2025 Ohio Revised Code
Title 5 | Townships
Chapter 503 | General Provisions
Section 503.28 | Delivery of Records and Property to Successor - Forfeiture.

Universal Citation:
OH Rev Code § 503.28 (2025)
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Effective: April 12, 2021

Latest Legislation: House Bill 450 - 133rd General Assembly

All township officers shall deliver to their successors in office all books, records, documents, laws, obligations, papers, blanks, and all other articles and property belonging to their respective offices or deposited with them in their official capacity. Any person who has been a township officer and refuses to deliver over such property, or any part thereof, shall forfeit not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, to be recovered by action, for the use of the township. The fiscal officer shall include an inventory of the items delivered in accordance with this section in a certificate of transition under section 117.171 of the Revised Code.

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