Ohio Rev. Code § 329.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 329 / § 329.04
§ 329.04. Powers and duties of department - control by county commissioners
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The county department of job and family services shall have, exercise, and perform the following powers and duties: (1) Perform any duties assigned by the state department of job and family services, department of children and youth, or department of medicaid regarding the provision of public family services, including the provision of the following services to prevent or reduce economic or personal dependency and to strengthen family life: (a) Services authorized by a Title IV-A program, as defined in section 5101.80 of the Revised Code; (b) Social services authorized by Title XX of the "Social Security Act" and provided for by section 5101.46 or 5101.461 of the Revised Code; (c) If the county department is designated as the child support enforcement agency, services authorized by Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act" and provided for by Chapter 3125. of the Revised Code. The county department may perform the services itself or contract with other government entities, and, pursuant to division (C) of section 2301.35 and section 2301.42 of the Revised Code, private entities, to perform the Title IV-D services. (d) Duties assigned under section 5162.031 of the Revised Code. (2) Administer burials insofar as the administration of burials was, prior to September 12, 1947, imposed upon the board of county commissioners and if otherwise required by state law; (3) Cooperate with state and federal authorities in any matter relating to family services and to act as the agent of such authorities; (4) Submit an annual account of its work and expenses to the board of county commissioners and to the state department of job and family services, department of children and youth, and department of medicaid at the close of each fiscal year; (5) Exercise any powers and duties relating to family services duties or workforce development activities imposed upon the county department of job and family services by law, by resolution of the board of county commissioners, or by order of the governor, when authorized by law, to meet emergencies during war or peace; (6) Enter into a plan of cooperation with the board of county commissioners under section 307.983 , consult with the board in the development of the transportation work plan developed under section 307.985 , establish with the board procedures under section 307.986 for providing services to children whose families relocate frequently, and comply with the contracts the board enters into under sections 307.981 and 307.982 of the Revised Code that affect the county department; (7) For the purpose of complying with a grant agreement the board of county commissioners enters into under sections 307.98 and 5101.21 of the Revised Code, exercise the powers and perform the duties the grant agreement assigns to the county department. (B) The powers and duties of a county department of job and family services are, and shall be exercised and performed, under the control and direction of the board of county commissioners. The board may assign to the county department any power or duty of the board regarding family services duties and workforce development activities. If the new power or duty necessitates the state department of job and family services, department of children and youth, or department of medicaid changing its federal cost allocation plan, the county department may not implement the power or duty unless the United States department of health and human services approves the changes. Last updated January 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.85 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.85
§ 307.85. Cooperation with other agencies in operating federal programs
Status: in_force

September 29, 1995 House Bill 117 - 121st General Assembly (A) The board of county commissioners of any county may participate in, give financial assistance to, and cooperate with other agencies or organizations, either private or governmental, in establishing and operating any federal program enacted by the congress of the United States, or with any such agency or organization that is receiving federal funds pursuant to a federal program, and for such purpose may adopt any procedures and take any action not prohibited by the constitution of Ohio nor in conflict with the laws of this state. (B) The board may participate in, give financial assistance to, and cooperate with public and nonprofit private agencies and organizations in establishing and operating programs to provide necessary social services to meet the needs of older persons or to provide emergency food to needy persons, in addition to those agencies and organizations receiving federal funds for this purpose. For the purpose of this division, payments to the county under the "State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972," 86 Stat. 919, 31 U.S.C.A. 1221, as amended, shall be considered to be county general funds. If the board finds that any agency or organization receiving funds pursuant to this division uses them for any purpose not clearly a public purpose authorized by this division and by the board or fails to comply with accounting and reporting requirements under Chapter 117. of the Revised Code, the board shall withhold further payments of such funds to such agency or organization.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.082 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.082
§ 307.082. Agreements to provide for construction or repair of public infrastructure improvements
Status: in_force

July 27, 1990 House Bill 213 - 118th General Assembly (A) The board of county commissioners may, by resolution, enter into agreements to provide for the construction or repair of public infrastructure improvements that benefit a tract on which an improvement for which the county has granted an exemption from real property taxes under section 5709.78 of the Revised Code is located and that are designated in the resolution adopted under that section. (B) The board may, by resolution, authorize the issuance of notes of the county to finance all costs pertaining to public infrastructure improvements to be made under division (A) of this section and division (D) of section 307.081 of the Revised Code. The notes shall be signed by the board, shall be attested by the signature of the clerk of the board, and shall bear interest in accordance with section 9.95 of the Revised Code. The notes are not subject to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code. The resolution authorizing the issuance of the notes shall pledge the appropriate account of the county's redevelopment tax equivalent fund to pay the interest on and principal of the notes. The resolution may also pledge other available funds of the county for this purpose; the resolution, however, shall not pledge to levy or collect an ad valorem property tax to pay the interest on and principal of the notes. The notes may contain a clause permitting prepayment at the option of the board and shall have such other terms as are set forth in the resolution authorizing their issuance. The notes shall be offered at public or private sale as directed in the resolution.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.641 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.641
§ 307.641. Establishing suicide fatality review committee
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) A board of county commissioners may appoint a health commissioner of the board of health of a city or general health district that is entirely or partially located in the county in which the board of county commissioners is located to establish a suicide fatality review committee to review deaths by suicide occurring in the county. (B) The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties may, by adopting a joint resolution passed by a majority of the members of each participating board of county commissioners, create a regional suicide fatality review committee to serve all participating counties. The joint resolution shall appoint, for each county participating as part of the regional review committee, one health commissioner from a board of health of a city or general health district located at least in part in each county. The health commissioners appointed shall select one of their number as the health commissioner to establish the regional review committee. (C) In any county that, on the effective date of this section, has a body that is acting as a suicide fatality review committee and is comprised of the members described in divisions (A)(1) and (B)(1) of section 307.642 of the Revised Code, including a public health official or designee, that body shall continue to function as the suicide fatality review committee for the county. The body shall have the same duties, obligations, and protections as a suicide fatality review committee appointed by a health commissioner. Last updated October 19, 2021 at 5:17 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 303.49 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 303 / § 303.49
§ 303.49. Bond interest and income exempted from taxes
Status: in_force

October 21, 1959 House Bill 1081 - 103rd General Assembly Bonds issued under any of the provisions of sections 303.26 to 303.56 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, are declared to be issued for an essential public and governmental purpose and, together with interest thereon and income therefrom, shall be exempted from all taxes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 329.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 329 / § 329.01
§ 329.01. County department of job and family services - director, assistants, bonds
Status: in_force

March 20, 2019 House Bill 291 - 132nd General Assembly In each county, except as provided in section 329.40 of the Revised Code, there shall be a county department of job and family services which, when so established, shall be governed by this chapter. The department shall consist of a county director of job and family services appointed by the board of county commissioners, and such assistants and other employees as are necessary for the efficient performance of the functions of the county department. Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, before entering upon the discharge of the director's official duties, the director shall give a bond, conditioned for the faithful performance of those official duties, in such sum as fixed by the board. The director may require any assistant or employee under the director's jurisdiction to give a bond in such sum as determined by the board. All bonds given under this section shall be with a surety or bonding company authorized to do business in this state, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of such director, assistant, or employee. The expense or premium for any bond required by this section shall be paid from the appropriation for administrative expenses of the department. Such bond shall be deposited with the county treasurer and kept in the treasurer's office. As used in the Revised Code: (A) "County department of job and family services" means the county department of job and family services established under this section, including an entity designated a county department of job and family services under section 307.981 of the Revised Code, or a joint county department of job and family services established under section 329.40 of the Revised Code. (B) "County director of job and family services" means the county director of job and family services appointed under this section or under section 329.41 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 303.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 303 / § 303.44
§ 303.44. Paying assessments on county owned lands
Status: in_force

October 21, 1959 House Bill 1081 - 103rd General Assembly In the event of the levy of special assessments against lots or lands within a county renewal area which lots or lands are or become county-owned, the board of county commissioners may authorize the amount of the assessments thereon, or the amounts of the respective unpaid installments of such assessments, to be certified by the clerk of the board of county commissioners to the county auditor, entered upon the tax list of all taxable real and personal property in the county, and collected as other taxes, provided that such certification for payment by the county at large shall cease upon sale of such lots or lands by the county. The unpaid portion of such assessments on lots and lands so sold shall continue as liens against the lots and lands in the hands of such purchasers, as other assessments, and shall be collected as other taxes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 341.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 341 / § 341.31
§ 341.31. Operation of county rehabilitation work camps
Status: in_force

August 22, 1990 Senate Bill 258 - 118th General Assembly In addition to its other powers, the board of county commissioners of any county may construct, maintain, equip, furnish, appoint the necessary personnel of, and supervise the operation of county rehabilitation work camps for the purpose of the rehabilitation of persons who have been sentenced to imprisonment for a misdemeanor.
Ohio Rev. Code § 319.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 319 / § 319.21
§ 319.21. Fraudulent transfers
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If a transfer of real estate is fraudulently or improperly obtained, or the just proportion of valuation is not transferred with the part of a lot or tract transferred, the county auditor may cancel such transfer and, if necessary, he shall return the proper valuation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 349.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 349 / § 349.01
§ 349.01. New community organization definitions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "New community" means a community or development of property in relation to an existing community planned so that the resulting community includes facilities for the conduct of industrial, commercial, residential, cultural, educational, and recreational activities, and designed in accordance with planning concepts for the placement of utility, open space, and other supportive facilities. (B) "New community development program" means a program for the development of a new community characterized by well-balanced and diversified land use patterns and which includes land acquisition and land development, the acquisition, construction, operation, and maintenance of community facilities, and the provision of services authorized in this chapter. A new community development program may take into account any existing community in relation to which a new community is developed for purposes of being characterized by well-balanced and diversified land use patterns. (C) "New community district" means the area of land described by the developer in the petition as set forth in division (A) of section 349.03 of the Revised Code for development as a new community and any lands added to the district by amendment of the resolution establishing the community authority. (D) "New community authority" means a body corporate and politic in this state, established pursuant to section 349.03 of the Revised Code and governed by a board of trustees as provided in section 349.04 of the Revised Code. (E) "Developer" means any person, organized for carrying out a new community development program who owns or controls, through leases of at least seventy-five years' duration, options, or contracts to purchase, the land within a new community district, or any municipal corporation, township, county, or port authority that owns the land within a new community district, or has the ability to acquire such land, either by voluntary acquisition or condemnation in order to eliminate slum, blighted, and deteriorated or deteriorating areas and to prevent the recurrence thereof. "Developer" may also mean a person, municipal corporation, township, county, or port authority that controls land within a new community district through leases of at least seventy-five years' duration. "Developer" includes a lessor that continues to own and control land for purposes of this chapter pursuant to leases with a ninety-nine-year renewable term, so long as both of the following apply: (1) The developer's new community district consists of at least five leases described in this section. (2) The leases are subject to forfeiture for all of the following: (a) Failing to pay taxes and assessments; (b) Failing to pay an annual fee of up to one per cent of rent for sanitary purposes and improvements made to streets; (c) Failing to keep the premises as required by sanitary and police regulations of the developer. (F) "Organizational board of commissioners" means any of the following: (1) For a new community district that is located in only one county, the board of county commissioners of that county; (2) For a new community district that is located in more than one county, a board consisting of the members of the board of county commissioners of each of the counties in which the district is located, provided that action of the board shall require a majority vote of the members of each separate board of county commissioners; (3) For a new community district that is located entirely within the boundaries of a municipal corporation or for a new community district where more than half of the new community district is located within the boundaries of the most populous municipal corporation of a county, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation; (4) For a new community district that is comprised entirely of unincorporated territory within the boundaries of a township with a population of at least five thousand, and which is located in a county with a population of at least two hundred thousand and not more than four hundred thousand, or located within the boundaries of a limited home rule township that adopted a resolution under section 5709.73 of the Revised Code before January 1, 1995, and which is located in a county with a population of more than four hundred thousand, the board of township trustees of the township; (5) In the event that more than one body meets the definitions set forth in divisions (F)(1) to (4) of this section, "organizational board of commissioners" means the organizational board of commissioners with which the original petition was filed or another body meeting the definitions set forth in divisions (F)(1) to (4) of this section appointed in a resolution adopted by the organizational board of commissioners with which the original petition was filed. (G) "Land acquisition" means the acquisition of real property and interests in real property as part of a new community development program. (H) "Land development" means the process of clearing and grading land, making, installing, or constructing water distribution systems, sewers, sewage collection systems, steam, gas, and electric lines, roads, streets, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, storm drainage facilities, and other installations or work, whether within or without the new community district, and the construction of community facilities. (I) "Community facilities" means all real property, buildings, structures, or other facilities, including related fixtures, equipment, and furnishings, to be owned, operated, financed, constructed, and maintained under this chapter or in furtherance of community activities, whether within or without the new community district, including public, community, village, neighborhood, or town buildings, centers and plazas, auditoriums, child care centers, recreation halls, educational facilities, health care facilities including hospital facilities as defined in section 140.01 of the Revised Code, telecommunications facilities, including all facilities necessary to provide telecommunications service as defined in section 4927.01 of the Revised Code, recreational facilities, natural resource facilities, including parks and other open space land, lakes and streams, cultural facilities, community streets and off-street parking facilities, pathway and bikeway systems, pedestrian underpasses and overpasses, lighting facilities, design amenities, or other community facilities, and buildings needed in connection with water supply or sewage disposal installations, or energy facilities including those for renewable or sustainable energy sources, and steam, gas, or electric lines or installation. (J) "Cost" as applied to a new community development program means all costs related to land acquisition and land development, the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of community facilities and offices of the community authority, and of providing furnishings and equipment therefor, financing charges including interest prior to and during construction and for the duration of the new community development program, planning expenses, engineering expenses, administrative expenses including working capital, and all other expenses necessary and incident to the carrying forward of the new community development program. (K) "Income source" means any and all sources of income to the community authority, including community development charges of which the new community authority is the beneficiary as provided in section 349.07 of the Revised Code, rentals, user fees and other charges received by the new community authority, any gift or grant received, any moneys received from any funds invested by or on behalf of the new community authority, and proceeds from the sale or lease of land and community facilities. (L) "Community development charge" means: (1) A dollar amount which shall be determined on the basis of the assessed valuation of real property or interests in real property in a new community district, the income of the residents of such property subject to such charge under section 349.07 of the Revised Code, if such property is devoted to residential uses or to the profits, gross receipts, or other revenues of any business including, but not limited to, rentals received from leases of real property located in the district, a uniform or other fee on each parcel of such real property in a new community district, or any combination of the foregoing bases. (2) If a new community authority imposes a community development charge determined on the basis of rentals received from leases of real property, improvements of any real property located in the new community district and subject to that charge may not be exempted from taxation under section 5709.40 , 5709.41 , 5709.45 , 5709.48 , 5709.73 , or 5709.78 of the Revised Code. (M) "Proximate community" means the following: (1) For a new community district other than a new community district described in division (M)(2), (3), or (4) of this section, any city that, as of the date of filing of the petition under section 349.03 of the Revised Code, is the city with the greatest population located in the county in which the proposed new community district is located, is the city with the greatest population located in an adjoining county if any portion of such city is within five miles of any part of the boundaries of such district, or exercises extraterritorial subdivision authority under section 711.09 of the Revised Code with respect to any part of such district. (2) A municipal corporation in which, at the time of filing the petition under section 349.03 of the Revised Code, any portion of the proposed new community district is located. (3) For a new community district other than a new community district described in division (M)(2) or (4) of this section, if at the time of filing the petition under section 349.03 of the Revised Code, more than one-half of the proposed district is contained within a joint economic development district created under sections 715.70 to 715.83 of the Revised Code, the township containing the greatest portion of the territory of the joint economic development district. (4) For a new community district other than a new community district described in division (M)(2) or (3) of this section, if at the time of filing the petition under section 349.03 of the Revised Code the proposed new community district is comprised entirely of unincorporated territory within the boundaries of a township with a population of at least five thousand, and which is located in a county with a population of at least two hundred thousand and not more than four hundred thousand, or located within the boundaries of a limited home rule township that adopted a resolution under section 5709.73 of the Revised Code before January 1, 1995, and which is located in a county with a population of more than four hundred thousand, the township in which the proposed new community district is located. (N) "Community activities" means cultural, educational, governmental, recreational, residential, industrial, commercial, distribution and research activities, or any combination thereof. Last updated July 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 323.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 323 / § 323.27
§ 323.27. Joinder of causes of action
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In the proceedings provided by section 323.25 of the Revised Code the county treasurer may join in one action any number of lots or lands, but the decree shall be rendered severally or separately, and any proceedings may be severed, in the discretion of the court, for the purpose of trial or appeals, where an appeal is allowed, and the court shall make such order for the payment of costs as is equitable and proper.
Ohio Rev. Code § 317.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 317 / § 317.35
§ 317.35. Record of plans and drawings of public buildings
Status: in_force

