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...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.

...nt county auditor or member of a county board of revision shall divulge, except in the performance of official duties or upon the order of the department of taxation, or when called upon to testify in any court or proceeding, any information 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 an...

...or employee of a county auditor, county board of revision, or the tax commissioner, and no former or present deputy, assistant, or agent of the tax commissioner shall divulge, except in the performance of official duties or in any report to the county auditor, the county board of revision, or the tax commissioner, or when called upon to testify in any court or proceeding, any information acquired in the exercise of t...

...t, 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 section shall be r...

...(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...

... 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 317.32 of the Revised Code for recording deeds.

...(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...

...orations have special power to sell or lease real estate or to sell personal property belonging to the municipal corporation, when such real estate or personal property is not needed for any municipal purpose. Such power shall be exercised in the manner provided by this chapter.

...for municipal purposes, to the board of education of any such municipal corporation, to be used as an athletic field, a playground for children, or for school sites, upon such terms as are agreed to between the municipal corporation and the board. When the property is so conveyed it shall be under the control and supervision of the board.

...such municipal corporation, and by the board or officer having supervision or management of such real estate. When the contract is so authorized, it shall be made in writing by such board or officer, and, except as provided in section 721.27 or 721.29 of the Revised Code, only with the highest bidder, after advertisement once a week for five consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the mu...

...Any municipal corporations within the limits of which there is included a part of the shore of the waters of Lake Erie may, in aid of navigation and water commerce, construct, maintain, use, and operate, piers, docks, wharves, and connecting ways, places, tracks, and other water terminal improvements with buildings and appurtenances necessary or incidental to such use, on any land belonging to the municipal corporati...

...When any part of the territory mentioned in section 721.04 of the Revised Code is in front of privately owned upland and has been filled in or improved by the owner or his predecessor in title to such upland, a municipal corporation shall not take possession such part of the public domain so filled or improved, without the consent of such upland owner, until the municipal corporation has complied with sections 719.01...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, when not otherwise prescribed by the charter of such municipal corporation, provide by ordinance for the manner and by what executive officials the ordinances and laws governing the administration of the territory described in section 721.04 of the Revised Code shall be administered and for the management of such territory and improvements placed thereon.

...All rentals or charges made or collected by a municipal corporation for the use of any part of the territory described in section 721.04 of the Revised Code, or for improvements thereon, shall be used only to maintain, improve, or add to improvements in aid of navigation and water commerce.

...Sections 721.04 to 721.09 of the Revised Code have no retroactive effect to validate or add to the effect of any previous act of a municipal corporation concerning territory or public rights described in section 721.04 of the Revised Code. Those sections have no effect, except as expressly provided in sections 721.04 to 721.11 and 1506.10 of the Revised Code, to give any littoral or riparian owner any rights in any t...

...ublic highways on the filled portions. Leases made pursuant to section 1506.11 of the Revised Code are subject to the right of the municipal corporation to maintain a highway, a marginal railroad, and other agreed reasonable means of access to the waters of Lake Erie in conformity with the waterfront plan of that municipal corporation, in aid of navigation and water commerce, provided that an adequate means of acces...

...se, the municipal corporation may sell, lease or exchange such land to a railroad for such purpose as provided in section 721.13 of the Revised Code.

...r of a municipal corporation to deed or lease land as provided by section 721.12 of the Revised Code. In the ordinance the legislative authority of such municipal corporation shall fix by metes and bounds the amount of land to be sold, leased, or exchanged, the quantity of interest to be sold, leased, or exchanged, and the consideration to be paid or exchanged therefor by the railroad, and in the ordinance shall call...

...s cast on the proposition for the sale, lease, or exchange of land under section 721.13 of the Revised Code shall be necessary to its ratification. When so ratified, the ordinance provided for in such section shall be effective, and the mayor shall proceed to execute a deed of conveyance or lease of the property as therein provided. In holding the special election, sections 133.01 to 133.65, inclusive, of the Revise...

...e thousand dollars, may be sold by the board or officer having supervision or management of that property. If the estimated value of that property is one thousand dollars or more, it shall be sold only when authorized by an ordinance of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and approved by the board, officer, or director having supervision or management of that property. When so authorized, th...

...tion 721.15 of the Revised Code, by the board or officer having the supervision or management of such department.

...Money arising from a sale under section 721.16 of the Revised Code shall be deposited in the treasury of the municipal corporation, in the street cleaning fund, and shall be immediately available, in addition to the appropriations by the legislative authority of such municipal corporation, for the current expenses of the street cleaning department, and may be withdrawn from the treasury upon the warrant of the audito...

...When any lot of land lying within the limits of a municipal corporation has been dedicated, given, or granted thereto, and set apart for the use and support of schools, the court of common pleas, on the application of the mayor or legislative authority thereof, may authorize an exchange of such lot for such other lot within the limits of the municipal corporation as the interest of the schools therein require. All lo...

...ion verified by the mayor. The board of education of the municipal corporation and such other persons as the court of common pleas orders shall be made party defendants. The petition shall set forth an accurate description of each lot proposed to be given or taken in exchange, the specific circumstances which render the exchange necessary, and a prayer for such order as is required.

...Notice of the filing, pendency, and prayer of the petition provided for by section 721.19 of the Revised Code shall be published for four consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, prior to the day of hearing, in a newspaper of general circulation in such municipal corporation.