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...ce all provisions of the declaration, bylaws, covenants, conditions, restrictions, and articles of incorporation governing the lots, common elements, and limited common elements; (5) Adopt and enforce rules that regulate the maintenance, repair, replacement, modification, and appearance of common elements, and any other rules as the declaration provides; (6) Acquire, encumber, and convey or otherwise transfer rea...

...andards set forth in the declaration, bylaws, or rules the board promulgates. The standards may include, but are not limited to, standards governing the type of documents that are subject to examination and copying, the times and locations at which those documents may be examined or copied, and the specification of a reasonable fee for copying the documents. (B) Unless approved by the board of directors, an owner ...

...(A) Unless otherwise provided by the declaration, the owners association is responsible for reasonable maintenance, repair, and replacement of the common elements, and each owner is responsible for maintenance, repair, and replacement of the owner's lot and improvements to that lot, including the dwelling unit and the utility lines serving that dwelling unit. (B) An owner shall permit agents or employees of th...

...(A)(1) The owners association may not assign the right to common assessments, or the future income from those assessments, or convey any fee interest or any security interest in any portion of the common elements unless the declaration specifically provides for such a conveyance or seventy-five per cent of the voting power of the owners association, or any larger percentage the declaration specifies, approves t...

...to exceed any maximum rate permitted by law. (C)(1) The board may not charge assessments for common expenses unless the declaration provides for or contemplates the charging of such assessments. (2) The board may not increase any assessment for common expenses when the declaration limits the amount of such assessments unless the owners amend the declaration as provided in division (A) of section 5312.05 of the...

...) Costs or charges the declaration or bylaws permit. (B) Unless otherwise provided by the declaration, bylaws, or rules, the owners association shall credit any amount it receives from a lot owner pursuant to this section in the following order: (1) To interest owed to the owners association; (2) To administrative late fees or enforcement assessments owed to the owners association; (3) To collection costs, at...

...tisfied in the same manner provided by law for the release and satisfaction of mortgages on real property or unless it is discharged by the final judgment or order of a court in an action brought to discharge the lien as provided in this section. (4) The lien is prior to any lien or encumbrance subsequently arising or created, except liens for real estate taxes and assessments of political subdivisions and lie...

... residents, tenants, and other persons lawfully in possession and control of any part of an ownership interest shall comply with any covenant, condition, and restriction set forth in any recorded document to which they are subject, and with the bylaws and the rules of the owners association, as lawfully amended. Any violation is grounds for the owners association or any owner to commence a civil action for dam...

...In any action relating to the common elements or to any right, duty, or obligation possessed or imposed upon the owners association by statute or otherwise, the owners association may sue or be sued as a separate legal entity. Service of summons or other process may be made upon the owners association by serving the process personally upon the president of the board of directors or the person named as statutory...

...This chapter shall be construed to establish a uniform framework for the operation and management of planned communities in this state and to supplement any planned community governing document that is in existence on the effective date of this chapter. In the event of a specific conflict between this chapter and express requirements or restrictions in such a governing document, the governing document shall control. ...

...(A) Unless specifically prohibited in the declaration, any owner may install a solar energy collection device on the owner's dwelling unit or other location within the owner's lot if either of the following conditions apply: (1) The cost to insure, maintain, repair, and replace the unit's roof or alternative location within the lot is not a common expense of the owners association and is instead the owner's respons...

...have assumed, in the manner provided by law, the custody and control of the funds of the university, the chief accounting officer of the university shall perform, with respect to the funds, the duties vested in the fiscal officer of the subdivision by sections 5705.41 and 5705.44 of the Revised Code; in the case of a school district, the treasurer of the board of education; in the case of a county school financing di...

...The aggregate amount of taxes that may be levied on any taxable property in any subdivision or other taxing unit shall not in any one year exceed ten mills on each dollar of tax valuation of such subdivision or other taxing unit, except for taxes specifically authorized to be levied in excess thereof. The limitation provided by this section shall be known as the "ten-mill limitation," and wherever said term is used i...

...y in the same manner and under the same laws and rules as are prescribed for the assessment and collection of county taxes. The proceeds of any tax levied by or for any subdivision when received by its fiscal officer shall be deposited in its treasury to the credit of the appropriate fund.

...ral levy for debt charges authorized by law or by vote of the people in excess of the ten-mill limitation; (E) Other special or general levies authorized by law or by vote of the people in excess of the ten-mill limitation.

...he general or special powers granted by law to such subdivision, including the acquisition or construction of permanent improvements and the payment of judgments, but excluding the payment of debt charges and, in the case of counties, the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, or repair of roads and bridges. The power to include in the general levy for current expenses additional amounts for purposes for which a ...

...which the subdivision is authorized by law to acquire, construct, or improve, or any class of such improvements which could be included in a single bond issue; (B) A levy for the library purposes of the subdivision, in accordance with the provisions of the Revised Code authorizing levies for such purposes, but only to the extent so authorized; (C) In the case of a municipal corporation, a levy for a municipal uni...

...ation by a vote of the people under the law applicable thereto, irrespective of all limitations on the tax rate.

...On or before the first Monday in May of each year, the fiscal officer of each subdivision, except school districts and the city of Cincinnati, shall certify to its taxing authority the amount necessary to provide for the payment of final judgments against the subdivision, except in condemnation of property cases. The taxing authority shall place such certified amount in each budget and in the annual appropriati...

...han the general property tax, which the law requires to be used for a particular purpose; (G) A special fund for each public utility operated by a subdivision; (H) A trust fund for any amount received by a subdivision in trust.

...de and not required by state or federal law to be deposited to the credit of a different fund shall also be deposited to the credit of the county developmental disabilities general fund, in an account appropriate to the particular purpose for which the money was received. Unless otherwise provided by law, an unexpended balance at the end of a fiscal year in any account in the county developmental disabilities general...

...r a particular purpose is prescribed by law, shall be paid into the general fund. (B) All revenue derived from general or special levies for debt charges, whether within or in excess of the ten-mill limitation, which is levied for the debt charges on serial bonds, notes, or certificates of indebtedness having a life less than five years, shall be paid into the bond retirement fund; and all such revenue which is lev...

...Whenever lands are removed from the tax duplicate of a county under the act of June 28, 1938, 45 Stat. 535, 33 U.S.C.A. 701b, or the "Flood Control Act of 1954," 68 Stat. 1266, U.S.C.A. 701c-3, and the federal government makes payments to the county in lieu of the general real property taxes, in the form of rents or otherwise, such revenues shall be distributed by the board of county commissioners to the taxing distr...

...In addition to the funds provided for by sections 5705.09, 5705.121, 5705.13, and 5705.131 of the Revised Code, the taxing authority of a subdivision may establish, with the approval of and in the manner prescribed by the auditor of state, such other funds as are desirable, and may provide by ordinance or resolution that money derived from specified sources other than the general property tax shall be paid directly i...

...may establish in the manner provided by law a sanitary police pension fund, an urban redevelopment tax increment equivalent fund, or a cemetery fund. A township may establish by law a cemetery fund. A subdivision that levies a tax for the purpose described in division (ZZ) or (AAA) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code shall establish a general capital and infrastructure fund to which the proceeds from that le...