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...(A)(1) Every tract of land and town lot, which, pursuant to foreclosure proceedings under section 323.25, sections 323.65 to 323.79, or section 5721.18 of the Revised Code, has been advertised and offered for sale on two separate occasions, not less than two weeks apart, and not sold for want of bidders, shall be forfeited to the state or to a political subdivision, school district, or county land reutilization...

...n forfeited to the state is exempt from taxation from the date of forfeiture, and shall be removed from the tax lists and duplicates until sold or redeemed and placed on the list of exempted property maintained pursuant to section 5713.08 of the Revised Code. No taxes or assessments shall be assessed against such property from the date the property is forfeited to the state to the date the property is sold pursuant ...

...ch the property is situated, all the taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and costs incurred in the foreclosure or foreclosure and forfeiture proceedings under section 323.25, 5721.14, or 5721.18 or sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code or in proceedings under this chapter that stand charged against the property at the time of such payment, the state shall relinquish to such fo...

... such corporation free and clear of all taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest, and costs. Subject to division (C) of this section, any subordinate liens shall be deemed fully and forever satisfied and discharged. Upon such request, the land is deemed sold by the state for no consideration. The county land reutilization corporation shall file the deed for recording. (C) When title to a parcel of land...

...If the taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest, and costs due on the forfeited lands have not been paid when the county auditor fixes the date for the sale of forfeited lands, the auditor shall give notice of them once a week for two consecutive weeks prior to the date fixed by the auditor for the sale, as provided in section 5721.03 of the Revised Code. The notice shall state that if the taxes, assessments,...

...ediate family, or a partnership, trust, business trust, corporation, or association in which the owner or a member of the owner's immediate family owns or controls directly or indirectly more than fifty per cent. If a parcel sells for less than the total amount of the taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and costs that stand charged against it, the officer conducting the sale shall require the buyer to complete...

...After the county auditor has closed his sale of forfeited lands, if any tract or parcel of land has been offered for sale as provided in section 5723.06 of the Revised Code and the same remains unsold, the auditor, at any time prior to his next sale, may again advertise the tract or parcel of land in the manner provided in section 5723.05 of the Revised Code and again offer it for sale.

... showing the total amount of delinquent taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and costs, due and unpaid, for which the land had been forfeited to the state. Holders of title to such lands, together with holders of liens or mortgages of record, individually or collectively, shall file with the auditor a written exception to the intent of the state to take and hold such lands for conservation purpos...

...er such section, or in any processes of taxation, if such irregularity, informality, or omission does not abrogate the provision for due notice to holders of title, lien, or mortgage to such forfeited lands.

...ited to the state for the nonpayment of taxes, together with the taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest, and costs charged on them, agreeably to law, and the dates on which the lands, lots, and parts of lots will be offered for sale, are contained and described in the following list: (Here insert list, together with the day on which each parcel or groups of parcels will be offered for sale for the first t...

... greater sum than the amount of the tax, assessment, penalty, interest, and costs of sale, the county auditor shall charge the county treasurer separately in each case, in the name of the supposed owner, with the excess above such amount. The treasurer shall retain such excess in the treasury for the proper owner of the forfeited lands, and upon demand by such owner, within one year f...

...from all liens and encumbrances, except taxes and installments of special assessments and reassessments not due at the time of the sale, federal tax liens other than federal tax liens that are discharged in accordance with subsection (b) or (c) of section 7425 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1954," 68A Stat. 3, 26 U.S.C. 1, as amended, and any easements and covenants running with the land that were created pri...

...Whenever real property in this state is sold under sections 5721.01 to 5721.28, inclusive, or 5723.01 to 5723.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, no action shall be commenced, nor shall any defense be set up to question the validity of the title of the purchasers at such sale for any irregularity, informality, or omission in the proceedings relative to the foreclosure, forfeiture, or sale, unless such action is comme...

...sive, of the Revised Code, on which the taxes and assessments have been regularly paid previous to such sale, is void, and the purchaser, his heirs, or assigns, on producing the certificate of sale to the county auditor shall have his money refunded from the county treasury.

...Any person claiming any land, inlot, outlot, or part of lot, by virtue of a sale made under sections 5723.01 to 5723.19 of the Revised Code, as tenant in common with any other person, may apply for a partition in the manner provided by law for the partition of real estate. On presenting the county auditor's deed, the court, before which application for such partition is made, shall set off to such person the land cla...

...by such purchaser for said land at such tax sale, with all taxes afterward paid thereon by such purchaser, his heirs or assigns, with interest thereon, shall be a lien on said land, and may be enforced as any other lien.

...of any lands sold for the nonpayment of taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and costs, or his heirs or assigns, recovers the land sold, by reason of the invalidity of such sale, such claimant, or his heirs or assigns, shall refund to the purchaser, or his heirs or assigns, the amount of the purchase price, with all other taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and costs paid by such purchaser, or his heirs or ...

...ted to the state for the nonpayment of taxes, and shall pay such costs into the proper fund. In the case of the forfeiture sale of a parcel against which a foreclosure and forfeiture proceeding was instituted under section 5721.14 of the Revised Code, if the proceeds from the forfeiture sale are insufficient to pay the costs pertaining to such proceeding, the county auditor, at the next semiannual apportionmen...

...If a certificate issued to a purchaser of lands sold at a county auditor's sale has been mislaid, destroyed, or lost, and that fact is shown to the auditor, and no deed is executed therefor, the auditor being fully satisfied from evidence of the existence and loss of such certificate, on application for that purpose, shall make and execute to such purchaser a good and sufficient deed of conveyance for such tract of l...

...ing or buying such securities. (2) The tax commissioner shall adopt a rule defining "primarily" as that term is used in division (B)(1) of this section. (C) "Insurance company" includes every corporation, association, and society engaged in the business of insurance of any character, or engaged in the business of entering into contracts substantially amounting to insurance of any character, or of indemnifying or gu...

...es of such institution at the close of business on the thirty-first day of December next preceding. The report of each financial institution shall also show the aggregate balances of the taxable deposits of its depositors in each county in which the institution maintained an office for the receipt of deposits, at the end of business on the day fixed by the tax commissioner pursuant to section 5725.05 of the R...

...rials or supplies, or the furnishing of services pursuant to authority of any act to further the war effort; (C) Deposits belonging to the state or any county, municipal corporation, school district, township, or other subdivision thereof, or to any other financial institution, dealer in intangibles, domestic insurance company, or institution used exclusively for charitable purposes, or proceeds of loans which have ...

...sons that have filed a request for this service with the commissioner. The dates fixed by this section for the action of the commissioner are directory, and if through inadvertence or mistake such action is not taken at the time prescribed, or the notice required to be given to a financial institution or a county auditor is not duly given, the remaining requirements of sections 5725.01 to 5725.26 of the Revised Code,...

...ection 5725.02 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner shall ascertain and assess the amount of taxable deposits of such institution in each county in which the institution maintained an office for the receipt of deposits. Such amounts shall be assessed in the name of such financial institution except that the amounts of the taxable deposits wholly withdrawn from each such institution within the times mentioned in ...

...the first Monday of June, annually, the tax commissioner shall certify to the treasurer of state the assessment of each financial institution located in the state, showing separately the county in which the institution's principal office is located and the amount of taxable deposits of branches in each county other than that in which the principal office is located, and the commissioner shall certify to each county a...