Title 57, Title 57. Taxation

(A) If the legislative authority of a municipal corporation adopts a resolution for the purposes provided in section 306.55 of the Revised Code and division (XX) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code and certifies the resolution to the board of elections as a combined question, …

Except as otherwise provided in section 5705.191 of the Revised Code, if the majority of the electors voting on a levy authorized by sections 5705.19 to 5705.25 of the Revised Code vote in favor of such levy at such election, the taxing authority of the subdivision may levy a tax…

(A) The question of decrease of an increased rate of levy approved for a continuing period of time by the voters of a subdivision or, in the case of a qualifying library levy, the voters of the library district or association library district, may be initiated by the filing of a …

There is hereby created in each county a county budget commission consisting of the county auditor, the county treasurer, and the prosecuting attorney. The prosecuting attorney may recuse the prosecuting attorney, in which case a member of the board of county commissioners select…

(A) Except as provided in division (B)(1) or (2) of this section or in section 5705.281 of the Revised Code, the taxing authority of each subdivision or other taxing unit shall adopt a tax budget for the next succeeding fiscal year: (1) On or before the fifteenth day of January i…

(A) Notwithstanding section 5705.28 of the Revised Code, the county budget commission, by an affirmative vote of a majority of the commission, including an affirmative vote by the county auditor, may waive the requirement that the taxing authority of a subdivision or other taxing…

This section does not apply to a subdivision or taxing unit for which the county budget commission has waived the requirement to adopt a tax budget pursuant to section 5705.281 of the Revised Code. The tax budget shall present the following information: (A)(1) A statement of the …

This section does not apply to a subdivision for which the county budget commission has waived the requirement to adopt a tax budget under section 5705.281 of the Revised Code. At least two copies of the budget shall be filed in the office of the fiscal officer of the subdivision…

The county auditor shall present to the county budget commission the annual tax budgets submitted under sections 5705.01 to 5705.47 of the Revised Code, together with an estimate prepared by the auditor of the amount of any state levy, the rate of any school tax levy as previousl…

During any tax year or years within which any territory annexed to a city or a village is not a part of the city school district or a school district of which such village is a part, the minimum levy for such city or village under section 5705.31 of the Revised Code shall not be …

The county budget commission shall not increase the minimum levy of a municipal corporation pursuant to division (D) of section 5705.31 of the Revised Code to pay debt service unless moneys available to pay such debt service are insufficient after applying divisions (A) to (C) of…

(A)(1) Whenever a board of county commissioners adopts a resolution pursuant to section 5739.021 or 5739.026 of the Revised Code to levy or increase the rate of a sales tax, the board may adopt an accompanying resolution reducing the rate of any property tax the county currently …

(A) If the board of education of a city, local, or exempted village school district proposes to change its levy within the ten-mill limitation in a manner that will result in an increase in the amount of real property taxes levied by the board in the tax year the change takes eff…

With respect to annexations granted on or after March 27, 2002, and during any tax year or years within which any territory annexed to a municipal corporation is part of a township, the minimum levy for the municipal corporation and township under section 5705.31 of the Revised C…

(A) As used in this section: (1) "Taxes charged and payable" means real property taxes, or manufactured home taxes assessed pursuant to section 4503.06 of the Revised Code, that are charged and payable after reductions required by sections 319.301, 319.302, 323.152, 323.158, 319.…

(A) As used in this section: (1) "Unnecessary collections" mean collections from a tax beyond the reasonably anticipated financial needs of the taxing authority for the specific purposes of the tax after accounting for current fund balances, projected expenditures, and other avai…

(A) As used in this section: (1) "City, located wholly or partially in the county, with the greatest population" means the city, located wholly or partially in the county, with the greatest population residing in the county; however, if the county budget commission on or before J…

In determining whether to reduce the taxing authority of a county under section 5705.32 of the Revised Code in connection with the balance of a county developmental disabilities general fund, the county budget commission shall take into consideration the five-year projection of r…

In the case of any subdivision which issued refunding bonds as provided in volume 116, Part 2, Ohio Laws, page 57, sections 1 to 14, inclusive, whereby such subdivision has reduced the amount of the levy required to service its debt charges, the budget commission shall not, when …

When the budget commission has completed its work with respect to a tax budget or other information required to be provided under section 5705.281 of the Revised Code, it shall certify its action to the taxing authority, together with an estimate by the county auditor of the rate…

Any person required to pay taxes on real, public utility, or tangible personal property in any taxing district or other political subdivision of this state may appeal to the board of tax appeals from the action of the county budget commission of any county which relates to the fi…

(A) The certification of the budget commission to the taxing authority of each subdivision or taxing unit, as set forth in section 5705.34 of the Revised Code, shall show the various funds of such subdivisions other than funds to be created by transfer and shall be filed by the c…

(A)(1) On or about the first day of each fiscal year, the fiscal officer of each subdivision and other taxing unit shall certify to the county auditor the total amount from all sources available for expenditures from each fund set up in the tax budget or, if adoption of a tax bud…

