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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5180 | Department of Children and Youth › Section 5180.30 | Lead Agency for Part C Early Intervention Services Program.

Effective:
January 1, 2025
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
The department of children and youth shall serve as the "lead agency," as described by 20 U.S.C. 1435(a)(10), to implement the state's part C early intervention services program, through which early intervention services are provided to eligible infants and toddlers in accordance with part C of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act," 20 U.S.C. 1431 et seq., and regulations implementing that part in 34 C.F.R. part 303.
Last updated September 11, 2023 at 5:22 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5180 | Department of Children and Youth › Section 5180.31 | [Former r.c. 5123.024, Amended and Renumbered by h.b. 33, 135th General Assembly, Effective 1/1/2025] Implementation of Part C Early Intervention Services Program.

Effective:
January 1, 2025
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
The department of children and youth may do any of the following as the lead agency to implement the state's part C early intervention services program, as described in section 5180.30 of the Revised Code:
(A) Enter into an interagency agreement with one or more other state agencies to implement the program and ensure coordination of early childhood programs;
(B) Distribute program funds through contracts, grants, or subsidies to entities that are program service providers;
(C) Establish a system of payment to program service providers.
Last updated September 11, 2023 at 5:22 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5180 | Department of Children and Youth › Section 5180.32 | [Former r.c. 5123.0421, Amended and Renumbered by h.b. 33, 135th General Assembly, Effective 1/1/2025] Rulemaking.

Effective:
January 1, 2025
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
The director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that are necessary to implement the state's part C early intervention services program, including rules that specify all of the following:
(A) Eligibility requirements to receive program services;
(B) Eligibility requirements to be a program service provider;
(C) Operating standards and procedures for program service providers, including standards and procedures governing data collection, program monitoring, and program evaluation;
(D) Procedures to appeal the denial of an application to receive program services or the termination of program services;
(E) Procedures to appeal a decision by the department of developmental disabilities to deny an application to be a program service provider or to terminate a provider's status;
(F) Procedures for addressing complaints by persons who receive program services;
(G) Criteria for the payment of program service providers;
(H) The metrics or indicators used to measure program service provider performance.
Last updated September 11, 2023 at 5:22 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5180 | Department of Children and Youth › Section 5180.33 | [Former r.c. 5123.0423, Amended and Renumbered by h.b. 33, 135th General Assembly, Effective 1/1/2025] Request for Student Data Verification Code.

Effective:
January 1, 2025
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
As used in this section, "school district of residence" has the same meaning as in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code.
The director of children and youth shall request a student data verification code from the independent contractor engaged by the department of education and workforce to create and maintain such codes for school districts and community schools under division (D)(2) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code for each child who is receiving services from the state's part C early intervention services program. The director shall request from the parent, guardian, or custodian of the child, or from any other person who is authorized by law to make decisions regarding the child's education, the name and address of the child's school district of residence. The director shall submit the data verification code for that child to the child's school district of residence at the time the child ceases to receive services from the part C early intervention services program.
The director and each school district that receives a data verification code under this section shall not release that code to any person except as provided by law. Any document that the director holds in the director's files that contains both a child's name or other personally identifiable information and the child's data verification code is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
Last updated September 14, 2023 at 12:58 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5180 | Department of Children and Youth › Section 5180.34 | [Former r.c. 5123.0422, Amended and Renumbered by h.b. 33, 135th General Assembly, Effective 1/1/2025] Early Intervention Services Advisory Council.

Effective:
January 1, 2025
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
The governor shall establish the early intervention services advisory council, which shall serve as the state interagency coordinating council, as described in 20 U.S.C. 1441. In establishing the council, the governor shall comply with the requirements of 20 U.S.C. 1441, including the requirement to ensure that the membership of the council reasonably represents the population of the state.
The governor shall appoint one of the council members to serve as chairperson of the council, or the governor may delegate appointment of the chairperson to the council. No member of the council representing the department of health or the department of children and youth shall serve as chairperson.
The council is not subject to sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code.
Last updated September 13, 2023 at 12:33 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 53 | Real Property › Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances › Section 5301.01 | Acknowledgment of Deed, Mortgage, Land Contract, Lease or Memorandum of Trust.

