Ohio Rev. Code § 323.159 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 323 / § 323.159
§ 323.159. Applying homestead exemption to nonprofit corporation that owns and operates housing cooperatives
Status: in_force

April 7, 2009 House Bill 130 - 127th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Applicant" means the person who occupies a homestead in a housing cooperative. (2) "Homestead" has the same meaning as in division (A)(1)(b) of section 323.151 of the Revised Code. (B) Not later than the first day of May each year, any nonprofit corporation that owns and operates a housing cooperative shall determine the amount of property taxes it paid for the housing cooperative for the preceding tax year and shall attribute to each homestead in the housing cooperative a portion of the total property taxes as if the homestead's occupant paid the taxes. The taxes attributed to each homestead shall be based on the percentage that the square footage of the homestead is of the total square footage of the housing cooperative and on other reasonable factors that reflect the value of the homestead. Not later than the fifteenth day of May each year, the corporation shall file this information with the county auditor, along with any applications submitted to it under division (A) of section 323.153 of the Revised Code. No nonprofit corporation that owns and operates a housing cooperative shall fail to file with the county auditor the information required by this division and division (A) of section 323.153 of the Revised Code. (C) The county auditor shall approve or deny an application for reduction under division (A) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code and, not later than the first Monday in October, shall so notify the applicant and the nonprofit corporation that owns and operates the housing cooperative. Notification shall be provided on a form prescribed by the tax commissioner. If the application is approved, upon issuance of the notification the county auditor shall record the amount of reduction in taxes in the appropriate column on the general tax list and duplicate of real and public utility property. (D) On receipt of the notice from the county auditor under division (C) of this section, the nonprofit corporation that owns and operates the housing cooperative shall reduce the monthly maintenance fee for each homestead for which an application for reduction was approved for the year following the year for which the application was approved. The reduction in the monthly maintenance fee shall equal one-twelfth of the reduction in taxes attributed to the homestead by the county auditor under division (C) of this section. (E) If an application, late application, or continuing application is not approved, or if the county auditor otherwise determines that a homestead does not qualify for a reduction in taxes under division (A) of section 323.152 of the Revised Code, the auditor shall notify the applicant, and the nonprofit corporation that owns and operates the housing cooperative, of the reasons for denial not later than the first Monday in October. If the applicant believes that the application for reduction has been improperly denied, or the nonprofit corporation that owns and operates the housing cooperative believes that the reduction is for less than that to which the housing cooperative is entitled, the applicant or housing cooperative, respectively, may file an appeal with the county board of revision not later than the date of closing of the collection for the first half of real and public utility property taxes. 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.
Ohio Rev. Code § 327.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 327 / § 327.01
§ 327.01. County board of trustees of sinking fund
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In each county owing a bonded debt, there shall be a board, designated as the trustees of the sinking fund, composed of the prosecuting attorney, the county auditor, and the county treasurer. The prosecuting attorney shall be the president of such board and the county auditor shall be its secretary.
Ohio Rev. Code § 319.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 319 / § 319.03
§ 319.03. Location of office
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The office of the county auditor shall be at the county seat, in such rooms as the board of county commissioners provides.
Ohio Rev. Code § 303.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 303 / § 303.23
§ 303.23. Violation of resolution and regulations
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No person shall locate, erect, construct, reconstruct, enlarge, change, maintain, or use any building or use any land in violation of a resolution, or amendment or supplement to such resolution, adopted by any board of county commissioners under sections 303.01 to 303.25 , inclusive, of the Revised Code. Each day's continuation of such violation is a separate offense.
Ohio Rev. Code § 325.111 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 325 / § 325.111
§ 325.111. Compensation for prosecuting attorneys electing not to engage in private practice
Status: in_force

December 8, 2000 House Bill 712 - 123rd General Assembly If the prosecuting attorney in a county with a population of less than seventy thousand one elects not to engage in the private practice of law, forty per cent of the difference between the compensation as a prosecuting attorney who elects not to engage in the private practice of law and the compensation for a prosecuting attorney in a county included in the same population class who engages in the private practice of law shall be paid to the general fund of the county from the state treasury from funds appropriated to the attorney general for the purpose of reimbursing the county for a part of the cost of paying the compensation to the prosecuting attorney electing not to engage in the private practice of law. If adequate funds have been appropriated by the general assembly for the purposes of this section, not later than the fifteenth day of March and September of each year, the attorney general shall reimburse the fiscal officer of the county the amount of compensation paid under this section, the related amount of employer contributions made under Chapter 145. of the Revised Code as required by the public employees retirement board, and the related amount of the payments to the social security administration for employer contributions for Medicare part A. The fiscal officer shall deposit the revenue in the county treasury.
Ohio Rev. Code § 304.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 304 / § 304.02
§ 304.02. County office to adopt security procedure prior to use
Status: in_force

March 20, 2026 House Bill 247 - 136th General Assembly Prior to the use of electronic records and electronic signatures by a county office under Chapter 1306. of the Revised Code, and except as otherwise provided in section 955.023 of the Revised Code, a county office shall adopt, in writing, a security procedure for the purpose of verifying that an electronic signature, record, or performance is that of a specific person or for detecting changes or errors in the information in an electronic record. A security procedure includes, but is not limited to, a procedure that requires the use of algorithms or other codes, identifying words or numbers, encryption, or callback or other acknowledgment procedures. Last updated January 16, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 317.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 317 / § 317.23
§ 317.23. Recording of deed to university land
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The county recorder shall not record any lease, deed, or other conveyance of lots or lands belonging to any university keeping transfer books, unless such instrument is indorsed by the president or other proper officer of such university, showing that such instrument has been transferred on such books.
Ohio Rev. Code § 317.32 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 317 / § 317.32
§ 317.32. Recording fees
Status: in_force

October 24, 2024 Senate Bill 94 - 135th General Assembly The county recorder shall charge and collect fees to include, except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, base fees for the recorder's services and housing trust fund fees collected pursuant to section 317.36 of the Revised Code, and may charge and collect a document preservation surcharge, as follows: (A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, for recording and indexing an instrument if the photocopy or any similar process is employed: (a) A base fee of seventeen dollars for the first two pages and a housing trust fund fee of seventeen dollars, and a base fee of four dollars and a housing trust fund fee of four dollars for each subsequent page, size eight and one-half inches by fourteen inches, or fraction of a page, including the caption page, of such instrument; and (b) A document preservation surcharge of up to five dollars, which shall be deposited in the county treasury to the credit of the county general fund. (2) For recording and indexing an instrument described in division (D) of section 317.08 of the Revised Code if the photocopy or any similar process is employed, a fee of thirty-four dollars for the first two pages to be deposited as specified elsewhere in this division, and a fee of eight dollars to be deposited in the same manner for each subsequent page, size eight and one-half inches by fourteen inches, or fraction of a page, including the caption page, of that instrument. If the county recorder's technology fund has been established under section 317.321 of the Revised Code, of the thirty-four dollars, seventeen dollars shall be deposited into the county treasury to the credit of the county recorder's technology fund and seventeen dollars shall be deposited into the county treasury to the credit of the county general fund. If the county recorder's technology fund has not been established, the thirty-four dollars shall be deposited into the county treasury to the credit of the county general fund. (3) The document preservation surcharge is intended to support the preservation and digitization of documents and ongoing costs incurred by a county recorder's office to make available to the public a web site with appropriate security features, electronic document hosting, online viewing, and print and download features that enable an individual to print or download a copy of a public record from the web site. (B) For certifying a copy or electronic record from the record previously recorded, a base fee of one dollar and a housing trust fund fee of one dollar per page, size eight and one-half inches by fourteen inches, or fraction of a page; for each certification if the recorder's seal is required, except as to instruments issued by the armed forces of the United States, a base fee of fifty cents and a housing trust fund fee of fifty cents; (C) For entering or indexing any marginal reference, or any reference previously accomplished as a marginal reference now accomplished through electronic means, by separate recorded instrument, a base fee of two dollars and a housing trust fund fee of two dollars for each marginal reference, or reference previously accomplished as a marginal reference now accomplished through electronic means, set out in that instrument, in addition to the fees set forth in division (A)(1) of this section; (D) For indexing in the real estate mortgage records, pursuant to section 1309.519 of the Revised Code, financing statements covering crops growing or to be grown, timber to be cut, minerals or the like, including oil and gas, accounts subject to section 1309.301 of the Revised Code, or fixture filings made pursuant to section 1309.334 of the Revised Code, a base fee of two dollars and a housing trust fund fee of two dollars for each name indexed; (E) For filing zoning resolutions, including text and maps, in the office of the recorder as required under sections 303.11 and 519.11 of the Revised Code, a base fee of twenty-five dollars and a housing trust fund fee of twenty-five dollars, regardless of the size or length of the resolutions; (F) For filing zoning amendments, including text and maps, in the office of the recorder as required under sections 303.12 and 519.12 of the Revised Code, a base fee of ten dollars and a housing trust fund fee of ten dollars regardless of the size or length of the amendments; (G) For photocopying a document, other than at the time of recording and indexing as provided for in division (A)(1) or (2) of this section, a base fee of one dollar and a housing trust fund fee of one dollar per page, size eight and one-half inches by fourteen inches, or fraction thereof; (H) For local facsimile or electronic transmission of a document, a base fee of one dollar and a housing trust fund fee of one dollar per page, size eight and one-half inches by fourteen inches, or fraction thereof; for long distance facsimile transmission of a document, a base fee of two dollars and a housing trust fund fee of two dollars per page, size eight and one-half inches by fourteen inches, or fraction thereof; (I) For recording a declaration executed pursuant to section 2133.02 of the Revised Code or a durable power of attorney for health care executed pursuant to section 1337.12 of the Revised Code, or both a declaration and a durable power of attorney for health care, a base fee of at least seventeen dollars but not more than twenty dollars and a housing trust fund fee of at least seventeen dollars but not more than twenty dollars. In any county in which the recorder employs the photostatic or any similar process for recording maps, plats, or prints the recorder shall determine, charge, and collect for the recording or rerecording of any map, plat, or print, a base fee of five cents and a housing trust fund fee of five cents per square inch, for each square inch of the map, plat, or print filed for that recording or rerecording, with a minimum base fee of twenty dollars and a minimum housing trust fund fee of twenty dollars; for certifying a copy from the record, a base fee of two cents and a housing trust fund fee of two cents per square inch of the record, with a minimum base fee of two dollars and a minimum housing trust fund fee of two dollars. The fees provided in this section shall be paid upon the presentation of the instruments for record or upon the application for any certified copy of the record, except that the payment of fees for providing copies of instruments conveying or extinguishing agricultural easements to the office of farmland preservation in the department of agriculture under division (H) of section 5301.691 of the Revised Code shall be governed by that division, and payment of fees for electronic recording may be made by electronic funds transfer, automated clearing house, or other electronic means after presentation. The fees provided for in this section shall not apply to the recording, indexing, or making of a certified copy or to the filing of any instrument by a county land reutilization corporation. The fees provided for in this section shall not apply to the recording, indexing, or making of a certified copy or to the filing of any instrument by a county land reutilization corporation's wholly owned subsidiary or any other electing subdivision as defined in section 5722.01 of the Revised Code if the wholly owned subsidiary or the electing subdivision is acting in capacity consistent with the purpose of the land reutilization program. Last updated August 27, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 323.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 323 / § 323.99
§ 323.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

April 5, 2001 House Bill 595 - 123rd General Assembly Whoever violates division (D), (E), or (F) of section 323.153 or division (B) of section 323.159 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 305.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 305 / § 305.02
§ 305.02. Vacancy in county offices filled by election or appointment
Status: in_force

April 3, 2023 House Bill 405 - 134th General Assembly (A) If a vacancy in the office of county commissioner, prosecuting attorney, county auditor, county treasurer, clerk of the court of common pleas, sheriff, county recorder, county engineer, or coroner occurs more than forty days before the next general election for state and county officers, a successor shall be elected at such election for the unexpired term unless such term expires within one year immediately following the date of such general election. In either event, the vacancy shall be filled as provided in this section and the appointee shall hold office until a successor is elected and qualified. (B) If a vacancy occurs from any cause in any of the offices named in division (A) of this section, then not later than forty-five days after the vacancy occurs, a person shall be appointed to hold the office and to perform the duties thereof until a successor is elected and has qualified. The appointment shall be made as follows: (1) If the last occupant of the office was elected as a partisan candidate, the county central committee of the political party that nominated the last occupant of the office for the current term shall make the appointment. However, if such vacancy occurs because of the death, resignation, or inability to take the office of an officer-elect whose term has not yet begun, and the officer-elect was elected as a partisan candidate, an appointment to take such office at the beginning of the term shall be made by the central committee of the political party that nominated the officer-elect as a candidate for that office for that term. A county central committee that makes an appointment under division (B)(1) of this section shall meet for that purpose not less than five nor more than forty-five days after the vacancy occurs. Not less than four days before the date of such meeting the chairperson or secretary of such central committee shall send by first class mail to every member of such central committee a written notice which shall state the time and place of such meeting and the purpose thereof. A majority of the members of the central committee present at such meeting may make the appointment. (2) If the last occupant of the office or the officer-elect was elected to serve the current term as an independent candidate, the board of county commissioners shall make the appointment, except where the vacancy is in the office of county commissioner, in which case the prosecuting attorney and the remaining commissioners or a majority of them shall make the appointment. (C) Appointments made under this section shall be certified by the appointing county central committee or by the board of county commissioners to the county board of elections and to the secretary of state, and the persons so appointed and certified shall be entitled to all remuneration provided by law for the offices to which they are appointed. (D) The board of county commissioners may appoint a person to hold any of the offices named in division (A) of this section as an acting officer and to perform the duties thereof between the occurrence of the vacancy and the time when the officer appointed under division (B) of this section qualifies and takes the office. (E) A person appointed prosecuting attorney or assistant prosecuting attorney shall give bond and take the oath of office prescribed by section 309.03 of the Revised Code for the prosecuting attorney. Last updated January 19, 2023 at 11:18 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 323.251 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 323 / § 323.251
§ 323.251. Authority of tax commissioner relative to actions of local authorities
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly The tax commissioner shall exercise the authority provided by law relative to the actions of the local authorities as provided in sections 323.25 , 323.49 , and 5721.18 of the Revised Code if any act or proceedings required by such sections are not done or instituted within the time limited by such sections. In the event of the failure of such authorities to so act or proceed, the commissioner shall cause such act to be done or such proceedings instituted in the name of such officer whose duty it is to perform such act or to institute such proceedings, and the act and proceedings of the commissioner in such behalf shall be considered valid and effectual to the same extent as if done or instituted within the time limited in such sections and by the officer required to perform or institute the same. The attorney general shall, on the written request of the commissioner, institute and prosecute any such proceedings. The commissioner may retain special counsel and other personnel to perform the functions of the county auditor. All expenses incurred in a county by the commissioner under this section shall be borne by the county. Such expenses shall be certified and paid and the proceeds of such payments shall be used in the manner provided by this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.282 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.282
§ 307.282. Creating community improvements board
Status: in_force

February 20, 1986 House Bill 583 - 116th General Assembly A board of county commissioners of any county that intends to adopt a resolution levying a tax under section 5739.026 of the Revised Code, any part of which is to be used to provide revenues for distribution through a community improvements board, shall adopt a resolution creating such a board. A community improvements board shall consist of nine members. The mayor of the municipal corporation with the greatest population residing in the county, with the approval of that municipal corporation's legislative authority, shall appoint three members, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. The board of county commissioners shall appoint six members, not more than three of whom shall be members of the same political party. Of the appointments made by the board of county commissioners, one member shall be the chief executive of a municipal corporation in the county that is not the municipal corporation with the greatest population residing in the county, one member shall be a trustee of a township in the county, and one member shall be appointed from among the following: a chief executive of a municipal corporation in the county that is not the municipal corporation with the greatest population residing in the county, a trustee of a township in the county, a representative of a major business trade association located in the county, or a representative of a labor organization located in the county. Members of a community improvements board may hold other elective or appointive public office. Terms shall be for three years. The first terms of all members appointed to the original board shall begin on the date of the appointment of the final member to that board. Vacancies shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired terms in the same manner as the original appointments. A vacancy in the membership of the board shall not impair the rights of a quorum to exercise all of the rights and perform all of the duties of a board. Original appointments to the board shall be made within fifteen days after the board of county commissioners adopts the resolution to levy a tax under section 5739.026 of the Revised Code for the purpose of division (A)(4) of such section. A majority of the membership of the board constitutes a quorum, and no action shall be taken without the affirmative vote of a majority of the members. The members shall elect one member as chairman and one member as secretary for terms of one year. The office of the chairman shall alternate between a member appointed by the county commissioners and a member appointed by the mayor. If a tax proposed under section 5739.026 of the Revised Code is disapproved by the electors, the board is dissolved upon the certification of the results of the election by the board of elections. The community improvements board shall meet within ten days after the date of the appointment of the final member of the board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 340.034 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 340 / § 340.034
§ 340.034. Recovery housing
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly All of the following apply to recovery housing residences required by section 340.033 of the Revised Code to be part of included opioid and co-occurring drug addiction services and recovery supports: (A) A recovery housing residence shall comply with the requirements of being monitored by the department of behavioral health under sections 5119.39 to 5119.396 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted under section 5119.397 of the Revised Code, but the residence is not subject to residential facility licensure by the department under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code. (B) A recovery housing residence shall not be operated by a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services unless any of the following applies: (1) The board operated the recovery housing residence on July 1, 2017. (2) The board utilizes local funds in the development or operation of the recovery housing residence. (3) The board determines that there is a need for the board to assume operation of the recovery housing residence, such as when an existing operator of the residence goes out of business and the board considers the assumption of operation of the residence to be in the best interest of the community. (C) A recovery housing residence shall have protocols for all of the following: (1) Administrative oversight; (2) Quality standards; (3) Policies and procedures, including house rules, for its residents to which the residents must agree to adhere. (D) Family members of a resident of a recovery housing residence may reside in the residence to the extent permitted by protocols of the residence. (E) A recovery housing residence shall not limit a resident's duration of stay to an arbitrary or fixed amount of time. Instead, each resident's duration of stay shall be determined by the resident's needs, progress, and willingness to abide by the residence's protocols, in collaboration with the residence's operator, and, if appropriate, in consultation and integration with a community addiction services provider. (F) A recovery housing residence may permit its residents to receive medication-assisted treatment. (G) A resident of a recovery housing residence may receive addiction services that are certified by the department under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code. Last updated July 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 319.61 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 319 / § 319.61
§ 319.61. Notice of intention to proceed with public improvement
Status: in_force

