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...Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, before entering upon the duties of office, the county recorder shall give a bond, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties, signed by a bonding or surety company authorized to do business in this state, or, at the recorder's option, by two or more freeholders having real estate in the value of double the amount of the bond over and above ...

...No instrument by which the title to real estate or personal property or any interest therein or lien thereon, is conveyed, created, encumbered, assigned, discharged, canceled or otherwise disposed of, shall be received for record or filing by the county recorder, if the signatures of the persons signing such instrument are illegibly written, unless the name of each person who in any capacity signed such instrument, a...

...No instrument by which the title to real estate or personal property, or any interest therein or lien thereon, is conveyed, created, encumbered, assigned, or otherwise disposed of, shall be received for record or filing by the county recorder unless the name of the person who, and governmental agency, if any, that prepared the instrument appears upon the instrument, and the name is either printed, typewritten, ...

...The county recorder shall keep a daily register of deeds and mortgages, in which shall be noted, as soon as filed, in alphabetical order according to the names of the grantors, respectively, all deeds and mortgages affecting real estate, filed in the county recorder's office. The county recorder shall keep the register in the county recorder's office, and it shall be open to the inspection of the public during ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Authorized party" means any of the following: (a) The person who is the subject of the record of discharge; (b) A county veterans service officer who is certified by the department of veterans services; (c) An attorney-in-fact, agent, or other representative of the person who is the subject of the record of discharge, if authorized to inspect or copy the record of discharge by th...

...The county recorder shall charge and collect fees to include, except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, base fees for the recorder's services and housing trust fund fees collected pursuant to section 317.36 of the Revised Code, and may charge and collect a document preservation surcharge, as follows: (A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, for recording and in...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of office, the county auditor shall give a bond signed by a bonding or surety company authorized to do business in this state and to be approved by the board of county commissioners, or, at the auditor's option, by two or more freeholders having real estate in the value of double the amount of the bon...

...If a transfer of real estate is fraudulently or improperly obtained, or the just proportion of valuation is not transferred with the part of a lot or tract transferred, the county auditor may cancel such transfer and, if necessary, he shall return the proper valuation.

...Whenever a portion of a tract or parcel of real estate is conveyed to another owner, and such tract or parcel bears unpaid special assessments, the authority certifying such assessments shall, on request of the county auditor, furnish the auditor with the proportionate amounts of the assessments to be allocated to the portion of the original tract or parcel so conveyed to another owner, and the lien of the assessment...

...At the time of closing the books at the end of each collection of taxes, the county treasurer shall make to the county auditor a statement showing the amount of taxes received in each taxing district in the county since the last settlement, under the following heads: Inheritance tax, estate tax, dog tax, general tax, and classified tax. The treasurer shall keep such accounts, in books provided for that purpose, as w...

...(A) In each county treasury there shall be created the treasurer's delinquent tax and assessment collection fund and the prosecuting attorney's delinquent tax and assessment collection fund. Except as otherwise provided in this division, two and one-half per cent of all delinquent real property, personal property, and manufactured and mobile home taxes and assessments collected by the county treasurer shall be ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Taxpayer" means any person in whose name a parcel of property or manufactured or mobile home is listed on the tax duplicate or a vendee of such property under a purchase agreement or land contract. (2) "Prepayment" means any amount given to the county treasurer by a taxpayer under this section for the treasurer to apply as payment of the taxpayer's total taxes due in accordance wit...

...Except as otherwise provided, as used in Chapter 323. of the Revised Code: (A) "Subdivision" means any county, township, school district, or municipal corporation. (B) "Municipal corporation" includes charter municipalities. (C) "Taxes" means the total amount of all charges against an entry appearing on a tax list and the duplicate thereof that was prepared and certified in accordance with section 319.28 of the Re...

...As used in sections 323.02 to 323.05 of the Revised Code, "taxes" means taxes levied against real estate and general taxes levied against tangible personal property and all delinquencies.

...The lien of the state for taxes levied for all purposes on the real and public utility tax list and duplicate for each year shall attach to all real property subject to such taxes on the first day of January, annually, or as provided in section 5727.06 of the Revised Code, and continue until such taxes, including any penalties, interest, or other charges accruing thereon, are paid. Taxes may be apportioned in case o...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in section 323.134 of the Revised Code, immediately upon receipt of any tax duplicate from the county auditor, but not less than twenty days prior to the last date on which the first one-half taxes may be paid without penalty as prescribed in section 323.12 or 323.17 of the Revised Code, the county treasurer shall cause to be prepared and mailed or delivered to each person charged on such du...

...(A) In lieu of utilizing the judicial foreclosure proceedings and other procedures and remedies available under sections 323.25 to 323.28 or under Chapter 5721., 5722., or 5723. of the Revised Code, a county board of revision created under section 5715.01 of the Revised Code, upon the board's initiative, expressed by resolution, may foreclose the state's lien for real estate taxes upon abandoned lan...

...(A)(1) The granting of vacation leave under division (A)(1) of this section is subject to divisions (A)(2) and (3) of this section. Each full-time employee in the several offices and departments of the county service, including full-time hourly rate employees, after service of one year with the county or any political subdivision of the state, shall have earned and will be due upon the attainment of the first year of...

...(A) The board of directors of a joint county department of job and family services formed under section 329.40 of the Revised Code may acquire, by purchase or lease, real property, equipment, and systems to improve, maintain, or operate family service programs within the territory served by the joint county department. A board of county commissioners may acquire, within its county, real property or any estate, ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Campaign committee" means a candidate or a combination of two or more persons authorized by a candidate to receive contributions and in-kind contributions and make expenditures on behalf of the candidate. (2) "Candidate" means an individual who has been nominated pursuant to section 3307.07 of the Revised Code for election to the state teachers retirement board or who is seeking to...

...(A)(1) Subject to section 3307.37 of the Revised Code and except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, a member participating in the STRS defined benefit plan who ceases to be a teacher for any cause other than death, retirement, receipt of a disability benefit, or current employment in a position in which the member has elected to participate in an alternative retirement plan under section 3305.05 or 3305....

...For the purposes of this section, "service credit" includes only service credit obtained pursuant to sections 3307.53, 3307.71, 3307.712, 3307.72, and 3307.77 of the Revised Code. (A) The state teachers retirement system shall add to a member's accumulated contributions to be paid under section 3307.56 or 3307.562 of the Revised Code an amount paid from the employers' trust fund equal to one of the following: (1) I...

...(A) Upon application for retirement as provided in section 3307.58 or 3307.59 of the Revised Code, the retirant may elect a plan of payment under this division or, on and after the date specified in division (B) of this section, a plan of payment under that division. Under this division, the retirant may elect to receive a single lifetime benefit, or may elect to receive the actuarial equivalent of the retirant's ben...

...On the death of a retirant or disability benefit recipient who at the time of death is receiving, under the STRS defined benefit plan, a service retirement allowance or disability benefit, the state teachers retirement system shall make a lump-sum payment of one thousand dollars to any designated or qualified beneficiary under division (D)(1) of section 3307.562 of the Revised Code. If there is no beneficiary, ...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Employer" or "public employer" means boards of education, school districts, joint vocational districts, governing authorities of community schools established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code, educational institutions, technical colleges, state, municipal, and communit...