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...(A) In all causes in any court, except as otherwise provided in section 2969.23 of the Revised Code, costs taxed and entered as provided by sections 2335.18 to 2335.23 of the Revised Code may be collected by the process provided by those sections. (B)(1) The clerk of a court may enter into contracts with one or more public agencies or private vendors for the collection of amounts due under judgments for costs. The c...

...In order to provide funds to support the effective use of computerization within the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas, upon the request of the clerk of the court of common pleas, the board of county commissioners, by a resolution adopted on an annual basis prior to the thirty-first day of January in any year, may authorize the clerk of court to deposit in a fund for that purpose all or a portion of th...

...Each clerk of a court of record, the sheriff, and the prosecuting attorney shall enter in a journal or cashbook, provided at the expense of the county, an accurate account of all moneys collected or received in the clerk's, sheriff's, or prosecuting attorney's official capacity, on the days of the receipt, and in the order of time so received, with a minute of the date and suit, or other matter, on account of which t...

...If, at any time, in the opinion of the court, the official bond of its clerk, is not sufficient in form, or becomes insufficient, for want of responsible sureties to secure the payment of the sum specified in such bond, the court, on motion, shall order its clerk to give additional bond, with responsible sureties, in the sum required by law, with the proper conditions.

...On the first day of November of each year, the prosecuting attorney shall file with the clerk of the court of common pleas a certified report of all costs collected by him, or that are in the process of collection, in felony cases. The report shall state the amount received in each case, the date received, and when the amount was paid to the county treasurer. At the same time, the prosecuting attorney shall file a li...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, in any civil action in a court of common pleas in which a jury is sworn and a verdict is returned, the fees of the jurors sworn shall be taxed as costs unless the court determines that the payment of the fees by a party against whom they are proposed to be taxed would not be in the interest of justice. (B)(1) If a civil action in a court of common pleas i...

...Within three months after being elected or appointed to office, each county officer shall make and post, in a conspicuous place in his office, for the inspection by all persons who have business in his office, a table of the fees to which he is entitled.

...No sheriff, coroner, or constable may receive, either on mesne or final process, any fees, unless he returns, upon the process on which a charge is made, the particular items of such charge.

...In all cases, when demanded by a person liable for the payment of any fees or costs to an officer, such officer, without charge, shall make, sign, and deliver to the person an itemized bill of such fees or costs. No person shall, after such demand, be compelled to pay such fees or costs until an itemized bill is so made and delivered, with a receipt for the amount paid.

...Each sheriff shall pay to the clerk of the court of common pleas all costs collected by such sheriff or his deputies, except when collected upon process from the supreme court, the probate court, or from the court of common pleas of another county in which cases the sheriff shall pay such costs to the clerk of the court from which the process issued. A sheriff may pay costs to the parties entitled thereto.

...On the first Monday of January, each year, the clerk of each court of common pleas and court of appeals, each probate judge, and each sheriff shall make two certified lists of causes in which money has been paid and has remained in the hands of that person or in the hands of a former clerk, probate judge, or sheriff, for one year next preceding that first Monday of January. The lists shall designate the amount ...

... (A) All moneys, fees, costs, debts, and damages, remaining in the hands of the clerk of the court of common pleas or probate judge, and all unclaimed moneys, other than costs, remaining in the hands of the sheriff from the expiration of thirty days from the ending of the time of advertisement as provided by section 2335.34 of the Revised Code, shall be paid by such officer or such officer's successor to the county t...

...A person entitled to money turned into the county treasury as provided by section 2335.35 of the Revised Code shall, upon demand, receive a warrant for such money from the county auditor, payable to the order of the person named in the list furnished the auditor as provided by section 2335.38 of the Revised Code. Such warrant shall be issued upon the certificate of the clerk of the court of common pleas, probate judg...

...All costs certified from the county treasury in criminal cases, and afterwards collected and paid to the clerk of the court of common pleas, probate judge, or sheriff, and all fines paid to them, shall be paid by such officer into the county treasury, on or before the Saturday next preceding the beginning of each term of the court of common pleas.

...Each clerk of the court of common pleas, probate judge, or sheriff shall keep a book, which shall be a record of his office, showing in detail all the moneys paid by him into the county treasury, with proper references showing where each item may be found on the respective cashbooks and dockets, and giving the names of the parties, in alphabetical order, to whom such money belongs. A detailed statement of each item s...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Court" means any court of record. (2) "Eligible party" means a party to an action or appeal involving the state, other than the following: (a) The state; (b) An individual whose net worth exceeded one million dollars at the time the action or appeal was filed; (c) A sole owner of an unincorporated business that had, or a partnership, corporation, association, or organization tha...

...As used in sections 2337.01 to 2337.14 of the Revised Code: (A) "Action" means a judicial proceeding or arbitration in which a payment in money may be awarded or enforced with respect to a foreign-money claim. (B) "Bank-offered spot rate" means the spot rate of exchange at which a bank will sell foreign money at a spot rate. (C) "Conversion date" means the banking day next preceding the date on which money, in acc...

...(A) Sections 2337.01 to 2337.15 of the Revised Code apply only to a foreign-money claim in an action or distribution proceeding. (B) Sections 2337.01 to 2337.15 of the Revised Code apply to foreign-money issues even if other law under the conflict of laws rules of this state applies to other issues in the action or distribution proceeding.

...(A) The effect of sections 2337.01 to 2337.15 of the Revised Code may be varied by agreement of the parties made before or after commencement of an action or distribution proceeding or the entry of judgment. (B) Parties to a transaction may agree upon the money to be used in a transaction giving rise to a foreign-money claim and may agree to use different moneys for different aspects of the transaction. Stating the ...

...(A) The money in which the parties to a transaction have agreed that payment is to be made is the proper money of the claim for payment. (B) If the parties to a transaction have not otherwise agreed, the proper money of the claim, as in each case may be appropriate, is the money: (1) Regularly used between the parties as a matter of usage or course of dealing; (2) Used at the time of a transaction in international...

...(A) If an amount contracted to be paid in a foreign money is measured by a specified amount of a different money, the amount to be paid is determined on the conversion date. (B) If an amount contracted to be paid in a foreign money is to be measured by a different money at the rate of exchange prevailing on a date before default, that rate of exchange applies only to payments made within a reasonable time after defa...

...(A) A person may assert a claim in a specified foreign money. If a foreign-money claim is not asserted, the claimant makes the claim in United States dollars. (B) An opposing party may allege and prove that a claim, in whole or in part, is in a different money than that asserted by the claimant. (C) A person may assert a defense, set-off, recoupment, or counterclaim in any money without regard to the money of other...

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, a judgment or award on a foreign-money claim must be stated in an amount of the money of the claim. (B) A judgment or award on a foreign-money claim is payable in that foreign money or, at the option of the debtor, in the amount of United States dollars which will purchase that foreign money on the conversion date at a bank-offered spot rate. (C) Assessed cost...

...The rate of exchange prevailing at or near the close of business on the day the distribution proceeding is initiated governs all exchanges of foreign money in a distribution proceeding. A foreign-money claimant in a distribution proceeding shall assert its claim in the named foreign money and show the amount of United States dollars resulting from a conversion as of the date the proceeding was initiated.

...(A) With respect to a foreign-money claim, recovery of prejudgment or preaward interest and the rate of interest to be applied in the action or distribution proceeding, except as provided in division (B) of this section, are matters of the substantive law governing the right to recovery under the conflict-of-laws rules of this state. (B) The court or arbitrator shall increase or decrease the amount of prejudgment or...