2006 Ohio Revised Code - [715.26.1] 715.261.Recovery from owner of total cost of correcting hazardous condition or abating nuisance; exception.

[§ 715.26.1] § 715.261. Recovery from owner of total cost of correcting hazardous condition or abating nuisance; exception.
 

(A)  As used in this section, "total cost" means any costs incurred due to the use of employees, materials, or equipment of the municipal corporation, any costs arising out of contracts for labor, materials, or equipment, and costs of service of notice or publication required under this section. 

(B)  A municipal corporation may collect the total cost of removing, repairing, or securing insecure, unsafe, structurally defective, abandoned, deserted, or open and vacant buildings or other structures, of making emergency corrections of hazardous conditions, or of abating any nuisance by any of the following methods: 

(1) The clerk of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation may certify the total costs, together with a proper description of the lands, to the county auditor who shall place the costs upon the tax duplicate. The costs are a lien upon such lands from and after the date of entry. The costs shall be collected as other taxes and returned to the municipal corporation. 

(2) The municipal corporation may commence a civil action to recover the total costs from the owner. 

(C)  This section applies to any action taken by a municipal corporation pursuant to section 715.26 of the Revised Code or pursuant to Section 3 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution. 

(D)  A municipal corporation shall not certify to the county auditor for placement upon the tax list and duplicate the cost of any action that it takes under division (B) of this section if the action is taken on land that has been forfeited to this state for delinquent taxes, unless the owner of record redeems the land. 
 

HISTORY: 131 v 256 (Eff 11-3-65); 132 v H 1 (Eff 2-21-67); 137 v S 249 (Eff 8-16-78); 146 v H 517. Eff 9-10-96.