January 23, 1963 House Bill 1 - 105th General Assembly (A) When a political subdivision of this state authorized to undertake public improvements has determined to construct or make such an improvement and to levy special assessments or charges to pay all or a part of the cost thereof, the authority of such subdivision empowered to levy such special assessments or charges shall, within the time limitations prescribed by this section, cause notice of intention to proceed with such improvement to be filed with the auditor of each county in which any property to be specially assessed or charged is located and shall, within the time limitations prescribed by this section, cause notice of the levy of such assessments or charges for such improvement to be filed with the auditor of each county in which any property specially assessed or charged is located. The filing of the notice of intention to proceed with the improvement shall take place within fifteen days after the earliest of the following actions: the adoption of an ordinance or resolution determining to proceed with the improvement; the adoption of an ordinance or resolution directing that the improvement be made by force account or authorizing or directing entry into a contract for the making of the improvement; or the written or verbal order that the improvement be made by force account or authorizing or directing entry into a contract for the improvement; provided, that if any of these actions occur prior to September 1, 1961, such notice shall be filed within six months following such date. The filing of the notice of the levy of special assessments or charges shall take place within twenty days after the earliest of the following actions: the adoption of an ordinance or resolution levying such assessments or charges; the adoption of an ordinance or resolution certifying the same to the auditor; the determination by the officer empowered to establish the amount to be assessed or charged of the amounts of such assessments or charges; provided, that if any of these actions occur prior to September 1, 1961, such notice shall be filed within six months following such date. (B) The failure to file with the auditor either the notice of intention to proceed or the notice of the levy of special assessments or charges, in the manner and within the times prescribed in this section, shall not impair the validity of the assessments or charges, and, subject to section 727.34 of the Revised Code, the lien of such assessments or charges shall be and remain prior to any and all liens obtained by any private person, firm, partnership, or corporation irrespective of the date thereof except the lien of a mortgage obtained by a bona fide mortgagee and duly filed for record after either: (1) The expiration of the period prescribed in this section for the filing of the notice of intention to proceed and prior to the filing of such notice; or (2) The expiration of the period prescribed in this section for the filing of the notice of the levy of special assessments or charges and prior to the filing of such notice; provided, that if the notice of intention to proceed has not been filed but the notice of the levy of special assessments or charges has been filed, then no private person, firm, partnership, or corporation shall obtain any lien prior to the lien of such assessments or charges except pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section; and provided, that if on September 1, 1961 any assessments or charges have been certified to the auditor or bonds have been issued in anticipation of the collection thereof, the lien of such assessments shall be and remain prior to any and all liens obtained by any private person, firm, or corporation whether or not the notices required in this section are filed in the manner and within the times prescribed in this section. (C) As used in this section: (1) "Political subdivision" means the city health district; general health district; municipal corporation; board of park commissioners of a city, county, township, park district, conservancy district; sanitary district; regional sewer and water district; and any other political subdivision of this state which is empowered to levy special assessments or charges. (2) "Notice of intention to proceed" means a copy, certified as true and accurate by the custodian of the records of the political subdivision, of an ordinance or resolution determining to proceed with such an improvement; a copy, certified as true and accurate by the custodian of the records of the political subdivision, of an ordinance, resolution, entry, or order that the work be done by force account or authorizing or directing the entry into a contract for such work; or certificate of the officer having supervision of the improvement reciting that the improvement is to be made and that all or a portion of the cost thereof will be assessed or charged against designated property. (3) "Notice of the levy of special assessments or charges" means a copy, certified as true and accurate by the custodian of the records of the political subdivision, of an ordinance or resolution levying the assessments for such improvement; a copy, certified as true and accurate by the custodian of the records of the political subdivision, of an ordinance or resolution certifying the assessments or charges to the auditor; or certificate of the officer empowered to establish the amounts to be assessed or charged that such amounts have been determined. (4) "Special assessments or charges" means special assessments or charges excluding charges for utility services. The auditor of each such county shall charge and collect a fee of one dollar for each copy of any such resolution, ordinance, entry, order, or certificate filed in his office pursuant to this section. The auditor, upon receiving for filing any of the foregoing items, shall endorse thereon the time of its filing and its consecutive filing number and shall enter in a book or on cards, which shall be known as the special assessment record, and which shall be alphabetically arranged as between political subdivisions, the filing number, the number, if any, set forth on any ordinance or resolution, the date of its enactment or of the entry, order, or certificate, the date upon which it was received, and an abbreviated description of the improvement for which the assessments or charges are to be levied or are levied as disclosed by such items. The auditor shall also file each such item received in his office to be kept for inspection of all persons interested therein.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.632 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.632
§ 307.632. Members of drug overdose fatality review committee
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A)(1) If a health commissioner establishes a drug overdose fatality review committee as described in division (A) of section 307.631 of the Revised Code, the commissioner shall select four members to serve on the review committee along with the commissioner. The review committee shall consist of the following: (a) The chief of police of a police department in the county or the county sheriff or a designee of the chief or sheriff; (b) A public health official or the official's designee; (c) The executive director of the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services for the county or the executive director's designee; (d) A physician who is authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery. (2) If a health commissioner establishes a drug overdose fatality review committee as described in division (B) of section 307.631 of the Revised Code, the commissioner shall select four members to serve on the review committee along with the commissioner. The review committee shall consist of the following: (a) The chief of police of a police department or a sheriff or a designee of the chief or sheriff; (b) A public health official or the official's designee; (c) The executive director of a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services or the executive director's designee; (d) A physician who is authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery. The members described in divisions (A)(2)(a) to (c) of this section shall be representatives from the most populous county served by the committee. (B)(1) The review committee shall invite the county coroner or, in the case of a regional review committee, the county coroner from the most populous county, to serve on the committee. The review committee shall extend the invitation each time a county coroner assumes the office. The coroner shall not be required to accept the invitation. If the coroner accepts the invitation, the coroner shall have the same authority, duties, and responsibilities as members described in division (A) of this section. (2) The majority of the members of a review committee may invite additional members to serve on the committee. The additional members shall serve for a period of time determined by a majority of the members described in division (A) of this section. Each additional member shall have the same authority, duties, and responsibilities as members described in division (A) of this section. (C) A vacancy in a drug overdose review committee shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. If the health commissioner who made the original appointment as described in division (A) of this section is no longer serving in that capacity, a successor of the commissioner shall fill the vacancy. (D) A drug overdose fatality review committee member shall not receive any compensation for, and shall not be paid for any expenses incurred pursuant to, fulfilling the member's duties on the committee unless compensation for, or payment for expenses incurred pursuant to, those duties is received pursuant to a member's regular employment. Last updated October 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 303.54 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 303 / § 303.54
§ 303.54. Presumption of compliance
Status: in_force

October 21, 1959 House Bill 1081 - 103rd General Assembly Any instrument executed by a county respecting a county renewal project thereof and purporting to convey any right, title, or interest in any property under sections 303.26 to 303.56 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be conclusively presumed to have been executed in compliance with the applicable provisions of said sections insofar as title or other interest of any bona fide purchasers, lessees, or transferees of such property is concerned.
Ohio Rev. Code § 341.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 341 / § 341.34
§ 341.34. Establishing minimum security jails
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "building or structure" includes, but is not limited to, a modular unit, building, or structure and a movable unit, building, or structure. (B)(1) The board of county commissioners of any county, by resolution, may dedicate and permit the use, as a minimum security jail, of any vacant or abandoned public building or structure owned by the county that has not been dedicated to or is not then in use for any county or other public purpose, or any building or structure rented or leased by the county. The board of county commissioners of any county, by resolution, also may dedicate and permit the use, as a minimum security jail, of any building or structure purchased by or constructed by or for the county. Subject to divisions (B)(3) and (C) of this section, upon the effective date of such a resolution, the specified building or structure shall be used, in accordance with this section, for the confinement of persons who meet one of the following conditions: (a) The person is sentenced to a term of imprisonment for a traffic violation or a misdemeanor or is sentenced to a residential sanction in the jail for a felony of the fourth or fifth degree pursuant to sections 2929.11 to 2929.19 of the Revised Code, and the jail administrator or the jail administrator's designee has classified the person as a minimal security risk. In determining the person's classification under this division, the administrator or designee shall consider all relevant factors, including, but not limited to, the person's escape risk and propensity for assaultive or violent behavior, based upon the person's prior and current behavior. (b) The person is charged with a traffic violation, a misdemeanor, or a felony of the fourth or fifth degree and has had bail set and has not been released on bail and is confined in a county or municipal jail pending trial, and the jail administrator or the jail administrator's designee has classified the person as a minimal security risk. In determining the person's classification under this division, the administrator or designee shall consider all relevant factors, including, but not limited to, the person's escape risk and propensity for assaultive or violent behavior, based upon the person's prior and current behavior. Nothing in this division authorizes the operation or management of a minimum security jail by a private entity. (c) The person is an inmate transferred by order of a judge of the sentencing court upon the request of the sheriff, administrator, jailer, or other person responsible for operating the jail other than a contractor as defined in section 9.06 of the Revised Code, who is named in the request as being suitable for confinement in a minimum security facility. (2) The board of county commissioners of any county, by resolution, may affiliate with one or more adjacent counties, or with one or more municipal corporations located within the county or within an adjacent county, and dedicate and permit the use, as a minimum security jail, of any vacant or abandoned public building or structure owned by any of the affiliating counties or municipal corporations that has not been dedicated to or is not then in use for any public purpose, or any building or structure rented or leased by any of the affiliating counties or municipal corporations. The board of county commissioners of any county, by resolution, also may affiliate with one or more adjacent counties or with one or more municipal corporations located within the county or within an adjacent county and dedicate and permit the use, as a minimum security jail, of any building or structure purchased by or constructed by or for any of the affiliating counties or municipal corporations. Any counties and municipal corporations that affiliate for purposes of this division shall enter into an agreement that establishes the responsibilities for the operation and for the cost of operation of the minimum security jail. Subject to divisions (B)(3) and (C) of this section, upon the effective date of a resolution adopted under this division, the specified building or structure shall be used, in accordance with this section, for the confinement of persons who meet one of the following conditions: (a) The person is sentenced to a term of imprisonment for a traffic violation, a misdemeanor, or a violation of an ordinance of any municipal corporation, or is sentenced to a residential sanction in the jail for a felony of the fourth or fifth degree pursuant to sections 2929.11 to 2929.19 of the Revised Code, and the jail administrator or the jail administrator's designee has classified the person as a minimal security risk. In determining the person's classification under this division, the administrator or designee shall consider all relevant factors, including, but not limited to, the person's escape risk and propensity for assaultive or violent behavior, based upon the person's prior and current behavior. (b) The person is charged with a traffic violation, a misdemeanor, or a felony of the fourth or fifth degree and has had bail set and has not been released on bail and is confined in a county jail pending trial, and the jail administrator or the jail administrator's designee has classified the person as a minimal security risk. In determining the person's classification under this division, the administrator or designee shall consider all relevant factors, including, but not limited to, the person's escape risk and propensity for assaultive or violent behavior, based upon the person's prior and current behavior. Nothing in this division authorizes the operation or management of a minimum security jail by a private entity. (c) The person is an inmate transferred by order of a judge of the sentencing court upon the request of the sheriff, administrator, jailer, or other person responsible for operating the jail other than a contractor as defined in section 9.06 of the Revised Code, who is named in the request as being suitable for confinement in a minimum security facility. (3) No person shall be confined in a building or structure dedicated as a minimum security jail under division (B)(1) or (2) of this section unless the judge who sentenced the person to the term of imprisonment for the traffic violation or the misdemeanor specifies that the term of imprisonment is to be served in that jail, and division (B)(1) or (2) of this section permits the confinement of the person in that jail or unless the judge who sentenced the person to the residential sanction for the felony specifies that the residential sanction is to be served in a jail, and division (B)(1) or (2) of this section permits the confinement of the person in that jail. If a rented or leased building or structure is so dedicated, the building or structure may be used as a minimum security jail only during the period that it is rented or leased by the county or by an affiliated county or municipal corporation. If a person convicted of a misdemeanor is confined to a building or structure dedicated as a minimum security jail under division (B)(1) or (2) of this section and the sheriff, administrator, jailer, or other person responsible for operating the jail other than a contractor as defined in section 9.06 of the Revised Code determines that it would be more appropriate for the person so confined to be confined in another jail or workhouse facility, the sheriff, administrator, jailer, or other person may transfer the person so confined to a more appropriate jail or workhouse facility. (C) All of the following apply to a building or structure that is dedicated pursuant to division (B)(1) or (2) of this section for use as a minimum security jail: (1) To the extent that the use of the building or structure as a minimum security jail requires a variance from any county, municipal corporation, or township zoning regulations or ordinances, the variance shall be granted. (2) Except as provided in this section, the building or structure shall not be used to confine any person unless it is in substantial compliance with any applicable housing, fire prevention, sanitation, health, and safety codes, regulations, or standards. (3) Unless such satisfaction or compliance is required under the standards described in division (C)(4) of this section, and notwithstanding any other provision of state or local law to the contrary, the building or structure need not satisfy or comply with any state or local building standard or code in order to be used to confine a person for the purposes specified in division (B) of this section. (4) The building or structure shall not be used to confine any person unless it is in compliance with all minimum standards and minimum renovation, modification, and construction criteria for jails that have been proposed by the department of rehabilitation and correction, through its bureau of adult detention, under section 5120.10 of the Revised Code. (5) The building or structure need not be renovated or modified into a secure detention facility in order to be used solely to confine a person for the purposes specified in divisions (B)(1)(a) or (b) and (B)(2)(a) or (b) of this section. (6) The building or structure shall be used, equipped, furnished, and staffed in the manner necessary to provide adequate and suitable living, sleeping, food service or preparation, drinking, bathing and toilet, sanitation, and other necessary facilities, furnishings, and equipment. (D) Except as provided in this section, a minimum security jail dedicated and used under this section shall be considered to be part of the jail, workhouse, or other correctional facilities of the county or the affiliated counties and municipal corporations for all purposes under the law. All persons confined in such a minimum security jail shall be and shall remain, in all respects, under the control of the county authority that has responsibility for the management and operation of the jail, workhouse, or other correctional facilities of the county or, if it is operated by any affiliation of counties or municipal corporations, under the control of the specified county or municipal corporation with that authority, provided that, if the person was convicted of a felony and is serving a residential sanction in the facility, all provisions of law that pertain to persons convicted of a felony that would not by their nature clearly be inapplicable apply regarding the person. A minimum security jail dedicated and used under this section shall be managed and maintained in accordance with policies and procedures adopted by the board of county commissioners or the affiliated counties and municipal corporations governing the safe and healthful operation of the jail, the confinement and supervision of the persons sentenced to it, and their participation in work release or similar rehabilitation programs. In addition to other rules of conduct and discipline, the rights of ingress and egress of persons confined in a minimum security jail dedicated and used under this section shall be subject to reasonable restrictions. Every person confined in a minimum security jail dedicated and used under this section shall be given verbal and written notification, at the time of the person's admission to the jail, that purposely leaving, or purposely failing to return to, the jail without proper authority or permission constitutes the felony offense of escape. (E) If a person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to an offense is sentenced to a term of imprisonment or a residential sanction in a minimum security jail as described in division (B)(1)(a) or (B)(2)(a) of this section, or if a person is an inmate transferred to a minimum security jail by order of a judge of the sentencing court as described in division (B)(1)(c) or (B)(2)(c) of this section, at the time of reception and at other times the person in charge of the operation of the jail determines to be appropriate, the sheriff or other person in charge of the operation of the jail may cause the convicted offender to be examined and tested for tuberculosis, HIV infection, hepatitis, including but not limited to hepatitis A, B, and C, and other contagious diseases. The person in charge of the operation of the jail may cause a convicted offender in the jail who refuses to be tested or treated for tuberculosis, HIV infection, hepatitis, including but not limited to hepatitis A, B, and C, or another contagious disease to be tested and treated involuntarily.
Ohio Rev. Code § 311.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 311 / § 311.10
§ 311.10. Foreign execution docket
Status: in_force

