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Ohio Revised Code - Title III Counties - Chapter 317: Recorder

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• 317.01 County recorder - election and term.
  There shall be elected quadrennially in each county a county recorder, who shall assume office on the first Monday in January next after his election...
• 317.02 Bond of county recorder - oath.
  Before entering upon the duties of his office, the county recorder shall give a bond, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his...
• 317.03 Location of office.
  The office of the county recorder shall be kept in such rooms at the county seat as the board of county commissioners provides. Effective Date:
• 317.04 Official seal.
  The county recorder shall keep a seal of office, to be procured at the expense of the county, which he shall affix to all his...
• 317.05 Deputies.
  The county recorder may appoint deputies to aid him in the performance of his duties. Such appointment or removal shall be in writing and filed...
• 317.06 Repealed.
  Effective Date: 10-12-1961
• 317.07 Delivery of seal, books, and records to successor.
  On going out of office, each county recorder shall deliver to his successor the seal of office, all books, records, and other instruments of writing...
• 317.08 Records to be kept by county recorder.
  (A) Except as provided in divisions (C) and (D) of this section, the county recorder shall keep six separate sets of records as follows: (1)...
• 317.081 County and township zoning resolutions kept by recorder.
  The county recorder shall keep county and township zoning resolutions, including text and maps, and amendments to them, in his office and make all these...
• 317.082 Social security number not to be included in document filed for recording.
  (A) As used in this section, "preparer" means any mortgage company, bank, title agency, or other person responsible for filing documents with the office of...
• 317.09 Recording and filing notices of federal tax liens - certificate of discharge or release - fee.
  (A)(1) Notices of liens for internal revenue taxes, of liens arising under section 107 of the "Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980,"...
• 317.10 County recorder shall record certified copy of matter in bankruptcy - fees.
  The county recorder shall record any certified copy of any matter in reference to bankruptcy, which any act of congress provides for, as being necessary...
• 317.11 Names printed or typed on instruments before recording when signatures illegible.
  No instrument by which the title to real estate or personal property or any interest therein or lien thereon, is conveyed, created, encumbered, assigned, discharged,...
• 317.111 Name of preparer to appear on instrument.
  No instrument by which the title to real estate or personal property, or any interest therein or lien thereon, is conveyed, created, encumbered, assigned, or...
• 317.112 Further requirements for instruments.
  (A) Each instrument by which the title to real estate or personal property, or by which any interest in or lien on real estate or...
• 317.113 Certified complete English translation to accompany instrument.
  The county recorder shall not accept for recording a deed or other instrument in writing that is executed or certified in whole or in part...
• 317.114 Standard format of instruments to be recorded.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, an instrument or document presented for recording to the county recorder shall...
• 317.12 Indorsement on and receipt for deed - recording.
  Upon the presentation of a deed or other instrument of writing for record, the county recorder shall indorse thereon the date, the precise time of...
• 317.13 Duties of recorder.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the county recorder shall record in the proper record, in legible handwriting, typewriting, or...
• 317.14 Copy of record in one county may be recorded in another county.
  When a deed, mortgage, power of attorney, or other instrument of writing, for the sale, conveyance, or encumbrance of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, situated in...
• 317.15 Copy of record in other cases.
  When a deed or other instrument of writing for the sale, conveyance, or encumbrance of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, situated within this state, has been...
• 317.16 Force and effect of certified copies.
  After copies of records have been recorded, as provided in sections 317.14 and 317.15 of the Revised Code, in the county in which such lands,...
• 317.17 Transcription of records of other counties.
  When directed by the board of county commissioners to do so, the county recorder may transcribe in suitable books provided for that purpose, from the...
• 317.18 Direct and reverse indexes.
  At the beginning of each day's business, the county recorder shall make and keep up general alphabetical indexes, direct and reverse, of all the names...
• 317.19 Daily registers of deeds and mortgages.
  The county recorder shall keep a daily register of deeds and a daily register of mortgages, in which he shall note, as soon as filed,...
