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Ohio Rev Code § 709.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.01 | Annexation and Detachment of Territory.

Effective: June 30, 2007|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly|Territory may be annexed to, merged with, or detached from, municipal corporations, in the manner provided in this chapter, provided that no territory lying within the boundaries of a military base, camp, or similar installation under the jurisdiction of a military department of the United States government, that is used for the housing of members of the armed forces of the United States and is a center for military operations of the department shall be annexed to or merged with a municipal corporation under this chapter without the approval of the secretary of defense of the United States, the secretary's designee, or other person having authority under federal law to give such approval.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.011 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.011 | Clerk to Notify Board of Elections of Vacancies in Office and Change in Municipal Boundaries.

Effective: December 1, 1967|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 220 - 107th General Assembly|The clerk or clerk of council of a municipal corporation shall notify the board of elections of all vacancies caused by death, resignation, or otherwise in the elective offices of the municipal corporation. Such notification shall be made in writing and filed not later than ten days after the vacancy occurs with the board of elections of the county or counties in which the municipal corporation is located.The clerk or clerk of council of a municipal corporation shall notify the board of elections of all changes in the boundaries of the municipal corporation. Such notification shall be made in writing and contain a plat clearly showing all boundary changes and shall be filed with the board of elections of the county or counties in which the municipal corporation is located within thirty days after such change occurs.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.013 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.013 | Multiple Annexation Petitions Concerning Same Territory.

Effective: March 27, 2002|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 5 - 124th General Assembly|(A) If, after a petition for annexation is filed with the board of county commissioners, one or more other petitions are filed containing all or a part of the territory contained in the first petition, the board shall hear and decide the petitions in the order in which they were filed.(B) The effect of granting any petition under division (A) of this section shall be to delete from any subsequently filed petition any territory contained in the petition that was granted.(C) If two or more petitions for annexation are filed seeking to annex part or all of the same territory and appeals are subsequently filed under section 709.07 of the Revised Code, each court shall decide the appeal on the first-filed petition before considering the appeal in any subsequently filed petition.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.014 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.014 | Fee Schedule for Annexation Costs.

Effective: March 27, 2002|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 5 - 124th General Assembly|(A) The board of county commissioners may establish a reasonable fee or schedule of fees to cover its costs incurred in any annexation proceedings that take place under this chapter. The board also may require an initial deposit to be paid at the time a petition for annexation is filed under sections 709.02 to 709.21 of the Revised Code or promptly after that time. The clerk of the board shall maintain an accurate and detailed accounting of all funds received and expended in the processing of a petition for annexation filed under sections 709.02 to 709.21 of the Revised Code.(B) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in division (E) of section 709.024 and division (A) of section 709.03 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners, by resolution, may appoint the clerk of the board or the county administrator to set the date, time, and place for hearings, and to provide associated notices to the agent for the petitioners, required under those divisions instead of the board.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.015 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.015 | Substantial Compliance With Procedural Requirements Is Sufficient to Grant Jurisdiction.

Effective: March 27, 2002|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 5 - 124th General Assembly|The procedural requirements set forth in sections 709.02 to 709.21 of the Revised Code are directory in nature. Substantial compliance with the procedural requirements of those sections is sufficient to grant the board of county commissioners jurisdiction to hear and render its decision on a petition for annexation filed under those sections. The board shall cure a procedural defect and shall not deny a petition for annexation solely upon the basis of procedural defects.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.021 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.021 | Special Procedure Where Owners Unanimously Request Annexation.

