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...An electing subdivision may discontinue its land reutilization program at any time by repealing the ordinance or resolution enacted under section 5722.02 of the Revised Code, but it shall continue to be governed by the procedures set forth in this chapter concerning the administration and disposition of real property acquired as a part of its land reutilization program until all such lands have been sold or otherwise...

...Real property acquired and held by an electing subdivision pursuant to this chapter that is not sold or otherwise transferred within fifteen years after such acquisition shall be offered for sale at public auction during the sixteenth year after acquisition. If the real property is not sold at that time, it may be disposed of or retained for any lawful purpose without further application of this chapter. Noti...

... If nonproductive land is subsequently included within an impacted cities project, as defined in section 1728.01 of the Revised Code, taxes on the land in the base period of the year immediately preceding the initial acquisition, as provided in section 1728.111 of the Revised Code, shall be determined by applying the land valuation as it existed in either the year preceding such initial acquisition, or in the next su...

...(A) When an electing subdivision purchases nonproductive land under section 5722.03 or 5722.04 of the Revised Code, the county auditor shall remove from the auditor's tax lists and duplicates all taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, and interest that are due and payable on the land at the time of the sale in the same manner as if the property had been sold to any other buyer at the for...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Eligible delinquent land" means delinquent land or delinquent vacant land, as defined in section 5721.01 of the Revised Code, included in a delinquent tax list or delinquent vacant land tax list that has been certified delinquent within the meaning of section 5721.03 of the Revised Code, excluding any certificate parcel as defined in section 5721.30 of the Revised Code...

... A county land reutilization corporation is not liable for damages, or subject to equitable remedies, for breach of a common law duty, or for violation of sections 3737.87 to 3737.891 of the Revised Code or Chapter 3704., 3734., 3745., 3746., 3750., 3751., 3752., 6101., or 6111. of the Revised Code or any rule adopted or order, permit, license, variance, or plan approval issued under any of those chapters in co...

...(A)(1) Every tract of land and town lot, which, pursuant to foreclosure proceedings under section 323.25, sections 323.65 to 323.79, or section 5721.18 of the Revised Code, has been advertised and offered for sale on two separate occasions, not less than two weeks apart, and not sold for want of bidders, shall be forfeited to the state or to a political subdivision, school district, or county land reutilization...

...All real property that has been forfeited to the state is exempt from taxation from the date of forfeiture, and shall be removed from the tax lists and duplicates until sold or redeemed and placed on the list of exempted property maintained pursuant to section 5713.08 of the Revised Code. No taxes or assessments shall be assessed against such property from the date the property is forfeited to the state to the date ...

...If the former owner of real property that has been forfeited, at any time before the state has disposed of such property, pays into the treasury of the county in which the property is situated, all the taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and costs incurred in the foreclosure or foreclosure and forfeiture proceedings under section 323.25, 5721.14, or 5721.18 or sections 323.65 to 323.7...

...(A) The county auditor shall maintain a list of forfeited lands and shall offer such lands for sale annually, or more frequently if the auditor determines that more frequent sales are necessary. (B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, upon the request of a county land reutilization corporation organized under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code, the county auditor shall promptly transfer to such corpo...

... If the taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest, and costs due on the forfeited lands have not been paid when the county auditor fixes the date for the sale of forfeited lands, the auditor shall give notice of them once a week for two consecutive weeks prior to the date fixed by the auditor for the sale, as provided in section 5721.03 of the Revised Code. The notice shall state that if the taxes, assessments...

... (A)(1) The county auditor shall, on the day set for the sale of forfeited lands provided in section 5723.04 of the Revised Code and at a location within the county designated by the auditor, offer for sale the whole of each tract of land as contained in the list provided for in section 5723.04 of the Revised Code, at public auction, to the highest bidder, for an amount sufficient to pay the lesser of the amounts des...

...After the county auditor has closed his sale of forfeited lands, if any tract or parcel of land has been offered for sale as provided in section 5723.06 of the Revised Code and the same remains unsold, the auditor, at any time prior to his next sale, may again advertise the tract or parcel of land in the manner provided in section 5723.05 of the Revised Code and again offer it for sale.