• 317.20 Sectional indexes.
  (A) When, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, sectional indexes are needed and it so directs, in addition to the alphabetical indexes...
• 317.201 Notice index.
  The county recorder shall maintain a book to be known as the "Notice Index." Separate pages of the book shall be headed by the original...
• 317.21 Plats, records, and documents for use of county and municipal authorities.
  Whenever the county recorder, county auditor, and county treasurer, or a majority of them, determines to provide, for the convenience of the various county officials...
• 317.22 Prerequisites to recording.
  No deed of absolute conveyance of land or any conveyance, absolute or otherwise, of minerals or mineral rights shall be recorded by the county recorder...
• 317.23 Recording of deed to university land.
  The county recorder shall not record any lease, deed, or other conveyance of lots or lands belonging to any university keeping transfer books, unless such...
• 317.24 Record of discharge.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Authorized party" means any of the following: (a) The person who is the subject of the record of...
• 317.25 Records of soldiers' graves.
  The county recorder shall be the custodian of all records which are provided for the county and furnished under the laws of this state, providing...
• 317.26 Indorsement of fee on instrument - record.
  Upon the presentation of any instrument of writing for filing or record, the county recorder shall indorse thereon the fee charged by him for filing...
• 317.27 Certified copy of record.
  On demand and tender of the proper fees, the county recorder shall furnish to any person an accurate, certified copy of any record in the...
• 317.28 Acknowledgments.
  No county recorder, deputy, or employee of such recorder, shall take the acknowledgment of any instrument required to be filed or recorded in his office....
• 317.29 Records transcribed into new books.
  When the records in the county recorder's office, or any part of them, become defaced or injured, the recorder, when directed to do so by...
• 317.30 Records affecting real estate - restoration.
  When any of the records of a county are destroyed in whole or in part, a map, plat, deed, conveyance, mortgage, power of attorney, or...
• 317.31 Making and comparison of record.
  When any instrument or record mentioned in section 317.30 of the Revised Code is presented to the county recorder or other proper custodian of such...
• 317.32 Recording fees.
  The county recorder shall charge and collect the following fees, to include base fees for the recorder's services and housing trust fund fees, collected pursuant...
• 317.321 Acquisition or maintenance of micrographic or other equipment or for contract services.
  (A) Not later than the first day of October of any year, the county recorder may submit to the board of county commissioners a proposal...
• 317.322 Recording fee not charged for military power of attorney.
  Notwithstanding any contrary provision of section 317.32 or Chapter 1337. of the Revised Code, the county recorder shall not charge a fee to any member...
• 317.33 Suit on bond of county recorder.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, if a county recorder refuses to accept a deed or other instrument of writing...
• 317.34 Recording without approval.
  No county recorder shall record a map or plan of a subdivision of a lot or ground without the approval or certification of such map...
• 317.35 Record of plans and drawings of public buildings.
  (A) The county recorder shall record the plans and drawings filed with him under section 9.56 of the Revised Code and shall make them available...
• 317.36 Collection and amount of low- and moderate-income housing trust fund fee.
  (A) The county recorder shall collect the low- and moderate-income housing trust fund fee as specified in sections 317.114, 317.32, 1563.42, 1702.59, 2505.13, 4141.23, 4509.60,...
• 317.37 Separate instrument under RC 5301.28 et seq. defined.
  As used in sections 5301.28 to 5301.35 of the Revised Code, "separate instrument" means either the recording of an entirely new instrument or a written...
• 317.41 Distribution of forms for durable power of attorney for health care and declaration governing use or continuation, or withholding or withdrawal, of life-sustaining treatment.
  A county recorder, upon request, may distribute to any person free of charge a copy of the printed form of the declaration described in section...
• 317.42 Posting warning of public record character of recorded documents.
  (A) The county recorder shall display at all times, in a conspicuous place in the office of the recorder, a printed card that shall read...
• 317.99 Penalty.
  Whoever violates section 317.34 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. Effective Date: 01-01-1974

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