Effective: March 27, 2002|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 5 - 124th General Assembly|(A) When a petition signed by all of the owners of real estate in the unincorporated territory of a township proposed for annexation requests the annexation of that territory to a municipal corporation contiguous to that territory under one of the special procedures provided for annexation in sections 709.022, 709.023, and 709.024 of the Revised Code, the annexation proceedings shall be conducted under those sections to the exclusion of any other provisions of this chapter unless otherwise provided in this section or the special procedure section chosen.(B) Application for annexation shall be made by a petition filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the territory is located, and the procedures contained in divisions (C), (D), and (E) of section 709.02 of the Revised Code shall be followed, except that all owners, not just a majority of owners, shall sign the petition. To be valid, each petition circulated for the special procedure in section 709.022 or 709.023 of the Revised Code shall contain the notice provided for in division (B) of section 709.022 or division (A) of section 709.023 of the Revised Code, whichever is applicable.(C) Except as otherwise provided in this section, only this section and sections 709.014, 709.015, 709.04, 709.10, 709.11, 709.12, 709.192, 709.20, and 709.21 of the Revised Code apply to the granting of an annexation described in this section.(D) As used in sections 709.022 and 709.024 of the Revised Code, "party" or "parties" means the municipal corporation to which annexation is proposed, each township any portion of which is included within the territory proposed for annexation, and the agent for the petitioners.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.022 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.022 | Petition Where Owners Unanimously Request Annexation.

Effective: March 27, 2002|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 5 - 124th General Assembly|(A) A petition filed under section 709.021 of the Revised Code that requests to follow this section is for the special procedure of annexing land with the consent of all parties. The petition shall be accompanied by a certified copy of an annexation agreement provided for in section 709.192 of the Revised Code or of a cooperative economic development agreement provided for in section 701.07 of the Revised Code, that is entered into by the municipal corporation and each township any portion of which is included within the territory proposed for annexation. Upon the receipt of the petition and the applicable agreement, the board of county commissioners, at the board's next regular session, shall enter upon its journal a resolution granting the annexation, without holding a hearing.(B) Owners who sign a petition requesting that the special procedure in this section be followed expressly waive their right to appeal any action taken by the board of county commissioners under this section. There is no appeal from the board's decision under this section in law or in equity.The petition circulated to collect signatures for the special procedure in this section shall contain in boldface capital letters immediately above the heading of the place for signatures on each part of the petition the following: "WHOEVER SIGNS THIS PETITION EXPRESSLY WAIVES THEIR RIGHT TO APPEAL ANY ACTION ON THE PETITION TAKEN BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. THERE ALSO IS NO APPEAL FROM THE BOARD'S DECISION IN THIS MATTER IN LAW OR IN EQUITY."(C) After the board of county commissioners grants the petition for annexation, the clerk of the board shall deliver a certified copy of the entire record of the annexation proceedings, including all resolutions of the board, signed by a majority of the members of the board, the petition, map, and all other papers on file, and the recording of the proceedings, if a copy is available, to the auditor or clerk of the municipal corporation to which annexation is proposed.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.031 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.031 | Report on Accuracy of Legal Description - Verification of Signatures.

Effective: March 27, 2002|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 5 - 124th General Assembly|(A) Within five days after the petition for annexation is filed with the board of county commissioners, the clerk of the board shall refer the legal description of the perimeter and the map or plat of the territory proposed to be annexed to the county engineer for a report upon the accuracy of the legal description of the perimeter, map, or plat. Upon receiving these items, the county engineer shall file, at least twenty-five days before the hearing, a written report with the board based on the engineer's findings, which shall not be conclusive upon the board. Failure of the engineer to make the report shall not affect the jurisdiction or duty of the board to proceed.(B) The petition may be amended without further notice by leave of the board of county commissioners and with the consent of the agent for the petitioners if the amendment does not add to the territory embraced in the original petition and is made at least fifteen days before the date of the hearing. The board may rerefer the legal description of the perimeter, map, or plat to the county engineer if revisions are made in them, for a report on their accuracy. Upon receiving these items, the county engineer shall file, on or before the date of the hearing, a written report with the board based on the engineer's findings, which shall not be conclusive upon the board. Failure of the engineer to make the report shall not affect the jurisdiction or duty of the board to proceed.(C) The board of township trustees of any township containing any territory proposed for annexation and any owners of real estate in the territory proposed for annexation may request that reasonable proof be presented of the authority of a person signing the petition on behalf of any person other than a natural being, the state, or a political subdivision of the state. The request shall be in writing and be filed with the board of county commissioners and with the agent for the petitioners at least fifteen days prior to the hearing on the petition. When such a request is filed, the agent for the petitioners shall present to the board of county commissioners at the hearing held under section 709.032 of the Revised Code sufficient evidence by affidavit or testimony to establish that the owner is a person other than a natural being, the state, or a political subdivision of the state and that the owner authorized the person whose signature is on the petition to sign the petition on its behalf. If the board does not find the evidence sufficient to establish this authority, it shall remove the signature from the petition.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.04 | Accepting or Rejecting Annexation by Ordinance or Resolution.

