Ohio Revised Code Chapter 709 - Annexation; Detachment

• Section 709.01 - Annexation And Detachment Of Territory.
  Territory may be annexed to, merged with, or detached from, municipal corporations, in the manner provided in this chapter, provided that no territory lying...
• Section 709.011 - Clerk To Notify Board Of Elections Of Vacancies In Office And Change In Municipal Boundaries.
  The clerk or clerk of council of a municipal corporation shall notify the board of elections of all vacancies caused by death, resignation, or...
• Section 709.012 - Reduction In Firefighting Force Resulting From Annexation Of Township Territory.
  When a municipal corporation annexes township territory which results in a reduction of the firefighting force of the township or joint township fire district,...
• Section 709.013 - Multiple Annexation Petitions Concerning Same Territory.
  (A) If, after a petition for annexation is filed with the board of county commissioners, one or more other petitions are filed containing all...
• Section 709.014 - Fee Schedule For Annexation Costs.
  (A) The board of county commissioners may establish a reasonable fee or schedule of fees to cover its costs incurred in any annexation proceedings...
• Section 709.015 - Substantial Compliance With Procedural Requirements Is Sufficient To Grant Jurisdiction.
  The procedural requirements set forth in sections 709.02 to 709.21 of the Revised Code are directory in nature. Substantial compliance with the procedural requirements...
• Section 709.02 - Petition For Annexation By Owners Of Contiguous Real Estate.
  (A) The owners of real estate contiguous to a municipal corporation may petition for annexation to a municipal corporation in the manner provided by...
• Section 709.021 - Special Procedure Where Owners Unanimously Request Annexation.
  (A) When a petition signed by all of the owners of real estate in the unincorporated territory of a township proposed for annexation requests...
• Section 709.022 - Petition Where Owners Unanimously Request Annexation.
  (A) A petition filed under section 709.021 of the Revised Code that requests to follow this section is for the special procedure of annexing...
• Section 709.023 - [Operative Until 1/1/2016] Special Annexation Procedure Where Land Is Not Excluded From Township.
  (A) A petition filed under section 709.021 of the Revised Code that requests to follow this section is for the special procedure of annexing...
• Section 709.023 - [Operative 1/1/2016] Special Annexation Procedure Where Land Is Not Excluded From Township.
  (A) A petition filed under section 709.021 of the Revised Code that requests to follow this section is for the special procedure of annexing...
• Section 709.024 - Special Annexation Procedure For Purpose Of Undertaking Significant Economic Development Project.
  (A) A petition filed under section 709.021 of the Revised Code that requests to follow this section is for the special procedure of annexing...
• Section 709.03 - Petition Presented To Board Of County Commissioners - Proceedings.
  (A) Once a petition described in section 709.02 of the Revised Code is filed, the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall cause...
• Section 709.031 - Report On Accuracy Of Legal Description - Verification Of Signatures.
  (A) Within five days after the petition for annexation is filed with the board of county commissioners, the clerk of the board shall refer...
• Section 709.032 - Annexation Hearing.
  (A) As used in this section, "necessary party" means the municipal corporation to which annexation is proposed, each township any portion of which is...
• Section 709.033 - Commissioners' Resolution Granting Or Denying Annexation.
  (A) After the hearing on a petition for annexation, the board of county commissioners shall enter upon its journal a resolution granting the annexation...
• Section 709.04 - Accepting Or Rejecting Annexation By Ordinance Or Resolution.
  At the next regular session of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation to which annexation is proposed, after the expiration of sixty days...
• Section 709.05 - Rejection Of Application - Effect.
  If the resolution or ordinance required by section 709.04 of the Revised Code is a rejection of the application for annexation, no further proceedings...
• Section 709.06 - Proceedings When Application Allowed.
  If the resolution or ordinance required by section 709.04 of the Revised Code is an acceptance of the proposed annexation, the auditor or clerk...
• Section 709.07 - Appeals.
  (A) The agent for the petitioners, any owner of real estate in the territory proposed for annexation, any township in which territory proposed for...
