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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 503 | General Provisions › Section 503.43 | Application for Permit to Operate Massage Establishment.

Effective:
June 3, 1992
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 247 - 119th General Assembly
If a board of township trustees has adopted a resolution under section 503.41 of the Revised Code, the application for a permit to operate a massage establishment shall be made to the board and shall include the following:
(A) An initial, nonrefundable filing fee of two hundred fifty dollars and an annual nonrefundable renewal fee of one hundred twenty-five dollars;
(B) A health and safety report of an inspection of the premises performed within thirty days of the application to determine compliance with applicable health and safety codes, which inspection appropriate state or local authorities acting pursuant to an agreement with the board shall perform;
(C) The full name and address of any person applying for a permit, including any partner or limited partner of a partnership applicant, any officer or director of a corporate applicant, and any stock holder holding more than two per cent of the stock of a corporate applicant, the date of birth and social security number of each individual, and the federal identification number of any partnership or corporation;
(D) Authorization for an investigation into the criminal record of any person applying for a permit;
(E) Any other information determined by the board to be necessary.
A permit issued under this section to a massage establishment shall expire one year after the date of issuance, except that no massage establishment shall be required to discontinue business because of the failure of the board to act on a renewal application filed in a timely manner and pending before the board on the expiration date of the establishment's permit. Each permit shall contain the name of the applicant, the address of the massage establishment, and the expiration date of the permit.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 503 | General Provisions › Section 503.44 | Denial or Revocation of Permit.

Effective:
June 3, 1992
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 247 - 119th General Assembly
If a board of township trustees has adopted a resolution under section 503.41 of the Revised Code, it shall deny any application for a permit to operate a massage establishment or revoke a previously issued permit, for any of the following reasons:
(A) Falsification of any of the information required for the application or failure to fully complete the application;
(B) Failure to cooperate with any required health or safety inspection;
(C) Any one of the persons named on the application is under the age of eighteen;
(D) Any one of the persons named on the application has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any violation of Chapter 2907. of the Revised Code, or violation of any municipal ordinance that is substantially equivalent to any offense contained in Chapter 2907. of the Revised Code, within five years preceding the application;
(E) Any masseur or masseuse employed at the licensed massage establishment has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of division (D) of section 503.42 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 503 | General Provisions › Section 503.45 | Application for License as Massager.

Effective:
March 31, 2003
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 245 - 124th General Assembly
If a board of township trustees has adopted a resolution under section 503.41 of the Revised Code, the application for a license as a massager shall be made to the board and shall include the following:
(A) An initial, nonrefundable filing fee of one hundred dollars and an annual nonrefundable renewal fee of fifty dollars;
(B) The results of a physical examination performed by a licensed physician, a physician assistant, a clinical nurse specialist, a certified nurse practitioner, or a certified nurse-midwife within thirty days of the application certifying that the applicant is free from communicable diseases;
(C) The full name, date of birth, address, and social security number of the applicant;
(D) The results of an investigation by appropriate police agencies into the criminal record of the applicant, including a photograph taken no later than thirty days prior to the application, fingerprints, and background investigation;
(E) Any other information determined by the board to be necessary.
A license issued under this section to a massager shall expire one year after the date of issuance, except that no massager shall be required to discontinue performing massages because of the failure of the board to act on a renewal application filed in a timely manner and pending before the board on the expiration date of the person's license. Each license shall contain the full name of the applicant, a color photograph and a brief description of the person, and the expiration date of the license.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 503 | General Provisions › Section 503.46 | Denial or Revocation of License.

Effective:
June 3, 1992
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 247 - 119th General Assembly
If a board of township trustees has adopted a resolution under section 503.41 of the Revised Code, it shall deny the application for a masseur or masseuse license or revoke a previously issued license for any of the following reasons:
(A) Falsification of any of the information required for the application or failure to fully complete the application;
(B) The applicant is under the age of twenty-one.
(C) The applicant has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any violation of Chapter 2907. of the Revised Code, or violation of any municipal ordinance that is substantially equivalent to any offense contained in Chapter 2907. of the Revised Code, within five years preceding the application.
(D) The applicant has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of division (D) of section 503.42 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 503 | General Provisions › Section 503.47 | Requirements of Operation.