January 30, 2014 House Bill 72 - 130th General Assembly (A) The county recorder shall record the plans and drawings filed under section 9.56 of the Revised Code and shall make them available for public inspection. (B) For services provided, the county recorder shall charge for photocopying ten dollars for the first two pages and two dollars for each page thereafter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 341.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 341 / § 341.15
§ 341.15. Quarterly account of fees of sheriff
Status: in_force

April 7, 2009 House Bill 215 - 127th General Assembly At the end of each quarter of each calendar year, a sheriff in this state shall account for and pay to the county treasurer all money received by the sheriff as provided by sections 341.13 and 341.14 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 306.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 306 / § 306.99
§ 306.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

September 26, 2003 House Bill 95 - 125th General Assembly (A) No person shall violate any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to division (N) of section 306.04 of the Revised Code and whoever violates such a rule or regulation shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than ninety days or both. (B) Whoever violates division (D)(4) of section 306.35 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars on a first offense and not more than five hundred dollars on each subsequent offense. Fines levied and collected for such violations shall be paid into the treasury of the regional transit authority. The regional transit authority may use such fine money for any purpose that is not inconsistent with sections 306.30 to 306.54 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 24, 2022 at 2:58 PM Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 319.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 319 / § 319.20
§ 319.20. Transfer of title and tax value of property
Status: in_force

April 7, 2009 Senate Bill 353 - 127th General Assembly After complying with sections 319.202 , 315.251 , and 319.203 of the Revised Code, and on application and presentation of title, with the affidavits required by law, or the proper order of a court or the county board of revision, bearing the last known address of the grantee, or of any one of the grantees named in the title, and a reference to the volume and page of the recording, or other means of identifying the recording, of the next preceding recorded instrument by or through which the grantor claims title, the county auditor shall transfer any land or town lot or part thereof, minerals therein, or mineral rights thereto, charged with taxes on the tax list, from the name in which it stands into the name of the owner, when rendered necessary by a conveyance, partition, devise, descent, or otherwise. If by reason of the conveyance or otherwise, a part only of a tract or lot, minerals therein, or mineral rights thereto, as charged in the tax list, is to be transferred, the auditor shall determine the tax value of the part of a tract or lot of real estate, minerals therein, or mineral rights thereto, so transferred, and the value of the remaining part compared with the value of the whole. Whenever a part only of a tract or lot of real estate has been transferred by the auditor and the tract or lot bears unpaid taxes, penalties, interest, or special assessments, the unpaid taxes, penalties, interest, or special assessments shall immediately be apportioned, upon demand or request by the transferee or remaining owner, in the following manner: (A) The auditor shall allocate to the part so transferred, and to the remaining part, amounts of any current or delinquent taxes, interest, or penalties that have accrued against the parcel as a whole, proportionate to their respective values. (B) The lien of taxes, penalties, interest, and special assessments, as levied against the original tract, shall extend to the part so transferred and the part remaining only to the extent of the amounts so allocated to the respective parts. This section does not change the total amount of taxes, special assessments, or other charges as originally levied, or the total amount of the balance due. The auditor shall certify such apportionments to the county treasurer. Whenever the state acquires an entire parcel or a part only of a parcel of real property in fee simple, the county auditor, upon application of the grantor or property owner or the state, which application shall contain a description of the property as it appears on the tax list and the date of transfer of ownership, shall prepare an estimate of the taxes that are a lien on the property, but have not been determined, assessed, and levied for the year in which the property was acquired. The county auditor shall thereupon apportion the estimated taxes proportionately between the grantor and the state for the period of the lien year that each had or shall have had ownership or possession of the property, whichever is earlier. The county treasurer shall accept payment from the state for estimated taxes at the time that the real property is acquired. If the state has paid in full in the year in which the property is acquired that proportion of the estimated taxes that the tax commissioner determines are not subject to remission by the county auditor for such year under division (D) of section 5713.08 of the Revised Code, the estimated taxes paid shall be considered the tax liability on the exempted property for that year. Section 319.42 of the Revised Code applies to the apportionment of special assessments. Complaint against such values as determined by the auditor or the allocation of assessments by the certifying authority may be filed by the transferee or the remaining owner, and if filed, proceedings including appeals shall be had in the manner and within the time provided by sections 5717.01 to 5717.06 and 5715.19 to 5715.22 of the Revised Code, for complaints against valuation or assessment of real property. The auditor shall endorse on the deed or other evidences of title presented to the auditor that the proper transfer of the real estate described in the deed has been made in the auditor's office or that it is not entered for taxation, and sign the auditor's name to the deed. The address of the grantee, or any one of the grantees, set forth in the deed or other evidences of title shall be entered by the auditor on the transfer sheets and on the general tax list of real property prepared pursuant to section 319.28 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 319.48 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 319 / § 319.48
§ 319.48. Real property tax suspension list of taxes uncollectible except through foreclosure or through foreclosure and forfeiture
Status: in_force

May 25, 1994 House Bill 404 - 120th General Assembly (A) The county auditor shall maintain a real property tax suspension list of tracts and lots certified to him under section 323.33 of the Revised Code as being charged with delinquent amounts most likely uncollectible except through foreclosure or through foreclosure and forfeiture. Tracts and lots on the list shall be listed in the same form and order or sequence as on the general tax list of real and public utility property. The list also shall include a description of the tract or lot and the name of the person under whom it is listed. (B) When the county auditor enters current taxes and delinquent amounts on the general tax list and duplicate of real and public utility property under section 319.30 of the Revised Code, he shall enter against a tract or lot that is on the suspension list only the current taxes levied against the tract or lot; he shall not enter on the general tax list and duplicate the delinquent taxes, penalties, and interest charged against the tract or lot. Instead, he shall indicate on the general tax list and duplicate with an asterisk or other marking that the tract or lot appears on the real property tax suspension list, that delinquent taxes, penalties, and interest stand charged against it, and that the amount of the delinquency may be obtained through the county auditor or treasurer. (C) If a tract or lot is foreclosed upon or foreclosed upon and forfeited for payment of delinquent taxes, penalties, and interest or is redeemed by the owner or another authorized taxpayer, the county auditor shall immediately strike the tract or lot from the real property tax suspension list.
Ohio Rev. Code § 306.48 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 306 / § 306.48
§ 306.48. Group insurance for officers and employees
Status: in_force

June 4, 1997 Senate Bill 67 - 122nd General Assembly A regional transit authority may procure and pay all or any part of the cost of group hospitalization, surgical, major medical, or sickness and accident insurance or a combination of any of the foregoing for the officers and employees of the regional transit authority and their immediate dependents, whether issued by an insurance company or a health insuring corporation duly authorized to do business in this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 343.014 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 343 / § 343.014
§ 343.014. Designating solid waste facilities and recycling activities where no outstanding public debt
Status: in_force

March 30, 1995 House Bill 685 - 120th General Assembly (A) If the provision authorized under division (E)(2)(b) or (c) of section 3734.53 of the Revised Code to be included in the initial solid waste management plan of a county or joint solid waste management district approved under section 3734.55 of the Revised Code, the provision required under division (E)(1) of section 3734.53 of the Revised Code to be included in the initial or an amended solid waste management plan of a county or joint solid waste management district approved under section 3734.521 or 3734.56 of the Revised Code, or an amendment to the plan or amended plan adopted and ratified under division (F) of section 3734.56 of the Revised Code, explicitly authorizes the board of county commissioners or directors of the district to designate solid waste facilities and recycling activities pursuant to this section, the board of county commissioners or board of directors of the district, at any time after the approval of the initial or amended plan or the amendment to the plan and in accordance with this section, may designate solid waste disposal, transfer, or resource recovery facilities or recycling activities that are owned by persons, or that are owned by a municipal corporation, county, county or joint solid waste management district, township, or township waste disposal district created under section 505.28 of the Revised Code for which no debt has been issued or is outstanding under Chapter 133., 343., or 6123. of the Revised Code, where solid wastes generated within or transported into the district shall be taken for disposal, transfer, resource recovery, or recycling. (B) The board of county commissioners or directors of a district that wishes to designate solid waste disposal, transfer, or resource recovery facilities or recycling activities, as described in division (A) of this section, where wastes generated within or transported into the district shall be taken for disposal, transfer, resource recovery, or recycling shall initiate the proceedings to do so by adopting a resolution expressing the intent of the board to so designate any such facilities and activities for the receipt of wastes generated within and transported into the district. (C) After adopting a resolution of intent to designate under division (B) of this section, the board of county commissioners or directors shall do all of the following: (1) Hold a public hearing on the proposed designation; (2) Publish notice of the adoption of the resolution and of the date, time, and location of the public hearing, and a description of the types and scope of the services subject to the proposed designation, in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the district; (3) Mail notice of the adoption of the resolution and of the date, time, and location of the public hearing, and a description of the types and scope of the services subject to the proposed designation, to the fifty industrial, commercial, and institutional generators of solid wastes within the district that generate the largest quantities of solid wastes, as determined by the board, and to their local trade associations. The board shall make good faith efforts to identify those generators within the district and their local trade associations, but the nonprovision of notice under division (C)(3) of this section to a particular generator or local trade association does not invalidate the proceedings under this section. (4) Mail notice of the adoption of the resolution and of the date, time, and location of the public hearing, and a description of the types and scope of the services subject to the proposed designation, to the legislative authority of each municipal corporation, county, and township located in the district; (5) Mail notice of the adoption of the resolution and of the date, time, and location of the public hearing, and a description of the types and scope of the services subject to the proposed designation, to the director of environmental protection. (D) After holding the public hearing required under division (C) of this section and considering the comments received at the hearing, the board shall decide whether to proceed with the proposed designation. If the board decides to proceed, it shall adopt a resolution of preliminary designation. The resolution of preliminary designation may include criteria or procedures for selecting the solid waste disposal, transfer, or resource recovery facilities or recycling activities, as described in division (A) of this section, that are to receive wastes generated within and transported into the district. (E) If, after compiling a list of the solid waste disposal, transfer, or resource recovery facilities or recycling facilities, as described in division (A) of this section, that the board proposes to so designate, the board wishes to proceed with the designation, it shall adopt a resolution declaring its intent to establish designation. The resolution shall contain the list of the facilities and activities that the board proposes to so designate. (F) After adopting the resolution of intent to establish designation under division (E) of this section, the board shall do all of the following: (1) Establish a reasonable period for receiving comments from the public concerning the proposed designation; (2) Publish in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the district notice of the adoption of the resolution, the location where it is available for review, and the dates when the comment period begins and ends; (3) Mail notice of the adoption of the resolution and the dates when the comment period begins and ends, and the list of the facilities and activities contained in the resolution, to the fifty industrial, commercial, and institutional generators of solid wastes within the district that generate the largest quantities of solid wastes, as determined by the board, and to their local trade associations. The board shall make good faith efforts to identify those generators and their local trade associations, but the nonprovision of notice under division (F)(3) of this section to a particular generator or local trade association does not invalidate the proceedings under this section. (4) Mail notice of the adoption of the resolution and the dates when the comment period begins and ends, and the list of facilities and activities contained in the resolution, to the legislative authority of each municipal corporation, county, and township located in the district; (5) Mail notice of the adoption of the resolution and the list of facilities and activities contained in the resolution to the director. (G) After considering the comments submitted by the public during the comment period provided under division (F) of this section, the board may revise the list of solid waste disposal, transfer, or resource recovery facilities or recycling activities to be so designated. After considering the comments received by the public during the comment period and making any revisions to the list of proposed facilities and activities, the board may adopt a resolution of final designation. The resolution shall contain a list of the designated solid waste disposal, transfer, or resource recovery facilities or recycling activities, as described in division (A) of this section, where wastes generated within or transported into the district shall be taken for disposal, transfer, resource recovery, or recycling. The designations contained in the resolution become effective for the purposes of division (I)(2) of section 343.01 of the Revised Code sixty days after the adoption of the resolution of final designation. (H) The board of county commissioners or directors of a district, in accordance with divisions (D) to (G) of this section, may alter the list of designated facilities contained in a resolution of final designation adopted under division (G) of this section or an amended resolution of final designation adopted pursuant to this division. The designations contained in an amended resolution of final designation become effective for the purposes of division (I)(2) of section 343.01 of the Revised Code sixty days after the adoption of the amended resolution. (I) If designations or amended designations of solid waste facilities or recycling activities are in effect under this section or section 343.015 of the Revised Code when an approved amended plan of the county or joint district takes effect pursuant to sections 343.012 and 3734.521 , or section 3734.56 , of the Revised Code, or an amendment to the initial or an amended plan of the district approved under section 3734.521 , 3734.55 , or 3734.56 of the Revised Code takes effect under division (F) of section 3734.56 of the Revised Code, and if the provision included in the approved amended plan pursuant to division (E)(1) of section 3734.53 of the Revised Code precludes, or the amendment to the plan alters the provision of the approved initial or amended plan to preclude, the board of county commissioners or directors from designating solid waste facilities or recycling activities, the existing designations shall cease to be effective for the purposes of division (I)(2) of section 343.01 of the Revised Code sixty days after the amended plan takes effect under sections 343.012 and 3734.521 , or section 3734.56 , of the Revised Code or the amendment to the plan adopted and ratified under division (F) of section 3734.56 of the Revised Code, takes effect, as appropriate. (J) Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 343. or 3734. of the Revised Code or a resolution or amended resolution adopted under this section or section 343.013 of the Revised Code, if a county or joint solid waste management district, prior to October 29, 1993, has entered into a contract or agreement to designate a solid waste disposal, transfer, or resource recovery facility or recycling activity owned by a person, or by a municipal corporation, county, county or joint solid waste management district, township, or township waste disposal district created under section 505.28 of the Revised Code, where solid wastes generated within or transported into the district shall be taken for disposal, transfer, resource recovery, or recycling, that designation shall be effective for the purposes of division (I)(2) of section 343.01 of the Revised Code and shall remain in effect in accordance with the terms of the contract or agreement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.842 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.842
§ 307.842. County automatic data processing board - powers and duties
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly The county automatic data processing board shall coordinate the use of all automatic or electronic data processing or record-keeping equipment, software, or services in use throughout the county offices at the time the board is established. The board may, in writing, authorize any county office to contract for automatic or electronic data processing or record-keeping services, or operate or acquire automatic or electronic data processing or record-keeping equipment, where the board determines such action is desirable. The authorization shall be signed by a majority of the members of the board and shall be filed in the office of the board of county commissioners. The county automatic data processing board may establish an automatic data processing center which shall provide a centralized system for the use of automatic or electronic data processing or record-keeping equipment, software, or services for all county offices.
Ohio Rev. Code § 305.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 305 / § 305.41
§ 305.41. Prohibited acts
Status: in_force

December 12, 1967 House Bill 919 - 107th General Assembly No person shall, directly or indirectly, by intimidation or threats, influence or seek to influence any person to sign or abstain from signing, or to solicit signatures to or abstain from soliciting signatures to a referendum petition.
Ohio Rev. Code § 323.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 323 / § 323.42
§ 323.42. Recovering advances or expenses
Status: in_force

September 21, 1982 House Bill 379 - 114th General Assembly Each attorney, agent, guardian, or executor seized or having the care of lands who is subjected to any trouble or expense in paying the taxes thereon, or advances his own money for listing or paying the taxes thereon, shall be allowed a reasonable compensation for the time spent, the expenses incurred, and the money advanced, which shall be a just charge against the person for whose benefit it was advanced.
Ohio Rev. Code § 317.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 317 / § 317.28
§ 317.28. Acknowledgments
Status: in_force

January 30, 2014 House Bill 72 - 130th General Assembly No county recorder, and no deputy or employee of the county recorder, shall take the acknowledgement of any instrument required to be filed or recorded in the county recorder's office.
Ohio Rev. Code § 308.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 308 / § 308.23
§ 308.23. Airport development districts - organization and powers
Status: in_force

