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...The county engineer may transcribe any dilapidated maps, records of plats, and field notes of surveys in his office if such work is directed by the board of county commissioners, into suitable books, provided by him for that purpose and paid for from the county treasury, which shall be placed among the records in his office, made a part of such records, and have the same validity and legal effect as other similar rec...

... shall be elected quadrennially in each county a county recorder, who shall assume office on the first Monday in January next after his election and shall hold such office for a period of four years.

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

...The county recorder shall keep a seal of office, to be procured at the expense of the county, which the county recorder shall affix to all certificates attached to copies of records.

... and 317.15 of the Revised Code, in the county in which such lands, tenements, or hereditaments lie, a copy of such record, certified by the county recorder of the county in which the premises are situated, shall be received in evidence in the same manner and have the same force and effect as if the record were of the original instrument.

...The county recorder shall be the custodian of all records which are provided for the county and furnished under the laws of this state, providing for the registration of the graves of all persons who served in any war in which the United States had a part and who were honorably discharged from the United States army, navy, or marine or nurse corps. The recorder shall provide the necessary and proper equipment to pres...

...No county recorder, and no deputy or employee of the county recorder, shall take the acknowledgement of any instrument required to be filed or recorded in the county recorder's office.

...d in division (B) of this section, if a county recorder refuses to accept a deed or other instrument of writing presented to the recorder for recording, the legal fee for recording it being paid or tendered; or refuses to give a receipt therefor, when required; or fails to number consecutively all deeds or other instruments of writing upon receipt; or fails to index a deed or other instrument of writing, by the morni...

... easement, lien, or right-of-way, in a county in which the county recorder requires an assignment, release, partial release, satisfaction, cancellation, or waiver of priority to be made by separate instrument, the county recorder does not have the power to limit the number of assignments, releases, partial releases, satisfactions, cancellations, or waivers of priority that may be executed and recorded by means...

...(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...

...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.