June 12, 1980 House Bill 278 - 113th General Assembly (A) There shall be kept in the office of the sheriff a foreign execution docket, furnished by the county, in which, on the receipt by the sheriff of any execution, order of sale, or other process issuing from any court of any county, other than the county in which he resides, the sheriff shall make an entry of the date of such writ, when it was received by him, from what court and county it was issued, and the date and amount of the judgment or decree. The sheriff shall copy in such book, the same as indorsed upon or contained in such writ, the full description of the property and real estate that he levies upon or offers for sale. He shall also copy into such book his return on such writ when he makes a return, and shall include the bill of costs. The sheriff shall make a direct and reverse index of each case entered in such book. The entries shall be notice to subsequent purchasers and creditors of the matters contained in them, but if the lien of any judgment is kept alive in the county of rendition beyond the period of five years, purchasers and creditors in such foreign county shall not be deemed to have notice of such lien unless written notice of it is filed by the judgment creditor with the sheriff of the foreign county, who shall certify such fact upon the foreign execution docket and index such notice at the place of the original entry. (B) The sheriff shall also enter in the foreign execution docket the receipt of any process issued by a proper and lawful authority of a state other than this state, the date of issuance and the date of his receipt of the process, the court and state in which the process was issued, and the nature of the process. The sheriff shall also enter in the docket all action taken in relation to such process by his office. (C) For making such entries the sheriff shall receive twenty-five cents in each case, to be taxed in the fee bill. (D) For the use of the persons entitled to such fees, the sheriff shall retain all fees due in such cases to residents of his county, and, on demand, he shall pay them to such persons.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.21
§ 307.21. Bequests for war memorial
Status: in_force

October 27, 1981 Senate Bill 114 - 114th General Assembly The board of county commissioners may receive bequests, donations, and gifts for the purpose of erecting, within its county, a monument in memory of those who died or were killed during any war or other military action in which the armed forces of the United States participated. When, in the opinion of the board, the bequests, donations, or gifts received by it are sufficient, the board may erect such monument.
Ohio Rev. Code § 303.58 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 303 / § 303.58
§ 303.58. Restricted area resolution by county commissioners
Status: in_force

April 9, 2025 House Bill 497 - 135th General Assembly (A) The board of county commissioners may adopt a resolution designating all or part of the unincorporated area of a county as a restricted area, prohibiting the construction of any or all of the following: (1) An economically significant wind farm; (2) A large wind farm; (3) A large solar facility. (B) A resolution described in division (A) of this section may designate one or more restricted areas and shall fix restricted area boundaries within the unincorporated area of the county. (C)(1) The board may adopt a resolution designating a restricted area at a regular meeting of the board or at a special meeting called for the purpose of discussing such a resolution. (2) At least thirty days prior to the meeting at which a resolution to designate a restricted area will be discussed, the board shall do all of the following: (a) Provide public notice of the date and time of the meeting by one publication using at least one of the following methods: (i) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation within the county; (ii) On the official public notice web site established under section 125.182 of the Revised Code; (iii) On the web site and social media account of the county. (b) Publicly post a map showing the boundaries of the proposed restricted area at all public libraries within the county; (c) Provide written notice of the meeting, by first class mail, to all school districts, municipal corporations, and boards of township trustees located in whole, or in part, within the boundaries of the proposed restricted area. (3) The board shall comply with the requirements of divisions (C)(1) and (2) of this section before the board modifies a resolution it previously adopted under this section. (D) Any resolution designating a restricted area shall include a map of the restricted area, as well as texts sufficient to identify all boundaries of the restricted area. A copy of the resolution and any accompanying texts and maps shall be filed with the office of the county recorder of the county. (E) A resolution adopted under this section shall not affect the construction of a utility facility that was presented to the board of county commissioners under section 303.61 of the Revised Code, and the board did not adopt a resolution prohibiting the facility within the time required under section 303.62 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.658 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.658
§ 307.658. Immunity
Status: in_force

April 3, 2023 House Bill 254 - 134th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, members of a domestic violence fatality review board and their agents or employees, if any, are immune from claims and are not subject to any suits, liability, damages, or any other recourse, civil or criminal, arising from any act, proceeding, decision, or determination undertaken or performed or recommendation made by the review board. No organization, institution, or person furnishing information, data, testimony, reports, or records to the domestic violence fatality review board is civilly or criminally liable or subject to any other recourse for providing the information. (B) The immunity from criminal liability granted by this section does not extend to violations of division (F) of section 307.652 of the Revised Code or division (B) of section 307.659 of the Revised Code. Last updated February 24, 2023 at 11:23 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 302.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 302 / § 302.13
§ 302.13. Specific powers of board
Status: in_force

December 23, 1986 House Bill 428 - 116th General Assembly Pursuant to and in conformity with the Constitution of Ohio and without limiting the powers and duties otherwise vested in the board of county commissioners, the board may: (A) Establish a department of finance, a department of human services, a department of health which shall exercise the powers and perform the duties of the general health district according to policies established by the board of county commissioners notwithstanding Chapter 3709. of the Revised Code, a purchasing department, a department of public works, a department of law, a department of personnel, a department of detention and correction, a department of water and sewers, and such other departments, divisions, and sections under the supervision of the county executive, as it determines to be necessary for the efficient administration of the county's business, and may provide for the merger of such departments, divisions, and sections; (B) Determine the compensation of appointive heads of departments and divisions under the supervision of the board of county commissioners and adopt by resolution a classification plan and schedule fixing the rates of compensation of all classes and grades in the county service. Such schedule shall provide uniform compensation for like service, and may establish minimum and maximum rates for any grade of position within which the compensation shall be fixed by the appointing authority. (C) Determine what officers and employees shall file bond, and fix the amount and form thereof and approve the surety of the bond given; (D) Provide for the borrowing of money in anticipation of the collection of taxes and revenues for the current fiscal year; (E) Acquire, construct, maintain, administer, rent, and lease property including buildings and other public improvements as provided by law; (F) Cooperate or join by contract pursuant to section 302.21 of the Revised Code with any city, county, state, or political subdivision or agency thereof, or with the United States or any agency thereof, for the planning, development, construction, acquisition, or operation of any public improvement or facility, or for a common service; and may provide the terms upon which the county shall perform any of the services and functions of any municipality or political subdivision in the county; (G) Accept, in the name of the county, gifts, devises, bequests, and grants-in-aid from any person, firm, corporation, city, county, state, or political subdivision or agency thereof, or from the United States or any agency thereof; (H) Request periodic or special reports by the county executive, elected officers, and administrative officers and bodies, and may require their attendance upon its meetings; (I) Designate the maximum number of assistants, deputies, clerks, and other persons that may be employed in each of the offices and departments of the county; (J) Authorize the county executive to employ experts and consultants in connection with the administration of the affairs of the county; (K) Establish procedures governing the making of county contracts and the purchasing of county supplies and equipment by competitive bidding; (L) Exercise control over expenditures by all county officials and promulgate and execute an allotment schedule allocating annual appropriations for any county government purpose by item on either a monthly or quarterly basis; (M) By ordinance or resolution make any rule, or act in any matter not specifically prohibited by general law; provided that, in the case of conflict between the exercise of powers pursuant to this division and the exercise of powers by a municipality or township, the exercise of power by the municipality or township shall prevail, and further provided that the board may levy only taxes authorized by general law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 303.212 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 303 / § 303.212
§ 303.212. Limitations on powers - permanently sited manufactured homes
Status: in_force

March 30, 1999 Senate Bill 142 - 122nd General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, sections 303.01 to 303.25 of the Revised Code do not confer on any county rural zoning commission, board of county commissioners, or board of zoning appeals the authority to prohibit or restrict the location of a permanently sited manufactured home, as defined in division (C)(6) of section 3781.06 of the Revised Code, in any district or zone in which a single-family home is permitted. (B) Division (A) of this section does not limit the authority of a county rural zoning commission, board of county commissioners, or board of zoning appeals to do either of the following: (1) Require that a permanently sited manufactured home comply with all zoning requirements that are uniformly imposed on all single-family residences in the district or zone in which the permanently sited manufactured home is or is to be located, except requirements that specify a minimum roof pitch and requirements that do not comply with the standards established pursuant to the "Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 700, 42 U.S.C.A. 5401; (2) Prohibit from any residential district or zone, travel trailers, park trailers, and mobile homes, as these terms are defined in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code, and manufactured homes that do not qualify as permanently sited manufactured homes. (C) This section does not prohibit a private landowner from incorporating a restrictive covenant in a deed, prohibiting the inclusion on the conveyed land of manufactured homes, as defined in division (C)(4) or (6) of section 3781.06 of the Revised Code, or of travel trailers, park trailers, and mobile homes, as defined in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. This division does not create a new cause of action or substantive legal right for a private landowner to incorporate such a restrictive covenant in a deed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 321.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 321 / § 321.06
§ 321.06. Transfer of property to successor
Status: in_force

April 12, 2021 House Bill 450 - 133rd General Assembly At the expiration of the county treasurer's term of office or on the treasurer's resignation or removal from office, the treasurer shall deliver to the treasurer's successor all moneys, books, papers, and other property in the treasurer's possession as treasurer. In case of the death or incapacity of the treasurer, they shall be delivered over by the treasurer's legal representatives. The county treasurer shall include an inventory of the items delivered in accordance with this section in a certificate of transition under section 117.171 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 321.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 321 / § 321.44
§ 321.44. Establishing probation services fund
Status: in_force

July 1, 2017 Senate Bill 319 - 131st General Assembly (A)(1) A county probation services fund shall be established in the county treasury of each county. The fund a county establishes under this division shall contain all moneys paid to the treasurer of the county under section 2951.021 of the Revised Code for deposit into the fund. The moneys paid into the fund shall be deposited by the treasurer of the county into the appropriate account established under divisions (A)(1)(a) to (d) of this section. Separate accounts shall be maintained in accordance with the following criteria in the fund a county establishes under this division: (a) If a county department of probation is established in the county, a separate account shall be maintained in the fund for the county department of probation. (b) If the judges of the court of common pleas of the county have affiliated with the judges of the court of common pleas of one or more other counties and have established a multicounty department of probation, a separate account shall be maintained in the fund for the multicounty department of probation. (c) If a department of probation is established in a county-operated municipal court that has jurisdiction within the county, a separate account shall be maintained in the fund for the municipal court department of probation. (d) If a county department of probation has not been established in the county and if the court of common pleas of the county, pursuant to section 2301.32 of the Revised Code, has entered into an agreement with the adult parole authority under which the court may place defendants under a community control sanction in charge of the authority, a separate account shall be maintained in the fund for the court of common pleas. (2) For any county, if a county department of probation is established in the county or if a department of probation is established in a county-operated municipal court that has jurisdiction within the county, the board of county commissioners of the county shall appropriate to the county department of probation or municipal court department of probation all money that is contained in the department's account in the county probation services fund established in the county for use only for specialized staff, purchase of equipment, purchase of services, reconciliation programs for offenders and victims, other treatment programs, including alcohol and drug addiction services certified under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code, determined to be appropriate by the chief probation officer of the department of probation, and other similar expenses related to placing offenders under a community control sanction. For any county, if the judges of the court of common pleas of the county have affiliated with the judges of the court of common pleas of one or more other counties and have established a multicounty department of probation to serve the counties, the board of county commissioners of the county shall appropriate and the county treasurer shall transfer to the multicounty probation services fund established for the multicounty department of probation under division (B) of this section all money that is contained in the multicounty department of probation account in the county probation services fund established in the county for use in accordance with that division. For any county, if a county department of probation has not been established in the county and if the court of common pleas of the county, pursuant to section 2301.32 of the Revised Code, has entered into an agreement with the adult parole authority under which the court may place defendants under a community control sanction in charge of the authority, the board of county commissioners of the county shall appropriate to the court all money that is contained in the court's account in the county probation services fund established in the county for use only for specialized staff, purchase of equipment, purchase of services, reconciliation programs for offenders and victims, other treatment and recovery support services, including properly credentialed treatment and recovery support services program providers or alcohol and drug addiction services certified under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code, determined to be appropriate by the authority, and other similar uses related to placing offenders under a community control sanction. (B) If the judges of the courts of common pleas of two or more counties have established a multicounty department of probation, a multicounty probation services fund shall be established in the county treasury of the county whose treasurer, in accordance with section 2301.27 of the Revised Code, is designated by the judges of the courts of common pleas as the treasurer to whom monthly supervision fees are to be appropriated and transferred under division (A)(2) of this section for deposit into the fund. The fund shall contain all moneys that are paid to the treasurer of any member county under section 2951.021 of the Revised Code for deposit into the county's probation services fund and that subsequently are appropriated and transferred to the multicounty probation services fund under division (A)(2) of this section. The board of county commissioners of the county in which the multicounty probation services fund is established shall appropriate the money contained in that fund to the multicounty department of probation, for use only for specialized staff, purchase of equipment, purchase of services, reconciliation programs for offenders and victims, other treatment programs, including alcohol and drug addiction services certified under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code, determined to be appropriate by the chief probation officer, and for other similar expenses related to placing offenders under a community control sanction. (C) Any money in a county or multicounty probation services fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund of the county but shall be retained in the fund. (D) As used in this section: (1) "County-operated municipal court" has the same meaning as in section 1901.03 of the Revised Code. (2) "Multicounty department of probation" means a probation department established under section 2301.27 of the Revised Code to serve more than one county. (3) "Community control sanction" has the same meaning as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 306.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 306 / § 306.07
§ 306.07. Exempting revenue and income from taxation
Status: in_force

August 31, 1970 Senate Bill 476 - 108th General Assembly The operations, revenues, and property of the county transit system and all obligations secured by the real estate or interests therein or revenues of the system, or the income derived therefrom, are exempt from the levy of any excise or other tax by the county or any political subdivision of the state, unless and to the extent such exemption is prohibited by the constitution or other laws of this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 303.161 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 303 / § 303.161
§ 303.161. Architectural review board authorized - standards and procedures
Status: in_force

May 27, 2005 Senate Bill 18 - 125th General Assembly The board of county commissioners may create an architectural review board to enforce compliance with any zoning standards it may adopt pertaining to landscaping or architectural elements. The board of county commissioners shall adopt the standards and procedures for the architectural review board to use in reviewing zoning permit applications for compliance with those landscaping or architectural standards. If the board of county commissioners does not create an architectural review board, it may delegate this enforcement authority to the zoning inspector or the zoning commission. An architectural review board shall consist of no more than five residents of the county. At least one member shall be a licensed architect or engineer. Last updated April 12, 2021 at 2:34 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 315.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 315 / § 315.24
§ 315.24. Field notes
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When so directed by the board of county commissioners, the county engineer shall procure from any office in this state where it may be procured, a certified plat, together with the field notes of the corners and bearing trees to each section, quarter section, lot, or original survey in his county, and cause it to be preserved in a book provided by him for that purpose, which book shall be deposited in the office of the engineer for the use of the landholders in such county. A certified copy from such book by the engineer shall be received as prima-facie evidence in all cases in which the original would be received. The expenses incurred by reason of this section shall be paid from the county treasury on the warrant of the county auditor.
Ohio Rev. Code § 323.75 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 323 / § 323.75
§ 323.75. Apportionment of costs of sale at auction
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly (A) The county treasurer or county prosecuting attorney shall apportion the costs of the proceedings with respect to abandoned lands offered for sale at a public auction held pursuant to section 323.73 or 323.74 of the Revised Code among those lands according to actual identified costs, equally, or in proportion to the fair market values of the lands. The costs of the proceedings include the costs of conducting the title search, notifying record owners or other persons required to be notified of the pending sale, advertising the sale, and any other costs incurred by the county board of revision, county treasurer, county auditor, clerk of court, prosecuting attorney, or county sheriff in performing their duties under sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code. (B) All costs assessed in connection with proceedings under sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code may be paid after they are incurred, as follows: (1) If the abandoned land in question is purchased at public auction, from the purchaser of the abandoned land; (2) In the case of abandoned land transferred to a community development organization, school district, municipal corporation, county, or township under section 323.74 of the Revised Code, from either of the following: (a) At the discretion of the county treasurer, in whole or in part from the delinquent tax and assessment collection funds created under section 321.261 of the Revised Code, allocated equally among the respective funds of the county treasurer and of the prosecuting attorney; (b) From the community development organization, school district, municipal corporation, county, or township, whichever is applicable. (3) If the abandoned land in question is transferred to a certificate holder, from the certificate holder. (C) If a parcel of abandoned land is sold or otherwise transferred pursuant to sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code, the officer who conducted the sale or made the transfer, the prosecuting attorney, or the county treasurer may collect a recording fee from the purchaser or transferee of the parcel at the time of the sale or transfer and shall prepare the deed conveying title to the parcel or execute the deed prepared by the board for that purpose. That officer or the prosecuting attorney or treasurer is authorized to record on behalf of that purchaser or transferee the deed conveying title to the parcel, notwithstanding that the deed may not actually have been delivered to the purchaser or transferee prior to the recording of the deed. Receiving title to a parcel under sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code constitutes the transferee's consent to an officer, prosecuting attorney, or county treasurer to file the deed to the parcel for recording. Nothing in this division shall be construed to require an officer, prosecuting attorney, or treasurer to file a deed or to relieve a transferee's obligation to file a deed. Upon confirmation of that sale or transfer, the deed shall be deemed delivered to the purchaser or transferee of the parcel.
Ohio Rev. Code § 306.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 306 / § 306.30
§ 306.30. Regional transit authority definitions
Status: in_force