Effective:
March 31, 2003
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 245 - 124th General Assembly
If a board of township trustees has adopted a resolution under section 503.41 of the Revised Code, the regulations adopted for that purpose may require any of the following:
(A) A massage establishment to display its current permit in an area open to the public;
(B) Each massager to display the massager's license at all times in the areas where the licensee is providing massages;
(C) Massage establishments to undergo periodic health and safety inspections to determine continual compliance with applicable health and safety codes;
(D) Massagers to undergo periodic physical examinations performed by a licensed physician, a physician assistant, a clinical nurse specialist, a certified nurse practitioner, or a certified nurse-midwife certifying that the massager continues to be free from communicable diseases;
(E) Any other requirement reasonably thought necessary by the board.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 503 | General Provisions › Section 503.48 | Proceedings of Board.

Effective:
June 3, 1992
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 247 - 119th General Assembly
A board of township trustees acting under sections 503.40 to 503.49 of the Revised Code need not hold any hearing in connection with an order denying or revoking a permit to operate a massage establishment or masseur or masseuse license. The board shall maintain a complete record of each proceeding and shall notify the applicant in writing of its order. Any person adversely affected by an order of the board denying or revoking a permit to operate a massage establishment or masseur or masseuse license may appeal from the order of the board to the court of common pleas of the county in which the township is located, the place of business of the permit holder is located, or the person is a resident. The appeal shall be in accordance with Chapter 2506. of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 503 | General Provisions › Section 503.49 | Fees Deposit and Use.

Effective:
June 3, 1992
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 247 - 119th General Assembly
If a board of township trustees has adopted a resolution under section 503.41 of the Revised Code, the board shall deposit the fees collected by the township for massage establishment permits and masseur and masseuse licenses in the township general fund and first use the fees for the cost of administering and enforcing regulations adopted under section 503.41 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 503 | General Provisions › Section 503.50 | Penalties.

Effective:
July 1, 1996
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly
(A) Whoever violates division (A) or (B) of section 503.42 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(B) Whoever violates division (C), (D), or (E) of section 503.42 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 503 | General Provisions › Section 503.51 | Adult Entertainment Establishment Definitions.

Effective:
August 17, 2006
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 23 - 126th General Assembly
As used in sections 503.51 to 503.53 of the Revised Code, "adult arcade," "adult bookstore," "adult novelty store," "adult video store," "adult cabaret," "adult entertainment establishment," "adult motion picture theater," "adult theater," "distinguished or characterized by their emphasis upon," "nude or seminude model studio," "nudity," "nude," "state of nudity," "regularly features," "regularly shown," "seminude," "state of seminudity," "sexual encounter establishment," "specified anatomical areas," and "specified sexual activity" have the same meanings as in section 2907.39 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 503 | General Provisions › Section 503.53 | Initiative Petition on Resolution Regulating or Restricting Adult-Oriented Businesses.

Effective:
August 17, 2006
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 23 - 126th General Assembly
(A) Resolutions of the type described in division (A) of section 503.52 of the Revised Code may be proposed by initiative petition by the electors of a township and adopted by election by these electors, under the same circumstances, in the same manner, and subject to the same penalties as provided in sections 731.28 to 731.40 and 731.99 of the Revised Code for ordinances and other measures of municipal corporations, insofar as those sections are applicable to townships, except as follows:
(1) The board of township trustees shall perform the duties imposed on the legislative authority of the municipal corporation under those sections.
(2) Initiative petitions shall be filed with the township fiscal officer, who shall perform the duties imposed under those sections upon the city auditor or village clerk.
(3) Initiative petitions shall contain the signatures of electors of the township equal in number to at least ten per cent of the total vote cast in the township for the office of governor at the most recent general election for that office.
(4) Each signer of an initiative petition shall be an elector of the township in which the election on the proposed resolution is to be held.
(B) A resolution proposed under division (A) of this section may provide for the following:
(1) Modification of the administrative procedures, including administrative zoning procedures, of the township as those procedures apply to adult entertainment establishments to ensure that constitutional requirements are met;
(2) Criminal and civil sanctions for adult entertainment establishments that violate regulations established by the resolution.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 503 | General Provisions › Section 503.57 | Taxes Related to Tourism Development.

