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

...The county recorder shall keep a seal 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.

...The county recorder may appoint deputies to aid in the performance of the county recorder's duties. Such an appointment 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 ...

...(A) Each county recorder who is newly elected to a full term of office shall attend and successfully complete at least fifteen hours of continuing education courses during the first year of the recorder's term of office and complete at least another eight hours of such courses each year of the remaining term. Each county recorder who is elected to a subsequent term of office shall attend and successfully comple...

...Upon leaving office, each county recorder shall deliver to the county recorder's successor, the seal of office, 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.

...trument is acknowledged before a notary public. If the transferor is a natural person, the notice of personal property transfer shall be recorded in the county in this state in which the transferor maintains the transferor's principal residence. If the transferor is not a natural person, the notice of personal property transfer shall be recorded in the county in this state in which the transferor maintains its princi...

... 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 of the ...

...al lien against an individual; (3) Any publicly recorded document that is required by federal or state law to include an individual's social security number or personal information. (E)(1) This section does not apply to documents that were executed by an individual prior to September 28, 2006. (2) This section, as amended by this amendment, does not apply to documents that were executed by an individual on or ...

...elease 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 was received for filing and recording...

...The county recorder shall record any certified copy of any matter in reference to bankruptcy, which any act of congress provides 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 ...

...wise disposed of, shall be 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 ...

...ise disposed of, shall be 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 pre...

...f, 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 filing ...

...auditor, a county engineer, or a notary public. A certificate of the translator that is substantially in the following form satisfies the requirements of this section: "CERTIFICATE OF TRANSLATOR The undersigned, __________________________, hereby certifies that the document attached to this certificate and made a part of this certificate has been translated into English by the undersigned; that the translation ...

...n instrument or document presented for recording to the county recorder shall have been prepared in accordance with all 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; ...

...After a village dissolution under sections 703.31 to 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.

...eed or other instrument of writing for record, the county recorder shall indorse thereon the date, the precise 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 t...

...ty engineer shall make available to the public a method for electronically recording instruments related to conveyances of real property that adheres to the standards governing conveyances of real property adopted by a county in accordance with section 319.203 of the Revised Code. (2) Not later than June 30, 2026, a county recorder shall make available to the public a method for electronically recording instruments...

...r 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 recorded in the county from wh...

...s, situated within this state, has been recorded 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 instr...

...After copies of records have been recorded, as provided in sections 317.14 and 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.

...nty commissioners to do so, the county recorder may transcribe in the official records provided for that purpose, from the records of other counties, all deeds, mortgages, powers of attorney, and 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 o...

...The county recorder shall make and keep up direct and reverse indexes of all the names of both parties to all instruments previously received for record by the county recorder. The indexes shall show the kind of instrument, the range, township, and section or the survey number and number of acres, or the permanent parcel number provided for under section 319.28 of the Revised Code, or the lot and sublot number and th...

...shall be open to the inspection of the public during business hours. The county recorder may destroy the daily register after the expiration of a period of ten years from the date of the last entry in the register.

...ithin the county; (2) On the official public notice web site established under section 125.182 of the Revised Code; (3) On the web site and social media account of the county. The board shall contract with the lowest and best bidder, and shall require the successful bidder to give a bond for the faithful performance of the contract in the sum that the board fixes. The board may reject any and all bids for the w...