reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
Ohio Rev Code § 727.013 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.013 | Relocation of Overhead Cables, Wires, and Appurtenant Equipment.

Effective: September 4, 1970|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1017 - 108th General Assembly|A municipal corporation may contract with any corporation, company, partnership, association, or person maintaining overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment on a street of the municipal corporation for the relocation of such overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment underground within the limits of the street. Such contract shall provide for the payment of the contract price by the municipal corporation in not less than five nor more than ten annual installments. Any part of the cost of relocating such overhead wires, cables, and appurtenant equipment to be paid by the municipal corporation pursuant to such contract, or the cost incurred by the municipal corporation in the relocation of its own overhead wires, cables, and appurtenant equipment within street limits, may be assessed upon the abutting, adjacent and contiguous or other specially benefited lots or lands in the municipal corporation in the manner provided in sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code. A proceeding for the relocation of overhead wires, cables, and appurtenant equipment underground may be combined with a proceeding for the furnishing of new street lighting facilities or other street improvement.A municipal corporation may, by ordinance, adopt and enforce regulations requiring owners of property abutting upon a street in which overhead wires, cables, and appurtenant equipment supplying a utility service have been relocated underground and service connections have been provided to the property line, to install underground wires, cables, or conduits from the property line to the buildings or other structures on such property to which such utility service is supplied.
Ohio Rev Code § 727.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.02 | Fixing Value of Lands Not Assessed for Taxation.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In making a special assessment by percentage of the tax value or by the foot front on lots or lands not subdivided into lots, when such lots or lands are not assessed for taxation, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall fix, for the purpose of such assessment, the value of such lots as they stand and of such lands at what the legislative authority considers a fair average depth for lots in the neighborhood, so that it will be a fair average of the assessed value of other lots in the neighborhood. In making assessments either way on land not subdivided into lots but which is assessed for taxation, the legislative authority shall fix the value and depth in the same manner, but such rule shall not apply in making aa special assessment according to benefits.
Ohio Rev Code § 727.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.03 | Limitation on Special Assessments.

Effective: October 9, 1963|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 19 - 105th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall limit all special assessments levied under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to the special benefits conferred upon the property assessed. In no case shall there be levied, under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, upon a lot or parcel of land in the municipal corporation, any assessment for any purpose which, together with all assessments made for all other purposes within a period of five years preceding the passage of the assessing ordinance under section 727.25 of the Revised Code, would be in excess of thirty-three and one-third per cent of the actual value of such lot or parcel including improvements thereon, as enhanced by the improvement for which the assessment is levied, such value to be determined as of the date of the assessing ordinance passed under section 727.25 of the Revised Code, except as provided by section 727.06 of the Revised Code. Assessments levied for the construction of main sewers shall not exceed the sum that, in the opinion of the legislative authority, would be required to construct an ordinary street sewer or drain of sufficient capacity to drain or sewer the lots or lands to be assessed for such improvement, nor shall any lots or lands be assessed that are provided with adequate drainage.
Ohio Rev Code § 727.031 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.031 | Exemption From Special Assessments - Nonprofit Arts Institutions.

Effective: September 30, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly|(A) As used in this section: (1) "Nonprofit arts institution" has the same meaning as in division (G) of section 5709.121 of the Revised Code. (2) "Qualifying real property" means any real property that is located in a county having a population greater than five hundred thousand but less than five hundred forty thousand and that is either (i) owned and operated by a nonprofit arts institution or (ii) owned and operated by a limited liability company whose sole member is a nonprofit arts institution. (B) For tax years 2020 to 2024, qualifying real property is exempt from special assessments levied under Chapter 727. or 729. of the Revised Code, provided no delinquent special assessments and related interest and penalties are levied or assessed against any property owned by the owner and operator of the qualifying real property for that tax year. Last updated July 14, 2021 at 5:24 PM
Ohio Rev Code § 727.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.04 | Assessments for Repaving of Streets.