Effective:
January 30, 2014
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 72 - 130th General Assembly
(A) A deed, mortgage, land contract as referred to in division (A) (21) of section 317.08 of the Revised Code, or lease of any interest in real property and a memorandum of trust as described in division (A) of section 5301.255 of the Revised Code shall be signed by the grantor, mortgagor, vendor, or lessor in the case of a deed, mortgage, land contract, or lease or shall be signed by the trustee in the case of a memorandum of trust. The signing shall be acknowledged by the grantor, mortgagor, vendor, or lessor, or by the trustee, before a judge or clerk of a court of record in this state, or a county auditor, county engineer, notary public, or mayor, who shall certify the acknowledgement and subscribe the official's name to the certificate of the acknowledgement.
(B)(1) If a deed, mortgage, land contract as referred to in division (A) (21) of section 317.08 of the Revised Code, lease of any interest in real property, or a memorandum of trust as described in division (A) of section 5301.255 of the Revised Code was executed prior to February 1, 2002, and was not acknowledged in the presence of, or was not attested by, two witnesses as required by this section prior to that date, both of the following apply:
(a) The instrument is deemed properly executed and is presumed to be valid unless the signature of the grantor, mortgagor, vendor, or lessor in the case of a deed, mortgage, land contract, or lease or of the settlor and trustee in the case of a memorandum of trust was obtained by fraud.
(b) The recording of the instrument in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the subject property is situated is constructive notice of the instrument to all persons, including without limitation, a subsequent purchaser in good faith or any other subsequent holder of an interest in the property, regardless of whether the instrument was recorded prior to, on, or after February 1, 2002.
(2) Division (B)(1) of this section does not affect any accrued substantive rights or vested rights that came into existence prior to February 1, 2002.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 53 | Real Property › Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances › Section 5301.011 | Recorded Instrument to Contain Volume and Page Reference.

Effective:
January 23, 1963
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 105th General Assembly
A recorded grant, reservation, or agreement creating an easement or a recorded lease of any interest in real property shall contain a reference by volume and page to the record of the deed or other recorded instrument under which the grantor claims title, but the omission of such reference shall not affect the validity of the same.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 53 | Real Property › Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances › Section 5301.012 | Identification of Agency for Whose Use and Benefit Interest in Real Property Is Acquired.

Effective:
October 26, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 19 - 123rd General Assembly
(A) As used in this section, "agency" means every organized body, office, or agency established by the laws of the state for the exercise of any function of state government.
(B) Any instrument by which the state or an agency of the state acquires an interest in real property, including any deed, transfer, grant, reservation, agreement creating an easement, or lease, shall identify the agency for whose use and benefit the interest in the real property is acquired.
(C)(1) If the instrument conveys less than a fee simple interest in real property and if the agency has authority to hold an interest in property in its own name, the instrument shall state that the interest in the real property is conveyed "to __________ (the name of the agency)." Otherwise, the instrument shall state that the interest in the real property is conveyed "to the State of Ohio for the use and benefit of __________ (name of agency)."
(2) If the instrument conveys a fee simple interest in real property and if the agency has authority to hold a fee simple interest in real property in its own name, the instrument shall state that the interest in the real property is conveyed "to the __________ (name of agency) and its successors and assigns." Otherwise, the instrument that conveys a fee simple interest in the real property shall state "to the State of Ohio and its successors and assigns for the use and benefit of __________ (name of agency)."
(D) The purpose of specifying the name of the agency in the instrument is to identify the agency that has the use and benefit of the real property. The identification of the agency pursuant to this section does not confer on that agency any additional property rights in regard to the real property.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 53 | Real Property › Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances › Section 5301.02 | Words Necessary to Create a Fee Simple Estate.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The use of terms of inheritance or succession are not necessary to create a fee simple estate, and every grant, conveyance, or mortgage of lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall convey or mortgage the entire interest which the grantor could lawfully grant, convey, or mortgage, unless it clearly appears by the deed, mortgage, or instrument that the grantor intended to convey or mortgage a less estate.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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
2023 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.
2023 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:
April 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 202 - 134th 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, attorney in fact, 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 March 22, 2012, whichever event occurs later.
Last updated March 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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
2023 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.
2023 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 or 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.
Last updated February 23, 2022 at 3:22 PM
2023 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.
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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 53 | Real Property › Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances › Section 5301.22 | Effect of Agreement With a Guardian.