Effective:
September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) As used in this section:
(1) "Admission" means the right or privilege to enter into a place.
(2) "Tourism development district" means a district designated by a township under section 503.56 of the Revised Code.
(3) "Territory of a tourism development district" means all of the area included within the territorial boundaries of a tourism development district.
(B) For the purpose of fostering and developing tourism within a tourism development district and paying the costs of administering the tax, the legislative authority of a township may, by resolution, levy a tax upon all of the following:
(1) Amounts paid for admission to any place, including parking lots and facilities, located in the territory of a tourism development district;
(2) Amounts paid for tickets or cards of admission to theaters, operas, and other places of amusement located in the territory of a tourism development district, sold at places other than the ticket offices of such places, over and above the amounts representing the established price therefor at such ticket offices;
(3) Amounts paid for admission to any public performance at any roof garden, cabaret, or other similar entertainment venue located in the territory of a tourism development district, in which the charge for admission is a service or cover charge;
(4) Amounts paid as annual membership dues by every club or organization maintaining a golf course located in the territory of a tourism development district;
(5) Green fees paid to a golf course located in the territory of a tourism development district either under club or private ownership.
(C) The rate of a tax levied under this section shall not exceed five per cent of the admission charge, membership dues, or green fees. Every person receiving any payment on which a tax is levied under this section shall collect the amount of the tax from the person making the admission payment.
(D) The legislative authority of a township levying a tax pursuant to this section shall establish all regulations necessary to provide for the administration of the tax. The regulations may prescribe the time for payment of the tax, and may provide for the imposition of a penalty or interest, or both, for late payments, provided that the penalty does not exceed ten per cent of the amount of tax due, and the rate at which interest accrues does not exceed the rate per annum prescribed pursuant to section 5703.47 of the Revised Code. The regulations shall provide, after deducting the real and actual costs of administering the tax, that the revenue be used exclusively for fostering and developing tourism within the tourism development district in which the tax is levied.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 503 | General Provisions › Section 503.58 | Development Charges.

Effective:
October 17, 2019
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly
(A) The board of trustees of an eligible township that has designated a tourism development district under section 503.56 of the Revised Code may enter into and enforce agreements with one or more owners of property located within the district by which the owner or owners agree to pay a development charge for the purpose of fostering and developing tourism within the district. The amount of the development charge shall equal one-half, one, one and one-half, or two per cent of the gross receipts derived from making sales at or from the property, whether wholesale or retail, but including sales of food only to the extent such sales are subject to the tax levied under section 5739.02 of the Revised Code.
(B) The imposition of a development charge under this section is subject to approval of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the property is located. If the property owner agrees to the development charge and the board of county commissioners, by resolution, approves the agreement, the development charge shall be treated in the same manner as taxes for all purposes of the lien described in section 323.11 of the Revised Code, including, but not limited to, the priority and enforcement of the lien and the collection of the development charge secured by the lien.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 503 | General Provisions › Section 503.59 | Township Pace Assessment.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
A board of township trustees that has entered into an agreement with the Ohio air quality development authority under section 3706.051 of the Revised Code may levy, in accordance with that agreement, a special assessment upon real property located in the township specially benefited by an air quality facility that is the subject of that agreement.
An assessment levied under this section shall be made in any manner authorized under section 727.01 of the Revised Code and, except as otherwise provided in this section, in accordance with the procedures prescribed for special assessments levied by municipal corporations under Chapter 727. of the Revised Code, except that where that chapter refers to a municipal corporation, it shall be deemed to refer to the township and where that chapter refers to the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, it shall be deemed to refer to the board of township trustees. All rights and privileges of an owner of property subject to an assessment levied under that chapter shall apply to the owner of property assessed under this section.
No special assessment may be levied under this section unless the owner of the property to be assessed files a written statement with the board of township trustees requesting that the assessment be levied.
Last updated September 26, 2023 at 5:47 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 503 | General Provisions › Section 503.60 | Residency Regulation of Sex or Child-Victim Offenders.

