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...There is hereby created in the state treasury the property tax administration fund. All money to the credit of the fund shall be used to defray the costs incurred by the department of taxation in administering the taxation of property and the equalization of real property valuation. Each fiscal year between the first and fifteenth days of July, the tax commissioner shall compute the following amounts for the propert...

...Not later than April 1, 2009, the department of taxation shall acquire the necessary hardware, software, and services to establish and implement a tax discovery data system to increase the efficiency of tax collections in the state. The system must be fully integrated and pre-staged for the purposes of assisting in revenue analysis, discovering noncompliant taxpayers, and collecting taxes from those taxpayers. ...

...(A) The department of taxation shall establish policies, procedures, and internal controls, including implementing a property tax relief screening system to evaluate the eligibility of owners of real property and manufactured and mobile homes in this state that receive one or both of the following reductions in taxes: (1) The reduction authorized under division (B) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code; (2) The ...

...On or before September 1, 2015, and on or before the first day of every third month thereafter, the tax commissioner shall prepare a report that includes all of the following information: (A) The number of inspections and investigations conducted during the preceding four months in relation to the enforcement of sections 1333.11 to 1333.21 and Chapter 5743. of the Revised Code; (B) The number of violations of secti...

...If any tax administered by the tax commissioner remains unpaid after the date the tax is due, the commissioner may issue an assessment for the unpaid tax, and for any related penalties and interest, against any person liable for the amount due, including, but not limited to, a person that is jointly and severally liable for the amount under Chapter 5726. or 5751. of the Revised Code, a partner liable for the ta...

...(A) If any corporation, wherever organized, that is required by law to file any report or return or to pay any tax or fee as a corporation organized under the laws of the state for profit, or as a foreign corporation for profit doing business in this state or owning or issuing a part or all of its capital or property in this state, fails to file the required report or return or to pay the required tax or fee fo...

...No person shall exercise or attempt to exercise any powers, privileges, or franchises under the articles of incorporation or certificate of authority of a corporation after the articles or certificate has been canceled as provided in section 5703.91 of the Revised Code. A penalty of one hundred dollars shall be imposed for each day a violation of this section occurs, up to a maximum of five thousand dollars.

...(A)(1) Any corporation whose articles of incorporation or license certificate to do or transact business in this state has been canceled by the secretary of state pursuant to section 5703.91 of the Revised Code shall be reinstated and entitled to exercise its rights, privileges, and franchises in this state, and the secretary of state shall cancel the entry of cancellation to exercise its rights, privileges, an...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Declared disaster" means an event for which a disaster declaration has been issued. (2) "Disaster declaration" means a declaration issued by the president of the United States or the governor of this state that an emergency exists. (3) "Disaster response period" means the period that begins on the tenth day preceding the day on which a disaster declaration is issued through the...

...(A) Whoever violates section 5703.21 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars. (B) Whoever violates section 5703.26 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree, and the court may impose upon the offender an additional fine of not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars. (C) Whoever violates section 5703.43 of the Revised Code shall be fined not...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Subdivision" means any county; municipal corporation; township; township police district; joint police district; township fire district; joint fire district; joint ambulance district; joint emergency medical services district; fire and ambulance district; joint recreation district; township waste disposal district; township road district; community college district; technical college ...

...The aggregate amount of taxes that may be levied on any taxable property in any subdivision or other taxing unit shall not in any one year exceed ten mills on each dollar of tax valuation of such subdivision or other taxing unit, except for taxes specifically authorized to be levied in excess thereof. The limitation provided by this section shall be known as the "ten-mill limitation," and wherever said term is used i...

...(A) The taxing authority of each subdivision may levy taxes annually, subject to the limitations of sections 5705.01 to 5705.47 of the Revised Code, on the real and personal property within the subdivision for the purpose of paying the current operating expenses of the subdivision and acquiring or constructing permanent improvements. The taxing authority of each subdivision and taxing unit shall, subject to the limit...

...The taxing authority of each subdivision shall divide the taxes levied into the following separate levies: (A) The general levy for debt charges within the ten-mill limitation; (B) The general levy for current expense within the ten-mill limitation; (C) Special levies authorized by sections 5705.01 to 5705.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code, within the ten-mill limitation; (D) The general levy for debt charges au...

...The purpose and intent of the general levy for current expenses is to provide one general operating fund derived from taxation from which any expenditures for current expenses of any kind may be made. The taxing authority of a political subdivision may include in such levy the amounts required for carrying into effect any of the general or special powers granted by law to such subdivision, including the acquisition o...

...The following special levies are hereby authorized without vote of the people: (A) A levy for any specific permanent improvement which the subdivision is authorized by law to acquire, construct, or improve, or any class of such improvements which could be included in a single bond issue; (B) A levy for the library purposes of the subdivision, in accordance with the provisions of the Revised Code authorizing levi...

...The taxing authority of any subdivision may make tax levies authorized in excess of the ten-mill limitation by a vote of the people under the law applicable thereto, irrespective of all limitations on the tax rate.

...On or before the first Monday in May of each year, the fiscal officer of each subdivision, except school districts and the city of Cincinnati, shall certify to its taxing authority the amount necessary to provide for the payment of final judgments against the subdivision, except in condemnation of property cases. The taxing authority shall place such certified amount in each budget and in the annual appropriati...

...Each subdivision shall establish the following funds: (A) General fund; (B) Sinking fund whenever the subdivision has outstanding bonds other than serial bonds; (C) Bond retirement fund, for the retirement of serial bonds, notes, or certificates of indebtedness; (D) A special fund for each special levy; (E) A special bond fund for each bond issue; (F) A special fund for each class of revenues derived from a so...

...The board of county commissioners of each county shall establish a county developmental disabilities general fund. Notwithstanding section 5705.10 of the Revised Code, proceeds from levies under section 5705.222 and division (L) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code shall be deposited to the credit of the county developmental disabilities general fund. Accounts shall be established within the county developmental di...

...(A) All revenue derived from the general levy for current expense within the ten-mill limitation, from any general levy for current expense authorized by vote in excess of the ten-mill limitation, and from sources other than the general property tax, unless its use for a particular purpose is prescribed by law, shall be paid into the general fund. (B) All revenue derived from general or special levies for debt char...

...Whenever lands are removed from the tax duplicate of a county under the act of June 28, 1938, 45 Stat. 535, 33 U.S.C.A. 701b, or the "Flood Control Act of 1954," 68 Stat. 1266, U.S.C.A. 701c-3, and the federal government makes payments to the county in lieu of the general real property taxes, in the form of rents or otherwise, such revenues shall be distributed by the board of county commissioners to the taxing distr...

...In addition to the funds provided for by sections 5705.09, 5705.121, 5705.13, and 5705.131 of the Revised Code, the taxing authority of a subdivision may establish, with the approval of and in the manner prescribed by the auditor of state, such other funds as are desirable, and may provide by ordinance or resolution that money derived from specified sources other than the general property tax shall be paid directly i...

...A municipal corporation may establish in the manner provided by law a sanitary police pension fund, an urban redevelopment tax increment equivalent fund, or a cemetery fund. A township may establish by law a cemetery fund. A subdivision that levies a tax for the purpose described in division (ZZ) or (AAA) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code shall establish a general capital and infrastructure fund to which t...

...(A) A taxing authority of a subdivision, by resolution or ordinance, may establish reserve balance accounts to accumulate currently available resources for the following purposes: (1) To stabilize subdivision budgets against cyclical changes in revenues and expenditures; (2) Except as otherwise provided by this section, to provide for the payment of claims and deductibles under an individual or joint self-insuran...