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...ning on the date of implementation in a county that has abolished land registration, the county recorder shall: (A) Continue all certificates of title that, on the date of implementation, were transcribed or bound in the register of titles, to reflect both of the following: (1) Conveyances and encumbrances occurring prior to the date of implementation that, as of the date of implementation were not noted on the cer...

... a judge or clerk of a court of record, county auditor, county engineer, notary public, or mayor, who shall certify the acknowledgment and subscribe the certificate of acknowledgment. (B) A declaration shall contain all of the following: (1) A legal description of the land or, for a water slip condominium property, of the land and the land under the water area, submitted to the provisions of this chapter; (2) T...

...ed in the office of the recorder of the county or counties in which the land or water slips described in the declaration are situated. All original declarations when filed shall be accompanied by a set of drawings of the condominium property as required by section 5311.07 of the Revised Code and a true copy of the bylaws of the unit owners association as required by section 5311.08 of the Revised Code. (2) Any amen...

...shall be filed with the recorder of the county or counties in which the condominium property is situated and recorded by each recorder. The certificate shall be signed as follows: (1) By the president or other chief officer of the unit owners association, who shall certify in the certificate under oath that all liens and encumbrances, except taxes and assessments of political subdivisions not then due and payab...

...rd in the office of the recorder of the county or counties in which the condominium property is situated pursuant to an authorization given by the board of directors of the unit owners association. The certificate shall contain a description of the unit, the name of the record owner of the unit, and the amount of the unpaid portion of the common expenses and, subject to subsequent adjustments, any unpaid interest, ad...

...d in the office of the recorder of the county or counties in which the lot is situated, pursuant to authorization by the board of directors of the owners association. The certificate shall contain a description of the lot, the name of the record owner of the lot, and the amount of the unpaid assessment or charge. It shall be subscribed to by the president of the board or other designated representative of the o...

... of the contract to be delivered to the county auditor. (D) Every land installment contract shall conform to the formalities required by law for the execution of deeds and mortgages. The vendor of any land installment contract that contains a metes and bounds legal description shall have that description reviewed by the county engineer. The county engineer shall indicate his approval of the description on the contr...

...e. (D) "Political subdivision" means a county that has a population of more than two hundred thousand according to the most recent decennial census or a township, municipal corporation, or other body corporate and politic that is located in a county that has a population of more than two hundred thousand according to the most recent decennial census and is responsible for government activities in a geographic ...

...he director may contract with regional, county, or municipal planning commissions or county engineers having adequate staffs, and with planning agencies of adjacent states, for the preparation of comprehensive transportation and land use studies and major thoroughfare reports, or parts thereof, and pay the commissions, county engineers, or planning agencies of adjacent states for such work from funds available ...

...thority of a municipal corporation or a county, upon mutually agreeable terms, for the municipal corporation or county to operate and perform major maintenance and repair on any bridge located on the state highway system within the municipal corporation or county. (C) The director is not required to obtain the consent of a municipal corporation prior to the performance of any major bridge maintenance and repair. E...

...he governor of this state, the board of county commissioners of any county, the board of township trustees of any township, or the mayor or city manager of any municipal corporation within this state. (D) "Civil defense" is an integral part of emergency management that includes all those activities and measures designed or undertaken to minimize the effects upon the civilian population caused or that would be ...

...rative planning districts, metropolitan county criminal justice services agencies, criminal justice coordinating councils, agencies, offices, and departments of the criminal justice system in the state, and other appropriate organizations and persons; (4) Encourage and assist agencies, offices, and departments of the criminal justice system in the state and other appropriate organizations and persons to solve pr...

...ster in English, Spanish, and, for each county, any other language required for voting materials in that county under section 1973aa-1a of the "Voting Rights Act of 1965," 79 Stat. 437, 42 U.S.C. 1973, as amended. In addition to the national human trafficking resource center hotline, the statement may contain any additional hotlines regarding human trafficking for access to help and services. (2) The division shall...

... director of transportation or board of county commissioners deems it necessary, at or near railroad crossings, to remove buildings or other obstructions near such crossings, they shall, by resolution, declare it necessary to appropriate such buildings or other obstructions and the ground upon which they are located, if deemed advisable, and cause notice of the passage of such resolution to be served upon owners of t...

...es not affect the authority of a state, county, municipal, or other local zoning authority to zone areas for commercial or industrial purposes under its respective zoning laws. Whenever a state, county, municipal, or other local zoning authority has adopted comprehensive zoning and established rules and regulations controlling the size, lighting, and spacing of outdoor advertising devices, that are equivalent to and ...

...ng on the proposed sound barrier in the county in which it is to be located. Once a week for two successive weeks, the director shall publish notice of all hearings on the proposed sound barrier in one or more newspapers of general circulation in the county in which the proposed sound barrier is to be located. The notice shall state the time and place of all hearings. The director or his designee and at least o...

