Title 7, Title 7. Municipal Corporations

(A) After the hearing on a petition for annexation, the board of county commissioners shall enter upon its journal a resolution granting the annexation if it finds, based upon a preponderance of the substantial, reliable, and probative evidence on the whole record, that each of t…

At the next regular session of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation to which annexation is proposed, after the expiration of sixty days from the date of the delivery required by division (C) of section 709.022 or division (C)(1) of section 709.033 of the Revised…

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 shall be had. Such rejection shall not be a bar to application thereafter to the board of county commissioners on the same subjec…

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 of the municipal corporation to which annexation is proposed shall make three copies containing the petition, the map or plat accompanyi…

(A) The agent for the petitioners, any owner of real estate in the territory proposed for annexation, any township in which territory proposed for annexation is located, and the municipal corporation to which the territory is proposed to be annexed may file an appeal under Chapte…

The annexation shall become effective thirty days after the passage of the resolution or ordinance by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation accepting annexation, provided that if the resolution or ordinance is subjected to a referendum, the annexation, if approve…

If the territory proposed for annexation under this chapter is situated in more than one county, the annexation proceedings shall be in the county in which the majority of acreage of the territory proposed for annexation is situated.

When proceedings have been commenced to annex a portion of a township, or portions of more than one township, to a municipal corporation upon which the tax levies made by the board of township trustees for the payment of the township debt do not apply, the county auditor shall as…

The inhabitants, generally, of a municipal corporation may enlarge the limits of the municipal corporation by the annexation of contiguous territory in the manner provided by sections 709.14 to 709.16 of the Revised Code.

The legislative authority of a municipal corporation that proposes to annex contiguous territory shall pass, by a vote of not less than a majority of the members elected to the legislative authority, an ordinance authorizing the annexation to be made and directing the village sol…

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 Code shall be by a petition setting forth that, under an ordinance of the legislative authority of the municipal c…

(A) A municipal corporation may petition the board of county commissioners to annex contiguous territory owned only by the municipal corporation, a county, or the state. The clerk of the board shall cause the petition to be entered upon the board's journal at its next regular ses…

(A) As used in this section:(1) "International airport" means any airport that is:(a) Designated as an international airport or a landing rights airport by the United States secretary of the treasury;(b) Owned and operated by a municipal corporation;(c) An unincorporated area not…

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 require payments under that section, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation which proposes to annex unincorporated territory of a town…

(A) The legislative authority of one municipal corporation, by ordinance or resolution, and the board of township trustees of one or more townships, by resolution, may enter into annexation agreements under this section.(B) An annexation agreement may be entered into for any peri…

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 a part of the annexing municipal corporation, and the inhabitants residing in the territory shall have all the rights and privilege…

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 become final and the annexed territory has been recognized as a part of the annexing municipal corporation, taxes levied upon it …

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 of the Revised Code.

The legislative authority of any municipal corporation may propose annexation of its territory to that of any contiguous municipal corporation, and it shall thereupon pass an ordinance declaring its desire to be annexed and shall appoint three commissioners to represent it in suc…

If there is presented to the legislative authority of a municipal corporation proposed to be annexed to an adjoining or contiguous municipal corporation, a petition signed by resident electors, who voted at the last regular municipal election, numbering not less than twenty-five …

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 specify whether annexation is desired for corporate municipal purposes only, or for such purposes and for school purposes. In case annexatio…

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 ordinance shall submit a certified copy of it to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation with which annexation is proposed, …

If, within thirty days after receipt of a certified copy of an ordinance from a municipal corporation proposing annexation designating its three commissioners, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation with which annexation is proposed fails to pass an ordinance desi…

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 arrange the conditions of annexation and report the result of their action to the legislative authorit…

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 municipal corporations, the legislative authorities of both such municipal corporations shall order the question of annexation, u…

The legislative authority of a city to which the annexation of another city or village or part thereof is sought as provided in sections 709.22 to 709.29, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may by ordinance, and the board of education of a city school district to which the annexatio…

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 favor of annexation, the board of elections shall thereupon certify the results of the election in each municipal corporation to the legi…

Under the direction of the municipal corporation to which territory is proposed to be annexed, the auditor or clerk thereof shall make and certify two transcripts of all the ordinances, abstracts of the returns of the votes, and other papers relating to annexation, one of which s…

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 to the county recorder and the other forwarded to the secretary of state, the annexation shall be complete and the conditions of anne…

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 shall be governed as one, embracing the territory of both, and the inhabitants of all such territory shall have equa…

Any two adjoining municipal corporations may, by ordinance of their respective legislative authorities, agree to a change in the boundary line separating such municipal corporations, provided such change does not involve the transfer of territory, inhabited by more than five vote…

Upon petition of a majority of the freehold electors owning lands in any portion of the territory of a municipal corporation, or, if no freehold electors own land therein, upon petition of a majority of the owners of lands therein, accurately described in such petition with an ac…

The freehold electors owning lands in any portion of a village, such portion being contiguous to an adjoining township, and comprising not less than one thousand five hundred acres of land, may file a petition with the board of elections in such county requesting that an election…

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 of the village shall be made between such village and the detached territory upon the basis of the respective tax duplicates …

The owner of unplatted farm lands, annexed to any municipal corporation after the incorporation thereof, may file a petition in the court of common pleas of the county in which the lands are situated, in which such owner shall be named as plaintiff, and the municipal corporation …

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 that the lands are farm lands, and are not within the original limits of the municipal corporation, that by reason of the same being or remaining within th…

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 the unincorporated area of a township with one or more municipal corporations, or the merger of one or more municipal corporations wit…

The territory of one or more municipal corporations, whether or not adjacent to one another, may be merged with that of an adjacent municipal corporation, and the unincorporated area of a township may be merged with one or more municipal corporations, or one or more municipal cor…

(A) A petition may be filed with the board of elections proposing that one or more municipal corporations be merged with another municipal corporation, or that the unincorporated area of a township be merged with one or more municipal corporations, as provided by section 709.44 o…

(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 be merged as provided in section 709.44 of the Revised Code agree to a merger and adopt, by a two-thirds vote of each legislative autho…

(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 a merger agreement under section 709.451 of the Revised Code shall submit the question of merger to the electors of the munici…

(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 the Revised Code, is disapproved by a majority of those voting on it in the township or a municipal corporation proposed to be merged or i…

(A) In formulating the proposed merger conditions, the commission shall attempt to work in a collaborative process that results in a consensus of its members as to the best proposal for all of the political subdivisions involved. To this end, the commission shall adopt rules for …

(A) Once proposed merger conditions are prepared, the members of the commission shall vote on them. (B) If no proposed merger condition can be agreed upon by a majority of the members of the commission from each political subdivision, the members of the commission may vote on whe…

(A) If merger conditions agreed upon by a merger commission of a township and one or more municipal corporations are disapproved by a majority of those voting on them in the township or a municipal corporation proposed to be merged or in the municipal corporation with which merge…

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 the election of a merger commission for the merger of one or more municipal corporations and the unincorporated territory of a township, no petition for the…