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Section 5309.45 | Application for registration on the death of registered owner.

...ability of heirs of registered land for claims against the estate of the deceased shall not in any way be diminished or changed. No voluntary instrument or deed of an administrator, executor, assignee for the benefit of creditors, sheriff, master commissioner, or other officer purporting to transfer or create a lien or charge upon any interest of such devisee or heir in such registered land or to authorize the same t...

Section 5309.52 | Entry of release or discharge of encumbrance.

...When any registered mortgage, encumbrance, lien, charge, or lesser estate, vested, contingent, expectant, or inchoate, is satisfied, released, extinguished, or terminated, in any manner in whole or in part, the mortgagee, encumbrancer, assignee, owner of lesser estate, or his legal representative , holder of lien, or other person authorized to discharge or release such encumbrance, shall forthwith file with the count...

Section 5309.55 | Lien attaches in proceedings in execution and attachment.

...When any registered land is levied upon or seized by virtue of any writ of attachment, execution, or other process, the officer making such levy or seizure shall forthwith file with the county recorder a certificate of the fact of such levy or seizure, stating the court from which it was issued, the number of the case, parties to the suit, amount of the claim, the precise date of the attachment, levy, seizure, or oth...

Section 5309.57 | Accounts of mechanics or laborers constitute lien.

...Whenever any attested account to obtain a mechanic's, material supplier's, or laborer's lien is filed in the office of the county recorder by which a lien is sought to be obtained upon any registered land, the county recorder shall forthwith make notation and enter a memorial thereof upon the folium of the register where the last certificate of title to the land is registered, stating the name of the claimant, amoun...

Section 5309.93 | Effective liens.

...ssessments, lawfully levied, and liens, claims, or rights arising or existing under the laws or constitution of the United States prior to October 4, 1933, shall affect the title to registered land, until after such lien is noted upon the registered certificate of title.

Section 5310.02 | Priority of persons entering claims on registered certificate of title.

...Every transferee, mortgagee, lessee, and encumbrancer of registered land or any part thereof, or any interest therein, holds his title or lien subject to the interests and estates, mortgages, encumbrances, and all liens and memorials which have been entered upon the registered certificate of title prior to such transfer of the land or mortgage, lease, or encumbrance thereof, unless it is expressly otherwise provide...

Section 5310.12 | Limitation of actions.

...As used in this section, "incompetent person" means a person who is so mentally impaired, as a result of a mental or physical illness or disability, as a result of an intellectual disability, or as a result of chronic substance abuse, that the person is incapable of taking proper care of the person's self or property or fails to provide for the person's family or other persons for whom the person is charged by law t...

Section 5310.34 | Relevant evidence of costs and benefits of maintaining land registration system.

...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...

Section 5313.07 | Proceeding for foreclosure and judicial sale.

...If the vendee of a land installment contract has paid in accordance with the terms of the contract for a period of five years or more from the date of the first payment or has paid toward the purchase price a total sum equal to or in excess of twenty per cent thereof, the vendor may recover possession of his property only by use of a proceeding for foreclosure and judicial sale of the foreclosed property as provided ...

Section 5313.08 | Action for forfeiture and restitution.

...If the contract has been in effect for less than five years, in addition to any other remedies provided by law and after the expiration of the periods prescribed by sections 5313.05 and 5313.06 of the Revised Code, if the vendee is still in default of any payment the vendor may bring an action for forfeiture of the vendee's rights in the land installment contract and for restitution of his property under Chapter 1923...

Section 5315.04 | Execution of deed in lieu of foreclosure; documents.

...(A) If a lender approves a borrower applicant to the D.O.L.L.A.R. deed program, the borrower and lender shall execute all of the following: (1) A deed in lieu of foreclosure that transfers to the lender all of the borrower's right, title, and interest in and to the real property that is the subject of the mortgage. The deed in lieu of foreclosure shall be an absolute conveyance and, upon delivery of the executed dee...

Section 5321.14 | Unconscionable terms.

...(A) If the court as a matter of law finds a rental agreement, or any clause thereof, to have been unconscionable at the time it was made, it may refuse to enforce the rental agreement or it may enforce the remainder of the rental agreement without the unconscionable clause, or it may so limit the application of any unconscionable clause as to avoid any unconscionable result. (B) When it is claimed or appears to the ...

Section 5322.06 | Maximum value of stored property.