• Section 709.08, 707.09 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-26-2001
• Section 709.10 - Effective Date Of Annexation And Rights Of Inhabitants.
  The annexation shall become effective thirty days after the passage of the resolution or ordinance by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation accepting...
• Section 709.11 - Territory Situated In More Than One County.
  If the territory proposed for annexation under this chapter is situated in more than one county, the annexation proceedings shall be in the county...
• Section 709.12 - Apportioning Of Indebtedness Of Annexed Territory - Division Of Funds.
  When proceedings have been commenced to annex a portion of a township, or portions of more than one township, to a municipal corporation upon...
• Section 709.13 - Annexation Of Territory Upon Action By Inhabitants Generally.
  The inhabitants, generally, of a municipal corporation may enlarge the limits of the municipal corporation by the annexation of contiguous territory in the manner...
• Section 709.14 - Preliminary Action By Legislative Authority.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation that proposes to annex contiguous territory shall pass, by a vote of not less than a majority...
• Section 709.15 - Petition To Board Of County Commissioners.
  The application of a municipal corporation to the board of county commissioners requesting the annexation of contiguous territory under section 709.16 of the Revised...
• Section 709.16 - Petition By Municipal Corporation For Annexation.
  (A) A municipal corporation may petition the board of county commissioners to annex contiguous territory owned only by the municipal corporation, a county, or...
• Section 709.17, 709.18 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-26-2001
• Section 709.19 - Compensating Township For Lost Tax Revenue.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "International airport" means any airport that is: (a) Designated as an international airport or a landing rights...
• Section 709.191 - Annual Payments To Compensate For Lost Tax Revenue.
  In lieu of making any of the payments required by section 709.19 of the Revised Code and for any proposed annexation which does not...
• Section 709.192 - Annexation Agreements.
  (A) The legislative authority of one municipal corporation, by ordinance or resolution, and the board of township trustees of one or more townships, by...
• Section 709.20 - Rights When Annexation Complete.
  When the annexation of the territory described in the petition mentioned in section 709.15 of the Revised Code has been completed, such territory is...
• Section 709.21 - Errors Not Fatal To Proceedings.
  No error, irregularity, or defect in the proceedings under sections 709.01 to 709.20 of the Revised Code shall render them invalid once annexation has...
• Section 709.22 - Annexation Of Territory Of One Municipal Corporation To A Contiguous Municipal Corporation.
  Territory of a municipal corporation may be annexed to that of a contiguous municipal corporation in the manner provided in sections 709.23 to 709.34...
• Section 709.23 - Arrangement Of Conditions Of Annexation.
  The legislative authority of any municipal corporation may propose annexation of its territory to that of any contiguous municipal corporation, and it shall thereupon...
• Section 709.24 - Petition For Annexation - Appointment Of Commission.
  If there is presented to the legislative authority of a municipal corporation proposed to be annexed to an adjoining or contiguous municipal corporation, a...
• Section 709.25 - Ordinance Or Petition - Procedure.
  The ordinance provided for in section 709.23 of the Revised Code, or the petition provided for in section 709.24 of the Revised Code, shall...
• Section 709.26 - Designation Of Commissioners For Negotiation.
  Upon the passage of the ordinance provided for in section 709.23 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the legislative authority passing such an...
• Section 709.27 - Procedure On Failure Of Legislative Authority To Designate Commissioners.
  If, within thirty days after receipt of a certified copy of an ordinance from a municipal corporation proposing annexation designating its three commissioners, the...
• Section 709.28 - Conditions Of Annexation.
  The commissioners appointed by the respective municipal corporations proposing annexation pursuant to sections 709.23 to 709.33, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall proceed to...
• Section 709.29 - Submission Of Question Of Annexation To A Vote - Procedure.
  Within thirty days after filing the conditions of annexation as provided by section 709.28 of the Revised Code with the legislative authorities of the...
• Section 709.30 - Assent To Annexation - Election.
  The legislative authority of a city to which the annexation of another city or village or part thereof is sought as provided in sections...
