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...ses: the preservation of land areas for public outdoor recreation or education, or scenic enjoyment; the preservation of historically important land areas or structures; or the protection of natural environmental systems. Such a charitable organization also may acquire and hold agricultural easements subject to the limitation that it may do so only on land that is valued for purposes of real property taxation at its ...

... may receive and expend grants from any public or private source for the purpose of purchasing agricultural easements and supervising and enforcing them.

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, board of county commissioners of a county, or board of township trustees of a township, in addition to the legislative authority's or board's other powers, may hold land or interests in land for the purpose of retaining the use of the land predominantly in agriculture. The authority and boards may do all things necessary or appropriate to achieve that purpose, in...

...nt, or condition that does not meet the requirements of those sections. The terms of a conservation easement may be enforced by injunction or in any other civil action by the holder of the easement.

... (C) This section does not affect the requirements of section 5301.01 of the Revised Code.

... and use limitations and that meets the requirements established in section 5301.82 of the Revised Code. (E) "Environmental response project" means a plan or work performed for environmental remediation of real property or for protection of ecological features associated with real property and conducted as follows: (1) Under a federal or state program governing environmental remediation of real property that is...

...(A) Any person, including a person that owns an interest in the real property that is the subject of an environmental covenant, may be a holder. An environmental covenant may identify more than one holder. (B) The interest of a holder is an interest in real property. However, a right of an agency under sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code or under an environmental covenant, other than a right as a holder,...

... limitations on the real property; (4) Requirements for notice following transfer of a specified interest in, or concerning proposed changes in the use of, applications for building permits for, or proposals for any site work affecting contamination on, the property that is subject to the environmental covenant; (5) The name or identity of every holder; (6) Rights of access to the property granted in connection wi...

...(A) A copy of an environmental covenant shall be provided to all of the following in a manner required by the applicable agency: (1) Each person that signed the environmental covenant; (2) Each person holding a recorded interest in the real property that is subject to the environmental covenant; (3) Each person in possession of the real property that is subject to the environmental covenant; (4) Each unit of loca...

...An agency is bound by any obligation that it expressly assumes in an environmental covenant, but an agency does not assume obligations merely by signing an environmental covenant. Any other person that signs an environmental covenant is bound by the obligations that the person assumes in the environmental covenant, but signing the environmental covenant does not change obligations, rights, or protections that are gra...

...e of property that does not satisfy the requirements of division (A) of section 5301.82 of the Revised Code and does not have the permission, approval, or consent of an agency, political subdivision, regulatory body, or other unit of government. However, a restrictive covenant, institutional control, easement, servitude, or other restriction on the use of property entered into or recorded without such permission, app...

...With respect to interests in real property in existence at the time that an environmental covenant is created or amended, all of the following apply: (A) An interest that has priority under other law is not affected by an environmental covenant unless the person that owns the interest agrees to subordinate that interest to the environmental covenant. (B) Sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code do not requir...

...Sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code do not authorize a use of real property that is otherwise prohibited by zoning, by law other than sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code regulating use of real property, or by a recorded instrument that has priority over an environmental covenant. An environmental covenant may prohibit or restrict uses of real property that are authorized by zoning or by law ot...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, an environmental covenant and any amendment or termination of the environmental covenant shall be filed in the office of the county recorder of each county in which the real property that is subject to the environmental covenant is located and shall be recorded in the same manner as a deed to the property. For purposes of indexing, a holder shall be tr...

...(A) An environmental covenant is perpetual unless any of the following applies: (1) The environmental covenant is limited by its terms to a specific duration or is terminated by its terms by the occurrence of a specific event. (2) The environmental covenant is terminated by consent pursuant to section 5301.90 of the Revised Code. (3) The environmental covenant is terminated pursuant to division (B) of this section...

...(A) An environmental covenant may be amended or terminated by consent only if the amendment or termination is signed by all of the following: (1) The applicable agency; (2) Unless waived by that agency, the current owner of the fee simple of the real property that is subject to the environmental covenant; (3) Each person that originally signed the environmental covenant unless one or more of the following ap...

...(A) A civil action for injunctive or other equitable relief for violation of an environmental covenant may be maintained by any of the following: (1) A party to the environmental covenant specified in division (A) of section 5301.90 of the Revised Code that is not otherwise specified in divisions (A)(2) to (7) of this section; (2) The environmental protection agency; (3) The applicable agency if it is other ...

...Sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code modify, limit, or supersede the "Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act," 114 Stat. 464 (2000), 15 U.S.C. 7001 et seq., as amended, except that sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code do not modify, limit, or supersede section 101 of that act, 15 U.S.C. 7001(a), as amended, or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in se...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "PACE" means property assessed clean energy. (2) "Qualifying residential real property" means a single family residential dwelling, or other residential dwelling of three or fewer units. (3) "Residential PACE lien" means the encumbrance on the qualifying residential real property created by the special assessment for a residential PACE loan. (4) "Residential PACE loan" means t...

...(A) As used in this section, "right-to-list home sale agreement" has the same meaning as in section 4735.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A right-to-list home sale agreement executed, modified, or extended after the effective date of this section is void ab initio and unenforceable. (C) A right-to-list home sale agreement described in division (B) of this section is an unfair or deceptive act or practice in violatio...

...(A) Any individual, corporation, or other business entity that violates section 5301.254 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five thousand dollars nor more than an amount equal to twenty-five percent of the market value of the real property or mineral or mining rights about which information must be filed with the secretary of state pursuant to section 5301.254 of the Revised Code. (B) Whoever violates ...

...The forms set forth in sections 5302.05, 5302.07, 5302.09, 5302.11, 5302.12, 5302.14, 5302.17, and 5302.31 of the Revised Code may be used and shall be sufficient for their respective purposes. They shall be known as "Statutory Forms" and may be referred to as such. They may be altered as circumstances require, and the authorization of those forms shall not prevent the use of other forms. Wherever the phrases defined...

...The rules and definitions contained in sections 5302.03, 5302.04, 5302.06, 5302.08, 5302.10, 5302.13, 5302.17, 5302.18, 5302.19, 5302.20, and 5302.21 of the Revised Code apply to all deeds or other instruments relating to real estate, whether the statutory forms or other forms are used, where the instruments are executed on or after October 1, 1965. The rules and definitions contained in section 5302.22 of the ...

...In a conveyance of real estate or any interest therein, the word "grant" is a sufficient word of conveyance without the use of more words. No covenant shall be implied from the use of the word "grant."

...In a conveyance of real estate or any interest therein, all rights, easements, privileges, and appurtenances belonging to the granted estate shall be included in the conveyance, unless the contrary is stated in the deed, and it is unnecessary to enumerate or mention them either generally or specifically.