April 12, 2021 Senate Bill 259 - 133rd General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the nonprofit corporation that governs an airport development district shall be organized in the manner described in Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code. The nonprofit corporation may do the following: (1) Exercise all powers of nonprofit corporations granted under Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code that do not conflict with this chapter; (2) Develop, adopt, revise, implement, and repeal plans for public infrastructure improvements that benefit the qualifying airport that is encompassed by or contiguous to the district and make expenditures to attract or retain airlines, increase the number of scheduled flights to and from the qualifying airport, or increase use of the airport by aircraft having greater passenger capacity or greater first-class seating availability; (3) Contract with any person, community improvement corporation, or state agency or with a political subdivision as defined in section 2744.01 of the Revised Code to develop, manage, or implement all or part of the development plan for the district; (4) Contract and pay for insurance for the district and for directors, officers, agents, contractors, employees, or members of the district for any consequences of the implementation of any plan adopted by the district or any actions of the district; (5) Negotiate and enter into voluntary development charge agreements with the owner or owners of any parcel of real property located in the district and the owner or owners of any business that operates within the district, whereby the owner or owners agree to subject the property or business to a development charge levied by the board and the board agrees to use the proceeds of that charge for the purposes described in the development plan for the district; (6) Impose and collect development charges against real property located in the district and businesses operating within the district pursuant to such voluntary development charge agreements. (B)(1) A development charge agreement shall specify the amount and duration of the development charge and, if the agreement is between the board and the owner or owners of a business, the manner in which the development charge is to be collected. The duration of the development charge prescribed by the initial agreement shall be for a specified period of ten or more years, or for a continuing period of time. The development charge shall not be collected after the dissolution of the district under section 308.25 of the Revised Code. (2) The board shall annually certify the amount of each development charge imposed by an agreement under this section to the owner or owners of the parcel or business subject to the charge. (a) If the development charge is imposed on a parcel of land, the board shall also certify the amount of the charge to the county auditor of the county in which the parcel is located. The county auditor shall enter the charge on the tax list opposite the parcel against which it is charged, and certify the charge to the county treasurer. The charge shall be charged and collected in the same manner as real property taxes and shall be treated in the same manner as real property taxes for all purposes of the lien described in section 323.11 of the Revised Code, including the priority and enforcement of the lien. Money collected from the charge shall be paid immediately to the board of directors of the district. The county treasurer shall maintain a record of all payments of charges under this section. (b) If the development charge is imposed on a business, it shall be collected in the manner prescribed by the agreement. (3) The board may negotiate and enter into as many development charge agreements as are necessary or useful in serving the principal purposes and goals described in the development plan for the district. One agreement may impose a development charge on more than one parcel or more than one business only if the owner or owners of all such parcels or businesses approve the agreement. A development charge imposed on a parcel of land shall not be included in the same agreement as a development charge imposed on a business. (4) An agreement may be amended for the purpose of imposing the development charge on additional parcels or additional businesses by a majority vote of the board and approval of the owner or owners of the additional parcels or additional businesses. An agreement may be rescinded or may be amended for any purpose other than imposing the development charge on additional parcels or additional businesses by a majority vote of the board and approval of the owner or owners of every parcel or every business that is subject to the agreement. (C)(1) A development charge agreement is hereby deemed to be a covenant running with each parcel of land that is subject to the agreement. The covenant is fully binding on behalf of and enforceable by the board of directors of the district against any person that owns the land at the time the agreement is executed, any person who subsequently acquires an interest in the land, and all successors and assigns of such persons. (2) No purchase agreement for real estate or any interest in real estate that is subject to a development charge agreement shall be enforceable by the seller or binding upon the purchaser unless the purchase agreement specifically refers to the agreement and any associated development charge. If a conveyance of such real estate or interest in such real estate is made pursuant to a purchase agreement that does not make such reference, the agreement shall continue to be a covenant running with the land fully binding on behalf of and enforceable by the board of directors of the district against the person accepting the conveyance pursuant to the purchase agreement. (D) In addition to meeting the requirements for articles of incorporation set forth in Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code, the articles of incorporation for the nonprofit corporation governing an airport development district shall provide all the following: (1) The name of the district, which shall include the name of the qualifying airport that is encompassed by the district; (2) A description of the territory included within the district that is specific enough to enable property owners to determine if their property is located within the district and business owners to determine if their business operates within the district; (3) The full text of the resolution creating the district, the development plan for the district, and any amendments to that plan that are subsequently adopted by the board of directors of the district; (4) A description of the procedure by which the articles of incorporation and the development plan for the district may be amended, which shall conform to the requirements of division (F) of this section; (5) The reasons for creating the district and an explanation of how the district will be conducive to the public health, safety, peace, convenience, and welfare of the district. (E) The articles of incorporation shall be filed in the secretary of state's office. The secretary of state shall not accept articles that do not meet the requirements of this chapter. (F) Neither the articles of incorporation nor the development plan for the airport development district shall be amended without first obtaining the approval of (1) the majority of the members of the board of directors of the district, (2) the owners of at least sixty per cent of the collective number of parcels of real property and businesses that are subject to development charge agreements, and (3) the majority of the members of the board of trustees of the regional airport authority, board of directors of the port authority, or legislative authority of the municipal corporation that owns, operates, or maintains the qualifying airport. All amendments to the articles shall be filed with the secretary of state along with documentation sufficient to prove that the requirements of this division have been met.
Ohio Rev. Code § 341.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 341 / § 341.22
§ 341.22. Religious services and welfare work in county jail
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Each administrative board or other authority in the state, having control of a county jail, shall provide for the holding of religious services and the conducting of other welfare work in such jail, by such persons or organizations, and at such time, as the probate judge directs.
Ohio Rev. Code § 341.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 341 / § 341.35
§ 341.35. Private operation of correctional facility
Status: in_force

September 29, 1995 House Bill 117 - 121st General Assembly The board of county commissioners of a county with a county jail, workhouse, minimum security misdemeanant jail, or other correctional facility may enter into a contract under section 9.06 of the Revised Code for the private operation and management of that facility, but only if the facility is used to house only misdemeanant inmates.
Ohio Rev. Code § 305.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 305 / § 305.26
§ 305.26. May release or compound claims
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of county commissioners may compound or release, in whole or in part, a debt, judgment, fine, or amercement due the county and for the use thereof, except where it or any of its members is personally interested. In such case the board shall enter upon its journal a statement of the facts in the case and the reasons for such release or composition.
Ohio Rev. Code § 351.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 351 / § 351.19
§ 351.19. Moneys, funds, properties, and assets held in trust
Status: in_force

June 29, 1988 House Bill 772 - 117th General Assembly All moneys, funds, properties, and assets acquired by a convention facilities authority under this chapter, whether as proceeds from the sale of convention facilities authority revenue bonds or convention facilities authority tax anticipation bonds or as revenues, or otherwise, shall be held by it in trust for the purposes of carrying out its powers and duties, shall be used and reused as provided in this chapter, and shall at no time be part of other public funds. Such moneys and funds, except as otherwise provided in any resolution authorizing its convention facilities authority bonds and notes or in any trust agreement securing the same, or except when invested pursuant to section 351.20 of the Revised Code, shall be kept in depositories selected by the authority in the manner provided in Chapter 135. of the Revised Code, and the deposits shall be secured as provided in Chapter 135. of the Revised Code. The resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds of any issue or the trust agreement securing such bonds shall provide that any officer to whom, or any bank or trust company to which, such moneys are paid shall act as trustee of such moneys and hold and apply them for the purposes hereof, subject to such conditions as such chapter and such resolutions or trust agreement provide.
Ohio Rev. Code § 308.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 308 / § 308.11
§ 308.11. Exemption from tax
Status: in_force

October 2, 1961 House Bill 307 - 104th General Assembly Bonds issued under sections 308.08 to 308.10 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, their transfer, and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at all times be free from taxation within the state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.646 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.646
§ 307.646. Collecting and maintaining information; annual report
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) A suicide fatality review committee shall establish a system for collecting and maintaining information necessary for the review of suicide deaths in the county or region. In an effort to ensure confidentiality, each committee shall do all of the following: (1) Maintain all records in a secure location; (2) Develop security measures to prevent unauthorized access to records containing information that could reasonably identify any person; (3) Develop a system for storing, processing, indexing, retrieving, and destroying information obtained in the course of reviewing a death resulting from suicide. (B) For each death resulting from suicide reviewed by a committee, the committee shall collect all of the following: (1) Demographic information of the deceased, including age, sex, race, and ethnicity; (2) The year in which the death occurred; (3) The geographic location of the death; (4) The cause of death; (5) Any factors contributing to the death; (6) Any other information the committee considers relevant. (C) By the first day of April of each year, the person convening a suicide fatality review committee shall prepare and submit to the Ohio department of health a report that summarizes the following information about suicide deaths reviewed by the committee in the previous calendar year: (1) The cause of death; (2) Factors contributing to death; (3) Age; (4) Sex; (5) Race; (6) The geographic location of death; (7) The year of death. The report shall specify the number of suicide deaths that were not reviewed during the previous calendar year. The report may include recommendations for actions that might prevent other suicide deaths, as well as any other information the review committee determines should be included. (D) Reports prepared under division (C) of this section are public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 19, 2021 at 5:18 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 306.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 306 / § 306.06
§ 306.06. Agreements to provide transportation service
Status: in_force

October 25, 1995 House Bill 61 - 121st General Assembly The county transit board or board of county commissioners operating a transit system may enter into an agreement with any municipal corporation, township, or other county, whereby the board undertakes to provide transportation service for the movement of persons within, from, or to that municipal corporation, township, or county, to make payments or transfer real estate or interests therein or a combination thereof, as therein provided, in consideration of the board providing those transportation services. Any moneys so paid to the board shall be received by it and used solely for the purposes specified in the agreement. Moneys so paid may include all or a part of the cost of permanent improvements to be used by the county transit system under the agreement and to that extent may include the proceeds of bonds issued in accordance with Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, by such municipal corporation, township, or county for the purpose of paying all or a part of the cost of those permanent improvements. Any municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision or taxing district may convey or lease to or exchange with any county transit board or board of county commissioners operating a transit system and any county transit board or board of county commissioners operating a transit system may convey or lease to or exchange with any state, municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision or taxing district without competitive bidding and on mutually agreeable terms any personal property, real estate, or interests therein.
Ohio Rev. Code § 351.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 351 / § 351.06
§ 351.06. Applicability of prevailing wage law
Status: in_force

June 30, 2005 House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly A facility to be constructed pursuant to this chapter is a public improvement and a convention facilities authority is a public authority for purposes of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code. All contractors and subcontractors working on such facilities are subject to and shall comply with sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code. A convention facilities authority is a contracting authority for purposes of sections 307.86 to 307.91 of the Revised Code. No convention facilities authority shall construct a facility under this chapter unless the plans for the facility provide for parking and transportation determined by the board of county commissioners as adequate to serve that facility. A convention facilities authority may do all of the following: (A) Adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (B) Adopt an official seal; (C) Maintain a principal office within its territory; (D) Acquire, purchase, construct, reconstruct, enlarge, furnish, equip, maintain, repair, sell, exchange, lease or rent to, lease or rent from, operate, or contract for the operation by others of, facilities within its territory, and make charges for the use of the facilities; (E) Make available the use or services of any facility to persons or governmental agencies on such terms and conditions as the authority shall determine; (F) By resolution of its board of directors, issue convention facilities authority revenue bonds beyond the limit of bonded indebtedness provided by law, payable solely from revenues as provided in section 351.14 of the Revised Code, unless the bonds are refunded by refunding bonds, for the purpose of providing funds to pay the costs of any facility or facilities or parts of any facility or facilities, and, if moneys raised by taxation are not obligated or pledged for the payment of those revenue bonds, to pay the costs of any facility or facilities or parts of any facility or facilities pursuant to Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and in order to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities and improve the economic welfare of the people of the state; (G) Maintain such funds as it determines necessary; (H) Direct its agents or employees, when properly identified in writing and after at least five days' written notice, to enter upon lands within its territory in order to make surveys and examinations preliminary to location and construction of facilities, or other work for the purposes of the convention facilities authority, without liability of the authority or its agents or employees except for actual damage done; (I) Promote, advertise, and publicize the authority and its facilities; (J)(1) Adopt rules, not in conflict with general law, governing the use of its property, grounds, buildings, equipment, and facilities, and the conduct of its employees and the public, in order to promote the public safety and convenience in and about its facilities and grounds, and to maintain order. Any such rule shall be posted at a prominent place in each of the buildings or facilities to which it applies. (2) No person shall violate any lawful rule adopted and posted as provided in this division. (K) Acquire by gift or purchase, hold, lease, and dispose of real and personal property and interests in the property in the exercise of its powers and the performance of its duties under this chapter; (L) Acquire, in the name of the authority, by purchase or otherwise, on such terms and in such manner as the authority finds proper, or by the exercise of the right of appropriation in the manner provided by section 351.22 of the Revised Code, such public or private lands, including public parks, playgrounds, or reservations, or parts thereof or rights therein, rights-of-way, rights, franchises, easements, and interests as it finds necessary or proper for carrying out this chapter, and compensation shall be paid for public or private lands so taken; (M) Make and enter into all contracts and agreements and execute all instruments necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties and the execution of its powers under this chapter provided that no construction contract or contract for the purchase of goods or services shall be approved or entered into by the authority prior to the adoption and implementation of a policy on the set aside of contracts for bidding by or award to minority business enterprises, as defined in division (E)(1) of section 122.71 of the Revised Code; (N) Employ managers, superintendents, and other employees and retain or contract with consulting engineers, financial consultants, accounting experts, architects, attorneys, and such other consultants and independent contractors as are necessary in its judgment to carry out this chapter, and fix their compensation. All expenses of doing so shall be payable solely from the proceeds of convention facilities authority bonds and notes issued under this chapter, or from excise taxes and revenues. (O) Receive and accept from any governmental agency grants for or in aid of the purposes of the authority, and receive and accept aid or contributions from any source of money, property, labor, or other things of value, to be held, used, and applied only for the purposes for which such grants and contributions are made; (P) Engage in research and development with respect to facilities; (Q) Purchase fire and extended coverage and liability insurance for any facility and for the offices of the authority, insurance protecting the authority and its officers and employees against liability for damage to property or injury to or death of persons arising from its operations, and any other insurance the authority may agree to provide under any resolution authorizing its convention facilities authority revenue bonds or in any trust agreement securing the same; (R) Charge, alter, and collect rentals and other charges for the use or services of any facility as provided in section 351.09 of the Revised Code; (S) If a tax proposed under section 5739.026 of the Revised Code is disapproved by the electors, request the board of county commissioners to dissolve the authority pursuant to section 351.03 of the Revised Code; (T) By resolution of its board of directors, levy any of the excise taxes authorized by division (B) or (C) of section 351.021 of the Revised Code if authorized by the county commissioners, and issue convention facilities authority tax anticipation bonds beyond any limit of bonded indebtedness provided by law, payable solely from excise taxes levied pursuant to division (B) or (C) of section 351.021 of the Revised Code and revenues as provided in section 351.141 of the Revised Code. (U) Do all acts necessary or proper to carry out the powers expressly granted in this chapter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 353.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 353 / § 353.11
§ 353.11. Security for bonds
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly In the discretion of the lake facilities authority, any lake facilities authority revenue bonds issued under this chapter may be secured by a trust agreement between the lake facilities authority and a corporate trustee that may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state. The trust agreement may pledge or assign revenues of the lake facilities authority to be received and may convey or mortgage any facility or any part thereof. The trust agreement or any resolution providing for the issuance of such bonds may contain any provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the bondholders as are reasonable and proper and not in violation of law, including covenants setting forth the duties of the lake facilities authority in relation to the acquisition of property, the construction, improvement, maintenance, repair, operation, and insurance of the facility in connection with which the bonds are authorized, the rentals or other charges to be imposed for the use or services of any facility, the custody, safeguarding, and application of all moneys, and provisions for the employment of consulting engineers in connection with the construction or operation of the facility. Any bank or trust company incorporated under the laws of this state that may act as depository of the proceeds of bonds or of revenues may furnish any indemnifying bonds or may pledge any securities that are required by the lake facilities authority. The trust agreement may set forth the rights and remedies of the bondholders and of the trustee, and may restrict the individual right of action by bondholders as is customary in trust agreements or trust indentures securing similar bonds. The trust agreement may contain any other provisions that the lake facilities authority determines reasonable and proper for the security of the bondholders. All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of the trust agreement may be treated as a part of the cost of the operation of the facility.
Ohio Rev. Code § 315.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 315 / § 315.05
§ 315.05. Delivery of effects to successor in office
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly On leaving office, the county engineer shall deliver to his successor all books, papers, and other property and effects belonging to such office. In case of the failure of such engineer to do so, an action may be brought by his successor for the delivery of such property and effects, and for a forfeiture of five hundred dollars. If the successor to such engineer recovers in such action, he shall have judgment for the articles so withheld, or for their value, and for any sum not more than five hundred dollars that the jury or the court assesses as a forfeiture.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.054 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.054
§ 307.054. Executive director duties - employees
Status: in_force

