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...use, examination, and inspection of the public, and all officials of the county and the municipal corporations therein.

...of minerals or mineral rights shall be recorded by the county recorder until: (A) The conveyance presented to the county recorder bears the stamp of the county auditor stating the conveyance has been examined and the grantor has complied with section 319.202 of the Revised Code; (B) Such conveyance has been presented to the county auditor, and by the county auditor indorsed "transferred," or "transfer not ne...

...The county recorder shall not record any lease, deed, or other conveyance of lots or lands belonging to any university keeping transfer books, unless such instrument is indorsed by the president or other proper officer of such university, showing that such instrument has been transferred on such books.

... (B)(1) or (D) of this section is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code for a period of seventy-five years after the date of the recording. During that period, the county recorder's office shall make the record of discharge available only to an authorized party or to a person other than an authorized party as provided by division (B)(2)(b) of this section. Except as provided in section 317.27 o...

... county veterans service office are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. The county recorder or county veterans service office may only release application materials as follows: (1) To a state, local, or federal governmental agency for criminal justice purposes or to a court for any purpose arising in the court; (2) To the department of veterans services, but only if the veteran gives prior ...

...The Ohio recorders association, in consultation with the county commissioners' association of Ohio and Ohio state association of county veteran service officers, shall establish material and design standards for Ohio veterans identification cards that may be issued by county recorders or county veterans service offices. The material and design standards shall require that an Ohio identification card include the na...

...records and they shall be available for public examination at all times. On proper request from any duly constituted and authorized veterans' organization, providing such request is made at least thirty days prior to Memorial day of each year, the recorder shall furnish such organization a list of all veterans' grave locations within the county, giving the name, section, lot, and grave number or location in the ceme...

...ny instrument of writing for filing or record, the county recorder shall indorse thereon the fee for filing or recording the instrument.

...ender of the proper fees, the county recorder shall furnish to any person an accurate, certified copy of any record in the recorder's office other than a record of discharge under section 317.24 of the Revised Code, and affix the recorder's official seal thereto. The recorder shall issue, without charge, upon the request of an authorized party, as defined in section 317.24 of the Revise...

...No county recorder, and no deputy or employee of the county recorder, shall take the acknowledgement of any instrument required to be filed or recorded in the county recorder's office.

...When the records in the county recorder's office, or any part of them, become defaced or injured, the recorder, when directed to do so by the board of county commissioners, shall transcribe them into new books or on other media, which shall be as valid as the original record, and transcripts from the new books or other media shall be received and taken as of the same force and effect.

...When any of the records of a county are destroyed in whole or in part, a map, plat, deed, conveyance, mortgage, power of attorney, or other instrument in writing, or record in any proceeding authorized by law to be recorded, which affects real estate in the county, or the continuing rights of parties to such record, and of which the original or exemplification thereof has been recorded, such original, or exemplificat...

...When any instrument or record mentioned in section 317.30 of the Revised Code is presented to the county recorder or other proper custodian of such records, the county recorder or other custodian shall forthwith record and index it in the same manner as provided for in the original recording. A competent person shall compare such record with the instrument so recorded, and, if correctly recorded, certify on the...

...order's office to make available to the public a web site with appropriate security features, electronic document hosting, online viewing, and print and download features that enable an individual to print or download a copy of a public record from the web site. (B) For certifying a copy or electronic record from the record previously recorded, a base fee of one dollar and a housing trust fund fee of one dollar pe...

... day of October of any year, the county recorder may submit to the board of county commissioners a proposal for funding any of the following: (1) The acquisition and maintenance of imaging and other technological equipment and contract services therefor; (2) To reserve funds for the office's future technology needs if the county recorder has no immediate plans for the acquisition of imaging and other technologi...

...r 1337. of the Revised Code, the county recorder shall not charge a fee to any member of the armed forces of the United States who presents for recording a military power of attorney executed pursuant to section 574(a) of the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994," 107 Stat. 1674 (1993), 10 U.S.C. 1044b.

...vision (B) of this section, if a county recorder refuses to accept a deed or other instrument of writing presented to the recorder for recording, the legal fee for recording it being paid or tendered; or refuses to give a receipt therefor, when required; or fails to number consecutively all deeds or other instruments of writing upon receipt; or fails to index a deed or other instrument of writing, by the morning of t...

...No county recorder shall record a map or plan of a subdivision of a lot or ground without the approval or certification of such map or plan by the planning commission, platting commissioner, legislative authority, engineer, or other board or officer.

...Code and shall make them available for public inspection. (B) For services provided, the county recorder shall charge for photocopying ten dollars for the first two pages and two dollars for each page thereafter.

...(A) The county recorder shall collect the low- and moderate-income housing trust fund fee as specified in sections 317.114, 317.32, 1563.42, 1702.59, 2505.13, 4141.23, 4509.60, 5164.56, 5310.15, 5703.93, 5719.07, 5727.56, 5733.22, 6101.09, and 6115.09 of the Revised Code. The amount of any housing trust fund fee the recorder is authorized to collect is equal to the amount of any base fee the recorder is authorized to...

... "separate instrument" means either the recording of an entirely new instrument or a written and signed entry on the margin of the original instrument bearing the proper endorsement that is recorded distinct and apart from the original instrument of record. For instruments that convey or affect an interest in crude oil or natural gas, such as a lease, assignment, easement, lien, or right-of-way, in a county in ...

...A county recorder, upon request, may distribute to any person free of charge a copy of the printed form of the declaration described in section 2133.07 of the Revised Code and a copy of the printed form of the durable power of attorney for health care described in section 1337.17 of the Revised Code.

...s office generally are considered to be public records. Other persons have access to the information contained in recorded documents." (B) If the county recorder fails to post a card in accordance with division (A) of this section, the county recorder is not liable in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property that allegedly results from that failure.

...Whoever violates section 317.34 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars.

...ctive systems, been received, waived by exemption, or forfeited by withdrawal of contributions, except as provided in this chapter. If a member who has been granted prior service should, subsequent to September 16, 1957, and before retirement, establish three years of contributing service in the public employees retirement system, or one year in the state teachers retirement system, then the prior service granted s...