Effective:
October 12, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly
As used in this section, "incompetent person" means a person who is so mentally impaired, as a result of a mental or physical illness or disability, as a result of an intellectual disability, or as a result of chronic substance abuse, that the person is incapable of taking proper care of the person's self or property or fails to provide for the person's family or other persons for whom the person is charged by law to provide.
No agreement described in section 5301.21 of the Revised Code shall be executed by a minor or incompetent person, but it may be executed and delivered for record, on such a person's behalf, by the person's guardian. When executed, acknowledged, delivered for record, and recorded, such agreement shall be as effectual against such minor or incompetent person, as if the person had been under no disability, and had performed such acts personally. An owner, not under any of such disabilities, may perform all such acts by an attorney in fact. The power of such attorney must be in writing and first recorded in the county recorder's office.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 53 | Real Property › Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances › Section 5301.23 | Mortgage Effective Dates.

Effective:
January 1, 1994
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 473 - 119th General Assembly
(A) All properly executed mortgages shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the mortgaged premises are situated and shall take effect at the time they are delivered to the recorder for record. If two or more mortgages pertaining to the same premises are presented for record on the same day, they shall take effect in the order of their presentation. The first mortgage presented shall be the first recorded, and the first mortgage recorded shall have preference.
(B) A mortgage that is presented for record shall contain the then current mailing address of the mortgagee. The omission of this address or the inclusion of an incorrect address shall not affect the validity of the instrument or render it ineffective for purposes of constructive notice.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 53 | Real Property › Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances › Section 5301.231 | Effective Dates of Amendments, Supplements, Modifications or Extensions of Mortgages, or of Debt Secured by Mortgages,.

Effective:
January 1, 1994
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 473 - 119th General Assembly
(A) All amendments or supplements of mortgages, or modifications or extensions of mortgages or of the debt secured by mortgages, that have been executed in the manner provided in section 5301.01 of the Revised Code shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the mortgaged premises are situated and shall take effect at the time they are delivered to the recorder for record. Sections 317.08, 5301.23, and 5301.231 of the Revised Code do not affect the enforceability, validity, or legal effect of instruments recorded in those mortgage records prior to October 10, 1963.
(B) An amendment or supplement of a mortgage, or a modification or extension of a mortgage or of the debt secured by a mortgage, that is presented for record shall contain the then current mailing address of the mortgagee. The omission of this address or the inclusion of an incorrect address shall not affect the validity of the instrument or render it ineffective for purposes of constructive notice.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 53 | Real Property › Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances › Section 5301.233 | Mortgage May Secure Unpaid Balances of Advances Made.

Effective:
March 18, 1969
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 108th General Assembly
In addition to any other debt or obligation, a mortgage may secure unpaid balances of advances made, with respect to the mortgaged premises, for the payment of taxes, assessments, insurance premiums, or costs incurred for the protection of the mortgaged premises, if such mortgage states that it shall secure such unpaid balances. A mortgage complying with this section is a lien on the premises described therein from the time such mortgage is delivered to the recorder for record for the full amount of the unpaid balances of such advances that are made under such mortgage, plus interest thereon, regardless of the time when such advances are made.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 53 | Real Property › Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances › Section 5301.24 | Acquisition of Property by State Not to Affect Mortgage Lien - State, a Party.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 361 - 100th General Assembly
The lien or priority of any existing valid mortgage or lien shall not be affected by reason of the fact that this state or any political subdivision thereof acquires the property on which said lien exists, unless said property is acquired by regular judicial proceedings. The state, or any board or commission of the state, may be made a party in any court of common pleas or probate court, to any foreclosure proceedings, or other proceedings to sell real estate and marshal liens, to secure an adjudication concerning any claim, mortgage, or other lien which the state has or claims on the premises involved.
Service of summons shall be made by the clerk of the court who shall, by registered mail, send service of summons and a copy of the petition to the attorney general. The answer day and other proceedings thereafter shall be the same as though a personal service had been made as of the date the return receipt is signed, and thereafter the procedure shall be the same as though a private corporation had been sued under the laws of this state.
No subsequent statute shall modify or change this section unless such statute specifically provides that it is modifying or changing this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 53 | Real Property › Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances › Section 5301.25 | Recording in County Where Real Estate Situated - Survey Form.