June 30, 2025 House Bill 54 - 136th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and as used in sections 306.30 to 306.53 of the Revised Code, "transit facility" means any: (1) Street railway, motor bus, tramline, subway, monorail, rapid transit vehicle, aeroplane, helicopter, ferry, or other ground or water transportation system having as its primary purpose the regularly scheduled mass movement of passengers between locations within the territorial boundaries of a regional transit authority, including all rights-of-way, power lines, rolling stock, equipment, machinery, terminals, buildings, administration and maintenance and repair facilities, and supporting parking facilities, and franchise rights attendant thereto, but excluding therefrom trucks and facilities designed for use in the movement of property by truck; (2) Docks, wharves, warehouses, piers, and other port, terminal, or transportation facilities and marinas; (3) Facilities used, available for use, or designed for use to aid in the safe taking off or landing of aircraft, for the safety, storage, and maintenance of aircraft, for the comfort and accommodation of users of air transportation, including persons, property, and mail, or for the safe and efficient operation and maintenance of an airport; and buildings and facilities as are reasonably necessary for the comfort and accommodation of the users of transit facilities; or (4) Any combination of the foregoing. (B) In a county with a population between one million two hundred thousand and one million three hundred thousand according the most recent federal decennial census, as used in sections 306.30 to 306.53 of the Revised Code, "transit facility" means any: (1) Street railway, motor bus, tramline, subway, monorail, paratransit vehicle, rapid transit vehicle, railcar, aeroplane, helicopter, ferry, or other ground or water transportation system having as its primary purpose either the regularly scheduled mass movement of passengers or the corresponding paratransit service between locations within the territorial boundaries of a regional transit authority, including all rights-of-way, routes, transit zones, bus lanes, bus layover areas, bus loops, transit centers, bus shelters, bus stops, rail stations, rail lines, power lines, rolling stock, equipment, machinery, terminals, buildings, administration and maintenance and repair facilities, vehicles for maintenance and support, and supporting parking facilities, and franchise rights attendant thereto, but excluding therefrom trucks and facilities designed for use in the movement of property by truck; (2) Docks, wharves, warehouses, piers, and other port, terminal, or transportation facilities and marinas; (3) Facilities used, available for use, or designed for use to aid in the safe taking off or landing of aircraft, for the safety, storage, and maintenance of aircraft, for the comfort and accommodation of users of air transportation, including persons, property, and mail, or for the safe and efficient operation and maintenance of an airport; and buildings and facilities as are reasonably necessary for the comfort and accommodation of the users of transit facilities; (4) Any combination of the foregoing. Last updated April 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 302.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 302 / § 302.06
§ 302.06. Proposition to discontinue an alternative form of county government
Status: in_force

October 16, 1961 House Bill 855 - 104th General Assembly A proposition to discontinue an alternative form of county government under sections 302.01 to 302.24 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, or to adopt another alternative form of county government pursuant to sections 302.01 to 302.24 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, may be submitted to the electors of the county at any general election in the manner provided for the submission of an alternative form of county government pursuant to section 302.03 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.055 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.055
§ 307.055. Furnishing ambulance and emergency medical services
Status: in_force

July 1, 2013 House Bill 51 - 130th General Assembly (A) Subject to the terms and conditions of the joint resolution creating it, each joint emergency medical services district may furnish ambulance services and emergency medical services by one of the following methods: (1) By operating an emergency medical service organization as defined in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code; (2) By contracting for the operation of one or more facilities pursuant to division (C) or (D) of this section; (3) By providing necessary services and equipment to the district either directly or under a contract entered into pursuant to division (B) of this section; (4) By providing service through any combination of methods described in divisions (A)(1) to (3) of this section. (B) In order to obtain ambulance service, to obtain additional ambulance service in times of emergency, or to obtain emergency medical services, a joint emergency medical services district may enter into a contract, for a period not to exceed three years, with one or more counties, townships, municipal corporations, joint fire districts, other governmental units that provide ambulance service or emergency medical services, nonprofit corporations, or private ambulance owners, regardless of whether the entities contracted with are located within or outside this state, upon such terms as are agreed to, to furnish or receive ambulance services or the interchange of ambulance services or emergency medical services within the several territories of the contracting subdivisions, if the contract is first authorized by all boards of trustees and legislative authorities in the territories to be served. Such a contract may provide for a fixed annual charge to be paid at the times agreed upon and stipulated in the contract; or for compensation based on a stipulated price for each run, call, or emergency or based on the elapsed time of service required for each run, call, or emergency, or based on any combination of these. Expenditures of a district for ambulance service or emergency medical service, whether pursuant to contract or otherwise, are lawful expenditures, regardless of whether the district or the party with which it contracts charges an additional fee to users of the service. (C) The board of trustees may enter into a contract with any person, municipal corporation, township, or other political subdivision, and any political subdivision may contract with the board, for the operation and maintenance of emergency medical services facilities regardless of whether the facilities used are owned or leased by the district, by another political subdivision, or by the contractor. (D) The district may purchase, lease, and maintain all materials, buildings, land, and equipment, including vehicles, the board considers necessary for the district. When the board finds, by resolution, that the district has personal property that is not needed for public use, or is obsolete or unfit for the use for which it was acquired, the board may dispose of the property in the same manner as provided in section 307.12 of the Revised Code. (E) Except in the case of a contract with a board of county commissioners for the provision of services of an emergency medical service organization, any contract entered into by a joint emergency medical services district shall conform to the same bidding requirements that apply to county contracts under sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code. (F) A county participating in a joint district may contribute any of its rights or interests in real or personal property, including money, and may contribute services to the district. Any such contributions shall be made by a written agreement between the contributing county and the district, specifying the contribution as well as the rights of the participating counties in the contributed property. Written agreements shall also be prepared specifying the rights of participating counties in property acquired by the district other than by contribution of a participating county. Written agreements required by this division may be amended only by written agreement of all parties to the original agreement. (G) A district's board of trustees, by adoption of an appropriate resolution, may choose to have the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services license any emergency medical service organization the district operates. If a board adopts such a resolution, Chapter 4766. of the Revised Code, except for sections 4766.06 and 4766.99 of the Revised Code, applies to the district emergency medical service organization. All rules adopted under the applicable sections of that chapter also apply to the organization. A board, by adoption of an appropriate resolution, may remove the district emergency medical service organization from the jurisdiction of the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services.
Ohio Rev. Code § 306.55 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 306 / § 306.55
§ 306.55. Withdrawal from regional transit authority
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly Beginning July 1, 2011 and until November 5, 2013, the legislative authority of any municipal corporation or the board of township trustees of any township that has created or joined a regional transit authority that levies a property tax and that includes in its membership political subdivisions that are located in a county having a population of at least four hundred thousand according to the most recent federal census, may withdraw the municipal corporation or the unincorporated territory of the township from the regional transit authority in the manner provided in this section. The legislative authority or board of township trustees proposing to withdraw shall adopt a resolution to submit the question of withdrawing from the regional transit authority to the electors of the municipal corporation or the unincorporated area of the township to be withdrawn and shall certify the proposal to the board of elections for the purpose of having the proposal placed on the ballot at the next general election or at a special election conducted on the day of the next primary election that occurs not less than ninety days after the resolution is certified to the board of elections. Upon certification of a proposal to the board of elections pursuant to this section, the board of elections shall make the necessary arrangements for the submission of the question to the electors of the territory to be withdrawn from the regional transit authority qualified to vote on the question. For a municipal corporation, the election shall be held, canvassed, and certified in the same manner as regular elections for the election of officers of the municipal corporation proposing to withdraw from the regional transit authority, except that the question appearing on the ballot of a municipal corporation shall read: "Shall the territory within the _________________________ (name of municipal corporation to be withdrawn) be withdrawn from _________________________ _________ (name of) regional transit authority)?" For the unincorporated area of a township, the election shall be held, canvassed, and certified in the same manner as regular elections for the election of officers of the township, except that question shall only be presented to electors of the unincorporated area of the township and the question appearing on the ballot of the unincorporated area of the township shall read: "Shall the territory of the unincorporated area of ______ (name of township to be withdrawn) be withdrawn from ______ (name of regional transit authority)?" The legislative authority of a municipal corporation or board of trustees of a township, by vote of two-thirds of all members of the legislative authority or board, may adopt a resolution and certify that resolution to the board of elections for the combined purpose of withdrawing from a regional transit authority as provided in this section and levying a property tax pursuant to division (XX) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code for a municipal corporation and section 5705.72 of the Revised Code for a township. If the questions are combined, the question appearing on the ballot shall be as provided in section 5705.252 of the Revised Code. The board of elections to which the resolution was certified shall certify the results of the election to the board or legislative authority of the subdivision that submitted the resolution to withdraw and to the board of trustees of the regional transit authority from which the subdivision proposed to withdraw. If the question is approved by at least a majority of the electors voting on the question, the municipal corporation's or unincorporated area of the township's membership in the regional transit authority terminates on the thirty-first day of December of the calendar year in which the election is held. If the question of withdrawing from the regional transit authority is approved, the power of the regional transit authority to levy a tax on taxable property in the affected area of the withdrawing subdivision terminates beginning with the tax year in which the election is held, and no taxes from the levy may be charged for collection against such property for that tax year.
Ohio Rev. Code § 305.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 305 / § 305.21
§ 305.21. May administer oaths
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Any county commissioner may administer any oath necessary in the discharge of the duties of the board of county commissioners.
Ohio Rev. Code § 311.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 311 / § 311.01
§ 311.01. Election and qualifications of sheriff
Status: in_force

September 14, 2016 House Bill 113 - 131st General Assembly (A) A sheriff shall be elected quadrennially in each county. A sheriff shall hold office for a term of four years, beginning on the first Monday of January next after the sheriff's election. (B) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no person is eligible to be a candidate for sheriff, and no person shall be elected or appointed to the office of sheriff, unless that person meets all of the following requirements: (1) The person is a citizen of the United States. (2) The person has been a resident of the county in which the person is a candidate for or is appointed to the office of sheriff for at least one year immediately prior to the qualification date. (3) The person has the qualifications of an elector as specified in section 3503.01 of the Revised Code and has complied with all applicable election laws. (4) The person has been awarded a high school diploma or a certificate of high school equivalence issued for achievement of specified minimum scores on a high school equivalency test approved by the department of education pursuant to division (B) of section 3301.80 of the Revised Code. (5) The person has not been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a felony or any offense involving moral turpitude under the laws of this or any other state or the United States, and has not been convicted of or pleaded guilty to an offense that is a misdemeanor of the first degree under the laws of this state or an offense under the laws of any other state or the United States that carries a penalty that is substantially equivalent to the penalty for a misdemeanor of the first degree under the laws of this state. (6) The person has been fingerprinted and has been the subject of a search of local, state, and national fingerprint files to disclose any criminal record. Such fingerprints shall be taken under the direction of the administrative judge of the court of common pleas who, prior to the applicable qualification date, shall notify the board of elections, board of county commissioners, or county central committee of the proper political party, as applicable, of the judge's findings. (7) The person has prepared a complete history of the person's places of residence for a period of six years immediately preceding the qualification date and a complete history of the person's places of employment for a period of six years immediately preceding the qualification date, indicating the name and address of each employer and the period of time employed by that employer. The residence and employment histories shall be filed with the administrative judge of the court of common pleas of the county, who shall forward them with the findings under division (B)(6) of this section to the appropriate board of elections, board of county commissioners, or county central committee of the proper political party prior to the applicable qualification date. (8) The person meets at least one of the following conditions: (a) Holds a current valid peace officer certificate of training issued by the Ohio peace officer training commission or has been issued a certificate of training pursuant to section 5503.05 of the Revised Code; (b) Has been employed full-time by a law enforcement agency performing duties related to the enforcement of statutes, ordinances, or codes for a minimum of thirteen consecutive pay periods within the four-year period prior to the qualification date. As used in this division, "full-time" means a minimum of eighty hours of work in a fourteen-day period. (9) The person meets at least one of the following conditions: (a) Has at least two consecutive years of supervisory experience as a peace officer at the rank of sergeant or above; (b) Has completed a bachelor's degree in any field or has an associate degree in law enforcement or criminal justice from a college or university authorized to confer degrees by the Ohio board of regents or the comparable agency of another state in which the college or university is located. (C) Persons who meet the requirements of division (B) of this section, except the requirement of division (B)(2) of this section, may take all actions otherwise necessary to comply with division (B) of this section. If, on the applicable qualification date, no person has met all the requirements of division (B) of this section, then persons who have complied with and meet the requirements of division (B) of this section, except the requirement of division (B)(2) of this section, shall be considered qualified candidates under division (B) of this section. (D) Newly elected sheriffs shall attend a basic training course conducted by the Ohio peace officer training commission pursuant to division (A) of section 109.80 of the Revised Code. A newly elected sheriff shall complete not less than two weeks of this course before the first Monday in January next after the sheriff's election. While attending the basic training course, a newly elected sheriff may, with the approval of the board of county commissioners, receive compensation, paid for from funds established by the sheriff's county for this purpose, in the same manner and amounts as if carrying out the powers and duties of the office of sheriff. Appointed sheriffs shall attend the first basic training course conducted by the Ohio peace officer training commission pursuant to division (A) of section 109.80 of the Revised Code within six months following the date of appointment or election to the office of sheriff. While attending the basic training course, appointed sheriffs shall receive regular compensation in the same manner and amounts as if carrying out their regular powers and duties. Five days of instruction at the basic training course shall be considered equal to one week of work. The costs of conducting the basic training course and the costs of meals, lodging, and travel of appointed and newly elected sheriffs attending the course shall be paid from state funds appropriated to the commission for this purpose. (E) In each calendar year, each sheriff shall attend and successfully complete at least sixteen hours of continuing education approved under division (B) of section 109.80 of the Revised Code. A sheriff who receives a waiver of the continuing education requirement from the commission under division (C) of section 109.80 of the Revised Code because of medical disability or for other good cause shall complete the requirement at the earliest time after the disability or cause terminates. (F)(1) Each person who is a candidate for election to or who is under consideration for appointment to the office of sheriff shall swear before the administrative judge of the court of common pleas as to the truth of any information the person provides to verify the person's qualifications for the office. A person who violates this requirement is guilty of falsification under section 2921.13 of the Revised Code. (2) Each board of elections shall certify whether or not a candidate for the office of sheriff who has filed a declaration of candidacy, a statement of candidacy, or a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate meets the qualifications specified in divisions (B) and (C) of this section. (G) The office of a sheriff who is required to comply with division (D) or (E) of this section and who fails to successfully complete the courses pursuant to those divisions is hereby deemed to be vacant. (H) As used in this section: (1) "Qualification date" means the last day on which a candidate for the office of sheriff can file a declaration of candidacy, a statement of candidacy, or a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate, as applicable, in the case of a primary election for the office of sheriff; the last day on which a person may be appointed to fill a vacancy in a party nomination for the office of sheriff under Chapter 3513. of the Revised Code, in the case of a vacancy in the office of sheriff; or a date thirty days after the day on which a vacancy in the office of sheriff occurs, in the case of an appointment to such a vacancy under section 305.02 of the Revised Code. (2) "Newly elected sheriff" means a person who did not hold the office of sheriff of a county on the date the person was elected sheriff of that county. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 311.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 311 / § 311.25
§ 311.25. County sheriffs' standard car-marking and uniform commission
Status: in_force

October 23, 1959 Senate Bill 257 - 103rd General Assembly A commission is hereby established to be known as the county sheriffs' standard car-marking and uniform commission. It shall consist of three members, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. To be eligible for appointment a person shall be an elected and acting county sheriff. Each member shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, and shall serve at the pleasure of the governor.
Ohio Rev. Code § 351.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 351 / § 351.01
§ 351.01. Convention facilities authority definitions
Status: in_force