...After any county auditor has compiled a list of forfeited lands as provided for in section 5723.04 of the Revised Code, the auditor shall furnish and deliver to the director of natural resources an authenticated copy of such list within ten days after its completion. The director of natural resources, in behalf of the state, may select and designate tracts of land so forfeited which are situate...

...No title of the state to lands acquired under section 5723.08 of the Revised Code is invalid because of any irregularity, informality, or omission of any proceeding under such section, or in any processes of taxation, if such irregularity, informality, or omission does not abrogate the provision for due notice to holders of title, lien, or mortgage to such forfeited lands.

... (A) The notice of sale prescribed in section 5723.05 of the Revised Code, shall be in substance as follows: FORFEITED LAND SALES The lands, lots, and parts of lots, in the county of _________________, forfeited to the state for the nonpayment of taxes, together with the taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest, and costs charged on them, agreeably to law, and the dates on which the lands, lots, and parts...

...If any forfeited lands are sold for a greater sum than the amount of the tax, assessment, penalty, interest, and costs of sale, the county auditor shall charge the county treasurer separately in each case, in the name of the supposed owner, with the excess above such amount. The treasurer shall retain such excess in the treasury for the proper owner of the forfeited lands, and upon deman...

...(A) The county auditor, on making a sale of a tract of land to any person under this chapter, shall give the purchaser a certificate of sale. On producing or returning to the auditor the certificate of sale, the auditor, on payment to the auditor by the purchaser, the purchaser's heirs, or assigns, of the sum of forty-five dollars, shall execute and file for recording a deed, which deed shall be prima-facie evi...

...Whenever real property in this state is sold under sections 5721.01 to 5721.28, inclusive, or 5723.01 to 5723.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, no action shall be commenced, nor shall any defense be set up to question the validity of the title of the purchasers at such sale for any irregularity, informality, or omission in the proceedings relative to the foreclosure, forfeiture, or sale, unless such action is comme...

...The sale of any tract or lot of land under sections 5723.01 to 5723.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, on which the taxes and assessments have been regularly paid previous to such sale, is void, and the purchaser, his heirs, or assigns, on producing the certificate of sale to the county auditor shall have his money refunded from the county treasury.

...Any person claiming any land, inlot, outlot, or part of lot, by virtue of a sale made under sections 5723.01 to 5723.19 of the Revised Code, as tenant in common with any other person, may apply for a partition in the manner provided by law for the partition of real estate. On presenting the county auditor's deed, the court, before which application for such partition is made, shall set off to such person the land cla...

...The purchaser of forfeited lands, his heirs or assigns, from the day of such purchase, shall be held in all courts as the assignee of the state. The amount paid by such purchaser for said land at such tax sale, with all taxes afterward paid thereon by such purchaser, his heirs or assigns, with interest thereon, shall be a lien on said land, and may be enforced as any other lien.

...When the claimant of any lands sold for the nonpayment of taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and costs, or his heirs or assigns, recovers the land sold, by reason of the invalidity of such sale, such claimant, or his heirs or assigns, shall refund to the purchaser, or his heirs or assigns, the amount of the purchase price, with all other taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and costs paid by such purchaser...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(2) of section 5721.17 and division (B) of section 319.43 of the Revised Code, the proceeds from a forfeiture sale shall be distributed as follows: (1) The county auditor shall deduct all costs pertaining to the forfeiture and sale of forfeited lands, including costs pertaining to a foreclosure and forfeiture proceeding instituted under section 5721.14 of the Re...

...If a certificate issued to a purchaser of lands sold at a county auditor's sale has been mislaid, destroyed, or lost, and that fact is shown to the auditor, and no deed is executed therefor, the auditor being fully satisfied from evidence of the existence and loss of such certificate, on application for that purpose, shall make and execute to such purchaser a good and sufficient deed of conveyance for such tract of l...