Effective: March 27, 2002|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 5 - 124th General Assembly|At the next regular session of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation to which annexation is proposed, after the expiration of sixty days from the date of the delivery required by division (C) of section 709.022 or division (C)(1) of section 709.033 of the Revised Code, the auditor or clerk of that municipal corporation shall lay the resolution of the board granting the petition and the accompanying map or plat and petition before the legislative authority. The legislative authority, by resolution or ordinance, then shall accept or reject the petition for annexation. If the legislative authority fails to pass an ordinance or resolution accepting the petition for annexation within a period of one hundred twenty days after those documents are laid before it by the auditor or clerk, the petition for annexation shall be considered rejected by the legislative authority.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.05 | Rejection of Application - Effect.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If the resolution or ordinance required by section 709.04 of the Revised Code is a rejection of the application for annexation, no further proceedings shall be had. Such rejection shall not be a bar to application thereafter to the board of county commissioners on the same subject.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.06 | Proceedings When Application Allowed.

Effective: January 30, 2014|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 72 - 130th General Assembly|If the resolution or ordinance required by section 709.04 of the Revised Code is an acceptance of the proposed annexation, the auditor or clerk of the municipal corporation to which annexation is proposed shall make three copies containing the petition, the map or plat accompanying the petition, a transcript of the proceedings of the board of county commissioners, and resolutions and ordinances in relation to the annexation, with a certificate to each copy that it is correct. Such certificate shall be signed by the auditor or clerk in the auditor's or clerk's official capacity, and shall be authenticated by the seal of the municipal corporation if there is any. The auditor or clerk shall forthwith deliver one such copy to the county auditor and one such copy to the county recorder, who shall record it in the official records. The other copy shall be forwarded by the auditor or clerk to the secretary of state.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.10 | Effective Date of Annexation and Rights of Inhabitants.

Effective: March 18, 1969|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 108th General Assembly|The annexation shall become effective thirty days after the passage of the resolution or ordinance by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation accepting annexation, provided that if the resolution or ordinance is subjected to a referendum, the annexation, if approved by the electors, shall become effective thirty days after such approval. The territory annexed is a part of the municipal corporation, and the inhabitants residing therein shall have all the rights and privileges, and shall be subject to the powers, of the municipal corporation as are the inhabitants within the original limits of such municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.11 | Territory Situated in More Than One County.

Effective: March 27, 2002|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 5 - 124th General Assembly|If the territory proposed for annexation under this chapter is situated in more than one county, the annexation proceedings shall be in the county in which the majority of acreage of the territory proposed for annexation is situated.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.12 | Apportioning of Indebtedness of Annexed Territory - Division of Funds.