Effective: January 1, 1962|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 262 - 104th General Assembly|When a special assessment is levied under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation for the reimproving of any street within the municipal corporation by paving, for the original paving of which a special assessment has previously been levied by ordinance of the municipal corporation within the last twenty years, such assessments for repaving shall not exceed fifty per cent of the cost of such repaving.
Ohio Rev Code § 727.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.05 | Portion of Improvement Cost to Be Paid by Municipal Corporation.

Effective: January 1, 1962|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 262 - 104th General Assembly|The municipal corporation shall pay such part of the total cost of improvements for which special assessments are levied under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, as the legislative authority thereof deems just, which part shall not be less than one-fiftieth of the total cost of the improvement, and in addition thereto, the municipal corporation shall pay the cost of intersections, except as provided by section 727.06 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 727.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.06 | Petition by 60% of Owners of Front Footage for Improvement.

Effective: October 9, 1963|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 19 - 105th General Assembly|When a petition subscribed by the owners of sixty per cent of the front footage of property abutting upon a street, alley, public road, place, boulevard, parkway, park entrance, easement, or other public improvement in a municipal corporation, or the owners of seventy-five per cent of the area to be assessed for such improvement, requesting such improvement, is regularly presented to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, the total cost of such improvement, including the cost of intersections, regardless of the limitations of sections 727.03 and 727.04 of the Revised Code, and without reference to the value of the lands of those who subscribe to such petition, may be assessed and collected in equal annual installments, proportioned to the whole assessment, in a manner which may be fixed by the legislative authority. When the lot or land of one who did not subscribe to the petition is assessed, such assessment shall not exceed the thirty-three and one-third per cent limitation prescribed by section 727.03 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 727.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.07 | Change in Grade Assessment.

Effective: January 1, 1962|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 262 - 104th General Assembly|When a street, alley, public highway, sidewalk, wharf, or landing within a municipal corporation is graded, or pavements are constructed in conformity to grades established by the authorities of the municipal corporation, and the expense of such work is assessed on the lots or lands benefited thereby, such lots or lands shall not be subject to any special assessment occasioned by any subsequent change of grade in such pavement, sidewalk, street, alley, public highway, wharf, or landing unless a petition for the change is subscribed by a majority of such owners. The expense of improvements occasioned by such change of grade, not so petitioned for, shall be included as part of the cost of the improvement to be paid by the municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 727.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.08 | Determining Total Cost of Public Improvement.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|The cost of any public improvement to be paid for directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by funds derived from special assessments may include but not be limited to: (A) The purchase price of real estate or any interest therein when acquired by purchase, or not more than fifty per cent of the cost of acquiring such real estate or any interest therein when acquired by appropriation;(B) The cost of preliminary and other surveys;(C) The cost of preparing plans, specifications, profiles, and estimates except, to the extent that costs of plans, specifications, and estimates of cost have been paid for by the levy of assessments under section 729.11 of the Revised Code, such costs shall not be included in determining the cost of the improvement under this section;(D) The cost of printing, serving, and publishing notices and summaries of resolutions and ordinances;(E) The cost of all special proceedings;(F) The cost of labor and material, whether furnished by contract or otherwise;(G) Interest on securities issued in anticipation of the levy and collection of the special assessments or, if securities in anticipation of the levy of the special assessments are not issued, interest, at a rate to be determined by the legislative authority in the resolution of necessity adopted pursuant to section 727.12 of the Revised Code, on moneys advanced by the municipal corporation for the cost of the public improvement in anticipation of the levy of the special assessments;(H) The total amount of damages, resulting from the improvement, assessed in favor of any owner of lands affected by the improvement, and interest thereon;(I) The cost incurred in connection with the preparation, levy, and collection of the special assessments, including legal expenses incurred by reason of the improvement;(J) Incidental costs directly connected with the improvement.
Ohio Rev Code § 727.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.09 | Special Assessment Proceedings May Include More Than One Improvement.