Effective:
January 1, 2008
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 97 - 127th General Assembly
(A) Townships have authority to exercise all powers of local self-government within their limits regarding the residency of a person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to either a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense and to adopt and enforce within their limits any local police, sanitary, and similar regulations regarding the residency of such persons that are not in conflict with general laws. The authority granted under this division shall be exercised by the adoption of resolutions. Townships have the same rights, powers, and duties pursuant to the authority granted under this division as municipal corporations have under Section 3 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution relative to their authority to exercise powers of local self-government and to adopt and enforce within their limits local police, sanitary, and similar regulations, except to the extent that the rights, powers, and duties that the municipal corporations have by their nature clearly are inapplicable to townships and to the exercise by townships of their authority granted under this division.
(B) The authority of a township granted under division (A) of this section applies to all townships. If a township has adopted a limited home rule government pursuant to Chapter 504. of the Revised Code, the authority granted under division (A) of this section is in addition to the powers and authority granted to the township under Chapter 504. of the Revised Code.
(C) As used in this section, "child-victim oriented offense" and "sexually oriented offense" have the same meanings as in section 2950.01 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 503 | General Provisions › Section 503.70 | Commercial Advertising on Township Website.

Effective:
September 29, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly
(A) As used in this section, "advertising" means internet banners and icons that may contain links to commercial internet web sites. Advertising does not include spyware, malware, or any viruses or programs considered to be malicious.
(B) A board of township trustees may, by resolution, authorize the use of commercial advertising on the township's web site. The use of commercial advertising must comply with state and federal law, including section 9.03 of the Revised Code, and any federal regulations or guidelines on the use of commercial advertising on the .gov internet domain or other federally controlled public domains.
(C) The resolution shall specify the manner of making requests for proposals that identify advertisers whose advertisements will meet the criteria specified in the request for proposals and any requirements and limitations specified in the resolution.
(D) The board of township trustees may enter into a contract with a qualified advertiser for the placement of commercial advertising on the township's web site in exchange for a fee paid by the advertiser to the township general fund.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.02 | Election for Adopting Limited Home Rule Government.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
(A) After certification of a resolution as provided in division (A) of section 504.01 of the Revised Code, the board of elections shall submit the question of whether to adopt a limited home rule government to the electors of the unincorporated area of the township, and the ballot language shall be substantially as follows:
"Shall the township of ___________ (name) adopt a limited home rule government, under which government the board of township trustees, by resolution, may exercise limited powers of local self-government and limited police powers?
______ For adoption of a limited home rule government
______ Against adoption of a limited home rule government"
(B)(1) At least forty-five days before the election on this question, the board of township trustees shall have notice of the election and a description of the proposed limited home rule government published in a newspaper of general circulation in the township once a week for two consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, and shall have the notice and description posted in five conspicuous places in the unincorporated area of the township.
(2) If a board of elections operates and maintains a web site, notice of the election and a description of the proposed limited home rule government shall be posted on that web site for at least thirty days before the election on this question.
(C) If a majority of the votes cast on the proposition of adopting a limited home rule government is in the affirmative, that government is adopted and becomes the government of the township on the first day of January immediately following the election.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.021 | Board of Township Trustees.

Effective:
September 21, 2006
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 385 - 126th General Assembly
As used in this chapter, except for its use in sections 504.01 and 504.02 of the Revised Code, a "board of township trustees" means only a board of township trustees of a township that adopts a limited home rule government under this chapter.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.05 | Imposition of Civil Fines.

