Ohio Rev Code § 3735.672 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3735 | Metropolitan Housing Authority|Section 3735.672 | Annual Report.

Effective: September 29, 2017|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly|(A) On or before the thirty-first day of March each year, a legislative authority that has entered into an agreement with a party under section 3735.671 of the Revised Code shall submit to the director of development services and the board of education of each school district of which a municipal corporation or township to which such an agreement applies is a part a report on all such agreements in effect during the preceding calendar year. The report shall include the following information:(1) The designation, assigned by the director of development services, of each community reinvestment area within the municipal corporation or county, and the total population of each area according to the most recent data available;(2) The number of agreements and the number of full-time employees subject to those agreements within each area, each according to the most recent data available and identified and categorized by the appropriate standard industrial code, and the rate of unemployment in the municipal corporation or county in which the area is located for each year since the area was certified;(3) The number of agreements approved and executed during the calendar year for which the report is submitted, the total number of agreements in effect on the thirty-first day of December of the preceding calendar year, the number of agreements that expired during the calendar year for which the report is submitted, and the number of agreements scheduled to expire during the calendar year in which the report is submitted. For each agreement that expired during the calendar year for which the report is submitted, the legislative authority shall include the amount of taxes exempted under the agreement.(4) The number of agreements receiving compliance reviews by the tax incentive review council in the municipal corporation or county during the calendar year for which the report is submitted, including all of the following information:(a) The number of agreements the terms of which the party has complied with, indicating separately for each such agreement the value of the real property exempted pursuant to the agreement and a comparison of the stipulated and actual schedules for hiring new employees, for retaining existing employees, and for the amount of payroll of the party attributable to these employees;(b) The number of agreements the terms of which a party has failed to comply with, indicating separately for each such agreement the value of the real and personal property exempted pursuant to the agreement and a comparison of the stipulated and actual schedules for hiring new employees, for retaining existing employees, and for the amount of payroll of the enterprise attributable to these employees;(c) The number of agreements about which the tax incentive review council made recommendations to the legislative authority, and the number of such recommendations that have not been followed;(d) The number of agreements rescinded during the calendar year for which the report is submitted.(5) The number of parties subject to agreements that expanded within each area, including the number of new employees hired and existing employees retained by that party, and the number of new parties subject to agreements that established within each area, including the number of new employees hired by each party;(6) For each agreement in effect during any part of the preceding year, the number of employees employed by the party at the property that is the subject of the agreement immediately prior to formal approval of the agreement, the number of employees employed by the party at that property on the thirty-first day of December of the preceding year, the payroll of the party for the preceding year, the amount of taxes paid on real property that was exempted under the agreement, and the amount of such taxes that were not paid because of the exemption.(B) Upon the failure of a municipal corporation or county to comply with division (A) of this section:(1) Beginning on the first day of April of the calendar year in which the municipal corporation or county fails to comply with that division, the municipal corporation or county shall not enter into any agreements under section 3735.671 of the Revised Code until the municipal corporation or county has complied with division (A) of this section.(2) On the first day of each ensuing calendar month until the municipal corporation or county complies with that division, the director of development services shall either order the proper county auditor to deduct from the next succeeding payment of taxes to the municipal corporation or county under section 321.31, 321.32, 321.33, or 321.34 of the Revised Code an amount equal to five hundred dollars for each calendar month the municipal corporation or county fails to comply with that division, or order the county auditor to deduct such an amount from the next succeeding payment to the municipal corporation or county from the undivided local government fund under section 5747.51 of the Revised Code. At the time such a payment is made, the county auditor shall comply with the director's order by issuing a warrant, drawn on the fund from which such money would have been paid, to the director of development services, who shall deposit the warrant into the state community reinvestment area program administration fund created in division (C) of this section.(C) The director, by rule, shall establish the state's application fee for applications submitted to a municipal corporation or county to enter into an agreement under section 3735.671 of the Revised Code. In establishing the amount of the fee, the director shall consider the state's cost of administering the community reinvestment area program, including the cost of reviewing the reports required under division (A) of this section. The director may change the amount of the fee at such times and in such increments as the director considers necessary. Any municipal corporation or county that receives an application shall collect the application fee and remit the fee for deposit in the state treasury to the credit of the tax incentives operating fund created in section 122.174 of the Revised Code.