Effective: September 4, 1970|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1017 - 108th General Assembly|When it is determined by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation and is recited in the resolution of necessity adopted under section 727.12 of the Revised Code, that the streets, alleys, easements, or other public places, or parts thereof, to be improved by construction of sidewalks, curbs, gutters, sewers, drains, or water lines or by paving, lighting, relocating overhead wires, cables, and appurtenant equipment underground, or treating the surface with dust-laying or preservative substances, sprinkling, sweeping, or cleaning are so situated in relation to each other that in order to complete the improvement thereof in the most practical and economical manner they should be improved at the same time, with the same kind of materials, and in the same manner, then such streets, alleys, easements, or other public places, or parts thereof, may be treated as a single improvement, and one resolution, ordinance, or contract providing for such improvement may include one or more of such streets, alleys, easements, or other public places, or parts thereof, at the discretion of the legislative authority, whose determination in respect thereto shall be final.
Ohio Rev Code § 727.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.10 | Describing Lots and Lands to Be Charged.

Effective: January 1, 1962|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 262 - 104th General Assembly|In all proceedings in which lots or lands are to be charged with special assessments to pay any part of the cost of a public improvement, such lots and lands bounding and abutting upon the improvement may be described as all the lots and lands bounding and abutting upon such improvement between and including the termini of the improvement and those lots and lands which do not so bound and abut may be described by their appropriate lot numbers or by metes and bounds.
Ohio Rev Code § 727.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.11 | Annual Installment Payment Schedules.

Effective: November 1, 1991|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 104 - 119th General Assembly|Special assessments for any improvement under this chapter shall be payable in annual installments pursuant to one or more payment schedules authorized by the legislative authority in the resolution of necessity adopted pursuant to section 727.12 of the Revised Code. Except as otherwise provided in section 727.251 of the Revised Code, the number of annual installments of any assessment for street lighting purposes or to pay the costs of relocating overhead wires, cables, and appurtenant equipment underground shall not exceed thirty and the number of annual installments of all other assessments shall not exceed the maximum maturity for which securities could be issued in anticipation thereof under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code. If no period of maximum maturity is so specified, then the period for which such other assessments shall be levied, except as otherwise provided under section 727.251 of the Revised Code, shall not be less than one year, but may not exceed the estimated life of the usefullness of the improvement as certified by the fiscal officer of the municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 727.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.13 | Notice of Passage of Resolution of Necessity and Filing of Estimated Assessment.

Effective: April 12, 2021|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 259 - 133rd General Assembly|(A) Notice of the passage of a resolution of necessity and the filing of the estimated assessment under section 727.12 of the Revised Code, shall, after the estimated assessment has been made and filed as provided by section 727.12 of the Revised Code, be served by the clerk of the legislative authority, or a person designated by such clerk, upon the owners of the lots or parcels of land to be assessed for the proposed improvement, in the same manner as service of summons in civil cases, or by certified mail addressed to such owner at the owner's last known address or to the address to which tax bills are sent, or by a combination of the foregoing methods.  (B)(1) If it appears by the return of service or the return of the certified mail notice that one or more of the owners cannot be found, such owners shall be served by either or both of the following methods: (a) Publication of the notice once in a newspaper of general circulation within the municipal corporation; (b) Publication of the notice on the web site of the municipal corporation.  (2) The notice shall also set forth the place where such estimated assessments are on file and are open for public inspection.  (C) The return of the person serving the notice or a certified copy thereof or a returned receipt for notice forwarded by certified mail accepted by the addressee or anyone purporting to act for the addressee shall be prima-facie evidence of the service of notice under this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 727.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.14 | Publishing Notice of Certain Special Assessments.

Effective: April 12, 2021|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 259 - 133rd General Assembly|(A) In lieu of the procedure provided in section 727.13 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority may provide for notice of the passage of a resolution of necessity providing for the lighting, sprinkling, sweeping, or cleaning of any street, alley, public road, or place, or parts thereof or for treating the surface of the same with dust-laying or preservative substances, or for the planting, maintaining, and removing of shade trees, or for the constructing, maintaining, repairing, cleaning, and enclosing of ditches, and the filing of the estimated assessment under section 727.12 of the Revised Code, to be given by any or all of the following methods: (1) Publication of such notice once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipal corporation; (2) Publication of such notice on the web site of the municipal corporation; (3) As provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code.  (B) When it appears from the estimated assessment filed as provided by section 727.12 of the Revised Code, that the assessment against the owner of any lot or parcel of land will exceed five hundred dollars, such owner shall be notified of the assessment in the manner provided in section 727.13 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 727.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.15 | Objection Filed by Owner.