November 11, 1994 House Bill 384 - 120th General Assembly (A) The board of trustees of a joint emergency medical services district shall employ an executive director, who shall be in the unclassified service, and fix his compensation. In addition to that compensation, the director shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of his official duties. The board may enter into an employment contract with the executive director for a period not to exceed three years. In the absence of contrary contractual provisions, the board may remove the director by a majority vote of the full membership, but only after holding a hearing on the matter if the director requests such a hearing. Except as otherwise provided in this division, the board shall prescribe the director's duties and may authorize the director to act on its behalf in the performance of its administrative duties. In addition to those duties prescribed by the board, the director shall do all the following: (1) Subject to the board's approval for each contract, execute contracts on the board's behalf; (2) Supervise all services provided or contracted for and all facilities operated or contracted for, and ensure that emergency medical services are being lawfully administered in conformity with the Revised Code and the resolution creating the district; (3) Recommend changes to the board that may increase the effectiveness of emergency medical services within the district; (4) Employ persons for all positions authorized by the board and approve all personnel actions that affect classified employees; (5) Approve compensation for employees within the limits set by the salary schedule and budget established by the board; (6) Prepare an annual report of the services provided by the district, including a fiscal accounting, for the board to approve. (B) Except as otherwise provided in this section, employees of the district shall be treated the same as county employees for the purposes of Chapter 124. of the Revised Code and any other provisions of state law applicable to county employees. Instead of or in addition to appointing employees of the district, the board of trustees may contract with one or more of the participating counties for county employees to serve the district and for the district to share in their compensation in any manner that may be agreed upon in the joint resolution creating the district.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.03
§ 307.03. Use of county buildings for public library
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of county commissioners may, by resolution, permit the use of public grounds or buildings under its control for a public library or any other public purpose, upon such terms as it prescribes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 313.091 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 313 / § 313.091
§ 313.091. Request for decedent's medical and psychiatric records
Status: in_force

September 5, 2001 House Bill 94 - 124th General Assembly In connection with the performance of duties under this chapter, a coroner, deputy coroner, or representative of a coroner or deputy coroner may request, in writing, to inspect and receive a copy of the deceased person's medical and psychiatric records. The person to whom the request is delivered shall make such records in the person's custody available during normal business hours to the coroner, deputy coroner, or representative for purposes of inspection and copying. A person who provides copies of medical or psychiatric records pursuant to a request made under this section may request, in writing, reimbursement in a specified amount for the necessary and reasonable costs of copying the records, in which case the coroner, deputy coroner, or representative shall remit that amount to the person upon receipt of the copies. Any medical or psychiatric record provided to a coroner, deputy coroner, or representative of a coroner or deputy coroner under this section is not a public record subject to section 149.43 of the Revised Code. The release of a deceased person's medical or psychiatric records to a coroner, deputy coroner, or representative of a coroner or deputy coroner in accordance with this section does not violate division (B)(4) of section 4731.22 or section 5122.31 of the Revised Code. As used in this section and section 313.10 of the Revised Code, "medical record" has the same meaning as in division (A)(3) of section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.441 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.441
§ 307.441. Errors and omissions insurance for officers, employees and judges
Status: in_force

October 5, 2000 House Bill 448 - 123rd General Assembly (A) The board of county commissioners of each county may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring the county recorder and the clerk of the court of common pleas and their deputies against liability on account of errors or omissions unknowingly made by them and for which they may be held liable. The policy or policies of insurance shall be in an amount of not less than fifty thousand dollars. (B) The board of county commissioners of each county may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring the sheriff and his deputies against liability arising from the performance of their official duties. (C) The board of county commissioners of each county may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring the prosecuting attorney and assistant prosecuting attorneys against liability arising from the performance of their official duties. (D) The board of county commissioners of each county may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring the coroner, county engineer, county auditor, each county commissioner, and the county treasurer and their assistants against liability arising from the performance of their official duties. (E) The board of county commissioners of each county may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring any county employee against liability arising from the performance of the county employee's official duties. (F) If the board of county commissioners of any county procures a policy or policies of insurance insuring any county official against liability arising from the performance of the county official's official duties as provided by divisions (A) to (D) of this section, it shall not refuse to procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring any other county official as authorized in those divisions, if such policy or policies are reasonably available. (G) The board of county commissioners of any county may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring the county director of job and family services, county department of job and family services employees, or foster caregivers associated with the county department of job and family services, against liability arising from the performance of their official duties. (H) The board of county commissioners of each county may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring the county public defender and the members of the county public defender commission against liability arising from the performance of their official duties. A joint board of county commissioners formed pursuant to section 120.23 of the Revised Code may, in accordance with the agreement of the participating boards of county commissioners, procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring the joint county public defender and the members of the joint county public defender commission against liability arising from the performance of their official duties. (I) The board of county commissioners of each county may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring the judges of the court of common pleas and any county court in the county, and the employees of those courts, against liability arising from the performance of their official duties.
Ohio Rev. Code § 306.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 306 / § 306.45
§ 306.45. Officers and employees are eligible for public employees retirement system
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 628 - 123rd General Assembly All officers and employees of a regional transit authority shall be considered as public employees within the meaning of section 145.01 of the Revised Code and a regional transit authority, its officers, and employees shall be subject to Chapter 145. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 306.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 306 / § 306.03
§ 306.03. Organization of county transit board
Status: in_force

October 25, 1995 House Bill 61 - 121st General Assembly As soon as possible after the appointment of the initial members, a county transit board shall organize for the transaction of business, elect a vice-chairman and secretary and prescribe their duties, designate a fiscal officer who need not be a member of the board, and adopt bylaws, rules, and regulations to govern its proceedings. Thereafter the board shall hold regular meetings at least once every month. Special meetings may be called by the chairman, or at the request of any two members. All meetings shall be open to the public and the board shall keep full and accurate minutes of its proceedings, and minutes of its proceedings shall be maintained as a public record. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the contract of business at its meetings. The board shall act by resolution and a concurrence of four members shall be sufficient for action by the board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 323.153 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 323 / § 323.153
§ 323.153. Application for reduction in real property taxes
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) To obtain a reduction in real property taxes under division (A) or (B)(2) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code or in manufactured home taxes under division (B)(2) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code, the owner shall file an application with the county auditor of the county in which the owner's homestead is located. To obtain a reduction in real property taxes under division (A) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code, the occupant of a homestead in a housing cooperative shall file an application with the nonprofit corporation that owns and operates the housing cooperative, in accordance with this paragraph. Not later than the first day of March each year, the corporation shall obtain applications from the county auditor's office and provide one to each new occupant. Not later than the first day of May, any occupant who may be eligible for a reduction in taxes under division (A) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code shall submit the completed application to the corporation. Not later than the fifteenth day of May, the corporation shall file all completed applications, and the information required by division (B) of section 323.159 of the Revised Code, with the county auditor of the county in which the occupants' homesteads are located. Continuing applications shall be furnished to an occupant in the manner provided in division (C)(4) of this section. (1) An application for reduction based upon a physical disability shall be accompanied by a certificate signed by a physician, and an application for reduction based upon a mental disability shall be accompanied by a certificate signed by a physician or psychologist licensed to practice in this state, attesting to the fact that the applicant is permanently and totally disabled. The certificate shall be in a form that the tax commissioner requires and shall include the definition of permanently and totally disabled as set forth in section 323.151 of the Revised Code. An application for reduction based upon a disability certified as permanent and total by a state or federal agency having the function of so classifying persons shall be accompanied by a certificate from that agency. An application by a disabled veteran or the surviving spouse of a disabled veteran for the reduction under division (A)(2)(a) or (b) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code shall be accompanied by a letter or other written confirmation from the United States department of veterans affairs, or its predecessor or successor agency, showing that the veteran qualifies as a disabled veteran. An application by the surviving spouse of a public service officer killed in the line of duty for the reduction under division (A)(3) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code shall be accompanied by a letter or other written confirmation from an employee or officer of the board of trustees of a retirement or pension fund in this state or another state or from the chief or other chief executive of the department, agency, or other employer for which the public service officer served when killed in the line of duty affirming that the public service officer was killed in the line of duty. An application for a reduction under division (A) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code constitutes a continuing application for a reduction in taxes for each year in which the dwelling is the applicant's homestead. (2) An application for a reduction in taxes under division (B)(2) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code shall be filed only if the homestead or manufactured or mobile home was transferred in the preceding year or did not qualify for and receive the reduction in taxes under that division for the preceding tax year. The application for homesteads transferred in the preceding year shall be incorporated into any form used by the county auditor to administer the tax law in respect to the conveyance of real property pursuant to section 319.20 of the Revised Code or of used manufactured homes or used mobile homes as defined in section 5739.0210 of the Revised Code. The owner of a manufactured or mobile home who has elected under division (D)(4) of section 4503.06 of the Revised Code to be taxed under division (D)(2) of that section for the ensuing year may file the application at the time of making that election. The application shall contain a statement that failure by the applicant to affirm on the application that the dwelling on the property conveyed is the applicant's homestead prohibits the owner from receiving the reduction in taxes until a proper application is filed within the period prescribed by division (A)(3) of this section. Such an application constitutes a continuing application for a reduction in taxes for each year in which the dwelling is the applicant's homestead. (3) Failure to receive a new application filed under division (A)(1) or (2) or notification under division (C) of this section after an application for reduction has been approved is prima-facie evidence that the original applicant is entitled to the reduction in taxes calculated on the basis of the information contained in the original application. The original application and any subsequent application, including any late application, shall be in the form of a signed statement and shall be filed on or before the thirty-first day of December of the year for which the reduction is sought. The original application and any subsequent application for a reduction in manufactured home taxes shall be filed in the year preceding the year for which the reduction is sought. The statement shall be on a form, devised and supplied by the tax commissioner, which shall require no more information than is necessary to establish the applicant's eligibility for the reduction in taxes and the amount of the reduction, and, except for homesteads that are units in a housing cooperative, shall include an affirmation by the applicant that ownership of the homestead was not acquired from a person, other than the applicant's spouse, related to the owner by consanguinity or affinity for the purpose of qualifying for the real property or manufactured home tax reduction provided for in division (A) or (B)(2) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code. The form shall contain a statement that conviction of willfully falsifying information to obtain a reduction in taxes or failing to comply with division (C) of this section results in the revocation of the right to the reduction for a period of three years. In the case of an application for a reduction in taxes for persons described in division (A)(1)(b)(iii) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code, the form shall contain a statement that signing the application constitutes a delegation of authority by the applicant to the tax commissioner or the county auditor, individually or in consultation with each other, to examine any tax or financial records relating to the income of the applicant as stated on the application for the purpose of determining eligibility for the exemption or a possible violation of division (D) or (E) of this section. (B) A late application for a tax reduction for the year preceding the year in which an original application is filed, or for a reduction in manufactured home taxes for the year in which an original application is filed, may be filed with the original application. If the county auditor determines the information contained in the late application is correct, the auditor shall determine the amount of the reduction in taxes to which the applicant would have been entitled for the preceding tax year had the applicant's application been timely filed and approved in that year. The amount of such reduction shall be treated by the auditor as an overpayment of taxes by the applicant and shall be refunded in the manner prescribed in section 5715.22 of the Revised Code for making refunds of overpayments. The county auditor shall certify the total amount of the reductions in taxes made in the current year under this division to the tax commissioner, who shall treat the full amount thereof as a reduction in taxes for the preceding tax year and shall make reimbursement to the county therefor in the manner prescribed by section 323.156 of the Revised Code, from money appropriated for that purpose. (C)(1) If, in any year after an application has been filed under division (A)(1) or (2) of this section, the owner does not qualify for a reduction in taxes on the homestead or on the manufactured or mobile home set forth on such application, the owner shall notify the county auditor that the owner is not qualified for a reduction in taxes. (2) If, in any year after an application has been filed under division (A)(1) of this section, the occupant of a homestead in a housing cooperative does not qualify for a reduction in taxes on the homestead, the occupant shall notify the county auditor that the occupant is not qualified for a reduction in taxes or file a new application under division (A)(1) of this section. (3) If the county auditor or county treasurer discovers that an owner of property or occupant of a homestead in a housing cooperative not entitled to the reduction in taxes under division (A) or (B)(2) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code failed to notify the county auditor as required by division (C)(1) or (2) of this section, a charge shall be imposed against the property in the amount by which taxes were reduced under that division for each tax year the county auditor ascertains that the property was not entitled to the reduction and was owned by the current owner or, in the case of a homestead in a housing cooperative, occupied by the current occupant. Interest shall accrue in the manner prescribed by division (B) of section 323.121 or division (G)(2) of section 4503.06 of the Revised Code on the amount by which taxes were reduced for each such tax year as if the reduction became delinquent taxes at the close of the last day the second installment of taxes for that tax year could be paid without penalty. The county auditor shall notify the owner or occupant, by ordinary mail, of the charge, of the owner's or occupant's right to appeal the charge, and of the manner in which the owner or occupant may appeal. The owner or occupant may appeal the imposition of the charge and interest by filing an appeal with the county board of revision not later than the last day prescribed for payment of real and public utility property taxes under section 323.12 of the Revised Code following receipt of the notice and occurring at least ninety days after receipt of the notice. The appeal shall be treated in the same manner as a complaint relating to the valuation or assessment of real property under Chapter 5715. of the Revised Code. The charge and any interest shall be collected as other delinquent taxes. (4) Each year during January, the county auditor shall furnish by ordinary mail a continuing application to each person receiving a reduction under division (A) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code. The continuing application shall be used to report changes in total income, ownership, occupancy, disability, and other information earlier furnished the auditor relative to the reduction in taxes on the property. The continuing application shall be returned to the auditor not later than the thirty-first day of December; provided, that if such changes do not affect the status of the homestead exemption or the amount of the reduction to which the owner is entitled under division (A) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code or to which the occupant is entitled under section 323.159 of the Revised Code, the application does not need to be returned. (5) Each year during February, the county auditor, except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, shall furnish by ordinary mail an original application to the owner, as of the first day of January of that year, of a homestead or a manufactured or mobile home that transferred during the preceding calendar year and that qualified for and received a reduction in taxes under division (B)(2) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code for the preceding tax year. In order to receive the reduction under that division, the owner shall file the application with the county auditor not later than the thirty-first day of December. If the application is not timely filed, the auditor shall not grant a reduction in taxes for the homestead for the current year, and shall notify the owner that the reduction in taxes has not been granted, in the same manner prescribed under section 323.154 of the Revised Code for notification of denial of an application. Failure of an owner to receive an application does not excuse the failure of the owner to file an original application. The county auditor is not required to furnish an application under this paragraph for any homestead for which application has previously been made on a form incorporated into any form used by the county auditor to administer the tax law in respect to the conveyance of real property or of used manufactured homes or used mobile homes, and an owner who previously has applied on such a form is not required to return an application furnished under this paragraph. (D) No person shall knowingly make a false statement for the purpose of obtaining a reduction in the person's real property or manufactured home taxes under section 323.152 of the Revised Code. (E) No person shall knowingly fail to notify the county auditor of changes required by division (C) of this section that have the effect of maintaining or securing a reduction in taxes under section 323.152 of the Revised Code. (F) No person shall knowingly make a false statement or certification attesting to any person's physical or mental condition for purposes of qualifying such person for tax relief pursuant to sections 323.151 to 323.159 of the Revised Code. Last updated July 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 323.65 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 323 / § 323.65
§ 323.65. Expedited foreclosure on unoccupied land definitions
Status: in_force