Effective:
September 17, 1991
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 77 - 119th General Assembly
The board of township trustees may impose a civil fine for a violation of a resolution adopted pursuant to this chapter, and may graduate the amount of the fine based on the number of previous violations of the resolution. No fine shall exceed one thousand dollars. Any resolution that imposes a fine shall clearly state the amount of the fine for the first and for subsequent violations.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.06 | Citations for Violation of Township Resolutions.

Effective:
December 20, 2005
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 107 - 126th General Assembly
(A) Peace officers serving the township pursuant to section 504.16 of the Revised Code may issue citations to persons who violate township resolutions adopted pursuant to this chapter. Each citation shall contain provisions that:
(1) Advise the person upon whom it is served that the person must answer in relation to the violation charged in the citation within fourteen days after the citation is served upon the person;
(2) Indicate the allowable answers that may be made and that the person will be afforded a court hearing if the person denies in the person's answer having committed the violation;
(3) Specify that the answer must be made in person or by mail to the township fiscal officer;
(4) Indicate the amount of the fine that arises from the violation.
(B) A peace officer who issues a citation for a violation of a township resolution shall complete the citation by identifying the violation charged and by indicating the date, time, and place of the violation charged. The officer shall sign the citation, affirm the facts that it contains, and without unnecessary delay file the original citation with the court having jurisdiction over the violation. A copy of a citation issued pursuant to this section shall be served pursuant to the Rules of Civil Procedure upon the person who violated the resolution. No peace officer is entitled to receive witness fees in a cause prosecuted under a township resolution adopted pursuant to this chapter.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.08 | Enforcement of Resolution.

Effective:
September 17, 1991
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 77 - 119th General Assembly
To enforce a township resolution adopted under this chapter, a board of township trustees may authorize the township law director to do any of the following:
(A) File for injunctive relief if the violation of the resolution is a matter of health or safety;
(B) File for a lien upon the property of a violator if the violation relates to the use of the property and if the violator has failed to pay a fine imposed pursuant to section 504.07 of the Revised Code within ten days after the judgment imposing the fine has become final. The unpaid fine shall be entered on the tax duplicate and is a lien upon the property from and after the date of entry and shall be collected as other taxes, returned to the township, and placed in the township general fund.
(C) Take any measure for the collection of an unpaid money judgment that is authorized by division (D) of section 504.07 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.09 | Proceedings of Township Board.

Effective:
March 31, 2003
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 515 - 124th General Assembly
A board of township trustees shall determine its own rules and order of business and keep a journal of its proceedings. Notwithstanding section 507.04 of the Revised Code and anything to the contrary in section 504.04 of the Revised Code, the board may designate, by majority vote, any person to keep its journal and take the minutes of board meetings. A majority of the members of the board constitutes a quorum.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.10 | Form and Reading of Resolutions.

Effective:
September 17, 1991
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 77 - 119th General Assembly
Each resolution of a board of township trustees adopted pursuant to this chapter shall be introduced in written form by a member of the board. The form and style of resolutions shall be determined by the board. Each resolution shall contain only one subject, which shall be expressed in its title, except that appropriation measures may contain the various subjects, accounts, and amounts for which moneys are appropriated, and except that resolutions that are codified or recodified are not subject to the limitation of containing only one subject.
Each resolution shall be read by title only, unless a motion is passed by a majority vote of the members of the board requiring that it be read in full. Each resolution shall be read on two separate days. The board may, by a majority vote of its members, dispense with the requirement that a resolution be read on two separate days, and authorize the adoption of a resolution upon its first reading.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.11 | Voting on Resolutions.