March 27, 2020 House Bill 197 - 133rd General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Convention facilities authority" means a body corporate and politic created pursuant to section 351.02 of the Revised Code. (B) "Governmental agency" means a department, division, or other unit of the state government or of a municipal corporation, county, township, or other political subdivision of the state; any state university or college, as defined in section 3345.12 of the Revised Code, community college, state community college, university branch, or technical college; any other public corporation or agency having the power to acquire, construct, or operate facilities; the United States or any agency thereof; and any agency, commission, or authority established pursuant to an interstate compact or agreement. (C) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, association, or corporation, or any combination of them. (D) "Facility" or "facilities" means any convention, entertainment, or sports facility, or combination of them, located within the territory of the convention facilities authority, together with all hotels, parking facilities, walkways, and other auxiliary facilities, real and personal property, property rights, easements and interests that may be appropriate for, or used in connection with, the operation of the facility. (E) "Cost" means the cost of acquisition of all land, rights-of-way, property rights, easements, franchise rights, and interests required for such acquisition; the cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to which such buildings or structures may be moved; the cost of acquiring or constructing and equipping a principal office of the convention facilities authority; the cost of diverting highways, interchange of highways, access roads to private property, including the cost of land or easements for such access roads; the cost of public utility and common carrier relocation or duplication; the cost of all machinery, furnishings, and equipment; financing charges; interest prior to and during construction and for no more than eighteen months after completion of construction; expenses of research and development with respect to facilities; legal expenses; expenses of obtaining plans, specifications, engineering surveys, studies, and estimates of cost and revenues; working capital; expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of acquiring or constructing such facility; administrative expense; and such other expenses as may be necessary or incident to the acquisition or construction of the facility, the financing of such acquisition or construction, including the amount authorized in the resolution of the convention facilities authority providing for the issuance of convention facilities authority revenue bonds to be paid into any special funds from the proceeds of such bonds, the cost of issuing the bonds, and the financing of the placing of such facility in operation. Any obligation, cost, or expense incurred by any governmental agency or person for surveys, borings, preparation of plans and specifications, and other engineering services, or any other cost described above, in connection with the acquisition or construction of a facility may be regarded as part of the cost of such facility and may be reimbursed out of the proceeds of convention facilities authority revenue bonds as authorized by this chapter. (F) "Owner" includes a person having any title or interest in any property, rights, easements, or interests authorized to be acquired by Chapter 351. of the Revised Code. (G) "Revenues" means all rentals and other charges received by the convention facilities authority for the use or services of any facility, the sale of any merchandise, or the operation of any concessions; any gift or grant received with respect to any facility, any moneys received with respect to the lease, sublease, sale, including installment sale or conditional sale, or other disposition of a facility or part thereof; moneys received in repayment of and for interest on any loans made by the authority to a person or governmental agency, whether from the United States or any department, administration, or agency thereof, or otherwise; proceeds of convention facilities authority revenue bonds to the extent the use thereof for payment of principal or of premium, if any, or interest on the bonds is authorized by the authority; proceeds from any insurance, appropriation, or guaranty pertaining to a facility or property mortgaged to secure bonds or pertaining to the financing of the facility; income and profit from the investment of the proceeds of convention facilities authority revenue bonds or of any revenues; contributions of the proceeds of a tax levied pursuant to division (C) of section 5739.09 of the Revised Code; and moneys transmitted to the authority pursuant to division (B) of section 5739.211 and division (B) of section 5741.031 of the Revised Code. (H) "Public roads" includes all public highways, roads, and streets in the state, whether maintained by the state, county, city, township, or other political subdivision. (I) "Construction," unless the context indicates a different meaning or intent, includes, but is not limited to, reconstruction, enlargement, improvement, or providing fixtures, furnishings, and equipment. (J) "Convention facilities authority revenue bonds" or "revenue bonds," unless the context indicates a different meaning or intent, includes convention facilities authority revenue notes, convention facilities authority revenue renewal notes, and convention facilities authority revenue refunding bonds. (K) "Convention facilities authority tax anticipation bonds" or "tax anticipation bonds," unless the context indicates a different meaning, includes convention facilities authority tax anticipation bonds, tax anticipation notes, tax anticipation renewal notes, and tax anticipation refunding bonds. (L) "Bonds and notes" means convention facilities authority revenue bonds and convention facilities authority tax anticipation bonds. (M) "Territory of the authority" means all of the area of the county creating the convention facilities authority. (N) "Excise taxes" means any of the taxes levied pursuant to division (B) or (C) of section 351.021 of the Revised Code. "Excise taxes" does not include taxes levied pursuant to section 4301.424 , 5743.026 , or 5743.324 of the Revised Code. (O) "Transaction" means the charge by a hotel for each occupancy by transient guests of a room or suite of rooms used in a hotel as a single unit for any period of twenty-four hours or less. (P) "Hotel" and "transient guests" have the same meanings as in section 5739.01 of the Revised Code. (Q) "Sports facility" means a facility intended to house major league professional athletic teams. (R) "Constructing" or "construction" includes providing fixtures, furnishings, and equipment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 313.121 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 313 / § 313.121
§ 313.121. Autopsy of child in apparent good health who dies suddenly
Status: in_force

September 17, 2014 Senate Bill 278 - 130th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "parent" means either parent, except that if one parent has been designated the residential parent and legal custodian of the child, "parent" means the designated residential parent and legal custodian, and if a person other than a parent is the child's legal guardian, "parent" means the legal guardian. (B) If a child under two years of age dies suddenly when in apparent good health, the death shall be reported immediately to the coroner of the county in which the death occurred, as required by section 313.12 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the coroner or deputy coroner shall perform an autopsy on the child. The autopsy shall be performed in accordance with rules adopted by the director of health under section 313.122 of the Revised Code. The coroner or deputy coroner may perform research procedures and tests when performing the autopsy. If the child was one year of age or younger at the time of death and the death occurred suddenly and unexpectedly, the cause of which is not immediately obvious prior to investigation, the coroner, deputy coroner, or other individual who has been designated to investigate the child's death shall complete a sudden unexplained infant death investigation reporting form (SUIDI reporting form) developed by the United States centers for disease control and prevention or an alternative reporting form. The director of health may develop an alternative reporting form in consultation with the Ohio state coroners association. The individual who completes the reporting form shall retain the form and send a copy of it to the appropriate child fatality review board or regional child fatality review board established under section 307.621 of the Revised Code. If a coroner or deputy coroner completes the reporting form, a copy of the coroner's report described in section 313.09 of the Revised Code shall also be sent to the board. A completed reporting form and copies of completed reporting forms are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (C) A coroner or deputy coroner is not required to perform an autopsy if the coroner of the county in which the death occurred or a court with jurisdiction over the deceased body determines under section 313.131 of the Revised Code that an autopsy is contrary to the religious beliefs of the child. If the coroner or the court makes such a determination, the coroner shall notify the health district or department of health with jurisdiction in the area in which the child's parent resides. For purposes of this division, the religious beliefs of the parents of a child shall be considered to be the religious beliefs of the child. (D) If the child's parent makes a written or verbal request for the preliminary results of the autopsy after the results are available, the coroner, or a person designated by the coroner, shall give the parent an oral statement of the preliminary results. The coroner, within a reasonable time after the final results of the autopsy are reported, shall send written notice of the results to the state department of health, the health district or department with jurisdiction in the area in which the child's parent resides, and, upon the request of a parent of the child, to the child's attending physician. Upon the written request of a parent of the child and the payment of the transcript fee required by section 313.10 of the Revised Code, the coroner shall send written notice of the final results to that parent. The notice sent to the state department of health shall include all of the information specified in rules adopted under section 313.122 of the Revised Code. (E) On the occurrence of any of the following, the health district or department with jurisdiction in the area in which the child's parent resides shall offer the parent any counseling or other supportive services it has available: (1) When it learns through any source that an autopsy is being performed on a child under two years of age who died suddenly when in apparent good health; (2) When it receives notice that the final result of an autopsy performed pursuant to this section concluded that the child died of sudden infant death syndrome; (3) When it is notified by the coroner that, pursuant to division (C) of this section, an autopsy was not performed. (F) When a health district or department receives notice that the final result of an autopsy performed pursuant to this section concluded that the child died of sudden infant death syndrome or that, pursuant to division (C) of this section, an autopsy was not performed but sudden infant death syndrome may have been the cause of death, it shall offer the child's parent information about sudden infant death syndrome. The state department of health shall ensure that current information on sudden infant death syndrome is available for distribution by health districts and departments.
Ohio Rev. Code § 317.113 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 317 / § 317.113
§ 317.113. Certified complete English translation to accompany instrument
Status: in_force

February 1, 2002 House Bill 279 - 124th General Assembly The county recorder shall not accept for recording a deed or other instrument in writing that is executed or certified in whole or in part in a language other than the English language unless it complies with the requirements of sections 317.11 , 317.111 , and 317.112 of the Revised Code and is accompanied by a complete English translation certified as provided in this section. The translator of the deed or other instrument in writing shall certify that the translation is accurate and that the translator is competent to perform the translation. The translator shall sign and acknowledge the translation of the deed or other instrument in writing before a judge of a court of record in this state, a clerk of a court of record in this state, a county auditor, a county engineer, or a notary public. A certificate of the translator that is substantially in the following form satisfies the requirements of this section: "CERTIFICATE OF TRANSLATOR The undersigned, __________________________, hereby certifies that the document attached to this certificate and made a part of this certificate has been translated into English by the undersigned; that the translation is accurate; and that the undersigned is competent to perform the translation. ______________________________ (Signature of Translator) SSN: _________________________ State of _________________________ County of ________________________ The foregoing certificate of translator has been acknowledged before me this _____ day of __________, ______ _____________________________ (Signature of Judge or Officer Taking the Acknowledgment)" This section does not apply to a deed or other instrument in writing executed or certified prior to August 20, 1996.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.28
§ 307.28. Grant of use of land in parks for art buildings
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of county commissioners vested with the legal title to real estate dedicated and used for park purposes may grant the use and occupation of land situated in such park for the site of art buildings and for art purposes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 313.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 313 / § 313.08
§ 313.08. Coroner custodian of morgue - duties where decedent not identified
Status: in_force

August 17, 2006 House Bill 571, House Bill 235 - 126th General Assembly (A) In counties in which a county morgue is maintained, the coroner shall be the official custodian of the morgue. In all cases of the finding of the body or remains of a deceased person within a county in which a county morgue is maintained, when the identity of the deceased person is unknown, or the deceased person's relatives or other persons entitled to the custody of the body or remains of the deceased person are unknown or not present, the body or remains shall be removed to the county morgue, where it shall be held for identification and disposal. (B) The coroner shall make a reasonable attempt to promptly identify the body or remains of a deceased person. The coroner may use any means available in attempting to identify the body or remains. (C) If the coroner is unable to identify the body or remains of a deceased person within thirty days after the body or remains of the deceased person are delivered to the coroner, the coroner shall notify the bureau of criminal identification and investigation that the body or remains are located in the county morgue or are in the custody of the coroner and forward a DNA specimen from the body or remains of the deceased person to the bureau. (D) If a body or remains are discovered and delivered to the coroner and the coroner is unable to determine whether or not the body or remains that are discovered are the body or remains of a deceased person, the coroner shall notify the bureau of criminal identification and investigation of the existence of a possible body or remains of a deceased person and forward a DNA specimen from the body or remains to the bureau. (E) If the body or remains of a deceased person are not identified, in addition to providing the notice required under division (C) of this section, a coroner shall do all of the following prior to disposing of the body or remains: (1) Take the fingerprints of the body or remains of the deceased person, or cause the same to be taken, according to the fingerprint system of identification on the forms furnished by the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation; (2) Take or cause to be taken one or more photographs of the body or remains of the deceased person; (3) Collect in a medically approved manner a DNA specimen from the body or remains of the deceased person; (4) Promptly cause the fingerprints, the photographs, and the DNA specimen to be forwarded to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation for inclusion in the unidentified person database in accordance with procedures established by the superintendent of the bureau under division (H) of section 109.573 of the Revised Code. (F) The bureau of criminal identification and investigation shall cause the fingerprints, the photographs, and the DNA specimen forwarded by the coroner to the bureau pursuant to division (E)(4) of this section to be forwarded to the national crime information center and the national DNA index system within ten days after the bureau completes the DNA analysis of the forwarded DNA specimen. (G) The bureau shall provide the fingerprint forms, specimen vials, mailing tubes, labels, postage, and instruction needed for the collection and forwarding to the bureau pursuant to division (E)(4) of this section of the fingerprints and the DNA specimen and for the forwarding pursuant to division (E)(4) of this section to the bureau of the photographs. (H) Upon the request of a coroner who has the duty to take, or cause the taking of, fingerprints and photographs under divisions (E)(1) and (2) of this section, the bureau of criminal identification and investigation shall take, or assist in the taking of, the required fingerprints and photographs. (I) The coroner may submit any evidence gathered in the investigation of a death to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation for assistance in determining whether the death resulted from criminal activity. The bureau shall assist in the evaluation of evidence submitted under this division. (J) As used in this section, "DNA analysis," "DNA specimen," and "unidentified person database" have the same meanings as in section 109.573 of the Revised Code. The Legislative Service Commission presents the text of this section as a composite of the section as amended by multiple acts of the General Assembly. This presentation recognizes the principle stated in R.C. 1.52(B) that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 305.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 305 / § 305.10
§ 305.10. Written or electronic record and index of proceedings
Status: in_force

July 18, 2008 Senate Bill 84 - 127th General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall keep a full written record of the proceedings of the board, and a written general index of those proceedings, entering each motion with the name of the person making it on the record. The clerk shall call and record the yeas and nays on each motion. The clerk shall state fully and clearly in the record any question relating to the powers and duties of the board which is raised for its consideration by any person having an interest therein, together with the decision on such question, and shall call and record the yeas and nays by which the decision is made. When requested by a party interested in the proceedings or by a party's counsel, the clerk shall record any legal proposition decided by the board, the decision thereon, and the votes by which the decision is reached. If either party, in person or by counsel, takes exception to such decision, the clerk shall record the exceptions with the record of the decision. (B) A board of county commissioners may elect to maintain a full record of its proceedings by electronic means, including, but not limited to, those listed in section 9.01 of the Revised Code, by adopting a resolution that directs the clerk to maintain a full record of the proceedings by electronic means. The clerk also shall maintain a general index of the electronic record in either a written form or by electronic means, as determined by the board in its resolution. The board's resolution also may authorize the clerk to maintain a written summary of the record of the proceedings, provided that the summary shall include a notation that the full record of proceedings is maintained by electronic means. If the electronic means malfunctions, the clerk shall create the full written record of the proceedings as described in division (A) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 329.051 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 329 / § 329.051
§ 329.051. Making voter registration applications available
Status: in_force

December 31, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly The county department of job and family services shall make voter registration applications as prescribed by the secretary of state under section 3503.10 of the Revised Code available to persons who are applying for, receiving assistance from, or participating in any of the following: (A) The medicaid program; (B) The Ohio works first program established under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code; (C) The prevention, retention, and contingency program established under Chapter 5108. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 302.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 302 / § 302.02
§ 302.02. County executive in alternative form of county government
Status: in_force

October 16, 1961 House Bill 855 - 104th General Assembly An alternative form of county government shall include either an elective county executive as provided for by section 302.15 of the Revised Code or an appointive county executive as provided by section 302.16 of the Revised Code, and all those provisions of sections 302.01 to 302.24 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, which have not been specifically designated as applicable only to the elective county executive plan or the appointive county executive plan. The alternative form of county government providing for the office of the elective county executive shall be known as the elective executive plan, and the alternative form providing for the office of appointive county executive shall be known as the appointive executive plan.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.17
§ 307.17. Duration of agreement - rescission
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In the absence from an agreement entered into under sections 307.14 to 307.19 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, of a specification of its own duration, such agreement shall continue in effect until it is rescinded. Every such agreement, whether for a definite term or of indefinite duration, may provide for its own rescission and the method of rescission. In the absence of any such provision, such agreement may, at any time, be rescinded by the agreement of both parties, and an agreement of indefinite duration may at any time be rescinded by resolution of either party to the agreement, effective at the end of the fiscal year, not sooner than six months after such rescinding resolution has been certified and delivered to the clerk or secretary of the other party.
Ohio Rev. Code § 321.48 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 321 / § 321.48
§ 321.48. Bad check fee
Status: in_force