Effective:
January 30, 2014
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 72 - 130th General Assembly
(A) All deeds, land contracts referred to in division (A)(21) of section 317.08 of the Revised Code, and instruments of writing properly executed for the conveyance or encumbrance of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, other than as provided in division (C) of this section and section 5301.23 of the Revised Code, shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the premises are situated. Until so recorded or filed for record, they are fraudulent insofar as they relate to a subsequent bona fide purchaser having, at the time of purchase, no knowledge of the existence of that former deed, land contract, or instrument.
(B) Whenever a survey is made of lands that are being conveyed, the county auditor shall require that the name of the person who made the survey appear in the deed. The name shall either be printed, typewritten, stamped, or signed in a legible manner. An instrument is in compliance with this division if it contains a statement in the following form:
"A survey of this property was made by _______________"
(Name)
This division does not apply to any court decree, order, judgment, or writ, to any instrument executed or acknowledged outside of this state, or to any instrument executed within this state prior to September 20, 1965.
(C) All tax certificates sold pursuant to section 5721.32 or 5721.33 of the Revised Code, or memoranda thereof, may be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the premises are situated, as provided in division (B) of section 5721.35 of the Revised Code; provided, however, that the first and superior lien of the state and its taxing districts conveyed to the holder of the tax certificate, as provided in division (A) of section 5721.35 of the Revised Code, shall in no way be diminished or adversely affected if the tax certificate evidencing the conveyance of such first and superior lien, or memorandum thereof, is not recorded as provided in this section.
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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 53 | Real Property › Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances › Section 5301.251 | Memorandum of Lease Recording.

Effective:
February 1, 2002
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 279 - 124th General Assembly
In lieu of the recording of a lease, there may be recorded a memorandum of that lease, executed and acknowledged in accordance with section 5301.01 of the Revised Code. The memorandum of lease shall contain the names of the lessor and the lessee and their addresses as set forth in the lease, a reference to the lease with its date of execution, a description of the leased premises with such certainty as to identify the property, including the reference provided for in section 5301.011 of the Revised Code, the term of the lease, together with any rights of renewal or extension of the lease, and the date of commencement of the term or the manner of determining the commencement of the term as set forth in the lease.
A memorandum of lease that is entitled to be so recorded also may set forth any other provisions contained in the lease, or the substance of those provisions, and shall be constructive notice of only that information contained in the memorandum.
Sections 317.08, 5301.251, and 5301.33 of the Revised Code shall not be construed to affect the enforceability, validity, or legal effect of instruments recorded in those lease records prior to August 9, 1963.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 53 | Real Property › Chapter 5301 | Conveyances; Encumbrances › Section 5301.252 | Recording Affidavit Relating to Title.

Effective:
March 18, 1997
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 262 - 121st General Assembly
(A) An affidavit stating facts relating to the matters set forth under division (B) of this section that may affect the title to real estate in this state, made by any person having knowledge of the facts or competent to testify concerning them in open court, may be recorded in the office of the county recorder in the county in which the real estate is situated. When so recorded, such affidavit, or a certified copy, shall be evidence of the facts stated, insofar as such facts affect title to real estate.
(B) The affidavits provided for under this section may relate to the following matters:
(1) Age, sex, birth, death, capacity, relationship, family history, heirship, names, identity of parties, marriage, residence, or service in the armed forces;
(2) Possession;
(3) The happening of any condition or event that may create or terminate an estate or interest;
(4) The existence and location of monuments and physical boundaries, such as fences, streams, roads, and rights of way;
(5) In an affidavit of a registered surveyor, facts reconciling conflicts and ambiguities in descriptions of land in recorded instruments.
(C) The county recorder for the county where such affidavit is offered for record shall receive and cause the affidavit to be recorded as deeds are recorded, and collect the same fees for recording such affidavit as for recording deeds.
(D) Every affidavit provided for under this section shall include a description of the land, title to which may be affected by facts stated in such affidavit, and a reference to an instrument of record containing such description, and shall state the name of the person appearing by the record to be the owner of such land at the time of the recording of the affidavit. The recorder shall index the affidavit in the name of such record owner.
(E) Any person who knowingly makes any false statement in any affidavit provided for in this section is guilty of falsification under division (A)(6) of section 2921.13 of the Revised Code.