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...The county recorder shall file the transcript or other papers provided by section 707.08 of the Revised Code in the county recorder's office, and at the expiration of sixty days thereafter, unless enjoined as provided in section 707.11 of the Revised Code, the county recorder shall make a record of the petition, transcript, if any, and map in the official records. The county recorder shall also file a copy of t...

...Within sixty days from the filing of the papers relating to the incorporation of a village by the board of county commissioners with the county recorder as provided by sections 707.08 and 707.09 of the Revised Code, any person interested may make application by petition to the court of common pleas setting forth the errors complained of or claiming the decision of the board is unreasonable or unlawful, and praying an...

...When a petition is filed under section 707.11 of the Revised Code, the person filing it shall give notice by delivering a copy of the petition to the county recorder and the agent of the petitioners for the municipal corporation. On receiving such notice, the recorder shall transmit to the clerk of the court of common pleas all the papers relating to the matter of incorporation on file in the recorder's office, and i...

...The court of common pleas shall hear the petition not less than twenty days from the filing thereof and at such hearing the court may hear evidence upon the matters averred in the petition. If the court finds no error in the proceedings before the board of county commissioners and that the board's decision was reasonable and lawful, the petition for such injunction shall be dismissed. Thereupon the clerk shall return...

...If the court finds error in the proceedings before the board of county commissioners or that the board's decision was unreasonable or unlawful, the court shall make an order enjoining the county recorder from making the record and filing a copy of the record with the secretary of state as is provided in section 707.09 of the Revised Code. Such order shall not be a bar to subsequent applications to the board for the p...

...The first election of officers for a municipal corporation organized under Chapter 707. of the Revised Code shall be held at the time of the next regular municipal election if one occurs not less than one hundred five nor more than one hundred eighty days after the creation of the municipal corporation. Otherwise a special election shall be held. Such special election may be held on the day of a primary or gene...

...When electors residing in two or more counties desire the organization of such territory into a municipal corporation, the petition shall be made to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the largest number of qualified voters of the proposed municipal corporation reside, and a statement to that effect shall be set forth in the petition. The transcript of the proceedings of the board, if required, a...

...When the jurisdiction of municipal officers is coextensive with the county in which the municipal corporation is situated, their jurisdiction in a municipal corporation embracing territory of more than one county shall be coextensive with each of the counties in which any part of such territory is located.

...Each municipal officer shall receive for the services required of him under sections 707.01 to 707.28, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the same fees he would be entitled to for similar services in other cases. Unless such fees are paid in advance for services under sections 707.01 to 707.28, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by the agent of the petitioners, of whom demand may be made, such officer need not perform the ...

...When it is desirable to change the name of a municipal corporation a petition for the purpose, subscribed by at least twelve freeholders of the municipal corporation, setting forth the reasons such change is desirable, shall be filed in the court of common pleas of the county in which such municipal corporation, or the larger part thereof, is situated. A notice, setting forth the object of the petitioners, and the t...

... The court of common pleas may order a change in the name of a municipal corporation as provided by section 707.25 of the Revised Code, upon being satisfied, by proof, of the following: (A) The prayer of the petitioners is just and reasonable. (B) Notice, as required by such section, has been given. (C) At least three-fourths of the inhabitants of such municipal corporation desire the change. (D) There is no ...

...No error, irregularity, or defect in any proceeding for the creation of a municipal corporation shall render it invalid if the territory sought to be incorporated has been recognized as such municipal corporation, and if any tax levied upon it as such has been paid, or if it has been subjected to the authority of the municipal legislative authority without objection from its inhabitants.

...When a village or a city is incorporated from a portion of a township, or portions of more than one township, a proper division of the real and personal property of the townships, and of the funds for township purposes which are in the treasury, or in the process of collection, of the townships from which the territory is taken, shall, upon application of the village or city treasurer to the probate court of the cou...

...(A) Cities may be incorporated in the manner provided in sections 707.29 and 707.30 of the Revised Code. Application for incorporation of a city shall be made by petition addressed to the board of county commissioners. The territory proposed for incorporation as a city shall meet all of the following criteria: (1) It shall consist of not less than four square miles. (2) It shall have a population of not less than ...

... (A) The petition required by section 707.29 of the Revised Code shall be signed by twenty per cent of the electors in the territory, as determined by the total number of votes cast within that territory for the office of governor at the preceding general election for that office, and filed with the board of county commissioners requesting that the question of incorporating territory as a city be placed on the ballot...

...Territory may be annexed to, merged with, or detached from, municipal corporations, in the manner provided in this chapter, provided that no territory lying within the boundaries of a military base, camp, or similar installation under the jurisdiction of a military department of the United States government, that is used for the housing of members of the armed forces of the United States and is a center ...

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

...When a municipal corporation annexes township territory which results in a reduction of the firefighting force of the township or joint township fire district, the reduction shall be made by dismissal of firefighters in the inverse order of seniority, with the employee with least time of service being dismissed first. The annexing municipal corporation shall offer employment in the inverse order of dismissal by the t...

...(A) If, after a petition for annexation is filed with the board of county commissioners, one or more other petitions are filed containing all or a part of the territory contained in the first petition, the board shall hear and decide the petitions in the order in which they were filed. (B) The effect of granting any petition under division (A) of this section shall be to delete from any subsequently filed petition a...

...(A) The board of county commissioners may establish a reasonable fee or schedule of fees to cover its costs incurred in any annexation proceedings that take place under this chapter. The board also may require an initial deposit to be paid at the time a petition for annexation is filed under sections 709.02 to 709.21 of the Revised Code or promptly after that time. The clerk of the board shall maintain an accurate an...

...The procedural requirements set forth in sections 709.02 to 709.21 of the Revised Code are directory in nature. Substantial compliance with the procedural requirements of those sections is sufficient to grant the board of county commissioners jurisdiction to hear and render its decision on a petition for annexation filed under those sections. The board shall cure a procedural defect and shall not deny a petition for...

...(A) The owners of real estate contiguous to a municipal corporation may petition for annexation to a municipal corporation in the manner provided by sections 709.02 to 709.11 of the Revised Code. (B) Application for annexation shall be made by a petition filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the territory is located. (C) The petition required by this section shall cont...

...(A) When a petition signed by all of the owners of real estate in the unincorporated territory of a township proposed for annexation requests the annexation of that territory to a municipal corporation contiguous to that territory under one of the special procedures provided for annexation in sections 709.022, 709.023, and 709.024 of the Revised Code, the annexation proceedings shall be conducted under those sections...

...(A) A petition filed under section 709.021 of the Revised Code that requests to follow this section is for the special procedure of annexing land with the consent of all parties. The petition shall be accompanied by a certified copy of an annexation agreement provided for in section 709.192 of the Revised Code or of a cooperative economic development agreement provided for in section 701.07 of the Revised Code, that ...

...(A) A petition filed under section 709.021 of the Revised Code that requests to follow this section is for the special procedure of annexing land into a municipal corporation when, subject to division (H) of this section, the land also is not to be excluded from the township under section 503.07 of the Revised Code. The owners who sign this petition by their signature expressly waive their right to appeal in law or e...