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...Whoever violates section 505.374, 505.74, 505.75, 505.76, 505.77, or 505.94 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

...Whoever violates section 505.106 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twice the value of any property not deposited as provided by that section, but not more than three thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

...A township fiscal officer shall be elected at the general election in 2007, and quadrennially thereafter in each township, and the fiscal officer shall hold office for a term of four years commencing on the first day of April next after election.

...When the office of township fiscal officer becomes vacant, or when a township fiscal officer is unable to carry out the duties of office because of illness, because of entering the military service of the United States, because of a court ordered suspension as provided for under section 507.13 of the Revised Code, or because the fiscal officer is otherwise incapacitated or disqualified, the board of township trustees...

...(A) The township fiscal officer may hire and appoint one or more persons as the fiscal officer finds necessary to provide assistance to the township fiscal officer or deputy fiscal officer. The township fiscal officer may set the compensation of those persons subject to division (B) of this section. Those persons shall serve at the pleasure of the township fiscal officer or, in the absence of the township fiscal offi...

...section 3.061 of the Revised Code, the township fiscal officer, before entering upon the discharge of official duties, shall give a bond, payable to the board of township trustees, with sureties approved by the board, in the sum determined by the board but not less than the sum provided in this section, and conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of the office of township fiscal officer. This bond sha...

...(A) The township fiscal officer shall keep an accurate record of the proceedings of the board of township trustees at all of its meetings, and of all its accounts and transactions, including the acceptance of the bonds of township officers. The township fiscal officer shall personally attend at least one meeting of the board during each quarter of every year, unless prevented by the occurrence of an emergency from at...

...The township fiscal officer shall, in addition to the books for the record of the proceedings of the board of township trustees, be provided by the township with a book for the record of township roads and a book for the record of official oaths and bonds of township officers.

...The fiscal officer of a township shall notify the board of elections of all vacancies caused by death, resignation, or otherwise in the elective offices of the township. The notification shall be made in writing and filed, not later than ten days after a vacancy occurs, with the board of elections of the county in which the township is located. The fiscal officer of a township shall notify the board of elections...

...The township fiscal officer may administer oaths, and take and certify affidavits, that pertain to the business of the township or of the board of education of the fiscal officer's local school district, or are connected with the official business of either the township or the local school district, including the official oaths of township and school officers, and oaths required in the execution, verification, and...

...es, as soon as approved by the board of township trustees, and before being filed, shall be recorded by the township fiscal officer in the book kept for that purpose. A copy of such a recorded bond, certified by the fiscal officer, shall be admitted in any court in this state, as evidence, the same as the original bond. For recording such a bond, the fiscal officer shall receive the sum of fifty cents from the p...

...(A) In calendar year 2018, the township fiscal officer shall be entitled to compensation as follows: (1) In townships having a budget of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or less, ten thousand nine hundred eighteen dollars; (2) In townships having a budget of more than two hundred fifty thousand but not more than five hundred thousand dollars, fourteen thousand thirty-nine dollars; (3) In townships having a budge...

... February and August in each year, each township which receives money as taxes levied and collected for joint cemetery purposes shall pay all such funds to the managing trustee of the joint township cemetery board of directors having charge of such cemetery, and shall accept from the treasurer of such board his receipt for the funds.

...(A) The board of township trustees may authorize, by resolution, township officers and employees to incur obligations of ten thousand dollars or less on behalf of the township, or it may authorize, by resolution, the township administrator to so authorize township officers and employees. The obligations incurred on behalf of the township by a township officer or employee acting pursuant to any such resolution shall b...

...the background and working knowledge of township fiscal officers in government accounting, budgeting and financing, financial report preparation, cybersecurity, and the rules adopted by the auditor of state, the auditor of state shall conduct education programs and continuing education courses for individuals elected or appointed for the first time to the office of township fiscal officer, and shall conduct continuin...

...(A)(1) If a township fiscal officer purposely, knowingly, or recklessly fails to perform a fiscal duty expressly imposed by law with respect to the fiscal duties of the office of township fiscal officer or purposely, knowingly, or recklessly commits any act expressly prohibited by law with respect to the fiscal duties of that office, four residents of the township may submit sworn affidavits alleging the violation, t...

...A township fiscal officer or deputy fiscal officer shall not be held liable for a loss of public funds when the township fiscal officer or deputy fiscal officer has performed all official duties required of the township fiscal officer or deputy fiscal officer with reasonable care, but shall be liable only when a loss of public funds results from the township fiscal officer's or deputy fiscal officer's negligence or o...

...ision (C) of this section, the board of township trustees may designate any qualified persons as police constables and may provide them with the automobiles, communication systems, uniforms, and police equipment that the board considers necessary. Except as provided in division (C) of this section, police constables designated under this division, who have been awarded a certificate attesting to the satisfactory comp...

...ties, and with sureties resident of the township. The amount of the bond and its sureties shall be approved by the board of township trustees. The bond shall be deposited with the township fiscal officer.

...(A) The board of township trustees may establish, by resolution, a parking enforcement unit within the office of a township constable, and provide for the regulation of parking enforcement officers. The board of township trustees shall appoint a police constable as executive head of the parking enforcement unit, who shall make all appointments and removals of parking enforcement officers, subject to any general rules...

... court in all cases in their respective townships, and in criminal cases, they shall be such officers within the county. They shall apprehend and bring to justice felons and disturbers of the peace, suppress riots, and keep and preserve the peace within the county. They may execute all writs and process, in criminal cases, throughout the county in which they reside, and in which they were elected or appointed. If a p...

...Constables, marshals, chiefs of police, and other police officers, in discharging their duties, may call the sheriff or a deputy sheriff to their aid in state cases.

...Each constable shall, at the proper office and on the proper return day, make due return of all process directed and delivered to him. If the judgment upon which such constable has an execution is docketed in the court of common pleas, appealed, or stayed, on notice to return the execution, he shall state such fact on the execution.

...Each constable, on the receipt of any writ or other process, except subpoenas, shall note thereon the time of receiving it. He shall also state in his return on such writ or process the time and manner of executing it.

...No constable shall make a return on any process of "not found," as to any defendant, unless he has been to the usual place of residence of the defendant at least once, if such defendant has a residence in the county.