Effective: January 1, 1962|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 262 - 104th General Assembly|The owner of any lot or parcel of land who objects to the amount or apportionment of, or the assessment against such lot or parcel as set forth in the estimated assessment filed under section 727.12 of the Revised Code, shall file such objection, in writing, with the clerk of the legislative authority within two weeks from the date of completion of the notice required under section 727.13 of the Revised Code. Such objection shall include the address for mailing of the notice provided in section 727.16 of the Revised Code. An owner who fails to so file an objection shall be deemed to have waived any objection.
Ohio Rev Code § 727.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.16 | Assessment Equalization Board.

Effective: January 1, 1962|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 262 - 104th General Assembly|In the event the owner of any lot or parcel of land to be assessed objects to the amount or apportionment of the estimated assessment or to the assessment against such lot or parcel, as provided in section 727.15 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation shall appoint an assessment equalization board, consisting of three disinterested freeholders of the municipal corporation, and shall fix the time and place for the hearing by such board of such objections, and the clerk of the legislative authority shall notify, by certified mail, the persons so objecting of the time and place of such hearing. Such notice shall be mailed at least five days before the date of such hearing. In the event that all lands within the municipal corporation are to be subject to assessment, the assessment equalization board shall consist of three disinterested freeholders from the county outside the municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 727.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.17 | Powers and Duties of Board.

Effective: January 1, 1962|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 262 - 104th General Assembly|On the day appointed by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation for that purpose, the assessment equalization board appointed under section 727.16 of the Revised Code, shall meet and take an oath before a proper officer to honestly and impartially discharge its duties. It shall at such meeting or at any adjournment thereof, hear and determine all objections to the estimated assessment which have been filed under section 727.15 of the Revised Code, and shall equalize such estimated assessments as it thinks proper to conform to the standards prescribed in the resolution adopted under section 727.12 of the Revised Code.If the board determines to increase the estimated assessment against any lot or parcel of land or to assess any lot or parcel of land not included in the estimated assessment and the owner of such lot or parcel of land has not filed an objection to the estimated assessment under section 727.15 of the Revised Code, the board shall notify such owner by certified mail of such fact and set a time and place for a hearing on such increase or assessment. Such notice shall be mailed at least five days before the date of such hearing.After the completion of all hearings provided for by this section the board shall report to the legislative authority its recommendations including any changes which should be made in the estimated assessment.The legislative authority may approve or disapprove the report including any changes recommended by the board in the estimated assessment.In the event the legislative authority disapproves the report of the board it shall appoint a new equalization board and shall fix the time and place for the hearing by such board of objections to the estimated assessments. Such new board shall have the same powers and duties and shall proceed in the same manner as the original board.
Ohio Rev Code § 727.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 727 | Assessments - Generally|Section 727.18 | Filing Damage Claims.

Effective: January 1, 1962|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 262 - 104th General Assembly|An owner of a lot or parcel of land, claiming that he will sustain damages by reason of a proposed public improvement, to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessments, shall, within two weeks from the date of completion of the notice required under section 727.13 of the Revised Code, file a claim in writing with the clerk of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, setting forth the amount of the damages claimed and a general description of the property with respect to which it is claimed such damages will accrue. An owner who fails to file such claim, shall be deemed to have waived damages and shall be barred from filing a claim or receiving damages. This section applies to all damages which will obviously result from the improvement, but shall not deprive the owner of his right to recover damages arising, without his fault, from the acts of the municipal corporation or its agents. If, subsequent to the filing of such claim, the owner sells the property, or any part thereof, the assignee has the same right to damages which the owner would have had without the transfer.