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...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...

...The county treasurer may open as many tax receiving offices 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 necess...

...h accounting and reporting requirements prescribed by the auditor of state.

...rer may fix the time and place at which taxes will be received, as provided in section 323.61 of the Revised Code. Notice of such time and place shall be given by 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 newspape...

...on 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 same as provided in section 135.39 of the R...

... prima-facie evidence and a rebuttable presumption that may be rebutted to the county board of revision that a parcel of land is unoccupied if, at the time the county auditor makes the certification under section 5721.011 of the Revised Code, the parcel is not agricultural land, and two or more of the following apply: (a) At the time of the inspection of the parcel by a county, municipal corporation, or towns...

...ose 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 abandoned land by public auction or by other conveyance in th...

... for those impositions in the manner prescribed by sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code. (2) If a certificate holder or county land reutilization corporation compiles a list of parcels under division (A) of this section that the certificate holder determines to be abandoned lands suitable for disposition under sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code, the certificate holder or cor...

...(A)(1) For each parcel subject to foreclosure under sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code, the prosecuting attorney shall cause a title search to be conducted for 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 la...

...the parcel has appeared on a delinquent tax list or delinquent vacant land tax list published pursuant to division (B) of section 5721.03 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) In accordance with Civil Rule 4, the clerk of court promptly shall serve notice of the summons and the complaint filed under division (A) of this section to the last known address of the record owner of the abandoned land and to the last known address...

...l or the county prosecuting attorney, representing the county treasurer, or upon its own motion. (2) A court of common pleas or municipal court may order that a proceeding arising from a complaint filed under sections 323.25 to 323.28 or Chapter 5721. of the Revised Code be transferred to a county board of revision if the court determines that the real property that is the subject of the complaint is abandoned...

...r the county auditor to remove from the tax list and duplicate amounts the board finds invalid or not supported by a preponderance of the evidence. The auditor shall remove all such amounts from the tax list and duplicate as ordered by the board of revision, including any impositions asserted under sections 715.26 and 715.261 of the Revised Code. (B) If, on or before the fourteenth day after service of proces...

...osure, the parcel may be disposed of as prescribed by division (G) of section 323.73 of the Revised Code. If the board of revision, upon its own motion or pursuant to a hearing under division (A)(2) of this section, determines that the impositions against a parcel do not exceed the fair market value of the parcel as shown by the county auditor's then-current valuation of the parcel, the parcel shall not be dis...

... (C) of this section, that in order to preserve the lienholder's or other person's security interest of record in the land, the abandoned land should not be disposed of as provided in sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code and the case should be transferred to a court pursuant to section 323.691 of the Revised Code. (B) If the record owner or another person having a legal or equitable ownership interest...

...it of the county treasurer's delinquent tax and assessment collection fund to reimburse the fund for costs paid from the fund for the transfer, redemption, or sale of abandoned land at public auction. Not more than one-half of the twenty per cent may be used by the treasurer for community development, nuisance abatement, foreclosure prevention, demolition, and related services or distributed by the treasurer to a lan...

...nsfer under this section, all liens for taxes due at the time the deed of the property is conveyed to a purchaser or transferred to a community development organization, school district, municipal corporation, county, or township, and liens subordinate to liens for taxes, shall be deemed satisfied and discharged. (G) Any parcel that has been advertised and offered for sale pursuant to foreclosure proceedings and ha...

... time of the sale or transfer and shall prepare the deed conveying title to the parcel or execute the deed prepared by the board for that purpose. That officer or the prosecuting attorney or treasurer is authorized to record on behalf of that purchaser or transferee the deed conveying title to the parcel, notwithstanding that the deed may not actually have been delivered to the purchaser or transferee prior to ...

...Upon the sale of abandoned land at public auction pursuant to section 323.73 or 323.74 of the Revised Code, or upon the county board of revision's order to the sheriff to transfer abandoned land to a community development organization, school district, municipal corporation, county, or township under section 323.74 of the Revised Code, any common law or statutory right of redemption shall ...

... no consideration other than the costs prescribed in section 323.75 of the Revised Code or those costs to which the electing subdivision or corporation and the county treasurer mutually agree. The conveyance shall be confirmed, and any common law or statutory right of redemption forever terminated, upon the filing with the clerk of court the order of confirmation based on the adjudication of fore...

...ounty in which the property is located, prescribe the form of bids, and accept bids over a period of at least three weeks. (2) Upon a sale of property pursuant to division (D)(1) of this section, the municipal corporation, township, county, school district, community development organization, or county land reutilization corporation that sold the property shall calculate the sum of the taxes, assessments, penalties...

...Any party to any proceeding instituted pursuant to sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code who is aggrieved in any of the proceedings of the county board of revision under those sections may file an appeal in the court of common pleas pursuant to Chapters 2505. and 2506. of the Revised Code upon a final order of foreclosure and forfeiture by the board. A final order of foreclosure and forfeiture occurs up...

...Whoever violates division (D), (E), or (F) of section 323.153 or division (B) of section 323.159 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.

.... The prosecuting attorney shall be the president of such board and the county auditor shall be its secretary.

...and the interest maturing thereon. All taxes, assessments, and other moneys collected for such purposes, or held in the county treasury to the credit of the sinking fund, shall be subject to investment and disbursement by such board. For the satisfaction of any obligation under its supervision, the board may sell or use any of the securities in its possession or disburse any of the money under its control.

...ty auditor shall report to the board of trustees of the sinking fund the amount in the county treasury to the credit of the sinking fund.