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...(A) The county recorder shall display at all times, in a conspicuous place in the office of the recorder, a printed card that shall read substantially as follows: "WARNING Documents recorded in the recorder's office generally are considered to be public records. Other persons have access to the information contained in recorded documents." (B) If the county recorder fails to post a card in accordance with division...

...A county auditor shall be chosen quadrennially in each county, who shall hold his office for four years, commencing on the second Monday in March next after his election.

...The office of the county auditor shall be at the county seat, in such rooms as the board of county commissioners provides.

...If the board of county commissioners has not appointed a full-time clerk pursuant to section 305.13 of the Revised Code, the county auditor, by virtue of his office , shall be the secretary of the board. When requested, he shall aid the board in the performance of its duties. He shall keep an accurate record of its proceedings, and carefully preserve all documents, books, records, maps, and papers required to be depo...

...When any fund is exhausted, the county auditor and county treasurer shall make an estimate of the amount of money belonging to such fund which has been collected as taxes and credited to the undivided tax funds in the treasury. If the board of county commissioners deems it advisable, by an order entered on its journal, such board may authorize the auditor and treasurer to transfer from such undivided tax funds to the...

...The county auditor may discharge from imprisonment any person confined in the county jail for the nonpayment of a fine or amercement due the county, except fines for contempt of court or an officer of the law, when it is made clearly to appear to him that the fine or amercement cannot be collected by such imprisonment.

...e first Monday of August, annually, the county auditor shall compile and make up, in tabular form and alphabetical order, separate lists of the names of the several persons, companies, firms, partnerships, associations, and corporations in whose names personal property required to be entered on the general tax list and duplicate has been listed and assessed as shown on the returns and in the preliminary and final ass...

...2 of the Revised Code. (B) A board of county commissioners, by resolution, may authorize a reduction in the real property taxes or manufactured home taxes charged and payable against every homestead in the county subject to a homestead exemption for the tax year. The board shall certify a copy of the resolution, or a copy of any resolution repealing the reduction's authorization, to the county auditor and tax commi...

...The county auditor need not assess on the taxable property of the county, or of any township, municipal corporation, or school district in such county, for any purpose, any rate of taxation containing or resulting in any fraction other than a decimal fraction or in any decimal fraction less than one-tenth of a mill, but if the sum required to be raised for any purpose results in a fraction less than one-twentieth of ...

...e first Monday of August, annually, the county auditor shall compile and make up, in tabular form and alphabetical order, a list of the names of the several persons, companies, firms, partnerships, associations, and corporations in whose names any taxable property of the kinds enumerated in section 5707.04 of the Revised Code has been listed and assessed in each municipal corporation and elsewhere in his county, as s...

...ttlement with the tax commissioner, the county auditor shall deduct from the amount of taxes due the state at such settlement the amount of such taxes that have been paid into the state treasury. (B) At the next settlement with the county treasurer, the amount of each such refund apportioned among the various subdivision accounts shall be subtracted by the auditor from those accounts.

...ent and the collection fees allowed the county treasurer from the several taxes charged on the duplicate, in a just and ratable proportion, the treasurer shall be held liable for the balance of such taxes. After first correcting any error which may have occurred in the apportionment of taxes at any previous settlement, the county auditor shall certify the balance due the state, the balance due the county, the balance...

...3 and 319.44 of the Revised Code, the county auditor shall carefully examine the tax duplicate and ascertain, from the entries of taxes, interest, and penalty paid in whole or in part, and from such other sources of information as are within the auditor's reach, the true amount collected by the county treasurer on account of each of the several taxes charged on such duplicate, the amount...

...The county auditor shall make and deliver to the county treasurer a certificate specifying the amount charged on the tax duplicate of the county for each of the several purposes for which taxes have been levied, and also a certificate or an abstract of the taxes which have become due and payable and which remain unpaid. In making the settlement in February of each year as required by section 319.43 of the Revised Cod...

...y-first day of October of each year the county auditor shall attend at his office to make settlement with the county treasurer and ascertain the amount of general personal and classified property taxes with which such treasurer is to stand charged. At each October settlement, the auditor shall take from the duplicates previously put into the hands of the treasurer for collection a list of all such taxes as the treas...

...section 319.49 of the Revised Code, the county auditor shall carefully examine the duplicate certificates and receipts for the advance payment of taxes and ascertain from such certificates and receipts, and from such other sources of information as are within the auditor's reach, the true amount collected by the county treasurer on account of each of the several taxes reported thereby, and the amount remaining in th...

...A county treasurer shall be elected quadrennially in each county, who shall hold his office for four years from the first Monday of September next after his election.

...he books, accounts, and vouchers of the county treasurer, and all moneys remaining in the county treasury, shall be subject at all times to the inspection and examination of the board of county commissioners.

...At each settlement with the county auditor, the county treasurer shall certify at the foot of such settlement, next after the certificate of the auditor, that the fees and per cent allowed him in such settlement, together with any other fees allowed him by or in pursuance of law, specifying each item in such certificate, are all the fees allowed, paid to, or received by him since the last preceding settlement, and h...

...The county treasurer, after he has made each settlement with the county auditor, shall pay to the state the full amount of all sums found by the auditor of state, on an audit of the duplicate settlement sheets sent to him by the county auditor, to belong to the state.

..., if a breach of the bond of either the county auditor or county treasurer is shown, the prosecuting attorney shall commence an action on the bond of the delinquent officer. If no breach is reported, he shall commence an action on the bond of the applicants, unless they pay to the county the costs, or the court certifies that there was reasonable grounds for the application.

...A county treasurer may assess a fee not exceeding an amount equal to five dollars plus any amount passed on from a financial institution on a drawer or indorser for each check, draft, or money order returned or dishonored, or automatic bank transfer declined, due to insufficient funds or for any other reason. The county treasurer shall deposit in the general fund of the county any fee collected under this section.

...A county levying a real property transfer tax, by proper suit, action, or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction, may recover the amount of such taxes due the county and not paid to the county at the time specified in section 322.02 of the Revised Code, together with a penalty of ten per cent of the amount of such tax.

...(A) A taxpayer may tender, and the county treasurer shall accept, payment of a portion of any taxes charged against real property that is the subject of an application for exemption from taxation under section 5715.27 of the Revised Code that is pending before the tax commissioner. The treasurer shall issue a receipt to the taxpayer, and credit such payment against any unpaid taxes, penalties, and interest charged ag...

...en any tax is paid at the office of the county treasurer or at any tax receiving office, the treasurer shall give a receipt to the person paying it. If any such tax is paid to the treasurer by mail and the person paying it encloses with the payment an addressed envelope with sufficient postage, the treasurer shall enclose a receipt for the taxes in such envelope and deposit it in the mail. No receipt given by the tre...