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Ohio Rev Code § 5301.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.03 | Grantee as Trustee or Agent.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|"Trustees," "as trustee," or "agent," or words of similar import, following the name grantee in any deed of conveyance or mortgage of land executed and recorded, without other language showing a trust or expressly limiting the grantee's or mortgagee's powers, or for whose benefit the same is made, or other recorded instrument showing such trust and its terms, do not give notice to or put upon inquiry any person dealing with said land that a trust or agency exists, or that there are beneficiaries of said conveyance or mortgage other than the grantee and those persons disclosed by the record, or that there are any limitations on the power of the grantee to convey or mortgage said land, or to assign or release any mortgage held by such grantee. As to all subsequent bona fide purchasers, mortgagees, lessees, and assignees for value, a conveyance, mortgage, assignment, or release of mortgage by such grantee, whether or not his name is followed by "trustee," "as trustee," "agent," or words of similar import, conveys a title or lien free from the claims of any undisclosed beneficiaries, and free from any obligation on the part of any purchaser, mortgagee, lessee, or assignee to see to the application of any purchase money. This section does not apply to suits brought prior to July 16, 1927, in which any such deeds of conveyance, leases, or mortgages are called in question, or in which the rights of any beneficiaries in the lands described therein are involved. This section does not prevent the original grantor, trustor, undisclosed beneficiary, or anyone claiming under them, from bringing suits other than suits affecting land which is the subject of such conveyance or mortgage.
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.04 | Deed, Mortgage, or Lease of a Married Person.

Effective: February 1, 2002|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 279 - 124th General Assembly|A deed, mortgage, or lease of any interest of a married person in real property shall be signed, acknowledged, and certified as provided in section 5301.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.05 | Discriminatory Restrictive Covenants - Void.

Effective: September 30, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly|(A) Discriminatory restrictive covenants in deeds limiting the transfer or lease of real property to individuals against whom discrimination is prohibited by division (H)(1) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code are void. If an attorney, in preparing a deed, discovers a discriminatory covenant that is void under this section, the attorney may omit the discriminatory restrictive covenant from the new deed with immunity from civil liability. (B) Omission of a discriminatory restrictive covenant from a deed pursuant to division (A) of this section does not affect the validity of the deed. No county recorder shall refuse to record a deed pursuant to division (B) of section 317.13 of the Revised Code due to such omission. Last updated September 9, 2021 at 2:29 PM
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.06 | Instruments Executed According to Law of Place Where Made.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|All deeds, mortgages, powers of attorney, and other instruments of writing for the conveyance or encumbrance of lands, tenements, or hereditaments situated within this state, executed and acknowledged, or proved, in any other state, territory, or country in conformity with the laws of such state, territory, or country, or in conformity with the laws of this state, are as valid as if executed within this state, in conformity with sections 1337.01 to 1337.03, inclusive, and 5301.01 to 5301.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.071 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.071 | Validity of Instruments Not Affected by Certain Actions or Omissions.

Effective: March 22, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 117 - 129th General Assembly|No instrument conveying real property, or any interest in real property, and of record in the office of the county recorder of the county within this state in which that real property is situated shall be considered defective nor shall the validity of that conveyance be affected because of any of the following: (A) The dower interest of the spouse of any grantor was not specifically released, but that spouse executed the instrument in the manner provided in section 5301.01 of the Revised Code.(B) The officer taking the acknowledgment of the instrument having an official seal did not affix that seal to the certificate of acknowledgment.(C) The certificate of acknowledgment is not on the same sheet of paper as the instrument.(D) The executor, administrator, guardian, assignee, or trustee making the instrument signed or acknowledged the same individually instead of in a representative or official capacity.(E)(1) The grantor or grantee of the instrument is a trust rather than the trustee or trustees of the trust if the trust named as grantor or grantee has been duly created under the laws of the state of its existence at the time of the conveyance and a memorandum of trust that complies with section 5301.255 of the Revised Code and contains a description of the real property conveyed by that instrument is recorded in the office of the county recorder in which the instrument of conveyance is recorded. Upon compliance with division (E)(1) of this section, a conveyance to a trust shall be considered to be a conveyance to the trustee or trustees of the trust in furtherance of the manifest intention of the parties. (2) Except as otherwise provided in division (E)(2) of this section, division (E)(1) of this section shall be given retroactive effect to the fullest extent permitted under section 28 of Article II, Ohio Constitution. Division (E) of this section shall not be given retroactive or curative effect if to do so would invalidate or supersede any instrument that conveys real property, or any interest in the real property, recorded in the office of the county recorder in which that real property is situated prior to the date of recording of a curative memorandum of trust or the effective date of this section, whichever event occurs later.
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.072 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.072 | Deed Restrictions Prohibiting Placement of Flag Unenforceable.