Effective:
September 21, 2006
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 385 - 126th General Assembly
(A) The vote on the question of passage of a resolution provided for in section 504.10 of the Revised Code or a motion related to that resolution shall be taken by yeas and nays and entered on the journal, and the resolution or motion shall not be passed without concurrence of a majority of all members of the board of township trustees, except that each emergency resolution under that section shall require the affirmative vote of all of the members of the board for its enactment. If an emergency resolution fails to receive the required vote for passage as an emergency measure but receives the necessary majority for passage as a nonemergency resolution, it shall be considered passed as a nonemergency resolution. Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, a resolution shall become effective thirty days after it is filed with the township fiscal officer. Each emergency resolution shall determine that the resolution is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety, or welfare and shall contain a statement of the necessity for the emergency. Each resolution shall be authenticated by the signature of the township fiscal officer, but the failure or refusal of the fiscal officer to sign a resolution shall not invalidate an otherwise properly enacted resolution.
(B) Each resolution appropriating money, submitting a question to the electorate, determining to proceed with an election, or providing for the approval of a revision, codification, recodification, or rearrangement of resolutions, or publication of resolutions in book form shall take effect, unless a later time is specified in the resolution, ten days after it is filed with the township fiscal officer. Emergency resolutions shall take effect immediately.
(C) Each resolution shall be recorded in a book, or other record prescribed by the board, established and maintained for that purpose. The township fiscal officer or a duly authorized deputy to the fiscal officer shall, upon the request of any person and upon the payment of a fee established by the board, certify true copies of any resolution, and these certified copies shall be admissible as evidence in any court.
(D) The procedures provided in this section apply only to resolutions adopted pursuant to a township's limited home rule powers as authorized by this chapter.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.12 | Revision or Amendment of Resolutions.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
No resolution and no section or numbered or lettered division of a section shall be revised or amended unless the new resolution contains the entire resolution, section, or division as revised or amended, and the resolution, section, or division so amended shall be repealed. This requirement does not prevent the amendment of a resolution by the addition of a new section, or division, and in this case the full text of the former resolution need not be set forth, nor does this section prevent repeals by implication. Except in the case of a codification or recodification of resolutions, a separate vote shall be taken on each resolution proposed to be amended. Resolutions that have been introduced and have received their first reading or their first and second readings, but have not been voted on for passage, may be amended or revised by a majority vote of the members of the board of township trustees, and the amended or revised resolution need not receive additional readings.
The board of township trustees of a limited home rule township may revise, codify, and publish in book form the resolutions of the township in the manner provided in section 504.123 of the Revised Code. Resolutions adopted by the board shall be published in the manner provided by sections 504.121, 504.122, 504.124, 504.125, and 504.126 of the Revised Code.
The procedures provided in this section and sections 504.121 to 504.126 of the Revised Code apply only to resolutions adopted pursuant to a township's limited home rule powers as authorized by this chapter.
Last updated September 21, 2023 at 1:15 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.121 | Publication of Resolutions.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
(A) A succinct summary of each resolution, of all notices to bidders for the construction of public improvements and notices of the sale of bonds, and of all statements, orders, proclamations, notices, and reports required by law or resolution to be published, shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the township. Proof of the publication and required circulation of any newspaper used as a medium of publication as provided by this section shall be made by affidavit of the proprietor of the newspaper and shall be filed with the fiscal officer of the township.
