and the secretary, making necessary appointments to the board of health, receiving and considering the annual or special reports from the board of health, and making recommendations to the board of health or to the department of health in regard to matters for the betterment of health and sanitation within the district or for needed legislation. The secretary of the council shall notify the district health commis...

...rking enforcement unit, shall make all appointments and removals of parking enforcement officers, subject to any general rules prescribed by the board of township trustees by resolution or joint police district board, as appropriate, and shall prescribe rules for the organization, training, administration, control, and conduct of the parking enforcement unit. The chief of police may appoint parking enforcement...

...ng enforcement unit, who shall make all appointments and removals of parking enforcement officers, subject to any general rules prescribed by the board of township trustees by resolution, and shall prescribe rules for the organization, training, administration, control, and conduct of the parking enforcement unit. The executive head of the parking enforcement unit may appoint parking enforcement officers who agree to...

...mmissioners or board of county hospital trustees, as applicable.

...iration of their respective terms. Such appointments shall be so distributed that not more than two members of the board belong the same political party. Any vacancy by death, resignation, removal from the city, or otherwise of any member shall be filled by appointment by the mayor for the unexpired portion of each term. In villages, the mayor, clerk, and chairperson of the finance committee of the legislative auth...

...e three years immediately preceding the appointment, the member has not been employed by the public employees retirement system, police and fire pension fund, state teachers retirement system, school employees retirement system, or state highway patrol retirement system or by any person, partnership, or corporation that has provided to one of those retirement systems services of a financial or investment nature, incl...

...ch a resolution adopted by the board of trustees of the township establishes a different maximum age limitation for an original appointment to the police department. Nothing in this section shall prevent a municipal corporation or a civil service township from establishing a police cadet program and employing persons as police cadets at age eighteen for the purposes of training persons to become police officers. The...

...n the expiration of the original term, appointments shall be made for terms of five years. Appointments to fill vacancies shall be for the unexpired term.

...the jurisdiction of the commission, the appointment of a person to an office, place, position, or employment; (3) Participate in casino gaming or any other amusement or activity at a casino facility in this state or at an affiliate gaming facility of a licensed casino operator, wherever located.

...) A receiver in equity from the time of appointment. (53) "Manufactured home" means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, that, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or forty body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is three hundred twenty or more square feet, and that is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permane...

...al corporation or the board of township trustees of the township, as applicable, in which the well is to be located. In addition, the notice shall contain a statement that informs an owner of real property who is required to receive the notice under division (A)(9) of this section that within five days of receipt of the notice, the owner is required to provide notice under section 1509.60 of the Revised Code to each ...

...guaranty corporations, trust companies, trustees, fiduciaries, insurance companies, including domestic for life and domestic not for life, trustees or other officers having charge of sinking and bond retirement or other special funds of the state and political subdivisions and taxing districts of this state, the sinking fund, the administrator of workers' compensation subject to the approval of the workers' compensat...

...appoint or to approve or disapprove the appointment of any police officer appointed and employed by the qualified nonprofit corporation police department under division (B) of this section. An authorizing agreement shall comply with any statutes and with any municipal charter provisions, ordinances, or resolutions that may apply to it. An authorizing agreement may prescribe, but is not limited to, any of the followin...

...guaranty associations, trust companies, trustees, fiduciaries, insurance companies, including domestic for life and domestic not for life, trustees or other officers having charge of sinking and bond retirement or other special funds of political subdivisions and taxing districts of this state, the commissioners of the sinking fund of the state, the administrator of workers' compensation, the state teachers retiremen...