Effective: March 21, 2017|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 18 - 131st General Assembly|(A) No covenant, condition, or restriction set forth in a deed, and no rule, regulation, bylaw, or other governing document or agreement of a homeowners, neighborhood, civic, or other association, shall prohibit or be construed to prohibit any of the following: (1) The placement on any property of a flagpole that is to be used for the purpose of displaying the flag of the United States, the flag of the state as defined in section 5.01 of the Revised Code, or the national league of families POW/MIA flag provided the flag and flag pole shall be of an appropriate size, consistent with the size and character of the buildings that are subject to the requirements or agreements of a homeowner, neighborhood, civic, or other association; (2) The display on any property of the flag of the United States or the national league of families POW/MIA flag if the flag is displayed in accordance with any of the following: (a) The patriotic customs set forth in 4 U.S.C. 5-10, and 36 U.S.C. 902 governing the display and use of the flag; (b) The consent of the property's owner or of any person having lawful control of the property; (c) The recommended flagpole standards set forth in "Our Flag," published pursuant to S.C.R. 61 of the 105th Congress, 1st Session (1998); (d) Any federal law, proclamation of the president of the United States or the governor, section of the Revised Code, or local ordinance or resolution. (3) The display on any property of the state flag as defined in section 5.01 of the Revised Code if the flag is displayed in accordance with any of the following:  (a) The consent of the property's owner or of any person having lawful control of the property;  (b) Any state law, local ordinance or resolution, or proclamation by the governor of the state. (4) The display of a service flag approved by the United States secretary of defense for display in a window of the residence of a member of the immediate family of an individual serving in the armed forces of the United States. A service flag includes a blue star banner, a gold star banner, and any other flag the secretary of defense designates as a service flag. (B) A covenant, condition, restriction, rule, regulation, bylaw, governing document, or agreement or a construction of any of these items that violates division (A) of this section is against public policy and unenforceable in any court of this state to the extent it violates that division.
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.08 | Certain Leases Unaffected.

Effective: February 1, 2002|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 279 - 124th General Assembly|Sections 5301.01 to 5301.45 of the Revised Code do not affect the validity of any lease of lands appropriated by congress for the support of schools or for ministerial purposes for any term not exceeding ten years or of any other lands for any term not exceeding three years or require that lease to be acknowledged or recorded.
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.09 | Recording Lease of Natural Gas and Petroleum.

