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...The tax commissioner may institute proceedings to remedy improper or negligent administration of the real property taxation laws.

...County auditors, assistant assessors, and county boards of revision shall perform the duties relating to the assessment of property for taxation or the levy or collection of taxes which the department of taxation directs.

...The department of taxation, county auditors, and county boards of revision shall notify the prosecuting attorney of the proper county of any willful violation by persons, firms, partnerships, associations, or corporations of the laws relating to the assessment of property for taxation for which a penalty, either civil or criminal, is provided by law.

...The prosecuting attorney shall be the legal adviser of the county auditor in all matters relating to property taxation and shall prosecute and defend all actions and proceedings in any court in connection therewith to which the auditor or the county board of revision is a party, and in all respects act as the attorney of the auditor or the board. The prosecuting attorney shall, upon the request of the auditor or boar...

...lection, settlement, or distribution of personal or classified property taxes on or before the date specified by law for the performance thereof.

...No county auditor, member of a county board of revision, or expert, clerk, or other employee of such auditor or board shall refuse or knowingly neglect to perform any duty enjoined on him by law, or consent to or connive at any evasion of Title LVII of the Revised Code, by which property required to be assessed is unlawfully exempted, or the valuation thereof is entered at other than its taxable value.

...No county auditor, member of a county board of revision, deputy county auditor, or expert, clerk, or employee of such board, shall willfully and fraudulently value any real property for taxation except at its taxable value as provided by law.

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) or (C) of this section, no former or present county auditor or member of a county board of revision shall divulge, except in the performance of official duties or upon the order of the department of taxation, or when called upon to testify in any court or proceeding, any information acquired in the exercise of the powers vested by the laws relating to taxation, or while claiming...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no former or present expert, clerk, or employee of a county auditor, county board of revision, or the tax commissioner, and no former or present deputy, assistant, or agent of the tax commissioner shall divulge, except in the performance of official duties or in any report to the county auditor, the county board of revision, or the tax commissioner, or when call...

...In case of the institution of an appeal under sections 5717.01 to 5717.04 of the Revised Code, liability for taxes upon the property in question and for nonpayment of taxes within the time required by law shall relate back to the date of the original valuation or determination, and liability for taxes and for any penalty and interest for nonpayment thereof within the time required by law shall be based upon the valua...

...When taxes stand charged against a person and are not paid within the time prescribed by law for their payment, the county treasurer, in addition to any other remedy provided by law for the collection of taxes, shall enforce the collection of the taxes by a civil action in the name of the treasurer against the person for the recovery of the unpaid taxes. If the proper parties are before the court, it shall be suffici...

...Immediately after each settlement required by division (C) of section 321.24 of the Revised Code, each county auditor shall compile, in substantially the same form as the list and duplicate prepared pursuant to section 319.28 of the Revised Code, a list and duplicate of all delinquent lands in the auditor's county. In any such list there may be included lands that have been omitted fr...

...The office of the county treasurer shall be kept open to receive the payment of delinquent real property taxes, from the date of the delivery of the delinquent land duplicate provided for in section 5721.011 of the Revised Code, until the final publication of the delinquent tax list and the delinquent vacant land tax list as provided in section 5721.03 of the Revised Code, in order that the name of any taxpayer appea...

...The proper and necessary expenses of publishing the delinquent tax lists, delinquent vacant land tax lists, and display notices provided for by sections 5719.04 and 5721.03 of the Revised Code shall be paid from the county treasury as county expenses are paid, and the board of county commissioners shall make provision for them in the annual budget of the county submitted to the budget commission, and shall make...

...This section does not apply to transfers of property without sale to a municipal corporation, township, county, community development organization, or county land reutilization corporation pursuant to the alternative redemption period procedures contained in section 323.78 of the Revised Code, except as provided in division (D) of that section. When land is sold pursuant to a foreclosure proceeding as provided in t...

...The county auditor shall keep a record of all delinquent lands sold by proceedings pursuant to Chapters 5721. and 5723. of the Revised Code wherein he shall enter each procedural step required by Chapters 5721. and 5723. of the Revised Code. Each county auditor shall compile and make up, in tabular form and alphabetical order, separate lists of the names and description of the property as it appears on the tax list,...

...(A) A county treasurer may, in the treasurer's discretion, negotiate the sale or transfer of any number of tax certificates with one or more persons, including a county land reutilization corporation. Terms that may be negotiated include, without limitation, any of the following: (1) A premium to be added to or discount to be subtracted from the certificate purchase price for the tax certificates; (2) Different tim...

...(A) A private selling officer's fees payable with respect to an action under sections 5721.30 to 5721.46 of the Revised Code are subject to both of the following conditions: (1) The fees must be reasonable. (2) Fees exceeding five per cent of the sale price of the property, if such amount is greater than seven hundred fifty dollars, shall be paid only if authorized by a court order. (B)(1) Fees less than or equal ...

...(A) At any time prior to payment to the county treasurer by a certificate holder to initiate foreclosure proceedings under division (B) of section 5721.37 of the Revised Code, the owner of record of the certificate parcel or any other person entitled to redeem that parcel may pay the county treasurer the certificate redemption price for the tax certificate with the oldest lien against the parcel. Such a payment...

...rocuring title searches and abstracting services relative to the subject premises. (B) The court or board of revision may order the certificate parcel to be sold or otherwise transferred according to law, without appraisal and as set forth in the prayer of the complaint, for not less than the amount of its finding, or, in the event that the true value of the certificate parcel as determined by the county auditor is...

...If the county treasurer, by means of the remedies provided by law or otherwise, determines that delinquent lands containing or producing minerals or any rights to minerals, as separately listed and taxed from the fee of the soil pursuant to sections 5713.04, 5713.05, and 5713.06 of the Revised Code, have appeared on the delinquent land list and duplicate for five years and that taxes charged against those minerals or...

...All lands acquired and held by an electing subdivision pursuant to this chapter shall be deemed real property used for a public purpose and, notwithstanding section 5709.08 of the Revised Code, shall be exempt from taxation until sold.

...An electing subdivision may discontinue its land reutilization program at any time by repealing the ordinance or resolution enacted under section 5722.02 of the Revised Code, but it shall continue to be governed by the procedures set forth in this chapter concerning the administration and disposition of real property acquired as a part of its land reutilization program until all such lands have been sold or otherwise...

...(A) When an electing subdivision purchases nonproductive land under section 5722.03 or 5722.04 of the Revised Code, the county auditor shall remove from the auditor's tax lists and duplicates all taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, and interest that are due and payable on the land at the time of the sale in the same manner as if the property had been sold to any other buyer at the for...

...(A) The notice of sale prescribed in section 5723.05 of the Revised Code, shall be in substance as follows: FORFEITED LAND SALES The lands, lots, and parts of lots, in the county of _________________, forfeited 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 ...