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, if the rental agreement entered into between the owner and the occupant contains a provision placing a limit on the value of personal property that may be stored in the occupant's storage space, that limit is the maximum value of the stored property, provided that the provision is printed in bold type or underlined in the rental agreement. (B) A limit on the value ...

Section 5502.12 | Use of written report of motor vehicle accident.

...(A) The accident reports submitted pursuant to section 5502.11 of the Revised Code shall be for the use of the director of public safety for purposes of statistical, safety, and other studies. The law enforcement agency that submitted a report shall furnish a copy of such report and associated documents to any person claiming an interest arising out of a motor vehicle accident, or to the person's attorney, upon t...

Section 5503.01 | Division of state highway patrol.

...There is hereby created in the department of public safety a division of state highway patrol which shall be administered by a superintendent of the state highway patrol. The superintendent shall be appointed by the director of public safety, and shall serve at the director's pleasure. The superintendent shall hold the rank of colonel and be appointed from within the eligible ranks of the patrol. The superintenden...

Section 5505.17 | Pension and benefits upon retirement.

...(A)(1) Upon retirement as provided in section 5505.16 of the Revised Code, a state highway patrol retirement system retirant shall receive a life pension, without guaranty or refund, equal to the greater of one thousand fifty dollars or the sum of two and one-half per cent of the retirant's final average salary multiplied by the first twenty years of total service credit, plus two and one-quarter per cent of the reti...

Section 5505.21 | Distribution of accumulated contributions when no pension payable.

...Should a member or former member of the state highway patrol retirement system die and no pension becomes payable from funds of the system on account of the member's or former member's employment with the patrol, the member's or former member's accumulated contributions, less interest, standing to the member's or former member's credit in the employees' savings fund at the time of death shall be paid to the beneficia...

Section 5515.01 | Permits granted to use or occupy portion of road or highway.

...The director of transportation may upon formal application being made to the director, grant a permit to any individual, firm, or corporation to use or occupy such portion of a road or highway on the state highway system as will not incommode the traveling public. Such permits, when granted, shall be upon the following conditions: (A) The director may issue a permit to any individual, firm, or corporation fo...

Section 5517.01 | Filing plans of proposed projects - right of entry.

...The director of transportation shall make a map in outline and profile, and plans, specifications, profiles, and estimates covering proposed projects. When completed the director shall indorse upon such maps, profiles, plans, specifications, and estimates of quantities his approval of the same and cause one copy thereof to be placed on file in his office and another in the office of the district deputy director of tr...

Section 5523.11 | Plans of proposed improvement.

...Before any work is done that may be required in the making of the proposed grade crossing elimination improvement, the director of transportation shall file plans covering the proposed improvement in the office of the district deputy director of transportation of the state highway district within which such improvement or any part thereof is located, for the examination of all persons interested. The plans shall show...

Section 5526.07 | Professional liability insurance policy.

...ation in the administration of contract claims, a firm that renders professional services to the department, during the period of the performance of professional services for the department and for any other period of time specified in a contract with the department, shall have and maintain, or be covered by, a professional liability insurance policy or policies with a company or companies that are authorized to do b...

Section 5531.01 | Highways affected by river improvements.

... may release the United States from all claims for damages to highways and lands resulting from the establishment, construction, operation, and maintenance of such river improvements, if the state is reimbursed therefor by the United States or any department or agency thereof, and the agreements and other papers relating thereto are first submitted to the attorney general for approval. The director shall credit any m...

Section 5531.03 | Acceptance of federal funds for elimination of grade crossings.

...of a time for the presentation of their claims, which shall be not less than twenty days after the completion of publication. Such further publication shall be in a newspaper and for such time as is provided in section 5523.11 of the Revised Code. The requirements of the holding of an open meeting to explain the plans, as provided in section 5523.11 of the Revised Code, shall be optional with the director in connecti...

Section 5531.16 | Maintenance and repair of toll projects.

...ed Code shall be filed in the court of claims pursuant to Chapter 2743. of the Revised Code. (C) All governmental agencies may lease, lend, grant, or convey to the department of transportation at its request, upon terms that the proper authorities of the governmental agencies consider reasonable and fair and without the necessity for an advertisement, order of court, or other action or formality, other than t...

Section 5537.13 | Contracts - bids - tolls - sinking fund - lien of the pledge.

...d binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the commission, whether or not those parties have notice thereof. The bond proceedings by which a pledge is created need not be filed or recorded except in the records of the commission. The use and disposition of moneys to the credit of a bond service fund shall be subject to the applicable bond proceedings. (F) The ...