Case ID: ohio-law-abs_4/html/0225-10.html
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Author: {"author": "MATTHIAS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 293
    No. 19578
    The Board of Education of the Ashville Village School District, Pickaway County, Ohio v. Bryce Briggs, as County Auditor, etc. The Board of Education of the Harrison Township Rural School District, Pickaway County, Ohio v. Bryce Briggs, as County Auditor, etc.
    No. 19579
    In mandamus.
    1204. STATUTES — 1. Sec. 5649-9c. GC. as to issuance of bonds is mandatory and must be ,substantially complied with.
    2. In submitting question of issuance under 5649-9a GC., the ballot must be construed so as to conform to 5649-9c. GC.
   MATTHIAS, J.

1. The provisions of Section 5649-9c, General Code, enacted for the benefit and protection of the taxpayer, are mandatory and must be substantially complied with.

2. ' In the submission of the question of the issuance of bonds of a political subdivision, pursuant to the provisions of Section 5649-9a, General Code, a form of ballot which recites only the amount and purpose of the proposed issue and does not disclose the estimated tax levy outside of all existing limitations and the maximum period of years required to pay the principal and interest of such bonds, is not a substantial compliance with Section 5649-9c, General Code.

Writ denied.

Marshall, CJ., Jones, Day, Allen, Kinkade, and Robinson, JJ., concur.