October 14, 1997 Senate Bill 59 - 122nd General Assembly A county treasurer may assess a fee not exceeding an amount equal to five dollars plus any amount passed on from a financial institution on a drawer or indorser for each check, draft, or money order returned or dishonored, or automatic bank transfer declined, due to insufficient funds or for any other reason. The county treasurer shall deposit in the general fund of the county any fee collected under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 333.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 333 / § 333.04
§ 333.04. Review of application - agreement with builder
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) After review of the items submitted under division (A) of section 333.03 of the Revised Code, and after receipt of the certification from the director of development services under division (B) of that section, a board of county commissioners, before June 1, 2015, may enter into an agreement under section 333.02 of the Revised Code, provided that the board has determined all of the following: (1) The proposed impact facility is economically sound; (2) Construction of the proposed impact facility has not begun prior to the day the agreement is entered into; (3) The impact facility will benefit the county by increasing employment opportunities and strengthening the local and regional economy; and (4) Receiving payments from the board of county commissioners is a major factor in the person's decision to go forward with construction of the impact facility. (B) An agreement entered into under this section shall include all of the following: (1) A description of the impact facility that is the subject of the agreement, including the existing investment level, if any, the proposed amount of investments, the scheduled starting and completion dates for the facility, and the number and type of full-time equivalent positions to be created at the facility; (2) The percentage of the county sales and use tax collected at the impact facility that will be used to make payments to the person entering into the agreement; (3) The term of the payments and the first calendar quarter in which the person may apply for a payment under section 333.06 of the Revised Code; (4) A requirement that the amount of payments made to the person during the term established under division (B)(3) of this section shall not exceed the person's qualifying investment, and that all payments cease when that amount is reached; (5) A requirement that the person maintain operations at the impact facility for at least the term established under division (B)(3) of this section; (6) A requirement that the person annually certify to the board of county commissioners, on or before a date established by the board in the agreement, the level of investment in, the number of employees and type of full-time equivalent positions at, and the amount of county sales and use tax collected and remitted to the tax commissioner or treasurer of state from sales made at, the facility; (7) A provision stating that the creation of the proposed impact facility does not involve the relocation of any full-time equivalent positions or any tangible personal property to the impact facility from another facility owned by the person, or a related member of the person, that is located in another political subdivision of this state, other than the political subdivision in which the impact facility is or will be located; (8) A detailed explanation of how the person determined that more than fifty per cent of the visitors to the facility live at least fifty miles from the facility. (C) No payment may be made under this chapter to a person that is found to be in violation of the provision described in division (B)(7) of this section. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 317.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 317 / § 317.31
§ 317.31. Making and comparison of record
Status: in_force

January 30, 2014 House Bill 72 - 130th General Assembly When any instrument or record mentioned in section 317.30 of the Revised Code is presented to the county recorder or other proper custodian of such records, the county recorder or other custodian shall forthwith record and index it in the same manner as provided for in the original recording. A competent person shall compare such record with the instrument so recorded, and, if correctly recorded, certify on the margin of the page upon which the record has been made the correctness of it.
Ohio Rev. Code § 341.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 341 / § 341.23
§ 341.23. Confinement of county or municipal prisoners in county jail
Status: in_force

January 1, 2004 House Bill 490 - 124th General Assembly (A) The board of county commissioners of any county or the legislative authority of any municipal corporation in which there is no workhouse may agree with the legislative authority of any municipal corporation or other authority having control of the workhouse of any other city, or with the directors of any district of a joint city and county workhouse or county workhouse, upon terms on which persons convicted of a misdemeanor by any court or magistrate of a county or municipal corporation having no workhouse, may be received into that workhouse, under sentence of the court or magistrate. The board or legislative authority may pay the expenses incurred under the agreement out of the general fund of that county or municipal corporation, upon the certificate of the proper officer of the workhouse. (B) The sheriff or other officer transporting any person to the workhouse described in division (A) of this section shall receive six cents per mile for the sheriff or officer, going and returning, five cents per mile for transporting the convict, and five cents per mile, going and coming, for the service of each deputy, to be allowed as in cases in which a person is transported to a state correctional institution. The number of miles shall be computed by the usual routes of travel and, in state cases, shall be paid out of the general fund of the county, on the allowance of the board, and for the violation of the ordinances of any municipal corporation, shall be paid by that municipal corporation on the order of its legislative authority. (C) Pursuant to section 2929.37 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners, the directors of the district of a joint city and county workhouse or county workhouse, or the legislative authority of the municipal corporation may require a person who was convicted of an offense and who is confined in a workhouse as provided in division (A) of this section, to reimburse the county, district, or municipal corporation, as the case may be, for its expenses incurred by reason of the person's confinement. (D) Notwithstanding any contrary provision in this section or section 2929.18 , 2929.28 , or 2929.37 of the Revised Code, the appropriate board of county commissioners and legislative authorities may include in their agreement entered into under division (A) of this section a policy that complies with section 2929.38 of the Revised Code and that requires any person who is not indigent and who is confined in the county, city, district, or joint city and county workhouse under this section to pay a reception fee, a fee for any medical treatment or service requested by and provided to that person, or the fee for a random drug test assessed under division (E) of section 341.26 of the Revised Code. (E) If a person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to an offense is incarcerated in the workhouse as provided in division (A) of this section, at the time of reception and at other times the person in charge of the operation of the workhouse determines to be appropriate, the person in charge of the operation of the workhouse may cause the convicted offender to be examined and tested for tuberculosis, HIV infection, hepatitis, including but not limited to hepatitis A, B, and C, and other contagious diseases. The person in charge of the operation of the workhouse may cause a convicted offender in the workhouse who refuses to be tested or treated for tuberculosis, HIV infection, hepatitis, including but not limited to hepatitis A, B, and C, or another contagious disease to be tested and treated involuntarily.
Ohio Rev. Code § 305.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 305 / § 305.08
§ 305.08. Quorum
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum at any regular or special meeting.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.083 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.083
§ 307.083. Method for purchasing real estate at public auction
Status: in_force

April 5, 1991 Senate Bill 263 - 118th General Assembly A board of county commissioners may purchase real estate at public auction by designating an individual to represent the board and tender bids at the auction, subject to a maximum purchase amount established by the board or an appraisal obtained prior to sale. A purchase made under this section is subject to division (D) of section 5705.41 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 315.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 315 / § 315.21
§ 315.21. Court may appoint a person to resurvey lands
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When it appears that the county engineer is interested in a survey, the title of which is disputed before the court of common pleas, or if such engineer is not commissioned and qualified, the court shall direct the resurvey to be made by a capable disinterested person, who shall return such resurvey to the court, on oath.
Ohio Rev. Code § 313.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 313 / § 313.05
§ 313.05. Appointment of deputy coroners and other personnel
Status: in_force

August 31, 2016 House Bill 240 - 131st General Assembly (A)(1) The coroner may appoint, in writing, deputy coroners, who shall be licensed physicians of good standing in their profession, one of whom may be designated as the chief deputy coroner. The coroner also may appoint pathologists as deputy coroners, who may perform autopsies, make pathological and chemical examinations, and perform other duties as directed by the coroner or recommended by the prosecuting attorney. The coroner may appoint any necessary technicians. The coroner may contract for the services of deputy coroners to aid the coroner in the execution of the coroner's powers and duties. Contracts for the services of deputy coroners are exempt from any competitive bidding requirements of the Revised Code. (2) The coroner may appoint, in writing, one or more secretaries and an official stenographer, who shall record the testimony of witnesses in attendance upon the coroner's inquest, preserve and file properly indexed records of all official reports, acts, and communications of the office, and perform other services as required by the coroner. (3) The coroner may appoint clerks, stenographers, custodians, and investigators and shall define their duties. (4) For the performance of their duties, deputy coroners, pathologists serving as deputy coroners, and technicians, stenographers, secretaries, clerks, custodians, and investigators shall receive salaries fixed by the coroner and payable from the county treasury upon the warrant of the county auditor. The compensation shall not exceed, in the aggregate, the amount fixed by the board of county commissioners for the coroner's office. (B)(1) A coroner may appoint, as a deputy coroner, as a pathologist serving as a deputy coroner, or as a technician, stenographer, secretary, clerk, custodian, investigator, or other employee a person who is an associate of, or who is employed by, the coroner or a deputy coroner in the private practice of medicine in a partnership, professional association, or other medical business arrangement. (2) A coroner may appoint, as an investigator, a deputy sheriff within the county or a law enforcement officer of a political subdivision located within the county. The deputy sheriff or law enforcement officer appointed as an investigator may receive compensation for services performed as an investigator in addition to any other compensation allowed by law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 306.87 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 306 / § 306.87
§ 306.87. Real and personal property exempt from taxation
Status: in_force

August 25, 1970 Senate Bill 125 - 108th General Assembly A regional transit commission authorized under sections 306.80 to 306.90 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, is exempt from and is not required to pay any taxes on property, both real and personal, belonging to such commission, which is used exclusively for any public purpose; provided, such exemption does not apply to any property belonging to any commission while a private enterprise is a lessee of such property under written lease providing for tenancy for longer than one year.
Ohio Rev. Code § 319.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 319 / § 319.45
§ 319.45. Certificate to treasurer as to moneys collected
Status: in_force

April 7, 2009 Senate Bill 353 - 127th General Assembly (A) In making the settlement required by sections 319.43 and 319.44 of the Revised Code, the county auditor shall carefully examine the tax duplicate and ascertain, from the entries of taxes, interest, and penalty paid in whole or in part, and from such other sources of information as are within the auditor's reach, the true amount collected by the county treasurer on account of each of the several taxes charged on such duplicate, the amount remaining in the hands of the treasurer payable to each fund, and shall give to the treasurer separate certificates, in duplicate, of the separate sums found to have been collected by the treasurer. (B) In making each of those settlements, the county auditor, except as provided in division (B) of section 319.43 of the Revised Code, shall apportion any delinquent taxes, penalties, and interest among the several taxing districts in the same proportions that the amount of real and public utility property taxes levied by each district in the preceding tax year bears to the amount of real and public utility property taxes levied by all such districts in the preceding tax year.
Ohio Rev. Code § 301.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 301 / § 301.01
§ 301.01. Petition relating to new county or county seat
Status: in_force

December 20, 2005 Senate Bill 107 - 126th General Assembly When a petition, memorial, or remonstrance is presented to the general assembly for or against the erection of a new county, or for the location or relocation of a county seat, the petitioners must be eighteen years of age and resident taxpayers or voters within the several townships in which they reside. The petition shall set forth the name of the township and county in which the petitioners reside, and that their residence is within or out of the bounds of the proposed new county, as the case may be. The foregoing requirements shall be proven by the certificate of a township fiscal officer or by the oath of a respectable freeholder or voter, certified by a person authorized to administer oaths. The certificate or oath shall specify on the petition, memorial, or remonstrance the number of signers there were to the paper at the time of the certifying or oath.
Ohio Rev. Code § 306.81 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 306 / § 306.81
§ 306.81. Adjacent states definitions
Status: in_force

August 25, 1970 Senate Bill 125 - 108th General Assembly As used in sections 306.80 to 306.90 , inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Public agency" means this state or any adjacent state, or any political subdivision, taxing district, or board, commission, or authority of either, or the United States or any department, agency, board, commission, authority, or corporation thereof. (B) "Regional transit commission" means a body politic and corporate created pursuant to sections 306.80 to 306.90 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, and having territorial boundaries which include the territory of all counties of this state which enter into the agreement creating a regional transit commission, or thereafter join a regional transit commission, and the territory within one or more other states which has been included in a regional transit commission pursuant to such agreement or subsequent joinder. (C) "Transit facility" means any street railway, motor bus, tramline, subway, monorail, rapid transit, aeroplane, helicopter, ferry, or other ground or water transportation system having as its primary purpose the regularly scheduled mass movement of passengers between locations within the territorial boundaries of a regional transit commission, including all rights-of-way, power lines, rolling stock, equipment, machinery, terminals, buildings, administration and maintenance and repair facilities, and supporting parking facilities, and franchise rights attendant thereto, but excluding therefrom trucks and facilities designed for use in the movement of property by truck; docks, wharves, warehouses, piers, and other port, terminal, or transportation facilities and marinas; facilities used, available for use, or designed for use to aid in the safe taking off or landing of aircraft, for the safety, storage, and maintenance of aircraft, for the comfort and accommodation of users of air transportation of persons, property, and mail, or for the safe and efficient operation and maintenance of an airport; and buildings and facilities as are reasonably necessary for the comfort and accommodation of the users of transit facilities; or any combination of the foregoing.
Ohio Rev. Code § 315.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 315 / § 315.28
§ 315.28. Survey of corners
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Any person who owns or is interested in a tract of land within this state, any corner or line of which has become lost or uncertain, or is in danger of becoming lost or uncertain by the removal, destruction, defacement, or perishing condition of any corner, witness or line tree, monument, or other cause, may call on the county engineer of the county in which the land lies to make a survey of such land, and may cause to be planted at any corner, or at proper places in any line thereof, a stone or post, noting particularly the situation and condition of the original corner trees or monuments called for in the original survey, if found, and of all other trees or monuments which it may be important or advisable to note, and of all the places of notoriety over or by which the lines of such survey pass. If it is a single tract divided by a county line, such person may call on the engineer of any county in which a part of such tract lies. The engineer shall make out a plat and certificate of such survey, under his hand, noting the names of the chainmen, markers, and other assistants in such survey, and of all other persons present at the planting of any stone or post. The engineer shall also note the variation of the compass from the original calls at the time of making such survey.
Ohio Rev. Code § 311.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 311 / § 311.31
§ 311.31. Voluntary motor vehicle decal registration program
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly (A) The board of county commissioners of a county may establish, by resolution, a voluntary motor vehicle decal registration program to be controlled and conducted by the sheriff within the unincorporated areas of the county. The board may establish a fee for participation in the program in an amount sufficient to cover the cost of administering the program and the cost of the decals. The board shall coordinate its program with any pre-existing program established by a township located within the county under section 505.67 of the Revised Code. (B) Any resident of the county may enroll a motor vehicle that the resident owns in the program by signing a consent form, displaying the decal issued under this section, and paying the prescribed fee. The motor vehicle owner shall remove the decal to withdraw from the program and also prior to the sale or transfer of ownership of the vehicle. Any law enforcement officer may conduct, at any place within this state at which the officer would be permitted to arrest the person operating the vehicle, an investigatory stop of any motor vehicle displaying a decal issued under this section when the vehicle is being driven between the hours of one a.m. and five a.m. A law enforcement officer may conduct an investigatory stop under this division regardless of whether the officer observes a violation of law involving the vehicle or whether the officer has probable cause to believe that any violation of law involving the vehicle has occurred. (C) The consent form required under division (B) of this section shall: (1) Describe the conditions for participation in the program, including a description of an investigatory stop and a statement that any law enforcement officer may conduct, at any place within this state at which the officer would be permitted to arrest the person operating the vehicle, an investigatory stop of the motor vehicle when it is being driven between the hours of one a.m. and five a.m. (2) Contain other information identifying the vehicle and owner as the sheriff considers necessary. (D) The state director of public safety, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules governing the color, size, and design of decals issued under this section and the location where the decals shall be displayed on vehicles that are enrolled in the program. (E) Divisions (A) to (D) of this section do not require a law enforcement officer to conduct an investigatory stop of a vehicle displaying a decal issued under this section. (F) As used in this section: (1) "Investigatory stop" means a temporary stop of a motor vehicle and its operator and occupants for purposes of determining the identity of the person who is operating the vehicle and, if the person who is operating it is not its owner, whether any violation of law has occurred or is occurring. An "investigatory stop" is not an arrest, but, if an officer who conducts an investigatory stop determines that illegal conduct has occurred or is occurring, an "investigatory stop" may be the basis for an arrest. (2) "Law enforcement officer" means a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer of a township or joint police district, marshal, deputy marshal, municipal police officer, or state highway patrol trooper.
Ohio Rev. Code § 345.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 345 / § 345.08
§ 345.08. Board of trustees
Status: in_force

April 7, 2009 House Bill 266 - 127th General Assembly Within five days after the certification to the taxing authority of the result of an election held under sections 345.02 to 345.05 of the Revised Code, provided a majority of the votes cast on the proposal submitted are in favor of such proposal, or within five days after adoption by the taxing authority of an ordinance or resolution to authorize the issuance of any such bonds without a vote of the electors, the taxing authority of the township or county, or the mayor of the municipal corporation shall appoint a board of trustees, consisting of at least five but not more than eleven members, which shall, at all times, be so constituted that at least a majority of its members are honorably discharged veterans of the armed forces of the United States. A majority of such trustees shall be appointed for three years and the remaining trustees shall be appointed for five years, and thereafter, on the expiration of the original term, appointments shall be made for terms of five years. Appointments to fill vacancies shall be for the unexpired term.
Ohio Rev. Code § 351.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 351 / § 351.05
§ 351.05. Immunity
Status: in_force

