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...No record, instrument, paper, or other document required by this chapter or Chapter 5310. of the Revised Code to be filed or kept in the office of the county recorder, including, but not limited to, any registered land record maintained by nonpaper means under division (A) of section 5309.031 of the Revised Code, shall be taken or otherwise caused to be removed from the recorder's office except by a subpoena duces ...

...Except for registered land records maintained by nonpaper means under division (A) of section 5309.031 of the Revised Code, which shall be governed by the rules adopted under division (C) of that section, the court of appeals in any appellate district may prescribe rules of practice and procedure for the guidance of each county recorder, and the conduct of proceedings in the probate courts or courts of common pleas,...

...No county recorder or deputy, while in office, shall directly or indirectly accept any employment, or be interested in fees arising from such employment, as attorney, agent, or otherwise, from an applicant to register land, or other person connected with or concerned in the registration of land, or any lien, or charge thereon, or other matter in any way connected with the registration of land.

...Every transferee, mortgagee, lessee, and encumbrancer of registered land or any part thereof, or any interest therein, holds his title or lien subject to the interests and estates, mortgages, encumbrances, and all liens and memorials which have been entered upon the registered certificate of title prior to such transfer of the land or mortgage, lease, or encumbrance thereof, unless it is expressly otherwise provide...

...The original certificate of title in the register of titles, any copy of it certified under the signature of the county recorder, and the owner's duplicate of the original certificate of title shall be received as evidence in all the courts of the state and shall be conclusive as to all matters contained in it, except as provided in this chapter or Chapter 5309. of the Revised Code. All subsequent certificates of...

...The county recorder and the probate court and the court of common pleas on the application of any party in interest, in any matter, suit, or proceeding in any way relating to registered land, or to any estate or interest therein, or lien or charge thereon, may compel by punishment as for a contempt the production and delivery to said recorder or courts of any duplicate or owner's certificate of title, duplicate or or...

...Upon the original registration of land, the clerk of the probate court or the clerk of the court of common pleas shall be paid one-tenth of one per cent of the assessed value of the land, on the basis of the last assessment for general taxation, for the purposes of an assurance fund.

...All money received by the clerk of the probate court or the clerk of the court of common pleas under section 5310.05 of the Revised Code shall be paid at least once a month to the treasurer of state, who shall, with the advice and approval of the secretary of state and the auditor of state, invest, reinvest, and keep invested such funds in bonds and securities of the United States, or of this state, or of any c...

...A person who, without negligence on the person's part, sustains loss or damage or is deprived of land or of any interest in land, after the original registration of land, by the registration of another person as owner of the land or of any interest in the land, through fraud, or in consequence of any error, omission, mistake, or misdescription in any certificate of title or in any entry or memorandum in the regi...

...If the action provided for in section 5310.07 of the Revised Code is brought to recover for loss or damage, or for deprivation of land or of any interest therein which arises wholly through any actionable fraud, negligence, omission, mistake, or misfeasance of the county recorder or his deputies, or of any examiner of titles, in the performance of executive or ministerial duties, or of any of the assistants or clerks...

...In all actions provided for in section 5310.07 of the Revised Code in which there are defendants other than the treasurer of state, and damages have been recovered, no final judgment may be entered against the treasurer of state until execution against the other defendants is returned unsatisfied in whole or in part, and the officer returning the execution certifies that the amount still due upon the execution cannot...

...The attorney general shall appear and defend all actions provided for in section 5310.07 of the Revised Code. If the funds in the assurance fund at any time are insufficient to pay any judgment in full, the balance unpaid shall draw interest at the legal rate of interest, and be paid with such interest out of the first funds coming into the fund.

...The assurance fund provided for in section 5310.05 of the Revised Code shall not be liable in any action to pay for any loss, damage, or deprivation occasioned by a breach of trust, whether express, implied, or constructive, by any registered owner who is a trustee. Final judgment shall not be entered against the treasurer of state in any action to recover from the assurance fund more than the fair market value of t...

...In every case in which payment has been made from the assurance fund provided for in section 5310.05 of the Revised Code by the treasurer of state, the state shall be subrogated to all rights of the plaintiff against any other parties or securities, and the treasurer of state and attorney general shall enforce such rights in behalf of the state. Amounts so recovered by the state shall be paid into the treasury of the...

...The income of the assurance fund provided for in section 5310.05 of the Revised Code shall be added to the principal and invested, until such fund amounts to three hundred thousand dollars, and thereafter the income of such fund shall be used to defray the expense of the administration of sections 5309.02 to 5310.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, instead of being added to the fund and accumulated.

...On filing an application for registration, the applicant shall pay to the clerk of the probate court or the clerk of the court of common pleas ten dollars, which is full payment for all clerk's fees and charges in such proceeding on behalf of the applicant. Any defendant, except a guardian ad litem, on entering an appearance by filing a pleading of any kind, shall pay to the clerk five dollars, which is full payment ...

...No proceedings or conviction for any crime relating to the administration of Chapters 5309. and 5310. of the Revised Code, shall affect any remedy which any person aggrieved or injured by such act has at law or in equity against the person who has committed such act, or against his estate , or against the county recorder, or examiner of titles, or the sureties on their official bonds.

...Sections 5309.02 to 5310.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be construed liberally for the purpose of effecting its general intent.

...As used in sections 5310.31 to 5310.54 of the Revised Code: (A) "Conclusive effect" means the conclusive effect of the notations on a certificate of title with regard to conveyances or encumbrances affecting registered land, as provided in sections 5309.06, 5309.24, 5309.28, 5309.34, 5309.93, 5310.02, and 5310.03 of the Revised Code or in any other statute having a similar effect. (B) "Date of implementation" means...

...A board of county commissioners may adopt a resolution to consider the merits of abolishing land registration in the county. When a resolution of abolition has previously failed of adoption, it is not in order for the board to adopt a resolution under this section unless two years have elapsed since the date on which the last resolution of abolition failed of adoption.

...After adopting a resolution to consider the merits of abolishing land registration, the board of county commissioners shall collect evidence with regard to the costs and benefits of maintaining a land registration system in the county. The board shall collect the evidence by means of a public hearing, and by means of independent studies, investigations, interviews, surveys, and other research that it conducts or caus...

...Evidence relevant to the costs and benefits of maintaining a land registration system in a county includes, but is not limited to, evidence with regard to the following: (A) The monetary cost to a landowner of initially registering land in the county; (B) The monetary cost to a landowner or other person of registering subsequent conveyances and encumbrances in the county, as compared to the monetary cost to a lando...

...The board of county commissioners shall conduct the public hearing required by section 5310.33 of the Revised Code in accordance with this section. (A)(1) The board shall prepare a notice of the hearing that includes each of the following: (a) A statement that the board is considering abolishing land registration in the county, that abolition would require the deregistration of all registered land in the coun...

...Within one month after conclusion of the public hearing required by section 5310.33 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall review and assess the evidence presented at the public hearing, as well as any other evidence that has been obtained by the board as a result of its independent studies, investigations, interviews, surveys, and other research. The board shall determine, as a result of this ...

...(A) A resolution of abolition shall not be implemented later than one month following its adoption. (B) Within ten days after adoption of the resolution by the board of county commissioners, the recorder shall notify the board, the clerk of the court of common pleas, and the clerk of the probate court in writing of the adoption of the resolution of abolition and set the date upon which implementation of abolit...