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...Whoever violates section 1747.13 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars.

...ten instrument designating an agent or attorney in fact. The application shall be filed in the county in which the person last resided or if the person's last known residence was outside this state, the application may be filed in any county in which that property is situated.

...The probate court, before appointing a trustee for an absentee, shall cause notice of the filing of the application under section 2119.01 of the Revised Code and of the time and place of hearing on the application to be published once a week for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county and shall cause copies of the notice to be mailed to the spouse and next of kin of the absent...

...(A) The trustee appointed under section 2119.01 of the Revised Code may proceed without order of the probate court to do the following: (1) Take possession of the property of the absentee wherever situated within the state; (2) Collect all debts due to the absentee; (3) Retain and invest the estate in accordance with Chapters 2113. to 2125. of the Revised Code. (B) The trustee may pay that part or all of the...

...In order to provide money for the payments authorized by section 2119.03 of the Revised Code, proceedings may be had for the mortgaging, leasing, or sale of the real property of an absentee in the same manner as provided by sections 2127.01 to 2127.43 of the Revised Code for sales of real property by executors and administrators. The probate court, upon notice to the spouse and any other persons and in the mann...

...robate court for the termination of the trust established under section 2119.01 of the Revised Code, the court shall, on notice to the trustee and other interested parties, order the trustee to file a final account and on settlement of the account shall terminate the trust and order all remaining property returned. If an executor, administrator, or guardian is appointed for the estate of the absentee, the court...

...Each commissioner appointed to make partition of lands or to assign dower, for the time so engaged, and in going to and returning from such lands, shall receive not to exceed ten dollars each, per parcel of land, as the court determines. A parcel of personal property is to include all the articles included in one action, execution, replevin, or attachment. Each person called by an officer to appraise real or persona...

...In any cause, matter, or proceeding arising in any court of record, where appraisers, commissioners, or arbitrators are appointed by such court to make or procure an appraisement or valuation of any property, real or personal, such appraisers, commissioners, or arbitrators shall receive, on application to such court, such compensation as the court deems reasonable and proper in addition to the amount specified by law...

...Any court of record may appoint an auctioneer licensed under Chapter 4707. of the Revised Code to conduct any public auction of goods, chattels, or lands required to be sold by an officer of the court. Such auctioneer shall receive such compensation and reimbursement for the expenses of advertising such public auction as the court finds reasonable and proper. Such compensation and advertising expenses shall be charg...

...The judges of the court of common pleas of any county where two or more such judges hold court at the same time, may, in joint session, appoint assignment commissioners to attend to the assignment of all cases for trial and to discharge such other duties as the court requires. Such assignment commissioners shall be allowed such compensation for their services as the court appointing them determines, and shall be paid...

...When the business of the court of common pleas requires, such court, in any county having not more than one judge of the court of common pleas, may appoint an assignment commissioner whose duty it will be to make assignments of cases to be tried in the court under the direction of the judge holding such court. Such commissioner shall hold office during the pleasure of the court making the appointment and shall receiv...

...In all cases or proceedings not specified in sections 2335.06 and 2335.08 of the Revised Code, except as otherwise provided in section 2335.061 of the Revised Code, each person subpoenaed as a witness shall be allowed one dollar for each day's attendance and the mileage allowed in courts of record. If not subpoenaed each person called upon to testify in a case or proceeding shall receive twenty-five cents. Such...

...ivil cases shall receive the following fees: (1) Twelve dollars for each full day's attendance and six dollars for each half day's attendance at a court of record, mayor's court, or before a person authorized to take depositions, to be taxed in the bill of costs. Each witness shall also receive reimbursement for each mile necessarily traveled to and from the witness's place of residence to the place of giving...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Coroner" has the same meaning as in section 313.01 of the Revised Code, and includes the following: (a) The coroner of a county other than a county in which the death occurred or the dead human body was found if the coroner of that other county performed services for the county in which the death occurred or the dead human body was found; (b) A medical examiner appointed by th...

...The sheriff or other officer serving a writ or subpoena shall indorse thereon the number of miles to which each witness is entitled as provided by sections 2335.05 and 2335.06 of the Revised Code. Each judicial officer returning witnesses under recognizance to any court for the trial of criminal causes shall indorse on his transcript the number of miles to which each such witness is entitled.

...nal causes, shall be allowed the same fees as provided by section 2335.06 of the Revised Code in civil causes, to be taxed in only one cause when such witness is attending in more causes than one on the same days, unless otherwise directed by special order of the court. When certified to the county auditor by the clerk of the court, such fees shall be paid from the county treasury, and except as to the g...