September 4, 2014 Senate Bill 172 - 130th General Assembly As used in sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code: (A) "Abandoned land" means delinquent lands or delinquent vacant lands, including any improvements on the lands, that are unoccupied and that first appeared on the list compiled under division (C) of section 323.67 of the Revised Code, or the delinquent tax list or delinquent vacant land tax list compiled under section 5721.03 of the Revised Code, at whichever of the following times is applicable: (1) In the case of lands other than agricultural lands, at any time after the county auditor makes the certification of the delinquent land list under section 5721.011 of the Revised Code; (2) In the case of agricultural lands, at any time after two years after the county auditor makes the certification of the delinquent land list under section 5721.011 of the Revised Code. (B) "Agricultural land" means lands on the agricultural land tax list maintained under section 5713.33 of the Revised Code. (C) "Clerk of court" means the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county in which specified abandoned land is located. (D) "Delinquent lands" and "delinquent vacant lands" have the same meanings as in section 5721.01 of the Revised Code. (E) "Impositions" means delinquent taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, costs, reasonable attorney's fees of a certificate holder, applicable and permissible costs of the prosecuting attorney of a county, and other permissible charges against abandoned land. (F)(1) "Unoccupied," with respect to a parcel of land, means any of the following: (a) No building, structure, land, or other improvement that is subject to taxation and that is located on the parcel is physically inhabited as a dwelling; (b) No trade or business is actively being conducted on the parcel by the owner, a tenant, or another party occupying the parcel pursuant to a lease or other legal authority, or in a building, structure, or other improvement that is subject to taxation and that is located on the parcel; (c) The parcel is uninhabited and there are no signs that it is undergoing a change in tenancy and remains legally habitable, or that it is undergoing improvements, as indicated by an application for a building permit or other facts indicating that the parcel is experiencing ongoing improvements. (2) For purposes of division (F)(1) of this section, it is prima-facie evidence and a rebuttable presumption that may be rebutted to the county board of revision that a parcel of land is unoccupied if, at the time the county auditor makes the certification under section 5721.011 of the Revised Code, the parcel is not agricultural land, and two or more of the following apply: (a) At the time of the inspection of the parcel by a county, municipal corporation, or township in which the parcel is located, no person, trade, or business inhabits, or is visibly present from an exterior inspection of, the parcel. (b) No utility connections, including, but not limited to, water, sewer, natural gas, or electric connections, service the parcel, or no such utility connections are actively being billed by any utility provider regarding the parcel. (c) The parcel or any improvement thereon is boarded up or otherwise sealed because, immediately prior to being boarded up or sealed, it was deemed by a political subdivision pursuant to its municipal, county, state, or federal authority to be open, vacant, or vandalized. (d) The parcel or any improvement thereon is, upon visible inspection, insecure, vacant, or vandalized. (G) "Community development organization" means a nonprofit corporation that is formed or organized under Chapter 1702. or 1724. of the Revised Code and to which both of the following apply: (1) The organization is in good standing under law at the time the county auditor makes the certification under section 5721.011 of the Revised Code and has remained in good standing uninterrupted for at least the two years immediately preceding the time of that certification or, in the case of a county land reutilization corporation, has remained so from the date of organization if less than two years. (2) As of the time the county auditor makes the certification under section 5721.011 of the Revised Code, the organization has received from the county, municipal corporation, or township in which abandoned land is located official authority or agreement by a duly authorized officer of that county, municipal corporation, or township to accept the owner's fee simple interest in the abandoned land and to the abandoned land being foreclosed, and that official authority or agreement had been delivered to the county treasurer or county board of revision in a form that will reasonably confirm the county's, municipal corporation's, or township's assent to transfer the land to that community development organization under section 323.74 of the Revised Code. No such official authority or agreement by a duly authorized officer of a county, municipal corporation, or township must be received if a county land reutilization corporation is authorized to receive tax-foreclosed property under its articles of incorporation, regulations, or Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code. (H) "Certificate holder" has the same meaning as in section 5721.30 of the Revised Code. (I) "Abandoned land list" means the list of abandoned lands compiled under division (A) of section 323.67 of the Revised Code. (J) "Alternative redemption period," in any action to foreclose the state's lien for unpaid delinquent taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest, and costs on a parcel of real property pursuant to section 323.25 , sections 323.65 to 323.79 , or section 5721.18 of the Revised Code, means twenty-eight days after an adjudication of foreclosure of the parcel is journalized by a court or county board of revision having jurisdiction over the foreclosure proceedings. Upon the expiration of the alternative redemption period, the right and equity of redemption of any owner or party shall terminate without further order of the court or board of revision. As used in any section of the Revised Code and for any proceeding under this chapter or section 5721.18 of the Revised Code, for purposes of determining the alternative redemption period, the period commences on the day immediately following the journalization of the adjudication of foreclosure and ends on and includes the twenty-eighth day thereafter. (K) "County land reutilization corporation" means a corporation organized under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 303.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 303 / § 303.35
§ 303.35. Plan or modification to be in full force and effect upon approval
Status: in_force

October 21, 1959 House Bill 1081 - 103rd General Assembly Upon the approval by the board of county commissioners of a county renewal plan or any modification thereof, such plan or modification shall be in full force and effect for the respective county renewal area and the board may then cause such plan or modification to be carried out in accordance with its terms.
Ohio Rev. Code § 340.031 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 340 / § 340.031
§ 340.031. Inspecting mental health residential facilities - acquiring property
Status: in_force

July 1, 2017 Senate Bill 319 - 131st General Assembly A board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services may: (A) Inspect any residential facility licensed under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code and located in its service district; (B) Acquire, convey, lease, or enter into a contract to purchase, lease, or sell property for addiction services, mental health services, and related purposes, and enter into loan agreements, including mortgages, for the acquisition of such property. Last updated October 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.99
§ 307.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

April 3, 2023 House Bill 254 - 134th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates section 307.42 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. (B) Whoever violates section 307.43 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, and imprisoned not less than ten nor more than sixty days. (C) Whoever violates section 307.37 of the Revised Code, shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars. (D) Whoever violates division (C)(5) of section 307.97 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. (E) Whoever violates any other subdivision of division (C) of section 307.97 of the Revised Code shall be imprisoned not more than six months or fined not more than one thousand dollars, or both. (F) Whoever violates division (F) of section 307.652 of the Revised Code or division (B) of section 307.659 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Last updated February 21, 2023 at 12:37 PM Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 319.39 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 319 / § 319.39
§ 319.39. Record of additions and deductions - certificate of correction
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The county auditor shall keep books or other records of "additions and deductions," in which he shall enter all corrections of the general duplicates and of the classified duplicate respectively, made after delivery of such duplicates to the county treasurer, which either increase or diminish the amount of a tax or assessment, as stated in such duplicates. In addition to the marginal corrections provided for in section 319.35 of the Revised Code, he shall in each case give the treasurer a certificate of the correction.
Ohio Rev. Code § 319.46 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 319 / § 319.46
§ 319.46. Certificate to treasurer as to taxes charged
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The county auditor shall make and deliver to the county treasurer a certificate specifying the amount charged on the tax duplicate of the county for each of the several purposes for which taxes have been levied, and also a certificate or an abstract of the taxes which have become due and payable and which remain unpaid. In making the settlement in February of each year as required by section 319.43 of the Revised Code, the auditor may ascertain the amount of taxes collected from the statements required by sections 321.09 and 321.10 of the Revised Code to be made to him by the treasurer.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.846 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.846
§ 307.846. Contract for services with other public entities
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly The county automatic data processing board may enter into a contract with the legislative authorities of any municipal corporation, township, port authority, water or sewer district, school district, library district, county law library association, health district, park district, soil and water conservation district, conservancy district, other taxing district, regional council established pursuant to Chapter 167. of the Revised Code, county land reutilization corporation organized under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code, or otherwise or with the board of county commissioners or the automatic data processing board of any other county, or with any other federal or state governmental agency, and such authorities or entities may enter into contracts with the county automatic data processing board, to provide automatic or electronic data processing or record-keeping services to any of them. The board shall establish a schedule of charges upon which the cost of providing such services shall be based. All moneys collected by the board for services rendered pursuant to contracts entered into under this section shall be deposited in the county general fund; however, such moneys may be segregated into a special fund in the county treasury until the end of the calendar year. County offices may also be charged for such services and the appropriation so charged and the appropriation of the board so credited.
Ohio Rev. Code § 306.51 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 306 / § 306.51
§ 306.51. Conveyance, lease, or exchange of personal or real property
Status: in_force

August 25, 1970 Senate Bill 125 - 108th General Assembly The legislative authority of any municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision or taxing district, may convey or lease to, or exchange with, any regional transit authority or any such authority may convey or lease to, or exchange with, a municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision or taxing district, without competitive bidding and at mutually agreeable terms, any personal or real property, or any interest therein, to be used by the recipient for its purposes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 343.013 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 343 / § 343.013
§ 343.013. Continuation of resource recovery facilities and recycling activities while public debt outstanding
Status: in_force

October 29, 1993 Senate Bill 153 - 120th General Assembly (A) The designations under the initial solid waste management plan of a county or joint solid waste management district approved under section 3734.55 of the Revised Code of solid waste disposal, transfer, and resource recovery facilities and recycling activities that are owned by a municipal corporation, county, county or joint solid waste management district, township, or township waste disposal district created under section 505.28 of the Revised Code and are financed in whole or part by debt issued under Chapter 133., 343., or 6123. of the Revised Code shall continue until they are terminated by the board of county commissioners or directors of the district or they end pursuant to division (C) of this section. (B) The board of county commissioners or directors of a district, at any time and by resolution, may designate additional solid waste disposal, transfer, or resource recovery facilities or recycling activities that are owned by a municipal corporation, county, county or joint solid waste management district, township, or township waste disposal district created under section 505.28 of the Revised Code, and that are financed in whole or in part by debt issued under Chapter 133., 343., or 6123. of the Revised Code, where solid wastes generated within or transported into the district shall be taken for disposal, transfer, resource recovery, or recycling. (C) The designation of a facility or activity under division (A) or (B) of this section shall not continue beyond the time that all such debt issued to finance the facility or activity has been retired. The board, at any time and by resolution, may terminate the designation of any such facility or activity.
Ohio Rev. Code § 306.39 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 306 / § 306.39
§ 306.39. Interest and maturity of revenue bonds
Status: in_force

August 25, 1970 Senate Bill 125 - 108th General Assembly Revenue bonds issued by a regional transit authority shall bear interest at the rate or rates approved by the board of trustees, shall mature within forty years following the date of issuance, and in such amount, at such times, and in such number of installments as may be provided in the resolution authorizing their issuance. Such resolution shall also provide for the execution and sealing of the bonds and the use of facsimile signatures and facsimile of the seal, the manner of sale of the bonds, and such other terms and conditions relative to the issuance, sale, and retirement of said bonds as the board of trustees in their discretion believe reasonable and proper. If such bonds are callable, bonds called may be refunded. If revenues prove insufficient to pay maturing bonds, bonds which have matured or are about to mature may be refunded.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.626 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.626
§ 307.626. Annual report
Status: in_force

October 16, 2009 House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly (A) By the first day of April of each year, the person convening the child fatality review board shall prepare and submit to the Ohio department of health a report that summarizes the following information with respect to the child deaths that were reviewed by the review board in the previous calendar year: (1) The cause of death; (2) Factors contributing to death; (3) Age; (4) Sex; (5) Race; (6) The geographic location of death; (7) The year of death. The report shall specify the number of child deaths that were not reviewed during the previous calendar year. The report may include recommendations for actions that might prevent other deaths, as well as any other information the review board determines should be included. (B) Reports prepared under division (A) of this section shall be considered public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (C) The child fatality review board shall submit individual data with respect to each child death review into the Ohio department of health child death review database or the national child death review database. The individual data shall include the information specified in division (A) of this section and any other information the board considers relevant to the review. Individual data related to a child death review that is contained in the Ohio department of health child death review database is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 303.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 303 / § 303.03
§ 303.03. Adoption of resolution of intention to proceed with county rural zoning
Status: in_force

August 22, 1995 House Bill 99 - 121st General Assembly Before availing itself of the powers conferred in section 303.02 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall pass a resolution declaring its intention to proceed under sections 303.01 to 303.25 of the Revised Code. The board may act in the following manner: (A) It may adopt such a resolution upon its own initiative. (B) It shall adopt such a resolution if there is presented to it a petition, signed by a number of qualified voters residing in the unincorporated area of each township or part of that unincorporated area to be included in the zoning plan equal to not less than eight per cent of the total vote cast for all candidates for governor in such area at the most recent general election at which a governor was elected, requesting the board to proceed with county rural zoning under such sections.
Ohio Rev. Code § 317.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 317 / § 317.42
§ 317.42. Posting warning of public record character of recorded documents
Status: in_force

September 27, 2002 House Bill 309 - 124th General Assembly (A) The county recorder shall display at all times, in a conspicuous place in the office of the recorder, a printed card that shall read substantially as follows: "WARNING Documents recorded in the recorder's office generally are considered to be public records. Other persons have access to the information contained in recorded documents." (B) If the county recorder fails to post a card in accordance with division (A) of this section, the county recorder is not liable in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property that allegedly results from that failure.
Ohio Rev. Code § 305.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 305 / § 305.16
§ 305.16. Other employees
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of county commissioners may employ a superintendent, and such watchmen, janitors, and other employees as are necessary for the care and custody of the court house, jail, and other county buildings, bridges, and other property under its jurisdiction and control.
Ohio Rev. Code § 349.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 349 / § 349.13
§ 349.13. Agreements with other governmental entity or agencies
Status: in_force

October 4, 1972 House Bill 1063 - 109th General Assembly Any governmental entity or agency may, notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, lease, lend, grant, or convey to the new community authority at the authority's request, or lease, borrow, accept, or receive from the authority upon such terms as the proper authorities of such governmental entity or agency deem reasonable and fair and without the necessity for and advertisement, auction, order of court, or other action or formality other than the regular and formal action of the governmental agency concerned, any real property or interests therein including improvements thereto or personal property which is necessary or convenient to the carrying out of the new community development program, including public roads, community facilities and other real property or interests therein, including improvements thereto, or personal property already devoted to public use; and provided further that, where any such governmental entity is the developer, it may enter into any and all contracts and agreements with the new community authority for the provision by the new community authority of coordination and management service, for all or any portion of the activities and other matters relating to carrying forward the new community development program.
Ohio Rev. Code § 301.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 301 / § 301.24
§ 301.24. County health department or agency
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The electors of any county may establish, by charter provision, a county department or agency for the administration of public health services. The authorities provided in accordance with the county charter shall exercise all the powers and perform all the duties which are vested in or imposed upon the authorities of city or general health districts. All health districts shall thereupon by abolished within the county, and the county shall succeed to the property, rights, and obligations of such districts. The department of health shall have the same powers with respect to a county health department or agency as it possesses with reference to a general health district. A county health department or agency may participate in any state grants for the expenses of local health administration on the same basis and to the same degree as a general health district.
Ohio Rev. Code § 341.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 341 / § 341.07
§ 341.07. Copies of minimum standards for jails to be furnished - prisoner rules of conduct
Status: in_force

July 6, 1982 Senate Bill 23 - 114th General Assembly The department of rehabilitation and correction shall provide a copy of the minimum standards for jails in Ohio to the board of county commissioners, the common pleas court, and the sheriff. The sheriff shall ensure that the prisoner rules of conduct are placed in a conspicuous location within each jail confinement area or are given to each prisoner in written form.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.655 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.655
§ 307.655. No review while investigation or prosecution pending
Status: in_force

April 3, 2023 House Bill 254 - 134th General Assembly A domestic violence fatality review board may not conduct a review of a death while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney agrees to allow the review. The law enforcement agency conducting the criminal investigation, on the conclusion of the investigation, and the prosecuting attorney prosecuting the case, on the conclusion of the prosecution, shall notify the chairperson of the review board of the conclusion. Last updated February 24, 2023 at 11:22 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 301.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 301 / § 301.22
§ 301.22. County declared body politic and corporate
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Every county adopting a charter or an alternative form of government is a body politic and corporate for the purpose of enjoying and exercising the rights and privileges conveyed under it by the constitution and the laws of this state. Such county is capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded.
Ohio Rev. Code § 325.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 325 / § 325.28
§ 325.28. Receipt for fees
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly Each probate judge, county auditor, county treasurer, clerk of the court of common pleas, sheriff, county engineer, and county recorder shall charge and collect the fees, costs, percentages, allowances, and compensation allowed by law, and shall give to the person making such payment an official receipt.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.921 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.921
§ 307.921. Policy to assist minority business enterprises
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly From any contracts to be awarded under sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code, the contracting authority, as defined in section 307.92 of the Revised Code, may develop a policy to assist minority business enterprises, as defined in sections 122.71 and 122.921 of the Revised Code. Last updated July 30, 2021 at 10:25 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 323.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 323 / § 323.28
§ 323.28. Finding and decree - appraisal and sale of property - proceeds of sale
Status: in_force

