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...A certificate of title issued as the result of any proceeding contemplated by section 5310.43 or 5310.44 of the Revised Code has the following effects: (A) Conclusive effect as to conveyances and encumbrances occurring before the effective date of the certificate; (B) No conclusive effect with regard to any conveyance or encumbrance occurring on or after the effective date of the certificate.

...Abolition of land registration in a county does not bar either of the following: (A) A person who is deprived of land, any interest therein, or any encumbrance thereon as the result of a decree obtained by fraud in a case relating to registered land or to the initial registration of land from filing a complaint to open up and review the case as provided in section 5309.23 or 5309.81 of the Revised Code; (B) A perso...

...On and after the date of implementation, with regard to registered land in a county that has abolished land registration: (A) A duplicate certificate of title has no use other than as a copy of the certificate that is transcribed or bound in the register of titles; (B) No person shall present, and the county recorder shall not accept, the duplicate as the instrument of any conveyance or encumbrance of the land to w...

...Except to the extent necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 5310.43, 5310.44, and 5310.47 of the Revised Code, on and after the date of implementation in a county that has abolished land registration: (A) The court of common pleas and probate court of the county have no jurisdiction under Chapter 5309. or sections 5310.01 to 5310.21 of the Revised Code; (B) No person shall file, and the clerk of the court ...

...Beginning on the date of implementation in a county that has abolished land registration, the county recorder shall: (A) Continue all certificates of title that, on the date of implementation, were transcribed or bound in the register of titles, to reflect both of the following: (1) Conveyances and encumbrances occurring prior to the date of implementation that, as of the date of implementation were not noted on th...

...The county recorder, with regard to a certificate of title issued as the result of any proceeding contemplated by section 5310.43 or 5310.44 of the Revised Code, shall do both of the following: (A) Transcribe or bind the certificate in the register of titles, the same as if land registration had not been abolished in the county. The recorder shall issue duplicates of such a certificate of title as provided in sectio...

...If a parcel of registered land lies partly in two or more counties, and one of the counties abolishes land registration, the portion lying in the nonabolishing county is subject to the following on and after the date of implementation: (A) The portion shall be dealt with, and instruments for its conveyance or encumbrance recorded, as provided in sections 317.14 and 5310.41 of the Revised Code; (B) The certificate o...

...If, as the result of a proceeding contemplated by section 5310.43 of the Revised Code, a decree is entered requiring registration of a parcel of land that lies partly in two or more counties, the portion lying in each county shall be registered as provided in section 5309.25 and division (A) of section 5310.51 of the Revised Code, except that the portion lying in the nonabolishing county is subject to the following o...

...A nonabolishing county's land registration system, except insofar as required to carry out sections 5310.52 and 5310.53 of the Revised Code, shall remain intact and fully operational.

...dering legal services. (B) "Additional property" means land, including surface and air rights, or improvements to land that are described in an original declaration and that may be added in the future to an expandable condominium property. (C) "Affiliate of a developer" means any person who controls a developer or is controlled by a developer. For the purposes of this division: (1) A person "controls" a developer ...

...11. of the Revised Code applies only to property that is specifically submitted to its provisions by the execution and filing for record of a declaration by the owner, as provided in this chapter. In every instance, any property so submitted shall be either a fee simple estate or a ninety-nine year leasehold, renewable forever. Neither the submission of property to the provisions of this chapter, nor the conveyance o...

...(A) Each unit of a condominium property, together with the undivided interest in the common elements appurtenant to it, is real property for all purposes and is real estate within the meaning of all provisions of the Revised Code. (B) A unit owner is entitled to the exclusive ownership and possession of the unit and to ownership of an undivided interest in the common elements as expressed in the declaration. (C...

...ose units, except liens for real estate taxes and assessments not due and payable. (b) In the application, the owners of the adjoining units may request a specific reallocation of their undivided interests in the common elements allocated to the adjoining units. (2) Unless the board of directors finds any requested reallocation of the undivided interests in the common elements to be unreasonable, within thirty days...

...hose units except liens for real estate taxes and assessments not due and payable. (3) At the expense of the owners of the affected units, the unit owners association shall record the submitted amendment to the declaration. (B)(1) If the declaration reserves any common element as an exclusive use area, the board of directors may delegate that common element to the use of a certain unit or units, to the exclusion of...

...(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in the declaration, all or any portion of a convertible unit may be converted into one or more units or common elements, including limited common elements. (2)(a) To cause the conversion, the owner shall prepare and execute an amendment to the declaration that describes the conversion and record the amendment together with the drawings described in division (E) of section 5311.07 ...

...) The common elements of a condominium property are owned by the unit owners as tenants in common, and the ownership shall remain undivided. No action for partition of any part of the common elements may be commenced, except as provided in section 5311.14 of the Revised Code, and no unit owner otherwise may waive or release any rights in the common elements. (B) The declaration shall set forth the undivided inte...

...(A) All costs of the administration, operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of common elements are common expenses. (B)(1) The declaration, either as filed and recorded by the declarant pursuant to section 5311.06 of the Revised Code or as amended by a vote of the unit owners exercising not less than ninety per cent of the voting power of the unit owners association, may provide that, regardless of undivide...

...(A) A declaration submitting property to the provisions of this chapter shall be signed and acknowledged by the owner before a judge or clerk of a court of record, county auditor, county engineer, notary public, or mayor, who shall certify the acknowledgment and subscribe the certificate of acknowledgment. (B) A declaration shall contain all of the following: (1) A legal description of the land or, for a water sl...

...Land and improvements on the property of an expandable condominium property are considered added to the condominium property and submitted to the provisions of this chapter upon the declarant and all owners and lessees of the added land executing and filing for record pursuant to sections 5311.06 and 5311.07 of the Revised Code, an amendment to the declaration that contains the information, drawings, and plans wit...

...If a condominium property for which the declaration was filed with a county recorder prior to October 1, 1978, has been expanded by the addition of units in accordance with the declaration, and if the unit owners do not commence an action to contest the change in the undivided interests in the common elements in a court of competent jurisdiction within two years after the date that the amendment was filed with the...

...(A)(1) A declaration of condominium property shall be filed and recorded in the office of the recorder of the county or counties in which the land or water slips described in the declaration are situated. All original declarations when filed shall be accompanied by a set of drawings of the condominium property as required by section 5311.07 of the Revised Code and a true copy of the bylaws of the unit owners associa...

...shall be prepared for every condominium property that graphically shows the boundaries, location, designation, length, width, and height of each unit; the boundaries, location, designation, and dimensions of the common elements and the limited common elements and exclusive use areas; and the location and dimensions of all appurtenant easements or encroachments. (2) If the condominium property is not contiguous...

...(A)(1) Every condominium property shall be administered by a unit owners association. All power and authority of the unit owners association shall be exercised by a board of directors, which the unit owners shall elect from among the unit owners or the spouses of unit owners. If a unit owner is not an individual, that unit owner may nominate for the board of directors any principal, member of a limited liability comp...

...le in the management of the condominium property and the association; (2) Commence, defend, intervene in, settle, or compromise any civil, criminal, land use planning, or administrative action or proceeding that is in the name of, or threatened against, the unit owners association, the board of directors, or the condominium property, or that involves two or more unit owners , impacts zoning, or otherwise relates to...

...ents, and structures of the condominium property that are reasonably available to the developer, but only in connection with condominium developments declared on or after the effective date of this amendment and condominium developments that are declared prior to that date but originally built or constructed on or after that date. (2) The board of directors may commence a civil action on behalf of the unit owners a...