Effective: March 23, 2015|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 9 - 130th General Assembly|In recognition that such leases and licenses create an interest in real estate, all leases, licenses, and assignments thereof, or of any interest therein, given or made concerning lands or tenements in this state, by which any right is granted to operate or to sink or drill wells thereon for natural gas and petroleum or either, or pertaining thereto, shall be filed for record and recorded in such lease record without delay, and shall not be removed until recorded. No such lease or assignment thereof shall be accepted for record after September 24, 1963, unless it contains the mailing address of both the lessor and lessee or assignee. If the county in which the land subject to any such lease is located maintains permanent parcel numbers or sectional indexes pursuant to section 317.20 of the Revised Code, no such lease shall be accepted for record after December 31, 1984, unless it contains the applicable permanent parcel number and the information required by section 317.20 of the Revised Code to index such lease in the sectional indexes; and, in the event any such lease recorded after December 31, 1984, is subsequently assigned in whole or in part, and the county in which the land subject thereto is located maintains records by microfilm or other microphotographic process, the assignment shall contain the same descriptive information required to be included in the original lease by this sentence, but the omission of the information required by this section does not affect the validity of any lease. Whenever any such lease is forfeited for failure of the lessee, the lessee's successors or assigns to abide by specifically described covenants provided for in the lease, or because the term of the lease has expired, the lessee, the lessee's successors or assigns, shall have such lease released of record in the county where such land is situated without cost to the owner thereof.No such lease or license is valid until it is filed for record, except as between the parties thereto, unless the person claiming thereunder is in actual and open possession.
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.10 | Parties Defendant in Suits to Cancel Leases.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The plaintiff in an action to cancel a lease or license mentioned in section 5301.09 of the Revised Code, or in any way involving it, in order to finally adjudicate and determine all questions involving such lease or license in such action, need only make those persons defendants, so far as such lease or license is involved, who claim thereunder and are in actual and open possession, and those who then appear of record, or by the files in such office, to own or have an interest in such lease or license. If there is no claimant in actual and open possession, and no persons whose interest appears of record or file, then so far as such lease or license is involved, it will only be necessary to make the original lessee or licensee defendant in order to finally adjudicate and determine all questions concerning such lease or license.
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.11 | Effect of Destruction of Building Upon Lessee.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The lessee of a building which, without fault or neglect on his part, is destroyed or so injured as to be unfit for occupancy, is not liable to pay rent to the lessor or owner thereof, after such destruction or injury, unless otherwise expressly provided by written agreement or covenant. The lessee thereupon must surrender possession of such premises.
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.12 | Purchaser at Tax Sale.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When real estate is sold at tax sale, and the purchaser has received a deed therefor, and it has been placed upon the tax duplicate in his name, or those claiming under him, who openly and notoriously claim the title and ownership to such property, and pay the taxes thereon, as against any title acquired by deed executed after such tax sale, such facts are prima-facie evidence of the possession of such real estate by such purchaser, or those holding under him, from the date of such sale until it is set aside or redeemed. The knowledge, by a person acquiring title by deed executed after such tax sale, of the payment of taxes, and the claim of title and ownership shall, as to him, be conclusive proof of possession.
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.13 | Mode of Conveyance by State.

Effective: September 30, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly|All conveyances of real estate, or any interest therein, sold on behalf of the state shall be drafted by the director of administrative services, executed in the name of the state, signed by the governor, countersigned by the secretary of state, and sealed with the great seal of the state. The director of administrative services thereupon must record such conveyance in books to be kept by the director of administrative services for that purpose, deliver them to the persons entitled thereto, and keep a record of such delivery, showing to whom delivered and the date thereof. Last updated August 12, 2021 at 3:42 PM
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.14 | Copy of Record of Lost Deed to Be Evidence.

Effective: September 30, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly|When a title deed, recorded by the director of administrative services as required by section 5301.13 of the Revised Code, or recorded in the office of the secretary of state, the record of which is required to be kept in the office of the director of administrative services, has been lost or destroyed by accident, without having been recorded in the county recorder's office, on demand and tender of the fees therefor, the director of administrative services shall furnish to any person a copy of such deed certified under the director of administrative services' official seal, which copy shall be received everywhere in this state as prima-facie evidence of the existence of the deed, and in all respects shall have the effect of certified copies from the official records of the county where such lands are situated. Last updated August 12, 2021 at 3:43 PM
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.15 | Governor May Execute New Deed to Supply Lost Conveyance.

