323.70 Final hearing on complaint - dismissal on petition. - Ohio Statutes

323.70 Final hearing on complaint - dismissal on petition.

(A) Subject to this section and to sections 323.71 and 323.72 of the Revised Code, a county board of revision shall conduct a final hearing on the merits of a complaint filed under section 323.69 of the Revised Code, including the validity or amount of any impositions alleged in the complaint, not sooner than thirty days after the service of notice of summons and complaint has been perfected . If, after a hearing, the board finds that the validity or amount of all or a portion of the impositions is not supported by a preponderance of the evidence, the board may order the county auditor to remove from the tax list and duplicate amounts the board finds invalid or not supported by a preponderance of the evidence. The auditor shall remove all such amounts from the tax list and duplicate as ordered by the board of revision, including any impositions asserted under sections 715.26 and 715.261 of the Revised Code.

(B) If, on or before the twentieth day after service of process is perfected under division (B) of section 323.69 of the Revised Code, a record owner or the United States government files with the clerk of court a motion requesting that the county board of revision order the complaint to be dismissed and the abandoned land removed from the abandoned land list , the board shall, without conducting a hearing on the matter, promptly dismiss the complaint for foreclosure of that land and order the land to be removed from the list. Thereafter, until the record owner sells or otherwise conveys the owner’s ownership interest, any attempts to collect delinquent taxes, interest, penalties, and charges owed with respect to that land and appearing on the delinquent tax list or delinquent vacant land tax list, whichever the case may be, shall be conducted in accordance with the judicial foreclosure proceedings and other remedies and procedures prescribed under sections 323.25 to 323.28 or under Chapters 5721., 5722., and 5723. of the Revised Code.

Effective Date: 09-28-2006; 2008 SB353 04-07-2009