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...Any person who disposes of, offers for sale, or leases for a time exceeding five years, any lot, or any part of a lot, in a subdivision with intent to violate sections 711.001 to 711.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars for each lot or part of a lot so sold, offered for sale, or leased, to be recovered, with costs, in a civil action,...

...Sections 711.001 to 711.151 of the Revised Code do not apply to conveyances executed and delivered prior to October 16, 1953 and to conveyances made in performance of executory contracts existing prior to October 16, 1953.

...The directors appointed by the court of common pleas to lay out a village, where a seat of justice is situated, shall be governed by sections 711.01 to 711.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and liable to the same forfeitures for violation of such sections as county recorders under section 729.05 of the Revised Code.

...Upon the application of two thirds of the proprietors of land described in a plat of a municipal corporation, the court of common pleas may alter or vacate the plat of any such municipal corporation, addition thereto, or parts thereof, within the county.

...Applications for vacating or altering a plat, addition, or part thereof, shall be by petition in writing, filed with the clerk of the court of common pleas. The applicant shall give thirty days' notice thereof, by publication in a newspaper published in and of general circulation in the county. Such notice shall set forth briefly the part of the plat or addition to be vacated.

...If the petitioners for the alteration or vacation of a plat under section 711.17 of the Revised Code produce to the court of common pleas satisfactory evidence that notice has been given as required by section 711.18 of the Revised Code, and that two thirds of the persons owning lots or parts thereof in a municipal corporation, part thereof, or addition thereto, or their authorized agents or attorneys, have made appl...

...The proceedings for vacating or altering a plat under sections 711.17 to 711.19 of the Revised Code, shall be recorded by the clerk of the court of common pleas in the records of the court of common pleas. A copy of such record shall be made and certified, under the seal of the court, by the clerk thereof, and shall be deposited, by the parties applying for such vacation or alteration, within thirty days after such c...

...On application made and notice given according to sections 711.17 and 711.18 of the Revised Code, the court of common pleas may change any commons included in the plat of a municipal corporation into streets, and cause such change to be recorded as provided by section 711.20 of the Revised Code.

...The clerk of the court of common pleas, for recording a plat required to be recorded under sections 711.17 to 711.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and for other services required of him, is entitled to the same fees as are allowed him for similar services.

...As used in this section, "incompetent person" means a person who is so mentally impaired, as a result of a mental or physical illness or disability, as a result of intellectual disability, or as a result of chronic substance abuse, that the person is incapable of taking proper care of the person's self or property or fails to provide for the person's family or other persons for whom the person is charged by law to pr...

...Any person owning, either jointly or severally, and either in his own right or in trust, and having the legal title to any land laid out in town lots, not within the limits or subject to the control of a municipal corporation, may change such lots and the streets and alleys bounding them by making, acknowledging, and having recorded, as provided in sections 711.01 to 711.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code, a new pla...

...Where the lots of a municipal corporation are not numbered consecutively upon the original plat thereof, the plats of additions thereto, or subdivisions thereof, the county auditor and county recorder, in conjunction with a person appointed by the mayor of such municipal corporation, may make a revision of the numbers of all the in-lots and out-lots of such municipal corporation as they stand upon the record, and ren...

...The county auditor and the county recorder, in conjunction with an associate appointed as provided by section 711.28 of the Revised Code, shall make a schedule of all the in-lots of a municipal corporation, beginning with the original plat thereof, by setting down the lots in the order of their numbers and placing opposite such old numbers the new numbers assigned thereto. There shall follow in such schedule, in the ...

...When the revision and renumbering of lots has been made, and the schedule thereof recorded as required by sections 711.28 and 711.29 of the Revised Code, such lots shall be assessed and entered upon the tax list for taxation according to their new numbers. In the assessment and collection of taxes the lots shall be known and designated by the new numbers given them, and conveyances of them made by the new numbers sha...

...When the revision and renumbering of lots are done at the request of a municipal corporation, the expenses shall be paid by such municipal corporation. The board of county commissioners of the county in which unincorporated territory is situated may direct the county auditor and county recorder to make such revision and renumbering and cause the expenses to be paid from the county treasury. The board may direct such...

...After the revision of lot numbers in a municipal corporation is made and recorded as provided by sections 711.28 to 711.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, each person who lays off lots as an addition to such municipal corporation, or who makes a subdivision of lots therein, shall number the lots so divided upon his plat in regular consecutive numbers, commencing with the next number after the highest number of such ...

...The county auditor, county recorder, and their associate, shall each receive two dollars per day for their services under sections 711.28 to 711.32, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...Any ten persons, owning or interested in any lots of land in a municipal corporation, or the agents or attorneys of such persons, where the original plat of lands in such municipal corporation, or any addition thereto, has been recorded in the records of the county in which such municipal corporation is situated, and such records and original plat have been lost or destroyed, may make application in writing to the bo...

...Upon the filing of the application provided for in section 711.34 of the Revised Code, the county auditor shall give notice of the filing, by publication, for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. The county auditor shall also notify the board of county commissioners of such filing.

...Upon the filing of the application and the giving of notice, as required in sections 711.34 and 711.35 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall forthwith employ a competent surveyor, who, after being sworn to well and faithfully discharge the duties assigned him, shall proceed to replat such municipal corporation according to the original plan or plat thereof. To enable him to find more easily the...

...Upon the filing of the plat and certificate by the surveyor as required by section 711.36 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall cause them to be recorded in the office of the county recorder, and such record, or a copy thereof, certified by the recorder, is prima-facie evidence of the plat of the municipal corporation in all the courts of this state.

...The county auditor shall keep a complete record of the proceedings under sections 711.34 to 711.37, inclusive, of the Revised Code, in the journal of the board of county commissioners. The surveyor shall be paid for his services from the county fund, on the order of the auditor, such fees as are allowed by law for similar services.

...Upon the institution of proceedings by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, the board of county commissioners of a county, the department of transportation of the state, or an individual, partnership, or corporation in the court of common pleas, for the vacation of any public streets, alley, avenue, lane, road, boulevard, driveway, or other public way, or any portion thereof, in a village, or additio...

...Unless required by rules and regulations adopted pursuant to the provisions of sections 711.05, 711.09 and 711.10 of the Revised Code, the provisions of sections 711.01 to 711.39, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall not apply to the division of any parcel of land by an instrument of conveyance.

...The legislative authority of each city having a board of park commissioners may establish a city planning commission of seven members, consisting of the mayor, the director of public service, the president of the board of park commissioners, two citizens of the municipal corporation, and two public members who shall serve without compensation and shall be appointed by the mayor for terms of six years each, except tha...