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...xpenses shall be collected as are other taxes against the land, and when collected paid over to the parties entitled thereto on the warrant of the auditor.

...When the title papers are produced to the county auditor, he may plat, allot, and number said subdivisions. The plat made by the auditor shall be recorded upon the records of deeds of the county. After it has been platted and numbered by the auditor, or by the county engineer, it shall be sufficient for all purposes of taxation to enter such subdivisions upon the duplicate by their numbers, as provided by law for se...

...When any person lays out a municipal corporation, any addition thereto, or any subdivision of any lot or tract of land before the plat thereof is recorded, he shall present it to the county auditor, who shall assess and return the taxable valuation of each lot or parcel of land described in such plat in the same manner as other such lots or parcels are valued. Thereupon such lots or parcels shall be entered on the ta...

...As used in sections 5713.22 to 5713.26 of the Revised Code, "forest land" consists of any land bearing a stand of trees which the chief of the division of forestry determines is suitable for classification under such sections.

...Forest land which the owner thereof declares is devoted exclusively to forestry or timber growing under the rules prescribed under the authority of section 5713.24 of the Revised Code, shall be taxed annually at fifty per cent of the local tax rate upon its value as determined under sections 5701.02 and 5713.04 of the Revised Code. The method of determining forest lands or land bearing forest growth which is subject...

...All rules, forms, and tax blanks that are used in the administration of sections 5713.22 to 5713.26 of the Revised Code shall be prepared by the chief of the division of forestry and become effective when approved by the tax commissioner. The chief also shall determine the amount of a fee, payable to the division of forestry, that shall be submitted with each application seeking a determination of forest lands or lan...

...Forest lands which have been listed for taxation in accordance with section 5713.23 of the Revised Code may be withdrawn from such class upon certification to the chief of the division of forestry of such intention by the owner thereof. The chief shall send a copy of said certification to the county auditor of the county in which such lands are located, who shall thereupon tax such land at the full rate thereafter.

...Any owner of forest land taxed in accordance with section 5713.23 of the Revised Code who in the opinion of the chief of the division of forestry has not exercised reasonable care in the protection and maintenance of the forest or who has violated the rules of the chief as to the care and management of such lands shall receive notice in writing of such violation from the chief. The owner shall be granted, upon his wr...

...(A) Prior to the first Monday in October, the county auditor shall notify each person who filed an application or an amended application under section 5713.31 of the Revised Code and whose land the auditor determines is not land devoted exclusively to agricultural use, of the reason for such determination. The auditor shall send that notice either by certified mail or, if the auditor has record of an internet identif...

...If the county auditor has determined under section 5713.35 of the Revised Code that a conversion of land has occurred with respect to any tract, lot, or parcel on the agricultural land tax list because of a failure to file an initial or renewal application, and if the auditor, upon application of the owner and payment by the owner of a twenty-five-dollar fee, finds that the land would be land devoted exclusively to a...

...On or before the fifteenth of January of each year, the county auditor shall mail to each current owner of land that was valued as land devoted exclusively to agricultural use during the next preceding calendar year, an application for the valuation of such land as land devoted exclusively to an agricultural use for the current calendar year.

...No person shall knowingly give any false information in an application filed under section 5713.31 of the Revised Code.

...Whoever violates section 5713.37 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...r the collection of advance payments of taxes during the entire time that the county auditor is accepting returns under section 5711.04 of the Revised Code, and for the collection of taxes charged on the general personal or classified tax duplicate from the time of delivery of the duplicate until the twenty-first day of September. When any such tax is paid at the office of the county treasurer, the treasurer shall g...

...receipts showing the advance payment of taxes. At the time of making up the general personal and the classified tax list and duplicate, the auditor shall enter thereon opposite the name of each person charged with taxes the amount of the advance payment made, as a credit against the amount of taxes charged thereon against such person. (B) Each person charged with taxes on a general personal property or a classified ...

...said notice the time for payment of the taxes charged on the duplicate shall be extended for the same period of time after the time fixed for payment by division (B) of section 5719.03 of the Revised Code. Immediately after delivery to the treasurer of the general personal and classified property tax duplicates as prescribed in sections 319.29 and 319.34 of the Revised Code or this section, the treasurer shall prepa...

...of the Revised Code or upon delinquent taxes that are the subject of a delinquent tax contract entered into pursuant to section 5719.05 of the Revised Code. The interest charge shall accrue against the balance of such taxes and any penalty thereon outstanding that remains unpaid on the last day of each month and shall be at the rate per calendar month, rounded to the nearest one-hundredth of one per cent, equa...

...d with any delinquent personal property taxes on the general tax list of personal property of any county in which the taxing district has territory or that such person was charged with delinquent personal property taxes on any such tax list, in which case the statement shall also set forth the amount of such due and unpaid delinquent taxes and any due and unpaid penalties and interest thereon. If the statement indic...

...y treasurer shall forthwith collect the taxes and penalty on the duplicate delivered to the treasurer by the auditor pursuant to section 5719.04 of the Revised Code and any interest thereon by any of the means provided by law. In addition to any other means provided by law, the treasurer may, after finding that the treasurer is unable to collect the full amount of delinquent taxes, interest, and penalties charged ag...

...rer to employ collectors to collect the taxes mentioned in section 5719.05 of the Revised Code or part thereof, and fix the compensation of such collectors, and provide for the reasonable and necessary expenses of such collectors in the pursuit of their duties, which shall be paid out of the county treasury. All such compensation and expenses shall be apportioned ratably by the county auditor among all the funds ent...

...y kept so that the amount of delinquent taxes and penalties charged against each person may be shown on the latest delinquent list and duplicate. Whenever the treasurer shall, by means of the remedies provided by law or otherwise, determine that any item which has appeared on the cumulative tax list and duplicate of taxes provided for in this section for a period of five years is uncollectible, he shall forthwith cer...

...When taxes stand charged against a person and are not paid within the time prescribed by law for their payment, the county treasurer, in addition to any other remedy provided by law for the collection of taxes, shall enforce the collection of the taxes by a civil action in the name of the treasurer against the person for the recovery of the unpaid taxes. If the proper parties are before the court, it shall be suffici...

...When taxes are past due and unpaid, the county treasurer may distrain sufficient goods and chattels belonging to the person charged with such taxes, if such goods and chattels are found within the county, to pay the taxes remaining due, any penalty and interest thereon, and the costs that have accrued. Such treasurer shall immediately advertise in three public places in the township where the property was taken the t...

...asurer is unable to collect by distress taxes assessed upon a person, corporation, executor, administrator, guardian, receiver, accounting officer, agent, or factor, he shall apply to the clerk of the court of common pleas in his county at any time after the semiannual settlement of the treasurer with the county auditor, and the clerk shall cause notice to be served upon such corporation, executor, administrator, gua...

... or in which he resides, a statement of taxes assessed and not paid, specifying the value of the property on which levied and the amount levied, plus any penalty and interest thereon, to which he shall add twenty-five per cent of the tax so levied if such taxpayer left the county in which the taxes were levied after the time required by section 319.29 of the Revised Code for the auditor to deliver the tax duplicate t...