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...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...

...Subject to sections 5310.44 and 5310.47 of the Revised Code, on and after the date of implementation, registered land in a county that has abolished land registration shall be dealt with the same as if it were not registered land, and instruments for its conveyance or encumbrance shall be recorded in the traditional recordation system, not in the land registration system. Until there has been a conveyance of the enti...

...A certificate of title that is transcribed or bound in the register of titles on the date of implementation in a county that has abolished land registration has the following effects on and after such date: (A) Conclusive effect as to conveyances and encumbrances occurring before the date of implementation and noted on the certificate; (B) Conclusive effect as to conveyances and encumbrances occurring before the da...

...No case involving an application for the registration of land that is pending on the date of implementation, including, but not limited to, cases arising under section 5309.05, 5309.29, 5309.45, 5309.46, 5309.60, or 5309.66 of the Revised Code, is affected by the abolition of land registration in the county. The case shall proceed, in the same manner, and with the same effects, as if land registration had not been ab...

...No proceeding relating to registered land that is pending before any court, the county recorder, or an examiner of titles on the date of implementation, including, but not limited to, proceedings arising under section 5309.27, 5309.43, 5309.44, 5309.52, 5309.61, 5309.69, 5309.71, 5309.76, 5309.81, 5309.83, or 5309.84 of the Revised Code, is affected by the abolition of land registration in the county. The proceeding ...

...On and after the effective date of a certificate of title issued as the result of any proceeding contemplated by section 5310.43 or 5310.44 of the Revised Code, land registered under the certificate shall be dealt with the same as if it were not registered land, and instruments for its conveyance or encumbrance shall be recorded in the traditional recordation system, not in the land registration system. Until there h...

...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.