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...hall be elected quadrennially in each county a county recorder, who shall assume office on the first Monday in January next after his election and shall hold such office for a period of four years.

...he board indorsed thereon, shall be deposited with the county treasurer.

...The office of the county recorder shall be kept in such rooms at the county seat as the board of county commissioners provides.

...al of office, to be procured at the expense of the county, which the county recorder shall affix to all certificates attached to copies of records.

...nt or removal shall be in writing and filed with the county treasurer. The county recorder and the recorder's sureties shall be responsible for the deputies' neglect of duty or misconduct in office. Before entering upon the discharge of their duties, the deputies shall take the oath of office as prescribed in section 317.02 of the Revised Code.

...n approved course shall be entitled to credit for the course in the same manner as if the county recorder had attended the course. The Ohio recorders' association shall record and, upon request, verify the completion of required course work for each county recorder and issue a statement to each county recorder of the number of hours of continuing education the county recorder has successfully completed. Each ...

..., all books, records, and other instruments of writing belonging to the office, and take the successor's receipt for them. In case of the county recorder's death, the county recorder's personal representatives shall deliver the seal, books, records, and instruments to the successor in office.

...tion 3734.22, 3734.24, 3734.25, or 3734.26 of the Revised Code; (16) Any environmental covenant entered into in accordance with sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code; (17) Memoranda of trust, as described in division (A) of section 5301.255 of the Revised Code, that describe specific real property; (18) Agreements entered into under section 1506.44 of the Revised Code; (19) Mortgages, including ...

...ice and make all these documents available for public inspection during normal business hours. By the fifteenth day of January each year, the county recorder shall notify the board of county commissioners and the board of township trustees of each township within the county of that board's duty under section 303.11, 303.12, 519.11, or 519.12 of the Revised Code to file zoning resolutions and amendments in the office ...

...filing documents with the office of a county recorder for recording under section 317.08 of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (C) or (D) of this section, the preparer of any document to be recorded by a county recorder under section 317.08 of the Revised Code shall not include any individual's personal information in any document that is filed for recording in the office of the county reco...

...arging the liens, and certificates of release of the liens shall be filed for record, by mail or otherwise, in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the property subject to the lien is situated. If a duplicate copy of a notice of a lien or a certificate of discharge or release of a lien is provided, the county recorder shall endorse on the copy the date and hour that the notice or certificate...

...rovides for, as being necessary to be filed in the county wherein lands of the bankrupt are situated, in order to be notice of such bankruptcy. Such a certified copy shall be recorded in the official records and indexed in the same manner as deeds, in the name of the bankrupt as grantor, and in the name of the trustee in bankruptcy, or receiver, as grantee. The county recorder shall be paid the same fees for re...

... received for record or filing by the county recorder, if the signatures of the persons signing such instrument are illegibly written, unless the name of each person who in any capacity signed such instrument, and whose written signature is illegible, is legibly printed, typewritten, or stamped upon such instrument immediately beneath the signature of such person. The recorder shall receive any such instrument for re...

... received for record or filing by the county recorder unless the name of the person who, and governmental agency, if any, that prepared the instrument appears upon the instrument, and the name is either printed, typewritten, stamped, or signed in a legible manner. An instrument is in compliance with this section if it contains a statement in the following form: "This instrument was prepared by (name)." This s...

...osed of, and that is presented to the county recorder for recording or filing shall be of a quality that permits the legible reproduction of the instrument, and the contents of the instrument shall be sufficiently legible to permit their reproduction by photographic or microphotographic processes. (B)(1) If an instrument that is described in division (A) of this section and that is presented for recording or f...

...ing that is executed or certified in whole or in part in a language other than the English language unless it complies with the requirements of sections 317.11, 317.111, and 317.112 of the Revised Code and is accompanied by a complete English translation certified as provided in this section. The translator of the deed or other instrument in writing shall certify that the translation is accurate and that the translat...

...ll of the following requirements: (1) Legible print size not smaller than a font size of ten; (2) Minimum paper size of eight and one-half inches by eleven inches; (3) Maximum paper size of eight and one-half inches by fourteen inches; (4) Black or blue ink only; (5) No use of highlighting; (6) Margins of one-inch width on each side of each page of the instrument or document; (7) A margin of one-inch width...

...o 703.39 of the Revised Code, an instrument related to a tract, parcel, or lot of land located within what was previously the territory of the dissolved village may utilize the lot and sublot number previously assigned to the tract, parcel, or lot of land.

...cise time of its presentation, and a file number. The file numbering shall be consecutive and in the order in which the instrument of writing is received for record, except financing statements, which may have a separate series of file numbers and may be filed separately, as provided by sections 1309.501 to 1309.527 of the Revised Code. The recorder shall, without fee, give to the person presenting such instrum...

...the public on the county recorder's web site electronic indexes for, and electronic versions of, all instruments recorded on or after January 1, 1980, except veteran discharge papers recorded under section 317.24 of the Revised Code or any instrument or portion thereof prohibited from being disclosed under federal or state law. A county recorder may require a username and password to access the electronic indexes and...

...ereditaments, situated in two or more counties in this state, has been recorded in one of such counties, or when a new county is organized and such lands, tenements, or hereditaments are situated within the new county, and the instrument has been recorded in the county from which the new county was taken, or when, by change of county lines, lands are transferred from one county to another and such instrument has been...

...ecorded in the official records of a county of the state, other than the county in which they are situated, whether or not the county in which the instrument is recorded ever comprised a part of the territory in which the lands, tenements, and hereditaments are situated, any person interested therein may procure, from the official records of the county in which the instrument is recorded, a certified copy of t...

...nd 317.15 of the Revised Code, in the county in which such lands, tenements, or hereditaments lie, a copy of such record, certified by the county recorder of the county in which the premises are situated, shall be received in evidence in the same manner and have the same force and effect as if the record were of the original instrument.

...other instruments of writing, for the sale, conveyance, or encumbrance of lands, tenements, or hereditaments situated within the county recorder's county. When transcribed, those records shall be part of the records of the county and have the same legal effect as other records of instruments of like kind recorded originally in the county recorder's office. Copies of those records shall be received in evidence i...

...ot of land. As to notices of claims filed in accordance with sections 5301.51, 5301.52, and 5301.56 of the Revised Code, there shall be entered in the reverse index the name of each claimant, followed by the name of the present owner of title against whom the claim is asserted, if the notice contains the name of the present owner; or, if the notice contains the names of more than one such owner, there shall be ente...