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| To amend section 317.36 and to enact sections | 1 |
| 317.083, 317.114, and 5301.461 of the Revised Code | 2 |
| to establish standard format requirements for | 3 |
| documents to be recorded by a county recorder and | 4 |
| to allow recording of a single instrument for | 5 |
| multiple transactions pertaining to oil and gas. | 6 |
| Section 1. That section 317.36 be amended and sections | 7 |
| 317.083, 317.114, and 5301.461 of the Revised Code be enacted to | 8 |
| read as follows: | 9 |
| Sec. 317.083. A single instrument that combines separate | 10 |
| instruments under section 5301.461 of the Revised Code is | 11 |
| recordable. | 12 |
| Sec. 317.114. (A) Except as otherwise provided in division | 13 |
| (B) of this section, an instrument or document presented for | 14 |
| recording to the county recorder shall have been prepared in | 15 |
| accordance with all of the following requirements: | 16 |
| (1) Print size not smaller than a computer font size of ten; | 17 |
| (2) Minimum paper size of eight and one-half inches by eleven | 18 |
| inches; | 19 |
| (3) Maximum paper size of eight and one-half inches by | 20 |
| fourteen inches; | 21 |
| (4) Black or blue ink only; | 22 |
| (5) No use of highlighting; | 23 |
| (6) Margins of one-inch width on each side of each page of | 24 |
| the instrument or document; | 25 |
| (7) A margin of one-inch width across the bottom of each page | 26 |
| of the instrument or document; | 27 |
| (8) A three-inch margin of blank space across the top of the | 28 |
| first page of each instrument or document to accommodate any | 29 |
| certification or indorsement of the county engineer, county | 30 |
| auditor, or county recorder, as may be required by law, with the | 31 |
| right half of that margin being reserved for the indorsement of | 32 |
| the county recorder required by section 317.12 of the Revised | 33 |
| Code; and | 34 |
| (9) A one and one-half-inch margin across the top of each of | 35 |
| the remaining pages of the instrument or document. | 36 |
| The county recorder shall accept for recording an instrument | 37 |
| or document that does not conform to the foregoing requirements | 38 |
| but shall charge and collect the following additional fees for | 39 |
| each such instrument or document: an additional base fee for the | 40 |
| recorder's services of ten dollars and a housing trust fund fee of | 41 |
| ten dollars, which shall be collected pursuant to section 317.36 | 42 |
| of the Revised Code. | 43 |
| (B) This section does not apply to any of the following: | 44 |
| (1) Any document that originates with any court or taxing | 45 |
| authority; | 46 |
| (2) Any document authorized to be recorded under section | 47 |
| 317.24 of the Revised Code; | 48 |
| (3) Any plat, as defined in section 711.001 of the Revised | 49 |
| Code, that is required or authorized by the Revised Code to be | 50 |
| recorded; | 51 |
| (4) Any document authorized to be recorded that originates | 52 |
| from any state or federal agency; | 53 |
| (5) Any document executed before the effective date of this | 54 |
| section. | 55 |
| Sec. 317.36. (A) The county recorder shall collect the low- | 56 |
| and moderate-income housing trust fund fee as specified in | 57 |
| sections 317.114, 317.32, 1563.42, 1702.59, 2505.13, 4141.23, | 58 |
| 4509.60, 5111.022, 5310.15, 5719.07, 5727.56, 5733.18, 5733.22, | 59 |
| 6101.09, and 6115.09 of the Revised Code. The amount of any | 60 |
| housing trust fund fee the recorder is authorized to collect is | 61 |
| equal to the amount of any base fee the recorder is authorized to | 62 |
| collect for services. The housing trust fund fee shall be | 63 |
| collected in addition to the base fee. | 64 |
| (B) The recorder shall certify the amounts collected as | 65 |
| housing trust fund fees pursuant to division (A) of this section | 66 |
| into the county treasury as housing trust fund fees to be paid to | 67 |
| the treasurer of state pursuant to section 319.63 of the Revised | 68 |
| Code. | 69 |
| Sec. 5301.461. Separate instruments that convey or affect an | 70 |
| interest in crude oil or natural gas, such as a lease, assignment, | 71 |
| easement, lien, or right-of-way, may be combined into a single | 72 |
| instrument, notwithstanding any requirement to the contrary. | 73 |
| Section 2. That existing section 317.36 of the Revised Code | 74 |
| is hereby repealed. | 75 |