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...e delinquent amounts are most likely uncollectible except through foreclosure or through foreclosure and forfeiture, he may certify that determination together with his reasons for it to the county board of revision and the prosecuting attorney. If the board of revision and the prosecuting attorney determine that the delinquent amounts are most likely uncollectible except through foreclosure or through foreclosure an...

...Each person holding lands shall pay the tax assessed thereon each year, but an agent or attorney shall not be required to pay such taxes unless he has sufficient money of his principal to pay them. Each person shall pay the tax on lands or town lots of which he is seized for life, or in dower, or which he has care of as guardian. He shall also pay the tax on lands or town lots which he has care of as agent or attor...

...Each attorney, agent, guardian, or executor seized or having the care of lands who is subjected to any trouble or expense in paying the taxes thereon, or advances his own money for listing or paying the taxes thereon, shall be allowed a reasonable compensation for the time spent, the expenses incurred, and the money advanced, which shall be a just charge against the person for whose benefit it was advanced.

...ference to all pre-existing liens the holders of which have executed and acknowledged that certificate of authority. The money paid, with the interest thereon, may be recovered from the person legally liable for the payment of the tax. An action may be brought by the person paying the tax at any time after the expiration of one year from the date of the payment. If the surface owner has paid taxes on coal under...

...e taxes thereon so that such lands are sold for the payment thereof, and such person does not redeem them according to law within one year after such sale, he shall forfeit to the person next entitled to such lands in remainder or reversion all the estate which he has in such lands. The remainder man or reversioner may redeem the lands in the same manner as other lands are redeemed after being sold for taxes. The per...

...A person having a lien upon real estate may pay the taxes which are a lien thereon, and the amount paid shall be a lien upon such real estate from the time of payment in preference to all other liens. The money paid may be recovered from the person liable for the payment of the taxes.

...g the tax, interest, and penalty shall hold the proportion of such tract set off to him free from the residue of the tax, interest, and penalty charged on the tract before partition. The proportion of the tract set off to the person who has not paid his proportion of the tax, interest, and penalty shall be charged with the portion of the tax, interest, and penalty remaining unpaid, the same as if partition had been m...

...) If land held by tenants in common is sold upon proceedings in partition, or taken by the election of any of the parties to such proceedings, or real estate is sold by administrators, executors, guardians, or trustees, the court shall order that the taxes, penalties, and assessments then due and payable, and interest on those taxes, penalties, and assessments, that are or will be a lien on such land or real estate a...

...A part owner who pays the tax on the whole tract of which he is part owner shall have a lien on the shares or parts of the other part owner for the tax paid on their shares or parts. Such owner may receive such amount, paid with interest thereon, on the sale or partition of such lands, and he may enforce the collection of such amount with interest, as any other lien or charge.

...l other means provided by law for collecting taxes and assessments charged upon real estate specifically as such and penalties and interest charged on any tax list and duplicate or delinquent land list in any county against any entry of real estate, the county treasurer at any time after any installment of such taxes and assessments has been delinquent for more than six months and remain...

...If such real property is used in whole or in part by the owner thereof for manufacturing, mercantile, industrial, commercial, or other business purposes, the court of common pleas shall find the annual rental value thereof, which shall be considered as rents, issues, and income of such real property for the purposes of this section. If the court finds that the amount due and unpaid, to...

...The prosecuting attorney shall represent the county treasurer in all proceedings authorized by sections 323.49 and 323.50 of the Revised Code. Upon motion of the prosecuting attorney, any such proceeding shall be taken out of its order upon the docket and assigned for trial at the earliest practicable day. Neither the treasurer nor the prosecuting attorney shall be entitled to any additional compensation for the ser...

...ces as are necessary for the expedient collection of taxes. The treasurer or his deputies may attend at such offices and receive payment of all taxes, or if adequate security protection is afforded all county funds involved, he may appoint a bank or bank cashier, without compensation, as his agent or deputy for the collection of taxes. The reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by the treasurer in the collection...

...At the request of the county treasurer, a board of county commissioners may enter into a contract with any financial institution under which the financial institution, in accordance with the terms of the contract, receives real property and manufactured home tax payments at a post office box, opens the mail delivered to that box, processes the checks and other payments received in such mail and deposits them into the...

... publication using at least one of the following methods: (A) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation in the municipal corporation within which the tax receiving office is located or, if no such newspaper exists, in a newspaper of general circulation within the county; (B) On the official public notice web site established under section 125.182 of the Revised Code; (C) On the web s...

... bank of deposit located at a place of collection any money received in the payment of taxes, as provided by section 323.61 of the Revised Code. A bank receiving any such deposits shall deposit with or pledge to the treasurer such securities as he deems sufficient to meet the requirements of section 135.37 of the Revised Code. The liability of the treasurer for any losses of money so collected or deposited shall be ...

...the Revised Code, at whichever of the following times is applicable: (1) In the case of lands other than agricultural lands, at any time after the county auditor makes the certification of the delinquent land list under section 5721.011 of the Revised Code; (2) In the case of agricultural lands, at any time after two years after the county auditor makes the certification of the delinquent land list under secti...

... board's initiative, expressed by resolution, may foreclose the state's lien for real estate taxes upon abandoned land in the county and, upon the complaint of a certificate holder or county land reutilization corporation, foreclose the lien of the state or the certificate holder held under sections 5721.30 to 5721.43 of the Revised Code. The board shall order disposition of the abandone...

...ation corporation, or a certificate holder, from the list compiled under division (C) of this section or the delinquent tax list or delinquent vacant land tax list compiled under section 5721.03 of the Revised Code, may identify and compile a list of the parcels in the county that the treasurer, auditor, corporation, or certificate holder determines to be abandoned land...

... the purpose of identifying any lienholders or other persons having a legal or equitable ownership interest or other security interest of record in such abandoned land. (2) If a certificate holder or a county land reutilization corporation compiles a list of the parcels that the certificate holder or corporation determines to be abandoned land under division (A) of section 323.67 of the ...

...zation corporation, or the certificate holder may file with the clerk of court a complaint for the foreclosure of each parcel of abandoned land appearing on the abandoned land list, and for the equity of redemption on each parcel. The complaint shall name all parties having any interest of record in the abandoned land that was discovered in the title search. The prosecuting attorney, county land reutilization corpora...

...ate board of revision has adopted a resolution under section 323.66 of the Revised Code to adjudicate cases as provided under sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code. There is a rebuttable presumption that a parcel of land is unoccupied if any of the factors described in division (F)(2) of section 323.65 of the Revised Code apply to the parcel. The court may order a transfer under this division upon the m...

...(A) Subject to this section and to sections 323.71 and 323.72 of the Revised Code, a county board of revision shall conduct a final hearing on the merits of a complaint filed under section 323.69 of the Revised Code, including the validity or amount of any impositions alleged in the complaint, not sooner than thirty days after the service of notice of summons and complaint has been perfected. If, after a hearin...

... of the Revised Code, an owner or lienholder may file with the county board of revision a good faith appraisal of the parcel from a licensed professional appraiser and request a hearing to determine whether the impositions against the parcel of abandoned land exceed or do not exceed the fair market value of that parcel as shown by the auditor's then-current valuation of that parcel. If the motion is timely fil...

...ll or are invalid or inapplicable in whole or in part, and may raise issues pertaining to service of process and the parcel's status as abandoned land. (2) At any time before a decree of foreclosure is filed under section 323.69 of the Revised Code, a lienholder or another person having a security interest of record in the abandoned land may plead either of the following: (a) That the impositions shown by the...