...ppoint interpreters, who shall receive fees as witnesses in the case or proceeding. Such fees shall be taxed and paid as provided by sections 2335.05 to 2335.08 of the Revised Code for other witness fees. If the party taxed with costs is indigent, interpreter's fees shall not be taxed as costs, and the county or, if the court is a municipal court that is not a county-operated municipal court, the municipal corp...

...The board of county commissioners may allow and pay the necessary expenses incurred by an officer in pursuit of a person charged with a felony, who has signed a formal waiver of interstate extradition or fled the country.

... which the defendant is convicted, the fees of the various magistrates and their officers, the witness fees, and interpreter's fees shall be inserted in the judgment of conviction and, when collected shall be disbursed by the clerk of the court of common pleas to the persons entitled thereto. In minor state cases, which have come to the court of common pleas through such magistrate's courts, the fees enumerated...

...In all states cases, any wholly salaried minor court officer, charged with the execution of a warrant to arrest or order of commitment, shall receive from the county treasury the actual necessary expense of executing such writs upon specifically itemized bills, verified by the oath of such officer, and certified to by the proper magistrate, court, or clerk thereof. Such expense shall, in a like manner, be paid from t...

...llowance to constables, in the place of fees, but in no year shall the aggregate allowance to such officer exceed the fees legally taxed to him in such causes, nor, in any calendar year, shall the aggregate amount allowed such officer and his successor exceed one hundred dollars. If there is a successor, such amount shall be prorated on the basis of lost fees.

...In ascertaining the amount of fees taxed by a judge of a county court in order to make the allowance provided by section 2335.13 of the Revised Code, in cases in which such judge was authorized to take security for costs, it must appear that he exercised reasonable care in taking such security. Until satisfied by the certificate of such judge or by other proof, to the satisfaction of the board of county commissioners...

...o him, shall not take into account his fees in such case.

...d by law. In any misdemeanor case, all fees due any such officers, if collected, shall be paid into the county treasury, unless the amount of such fees was not taken into account in estimating the allowance to such officer.

...o police officer is entitled to witness fees in a cause prosecuted under an ordinance of a city before a magistrate. In all prosecutions under a criminal law of the state involving a felony, municipal police officers shall be allowed the same fees for attendance as are allowed by section 2335.06 of the Revised Code. Such fees shall be taxed in the bill of costs and deposited, by municipal police officers, with the tr...

...The board of township trustees may construct, rebuild, and repair footbridges across rivers and streams when necessary, to provide convenient means of access to the public schools of the township by pupils residing in the school district in which a public schoolhouse is located. If a river or stream coincides with the boundary of two townships, either of the townships may construct, rebuild, or repair a footbridge a...

...The board of township trustees may pay the cost of the construction, rebuilding, or repair of footbridges authorized by section 505.46 of the Revised Code out of any funds, unappropriated for any other purpose, in the township treasury. If there be no funds in the township treasury available for these purposes, the board may levy a tax for the purpose of procuring the necessary funds for the construction, rebuildi...

...(A) The board of township trustees of any township may, by resolution adopted by two-thirds of the members of the board, create a township police district comprised of all or a portion of the unincorporated territory of the township as the resolution may specify. If the township police district does not include all of the unincorporated territory of the township, the resolution creating the district shall contain a c...

...unanimous vote of the board of township trustees to place the issue of expansion of the district on the ballot for the electors of the entire unincorporated territory of the township. The resolution shall state whether the proposed township police district initially will hire personnel as provided in section 505.49 of the Revised Code or contract for the provision of police protection services or additional police pr...

...(A) The boards of township trustees of any two or more contiguous townships, or the boards of township trustees of one or more contiguous townships and the legislative authorities of one or more contiguous municipal corporations, whether or not within the same county, by adoption of a joint resolution by a majority favorable vote of each such board and of the members of the legislative authority of each such municipa...

...A township or municipal corporation, or parts thereof, may join an existing joint police district by the adoption of a resolution by the township or of an ordinance by the municipal corporation requesting participation in the district and upon approval of the existing joint police district board.

...The treasurer of the joint police district board, before entering upon the duties of that office, shall execute a bond payable to the state, in the amount and with surety to be approved by the joint police district board, conditioned for the faithful performance of all the official duties required by the treasurer. The bond shall be deposited with the president of the joint police district board, and a copy the...

...the Revised Code. (B)(1) The township trustees of a township police district, by a two-thirds vote of the board, or a joint police district board, by majority vote of its members, may adopt rules necessary for the operation of the township or joint police district, including a determination of the qualifications of the chief of police, patrol officers, and others to serve as members of the district police for...