(B) The publication shall contain notice that the complete text of each such resolution may be obtained or viewed at the office of the fiscal officer of the township and may be viewed at any other location designated by the board of township trustees. The township law director or the county prosecuting attorney, as applicable, shall review the summary of a resolution published under this section before forwarding it to the fiscal officer for publication, to ensure the summary is legally accurate and sufficient.
(C) Upon publication of a summary of a resolution in accordance with this section, the fiscal officer of the township shall supply a copy of the complete text of each such resolution to any person, upon request, and may charge a reasonable fee, set by the board of township trustees, for each copy supplied. The fiscal officer of the township shall post a copy of the text at the fiscal officer's office and at every other location designated by the board of township trustees.
Last updated August 28, 2023 at 4:38 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.122 | Times of Publication Required.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
The publication required in section 504.121 of the Revised Code shall be for the following times:
(A) Summaries of resolutions, and proclamations of elections, once a week for two consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code;
(B) Notices, not less than two nor more than four consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code;
(C) All other matters shall be published once.
Last updated August 28, 2023 at 4:38 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.123 | Publication and Certification of Resolutions in Book Form.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
When resolutions are revised, codified, rearranged, published in book form, and certified as correct by the fiscal officer of the township and the township administrator, such publication shall be a sufficient publication, and the resolutions so published, under appropriate titles, chapters, and sections, shall be held the same in law as though they had been published in a newspaper. A new resolution so published in book form, a summary of which has not been published as required by sections 504.121 and 504.122 of the Revised Code, and which contains entirely new matter, shall be published as required by such sections. If such revision or codification is made by a township and contains new matter, it shall be a sufficient publication of such codification, including the new matter, to publish, in the manner required by such sections, a notice of the enactment of such codifying resolution, containing the title of the resolution and a summary of the new matters covered by it. Such revision and codification may be made under appropriate titles, chapters, and sections and in one resolution containing one or more subjects.
Except as provided by this section, a succinct summary of all resolutions, including emergency resolutions, shall be published in accordance with section 504.121 of the Revised Code.
Last updated August 28, 2023 at 4:39 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.124 | Certification of Publication.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
Immediately after the expiration of the period of publication of summaries of resolutions required by section 504.122 of the Revised Code, the fiscal officer of the township shall enter on the record of resolutions, in a blank to be left for such purpose under the recorded resolution, a certificate stating in which newspaper and on what dates such publication was made, and shall sign the fiscal officer's name thereto officially. Such certificate shall be prima-facie evidence that legal publication of the summary of the resolution was made.
Last updated August 28, 2023 at 4:39 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.125 | Publication When No Newspaper in Municipal Corporation.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
In townships in which no newspaper is generally circulated, publication of summaries of resolutions, and publication of all statements, orders, proclamations, notices, and reports, required by law or resolution to be published, shall be accomplished by posting copies in not less than five of the most public places in the township, as determined by the board of township trustees, for a period of not less than fifteen days before the effective date thereof.
Where such publication is by posting, the fiscal officer of the township shall make a certificate as to such posting, and as to the times when and the places where such posting is done, in the manner provided in section 504.124 of the Revised Code, and such certificate shall be prima-facie evidence that the copies were posted as required.
Last updated August 28, 2023 at 4:39 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.126 | Effect of Not Making Publication.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
It is a sufficient defense to any suit or prosecution under a resolution, to show that no publication or posting was made as required by sections 504.121 to 504.125 of the Revised Code.
Last updated August 28, 2023 at 4:40 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.13 | Building and Standard Codes - Effect of County Adoption of Building and Standard Codes.

