Ohio Revised Code Chapter 163 - Appropriation Of Property

• Section 163.01 - Appropriation Of Property Definitions.
  As used in sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code: (A) "Public agency" means any governmental corporation, unit, organization, instrumentality, or officer authorized...
• Section 163.02 - Appropriations Of Real Property.
  (A) All appropriations of real property shall be made pursuant to sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code, except as otherwise provided in...
• Section 163.021 - Taking Necessary For Public Use - Blight - Veto.
  (A) No agency shall appropriate real property except as necessary and for a public use. In any appropriation, the taking agency shall show by...
• Section 163.03 - Right Of Entry.
  Any agency may, upon the notice prescribed in this section, prior to or subsequent to the filing of a petition pursuant to section 163.05...
• Section 163.04 - Notice Of Intent To Acquire - Purchase Offer - Inability To Agree.
  (A) At least thirty days before filing a petition pursuant to section 163.05 of the Revised Code, an agency shall provide notice to the...
• Section 163.041 - Form Of Notice Of Intent To Acquire.
  Before initiating an appropriation action, an agency shall provide notice to each property owner as required by division (A) of section 163.04 of the...
• Section 163.05 - Petition For Appropriation.
  An agency that has met the requirements of sections 163.04 and 163.041 of the Revised Code, may commence proceedings in a proper court by...
• Section 163.051 - Submission Of Property Value To Binding Arbitration.
  Either an owner of property or an agency may request that the issue of the value of the property be submitted to nonbinding mediation....
• Section 163.06 - Depositing Value With Court.
  (A) A public agency, other than an agency appropriating property for the purposes described in division (B) of this section, that qualifies pursuant to...
• Section 163.07 - Notice Of Filing Petition To Owners.
  Where the residence of the owners is known and is within this state, notice of the filing of a petition as provided in section...
• Section 163.08 - Answer Of Owner.
  Any owner may file an answer to such petition. Such answer shall be verified as in a civil action and shall contain a general...
• Section 163.09 - Valuation Of Property.
  (A) If no answer is filed pursuant to section 163.08 of the Revised Code, and no approval ordered by the court to a settlement...
• Section 163.10 - Selecting Jury.
  The assessment of compensation may be made at a regular or special term of court. The jury shall be selected from the jurors drawn...
• Section 163.11 - Infant Or Incompetent Owner.
  If it appears that any of the owners is an infant or otherwise incompetent, and has no guardian, a guardian ad litem shall be...
• Section 163.12 - View Of Premises - Court May Amend Defect Or Informality In Proceedings.
  (A) A view of the premises to be appropriated or of premises appropriated shall be ordered by the court when requested by a party...
• Section 163.13 - View Of Premises.
  No delay in the proceedings shall be occasioned by doubt as to the ownership of any property, or as to the interest of the...
• Section 163.14 - Determination Of Ownership Rights.
  (A) In appropriation proceedings the jury shall be sworn to impartially assess the compensation and damages, if any, without deductions for general benefits as...
• Section 163.15 - Contents Of Jury Verdict - Relocation Payments.
  (A) As soon as the agency pays to the party entitled thereto or deposits with the court the amount of the award and the...
• Section 163.16 - Court Costs.
  The court costs, including jury fees, of any proceeding shall be paid as the court directs, except as may be provided for in cases...
• Section 163.17 - Interest.
  Where the agency has the right to take possession of the property before the verdict upon payment into court of a deposit, and a...
• Section 163.18 - Notice To Owners Of Award - Motion For Distribution.
  At the time the agency makes a deposit or pays into court the jury award, the clerk of courts shall give notice by ordinary...
• Section 163.19 - Appeal.
  Subject to sections 163.07 and 163.09 of the Revised Code, any party may prosecute appeals as in other civil actions from the judgment of...
• Section 163.20 - Appropriation To Perfect Title.
  An agency may appropriate in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, any property in which an interest has been...
• Section 163.21 - Abandonment Of Proceedings.
  (A) (1) If it has not taken possession of property that is appropriated, an agency may abandon appropriation proceedings under sections 163.01 to 163.22...
• Section 163.211 - Repurchase Of Unused Property By Owner.
  If an agency decides not to use appropriated property for the purpose stated in the appropriation petition, the prior owner from whom the property...
• Section 163.22 - Rules Of Procedure.
  All proceedings brought under sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code shall be governed by the law applicable in civil actions and the...
• Section 163.31 - Removal Of Advertising Device Definitions.
  As used in sections 163.31 to 163.33 of the Revised Code: (A) "Advertising device" includes any legally erected and maintained outdoor sign, display, device,...
• Section 163.32 - Removing Advertising Device Is Compensable.
  Any removal of an advertising device that is ordered by a public agency pursuant to law or ordinance, or to the exercise of any...
• Section 163.33 - Paying Compensation Prior To Removal.
  (A) Before any advertising device is removed by a public agency pursuant to any law or ordinance, or to the exercise of any power...
• Section 163.51 - Displaced Person Definitions.
  As used in sections 163.51 to 163.62 of the Revised Code: (A) "State agency" means any department, agency, or instrumentality of a state or...
• Section 163.52 - Validity Of Property Acquisition.
  (A) The failure of an acquiring agency to satisfy a requirement of section 163.59 of the Revised Code does not affect the validity of...
• Section 163.53 - Application For Payment To Displaced Person.
  (A) Whenever the acquisition of real property for a program or project undertaken by a displacing agency will result in the displacement of any...
• Section 163.54 - Additional Payments To Displaced Person Displaced From Dwelling Owned 90 Days Or More.
  (A) In addition to payments otherwise authorized by sections 163.51 to 163.62 of the Revised Code, the head of the displacing agency shall make...
• Section 163.55 - Additional Payments To Displaced Person Displaced From Dwelling Owned 90 Days Or More.
  (A) In addition to amounts otherwise authorized by sections 163.51 to 163.62 of the Revised Code, the head of a displacing agency shall make...
• Section 163.56 - Resolving Problems Associated With Displacement.
  (A) (1) Projects or programs that cause persons to be displaced persons shall be planned in a manner that recognizes, at an early stage...
• Section 163.57 - Replacement Housing.
  (A) If a project cannot proceed to actual construction because comparable replacement sale or rental housing is not available, and the head of the...
• Section 163.58 - Regulations And Procedure For Displacement Situations.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in rules adopted under division (B) of this section, the head of each displacing agency is authorized to establish...
• Section 163.59 - Policy For Land Acquisition.
  In order to encourage and expedite the acquisition of real property by agreements with owners, to avoid litigation and relieve congestion in the courts,...
• Section 163.60 - Acquiring Interest In Buildings Located On Acquired Real Property.
  (A) If the head of a state agency acquires any interest in real property, he shall acquire at least an equal interest in all...
• Section 163.61 - Reimbursement Of Incidental Expenses.
  The head of a state agency, as soon as practicable after the date of payment of the purchase price or the date of deposit...
• Section 163.62 - Reimbursement Of Reasonable Costs, Disbursements, And Expenses.
  (A) The court having jurisdiction of a proceeding instituted by a state agency to acquire real property by condemnation shall award the owner of...
• Section 163.63 - Condemnation - Eminent Domain.
  Any reference in the Revised Code to any authority to acquire real property by "condemnation" or to take real property pursuant to a power...

Last modified: October 10, 2016