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...The tax commissioner and every agent provided for in section 5703.17 of the Revised Code may, for the purposes of the laws relating to taxation, administer oaths, certify to official acts, issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses, and the production of books, accounts, papers, records, documents, and testimony.

...The tax commissioner may require, by order or subpoena served on any company, firm, corporation, person, association, partnership, limited liability company, or public utility in the same manner that a summons is served in a civil action in the court of common pleas, the production within this state, at the time and place the commissioner designates, of any books, accounts, papers, or records kept by that company, fi...

...(A) The tax commissioner shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that, except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, require that any search of any of the databases of the department of taxation be tracked so that administrators of the database or investigators can identify each account holder who conducted a search of the database. (B) The rules adopted under division (A) of this s...

...Each company, firm, corporation, person, association, partnership, or public utility shall furnish the tax commissioner in the returns prescribed by him all information required by law and all other facts and information which the commissioner requires to enable him to carry into effect the laws which he is required to administer, and shall make specific answers to all questions submitted by the commissioner. The an...

...Any company, firm, corporation, person, association, partnership, or public utility which receives from the tax commissioner any blanks with directions to fill them out shall fill them out so as to answer fully and correctly each question therein propounded, and if it is unable to answer any question, it shall in writing give a good reason for such failure.

...Whenever a taxpayer or other person refuses, on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or provide other information in an examination or proceeding before the tax commissioner, and the commissioner communicates to the taxpayer or other person an order issued under this section, the taxpayer or other person may not refuse to comply with the order on the basis of his privilege against self-in...

...If any company, firm, corporation, person, association, partnership, or public utility fails to make out and deliver to the tax commissioner any statement required by law, or to furnish the commissioner with any information requested, the commissioner shall inform himself as best he can on the matters necessary to be known in order to discharge his duties.

...No injunction shall issue suspending or staying any order, determination, or direction of the department of taxation, or any action of the treasurer of state or attorney general required by law to be taken in pursuance of any such order, determination, or direction. This section does not affect any right or defense in any action to collect any tax or penalty.

...At the request of any officer, board, or commission of the state or any political division thereof, the department of taxation shall furnish any information to such officer, board, or commission, and shall assist such officer, board, or commission in performing the duties of its office. All state, county, and local officers shall make and forward to the department, upon the department's written order, such transcript...

...No officer, agent, or employee of of any public utility, company, firm, person, partnership, corporation, or association, subject to any law which the tax commissioner is required to administer shall fail to fill out and return any blanks required by such law, fail to answer any questions therein propounded, or knowingly or willfully give a false answer to any such question where the fact inquired of is within his kn...

...Every day during which any public utility, company, corporation, association, firm, partnership, officer, or individual subject to any law which the tax commissioner is required to administer, or any officer, agent, or employee thereof, willfully fails to comply with any order or direction of the commissioner or to perform any duty enjoined by such law shall constitute a separate offense.

...Any payment or distribution of money that the tax commissioner is required by law to make to a political subdivision of this state, an officer thereof, or a political party shall be made by electronic funds transfer. The commissioner shall promulgate any rules necessary to administer this section.

...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...

...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...

...A taxing authority of a subdivision may establish a nonexpendable trust fund for the purpose of receiving donations or contributions that the donor or contributor requires to be maintained intact. The principal of such fund may be invested, and the investment earnings on the principal shall be credited to the fund. The principal of the fund, and any additions to principal arising from sources other than the reinvest...

...No transfer shall be made from one fund of a subdivision to any other fund, by order of the court or otherwise, except as follows: (A) The unexpended balance in a bond fund that is no longer needed for the purpose for which such fund was created shall be transferred to the sinking fund or bond retirement fund from which such bonds are payable. (B) The unexpended balance in any specific permanent improvement fund,...

...The election provided for in section 5705.194 of the Revised Code shall be held at the regular places for voting in the district, and shall be conducted, canvassed, and certified in the same manner as regular elections in the district for the election of county officers, provided that in any such election in which only part of the electors of a precinct are qualified to vote, the board of elections may assign voters ...

...Not more than three elections during any calendar year shall include the questions by a school district of tax levies proposed under any one or any combination of the following sections: sections 5705.194, 5705.199, 5705.21, 5705.212, 5705.213, 5705.217, 5705.218, 5705.219, 5705.2112, and 5748.09 of the Revised Code.

...The total appropriations from each fund shall not exceed the total of the estimated revenue available for expenditure therefrom, as certified by the budget commission, or in case of appeal, by the board of tax appeals. No appropriation measure shall become effective until the county auditor files with the appropriating authority a certificate that the total appropriations from each fund, taken together with all other...

...(A) A board of county commissioners may adopt as a part of its annual appropriation measure a spending plan, or in the case of an amended appropriation measure, an amended spending plan, setting forth a quarterly schedule of expenses and expenditures of all appropriations for the fiscal year from the county general fund. The spending plan shall be classified to set forth separately a quarterly schedule of expen...

...When the United States government or the state or any department, division, agency, authority, or unit thereof makes a grant or loan of money to any political subdivision of this state to aid in paying the cost of any program, activity, or function of such subdivision, or enters into an agreement with the subdivision for the making of any such grant or loan of money, the amount thereof is deemed appropriated for such...

...When contracts or leases run beyond the termination of the fiscal year in which they are made, the fiscal officer of the taxing authority shall make a certification for the amount required to meet the obligation of such contract or lease maturing in such fiscal year. The amount of the obligation under such contract or lease remaining unfulfilled at the end of a fiscal year, and which will become payable d...

...Each political subdivision may make expenditures for the payment of current payrolls upon the authority of a proper appropriation for such purpose, provided that the positions of such employees and their compensation have been determined prior thereto by resolution, ordinance, or in the manner provided by law. The total expenditures for such purpose during the first half of any fiscal year shall not exceed six tenths...

...Any housing authority or any political subdivision, including counties and the state, by resolution of the taxing authority of such subdivision, may incur indebtedness and authorize the expenditure of funds of such subdivision to carry forward a real property inventory of all or part of the county in which such subdivision is located and may contribute to any organization established for the purpose of carrying forwa...

...required to be collected or withheld as taxes levied upon persons other than the depositor by federal, state or local governmental authority, and deposits not used in business to the extent they represent funds belonging beneficially to non-residents of Ohio, whether or not any such funds are on deposit in or outside of Ohio, are not subject to taxation.