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...The authorities of a county, city, or township which have subscribed to the capital stock of a railroad company and have issued its bonds or other securities for the payment of such subscription, may levy annually on the taxable property thereof, within five years next before the principal of such bonds or other securities is payable, if the market price of the stock of such railroad company is less than seventy-five...

...The governing body of any municipal corporation, township, or county may accept donations of land suitable for the growth of timber, which lands shall be known as municipal, township, or county forests, and may manage the same on forestry principles. The governing body of any municipal corporation, township, or county, where funds are available or have been levied therefor, may, when authorized by a majority vote of ...

...(A) As used in this section, "independent living facilities" means any residential housing facilities and related property that are not a nursing home, residential care facility, or residential facility as defined in division (A) of section 5701.13 of the Revised Code. (B) Lands, houses, and other buildings belonging to a county, township, or municipal corporation and used exclusively for the accommodation or suppor...

...Lands on which are situated prehistoric earthworks, or upon which stands an historic building which is preserved in commemoration of historic events in the settlement and development of the state, and which are purchased by any person, association, or company for the purpose of the preservation of such earthworks or historic building and are not held for profit but dedicated to public uses as prehistoric parks or as ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Tangible personal property" means the personal property of a merchant that is required to be returned on the average basis as provided in section 5711.15 of the Revised Code, and the average value of all articles purchased, received, or otherwise held by a manufacturer for the purpose of being used in manufacturing, combining, rectifying, or refining, and the average value of all ar...

...As used in sections 5709.61 to 5709.69 of the Revised Code: (A) "Enterprise zone" or "zone" means any of the following: (1) An area with a single continuous boundary designated in the manner set forth in section 5709.62 or 5709.63 of the Revised Code and certified by the director of development as having a population of at least four thousand according to the best and most recent data available to the director an...

...(A) In any municipal corporation that is defined by the United States office of management and budget as a principal city of a metropolitan statistical area, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation may designate one or more areas within its municipal corporation as proposed enterprise zones. Upon designating an area, the legislative authority shall petition the director of development services for cert...

...(A) With the consent of the legislative authority of each affected municipal corporation or of a board of township trustees, a board of county commissioners may, in the manner set forth in section 5709.62 of the Revised Code, designate one or more areas in one or more municipal corporations or in unincorporated areas of the county as proposed enterprise zones. A board of county commissioners may designate no more tha...

...As used in this chapter: (A)(1) "Taxable property" includes all the kinds of property mentioned in division (B) of section 5709.01 and section 5709.02 of the Revised Code, and also the amount or value as of the date of conversion of all taxable property converted into bonds or other securities not taxed on or after the first day of November in the year preceding the date of listing, and of all other taxable propert...

...The tax commissioner may require that with every return listing personal property used in business or credits, the taxpayer shall file a financial statement or balance sheet of such business as of the close of business on the day next preceding the date of listing. A taxpayer who is required to file a financial statement or balance sheet of his business pursuant to this section may be authorized or required by the c...

...A merchant in estimating the value of the personal property held for sale in the course of his business shall take as the criterion the average value of such property, as provided in this section of the Revised Code, which he has had in his possession or under his control during the year ending on the day such property is listed for taxation, or the part of such year during which he was engaged in business. Such av...

...e a prospective buyer might consider in purchasing the property. Real property taxes, depreciation, and amortization expenses and replacement of short-term capitalized assets shall be excluded from operating expenses. (3) The annual amount of contribution to replacement reserve funds or accounts related to the property. (C)(1) The information required under division (B) of this section shall be filed by the own...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section and in section 3735.67 of the Revised Code, the owner, a vendee in possession under a purchase agreement or a land contract, the beneficiary of a trust, or a lessee for an initial term of not less than thirty years of any property may file an application with the tax commissioner, on forms prescribed by the commissioner, requesting that such property be exe...

...(A)(1) The form of the notice required to be attached to the published delinquent tax list by division (B)(3) of section 5721.03 of the Revised Code shall be in substance as follows: "DELINQUENT LAND TAX NOTICE The lands, lots, and parts of lots returned delinquent by the county treasurer of ___________________ county, with the taxes, assessments, interest, and penalties, charged against them agreeably to law, a...

...(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the purchaser of a tax certificate sold as part of a block sale pursuant to section 5721.32 of the Revised Code may transfer the certificate to any person, and any other purchaser of a tax certificate pursuant to section 5721.32 or 5721.33 of the Revised Code may transfer the certificate to any person, except the owner of the certificate p...

...(A) At any time prior to payment to the county treasurer by the 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 redeem the parcel by paying to the county treasurer an amount equal to the total of the certificate redemption prices of all tax cert...

...All interest required under sections 5721.30 to 5721.43 of the Revised Code is simple interest, to be calculated on a principal amount and not compounded on earned interest. The interest charged shall equal one-twelfth of the annual interest rate multiplied by the principal amount. Interest charges under those sections shall accrue on a monthly basis, on the first day of the month following the beginning of the...

...(A) Upon receipt of an ordinance or resolution adopted pursuant to section 5722.02 of the Revised Code, the county auditor shall deliver to the electing subdivision a list of all delinquent lands within an electing subdivision's boundaries that have been forfeited to the state pursuant to section 5723.01 of the Revised Code and thereafter shall notify the electing subdivision of any additions to or deletions from suc...

...After any county auditor has compiled a list of forfeited lands as provided for in section 5723.04 of the Revised Code, the auditor shall furnish and deliver to the director of natural resources an authenticated copy of such list within ten days after its completion. The director of natural resources, in behalf of the state, may select and designate tracts of land so forfeited which are situate...

...The purchaser of forfeited lands, his heirs or assigns, from the day of such purchase, shall be held in all courts as the assignee of the state. The amount paid by such purchaser for said land at such tax sale, with all taxes afterward paid thereon by such purchaser, his heirs or assigns, with interest thereon, shall be a lien on said land, and may be enforced as any other lien.

...When the claimant of any lands sold for the nonpayment of taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and costs, or his heirs or assigns, recovers the land sold, by reason of the invalidity of such sale, such claimant, or his heirs or assigns, shall refund to the purchaser, or his heirs or assigns, the amount of the purchase price, with all other taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and costs paid by such purchaser...

...(A) As used in this section and section 5725.15 of the Revised Code: (1) "Billing address" of a customer means one of the following: (a) The customer's address as set forth in any notice, statement, bill, or similar acknowledgment shall be presumed to be the address where the customer is located with respect to the transaction for which the dealer issued the notice, statement, bill, or acknowledgment. (b) I...

...The report required by section 5725.14 of the Revised Code shall include as taxable property all the shares of the dealer in intangibles, the capital stock of which is divided into shares, representing capital employed in this state, and the value of the property representing the capital, not divided into shares, employed in this state by such dealer in intangibles, according to the aggregate fair value of the ...

...(A) To provide a uniform procedure for calculating the amount of tax due under section 5726.02 of the Revised Code, a taxpayer shall claim any credits to which the taxpayer is entitled under this chapter in the following order: The nonrefundable job retention credit under division (B) of section 5726.50 of the Revised Code; The nonrefundable credit for purchases of qualified low-income community investments und...

...As used in sections 5727.80 to 5727.95 of the Revised Code: (A) "Electric distribution company" means either of the following: (1) A person who distributes electricity through a meter of an end user in this state or to an unmetered location in this state; (2) The end user of electricity in this state, if the end user obtains electricity that is not distributed or transmitted to the end user by an electric distr...