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...Immediately after the filing of the application to register the title to land or to any interest therein, the probate court or the court of common pleas shall enter an order referring it to one of the examiners of titles, who shall search the records and investigate all facts stated and all allegations made in the petition, or otherwise brought to his notice. Such examiner shall investigate particularly whether the l...

...Transfers of registered land shall be made or entered in the office of the county auditor, subject to the same requirements and on payment of the same fees as provided by law for unregistered land. Upon demand and upon payment of the fee provided in section 5310.15 of the Revised Code, at the time of issuing any certificate of title to registered land, or of making any transfer of registered land, or of entry upon t...

...In all suits to sell an estate in fee in the whole of unregistered land brought by an assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors, commissioners of insolvents, receiver, master commissioner, administrator, executor, or other person appointed by a court, and in all suits to partition unregistered land held in fee, proper allegations and parties necessary to a decree for original registration of the title to said ...

...(A) A declaration submitting property to the provisions of this chapter shall be signed and acknowledged by the owner before 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 sl...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Ammunition" has the same meaning as in section 2305.401 of the Revised Code. (2) "Concealed handgun license," "deadly weapon," "firearm," and "valid concealed handgun license" have the same meanings as in section 2923.11 of the Revised Code. (3) "Licensee" has the same meaning as in section 2923.124 of the Revised Code. (B) The transport, storage, sale, transfer, commerce in,...

...The county auditor, from the best sources of information available, shall determine, as nearly as practicable, the true value of the fee simple estate, as if unencumbered but subject to any effects from the exercise of police powers or from other governmental actions, of each separate tract, lot, or parcel of real property and of buildings, structures, and improvements located thereon and the current agricultural use...

...Each separate parcel of real property shall be classified by the county auditor according to its principal, current use. Vacant lots and tracts of land upon which there are no structures or improvements shall be classified in accordance with their location and their highest and best probable legal use. In the case of lands containing or producing minerals, the minerals or any rights to the minerals that are lis...

...Immediately after each settlement required by division (C) of section 321.24 of the Revised Code, each county auditor shall compile, in substantially the same form as the list and duplicate prepared pursuant to section 319.28 of the Revised Code, a list and duplicate of all delinquent lands in the auditor's county. In any such list there may be included lands that have been omitted fr...

...Subject to division (A)(2) of this section, on receipt of a delinquent vacant land tax certificate or a master list of delinquent vacant tracts, a county prosecuting attorney shall institute a foreclosure proceeding under section 323.25, sections 323.65 to 323.79, or section 5721.18 of the Revised Code, or a foreclosure and forfeiture proceeding under this section. If the delinquent vacant land tax certificate or a m...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, the form for the advertisement of a sale conducted pursuant to section 5721.19 of the Revised Code shall be as follows: "Notice of sale under judgment of foreclosure of liens for delinquent land taxes In the _______________ court of _____________, Ohio case no. in the matter of foreclosure of liens for delinquent land taxes county treasurer of _______________...

...If the taxes and assessments charged on land or lots are regularly paid in full, and such land is erroneously returned delinquent, and the land is listed on the delinquent land tax certificate record or master list of delinquent lands, the county auditor shall correct the duplicate and issue an abatement for penalties and interest added to such land on account of such error, the same as provided for in making errors ...

...(A) When an electing subdivision purchases nonproductive land under section 5722.03 or 5722.04 of the Revised Code, the county auditor shall remove from the auditor's tax lists and duplicates all taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, and interest that are due and payable on the land at the time of the sale in the same manner as if the property had been sold to any other buyer at the for...

...If the taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest, and costs due on the forfeited lands have not been paid when the county auditor fixes the date for the sale of forfeited lands, the auditor shall give notice of them once a week for two consecutive weeks prior to the date fixed by the auditor for the sale, as provided in section 5721.03 of the Revised Code. The notice shall state that if the taxes, assessments,...

...(A) The notice of sale prescribed in section 5723.05 of the Revised Code, shall be in substance as follows: FORFEITED LAND SALES The lands, lots, and parts of lots, in the county of _________________, forfeited to the state for the nonpayment of taxes, together with the taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest, and costs charged on them, agreeably to law, and the dates on which the lands, lots, and parts ...

...If the board of appraisers of a conservancy district finds that lands or other property not embraced within the boundaries of the district will be affected by the proposed improvement, or should be included in the district, it shall appraise the benefits and damages to such land, and shall file notice in the court of the appraisal which it has made upon the lands beyond the boundaries of the district, and to the land...

...(A) In any orders of court the words "The court now here finds that it hath jurisdiction of the parties to and of the subject matter of this proceeding" are equivalent to a finding that each jurisdictional fact necessary to confer plenary jurisdiction upon the court, beginning with the proper signing and filing of the initial petition to the date of the order, meets every legal requirement imposed by sections 6115.01...

...(A) A petition filed under section 709.021 of the Revised Code that requests to follow this section is for the special procedure of annexing land into a municipal corporation when, subject to division (H) of this section, the land also is not to be excluded from the township under section 503.07 of the Revised Code. The owners who sign this petition by their signature expressly waive their right to appeal in law or e...

...The freehold electors owning lands in any portion of a village, such portion being contiguous to an adjoining township, and comprising not less than one thousand five hundred acres of land, may file a petition with the board of elections in such county requesting that an election be held to obtain the opinion of the freehold electors owning lands and residing within such portion of the village upon the question...

...If, upon the hearing of a cause of action as provided by section 709.41 of the Revised Code, the court of common pleas finds that the lands are farm lands, and are not within the original limits of the municipal corporation, that by reason of the same being or remaining within the municipal corporation the owner thereof is taxed and will continue to be taxed thereon for municipal purposes in substantial excess of the...

...1.09 of the Revised Code and all other officers of the village shall be elected under Chapter 733. of the Revised Code.

...The proceeds from the sale of bonds issued under section 747.07 of the Revised Code may be used by the board of rapid transit commissioners for the construction in, through, on, over, upon, or under any canal lands or property leased by the city from this state, or any lands, right of ways, or property outside of such canal lands, whether within or without the city, of depots and terminals for interurban, suburban, r...

...(A) A law enforcement officer who issues a ticket for a land use infraction under this chapter shall complete the ticket by identifying the land use infraction charged and indicating the date, time, and place of the infraction. The officer shall sign the ticket and affirm the facts it contains. If the offender is present, the officer also shall record on the ticket the name of the offender in a space provided on the...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Agricultural production" has the same meaning as in section 929.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Agritourism" means an agriculturally related educational, entertainment, historical, cultural, or recreational activity, including you-pick operations or farm markets, conducted on a farm that allows or invites members of the general public to observe, participate in, or enjoy that activity...

...(A) No public or private agency, as defined in section 163.01 of the Revised Code, shall appropriate more than ten acres or ten per cent of an individual property under one ownership and currently used in agricultural production in an agricultural district, whichever is greater, except as provided in this section. No state agency, municipal corporation, county, township, or other political subdivision or taxing autho...

...(A) After preparing an estimate of the cost of a proposed improvement, the board of supervisors of a soil and water conservation district or its designee shall prepare a schedule of estimated assessments on land within the area that will be benefited by a proposed improvement. The board shall include in the schedule the name and address of each landowner whose parcel of land will be benefited by the proposed improvem...