April 9, 2025 House Bill 496 - 135th General Assembly (A) A finding shall be entered in a proceeding under section 323.25 of the Revised Code for taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and charges due and payable at the time the deed of real property sold or transferred under this section is transferred to the purchaser or transferee, plus the cost of the proceeding. For purposes of determining such amount, the county treasurer may estimate the amount of taxes, assessments, interest, penalties, charges, and costs that will be payable at the time the deed of the property is transferred to the purchaser or transferee. The court of common pleas, a municipal court with jurisdiction, or the county board of revision with jurisdiction pursuant to section 323.66 of the Revised Code shall order such premises to be transferred pursuant to division (E) of this section or shall order such premises to be sold for payment of the finding, but for not less than either of the following, unless the county treasurer applies for an appraisal: (1) The total amount of such finding; (2) The fair market value of the premises, as determined by the county auditor, plus the cost of the proceeding. If the county treasurer applies for an appraisal, the premises shall be appraised in the manner provided by section 2329.17 of the Revised Code, and shall be sold for at least two-thirds of the appraised value. Notwithstanding the minimum sales price provisions of divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section to the contrary, a parcel sold pursuant to this section shall not be sold for less than the amount described in division (A)(1) of this section if the highest bidder is the owner of record of the parcel immediately prior to the judgment of foreclosure or a member of the following class of parties connected to that owner: a member of that owner's immediate family, a person with a power of attorney appointed by that owner who subsequently transfers the parcel to the owner, a sole proprietorship owned by that owner or a member of the owner's immediate family, or partnership, trust, business trust, corporation, or association in which the owner or a member of the owner's immediate family owns or controls directly or indirectly more than fifty per cent. If a parcel sells for less than the amount described in division (A)(1) of this section, the officer conducting the sale shall require the buyer to complete an affidavit stating that the buyer is not the owner of record immediately prior to the judgment of foreclosure or a member of the specified class of parties connected to that owner, and the affidavit shall become part of the court records of the proceeding. If the county auditor discovers within three years after the date of the sale that a parcel was sold to that owner or a member of the specified class of parties connected to that owner for a price less than the amount so described, and if the parcel is still owned by that owner or a member of the specified class of parties connected to that owner, the auditor within thirty days after such discovery shall add the difference between that amount and the sale price to the amount of taxes that then stand charged against the parcel and is payable at the next succeeding date for payment of real property taxes. As used in this paragraph, "immediate family" means a spouse who resides in the same household and children. (B) From the proceeds of the sale the costs shall be first paid, next the amount found due for taxes, then the amount of any taxes accruing after the entry of the finding and before the deed of the property is transferred to the purchaser following the sale, all of which taxes shall be deemed satisfied, though the amount applicable to them is deficient, and any balance shall be distributed according to section 5721.20 of the Revised Code. No statute of limitations shall apply to such action. Upon sale, all liens for taxes due at the time the deed of the property is transferred to the purchaser following the sale, and liens subordinate to liens for taxes, shall be deemed satisfied and discharged unless otherwise provided by the order of sale. (C) If the county treasurer's estimate of the amount of the finding under division (A) of this section exceeds the amount of taxes, assessments, interest, penalties, and costs actually payable when the deed is transferred to the purchaser, the officer who conducted the sale shall refund to the purchaser the difference between the estimate and the amount actually payable. If the amount of taxes, assessments, interest, penalties, and costs actually payable when the deed is transferred to the purchaser exceeds the county treasurer's estimate, the officer shall certify the amount of the excess to the treasurer, who shall enter that amount on the real and public utility property tax duplicate opposite the property; the amount of the excess shall be payable at the next succeeding date prescribed for payment of taxes in section 323.12 of the Revised Code, and shall not be deemed satisfied and discharged pursuant to division (B) of this section. (D) Premises ordered to be sold under this section but remaining unsold for want of bidders after being offered for sale on two separate occasions, not less than two weeks apart, or after being offered for sale on one occasion in the case of abandoned land as defined in section 323.65 of the Revised Code, shall be forfeited to the state or to a political subdivision, school district, or county land reutilization corporation pursuant to Chapter 5722. or section 5723.01 of the Revised Code, and shall be disposed of pursuant to Chapter 5722. or 5723. of the Revised Code. (E) Notwithstanding section 5722.03 of the Revised Code, if the complaint alleges that the property is delinquent vacant land as defined in section 5721.01 of the Revised Code, abandoned lands as defined in section 323.65 of the Revised Code, or lands described in division (F) of section 5722.01 of the Revised Code, and the value of the taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and all other charges and costs of the action exceed the auditor's fair market value of the parcel, then the court or board of revision having jurisdiction over the matter on motion of the plaintiff, or on the court's or board's own motion, shall, upon any adjudication of foreclosure, order, without appraisal and without sale, the fee simple title of the property to be transferred to and vested in an electing subdivision as defined in division (A) of section 5722.01 of the Revised Code. For purposes of determining whether the taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and all other charges and costs of the action exceed the actual fair market value of the parcel, the auditor's most current valuation shall be rebuttably presumed to be, and constitute prima-facie evidence of, the fair market value of the parcel. In such case, the filing for journalization of a decree of foreclosure ordering that direct transfer without appraisal or sale shall constitute confirmation of the transfer and thereby terminate any further statutory or common law right of redemption. (F) Whenever the officer charged to conduct the sale offers any parcel for sale, the officer first shall read aloud a complete legal description of the parcel, or in the alternative, may read aloud only a summary description and a parcel number if the county has adopted a permanent parcel number system and if the advertising notice published prior to the sale includes a complete legal description or indicates where the complete legal description may be obtained. (G) The officer charged with transferring the title to property sold under this section may not transfer the title unless and until the purchaser furnishes the officer with an affidavit and, if applicable, supporting documentation as described in division (J) of section 5721.19 of the Revised Code. Any person who knowingly makes a false statement in that affidavit is guilty of falsification under division (A)(11) of section 2921.13 of the Revised Code. Last updated February 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 327.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 327 / § 327.05
§ 327.05. Meetings - decision of questions
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The meetings of the board of trustees of the sinking fund shall be open to the public, and all questions relating to the purchase or sale of securities or the payment of bonds or interest shall be decided by a yea and nay vote, which vote shall be recorded on the journal of such board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 317.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 317 / § 317.99
§ 317.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

January 1, 1974 House Bill 511 - 109th General Assembly Whoever violates section 317.34 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 319.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 319 / § 319.99
§ 319.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates section 319.53 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (B) Whoever violates section 319.202 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 323.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 323 / § 323.17
§ 323.17. Extending time for delivery of tax duplicate
Status: in_force

April 7, 2023 House Bill 458 - 134th General Assembly When any taxing authority in the county has certified to the board of elections a resolution that would serve to place upon the ballot at a general election or at any special election held prior to the general election but subsequent to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May the question of a tax to be levied on the current tax list and duplicate for any purpose, or if the auditor has not received the certified reduction factors as required by division (D)(2) of section 319.301 of the Revised Code, the time for delivery of the tax duplicate of the county treasurer by the county auditor as provided in section 319.28 of the Revised Code shall be extended to the first Monday in December. When delivery of the tax duplicate has been so delayed, the times for payment of taxes as fixed by section 323.12 of the Revised Code may be extended to the thirty-first day of January and the twentieth day of July. In case of emergency the tax commissioner may, by journal entry, extend the times for delivery of the duplicate in any county for an additional fifteen days upon receipt of a written application from the county auditor, in the case of a delay in the delivery of the tax duplicate, or from the treasurer regarding an extension of the time for the billing and collection of taxes. When a delay in the closing of a tax collection period becomes unavoidable, the tax commissioner, upon application of the county auditor and county treasurer, may extend the time for payment of taxes if the commissioner determines that penalties have accrued or would otherwise accrue for reasons beyond the control of the taxpayers of the county. The order so issued by the commissioner shall prescribe the final extended date for the payment of taxes for that collection period. "Emergency," as used in this section, includes death or serious illness, any organized work stoppage, mechanical failure of office equipment or machinery, or a delay in complying with section 5715.24 or 5715.26 of the Revised Code which will cause an unavoidable delay in the delivery of duplicates or in the billing or collection of taxes. Such application shall contain a statement describing the emergency that will cause the unavoidable delay. Any application from the county auditor for an extension of time for delivery of the duplicate due to an emergency must be received by the tax commissioner on or before the last day of the month preceding the date required for such delivery. When an extension of time for delivery of the duplicate is so granted, the time for payment of taxes shall be extended for a like period of time. Whenever taxable real property has been destroyed or damaged by fire, flood, tornado, or otherwise, in an amount not less than twenty-five per cent of the value as listed and assessed for taxation but in no event less than two thousand dollars of taxable value, the county board of revision, by resolution, may extend the time for payment of taxes on such property not more than one year after the time fixed by section 323.12 of the Revised Code. The board shall file a copy of such resolution with the county auditor and county treasurer, stating the name of the owner and description as it appears on the tax list, the taxing district, the type and kind of property destroyed or damaged, and the board's estimate of the amount of such destruction or damage. Last updated January 24, 2023 at 3:53 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 303.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 303 / § 303.36
§ 303.36. Redeveloping or rehabilitating disaster areas
Status: in_force

October 21, 1959 House Bill 1081 - 103rd General Assembly Where the board of county commissioners certifies that an area in the county, but outside the corporate limits of any city or other incorporated municipality, is in need of redevelopment or rehabilitation as a result of a flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm, or other catastrophe respecting which the governor has certified the need for disaster assistance under public law 875, eighty-first congress, or other federal law, it may approve a county renewal plan and a county renewal project with respect to such area without regard to the provisions of section 303.33 of the Revised Code and the provisions of sections 303.30 and 303.32 of the Revised Code requiring a general plan for the county and a public hearing on the county renewal project.
Ohio Rev. Code § 308.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 308 / § 308.12
§ 308.12. Duties of fiscal officer
Status: in_force

January 23, 1963 House Bill 1 - 105th General Assembly The secretary-treasurer of the regional airport authority shall be the fiscal officer of the regional airport authority and the custodian of its funds and records and shall assist the board of directors in such particulars as it directs in the performance of its duties. Before receiving any moneys, the sercretary-treasurer shall furnish bond in such amount as is determined by the board of trustees of the regional airport authority with surety satisfactory to it, and all funds coming into the hands of the secretary-treasurer shall be deposited by him to the account of the regional airport authority in one or more such depositories as are qualified to receive deposits of county funds, which deposits shall be secured in the same manner as county funds are required to be secured. No disbursements shall be made from such funds except in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the board of trustees of the regional airport authority.
Ohio Rev. Code § 306.88 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 306 / § 306.88
§ 306.88. Filing certified copy of agreement with county recorder
Status: in_force

August 25, 1970 Senate Bill 125 - 108th General Assembly A certified copy of any agreement made pursuant to sections 306.80 to 306.90 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be filed with the recorder of each county of this state which is party to the agreement or in which any other public agency which is party to such agreement has located, and with the secretary of state of Ohio. Such agreement has the status of an interstate compact, but in any case or controversy involving performance or interpretation thereof or liability thereunder, the public agencies party thereto are the real parties in interest.
Ohio Rev. Code § 319.304 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 319 / § 319.304
§ 319.304. Local option homestead exemptions
Status: in_force

November 25, 2025 House Bill 434 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Homestead" has the same meaning as in section 323.151 of the Revised Code and also includes a manufactured or mobile home that is owned and occupied as a home by an individual whose domicile is in this state. (2) "Homestead exemption" means a reduction authorized under section 4503.065 or division (A)(1), (2), or (3) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code. (B) A board of county commissioners, by resolution, may authorize a reduction in the real property taxes or manufactured home taxes charged and payable against every homestead in the county subject to a homestead exemption for the tax year. The board shall certify a copy of the resolution, or a copy of any resolution repealing the reduction's authorization, to the county auditor and tax commissioner within thirty days after its adoption. If the resolution is adopted on or before the first day of July of a tax year, the reduction shall first apply or cease to apply, in the case of real property taxes, to that tax year or, in the case of manufactured home taxes, the following tax year. If the resolution is adopted after the first day of July of a tax year, the reduction shall first apply or cease to apply, in the case of real property taxes, to the following tax year or, in the case of manufactured home taxes, the second succeeding tax year. (C) The reduction shall equal the same amount as the homestead's applicable homestead exemption for the tax year and shall be applied concurrently with the homestead exemption. The reduction is subject to the same provisions as provided in sections 323.151 to 323.159 or sections 4503.064 to 4503.069 of the Revised Code as are applicable to a homestead exemption, except that no application shall be required under section 323.153 or 4503.066 of the Revised Code for a homestead to obtain the reduction. The amount of any reduction authorized under this section shall not be reimbursed as provided in section 323.156 or 4503.068 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 6, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 317.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 317 / § 317.04
§ 317.04. Official seal
Status: in_force

January 30, 2014 House Bill 72 - 130th General Assembly The county recorder shall keep a seal of office, to be procured at the expense of the county, which the county recorder shall affix to all certificates attached to copies of records.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.636 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.636
§ 307.636. Collecting and maintaining information; annual report
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) A drug overdose fatality review committee shall establish a system for collecting and maintaining information necessary for the review of drug overdose or opioid-involved deaths in the county or region. In an effort to ensure confidentiality, each committee shall do all of the following: (1) Maintain all records in a secure location; (2) Develop security measures to prevent unauthorized access to records containing information that could reasonably identify any person; (3) Develop a system for storing, processing, indexing, retrieving, and destroying information obtained in the course of reviewing a drug overdose or opioid-involved death. (B) For each drug overdose or opioid-involved death reviewed by a committee, the committee shall collect all of the following: (1) Demographic information of the deceased, including age, sex, race, and ethnicity; (2) The year in which the death occurred; (3) The geographic location of the death; (4) The cause of death; (5) Any factors contributing to the death; (6) Any other information the committee considers relevant. (C) By the first day of April of each year, the person convening a drug overdose fatality review committee shall prepare and submit to the Ohio department of health in the manner and format prescribed by the department a report that includes all of the following information for the previous calendar year: (1) The total number of drug overdose or opioid-involved deaths in the county or region; (2) The total number of drug overdose or opioid-involved deaths reviewed by the committee; (3) A summary of demographic information for the deaths reviewed, including age, sex, race, and ethnicity; (4) A summary of any trends or patterns identified by the committee. The report shall specify the number of drug overdose or opioid-involved deaths that were not reviewed during the previous calendar year. The report shall include recommendations for actions that might prevent other deaths, as well as any other information the review board determines should be included. (D) Reports prepared under division (C) of this section shall be considered public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 19, 2021 at 5:15 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 309.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 309 / § 309.01
§ 309.01. Election of prosecuting attorney
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly There shall be elected quadrennially in each county, a prosecuting attorney, who shall hold his office for four years, beginning on the first Monday of January next after his election.
Ohio Rev. Code § 301.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 301 / § 301.07
§ 301.07. Enforcing settlement
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If the board of county commissioners of an old county refuses or neglects, when called on, to settle with the board of a new county, and to give such board an order on its county treasurer for the amount found due such new county, the court of common pleas of the old county shall, upon the application of the board of the new county, proceed in a summary manner, upon notice, to compel the board of such old county to make settlement and give such order. Such court shall enforce any order it makes in the premises by attaching the persons of the commissioners of the old county until such order is complied with and the costs of the application are paid. If there is no money in the county treasury of the old county to pay such order when presented, the treasurer of the old county shall pay the order from the first money received by him for county purposes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 305.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 305 / § 305.38
§ 305.38. Prohibited acts
Status: in_force