February 20, 1986 House Bill 583 - 116th General Assembly (A) Except for civil actions that arise out of the operation of a motor vehicle and civil actions in which the convention facilities authority is the plaintiff, no director, officer, or employee of a convention facilities authority shall be liable in any civil action that arises under the law of this state for damage or injury caused in the performance of his duties, unless his actions were manifestly outside the scope of his employment or official responsibilities, or unless he acted with malicious purpose, in bad faith, or in a wanton or reckless manner. This division does not eliminate, limit, or reduce any immunity from civil liability that is conferred upon a director, officer, or employee by any other provision of the Revised Code or by case law. (B)(1) A convention facilities authority shall indemnify a director, officer, or employee from liability incurred in the performance of his duties by paying any judgment in, or amount negotiated in settlement of, any civil action arising under federal law, the law of another state, or the law of a foreign jurisdiction. The reasonableness of the amount of any consent judgment or settlement is subject to the review and approval of the authority's board of directors. The maximum aggregate amount of indemnification paid directly from funds to or on behalf of any director, officer, or employee pursuant to this division shall be one million dollars per occurrence, regardless of the number of persons who suffer damage, injury, or death as a result of the occurrence. (2) An authority shall not indemnify a director, officer, or employee under any of the following circumstances: (a) To the extent the director, officer, or employee is covered by a policy of civil liability insurance purchased by the authority; (b) When the director, officer, or employee acts manifestly outside the scope of his employment or official responsibilities, with malicious purpose, in bad faith, or in a wanton or reckless manner; (c) For any portion of a judgment that represents punitive or exemplary damages; (d) For any portion of a consent judgment or settlement that is unreasonable. (3) The authority may purchase policies of insurance on behalf of directors, officers, and employees of the authority from insurers licensed to do business in this state providing coverage for damages in connection with any civil action, demand, or claim against the director, officer, or employee by reason of an act or omission by the director, officer, or employee occurring in the performance of his duties and not coming within the terms of division (B)(2)(b) of this section. (C) This section does not affect either of the following: (1) Any defense that would otherwise be available in an action alleging personal liability of a director, officer, or employee; (2) The operation of section 9.83 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 303.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 303 / § 303.19
§ 303.19. Nonconforming use of buildings and land not affected by zoning
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The lawful use of any dwelling, building, or structure and of any land or premises, as existing and lawful at the time of enactment of a zoning resolution or amendment thereto, may be continued, although such use does not conform with the provisions of such resolution or amendment, but if any such nonconforming use is voluntarily discontinued for two years or more, any future use of such land shall be in conformity with sections 303.01 to 303.25 , inclusive, of the Revised Code. The board of county commissioners shall provide in any zoning resolution for the completion, restoration, reconstruction, extension, or substitution of nonconforming uses upon such reasonable terms as are set forth in the zoning resolution.
Ohio Rev. Code § 306.351 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 306 / § 306.351
§ 306.351. Purchase and operation of flexible joint bus
Status: in_force

September 16, 2004 House Bill 230 - 125th General Assembly A regional transit authority may purchase an articulated bus only if the regional transit authority establishes and follows a preference system for buses that are manufactured or assembled within this state, or, if none, within the United States.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.74 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.74
§ 307.74. Purchasing water from municipality
Status: in_force

August 23, 1957 House Bill 29 - 102nd General Assembly The board of county commissioners, with the consent of a municipal corporation, may purchase water from said municipal corporation, and may construct and maintain aqueduct or water lines required for the transmission of such water to a county owned or operated property whenever, upon resolution of the board, it is determined necessary for the protection or general use of said county property. The board, with the authorization of said municipality, may permit such line to be tapped upon application of the property owner on the line of such facilities. The board shall establish and collect a reasonable tapping fee which shall include a portion of the original cost and maintenance of said line.
Ohio Rev. Code § 313.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 313 / § 313.23
§ 313.23. View of autopsy by interested person
Status: in_force

April 7, 2009 House Bill 529 - 127th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Interested person" means an employee of the coroner's office, a physician, dentist, nurse, professor at a medical school, medical student, medical resident, nursing student, an employee of a procurement organization, a member of a law enforcement agency, or any other person the coroner, in the coroner's discretion, determines is appropriate. (2) "Procurement organization" has the same meaning as in section 2108.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The coroner may allow an interested person to view an autopsy of a decedent without the interested person receiving permission to view the decedent's autopsy from the decedent's next of kin. (C) No person who is under eighteen years of age and who is not an interested person may view an autopsy.
Ohio Rev. Code § 305.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 305 / § 305.31
§ 305.31. Procedure for submitting to referendum resolution on additional tax
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340, House Bill 197 - 133rd General Assembly The procedure for submitting to a referendum a resolution adopted by a board of county commissioners under division (H) of section 307.695 of the Revised Code that is not submitted to the electors of the county for their approval or disapproval; any resolution adopted by a board of county commissioners pursuant to division (D)(1) of section 307.697 , section 322.02 , or 322.06 , sections 940.32 and 940.35 , division (B)(1) of section 4301.421 , section 4504.02 , 5739.021 , or 5739.026 , division (F), (J), or (U) of section 5739.09 , section 5741.021 or 5741.023 , or division (C)(1) of section 5743.024 of the Revised Code; or a rule adopted pursuant to section 307.79 of the Revised Code shall be as prescribed by this section. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, when a petition, signed by ten per cent of the number of electors who voted for governor at the most recent general election for the office of governor in the county, is filed with the county auditor within thirty days after the date the resolution is passed or rule is adopted by the board of county commissioners, or is filed within forty-five days after the resolution is passed, in the case of a resolution adopted pursuant to section 5739.021 of the Revised Code that is passed within one year after a resolution adopted pursuant to that section has been rejected or repealed by the electors, requesting that the resolution be submitted to the electors of the county for their approval or rejection, the county auditor shall, after ten days following the filing of the petition, and not later than four p.m. of the ninetieth day before the day of election, transmit a certified copy of the text of the resolution or rule to the board of elections. In the case of a petition requesting that a resolution adopted under division (D)(1) of section 307.697 , division (B)(1) of section 4301.421 , or division (C)(1) of section 5743.024 of the Revised Code be submitted to electors for their approval or rejection, the petition shall be signed by seven per cent of the number of electors who voted for governor at the most recent election for the office of governor in the county. The county auditor shall transmit the petition to the board together with the certified copy of the resolution or rule. The board shall examine all signatures on the petition to determine the number of electors of the county who signed the petition. The board shall return the petition to the auditor within ten days after receiving it, together with a statement attesting to the number of such electors who signed the petition. The board shall submit the resolution or rule to the electors of the county, for their approval or rejection, at the succeeding general election held in the county in any year, or on the day of the succeeding primary election held in the county in even-numbered years, occurring subsequent to ninety days after the auditor certifies the sufficiency and validity of the petition to the board of elections. No resolution shall go into effect until approved by the majority of those voting upon it. However, a rule shall take effect and remain in effect unless and until a majority of the electors voting on the question of repeal approve the repeal. Sections 305.31 to 305.41 of the Revised Code do not prevent a county, after the passage of any resolution or adoption of any rule, from proceeding at once to give any notice or make any publication required by the resolution or rule. The board of county commissioners shall make available to any person, upon request, a certified copy of any resolution or rule subject to the procedure for submitting a referendum under sections 305.31 to 305.42 of the Revised Code beginning on the date the resolution or rule is adopted by the board. The board may charge a fee for the cost of copying the resolution or rule. As used in this section, "certified copy" means a copy containing a written statement attesting that it is a true and exact reproduction of the original resolution or rule. The Legislative Service Commission presents the text of this section as a composite of the section as amended by multiple acts of the General Assembly. This presentation recognizes the principle stated in R.C. 1.52(B) that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 317.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 317 / § 317.26
§ 317.26. Indorsement of fee on instrument - record
Status: in_force

January 30, 2014 House Bill 72 - 130th General Assembly Upon the presentation of any instrument of writing for filing or record, the county recorder shall indorse thereon the fee for filing or recording the instrument.
Ohio Rev. Code § 325.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 325 / § 325.02
§ 325.02. Salaries in lieu of fees - exception
Status: in_force

March 22, 1973 House Bill 1 - 110th General Assembly The salaries and compensation of county officers provided for by sections 325.03 to 325.09 of the Revised Code, shall be in lieu of all fees, costs, penalties, percentages, allowances, and all other perquisites, of whatever kind, which any of such officials collects and receives, except such compensation as is provided by section 5731.47 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 339.87 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 339 / § 339.87
§ 339.87. Emergency detention order
Status: in_force

October 10, 2000 Senate Bill 173 - 123rd General Assembly (A) When a tuberculosis control unit has reasonable grounds to believe that an individual who has, or is suspected of having, active tuberculosis poses a substantial danger to the health of other individuals, the tuberculosis control unit may issue an emergency detention order directing a sheriff or other law enforcement officer to remove the individual to a hospital or other place to be examined and treated for tuberculosis. (B) Not later than the end of the third business day after detention of an individual under division (A) of this section, the tuberculosis control unit shall apply to the probate court of the county from which the individual was removed for a detention order under division (B) of section 339.86 of the Revised Code. If a request is not filed in that time, the individual shall be immediately released. An individual released for this reason shall not be detained by a subsequent order under division (A) of this section unless the tuberculosis control unit first obtains an order from the probate court pursuant to division (B) of section 339.86 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 304.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 304 / § 304.03
§ 304.03. Authorized electronic filing to have same effect as paper filing
Status: in_force

March 20, 2026 House Bill 247 - 136th General Assembly (A) Whenever any rule or law requires or authorizes the filing of any information, notice, lien, or other document or record with any county office, a filing made by an electronic record shall have the same force and effect as a filing made on paper in all cases where the county office has authorized or agreed to the electronic filing and the filing is made in accordance with applicable rules or an applicable agreement. (B) Nothing in this section authorizes or shall be construed to authorize the use of a financial transaction device in an electronic transaction for the acceptance of payments for county expenses, except pursuant to section 301.28 or 955.023 of the Revised Code. (C) As used in this section, "financial transaction device" and "county expenses" have the same meanings as in section 301.28 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 16, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 305.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 305 / § 305.07
§ 305.07. Special sessions
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly (A) Special sessions of the board of county commissioners may be held as often as the commissioners deem it necessary. At a regular or special session, the board may make any necessary order or contract in relation to the building, furnishing, repairing, or insuring of public buildings or bridges; the employment of janitors; the improvements or enclosure of public grounds; the maintenance or support of persons with developmental disabilities or persons with mental illnesses; the expenditure of any fund; or the board may provide for the reconstruction or repair of any bridge destroyed by fire, flood, or otherwise. The board shall comply with division (F) of section 121.22 of the Revised Code. The board may do any other official act not, by law, restricted to a particular regular session. (B) The board of county commissioners may provide by resolution for the holding of special sessions of the board at a location in the county other than the usual office of the board at the county seat. The adoption of the resolution and the location where the sessions will be held shall be entered on the journal of the board. The board shall give reasonable public notice of its action taken pursuant to this division, in accordance with division (F) of section 121.22 of the Revised Code. Last updated March 10, 2023 at 10:57 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 315.251 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 315 / § 315.251
§ 315.251. Minimum standards for boundary surveys
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly If a deed conveying title to real property is presented to the county auditor for transfer, and the deed contains a legal description for land that is a cut-up or split of the grantor's one or more existing parcels of land as shown in the county auditor's records, or if the legal description of the land conveyed in the deed is different from the legal description shown in the prior deed to the grantor, a boundary survey plat in conformity with the new description shall be submitted with the deed. The survey plat and description shall satisfy the minimum standards for boundary surveys promulgated by the board of registration for professional engineers and surveyors pursuant to Chapter 4733. of the Revised Code. If, in the opinion of the county engineer, the survey plat and description satisfy those standards, the county auditor shall accept the deed for transfer and a copy of the survey plat shall be filed in the county engineer's survey file for public inspection. This section applies only if the requirements of this section are included in the standards governing conveyances of real property in the county adopted under section 319.203 of the Revised Code. Last updated February 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 327.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 327 / § 327.04
§ 327.04. Investment of funds
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of trustees of the sinking fund shall invest all moneys subject to its control in bonds of the United States, of this state, or of a municipal corporation, school district, township, or county of the state, and shall hold in reserve in cash only such sums as may be needed for effecting the purposes of sections 327.01 to 327.08 , inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 303.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 303 / § 303.16
§ 303.16. Enforcement of zoning regulations - county zoning inspector
Status: in_force

September 19, 1985 Senate Bill 94 - 116th General Assembly For the purpose of enforcing the zoning regulations, the board of county commissioners may provide for a system of zoning certificates, and for this purpose may establish and fill the position of county zoning inspector, together with such assistants as the board considers necessary, fix the compensation for such positions, and make disbursements for them. In any county in which a county building inspector has been appointed in accordance with section 307.38 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners may designate such official to serve, in addition, as the county zoning inspector for the purposes of sections 303.01 to 303.25 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 303.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 303 / § 303.45
§ 303.45. Funds for planning or county renewal project functions
Status: in_force

October 30, 1989 House Bill 230 - 118th General Assembly In addition to all other powers of boards of county commissioners provided by any other laws, any board, in order to provide funds for or in connection with its planning or county renewal project functions, under sections 303.26 to 303.56 of the Revised Code, or for the exercise of any of the powers granted by those sections, may: (A) Use its general tax revenues; (B) Issue and sell its bonds, and its notes in anticipation of such bonds, pursuant to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.203 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.203
§ 307.203. Appropriating moneys for railroad grade crossing improvement fund
Status: in_force

October 27, 2000 Senate Bill 207 - 123rd General Assembly A board of county commissioners may appropriate moneys from the general fund for any purposes for which moneys in the railroad grade crossing improvement fund of the county created pursuant to section 5589.24 of the Revised Code may be used. After appropriation, such moneys may be transferred to that fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 341.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 341 / § 341.14
§ 341.14. Weekly advance deposit of prisoner costs
Status: in_force

April 7, 2009 House Bill 215 - 127th General Assembly (A) The sheriff of an adjoining county in this state shall not receive prisoners as provided by section 341.12 of the Revised Code unless there is deposited weekly with the sheriff an amount equal to the actual cost of keeping and feeding each prisoner so committed for the use of the jail of that county, and the same amount for a period of time less than one week. If a prisoner is discharged before the expiration of the term for which the prisoner was committed, the excess of the amount advanced shall be refunded. (B) Pursuant to section 2929.37 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners of the county of this state that receives pursuant to section 341.12 of the Revised Code for confinement in its jail, a prisoner who was convicted of an offense, may require the prisoner to reimburse the county for its expenses incurred by reason of the prisoner's confinement. (C) Notwithstanding any contrary provision in this section or section 2929.18 , 2929.28 , or 2929.37 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners in this state may establish a policy that complies with section 2929.38 of the Revised Code and that requires any prisoner who is not indigent and who is confined in the county's jail under this section to pay a reception fee, a fee for medical treatment or service requested by and provided to that prisoner, or the fee for a random drug test assessed under division (E) of section 341.26 of the Revised Code. (D) If a county in this state receives pursuant to section 341.12 of the Revised Code for confinement in its jail a person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to an offense and has been sentenced to a term in a jail or a person who has been arrested for an offense, who has been denied bail or has had bail set and has not been released on bail, and who is confined in jail pending trial, at the time of reception and at other times the sheriff or other person in charge of the operation of the jail determines to be appropriate, the sheriff or other person in charge of the operation of the jail may cause the convicted or accused offender to be examined and tested for tuberculosis, HIV infection, hepatitis, including but not limited to hepatitis A, B, and C, and other contagious diseases. The sheriff or other person in charge of the operation of the jail may cause a convicted or accused offender in the jail who refuses to be tested or treated for tuberculosis, HIV infection, hepatitis, including but not limited to hepatitis A, B, and C, or another contagious disease to be tested and treated involuntarily.
Ohio Rev. Code § 303.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 303 / § 303.34
§ 303.34. Modifying county renewal plan
Status: in_force

October 21, 1959 House Bill 1081 - 103rd General Assembly A county renewal plan may be modified at any time. If such a plan is modified after the lease or sale by the county of real property in the county renewal area, such modification may be conditioned upon such approval of the owner, lessee, or successor in interest as the board of county commissioners may deem advisable, and in any event shall be subject to such rights at law or in equity as a lessee or purchaser, or his successor or successors in interest, may be entitled to assert.
Ohio Rev. Code § 341.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 341 / § 341.01
§ 341.01. Sheriff to have charge of jail
Status: in_force

September 29, 1995 House Bill 117 - 121st General Assembly The sheriff shall have charge of the county jail and all persons confined therein. He shall keep such persons safely, attend to the jail, and govern and regulate the jail according to the minimum standards for jails in Ohio promulgated by the department of rehabilitation and correction. The sheriff's responsibilities under this section do not extend to a jail or workhouse that is the subject of a contract entered into under section 9.06 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 302.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 302 / § 302.21
§ 302.21. Agreements with other political subdivisions
Status: in_force

March 16, 1969 House Bill 1 - 108th General Assembly The board of county commissioners as provided in section 302.22 of the Revised Code may enter into an agreement with the legislative authority of any municipal corporation, township, port authority, water or sewer district, school district, library district, health district, park district, soil and water conservation district, water conservancy district, or other taxing district, or with the board of any other county, and such legislative authorities may enter into agreements with the board, whereby such board undertakes, and is authorized by the contracting subdivision, to exercise any power, perform any function, or render any service, in behalf of the contracting subdivision or its legislative authority, which such subdivision or legislative authority may exercise, perform, or render. Upon the execution of such agreement and within the limitations prescribed by it, the board may exercise the same powers as the contracting subdivision possesses with respect to the performance of any function or the rendering of any service, which, by such agreement, it undertakes to perform or render, and all powers necessary or incidental thereto, as amply as such powers are possessed and exercised by the contracting subdivision directly. In the absence in such agreement of provisions determining by what officer, office, department, agency, or authority, the powers and duties of the board shall be exercised or performed, the board shall, within the limits of this section, determine and assign such powers and duties to any officer or officers of county government including the auditor, treasurer, engineer, recorder, coroner, sheriff, and prosecuting attorney. Any agreement authorized by this section shall not suspend the possession by a contracting subdivision of any power or function exercised or performed by the board in pursuance of such agreement. Nor shall the board, by virtue of any agreement entered into under this section, acquire any power to levy taxes within and in behalf of a contracting subdivision unless approved by a majority of the electors of the contracting subdivision. The boards of county commissioners of any two or more counties may contract with each other or by contract create any joint agency to exercise any power, perform any function, or render any service which any board of county commissioners may exercise, perform, or render.
Ohio Rev. Code § 329.042 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 329 / § 329.042
§ 329.042. Participation in federal food stamp program
Status: in_force

