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...(A) To carry out the purposes of the laws that the tax commissioner is required to administer, the commissioner or any person employed by the commissioner for that purpose, upon demand, may inspect books, accounts, records, and memoranda of any person or public utility subject to those laws, and may examine under oath any officer, agent, or employee of that person or public utility. If such books, accounts, records, ...

...Each company, firm, corporation, person, association, partnership, or public utility shall furnish the tax commissioner in the returns prescribed by him all information required by law and all other facts and information which the commissioner requires to enable him to carry into effect the laws which he is required to administer, and shall make specific answers to all questions submitted by the commissioner. The an...

...(A)(1) "Tax return preparer" means any person other than an accountant or an attorney that operates a business that prepares, or directly or indirectly employs another person to prepare, for a taxpayer a tax return or application for refund in exchange for compensation or remuneration from the taxpayer or the taxpayer's related member. The preparation of a substantial portion of a tax return or application for refund...

...A person who appears before the department of taxation or the board of tax appeals by its order in relation to the appraisal of property in any taxing district shall be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the proper county, if that person is an officer of any such taxing district or a member of any county board of revision, his actual and necessary traveling expenses. The expenses shall be itemized and sworn to b...

...In construing and enforcing division (D) of section 5703.99 of the Revised Code, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person acting for or employed by any public utility, company, firm, person, partnership, corporation, or association acting within the scope of his employment shall be the act, omission, or failure of such public utility, company, firm, person, partnership, corporation, or as...

...Any payment or distribution of money that the tax commissioner is required by law to make to a political subdivision of this state, an officer thereof, or a political party shall be made by electronic funds transfer. The commissioner shall promulgate any rules necessary to administer this section.

...(A) The taxing authority of each subdivision may levy taxes annually, subject to the limitations of sections 5705.01 to 5705.47 of the Revised Code, on the real and personal property within the subdivision for the purpose of paying the current operating expenses of the subdivision and acquiring or constructing permanent improvements. The taxing authority of each subdivision and taxing unit shall, subject to the limit...

... not be used to pay the compensation of officers or employees of the subdivision. The board of health of a city or general health district may establish the home health services fund referred to in section 3709.15 of the Revised Code.

...This section does not apply to school districts, county school financing districts, or lake facilities authorities. The taxing authority of any subdivision at any time and in any year, by vote of two-thirds of all the members of the taxing authority, may declare by resolution and certify the resolution to the board of elections not less than ninety days before the election upon which it will be voted that the amoun...

...the district for the election of county officers, provided that in any such election in which only part of the electors of a precinct are qualified to vote, the board of elections may assign voters in such part to an adjoining precinct. Such an assignment may be made to an adjoining precinct in another county with the consent and approval of the board of elections of such other county. Notice of the election shall be...

...the district for the election of county officers. The resolution shall be put before the electors as one ballot question, with a favorable vote indicating approval of the bond issue, the levy to pay debt charges on the bonds and any anticipatory securities, the current operating expenses levy, the permanent improvements levy, and the levy for the current expenses of a qualifying school district and of partnering comm...

...(A) As used in this section and section 5705.2113 of the Revised Code: (1) "Qualifying partnership" has the same meaning as in section 3318.71 of the Revised Code. (2) "Fiscal board" means the board of education of the school district that is selected as the fiscal agent of a qualifying partnership under division (D) of section 3318.71 of the Revised Code. (3) "Participating school district" means a city, local, e...

...The fiscal board of a qualifying partnership may declare that it is necessary to issue general obligation bonds for the purpose of acquiring classroom facilities and necessary appurtenances and to levy a tax in excess of the ten-mill limitation to pay debt charges on the bonds as provided in section 133.18 of the Revised Code, subject to the following: (A) The issuance of the bonds and the levy of the tax is subject...

...n the county for the election of county officers. The resolution shall be put before the electors as one ballot question, with a favorable vote indicating approval of the bond issue, the levy to pay debt charges on the bonds and any anticipatory securities, the operating expenses and criminal justice services levy, and the permanent improvements levy, as those levies may be proposed. The board of elections shall publ...

...ame election other than the election of officers. If a majority of the qualified electors voting on the question of a decrease at such election approve the proposed decrease in rate, the result of the election shall be certified immediately after the canvass by the board of elections to the appropriate taxing authority, which shall thereupon, after the current year, cease to levy such increased rate or levy such tax ...

...axable property for such year, and such officers shall be governed by such estimate. In any county in which two members of the commission are elected, upon petition filed with the board of elections, signed by the number of electors of the county equal in amount to three per cent of the votes cast for governor at the most recent election therefor, there shall be submitted to the electors of the county at the next ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B)(1) or (2) of this section or in section 5705.281 of the Revised Code, the taxing authority of each subdivision or other taxing unit shall adopt a tax budget for the next succeeding fiscal year: (1) On or before the fifteenth day of January in the case of school districts and the city of Cincinnati; (2) On or before the fifteenth day of July in the case of all other subdivis...

...The county budget commission shall not increase the minimum levy of a municipal corporation pursuant to division (D) of section 5705.31 of the Revised Code to pay debt service unless moneys available to pay such debt service are insufficient after applying divisions (A) to (C) of this section: (A) The amount of debt service on unvoted general obligations of the municipal corporation, not otherwise provided for, shal...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Unnecessary collections" mean collections from a tax beyond the reasonably anticipated financial needs of the taxing authority for the specific purposes of the tax after accounting for current fund balances, projected expenditures, and other available funding sources. (2) "Excessive collections" mean collections from a tax in an amount or at a rate that exceeds what is required t...

...In determining whether to reduce the taxing authority of a county under section 5705.32 of the Revised Code in connection with the balance of a county developmental disabilities general fund, the county budget commission shall take into consideration the five-year projection of revenues and expenditures prepared by the county board of developmental disabilities pursuant to section 5126.053 of the Revised Code. Befo...

...The taxing authority of any subdivision, or the board of trustees of any public library, nonprofit corporation, or library association maintaining a free public library that has adopted and certified rules under section 5705.28 of the Revised Code, that is dissatisfied with any action of the county budget commission may, through its fiscal officer, appeal to the board of tax appeals within thirty days after the recei...

...When the United States government or the state or any department, division, agency, authority, or unit thereof makes a grant or loan of money to any political subdivision of this state to aid in paying the cost of any program, activity, or function of such subdivision, or enters into an agreement with the subdivision for the making of any such grant or loan of money, the amount thereof is deemed appropriated for such...

...When contracts or leases run beyond the termination of the fiscal year in which they are made, the fiscal officer of the taxing authority shall make a certification for the amount required to meet the obligation of such contract or lease maturing in such fiscal year. The amount of the obligation under such contract or lease remaining unfulfilled at the end of a fiscal year, and which will become payable d...

...me election other than the election of officers. (F) If a majority of electors voting on the question vote in favor of the levy, the board of county commissioners shall levy a tax, for the period and the purpose stated within the petition. If the tax is to be placed upon the tax list of the current year, as specified in the petition, the result of the election shall be certified immediately after the canvass b...

...rom a decision on the part of owners or officers located outside this state. (3) The enterprise currently is subject to a consolidation of its operations, or such a consolidation is imminent. For purposes of division (B)(3) of this section, "consolidation" means an enterprise combines the operations of two or more existing facilities and one of the following conditions is satisfied: (a) At least one of the faciliti...