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...The state or a county, township, municipal corporation, or school board shall not be precluded by the illegal loan or deposit by an officer or agent of public money, funds, bonds, securities, or assets belonging to it from suing for and recovering the same. Such suit shall not be held to be an adoption or satisfaction of such illegal transaction.

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, at all times during one's term of office: (1) Each member of the general assembly shall be a resident of the district the member represents. (2) Each judge and each elected officer of a court shall be a resident of the territory of that court. (3) Each person holding an elective office of a political subdivision shall be a resident of that politi...

...Each person chosen or appointed to an office under the constitution or laws of this state, and each deputy or clerk of such officer, shall take an oath of office before entering upon the discharge of his duties. The failure to take such oath shall not affect his liability or the liability of his sureties.

...The oath of office of each judge of a court of record shall be to support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of this state, to administer justice without respect to persons, and faithfully and impartially to discharge and perform all the duties incumbent on the person as such judge, according to the best of the person's ability and understanding. The oath of office of every other officer, dep...

...Every person holding an elected office under the constitution or laws of this state may administer oaths of office to persons elected or appointed to offices under the constitution or laws of this state if those persons are elected or appointed to offices within the geographical limits of the elected officer's constituency, except that members of the general assembly may administer oaths of office to persons elected ...

...If an elective or appointive state officer is required by law to furnish bond, a surety company bond may be given and the annual premium in such cases shall be paid from the funds appropriated by the general assembly to the various departments, boards, and commissions for such purpose. This section does not prevent the giving of a personal bond with sureties approved by the officials authorized by law to give such ap...

...Every officer, on receiving an official bond which by law is required to be filed or deposited with him, shall record it in a book to be kept by him for that purpose. A certified transcript of the record of such bond is conclusive evidence of such record, and prima-facie evidence of the execution and existence of such bond.

...All official bonds; bonds of executors, administrators, guardians, and trustees; bonds required or authorized to be taken by or before a court, judge, or public board or officer, judicial or ministerial; bonds of indemnity; and all other bonds conditioned to become void upon the performance by any of the parties thereto of the stipulations contained in such bonds shall bind and render liable thereon both principals a...

...When a petition, memorial, or remonstrance is presented to the general assembly for or against the erection of a new county, or for the location or relocation of a county seat, the petitioners must be eighteen years of age and resident taxpayers or voters within the several townships in which they reside. The petition shall set forth the name of the township and county in which the petitioners reside, and that their ...

...An officer who neglects or refuses to perform a duty charged under sections 301.05 to 301.08 of the Revised Code, relating to funds, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred fifty dollars, at the discretion of the court of common pleas. All forfeitures imposed by this section shall be recovered, with costs of suit, in a civil action in the name of the state for the use of the county.

...o the nomination and election of county officers, shall be in effect immediately. All other provisions of sections 302.01 to 302.24, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall take effect on the first Monday in January following the next regular state election. Under an alternative form whereby any members of the board of county commissioners are elected by districts, each county commissioner shall receive, in lieu of th...

... general election for state and county officers, the vacancy shall be filled as provided for in divisions (A) and (B) of section 305.02 of the Revised Code.

... vested by law in counties or in county officers or agencies, or which may be transferred to the county by action of a township or municipality under authority of Section 1 of Article X, Ohio Constitution, and which are not assigned by law to any department, office, or body existing under the alternative form of government in force, shall be exercised or performed by the board or by the department, office, or body de...

...There shall be a county executive, who shall be the chief executive officer of the county. He shall be either an elective county executive as provided for in section 302.15 of the Revised Code, or an appointive county executive as provided for in section 302.16 of the Revised Code. In case of the absence or disability of the county executive as determined by the board of county commissioners, his duties shall be per...

...The county board of zoning appeals may: (A) Hear and decide appeals where it is alleged there is error in any order, requirement, decision, or determination made by an administrative official in the enforcement of sections 303.01 to 303.25 of the Revised Code, or of any resolution adopted pursuant thereto; (B) Authorize upon appeal, in specific cases, such variance from the terms of the zoning resolution as will no...

...(A) If a county board of zoning appeals considers conditional zoning certificates for activities that are permitted and regulated under Chapter 1514. of the Revised Code or activities that are related to making finished aggregate products, the board shall not consider or base its determination on matters that are regulated by any federal, state, or local agency. However, the board may require as a condition of the ap...

...ny persons, political subdivisions, and officers, public or private, are authorized to use any funds owned or controlled by them for the purchase of any bonds. Nothing contained in this section with regard to legal investments shall be construed as relieving any person of any duty of exercising reasonable care in selecting securities.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Agreement" means the bargain of the parties in fact, as found in their language or inferred from other circumstances and from rules, regulations, and procedures given the effect of agreements under laws otherwise applicable to a particular transaction. (B) "County office" means any officer, department, board, commission, agency, court, or other instrumentality of a county. (C) "Electr...

...fter his election. (C) Thereafter such officers shall hold office for the term of four years and until their successors are elected and qualified.

...The board of county commissioners shall compare the annual reports and statements made to it by the prosecuting attorney, clerk of the court of common pleas, sheriff, and county treasurer, take all necessary measures to rectify errors in such reports and to trace and correct any discrepancies between them, and place on its journal the result of such examination. All such reports shall be recorded by the county audito...

...No county commissioner shall be concerned, directly or indirectly, in any contract for work to be done or material to be furnished for the county. For a violation of this section, a commissioner shall forfeit not less than two hundred nor more than two thousand dollars, to be recovered by a civil action, in the name of the state, for use of the county. Such commissioner shall also forfeit, in like manner, any compens...

...As soon as possible after the appointment of the initial members, a county transit board shall organize for the transaction of business, elect a vice-chairman and secretary and prescribe their duties, designate a fiscal officer who need not be a member of the board, and adopt bylaws, rules, and regulations to govern its proceedings. Thereafter the board shall hold regular meetings at least once every month. Sp...

...issioners of the status and salaries of officers and employees of the transit system being transferred; (H) The same or similar terms and conditions of employment as were provided by the operator under section 306.12 of the Revised Code; (I) The time when such agreement or parts thereof are to take effect and the period during which they are to remain in effect; (J) Procedures for the amendment of the agreement, i...

...Any county, or any two or more counties, municipal corporations, or townships, or any combination of these, may create a regional transit authority by the adoption of a resolution or ordinance by the board of county commissioners of each county, the legislative authority of each municipal corporation, and the board of township trustees of each township which is to create or to join in the creation of the regional tra...

...The resolution or ordinance creating a regional transit authority may be amended to include additional counties, municipal corporations, or townships by the adoption of an amendment by the board of county commissioners of each county, the legislative authority of each municipal corporation, and the board of township trustees of each township which has created or, prior to the adoption of the amendment, joined o...