...Where the board of county commissioners, under authority of section 5521.02 of the Revised Code, co-operate with the director of transportation in any work within a municipal corporation, such board and the legislative authority of the municipal corporation may co-operate with respect to such work, and the legislative authority of the municipal corporation may assume and pay such portion of that part of the entire co...

...of general circulation published in the county in which the improvement or part thereof is located, but if there is no such newspaper then in one newspaper having general circulation in an adjacent county. In the alternative, the director may advertise for bids as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. The director shall advertise for bids in such other publications as the director considers advisable. Such no...

...newspaper of general circulation in the county. A notice of such sale may also be published in one or more financial journals of national circulation. Notice of the sale of bonds or other obligations having a maturity of one year or less shall be published once, at least ten full days before the date of such sale, in one or more newspapers published in and of general circulation in Franklin county and in one or more...

... the owners of property adjoining inter-county and state highways, at their own expense, to locate and plant trees and shrubs along such highways, subject to his approval as to kind, size, and location. The county engineer shall have the same authority on county roads and the board of township trustees on township roads.

...al hearing with the municipal court or county court having jurisdiction over the location of the toll project. The toll project operator may initiate collection procedures that are regulated by federal law against such a registered owner if, at the appeal hearing conducted by the municipal court or county court described in section 5533.144 of the Revised Code, the court finds that the registered owner is liab...

...d southwesterly direction within Warren county only, shall be known as the "Warren County Veterans Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...ng at the village of Aberdeen, in Brown county, as the junction of United States route number fifty-two, and extending through the counties of Adams, Highland, and Pike to the junction of state route number forty-one with state route number fifty, at the west junction thereof, in Ross county, shall be known as the "Old Zane Trace Memorial Highway." The director of transportation shall erect suitable markers upon sa...

...ing in the city of Springfield in Clark county and extending through the counties of Greene and Clinton to the junction it makes with United States route sixty-two in Highland county, shall be known as the "Simon Kenton Trace Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers upon said highway indicating its name.

...irection from the city of Toledo, Lucas county, through the counties of Wood, Hancock, Allen, Auglaize, Shelby, Miami, Montgomery and Warren to the city of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, shall be known as the "American Legion Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers upon such highway indicating its name.

...The board of library trustees of any county, municipal corporation, school district, or township public library by a vote of two-thirds of all its members may at any time declare by resolution that the amount of taxes which may be raised within the ten-mill limitation by levies on the current tax duplicate will be insufficient to provide an adequate amount for the necessary requirements of the public library, t...

...ority, together with an estimate by the county auditor of the rate of each tax necessary to be levied by the taxing authority within its subdivision, taxing unit, or, in the case of a qualifying library levy, within the library district or association library district, and what part thereof is in excess of, and what part within, the ten-mill tax limitation. The certification shall also indicate the date on which each...

... other taxing unit shall certify to the county auditor the total amount from all sources available for expenditures from each fund set up in the tax budget or, if adoption of a tax budget was waived under section 5705.281 of the Revised Code, from each fund created by or on behalf of the taxing authority. The amount certified shall include any unencumbered balances that existed at the end of the preceding year. A s...

...item to another, except that a board of county commissioners shall, at the request of the county board of elections, adopt a resolution to transfer funds from one appropriation item of the board of elections to another appropriation item of the board of elections unless the board of county commissioners determines that the transfer is sought for the purpose of providing employee bonuses or salary increases other than...

...oval of a tax levy by the electors of a county under section 5705.191 of the Revised Code for the purpose of providing funds for the acquisition or construction of a specific permanent improvement or class of permanent improvements for the county, the total anticipated proceeds from such levy are deemed appropriated for such purpose by the taxing authority of the county, and are deemed in process of collection within...

...f the chairman of the commission of the county in which the greatest value of taxable property of such taxing district is located, and adjust the rates of taxation for the purpose of such district so as to enforce the limitations on the tax rate prescribed by law and to produce uniform rates throughout the district. The levies for such taxing district purposes shall not be reduced by such joint budget commission belo...

...The authorities of a county, city, or township which have subscribed to the capital stock of a railroad company and have issued its bonds or other securities for the payment of such subscription, may levy annually on the taxable property thereof, within five years next before the principal of such bonds or other securities is payable, if the market price of the stock of such railroad company is less than seventy-five...

... of parking thereon, property used as a county fairgrounds that is owned by the board of county commissioners, property owned by a county agricultural society that is used in furtherance of the purposes of the society, and property of housing authorities created and organized under and for the purposes of sections 3735.27 to 3735.50 of the Revised Code, which property is hereby declared to be public property used exc...

...ted to the municipal corporation by the county treasurer as provided in section 5709.42 of the Revised Code for improvements exempt from taxation pursuant to an ordinance adopted under section 5709.41 of the Revised Code. Moneys deposited in the urban redevelopment tax increment equivalent fund shall be used for such purposes as are authorized in the resolution or ordinance establishing the fund. The municipal corpor...