The taxing authority of any subdivision, or the board of trustees of any public library, nonprofit corporation, or library association maintaining a free public library that has adopted and certified rules under section 5705.28 of the Revised Code, that is dissatisfied with any a…

(A) This division does not apply to school district appropriation measures. On or about the first day of each fiscal year, the taxing authority of each subdivision or other taxing unit shall pass an appropriation measure, and thereafter during the year it may pass any supplementa…

The total appropriations from each fund shall not exceed the total of the estimated revenue available for expenditure therefrom, as certified by the budget commission, or in case of appeal, by the board of tax appeals. No appropriation measure shall become effective until the cou…

(A) Not later than the thirty-first day of August of each fiscal year, each school district board of education shall submit to the department of education and workforce appropriations, revenue, and fund balance assumptions contained in the budget adopted by the board for that fis…

(A) A board of county commissioners may adopt as a part of its annual appropriation measure a spending plan, or in the case of an amended appropriation measure, an amended spending plan, setting forth a quarterly schedule of expenses and expenditures of all appropriations for the…

Any appropriation ordinance or measure may be amended or supplemented, provided that such amendment or supplement shall comply with all provisions of law governing the taxing authority in making an original appropriation and that no appropriation for any purpose shall be reduced …

No subdivision or taxing unit shall: (A) Make any appropriation of money except as provided in Chapter 5705. of the Revised Code; provided, that the authorization of a bond issue shall be deemed to be an appropriation of the proceeds of the bond issue for the purpose for which su…

Upon the approval of a tax levy by the electors of a county under section 5705.191 of the Revised Code for the purpose of providing funds for the acquisition or construction of a specific permanent improvement or class of permanent improvements for the county, the total anticipat…

(A) As used in this section, "qualifying contract" means any agreement for the expenditure of money under which aggregate payments from the funds included in the school district's three-year forecast under section 5705.391 of the Revised Code will exceed the lesser of the followi…

When the United States government or the state or any department, division, agency, authority, or unit thereof makes a grant or loan of money to any political subdivision of this state to aid in paying the cost of any program, activity, or function of such subdivision, or enters …

In the case of an improvement, the cost of which is to be paid in whole or part by special assessments, a contract may be executed without an appropriation or certificate for that portion of the cost derived or to be derived from special assessments, provided that a resolution or…

When contracts or leases run beyond the termination of the fiscal year in which they are made, the fiscal officer of the taxing authority shall make a certification for the amount required to meet the obligation of such contract or lease maturing in such fiscal year. The amount o…

Any officer, employee, or other person who issues any order contrary to section 5705.41 of the Revised Code, or who expends or authorizes the expenditure of any public funds, or who authorizes or executes any contract contrary to sections 5705.01 to 5705.47 of the Revised Code, u…

Each political subdivision may make expenditures for the payment of current payrolls upon the authority of a proper appropriation for such purpose, provided that the positions of such employees and their compensation have been determined prior thereto by resolution, ordinance, or…

Any act or proceeding taken prior to May 12, 1927, authorizing any tax or debt charge to be levied, or any contract or expenditure to be made, shall not be affected by sections 5705.01 to 5705.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code, but such act or proceeding shall be completed, and …

Whenever a taxing district is located in two or more counties, the budget commission of the counties in which such district is located shall meet in joint session at the call of the chairman of the commission of the county in which the greatest value of taxable property of such t…

Wherever in the Revised Code the taxing authority of any subdivision is authorized to levy taxes on the taxable property within a subdivision, or, in the case of a qualifying library levy, within a library district or association library district, such authority shall extend only…

Any housing authority or any political subdivision, including counties and the state, by resolution of the taxing authority of such subdivision, may incur indebtedness and authorize the expenditure of funds of such subdivision to carry forward a real property inventory of all or …

(A) As used in this section:(1) "Indirect debt limit" means such limitation, in effect at the time of issuance, upon the issuance of unvoted general obligation bonds, notes, or certificates of indebtedness by a subdivision as results from a restriction on the amount of unvoted ta…

(A) The board of directors of a lake facilities authority, by a vote of two-thirds of all its members, may at any time declare by resolution that the amount of taxes which may be raised within the ten-mill limitation by levies on the current tax duplicate will be insufficient to …

(A) As used in this section, "qualifying fixed-sum levy" means a tax levied on property at whatever rate is required to produce a specified amount of tax money, including a tax levied under section 5705.199 of the Revised Code, but not including a tax levied in excess of the ten-…

As used in this section:(A) "Effective tax rate" means that quotient obtained by dividing the taxes charged and payable on one thousand dollars of taxable value of real property, after making the reduction required by section 319.301 of the Revised Code, by one thousand.(B) "Taxa…

The tax imposed by section 5705.61 of the Revised Code is due and payable on the dates for the payment of real property taxes as provided under section 323.12 of the Revised Code. Payment shall be made to the county treasurer of the county in which the property in which the inter…