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...County boards of revision shall, during the time fixed for their sessions, keep their offices open during the business hours on each business day, and their experts, clerks, and other employees shall devote their entire time to their respective duties during their term of office or period of service or employment; provided that boards may, with the approval of the tax commissioner, employ experts, clerks, or other em...

...Each county board of revision shall appoint the number of experts, clerks, and employees that is prescribed for it by the tax commissioner. Such experts, clerks, and employees shall hold their employment for the time that is prescribed by the commissioner. The compensation of such experts, clerks, and employees shall be fixed by the board of county commissioners. No expert, assistant, clerk, employee, or assistant a...

...The county board of revision shall be governed by the laws concerning the valuation of real property and shall make no change of any valuation except in accordance with such laws. The board may call persons before it and examine them under oath as to their own or another's real property to be placed on the tax list and duplicate for taxation, or the value thereof. If a person notified to appear before the board refu...

...The county board of revision shall hear complaints relating to the valuation or assessment of real property as the same appears upon the tax duplicate of the then current year. The board shall investigate all such complaints and may increase or decrease any such valuation or correct any assessment complained of, or it may order a reassessment by the original assessing officer.

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the county board of revision shall not decrease any valuation unless a party affected thereby or who is authorized to file a complaint under section 5715.19 of the Revised Code makes and files with the board a written application therefor, verified by oath and signature, showing the facts upon which it is claimed such decrease should be made. (B) The county bo...

...On the second Monday of June, annually, the county auditor shall lay before the county board of revision the returns of his assessment of real property for the current year, and such board shall forthwith proceed to revise the assessment and returns of such real property. If the board finds that any tract, lot, or parcel of land, or any buildings, structures, or improvements thereon, or any minerals therein, or right...

...In addition to the printed notice prescribed in section 5715.17 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner may provide such additional notice of any change made in the assessment of any tract, lot, or parcel of real estate, or improvement thereon or minerals or mineral rights therein in such form and at such times as the commissioner deems advisable. Such additional notices shall be delivered to the parties interested...

...The tax commissioner may require county auditors, assessors, and members of county boards of revision to meet and confer with other county auditors, assessors, members of county boards of revision, or with the commissioner on any matter relating to the assessment and valuation of property for taxation at such times and places as are prescribed by the commissioner.

...The tax commissioner may institute proceedings to remedy improper or negligent administration of the real property taxation laws.

...r taxation or the levy or collection of taxes which the department of taxation directs.

...Each county auditor, assistant assessor, member of a county board of revision, and each expert, clerk, or employee of a board may, at all reasonable times, examine and make memorandums free of charge from any records, books, papers, documents, statements, or accounts of record or on file in any public office of any county, township, municipal corporation, school district, or special taxing district, and the officers ...

...The prosecuting attorney shall be the legal adviser of the county auditor in all matters relating to property taxation and shall prosecute and defend all actions and proceedings in any court in connection therewith to which the auditor or the county board of revision is a party, and in all respects act as the attorney of the auditor or the board. The prosecuting attorney shall, upon the request of the auditor or boar...

...(A) The powers and duties of the tax commissioner, county auditors, treasurers, and prosecuting attorneys contained in sections 5715.27 to 5715.44 of the Revised Code apply to and shall be exercised and performed with respect to the recoupment charge imposed under sections 5713.33 to 5713.35 of the Revised Code. (B) As used in sections 5715.17 to 5715.22 and 5715.45 to 5715.50 of the Revised Code, "assessment" and "...

...tion of personal or classified property taxes on or before the date specified by law for the performance thereof.

...The board of tax appeals may consider and decide motions, including, but not limited to, motions in limine, before the board makes a decision on any matter.

... by any dwelling, upon which delinquent taxes, as defined in section 323.01 of the Revised Code, remain unpaid at the time a settlement is made between the county treasurer and auditor pursuant to division (C) of section 321.24 of the Revised Code. (2) "Delinquent vacant lands" means all lands that have been delinquent lands for at least one year and that are unimproved by any dwelling. (3) "County land reuti...

...This section does not apply to transfers of property without sale to a municipal corporation, township, county, community development organization, or county land reutilization corporation pursuant to the alternative redemption period procedures contained in section 323.78 of the Revised Code, except as provided in division (D) of that section. When land is sold pursuant to a foreclosure proceeding as provided in t...

...The county auditor shall keep a record of all delinquent lands sold by proceedings pursuant to Chapters 5721. and 5723. of the Revised Code wherein he shall enter each procedural step required by Chapters 5721. and 5723. of the Revised Code. Each county auditor shall compile and make up, in tabular form and alphabetical order, separate lists of the names and description of the property as it appears on the tax list,...

...(A) Private attorney's fees payable with respect to an action under sections 5721.30 to 5721.46 of the Revised Code are subject to the following conditions: (1) The fees must be reasonable. (2) Fees exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars shall be paid only if authorized by a court order. (B)(1) Fees less than or equal to two thousand five hundred dollars shall be presumed to be reasonable. (2) If the private...

...All interest required under sections 5721.30 to 5721.43 of the Revised Code is simple interest, to be calculated on a principal amount and not compounded on earned interest. The interest charged shall equal one-twelfth of the annual interest rate multiplied by the principal amount. Interest charges under those sections shall accrue on a monthly basis, on the first day of the month following the beginning of the...

...All lands acquired and held by an electing subdivision pursuant to this chapter shall be deemed real property used for a public purpose and, notwithstanding section 5709.08 of the Revised Code, shall be exempt from taxation until sold.

...value; (B) The total amount of accrued taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, charges, and costs incurred by the electing subdivision in the acquisition, maintenance, and disposal of each parcel and the parcel's share of the costs and expenses of the land reutilization program. The sale requirements of this section do not apply to real property acquired and held by a county land reutilization corporation.

...in section 1728.01 of the Revised Code, taxes on the land in the base period of the year immediately preceding the initial acquisition, as provided in section 1728.111 of the Revised Code, shall be determined by applying the land valuation as it existed in either the year preceding such initial acquisition, or in the next succeeding year after such nonproductive land is sold pursuant to section 5722.07 or 5722.13 of ...

... such corporation free and clear of all taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest, and costs. Subject to division (C) of this section, any subordinate liens shall be deemed fully and forever satisfied and discharged. Upon such request, the land is deemed sold by the state for no consideration. The county land reutilization corporation shall file the deed for recording. (C) When title to a parcel of land...

...If any forfeited lands are sold for a greater sum than the amount of the tax, assessment, penalty, interest, and costs of sale, the county auditor shall charge the county treasurer separately in each case, in the name of the supposed owner, with the excess above such amount. The treasurer shall retain such excess in the treasury for the proper owner of the forfeited lands, and upon deman...