Effective: September 30, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly|When a deed executed for land purchase from the state is lost or destroyed, or when a person who has an interest in such land, by the use of diligence cannot find it, and no record exists from which a certified copy can be made to supply the evidence of such deed, or when a certificate of the purchase of land sold at a land office of this state, or any other contract, bond, or memorandum evidencing a purchase of land has been lost or destroyed, or when from any cause the owner of such land, by the use of diligence, cannot find such certificate, contract, bond, or memorandum, the governor, when satisfied that the original purchase money for such land has been fully paid, shall execute a deed therefor in the name of the original purchaser which must recite the facts authorizing its making. Such deed shall be recorded in the office of the director of administrative services who shall transmit it to the present claimant. Such deed has the same effect as the original deed, had it been preserved and recorded, or as a deed would have had, made to the original purchaser upon the date of the full payment of the purchase money. Last updated August 11, 2021 at 1:31 PM
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.16 | Execution of Conveyance by State When Purchaser Dies Before Deed Made.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the purchaser of land from the state dies before a deed is made, and the lands pass to another by descent or devise, and the title still remains in him, or when the person to whom the lands have so passed has conveyed them or his interest therein to another person, by deed of general warranty or quitclaim, upon the proof of such facts being made to him and the attorney general, the governor shall execute the deed directly to the person entitled to the lands, although such person derives his title through one or more successive conveyances from the person to whom the lands passed by descent or devise.
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.17 | New Deed From State to Correct Errors.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When, from satisfactory evidence, it appears to the governor and attorney general that an error has occurred in a deed executed and delivered in the name of the state, or in the certificate of any public officer, upon which, if correct, a conveyance would be required from the state, the governor shall correct such error by the execution of a correct title deed, according to the intent and object of the original purchase or conveyance, to the party entitled to it, his heirs, or legal assigns, and take from such party a release to the state of the property erroneously conveyed.
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.18 | Deeds From State Must Recite Facts.

Effective: September 30, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly|All deeds executed under sections 5301.15, 5301.16, and 5301.17 of the Revised Code must recite the facts, as ascertained by the governor and attorney general, upon the proof of which they are executed, and shall be recorded in the office of the director of administrative services. Last updated August 11, 2021 at 1:31 PM
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.19 | Release of Mortgage to the State.

Effective: October 10, 1963|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 566 - 105th General Assembly|When lands or tenements are mortgaged to the state to secure the payment of money due the state, and the money so secured, together with the legal interest due thereon, is paid to the treasurer of state, or other person authorized to receive it, the governor shall sign and deliver to the mortgagor, his heirs, or assigns, a deed of release of the real estate so mortgaged.
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.20 | Reversion to Owner of Land Conveyed to State.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When a conveyance of lands or tenements made to the state contains a condition that the real estate so conveyed shall revert to the grantor on the payment of a certain sum of money, or on the performance of other conditions, and the money, with legal interest thereon, from the time it was due or payable, is paid to the treasurer of state, or other person authorized to receive it, or the other conditions stated in such deed are performed according to the stipulations contained therein, on receiving a certificate from the proper officer of such payment or other performance, the governor shall execute and deliver to the grantor, his heirs, or assigns, a deed of release for the property so conveyed.When there has been a foreclosure of the equity of redemption for the nonperformance of the conditions stated in any such deed of conveyance, this section and section 5301.19 of the Revised Code are inoperative as to such case.
Ohio Rev Code § 5301.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances|Section 5301.21 | Adjoining Owners May Fix Corner or Line.

Effective: September 30, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly|When the owners of adjoining tracts of land, or of lots in a municipal corporation, agree upon the site of a corner or line common to such tracts or lots, in a written instrument containing a pertinent description thereof, either with or without a plat, executed, acknowledged, and recorded as are deeds, such corner or line thenceforth shall be established as between the parties to such agreement, and all persons subsequently deriving title from them. Such agreement shall be recorded by the county recorder in the official records. The original agreement, after being so recorded, or a certified copy thereof from the record, is competent evidence in any court in this state against a party thereto, or person in privity with a party. When a tract of land is owned by the state, the officer or board having administrative control thereof, with the approval of the attorney general, may execute said written instrument and following recording in the county where the land is situated, said instrument shall be filed with the director of administrative services with the evidence of title to the land affected. Last updated August 11, 2021 at 1:32 PM