(A) On or before the thirty-first day of March each year, a municipal corporation or county that has entered into an agreement with an enterprise under section 5709.88 of the Revised Code shall submit to the directors of development services and environmental protection and the board of education of each school district of which a municipal corporation or county to which such an agreement applies is a part a report on all such agreements in effect during the preceding calendar year. The report shall include all of the following information:
(1) The number of enterprises that are subject to such agreements and the number of full-time employees subject to those agreements in the county or municipal corporation;
(2) The number of agreements approved and executed during the calendar year for which the report is submitted, the total number of agreements in effect on the thirty-first day of December of the preceding calendar year, the number of agreements that expired during the calendar year for which the report is submitted, and the number of agreements scheduled to expire during the calendar year in which the report is submitted. For each agreement that expired during the calendar year for which the report is submitted, the municipal corporation or county shall include the amount of taxes exempted and the estimated dollar value of any other incentives provided under the agreement.
(3) The number of agreements receiving compliance reviews by the tax incentive review council in the municipal corporation or county under section 5709.883 of the Revised Code during the calendar year for which the report is submitted, including all of the following information:
(a) The number of agreements the terms of which an enterprise has complied with, indicating separately for each such agreement the value of the real and personal property exempted pursuant to the agreement and a comparison of the stipulated and actual schedules for hiring new employees, for retaining existing employees, for the amount of payroll of the enterprise attributable to these employees, and for remediating and investing in establishing, expanding, renovating, or occupying a facility;
(b) The number of agreements the terms of which an enterprise has failed to comply with, indicating separately for each such agreement the value of the real and personal property exempted pursuant to the agreement and a comparison of the stipulated and actual schedules for hiring new employees, for retaining existing employees, for the amount of payroll of the enterprise attributable to these employees, and for remediating and investing in establishing, expanding, renovating, or occupying a facility;
(c) The number of agreements about which the tax incentive review council made recommendations to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or county, and the number of such recommendations that have not been followed;
(d) The number of agreements rescinded during the calendar year for which the report is submitted.
(4) The number of enterprises that are subject to agreements and the number of new employees hired and existing employees retained by each such enterprise;
(5)
(a) The number of enterprises that are subject to agreements and that closed or reduced employment at any place of business within the state for the primary purpose of remediating and establishing, expanding, renovating, or occupying a facility, indicating separately for each such enterprise the political subdivision in which the enterprise closed or reduced employment at a place of business and the number of full-time employees transferred and retained by each such place of business;
(b) The number of enterprises that are subject to agreements and that closed or reduced employment at any place of business outside the state for the primary purpose of remediating and establishing, expanding, renovating, or occupying a facility.
(B) Upon the failure of a municipal corporation or county to comply with division (A) of this section, both of the following apply:
(1) Beginning on the first day of April of the calendar year in which the municipal corporation or county fails to comply with that division, the municipal corporation or county shall not enter into any agreements with an enterprise under section 5709.88 of the Revised Code until the municipal corporation or county has complied with division (A) of this section;
(2) On the first day of each ensuing calendar month until the municipal corporation or county complies with that division, the director of development services shall either order the proper county auditor to deduct from the next succeeding payment of taxes to the municipal corporation or county under section 321.31, 321.32, 321.33, or 321.34 of the Revised Code an amount equal to five hundred dollars for each calendar month the municipal corporation or county fails to comply with that division, or order the county auditor to deduct such an amount from the next succeeding payment to the municipal corporation or county from the undivided local government fund under section 5747.51 of the Revised Code. At the time such a payment is made, the county auditor shall comply with the director's order by issuing a warrant, drawn on the fund from which such money would have been paid, to the director of development services, who shall deposit the warrant into the contaminated sites development program administration fund created in division (C) of this section.
(C) The director, by rule, shall establish the state's application fee for applications submitted to a municipal corporation or county to enter into an agreement under section 5709.88 of the Revised Code. In establishing the amount of the fee, the director shall consider the state's cost of administering this section and section 5709.88 of the Revised Code. The director may change the amount of the fee at such times and in such increments as the director considers necessary. Any municipal corporation or county that receives an application shall collect the application fee and remit the fee for deposit in the state treasury to the credit of the contaminated sites development program administration fund, which is hereby created. Money credited to the fund shall be used by the development services agency to pay the costs of administering this section and section 5709.88 of the Revised Code.
Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.129, SB 314, ยง1, eff. 9/28/2012.
Effective Date: 09-28-1994
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