...e Revised Code for a board of township trustees, and except as provided in division (D) of section 505.49 of the Revised Code for a joint police district board, if the board has reason to believe that a chief of police, patrol officer, or other township or joint police district employee appointed under division (B) of section 505.49 of the Revised Code or a police constable appointed under division (B) of sect...

...Charges filed by the board of township trustees or joint police district board under section 505.491 of the Revised Code shall be heard at the next regular meeting thereof, unless the board extends the time for the hearing, which shall be done only on the application of the accused. The accused may appear in person and by counsel, examine all witnesses, and answer all charges against the accused.

... be suspended by the board of township trustees or joint police district board, but such suspension shall be for a period not longer than fifteen days, unless the hearing of such charges is extended upon the application of the accused, in which event the suspension shall not exceed thirty days.

...he Revised Code, the board of township trustees or joint police district board may issue subpoenas or compulsory process to compel the attendance of persons and the production of books and papers before it and provide by resolution for exercising and enforcing this section.

...vil cases. Witnesses shall be paid the fees and mileage provided for under section 1901.26 of the Revised Code, and the costs of all such proceedings shall be payable from the general fund of the township or joint police district.

...The board of township trustees of a township or of a township police district, or a joint police district board, may purchase, lease, lease with an option to purchase, or otherwise acquire any police apparatus, equipment, including a public communications system, or materials that the township, township police district, or joint police district requires and may build, purchase, lease, or lease with an option to...

...township police district, the board of trustees of the township police district may levy a tax upon all of the taxable property in the township police district pursuant to sections 5705.19 and 5705.25 of the Revised Code to defray all or a portion of expenses of the township police district in providing police protection. (B) In the case of a joint police district, the joint police district board may levy a t...

...(A) A board of township trustees that operates a township police department, the board of township trustees of a township police district, or a joint police district board may, after police constables, the township police, a law enforcement agency with which the township contracts for police services, the joint police district police, and the county sheriff or the sheriff's deputy have answered a combined total...

...The board of trustees of a township police district or a joint police district board may issue bonds for the purpose of buying police equipment in the manner provided for in section 133.18 and pursuant to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code. The proceeds of the bonds issued under this section, other than any premium and accrued interest which is credited to the sinking fund, shall be placed in the township treasur...

...The board of trustees of a township police district or a joint police district board may issue notes for a period not to exceed three years for the purpose of buying police equipment or a building or site to house police equipment. One-third of the purchase price of the equipment, building, or site shall be paid at the time of purchase, and the remainder of the purchase price shall be covered by notes maturing ...

...The board of trustees of the township or the joint police district board may, upon nomination by the chief of police, send one or more of the officers, patrol officers, or other employees of the township police district or the joint police district to a school of instruction designed to provide additional training or skills related to the employees work assignment in the district. The trustees may make advance ...

...(A) The board of township trustees or a joint police district board, respectively, may establish, by resolution, a parking enforcement unit within a township police district or within a joint police district, and provide for the regulation of parking enforcement officers. The chief of police of the district shall be the executive head of the parking enforcement unit, shall make all appointments and removals of ...

... district ceases to exist, the township trustees by a two-thirds vote of the board shall adopt a resolution specifying the date that the township police district shall cease to exist and provide for the disposal of all property belonging to the district by public sale. Such sale must be by public auction and upon notice thereof being published once a week for three weeks using at least one of the following methods: ...

...(A) Any township or municipal corporation may withdraw from a joint police district created under section 505.482 of the Revised Code by adopting a resolution or an ordinance, respectively, ordering withdrawal. On or after the first day of January of the year following the adoption of the resolution or ordinance of withdrawal, the township or municipal corporation withdrawing ceases to be a part of the district...

...f the Revised Code, a board of township trustees may by resolution adopted by a majority of the members of the board, levy an excise tax on transactions by which lodging by a hotel is or is to be furnished to transient guests. The board may establish all regulations necessary to provide for the administration and allocation of the tax. All funds arising from such an excise tax shall be deposited in the township treas...

...A board of township trustees of any township that contains a local school district in which is located a tax exempt, state-owned lodge, may, by resolution, use the proceeds of the tax imposed under section 505.56 of the Revised Code for the benefit of such district if the board determines and states in such resolution that the existence of such lodge creates a serious financial burden on such district. Upon adoption ...

...A board of township trustees may expend money from the general fund to make contributions to convention and visitors' bureaus operating within the county in which the township is located.