Ohio Revised Code Chapter 317 - Recorder

• Section 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...
• Section 317.02 - Bond Of County Recorder - Oath.
  Before entering upon the duties of office, the county recorder shall give a bond, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties , signed...
• Section 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...
• Section 317.04 - Official Seal.
  The county recorder shall keep a seal of office, to be procured at the expense of the county, which the county recorder shall affix...
• Section 317.05 - Deputies.
  The county recorder may appoint deputies to aid in the performance of the county recorder's duties. Such an appointment or removal shall be in...
• Section 317.06 - Continuing Education.
  (A) Each county recorder who is newly elected to a full term of office shall attend and successfully complete at least fifteen hours of...
• Section 317.07 - Delivery Of Seal, Books, And Records To Successor.
  Upon leaving office, each county recorder shall deliver to the county recorder's successor, the seal of office, all books, records, and other instruments of...
• Section 317.08 - Records To Be Kept By County Recorder.
  (A) The county recorder shall record all instruments in one general record series to be known as the "official records." The county recorder shall...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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,...
• Section 317.112 - Further Requirements For Instruments.
  (A) Each instrument and its contents by which the title to real estate or personal property, or by which any interest in or lien...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 317.13 - Duties Of Recorder.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the county recorder shall record in the official records, in legible handwriting, typewriting,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 the official records provided for that purpose,...
• Section 317.18 - Direct And Reverse Indexes.
  The county recorder shall make and keep up direct and reverse indexes of all the names of both parties to all instruments previously received...
• Section 317.19 - Daily Registers Of Deeds And Mortgages.
  The county recorder shall keep a daily register of deeds and mortgages, in which shall be noted, as soon as filed, in alphabetical order...
• Section 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 indexes...
• Section 317.201 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 41, HB 72, §2, eff. 1/30/2014. Effective Date: 03-22-1989
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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 for filing or recording...
• Section 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...
• Section 317.28 - Acknowledgments.
  No county recorder, and no deputy or employee of the county recorder, shall take the acknowledgement of any instrument required to be filed or...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 317.32 - Recording Fees.
  The county recorder shall charge and collect the following fees, to include, except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, base fees...
• Section 317.321 - Acquisition Or Maintenance Of Imaging And Other Technological Equipment And Contract Services Therefor; Proposal To Reserve Funds.
  (A) Not later than the first day of October of any year, the county recorder may submit to the board of county commissioners a...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 317.35 - Record Of Plans And Drawings Of Public Buildings.
  (A) The county recorder shall record the plans and drawings filed under section 9.56 of the Revised Code and shall make them available for...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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:

Last modified: October 10, 2016