October 16, 2009 House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly Each county department of job and family services shall certify eligible public assistance and nonpublic assistance households for the supplemental nutrition assistance program in accordance with federal and state law to enable low-income households to participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program and thereby to purchase foods having a greater monetary value than is possible under public assistance standard allowances or other low-income budgets. Each county department of job and family services shall administer the distribution of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits under the supervision of the department of job and family services. The benefits shall be distributed by a method approved by the department of job and family services in accordance with the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) and regulations issued thereunder.
Ohio Rev. Code § 323.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 323 / § 323.08
§ 323.08. Publishing schedule of tax rates and effective rates
Status: in_force

March 20, 2026 House Bill 186 - 136th General Assembly (A) After certifying the tax list and duplicate pursuant to section 319.28 of the Revised Code, the county auditor shall deliver a list of the tax rates, tax reduction factors, and effective tax rates assessed and applied against each of the two classes of property of the county to the county treasurer, who shall immediately cause a schedule of such tax rates and effective rates to be published using at least one of the following methods: (1) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation in the county; (2) On the official public notice web site established under section 125.182 of the Revised Code; (3) On the web site and social media account of the county. Alternatively, in lieu of such publication, the county treasurer may insert a copy of such schedule with each tax bill mailed. Such schedule shall specify particularly the rates and effective rates of taxation levied for all purposes on the tax list and duplicate for the support of the various taxing units within the county, expressed in dollars and cents for each one thousand dollars of valuation. The effective tax rates shall be printed in boldface type. (B) The county treasurer shall publish notice of the date of the last date for payment of each installment of taxes once a week for two successive weeks before such date using at least one of the following methods: (1) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation within the county; (2) On the official public notice web site established under section 125.182 of the Revised Code; (3) On the web site and social media account of the county. The notice shall contain notice that any taxes paid after such date will accrue a penalty and interest and that failure to receive a tax bill will not avoid such penalty and interest. The notice shall contain a telephone number that may be called by taxpayers who have not received tax bills. (C) As used in this section and section 323.131 of the Revised Code, "effective tax rate" means the effective rate after making the reduction required by section 319.301 , but before making the reduction required by section 319.302 or, if applicable, 319.303 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 14, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 323.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 323 / § 323.30
§ 323.30. Receipt for installment payment - contents - entry by county treasurer
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly When any part of the delinquent taxes charged on the tax duplicate is paid as an installment under section 323.31 of the Revised Code, the county treasurer shall enter the amount of such payment on the tax duplicate, crediting it as required by such section, an shall give a receipt for the amount paid to the person paying it. Such receipt shall show the application of the payment made and the amount of delinquent taxes remaining unpaid.
Ohio Rev. Code § 340.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 340 / § 340.10
§ 340.10. County auditor is auditor and fiscal officer of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health service district or joint-county district
Status: in_force

July 1, 2017 Senate Bill 319 - 131st General Assembly The county auditor or, in a joint-county alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health service district, the auditor of the county, the treasurer of which has been designated in the agreement between the counties of the district as custodian of the funds for addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports, is hereby designated as the auditor and fiscal officer of an alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health service district or joint-county district. State funds allocated for the support of a service district shall be paid to the county treasurer or, in a joint-county district, to the treasurer of that county designated in the agreement as custodian of the funds for addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports and authorized to make payments from such funds on order of the county auditor and on recommendation of the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, or the executive director of the board when authorized by the board. The auditor shall submit to the board a detailed monthly statement of all receipts, disbursements, and ending balances for the funds for addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports.
Ohio Rev. Code § 311.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 311 / § 311.16
§ 311.16. Annual report of sheriff
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly On the first Monday in September of each year, the sheriff shall make a certified statement to the board of county commissioners of all fines and costs in criminal prosecutions collected by him, on execution or otherwise, during the year next preceding such date, and he shall also report in such statement the amount of fines and costs so collected and paid over to the clerk of the court of common pleas or to the county treasurer. If the sheriff fails to make reports at the time and in the manner required by this section, he shall forfeit and pay not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered in a civil action in the name of the board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 307.693 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 307 / § 307.693
§ 307.693. Appropriating moneys for convention and visitors' bureaus
Status: in_force

January 1, 1980 House Bill 355 - 113th General Assembly A board of county commissioners may appropriate moneys from the general fund to make contributions to convention and visitors' bureaus operating within the county.
Ohio Rev. Code § 319.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 319 / § 319.01
§ 319.01. County auditor - term of office
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A county auditor shall be chosen quadrennially in each county, who shall hold his office for four years, commencing on the second Monday in March next after his election.
Ohio Rev. Code § 303.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 303 / § 303.33
§ 303.33. Approving county renewal project for county renewal area
Status: in_force

October 21, 1959 House Bill 1081 - 103rd General Assembly Following the public hearing required by section 303.32 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners may approve a county renewal project for the county renewal area if it finds that a feasible method exists for the location of families who will be displaced from the county renewal area in decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling accommodations within their means and without undue hardship to such families; the county renewal plan conforms to the general plan of the county; and the county renewal plan will afford maximum opportunity, consistent with the sound needs of the county, for the rehabilitation or redevelopment of the county renewal area by private enterprise. If the county renewal area consists of an area of open land to be acquired by the county, such area shall not be so acquired unless, if it is to be redeveloped for residential uses, the board determines that a shortage of housing of sound standards and design which is decent, safe, and sanitary exists in the county; that the need of housing accommodations has been or will be increased as a result of the clearance of slums in other areas, including other portions of the county renewal area; that the conditions of blight in the area and the shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary housing cause or contributed to an increase in and spread of disease and crime and constitute a menace to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare; and that the acquisition of the area for residential uses is an integral part of and essential to the program of the county, or, if it is to be developed for nonresidential uses, the board determines that such nonresidential uses are necessary and appropriate to facilitate the proper growth and development of the county in accordance with sound planning standards and county objectives, which acquisition may require the exercise of governmental action, as provided in sections 303.26 to 303.56 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, because of defective or unusual conditions of title, diversity of ownership, tax delinquency, improper subdivisions, outmoded street patterns, deterioration of site, economic disuse, unsuitable topography, or faulty lot layouts, the need for the correlation of the area with other areas of the county by streets and modern traffic requirements, or any combination of such factors or other conditions which retard development of the area.
Ohio Rev. Code § 339.78 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 339 / § 339.78
§ 339.78. Reporting confirmed case of tuberculosis to county or district tuberculosis control unit
Status: in_force

October 10, 2000 Senate Bill 173 - 123rd General Assembly (A) When a physician completes diagnostic studies confirming that an individual has tuberculosis, the physician shall report the confirmed case of tuberculosis to the county or district tuberculosis control unit. A physician shall make a report to the tuberculosis control unit prior to completion of diagnostic studies if the signs and symptoms demonstrated by an individual are sufficient for the physician to suspect that the individual has tuberculosis. At any time it is determined that an individual's tuberculosis is resistant to one or more drugs, the physician shall make a report to the unit. The physician attending an individual with tuberculosis shall document the individual's adherence to the treatment regimen that the physician prescribes and make a report to the tuberculosis control unit if the individual does not adhere to the regimen. In each report made under this division, the physician shall provide all information that the tuberculosis control unit requests. The information shall be provided at intervals specified by the tuberculosis control unit. (B) In addition to accepting reports made by physicians under division (A) of this section, a county or district tuberculosis control unit shall accept reports made as follows: (1) The administrator of a hospital, clinic, or other facility that is providing services to an individual who is confirmed to have or is suspected of having tuberculosis shall report the case to the tuberculosis control unit; (2) The administrator of a laboratory that performs tests for tuberculosis on human specimens shall report to the tuberculosis control unit each positive tuberculosis test result obtained; (3) Any person who suspects that an individual has tuberculosis may report that suspicion to the tuberculosis control unit.
Ohio Rev. Code § 301.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 301 / § 301.05
§ 301.05. Division of funds with new county
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When a new county is created and organized, the money remaining in the county treasuries of the counties from which the new county is taken, after deducting all just debts and demands due or owing at the time of setting off the new county, except debts contracted for public buildings in the old county, shall be divided according the land and other taxable property within the new county, and within the counties from which the new county was taken, from which the tax was paid. The county treasurers of the old counties shall pay over such money to the treasurer of the new county. Moneys donated to such county by individuals for erection of public buildings or other purposes, or received as clear profit on the sale of county town lots, the property of such old counties, shall not be subject to division.
Ohio Rev. Code § 306.82 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 306 / § 306.82
§ 306.82. Provisions to include in agreement
Status: in_force

October 30, 1989 House Bill 230 - 118th General Assembly An agreement entered into pursuant to section 306.80 of the Revised Code may, with respect to a regional transit commission created by such agreement, provide for the following: (A) Acquisition, by purchase or donation, or by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, construction, improvement, extension, enlargement, repair, lease as lessee or lessor, sale, operation, maintenance, and management of transit facilities within or without the territorial boundaries of such commission, together with any other powers and duties provided by sections 306.30 to 306.53 of the Revised Code, to a regional transit authority, and by Chapter 308. of the Revised Code to a regional airport authority; (B) Adoption of rules, including the imposition of rates or charges, respecting the ownership, operation, and use of transit facilities subject to the jurisdiction of the regional transit commission; (C) Petitioning, intervening, and appearing before the interstate commerce commission or any other federal, state, or local authority for the adoption, alteration, enforcement, or execution of any physical improvement, or tariffs, rates, or charges for the use of, or rules concerning, transit facilities; (D) Initiating or intervening in any legal proceeding affecting the regional transit commission; (E) Contracting with persons, corporations, partnerships, associations, or public agencies to provide or operate transit facilities; (F) Establishing procedure for issuance and securing of revenue bonds of the commission, which shall be negotiable instruments, for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, improving, extending, or enlarging any one or more transit facilities, including all costs incidental thereto and in connection therewith, including the financing thereof. Such procedure may provide for securing such revenue bonds by the pledge of net revenues of the regional transit commission and by mortgaging any real property acquired from the proceeds of such revenue bonds. (G) Establishing procedures for the issuance of general obligation bonds of the commission pursuant to the procedure set forth in the agreement, for which the full faith and credit of the commission shall be pledged. The principal of, and any premium and interest on, such bonds shall be paid from the proceeds of ad valorem taxes levied on all taxable property within the territorial boundaries of the commission, provided that such procedure complies with all requirements of the constitutions of all states having territory included within the territorial boundaries of the commission, and that the net indebtedness, as defined for a municipal corporation in section 133.05 of the Revised Code, incurred by a regional transit commission, shall never exceed three per cent of the total value of all property within the territorial boundaries of the regional transit commission as listed and assessed for taxation. Such procedure shall also include submission to the electors within the territorial boundaries of the regional transit commission of the question of issuing the bonds of such commission and the levy of such tax for the payment of the principal of, and any premium and interest on, such bonds. The secretary of state and each board of elections of this state within the territorial boundaries of the regional transit commission shall follow the procedure established by the agreement for submitting the question of the issuance of such bonds to the electors of a regional transit commission. Each auditor and treasurer of any county of this state which is included within the territorial boundaries of a regional transit commission, shall extend on the tax list and duplicate of all taxable property included within the territorial boundaries of a regional transit commission, any tax which is to be levied pursuant to provisions of such agreement included therein under authority of this division. (H) Designation of the official name by which the regional transit commission shall be known; (I) Establishing the number, term of office, and compensation, which shall not exceed fifty dollars for each board or committee meeting attended, of the members of the governing board of the regional transit commission and the procedures for the appointment of such members and the filling of vacancies; (J) Establishing procedure for submitting to the electors of the territory included in a regional transit commission, the question of the levy, for a period not exceeding ten years, on all taxable property within the territorial boundaries of the regional transit commission of an ad valorem tax, not to exceed one mill for each dollar of assessed valuation, for the purposes of the regional transit commission. Such procedure shall comply with all requirements of the constitutions of all states having territory included within the territorial boundaries of the commission. Each auditor and treasurer of any county of this state which is included within the territorial boundaries of a regional transit commission shall extend on the tax list and duplicate of all taxable property included within the territorial boundaries of a regional transit commission, any tax which is authorized pursuant to this division. (K) Exercising the power of eminent domain within the states which have territory included within the territorial boundaries of the regional transit commission, provided that such power, when exercised within this state, shall be exercised in the manner and to the extent it is authorized to be exercised by a regional transit authority pursuant to section 306.36 of the Revised Code; (L) Establishing procedure for adding to the regional transit commission additional areas within a state which has territory included within the territorial boundaries of the regional transit commission, provided that such procedure for adding territory within this state shall be substantially the same as that provided for adding territory to a regional transit authority as provided in division (G) of section 306.32 of the Revised Code; (M) Organizing the governing board of the regional transit commission, and employing and compensating employees of and consultants for such commission; (N) Suing or being sued in the corporate name of the regional transit commission; (O) Establishing procedure for competitive bidding in the sale or lease by a regional transit commission of real and personal property and for the acquisition, except for real property or interests therein, construction, or improvement of transit facilities, and providing reasonable exemptions from such requirement; (P) Providing for employee relations in the same manner as is provided by division (X) of section 306.35 of the Revised Code for a regional transit authority; (Q) Providing for the duration of the agreement and the termination thereof, and the procedure for admitting to the regional transit commission territory within a state not having territory included within the territorial boundaries of the regional transit commission; (R) Providing a system of pension benefits for employees of a regional transit commission, including an opportunity to employees resident of this state to participate in the public employees retirement system pursuant to Chapter 145. of the Revised Code; (S) Providing for the performance of all functions necessary and incidental to a regional transit commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 341.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 341 / § 341.20
§ 341.20. Contracts with commercial providers for food, medical, other services
Status: in_force

October 16, 1996 House Bill 480 - 121st General Assembly The board of county commissioners, with the consent of the sheriff, may contract with commercial providers for the provision to prisoners and other persons of food services, medical services, and other programs and services necessary for the care and welfare of prisoners and other persons placed in the sheriff's charge. In the absence of a commercial food service contract, the sheriff shall appoint a cook who shall have charge over the preparation of food for the feeding of prisoners and other persons placed in the sheriff's charge. The cook need not, but may be, required to perform other staff duties provided for in this section. The compensation of the cook shall be payable semimonthly from the general fund of the county, upon the warrant of the county auditor.
Ohio Rev. Code § 340.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 340 / § 340.12
§ 340.12. Discrimination prohibited - affirmative action program
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly As used in this section, "disability" has the same meaning as in section 4112.01 of the Revised Code. No board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services or any community addiction services provider or community mental health services provider under contract with such a board shall discriminate in the provision of addiction services, mental health services, or recovery supports under its authority, in employment, or under a contract on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, military status, sex, age, national origin, or disability. Each board, community addiction services provider, and community mental health services provider shall have a written affirmative action program. The affirmative action program shall include goals for the employment and effective utilization of, including contracts with, members of economically disadvantaged groups as defined in division (E)(1) of section 122.71 of the Revised Code in percentages reflecting as nearly as possible the composition of the alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health service district served by the board. Each board and provider shall file a description of the affirmative action program and a progress report on its implementation with the department of behavioral health. Last updated July 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 323.48 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 323 / § 323.48
§ 323.48. Lien of part owner who pays tax
Status: in_force

September 21, 1982 House Bill 379 - 114th General Assembly A part owner who pays the tax on the whole tract of which he is part owner shall have a lien on the shares or parts of the other part owner for the tax paid on their shares or parts. Such owner may receive such amount, paid with interest thereon, on the sale or partition of such lands, and he may enforce the collection of such amount with interest, as any other lien or charge.
Ohio Rev. Code § 349.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 3 / Chapter 349 / § 349.05
§ 349.05. Restricting power and authority of new community authority
Status: in_force

October 4, 1972 House Bill 1063 - 109th General Assembly A new community authority established pursuant to this chapter is a body corporate and politic, and shall have the powers specifically granted by this chapter. This chapter does not limit or restrict the power and authority of cities, counties, and townships. The new community authority shall have no power or authority over zoning or subdivision regulation, provision of fire or police protection, or, unless such services cannot be obtained from other existing political subdivisions, water supply or sewage treatment and disposal. The exercise of police power granted to the authority by this chapter does not invalidate the exercise of police power by any municipal corporation and the exercise of police power by a municipal corporation shall prevail in the case of a conflict with powers exercised by the authority. The grant of power to the authority under divisions (N) and (O) of section 349.06 of the Revised Code shall not remove municipal, regional, or county planning commissions and agencies from jurisdiction within the district, nor shall such powers invalidate municipal ordinances and resolutions or other regulations of such planning commission and agencies.