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...(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 for the purpose of undertaking a significant economic development project. As used in this section, "significant economic development project" means one or more economic development projects that can be classified as industrial, distribution, hi...

... (A) Once a petition described in section 709.02 of the Revised Code is filed, the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall cause the petition to be entered upon the journal of the board at its next regular session. This entry shall be the first official act of the board on the petition. Within five days after the filing of the petition, the board shall set the date, time, and place for the hearing...

...(A) Within five days after the petition for annexation is filed with the board of county commissioners, the clerk of the board shall refer the legal description of the perimeter and the map or plat of the territory proposed to be annexed to the county engineer for a report upon the accuracy of the legal description of the perimeter, map, or plat. Upon receiving these items, the county engineer shall file, at least tw...

...(A) As used in this section, "necessary party" means the municipal corporation to which annexation is proposed, each township any portion of which is included within the territory proposed for annexation, and the agent for the petitioners. (B) The hearing provided for in section 709.03 of the Revised Code shall be public. The board of county commissioners may, or at the request of any necessary party shall, iss...

...(A) After the hearing on a petition for annexation, the board of county commissioners shall enter upon its journal a resolution granting the annexation if it finds, based upon a preponderance of the substantial, reliable, and probative evidence on the whole record, that each of the following conditions has been met: (1) The petition meets all the requirements set forth in, and was filed in the manner provided in...

...At the next regular session of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation to which annexation is proposed, after the expiration of sixty days from the date of the delivery required by division (C) of section 709.022 or division (C)(1) of section 709.033 of the Revised Code, the auditor or clerk of that municipal corporation shall lay the resolution of the board granting the petition and the accompanyin...

...If the resolution or ordinance required by section 709.04 of the Revised Code is a rejection of the application for annexation, no further proceedings shall be had. Such rejection shall not be a bar to application thereafter to the board of county commissioners on the same subject.

...If the resolution or ordinance required by section 709.04 of the Revised Code is an acceptance of the proposed annexation, the auditor or clerk of the municipal corporation to which annexation is proposed shall make three copies containing the petition, the map or plat accompanying the petition, a transcript of the proceedings of the board of county commissioners, and resolutions and ordinances in relation to t...

...(A) The agent for the petitioners, any owner of real estate in the territory proposed for annexation, any township in which territory proposed for annexation is located, and the municipal corporation to which the territory is proposed to be annexed may file an appeal under Chapter 2506. of the Revised Code from a resolution of the board of county commissioners granting or denying the petition. The agent for the petit...

...The annexation shall become effective thirty days after the passage of the resolution or ordinance by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation accepting annexation, provided that if the resolution or ordinance is subjected to a referendum, the annexation, if approved by the electors, shall become effective thirty days after such approval. The territory annexed is a part of the municipal corporation, and...

...If the territory proposed for annexation under this chapter is situated in more than one county, the annexation proceedings shall be in the county in which the majority of acreage of the territory proposed for annexation is situated.

...When proceedings have been commenced to annex a portion of a township, or portions of more than one township, to a municipal corporation upon which the tax levies made by the board of township trustees for the payment of the township debt do not apply, the county auditor shall ascertain and apportion the amount of existing net indebtedness of the township which shall be assumed and paid by the municipal corportion. T...

...The inhabitants, generally, of a municipal corporation may enlarge the limits of the municipal corporation by the annexation of contiguous territory in the manner provided by sections 709.14 to 709.16 of the Revised Code.

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation that proposes to annex contiguous territory shall pass, by a vote of not less than a majority of the members elected to the legislative authority, an ordinance authorizing the annexation to be made and directing the village solicitor or city director of law of the municipal corporation, or someone to be named in the ordinance, to prosecute the proceedings neces...

...The application of a municipal corporation to the board of county commissioners requesting the annexation of contiguous territory under section 709.16 of the Revised Code shall be by a petition setting forth that, under an ordinance of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, the territory described in the petition was authorized to be annexed to the municipal corporation. The petition shall contain an...

...(A) A municipal corporation may petition the board of county commissioners to annex contiguous territory owned only by the municipal corporation, a county, or the state. The clerk of the board shall cause the petition to be entered upon the board's journal at its next regular session. This entry shall be the first official act of the board upon the petition. Proceedings on the petition shall be conducted under this s...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "International airport" means any airport that is: (a) Designated as an international airport or a landing rights airport by the United States secretary of the treasury; (b) Owned and operated by a municipal corporation; (c) An unincorporated area not contiguous to the municipal corporation that owns it. (2) "Commercial," "industrial," "residential," and "retail," in relation to ...

...In lieu of making any of the payments required by section 709.19 of the Revised Code and for any proposed annexation which does not require payments under that section, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation which proposes to annex unincorporated territory of a township may enter into an agreement with the board of township trustees of the township in which the territory to be annexed is located, whereb...

...(A) The legislative authority of one municipal corporation, by ordinance or resolution, and the board of township trustees of one or more townships, by resolution, may enter into annexation agreements under this section. (B) An annexation agreement may be entered into for any period of time and may be amended at any time in the same manner as it was initially authorized. (C) Annexation agreements may provide for an...

...When the annexation of the territory described in the petition mentioned in section 709.15 of the Revised Code has been completed, such territory is a part of the annexing municipal corporation, and the inhabitants residing in the territory shall have all the rights and privileges of the inhabitants residing within the original limits of such municipal corporation.

...No error, irregularity, or defect in the proceedings under sections 709.01 to 709.20 of the Revised Code shall render them invalid once annexation has become final and the annexed territory has been recognized as a part of the annexing municipal corporation, taxes levied upon it as such have been paid, and it has been subjected to the authority of the legislative authority of the annexing municipal corporation.

...Territory of a municipal corporation may be annexed to that of a contiguous municipal corporation in the manner provided in sections 709.23 to 709.34 of the Revised Code.

...The legislative authority of any municipal corporation may propose annexation of its territory to that of any contiguous municipal corporation, and it shall thereupon pass an ordinance declaring its desire to be annexed and shall appoint three commissioners to represent it in such negotiations and to arrange the conditions of annexation.

...If there is presented to the legislative authority of a municipal corporation proposed to be annexed to an adjoining or contiguous municipal corporation, a petition signed by resident electors, who voted at the last regular municipal election, numbering not less than twenty-five per cent of the number of electors who voted in such election in the territory proposed to be annexed, representing their desire that such l...

...The ordinance provided for in section 709.23 of the Revised Code, or the petition provided for in section 709.24 of the Revised Code, shall specify whether annexation is desired for corporate municipal purposes only, or for such purposes and for school purposes. In case annexation is desired both for corporate municipal purposes and for school purposes, such questions shall be submitted separately, but may be printed...