...ervice payments in lieu of taxes to the county treasurer on or before the final dates for payment of real property taxes. Each such payment shall be charged and collected in the same manner and in the same amount as the real property taxes that would have been charged and payable against the improvement if it were not exempt from taxation. If any reduction in the levies otherwise applicable to such exempt property is...

...ard of township trustees, or a board of county commissioners may amend or provide in an ordinance or resolution adopted in accordance with division (B) of section 5709.40, section 5709.41, division (B) of section 5709.73, or division (A) of section 5709.78 of the Revised Code, as applicable, to extend the exemption from taxation of improvements to the parcel or parcels designated in the ordinance or resolution for an...

...ervice payments in lieu of taxes to the county treasurer on or before the final dates for payment of real property taxes. Each payment shall be charged and collected in the same manner and in the same amount as the real property taxes that would have been charged and payable against any improvement made on the parcel if it were not exempt from taxation. If any reduction in the levies otherwise applicable to the exemp...

...axes distributed to the township by the county treasurer as provided in section 5709.74 of the Revised Code for improvements exempt from taxation pursuant to an ordinance adopted under section 5709.41 of the Revised Code. Moneys deposited in the redevelopment tax increment equivalent fund shall be used for such purposes as are authorized in the resolution establishing the fund. (C)(1)(a) A township may distribute ...

...tion 3735.67 of the Revised Code to the county auditor, the legislative authority of the political subdivision, governing board of a regional transportation improvement project, or housing officer shall notify the board of education of each city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district in which the proposed tax-exempted property is located. The notice shall include a copy of the instrument or app...

...insert name of municipal corporation or county) shall perform such acts as are reasonably necessary or appropriate to effect, claim, reserve, and maintain exemptions from taxation granted under this agreement, including, without limitation, joining in the execution of all documentation and providing any necessary certificates required in connection with such exemptions." (5) "__________ (insert name of enterprise) s...

...te or the auditor and treasurer of each county having any part of the penalty assessment entered on the tax list or duplicate. The commissioner shall review the petition without the need for hearing. If it appears that the failure of the taxpayer to timely return or list as required under this chapter, or to file a complying report and pay tax under Chapter 5725. of the Revised Code, whichever the case may be, was du...

...If necessary, the board of county commissioners may provide for the appointment of a resident deputy county treasurer and fix his compensation.

...s and descriptions furnished him by the county auditor and other sources of information, shall make a correct and pertinent description of each tract and lot of real property in his district. When he deems it necessary to obtain an accurate description of any separate tract or lot in his district, he may require the owner or occupier thereof to furnish such description, with any title papers he has in his possession....

...(A) Whenever the county auditor reenters an item of property to the tax list as provided in section 5713.08 of the Revised Code and there has been no conveyance of the property between separate entities, the auditor shall send notice to the owner of the property e ither by certified mail or, if the auditor has record of an internet identifier of record associated with the owner, by ordinary mail and by that internet ...

...The county auditor shall ascertain from the owner or his agent the amount of the mortgage indebtedness upon each tract and lot in any district. The blanks necessary for the purpose of this section and sections 5713.02 and 5713.03 of the Revised Code shall be furnished by the auditor and paid for by the board of county commissioners out of the county treasury.

...en the title papers are produced to the county auditor, he may plat, allot, and number said subdivisions. The plat made by the auditor shall be recorded upon the records of deeds of the county. After it has been platted and numbered by the auditor, or by the county engineer, it shall be sufficient for all purposes of taxation to enter such subdivisions upon the duplicate by their numbers, as provided by law for sepa...

...The county auditor, if he ascertains that a mistake was made in the valuation of an improvement or betterment of real property or that its valuation was omitted, shall return the correct taxable value, after giving notice to the owner or agent thereof of his intention to do so. Additions made by the auditor pursuant to this section shall be listed upon the grand duplicate of the county and placed in the hands of the...

...(A) The county auditor shall make and maintain an "agricultural land tax list," on forms prescribed by the tax commissioner, listing each tract, lot or parcel of land which has been valued for tax purposes as land devoted exclusively to agricultural use under section 5713.31 of the Revised Code, showing: (1) The name of the owner; (2) A description of the land; (3) The current agricultural use value and taxable va...

...of a tract, lot, or parcel of land, the county auditor shall divide any numbered permanent parcel into economic units and value each unit individually for the purpose of levying the charge under division (A)(1) of this section against only the converted portion. (3) A charge shall not be levied under this section for the conversion of a portion of a tract, lot, or parcel of land devoted exclusively to agricultural ...

...les provided to the commissioner by the county auditor. That sample shall include only open market arms' length sales occurring during the three years prior to the tax year to which the sample is applied between a willing seller to a willing buyer for a current like use within the class or classes of real property sampled. Where there are not sufficient arms' length sales to constitute a representative sampling for s...