December 12, 1967 House Bill 919 - 107th General Assembly No person shall knowingly sign a referendum petition more than once, sign a name other than his own, or sign when not a legal voter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 301.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 301 / § 301.27
§ 301.27. Use of county credit cards
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Credit card" includes gasoline and telephone credit cards but excludes any procurement card authorized under section 301.29 of the Revised Code. (2) "Officer" includes an individual who also is an appointing authority. (B) A board of county commissioners, in consultation with the county auditor, shall adopt a policy by resolution regarding the use of county credit cards by the board of county commissioners, by the office of any other county appointing authority, or by an officer or employee of the board or any other appointing authority. The board shall deliver a copy of the policy to the county auditor. The policy shall include all of the following: (1) The procedure for submitting itemized receipts for purchases to the county auditor; (2) Any other provision regarding the use of county credit cards so long as the provision does not conflict with this section. (C) A county credit card shall be used in accordance with this section and in accordance with the policy adopted under division (B) of this section. (D) A county appointing authority shall apply to the board of county commissioners for authorization to have an officer or employee of the appointing authority use a county credit card. The authorization request shall state whether the card is to be issued in the name of the office of the appointing authority in the name of an officer or employee. A county appointing authority shall notify, and update as necessary, the county auditor and the board of county commissioners regarding in whose name a county credit card is issued. (E)(1) A county credit card shall be used only for purchases that satisfy all of the following: (a) The purchase is for a work-related expense. (b) The purchase serves a public purpose. (c) The debt incurred as a result of the purchase is payable with available moneys appropriated to a specific appropriation line item that is appropriate for the purchase. (d) The purchase complies with this section and with the policy adopted by the board of county commissioners under division (B) of this section. (2) An officer, employee, or appointing authority is liable in the manner prescribed under division (H) of this section for the following, unless approved by the board of county commissioners: (a) Finance charges; (b) Late fees or late penalties; (c) Sales tax. (F)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (F)(2) of this section, every officer or employee authorized to use a county credit card shall submit to the board by the first day of each month an estimate of the officer's or employee's work-related expenses along with the specific appropriation line items from which those expenditures are to be made, unless the board authorizes, by resolution, the officer or employee to submit to the board such an estimate for a period longer than one month. The board may revise the estimate and determine the amount it approves, if any, not to exceed the estimated amount. The board shall certify the amount of its determination to the county auditor along with the specific appropriation line items from which the expenditures are to be made. After receiving certification from the county auditor that the determined sum of money is in the treasury or in the process of collection to the credit of the specific appropriation line items for which the credit card is approved for use, and is free from previous and then-outstanding obligations or certifications, the board shall authorize the officer or employee to incur debt for the expenses against the county's credit up to the authorized amount. (2) In lieu of following the procedure set forth in division (F)(1) of this section, a board of county commissioners may adopt a resolution authorizing an officer or employee of an appointing authority to use a county credit card to pay for specific work-related expenses, or use a specific credit card for work-related expenses, without submitting an estimate of those expenses to the board as required by division (F)(1) of this section. Before adopting the resolution, the board shall notify the county auditor. The resolution shall specify whether the officer's or employee's exemption extends to the use of a specific credit card or to one or more specific work-related uses. A new resolution is not necessary when a new credit card number is issued due to fraudulent use of the specified credit card. Before any credit card exempted for specific uses may be used to make purchases for uses other than those specific uses listed in the resolution, the procedures outlined in division (F)(1) of this section must be followed or the use shall be considered an unauthorized use. Use of any credit card under division (F)(2) of this section shall be limited to the amount appropriated and encumbered in a specific appropriation line item for the permitted use or uses designated in the authorizing resolution, or, in the case of a resolution that authorizes use of a specific credit card, for each of the permitted uses listed in the resolution, but only to the extent the moneys in those specific appropriation line items are not otherwise encumbered. (3) Any time a county credit card approved for use for an authorized amount under division (F)(1) of this section is used for more than that authorized amount, any time a county credit card approved for specific work-related expenses under division (F)(2) of this section is used for other uses, or any time an officer or employee has authority to use a specific card under division (F)(2) of this section but uses a different county credit card, the appointing authority may request the board of county commissioners to authorize after the fact the unauthorized expenditure if, upon the board's request, the county auditor certifies that sum of money is in the treasury or in the process of collection to the credit of the appropriate appropriation line item for which the credit card was used, and is free from previous and then-outstanding obligations or certifications. If for any reason that expenditure is not authorized after the fact, the county treasury shall be reimbursed as provided in division (H) of this section. (G) After making a credit card purchase, the officer or employee shall provide to the county auditor an itemized receipt, in accordance with the policy adopted by the board of county commissioners under division (B) of this section. (H) Any time a county credit card is used in a manner that is not in accordance with this section or with the policy adopted under division (B) of this section, the county treasury shall be reimbursed for the amount spent not in accordance with this section or with the policy adopted under division (B) of this section, as follows: (1) If the card is issued in the name of a specific officer or employee, that officer or employee is liable in person and upon any official bond the officer or employee has given to the county for reimbursing the county treasury. (2) If the card is issued in the name of the office of the appointing authority, the appointing authority is liable in person and upon any official bond the appointing authority has given to the county for reimbursing the county treasury. (I) Whenever any officer or employee who is authorized to use a credit card suspects the loss, theft, or possibility of unauthorized use of the card, the officer or employee shall notify the county auditor and either the officer's or employee's appointing authority or the board immediately and in writing. (J) If the county auditor determines a credit card has been used in a manner that is not in accordance with this section or the policy adopted under division (B) of this section, the auditor immediately shall notify the board of county commissioners. If the board determines, on its own or after notification from the county auditor, that the county treasury should be reimbursed for as provided in division (H) of this section, the board shall give written notice to the county auditor and to the officer or employee or appointing authority liable to the treasury as provided in that division. If, within thirty days after issuance of the written notice, the county treasury is not reimbursed for the amount shown on the written notice, the prosecuting attorney of the county shall recover that amount from the officer or employee or appointing authority who is liable under this section by civil action in any court of appropriate jurisdiction. (K) Use of a county credit card in a manner that is not in accordance with this section or with the policy adopted under division (B) of this section is a violation of section 2913.21 of the Revised Code. Last updated September 11, 2023 at 10:25 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 315.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 315 / § 315.34
§ 315.34. Establishment of surveyed or agreed corners
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Within his own county, a county engineer may call before him, examine on oath, and take in writing the testimony of any witnesses for the establishment of any surveyed or agreed corner of the lands of any person who applies to him, after notice has been given to the person holding adjoining lands, as required in taking testimony for the establishment of old or decayed corners of land by section 315.30 of the Revised Code. The taking of testimony under this section shall be under the same regulations and restrictions and in the same manner as provided by sections 315.28 to 315.33 , inclusive, of the Revised Code. Testimony taken under this section shall have the same effect in law as evidence taken to perpetuate old or decayed corners under such sections. The engineer, other officers, and witnesses are entitled to demand and receive from the persons interested in the surveys and establishment of corners, under this section, the same fees as are allowed by section 315.33 of the Revised Code for similar services.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.07
§ 307.07. Office of economic development
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The board of county commissioners, by resolution, may create an office of economic development, to develop and promote plans and programs designed to assure that county resources are efficiently used, economic growth is properly balanced, and that county economic development is coordinated with that of the state and other local governments. For this purpose, the board may appropriate moneys from the county general fund, or, pursuant to section 307.64 of the Revised Code, moneys derived from a tax levied pursuant to division (EE) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code. The moneys so appropriated may be used for the creation and operation of the office, for any economic development purpose of the office, and to provide for the establishment and operation of a program of economic development, including in support of a county land reutilization corporation organized under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code. In support of a county land reutilization corporation, the board of county commissioners may enter into a contract with the corporation to provide employees to provide services to the corporation. An employee of the board who provides services to a county land reutilization corporation under such a contract shall not be considered an employee of the corporation during the provision of services, but shall remain an employee of the county. The board may hire a director of economic development, who shall be a member of the unclassified civil service, and fix the director's compensation; or may do any of the following: (1) Enter into an agreement with a county planning commission within the county, created under section 713.22 of the Revised Code, or a regional planning commission, created under section 713.21 of the Revised Code, regardless of whether the county is a member of the commission, to carry out all of the functions and duties of a director of economic development under division (B) of this section. Any agreement shall set forth the procedure by which the county or regional planning commission shall gain the approval of the board of county commissioners for any actions, functions, and duties under division (B) of this section. Any agreement may continue in effect for a period of one to three years and may be renewed with the consent of all parties. The civil service status of planning commission staff shall not be affected by any agreement under this division. (2) Enter into an agreement with OSU extension, providing for the use of employees hired by the Ohio state university under section 3335.36 of the Revised Code to carry out all of the functions and duties of a director of economic development under division (B) of this section. Any agreement shall set forth the procedure by which OSU extension shall gain the approval of the board of county commissioners for any actions, functions, and duties under division (B) of this section. Any agreement may continue in effect for a period of one to three years and may be renewed with the consent of all parties. The employment classification of OSU extension employees shall not be affected by any agreement under this division. Any moneys appropriated by the board of county commissioners to execute an agreement for the provision of services pursuant to this section by OSU extension shall be paid to the Ohio state university to the credit of the OSU extension fund created under section 3335.35 of the Revised Code. (3) Enter into an agreement with a public or private nonprofit organization to carry out all of the functions and duties of a director of economic development under division (B) of this section. The agreement shall set forth the procedure by which the nonprofit organization shall gain the approval of the board of county commissioners for any actions, functions, and duties under that division. The agreement may continue in effect for a period of one to three years and may be renewed with the consent of all parties. The employment classification of the nonprofit organization's employees shall not be affected by an agreement under this division. (B) The director of economic development may: (1) With the approval of the board, hire such staff and employ such technical and advisory personnel as the director sees fit to enable the director to carry out the functions and duties of the office; (2) With the approval of the board, contract for services necessary to enable the director to carry out the functions and duties of the office; (3) With the approval of the board, enter into agreements with federal, state, and local governments and agencies thereof, and with public, private, or nonprofit organizations to carry out the functions and duties of the office; (4) Maintain membership in development organizations; (5) With the approval of the board, make loans or grants and provide other forms of financial assistance for the purpose of economic development, including financial assistance for permanent public improvements, in compliance with applicable laws of this state, and fix the rate of interest and charges to be made for such financial assistance; (6) With the approval of the board, receive and accept grants, gifts, and contributions of money, property, labor, and other things of value, to be held, used, and applied only for the purpose for which they are made, from individuals, private and public corporations, the United States government or any agency thereof, from the state or any agency thereof, or from any political subdivision or any agency thereof, and may agree to repay any contribution of money or return any property contributed or the value thereof in amounts, and on terms and conditions, excluding the payment of interest, as the director determines, and may evidence the obligations by written evidence; (7) Establish with the board any funds that are necessary for the deposit and disbursement of gifts or contributions of money accepted for economic development purposes; (8) With the approval of the board, design, implement, monitor, oversee, and evaluate economic development plans, programs, strategies, and policies; (9) Purchase real property to convey to a county land reutilization corporation to be used in accordance with its public purposes; (10) Perform all acts necessary to fulfill the functions and duties of the office. (C) The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties, by resolution, may create a joint office of economic development for the purposes set forth in division (A) of this section. The counties participating in a joint office of economic development shall enter into an agreement that sets forth the contribution of funds, services, and property to the joint office from each participating county; establishes the person, public agency, or nonprofit organization that shall carry out the functions and duties of the office; and discloses any other terms by which the joint office shall operate. The boards of county commissioners of counties participating in a joint office of economic development may appropriate moneys from their respective county general funds, or, pursuant to section 307.64 of the Revised Code, moneys derived from a tax levied pursuant to division (EE) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code, for the creation and operation of the joint office, for any economic development purpose of the office, and to provide for the establishment and operation of a program of economic development. The participating counties may hire a director of economic development for the joint office or enter into an agreement with a public agency or nonprofit organization in a manner set forth in division (A) of this section to carry out the functions and duties set forth in division (B) of this section. Any agreement establishing a joint office of economic development shall set forth the procedure by which the person, public agency, or nonprofit organization carrying out the functions and duties of the office shall gain the approval of the participating boards of county commissioners for any actions, functions, and duties under division (B) of this section. (D) As used in this section, "economic development" has the same meaning as in section 307.64 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 311.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 311 / § 311.28
§ 311.28. Duties
Status: in_force

January 9, 1961 House Bill 1 - 104th General Assembly The county sheriffs' standard car-marking and uniform commission shall prescribe a uniform of standard design and color for the use of all county sheriffs and shall prescribe a standard color and design of car-marking for all motor vehicles used by county sheriffs. On and after January 1, 1961, the standard uniform shall be worn by the county sheriffs and their deputies and the standard car-markings shall be used on all cars operated by the county sheriffs and their deputies while in the performance of their duties.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.781 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.781
§ 307.781. Unpaid or delinquent tax line of credit
Status: in_force

April 7, 2009 Senate Bill 353 - 127th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Current year unpaid taxes" and "current year delinquent taxes" have the same meanings as in section 321.341 of the Revised Code. (2) "Collection year" means the year in which current taxes are payable under section 323.12 of the Revised Code, including any extension under section 323.17 of the Revised Code. (3) "Current unpaid or delinquent tax line of credit" means a line of credit under which the county treasurer is authorized to make one or more draws for the purpose of making advance payments to the taxing authorities of the county in anticipation of the collection of current year unpaid taxes and current year delinquent taxes as prescribed by this section. (B) Upon the written request of the county treasurer, the board of county commissioners of a county in which a county land reutilization corporation is organized under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code may enter into a current unpaid or delinquent tax line of credit with a public depository, as defined in section 135.01 of the Revised Code, for the purpose of making advance payment of current year unpaid taxes or current year delinquent taxes under section 321.341 of the Revised Code in the current collection year, provided that all of the following apply: (1) The board approves the terms and execution and delivery of the current unpaid or delinquent tax line of credit by majority vote and the county prosecuting attorney approves its form. (2) The maximum aggregate available amount under the current unpaid or delinquent tax line of credit does not exceed ninety per cent of the amount of the current year unpaid taxes or current year delinquent taxes for the current collection year. (3) The maximum term for repayment of draws on the line of credit shall be five years. (4) Repayment in full of each draw on the line of credit, plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, shall be required to be made not later than the last day of the term of the line of credit. (C) A board of county commissioners may enter into a new current unpaid or delinquent tax line of credit for a collection year if, at that time, there are no unreimbursed draws, including any accrued interest on the draws, outstanding from a prior line of credit after the termination date thereof. (D) The general terms of the current unpaid or delinquent tax line of credit shall be set forth in the resolution of the board of county commissioners authorizing the execution and delivery of the line of credit, or a form of the current unpaid or delinquent tax line of credit and ancillary agreement, if any, providing for the terms and conditions governing the line of credit shall be attached as an exhibit to the resolution. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a resolution authorizing the execution and delivery of a line of credit may include other provisions approved by the board in the resolution and the exhibits. (E) The reimbursement of draws under a current unpaid or delinquent tax line of credit, together with interest, shall be secured by a pledge of and security interest in the current year unpaid or current year delinquent taxes, or both, and may be secured by such other legally available sources as the board in its discretion determines in its authorizing resolution. The board of county commissioners shall, by resolution, make a pledge of and grant a security interest in the applicable current year unpaid taxes or current year delinquent taxes and any other legally available resources. The current year unpaid taxes or current year delinquent taxes and any other sources pledged or subject to a security interest, which shall be collectively referred to in this section as the "pledged receipts," and thereafter received by the county treasurer or otherwise received, are immediately subject to the pledge and security interest without any physical delivery or further act. The pledge and security interest are valid, binding, and enforceable against all parties having claims of any kind against the county or the county treasurer, whether or not such parties have notice. The pledge shall create a perfected security interest for all purposes of Chapter 1309. of the Revised Code, without the necessity for separation, delivery, or possession of the pledged receipts, or for the filing or recording of the authorizing resolution by which the pledge and security interest are created, or any certificate, statement, or other related document. The pledge of receipts and the security interest are effective, and the money from them may be applied to the purposes for which it is pledged, without requiring an appropriation. (F) A current unpaid or delinquent tax line of credit is not a general obligation of the county and is not subject to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 319.58 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 319 / § 319.58
§ 319.58. Use of false weights and measures
Status: in_force

August 1, 1959 House Bill 152 - 103rd General Assembly If any person uses any weights, measures, or beams, in weighing or measuring, which do not conform to the standards of the state, or any other measures established by law, whereby a dealer in, purchaser of, or seller of any commodity or article of traffic is injured or defrauded, such dealer, purchaser, or seller may maintain a civil action against the offender, and if judgment is rendered him, he shall receive double damages and costs of suit.
Ohio Rev. Code § 319.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 319 / § 319.37
§ 319.37. Settlements with tax commissioner and county treasurer
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly After the refunding of taxes as prescribed by section 319.36 of the Revised Code: (A) At the next settlement with the tax commissioner, the county auditor shall deduct from the amount of taxes due the state at such settlement the amount of such taxes that have been paid into the state treasury. (B) At the next settlement with the county treasurer, the amount of each such refund apportioned among the various subdivision accounts shall be subtracted by the auditor from those accounts.
Ohio Rev. Code § 329.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 329 / § 329.05
§ 329.05. Administering other state or local family services activity
Status: in_force

September 29, 2007 House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly The county department of job and family services may administer or assist in administering any state or local family services duty in addition to those mentioned in section 329.04 of the Revised Code, supported wholly or in part by public funds from any source provided by agreement between the board of county commissioners and the officer, department, board, or agency in which the administration of such activity is vested. Such officer, department, board, or agency may enter into such agreement and confer upon the county department of job and family services, to the extent and in particulars specified in the agreement, the performance of any duties and the exercise of any powers imposed upon or vested in such officer, board, department, or agency, with respect to the administration of such activity. Such agreement shall be in the form of a resolution of the board of county commissioners, accepted in writing by the other party to the agreement, and filed in the office of the county auditor, and when so filed, shall have the effect of transferring the exercise of the powers and duties to which the agreement relates and shall exempt the other party from all further responsibility for the exercise of the powers and duties so transferred, during the life of the agreement. Such agreement shall be coordinated and not conflict with a grant agreement entered into under sections 307.98 and 5101.21 , a contract entered into under section 307.981 or 307.982 , a plan of cooperation entered into under section 307.983 , a regional plan of cooperation entered into under section 307.984 , a transportation work plan developed under section 307.985 , or procedures for providing services to children whose families relocate frequently established under section 307.986 of the Revised Code. It may be revoked at the option of either party, by a resolution or order of the revoking party filed in the office of the auditor. Such revocation shall become effective at the end of the fiscal year occurring at least six months following the filing of the resolution or order. In the absence of such an express revocation so filed, the agreement shall continue indefinitely. This section does not permit a county department of job and family services to manage or control hospitals, humane societies, detention facilities, jails or probation departments of courts, or veterans service commissions.
Ohio Rev. Code § 311.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 311 / § 311.09
§ 311.09. Indorsement on writs
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The sheriff shall indorse upon every writ or order the day and hour such writ or order was received by him.
Ohio Rev. Code § 349.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 349 / § 349.14
§ 349.14. Election on question of dissolution of authority
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly Except as provided in section 349.03 of the Revised Code, or as otherwise provided in a resolution adopted by the organizational board of commissioners of a new community authority, a new community authority organized under this chapter may be dissolved only on the vote of a majority of the voters of the new community district at a special election called by the board of trustees on the question of dissolution. Such an election may be called only after the board has determined that the new community development program has been completed, when no community authority bonds or notes are outstanding, and other legal indebtedness of the authority has been discharged or provided for, and only after there has been filed with the board of trustees a petition requesting such election, signed by a number of qualified electors residing in the new community district equal to not less than eight per cent of the total vote cast for all candidates for governor in the new community district at the most recent general election at which a governor was elected. If a majority of the votes cast favor dissolution, the board of trustees shall, by resolution, declare the authority dissolved and thereupon the community authority shall be dissolved. A certified copy of the resolution shall, within fifteen days after its adoption, be filed with the clerk of the organizational board of commissioners. Upon dissolution of a new community authority, the powers thereof shall cease to exist. Any property of the new community authority shall vest with a municipal corporation, county, or township in which that property is located or with the developer of the new community authority or the developer's designee, all as provided in a resolution adopted by the organizational board of commissioners. Any vesting of property in a municipal corporation, township, or county shall be subject to acceptance of the property by resolution of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, board of township trustees, or board of county commissioners, as applicable. If the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, board of township trustees, or board of county commissioners declines to accept the property, the property vests with the developer or the developer's designee. Any funds of the community authority at the time of dissolution shall be transferred to the municipal corporation and county or township, as provided in a resolution, in which the new community district is located in the proportion to the assessed valuation of taxable real property of the new community authority within such municipal corporation and township or county as said valuation appears on the current assessment rolls. Last updated February 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 321.263 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 321 / § 321.263
§ 321.263. County land reutilization fund
Status: in_force