Effective: December 1, 1967|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 220 - 107th General Assembly|When proceedings have been commenced to annex a portion of a township, or portions of more than one township, to a municipal corporation upon which the tax levies made by the board of township trustees for the payment of the township debt do not apply, the county auditor shall ascertain and apportion the amount of existing net indebtedness of the township which shall be assumed and paid by the municipal corportion. The apportionment shall be made in the proportion of the total duplicate for the annexed territory transferred to the municipal corporation to the total tax duplicate remaining in and for the unannexed portion of the township. The auditor shall ascertain, adjust, and divide between the municipal corporation and the unannexed portion of the township any unencumbered balance on hand to the credit of any fund of such township, in the same proportion as is provided in this section for the division and apportionment of indebtedness. No division shall be made of a balance in any fund of a township that is required for the retirement of its indebtedness. In case any net indebtedness is assumed by the municipal corporation as provided in this section, the legislative authority of such municipal corporation shall provide for the payment of such indebtedness by the levy of taxes therefor, or by the appropriation from an appropriate fund. The proceeds of such levy or appropriation shall be transferred to the proper authorities of the township for the final redemption of its indebtedness.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.13 | Annexation of Territory Upon Action by Inhabitants Generally.

Effective: March 27, 2002|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 5 - 124th General Assembly|The inhabitants, generally, of a municipal corporation may enlarge the limits of the municipal corporation by the annexation of contiguous territory in the manner provided by sections 709.14 to 709.16 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.14 | Preliminary Action by Legislative Authority.

Effective: March 27, 2002|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 5 - 124th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation that proposes to annex contiguous territory shall pass, by a vote of not less than a majority of the members elected to the legislative authority, an ordinance authorizing the annexation to be made and directing the village solicitor or city director of law of the municipal corporation, or someone to be named in the ordinance, to prosecute the proceedings necessary to effect it.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.15 | Petition to Board of County Commissioners.

Effective: March 27, 2002|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 5 - 124th General Assembly|The application of a municipal corporation to the board of county commissioners requesting the annexation of contiguous territory under section 709.16 of the Revised Code shall be by a petition setting forth that, under an ordinance of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, the territory described in the petition was authorized to be annexed to the municipal corporation. The petition shall contain an accurate legal description of the perimeter and shall be accompanied by an accurate map or plat of the territory proposed for annexation.
Ohio Rev Code § 709.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 709 | Annexation; Detachment|Section 709.16 | Petition by Municipal Corporation for Annexation.

Effective: March 27, 2002|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 5 - 124th General Assembly|(A) A municipal corporation may petition the board of county commissioners to annex contiguous territory owned only by the municipal corporation, a county, or the state. The clerk of the board shall cause the petition to be entered upon the board's journal at its next regular session. This entry shall be the first official act of the board upon the petition. Proceedings on the petition shall be conducted under this section to the exclusion of any other provisions of this chapter except for sections 709.014, 709.14, 709.15, 709.20, and 709.21 of the Revised Code.(B) If the only territory to be annexed is contiguous territory owned by a municipal corporation, the board of county commissioners, by resolution, shall grant the annexation. The annexation shall be complete upon the entry upon the journal of the board of the resolution granting the annexation.(C) If the only territory to be annexed is contiguous territory owned by a county, the board of county commissioners, by resolution, may grant or deny the annexation. The annexation shall be complete upon the entry upon the journal of the board of a resolution granting the annexation.(D) If the only territory to be annexed is contiguous territory owned by the state and the director of administrative services has filed a written consent to the granting of the annexation with the board of county commissioners, the board, by resolution, shall grant the annexation. The annexation shall be complete upon the entry upon the journal of the board of a resolution granting the annexation.(E) The board of county commissioners shall act upon a petition for annexation filed under this section within thirty days after receipt of the petition.(F) No appeal in law or in equity shall be allowed from the granting of an annexation under this section.(G) When a municipal corporation purchases real property below an appraised fair market value and sells or agrees to sell the property back to the person that sold it to the municipal corporation, an annexation of that property completed under this section shall be void, and the annexed property shall become part of the township from which it was annexed, if it still exists. If the township no longer exists, the board of county commissioners shall attach the annexed territory to another township.(H) Territory annexed under this section shall not be excluded from the township under section 503.07 of the Revised Code.