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...rt of this state; the grand jury of the county; or a duly authorized representative of the governor may at any time visit and inspect any of the benevolent or correctional institutions established by a municipal corporation, and examine the books and accounts thereof.

...als, or animal offal may certify to the county auditor, by ordinance, the amount of the rate or charge that has not been paid in accordance with applicable requirements by a person using the collection or disposal services, when either of the following applies: (a) The unpaid amount is equal to or greater than two hundred fifty dollars; or (b) The unpaid amount is equal to or greater than the applicable annual ra...

....09 of the Revised Code to the board of county commissioners, such board shall forthwith appoint five resident electors of such city as enumerators, who shall perform the duties provided in sections 703.11 and 703.12 of the Revised Code. Such enumerators shall take an oath or affirmation to take the census of the city accurately to the best of their ability.

...ch shall forthwith be delivered to the county recorder, who shall record it in the official records, and the other shall be forwarded to the secretary of state.

...cretary of state, auditor of state, and county recorder, as applicable, under section 118.31 or 703.34 of the Revised Code. "Period when a dissolution is in question" means the period beginning on the date a petition under section 703.33 of the Revised Code is presented, the date an unsatisfactory finding under section 703.331 of the Revised Code is provided to a village, or the date a legal action is filed by the ...

...tion with the board of elections of the county in which such municipal corporation is situated, asking that the question of organizing the municipal corporation under any one of the plans of government provided in sections 705.41 to 705.86 of the Revised Code, be submitted to the electors thereof, such board shall at once certify that fact to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and the legislative ...

...hall not hold any other federal, state, county, or municipal office, except that of notary public or member of the state militia, nor shall they be employees in any such office.

...e by petition addressed to the board of county commissioners. No territory within the boundaries of a military base, camp, or similar installation under the jurisdiction of a military department of the United States government, that is used for the housing of members of the armed forces of the United States and is a center for military operations of the department, shall be incorporated without the approval of the s...

...oration; (B) A statement signed by the county auditor as to the total assessed valuation of the area proposed for incorporation; (C) A statement that the area consists of not less than two square miles, includes a population of not less than eight hundred persons per square mile, and has an assessed valuation of real, personal, and public utility property subject, except as otherwise provided in this division, to g...

...d in, and of general circulation in the county, for a period of three consecutive weeks.

...e considered by the board. The board of county commissioners may amend the petition on its leave. If any amendment is permitted, whereby territory not before embraced is added, the board shall appoint another time for the hearing, of which notice shall be given as specified in section 707.05 of the Revised Code.

...a petition to incorporate, the board of county commissioners shall enter an order on its journal allowing the incorporation if it finds that: (A) The petition contains all the matters required in section 707.02 of the Revised Code and the statements in the petition are true. (B) Notice has been published as is required by section 707.05 of the Revised Code. (C) The number of valid signatures on the petition consti...

...elivering a copy of the petition to the county recorder and the agent of the petitioners for the municipal corporation. On receiving such notice, the recorder shall transmit to the clerk of the court of common pleas all the papers relating to the matter of incorporation on file in the recorder's office, and in that event, no record of the papers shall be made by the recorder as provided in section 707.09 of the Revis...

...led in the court of common pleas of the county in which such municipal corporation, or the larger part thereof, is situated. A notice, setting forth the object of the petitioners, and the time when and place where such petition will be heard, shall be published for thirty days previous to the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipal corporation.

...y treasurer to the probate court of the county in which the territory is situated, be determined and ordered transferred to the village or city, in the case of real or personal property, or, in the case of funds, paid to the village or city treasurer. In determining the portion of the real and personal property and funds to which the village or city is entitled, the indebtedness of each township shall be taken int...

...e by petition addressed to the board of county commissioners. The territory proposed for incorporation as a city shall meet all of the following criteria: (1) It shall consist of not less than four square miles. (2) It shall have a population of not less than twenty-five thousand and a population density of at least one thousand persons per square mile. (3) It shall have an assessed valuation of real, personal,...

...r annexation is filed with the board of county commissioners, one or more other petitions are filed containing all or a part of the territory contained in the first petition, the board shall hear and decide the petitions in the order in which they were filed. (B) The effect of granting any petition under division (A) of this section shall be to delete from any subsequently filed petition any territory contained in t...

...ons is sufficient to grant the board of county commissioners jurisdiction to hear and render its decision on a petition for annexation filed under those sections. The board shall cure a procedural defect and shall not deny a petition for annexation solely upon the basis of procedural defects.

... application thereafter to the board of county commissioners on the same subject.

... of the township debt do not apply, the county auditor shall ascertain and apportion the amount of existing net indebtedness of the township which shall be assumed and paid by the municipal corportion. The apportionment shall be made in the proportion of the total duplicate for the annexed territory transferred to the municipal corporation to the total tax duplicate remaining in and for the unannexed portion of the t...

...ies to the agreement. (G) The board of county commissioners, by resolution, or any person, upon request, may become a party to an annexation agreement, but only upon the approval of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and each of the boards of township trustees that are parties to the agreement, except that, if the state is a party to the agreement, the director of development is responsible for g...

... clerk of the board of elections of the county in which the municipal corporation is located, to the effect that the petition does contain the names of resident electors who voted at the last regular municipal election, of a number not less than twenty-five per cent of those who voted at such election, the legislative authority shall, within thirty days after the presentation of such petition, pass an ordinance decla...

...hin such time, the probate judge of the county in which the municipal corporations are situated shall appoint one additional commissioner, who shall not be a resident of either of such municipal corporations. The additional commissioner shall act with the other commissioners appointed as provided by such sections, in arranging conditions of such annexation, and the conclusions arrived at and agreed upon by any four o...

...e filed in the official records of the county recorder, and the other shall be forwarded to the secretary of state.

...d after one of them is delivered to the county recorder and the other forwarded to the secretary of state, the annexation shall be complete and the conditions of annexation shall thereupon become operative. The municipal corporation to which the annexation is made shall pass such ordinances as will carry into effect the conditions of annexation.