April 7, 2009 Senate Bill 353 - 127th General Assembly A county land reutilization fund shall be established in the county treasury of each county in which a county land reutilization corporation has been organized under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code and in which the county treasurer has made advance payments under section 321.341 of the Revised Code. The county treasurer shall credit all penalties and interest on the current year unpaid taxes and the current year delinquent taxes advanced to the fund as provided under section 321.341 of the Revised Code when the current year unpaid taxes and current year delinquent taxes are collected. Any amount in the county land reutilization corporation fund appropriated by a board of county commissioners shall be paid to the corporation, upon its written request, by the county treasurer upon the warrant of the county auditor. At the end of the year immediately following the year in which an amount was deposited in the county land reutilization corporation fund, any balance of that amount remaining in the fund shall be encumbered for the repayment of any borrowed money, and interest accrued thereon, that was used to make an advance payment under section 321.341 of the Revised Code, and that has not yet been repaid. The balance remaining in the fund from any amount deposited in the fund shall be determined as if all amounts deposited into the fund are drawn from the fund on a first-in, first-out basis. The amount encumbered shall not exceed the county's aggregate liability for the borrowed money and interest, and shall be determined as if the liability were to be discharged on the termination or maturity date of the instrument under which the money was borrowed. If the balance is not or will not be reserved for appropriation or reappropriation to the corporation in a succeeding fiscal year, it shall be transferred by the county treasurer to the undivided general tax fund of the county. Such amounts shall be apportioned and distributed to the appropriate taxing districts in the same manner as the distribution of delinquent taxes and assessments.
Ohio Rev. Code § 311.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 311 / § 311.13
§ 311.13. Books to be delivered to successor
Status: in_force

October 27, 1981 Senate Bill 114 - 114th General Assembly The books required to be kept by sections 311.01 to 311.23 of the Revised Code, shall not be removed from the sheriff's office. Such books shall be delivered over, without mutilation, as public property to each succeeding sheriff. No sheriff shall willfully fail to comply with this section or section 311.11 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 315.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 315 / § 315.08
§ 315.08. Duties of county engineer
Status: in_force

June 29, 2005 House Bill 68 - 126th General Assembly The county engineer shall perform for the county all duties authorized or declared by law to be done by a registered professional engineer or registered surveyor, except those duties described in sections 307.37 and 307.38 and Chapters 343., 6103., and 6117. of the Revised Code. The engineer shall prepare all plans, specifications, details, estimates of cost, and submit forms of contracts for the construction, maintenance, and repair of all bridges, culverts, roads, drains, ditches, roads on county fairgrounds, and other public improvements, except buildings, constructed under the authority of any board within and for the county. The engineer shall not be required to prepare plans, specifications, details, estimates of costs, or forms of contracts for emergency repairs authorized under section 315.13 of the Revised Code, unless the engineer determines them necessary.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.43 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.43
§ 307.43. Use of county vehicle except for official business prohibited
Status: in_force

May 21, 1982 Senate Bill 331 - 114th General Assembly No person shall use or drive any automobile, motorcycle, or other conveyance owned, hired, or leased by the board of county commissioners for the use of any county official or employee, for any purpose other than the transaction of official business or in a ridesharing arrangement established in accordance with section 1551.25 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.54 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.54
§ 307.54. Registry and redemption of bonds
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly All bonds issued by the board of county commissioners shall be correctly numbered in the order in which issued, and registered by the county auditor in a book provided by him and kept in his office. All warrants drawn upon the county treasurer for the payment of the principal and interest on such bonds shall specify the fund on which they are drawn. Upon delivering to the holder of any such bond a warrant upon the treasurer for its redemption, the auditor shall receive the bond and write across the face of it, in red ink, the word "Redeemed," with the proper date, and sign his name. Upon receiving the warrant which contains the number of the bond for the redemption of which it is drawn, the treasurer shall proceed to the office of the auditor, and there, in the presence of the auditor, write, in red ink, across the registry of the bond, the word "Redeemed," with the proper date, and sign his name. The auditor shall then deliver to the treasurer the original bond, for which he shall be credited in his semiannual settlements with the auditor and board of county commissioners.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.695 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.695
§ 307.695. Agreement for sales tax levy and bond issuance to construct and equip a convention center
Status: in_force

March 27, 2020 House Bill 197 - 133rd General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Arena" means any structure designed and constructed for the purpose of providing a venue for public entertainment and recreation by the presentation of concerts, sporting and athletic events, and other events and exhibitions, including facilities intended to house or provide a site for one or more athletic or sports teams or activities, spectator facilities, parking facilities, walkways, and auxiliary facilities, real and personal property, property rights, easements, leasehold estates, and interests that may be appropriate for, or used in connection with, the operation of the arena. (2) "Convention center" means any structure expressly designed and constructed for the purposes of presenting conventions, public meetings, and exhibitions and includes parking facilities that serve the center and any personal property used in connection with any such structure or facilities. (3) "Eligible county" means a county having a population of at least four hundred thousand but not more than eight hundred thousand according to the 2000 federal decennial census and that directly borders the geographic boundaries of another state. (4) "Entity" means a nonprofit corporation, a municipal corporation, a port authority created under Chapter 4582. of the Revised Code, or a convention facilities authority created under Chapter 351. of the Revised Code. (5) "Lodging taxes" means excise taxes levied under division (A), (B), or (M) of section 5739.09 of the Revised Code and the revenues arising therefrom. (6) "Nonprofit corporation" means a nonprofit corporation that is organized under the laws of this state and that includes within the purposes for which it is incorporated the authorization to lease and operate facilities such as a convention center or an arena or a combination of an arena and convention center. (7) "Project" means acquiring, constructing, reconstructing, renovating, rehabilitating, expanding, adding to, equipping, furnishing or otherwise improving an arena, a convention center, or a combination of an arena and convention center. For purposes of this section, a project is a permanent improvement for one purpose under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code. (8) "Project revenues" means money received by a county with a population greater than four hundred thousand wherein the population of the largest city comprises more than one-third of that county's population, other than money from taxes or from the proceeds of securities secured by taxes, in connection with, derived from, related to, or resulting from a project, including, but not limited to, rentals and other payments received under a lease or agreement with respect to the project, ticket charges or surcharges for admission to events at a project, charges or surcharges for parking for events at a project, charges for the use of a project or any portion of a project, including suites and seating rights, the sale of naming rights for the project or a portion of the project, unexpended proceeds of any county revenue bonds issued for the project, and any income and profit from the investment of the proceeds of any such revenue bonds or any project revenues. (9) "Chapter 133. securities," "debt charges," "general obligation," "legislation," "one purpose," "outstanding," "permanent improvement," "person," and "securities" have the meanings given to those terms in section 133.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A board of county commissioners may enter into an agreement with a convention and visitors' bureau operating in the county under which: (1) The bureau agrees to construct and equip a convention center in the county and to pledge and contribute from the tax revenues received by it under division (A) of section 5739.09 of the Revised Code, not more than such portion thereof that it is authorized to pledge and contribute for the purpose described in division (C) of this section; and (2) The board agrees to levy a tax under division (M) of section 5739.09 of the Revised Code and pledge and contribute the revenues therefrom for the purpose described in division (C) of this section. (C) The purpose of the pledges and contributions described in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section is payment of principal, interest, and premium, if any, on bonds and notes issued by or for the benefit of the bureau to finance the construction and equipping of a convention center. The pledges and contributions provided for in the agreement shall be for the period stated in the agreement. Revenues determined from time to time by the board to be needed to cover the real and actual costs of administering the tax imposed under division (M) of section 5739.09 of the Revised Code may not be pledged or contributed. The agreement shall provide that any such bonds and notes shall be secured by a trust agreement between the bureau or other issuer acting for the benefit of the bureau and a corporate trustee that is a trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state, and the trust agreement shall pledge or assign to the retirement of the bonds or notes, all moneys paid by the county under this section. A tax the revenues from which are pledged under an agreement entered into by a board of county commissioners under this section shall not be subject to diminution by initiative or referendum, or diminution by statute, unless provision is made therein for an adequate substitute therefor reasonably satisfactory to the trustee under the trust agreement that secures the bonds and notes. (D) A pledge of money by a county under division (B) of this section shall not be indebtedness of the county for purposes of Chapter 133. of the Revised Code. (E) If the terms of the agreement so provide, the board of county commissioners may acquire and lease real property to the convention bureau as the site of the convention center. The lease shall be on such terms as are set forth in the agreement. The purchase and lease are not subject to the limitations of sections 307.02 and 307.09 of the Revised Code. (F) In addition to the authority granted to a board of county commissioners under divisions (B) to (E) of this section, a board of county commissioners in a county with a population of one million two hundred thousand or more, or a county with a population greater than four hundred thousand wherein the population of the largest city comprises more than one-third of that county's population, may purchase, for cash or by installment payments, enter into lease-purchase agreements for, lease with an option to purchase, lease, construct, enlarge, improve, rebuild, equip, or furnish a convention center. (G) The board of county commissioners of a county with a population greater than four hundred thousand wherein the population of the largest city comprises more than one-third of that county's population may undertake, finance, operate, and maintain a project. The board may lease a project to an entity on terms that the board determines to be in the best interest of the county and in furtherance of the public purpose of the project; the lease may be for a term of thirty-five years or less and may provide for an option of the entity to renew the lease for a term of thirty-five years or less. The board may enter into an agreement with an entity with respect to a project on terms that the board determines to be in the best interest of the county and in furtherance of the public purpose of the project. To the extent provided for in an agreement or a lease with an entity, the board may authorize the entity to administer on behalf of the board any contracts for the project. The board may enter into an agreement providing for the sale to a person of naming rights to a project or portion of a project, for a period, for consideration, and on other terms and conditions that the board determines to be in the best interest of the county and in furtherance of the public purpose of the project. The board may enter into an agreement with a person owning or operating a professional athletic or sports team providing for the use by that person of a project or portion of a project for that team's offices, training, practices, and home games for a period, for consideration, and on other terms and conditions that the board determines to be in the best interest of the county and in furtherance of the public purpose of the project. The board may establish ticket charges or surcharges for admission to events at a project, charges or surcharges for parking for events at a project, and charges for the use of a project or any portion of a project, including suites and seating rights, and may, as necessary, enter into agreements related thereto with persons for a period, for consideration, and on other terms and conditions that the board determines to be in the best interest of the county and in furtherance of the public purpose of the project. A lease or agreement authorized by this division is not subject to sections 307.02 , 307.09 , and 307.12 of the Revised Code. (H) Notwithstanding any contrary provision in Chapter 5739. of the Revised Code, after adopting a resolution declaring it to be in the best interest of the county to undertake a project as described in division (G) of this section, the board of county commissioners of an eligible county may adopt a resolution enacting or increasing any lodging taxes within the limits specified in Chapter 5739. of the Revised Code with respect to those lodging taxes and amending any prior resolution under which any of its lodging taxes have been imposed in order to provide that those taxes, after deducting the real and actual costs of administering the taxes and any portion of the taxes returned to any municipal corporation or township as provided in division (A) of section 5739.09 of the Revised Code, shall be used by the board for the purposes of undertaking, financing, operating, and maintaining the project, including paying debt charges on any securities issued by the board under division (I) of this section, or to make contributions to the convention and visitors' bureau operating within the county, or to promote, advertise, and market the region in which the county is located, all as the board may determine and make appropriations for from time to time, subject to the terms of any pledge to the payment of debt charges on outstanding general obligation securities or special obligation securities authorized under division (I) of this section. A resolution adopted under division (H) of this section shall be adopted not earlier than January 15, 2007, and not later than January 15, 2008. A resolution adopted under division (H) of this section may direct the board of elections to submit the question of enacting or increasing lodging taxes, as the case may be, to the electors of the county at a special election held on the date specified by the board in the resolution, provided that the election occurs not less than ninety days after a certified copy of the resolution is transmitted to the board of elections and no later than January 15, 2008. A resolution submitted to the electors under this division shall not go into effect unless it is approved by a majority of those voting upon it. A resolution adopted under division (H) of this section that is not submitted to the electors of the county for their approval or disapproval is subject to a referendum as provided in sections 305.31 to 305.41 of the Revised Code. A resolution adopted under division (H) of this section takes effect upon its adoption, unless the resolution is submitted to the electors of the county for their approval or disapproval, in which case the resolution takes effect on the date the board of county commissioners receives notification from the board of elections of the affirmative vote. Lodging taxes received after the effective date of the resolution may be used for the purposes described in division (H) of this section, except that lodging taxes that have been pledged to the payment of debt charges on any bonds or notes issued by or for the benefit of a convention and visitors' bureau under division (C) of this section shall be used exclusively for that purpose until such time as the bonds or notes are no longer outstanding under the trust agreement securing those bonds or notes. (I)(1) The board of county commissioners of a county with a population greater than four hundred thousand wherein the population of the largest city comprises more than one-third of that county's population may issue the following securities of the county for the purpose of paying costs of the project, refunding any outstanding county securities issued for that purpose, refunding any outstanding bonds or notes issued by or for the benefit of the bureau under division (C) of this section, or for any combination of those purposes: (a) General obligation securities issued under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code. The resolution authorizing these securities may include covenants to appropriate annually from lawfully available lodging taxes, and to continue to levy and collect those lodging taxes in, amounts necessary to meet the debt charges on those securities. (b) Special obligation securities issued under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code that are secured only by lawfully available lodging taxes and any other taxes and revenues pledged to pay the debt charges on those securities, except ad valorem property taxes. The resolution authorizing those securities shall include a pledge of and covenants to appropriate annually from lawfully available lodging taxes and any other taxes and revenues pledged for such purpose, and to continue to collect any of those revenues pledged for such purpose and to levy and collect those lodging taxes and any other taxes pledged for such purpose, in amounts necessary to meet the debt charges on those securities. The pledge is valid and binding from the time the pledge is made, and the lodging taxes so pledged and thereafter received by the county are immediately subject to the lien of the pledge without any physical delivery of the lodging taxes or further act. The lien of any pledge is valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the county, regardless of whether such parties have notice of the lien. Neither the resolution nor any trust agreement by which a pledge is created or further evidenced is required to be filed or recorded except in the records of the board. The special obligation securities shall contain a statement on their face to the effect that they are not general obligation securities, and, unless paid from other sources, are payable from the pledged lodging taxes. (c) Revenue securities authorized under section 133.08 of the Revised Code and issued under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code that are secured only by lawfully available project revenues pledged to pay the debt charges on those securities. (2) The securities described in division (I)(1) of this section are subject to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code. (3) Section 133.34 of the Revised Code, except for division (A) of that section, applies to the issuance of any refunding securities authorized under this division. In lieu of division (A) of section 133.34 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall establish the maturity date or dates, the interest payable on, and other terms of refunding securities as it considers necessary or appropriate for their issuance, provided that the final maturity of refunding securities shall not exceed by more than ten years the final maturity of any bonds refunded by refunding securities. (4) The board may not repeal, rescind, or reduce all or any portion of any lodging taxes pledged to the payment of debt charges on any outstanding special obligation securities authorized under this division, and no portion of any lodging taxes that is pledged, or that the board has covenanted to levy, collect, and appropriate annually to pay debt charges on any outstanding securities authorized under this division is subject to repeal, rescission, or reduction by the electorate of the county.