• Section 709.31 - Election Results Certified.
  If a majority of the electors of each municipal corporation, voting on the question submitted under section 709.29 of the Revised Code, are in...
• Section 709.32 - Clerk Of Municipal Corporation To Certify Transcripts.
  Under the direction of the municipal corporation to which territory is proposed to be annexed, the auditor or clerk thereof shall make and certify...
• Section 709.33 - Effective Date Of Annexation.
  When the transcripts of annexation proceedings are certified as provided in section 709.32 of the Revised Code, and after one of them is delivered...
• Section 709.34 - Government Of The Municipal Corporations.
  When the annexation of a municipal corporation under sections 709.23 to 709.33, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is completed, the two former municipal corporations...
• Section 709.35, 709.36 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-19-1973
• Section 709.37 - Adjustment Of Boundaries Of Adjoining Municipal Corporations By Mutual Consent.
  Any two adjoining municipal corporations may, by ordinance of their respective legislative authorities, agree to a change in the boundary line separating such municipal...
• Section 709.38 - Petition For Detachment Of Lands And Attachment To Contiguous Township - May Form New Township.
  Upon petition of a majority of the freehold electors owning lands in any portion of the territory of a municipal corporation, or, if no...
• Section 709.39 - Petition To Submit Question Of Detachment Of Territory - Election.
  The freehold electors owning lands in any portion of a village, such portion being contiguous to an adjoining township, and comprising not less than...
• Section 709.40 - Apportionment Of Property, Funds, And Indebtedness.
  When territory is detached from a village in accordance with section 709.39 of the Revised Code, an apportionment of the property, funds, and indebtedness...
• Section 709.41 - Petition For Detachment Of Farm Land.
  The owner of unplatted farm lands, annexed to any municipal corporation after the incorporation thereof, may file a petition in the court of common...
• Section 709.42 - Hearing - Decision.
  If, upon the hearing of a cause of action as provided by section 709.41 of the Revised Code, the court of common pleas finds...
• Section 709.43 - Merger Defined.
  As used in sections 709.43 to 709.48 of the Revised Code, "merger" means the annexation, one to another, of existing municipal corporations or of...
• Section 709.44 - Territory That May Be Merged.
  The territory of one or more municipal corporations, whether or not adjacent to one another, may be merged with that of an adjacent municipal...
• Section 709.45 - Petition For Merger.
  (A) A petition may be filed with the board of elections proposing that one or more municipal corporations be merged with another municipal corporation,...
• Section 709.451 - Merger In Lieu Of Petition.
  (A) In lieu of filing a petition under section 709.45 of the Revised Code, if the legislative authorities of each political subdivision that may...
• Section 709.452 - Submission Of Question Of Merger To Voters.
  (A) The legislative authority of each municipal corporation or township proposed for merger as provided in section 709.44 of the Revised Code that adopts...
• Section 709.46 - Disapproval Or Approval Of Merger.
  (A) If the question of merging one or more municipal corporations and the unincorporated area of a township, as provided in section 709.45 of...
• Section 709.461 - Collaborative Formulation Of Merger Conditions - Unincorporated Areas.
  (A) In formulating the proposed merger conditions, the commission shall attempt to work in a collaborative process that results in a consensus of its...
• Section 709.462 - Vote On Merger Conditions - Agreement By Majority Of Subdivision Members - Term Of Commission.
  (A) Once proposed merger conditions are prepared, the members of the commission shall vote on them. (B) If no proposed merger condition can be...
• Section 709.47 - Procedure After Disapproval Or Approval.
  (A) If merger conditions agreed upon by a merger commission of a township and one or more municipal corporations are disapproved by a majority...
• Section 709.48 - No Petitions For Annexation After Merger Defeated.
  On and after the date on which a petition is filed with the board of elections under section 709.45 of the Revised Code for...
• Section 709.50 - Removal Of Area.
  (A) Notwithstanding any other section of the Revised Code, when a township contains at least ninety per cent of the geographic area of a...

Last modified: October 10, 2016