Effective:
September 20, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 187 - 123rd General Assembly
(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the board of township trustees of a township that adopts a limited home rule government may adopt, by resolution, building codes and other standard codes promulgated by the state, or any department, board, or other agency of the state, or any code prepared and promulgated by a public or private organization that publishes a model or standard code, including, but not limited to, a plumbing code, electrical code, refrigeration machinery code, piping code, boiler code, heating code, air conditioning code, or any code pertaining to fire, fire hazards, and fire prevention. Any codes adopted pursuant to this section shall be adopted in the manner provided for in section 505.75 of the Revised Code and shall be made available as required in section 505.76 of the Revised Code.
(B)(1) No township that adopts the limited home rule form of government shall adopt a code described in division (A) of this section in any county that has adopted a code dealing with the same matter to be regulated.
(2) If a board of township trustees in a township that adopts a limited home rule government adopts a code described in division (A) of this section and the board of county commissioners of the county in which the township is located subsequently adopts a code dealing with the same matter to be regulated, the code adopted by the board of township trustees shall be of no effect one year after the effective date of the code adopted by the board of county commissioners or at an earlier date, as determined by the board of township trustees.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.14 | Filing Initiative and Referendum Petitions.

Effective:
December 20, 2005
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 107 - 126th General Assembly
In a township that adopts a limited home rule government, resolutions may be proposed by initiative petition by the electors in the unincorporated area of the township and adopted by election by these electors, and resolutions adopted by the board of township trustees may be submitted to these electors for their approval or rejection by referendum, under the same circumstances and in the same manner as provided by sections 731.28 to 731.40 of the Revised Code for municipal corporations, except that both of the following apply:
(A) Initiative and referendum petitions shall be filed with the township fiscal officer, who shall perform the duties imposed under those sections upon the city auditor or village clerk.
(B) Initiative and referendum petitions shall contain the signatures of not less than ten per cent of the total number of electors in the unincorporated area of the township who voted for the office of governor at the most recent general election for that office in that area of the township.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.15 | Law Director of Township.

Effective:
August 17, 2006
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 23 - 126th General Assembly
(A) Unless the board of township trustees acts as authorized by division (B) of this section, in each township that adopts the limited self-government form of township government, the board of township trustees shall appoint a full-time or part-time township law director, who shall be an attorney licensed to practice law in this state. The board of township trustees shall set the salary of the township law director. The township law director shall be the legal advisor to the board of township trustees, the township administrator, and all other township officers, and any of them may require written opinions or instructions from the township law director in matters connected with their official duties. Subject to division (E) of section 503.52 of the Revised Code, the township law director shall prosecute and defend all suits and actions that any such officer or board directs or to which an officer or board is a party, and the township law director shall prosecute any violation of a township resolution, as provided in this chapter. The township law director shall review all resolutions as to form prior to their introduction by a township trustee. Additional legal counsel may be employed as provided in division (B) of section 309.09 of the Revised Code.
(B) The board of township trustees may enter into a contract with the prosecuting attorney of the county to have the prosecuting attorney serve as the township law director, with the consent of the board of county commissioners.
(C) Nothing in this section confers any of the powers or duties of a prosecuting attorney under section 309.08 of the Revised Code upon a township law director.
(D) Nothing in this section limits or affects the operation of division (E) of section 503.52 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.151 | Appointments by Township Law Director.

Effective:
March 2, 1994
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 285 - 120th General Assembly
Subject to section 2921.421 of the Revised Code, a township law director appointed under section 504.15 of the Revised Code may appoint, as an assistant law director, prosecutor, clerk, stenographer, or other employee, a person who is an associate or partner of, or who is employed by, the township law director, assistant law director, or prosecutor in the private practice of law in a partnership, professional association, or other law business arrangement.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.16 | Police Protection.

Effective:
September 29, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly
(A) Each township that adopts a limited home rule government shall promptly do one of the following:
(1) Establish a police district pursuant to section 505.48 of the Revised Code, except that the district shall include all of the unincorporated area of the township and no other territory;
(2) Establish a joint police district pursuant to section 505.482 of the Revised Code;
(3) Contract pursuant to section 311.29, 505.43, or 505.50 of the Revised Code to obtain police protection services, including the enforcement of township resolutions adopted under this chapter, on a regular basis;
(4) Designate one or more police constables under Chapter 509. of the Revised Code.
(B) A township that has taken an action described in division (A) of this section before adopting a limited home rule government need not take any other such action upon adopting that government.
(C) The requirement that a township take one of the actions described in divisions (A)(1), (2), and (3) of this section does not prevent a township that acts under division (A)(1) or (2) of this section from contracting under division (A)(3) of this section to obtain additional police protection services on a regular basis.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 5 | Townships › Chapter 504 | Limited Home Rule Government › Section 504.17 | Acts Prior to Establishment of Limited Home Rule.

Effective:
September 20, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 187 - 123rd General Assembly
The establishment of a limited home rule government does not affect any act done, ratified, or affirmed, or any contract or other right or obligation accrued or established, or any action, prosecution, or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending at the time this change in government takes effect. The establishment of a limited home rule government does not affect any cause of action, prosecutions, or proceedings existing at the time it takes effect. Rights that attach to any act of the township, and actions, prosecutions, or proceedings may be prosecuted and continued, or instituted and prosecuted against, by, or before the department having jurisdiction or power of the subject matter to which the right, action, prosecution, or proceedings pertain.
All rules and orders lawfully promulgated prior to the establishment of a limited home rule government in the township continue in force and effect until amended or rescinded in accordance with this chapter.