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To amend sections 1907.24, 2303.201, 2743.70, 2949.091, 3109.14, 3316.03, 5705.12, 5705.29, 5705.35, 5705.36, 5705.38, 5705.41, 5709.61, 5733.33, 5747.51, and 5747.62; to amend, for the purpose of adopting a new section number as indicated in parentheses, section 5705.13 (5705.121); to enact new section 5705.13 and section 5705.131; and to repeal sections 305.23, 505.83, and 505.831 of the Revised Code to permit taxing authorities of subdivisions to create accounts in which funds may be reserved for budget stabilization, self-insurance claim payments, the payment of claims under retrospective ratings plans for workers' compensation, accumulated employee leave, capital projects, and nonexpendable trusts; to specify that certain amounts in such reserves shall not affect revenue distributions to certain subdivisions through local government funds; to change the conditions under which a subdivision's spending authority must be changed when its projected revenue changes; to permit all subdivisions to authorize purchases in excess of $5,000 for certain goods and services without the necessity of authorizing each individual purchase; to alter the definition of a large manufacturing facility eligible to receive tax incentives under the laws governing enterprise zones, and to allow purchasers of certain large manufacturing facilities to continue receiving credits against the corporate franchise tax that the seller was receiving for the purchase of new manufacturing machinery and equipment; and to change the time by which certain fees collected by clerks of court must be transmitted to the Treasurer of State or deposited into the county treasury. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That sections 1907.24, 2303.201, 2743.70, 2949.091, 3109.14, 3316.03, 5705.12, 5705.29, 5705.35, 5705.36, 5705.38, 5705.41, 5709.61, 5733.33, 5747.51, and 5747.62 be amended, section 5705.13 (5705.121) be amended for the purpose of adopting a new section number as indicated in parentheses, and new section 5705.13 and section 5705.131 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows: Sec. 1907.24. (A) Subject to division (C) of this section, a county court shall fix and tax fees and costs as follows: (1) The county court shall require an advance deposit for the filing of any new civil action or proceeding when required by division (C) of this section and, in all other cases, shall establish a schedule of fees and costs to be taxed in any civil or criminal action or proceeding. (2) The county court by rule may require an advance deposit for the filing of a civil action or proceeding and publication fees as provided in section 2701.09 of the Revised Code. The court may waive an advance deposit requirement upon the presentation of an affidavit or other evidence that establishes that a party is unable to make the requisite deposit. (3) When a party demands a jury trial in a civil action or proceeding, the county court may require the party to make an advance deposit as fixed by rule of court, unless the court concludes, on the basis of an affidavit or other evidence presented by the party, that the party is unable to make the requisite deposit. If a jury is called, the county court shall tax the fees of a jury as costs. (4) In a civil or criminal action or proceeding, the county court shall fix the fees of witnesses in accordance with sections 2335.06 and 2335.08 of the Revised Code. (5) A county court may tax as part of the costs in a trial of the cause, in an amount fixed by rule of court, a reasonable charge for driving, towing, carting, storing, keeping, and preserving motor vehicles and other personal property recovered or seized in a proceeding. (6) The court shall preserve chattel property seized under a writ or process issued by the court pending final disposition for the benefit of all interested persons. The court may place the chattel property in storage when necessary or proper for its preservation. The custodian of chattel property so stored shall not be required to part with the possession of the property until a reasonable charge, to be fixed by the court, is paid. (7) The county court, as it determines, may refund all deposits and advance payments of fees and costs, including those for jurors and summoning jurors, when they have been paid by the losing party. (8) The court may tax as part of costs charges for the publication of legal notices required by statute or order of court, as provided by section 7.13 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The county court may determine that, for the efficient operation of the court, additional funds are necessary to acquire and pay for special projects of the court including, but not limited to, the acquisition of additional facilities or the rehabilitation of existing facilities, the acquisition of equipment, the hiring and training of staff, community service programs, mediation or dispute resolution services, the employment of magistrates, and other related services. Upon that determination, the court by rule may charge a fee, in addition to all other court costs, on the filing of each criminal cause, civil action or proceeding, or judgment by confession. If the county court offers a special program or service in cases of a specific type, the county court by rule may assess an additional charge in a case of that type, over and above court costs, to cover the special program or service. The county court shall adjust the special assessment periodically, but not retroactively, so that the amount assessed in those cases does not exceed the actual cost of providing the service or program. All moneys collected under division (B) of this section shall be paid to the county treasurer for deposit into either a general special projects fund or a fund established for a specific special project. Moneys from a fund of that nature shall be disbursed upon an order of the court in an amount no greater than the actual cost to the court of a project. If a specific fund is terminated because of the discontinuance of a program or service established under division (B) of this section, the county court may order that moneys remaining in the fund be transferred to an account established under this division for a similar purpose. (2) As used in division (B) of this section: (a) "Criminal cause" means a charge alleging the violation of a statute or ordinance, or subsection of a statute or ordinance, that requires a separate finding of fact or a separate plea before disposition and of which the defendant may be found guilty, whether filed as part of a multiple charge on a single summons, citation, or complaint or as a separate charge on a single summons, citation, or complaint. "Criminal cause" does not include separate violations of the same statute or ordinance, or subsection of the same statute or ordinance, unless each charge is filed on a separate summons, citation, or complaint. (b) "Civil action or proceeding" means any civil litigation that must be determined by judgment entry. (C) Subject to division The court may retain up to one per cent of the moneys it collects under this division to cover administrative costs, including the hiring of any additional personnel necessary to implement this division. (D) The county court shall establish by rule a schedule of fees for miscellaneous services performed by the county court or any of its judges in accordance with law. If judges of the court of common pleas perform similar services, the fees prescribed in the schedule shall not exceed the fees for those services prescribed by the court of common pleas.
Sec. 2303.201. (A)(1) The court of common pleas of any county may determine that for the efficient operation of the court additional funds are required to computerize the court, to make available computerized legal research services, or to do both. Upon making a determination that additional funds are required for either or both of those purposes, the court shall authorize and direct the clerk of the court of common pleas to charge one additional fee, not to exceed three dollars, on the filing of each cause of action or appeal under divisions (A), (Q), and (U) of section 2303.20 of the Revised Code. (2) All fees collected under division (A)(1) of this section shall be paid to the county treasurer. The treasurer shall place the funds from the fees in a separate fund to be disbursed, upon an order of the court, in an amount not greater than the actual cost to the court of procuring and maintaining computerization of the court, computerized legal research services, or both. (3) If the court determines that the funds in the fund described in division (A)(2) of this section are more than sufficient to satisfy the purpose for which the additional fee described in division (A)(1) of this section was imposed, the court may declare a surplus in the fund and expend those surplus funds for other appropriate technological expenses of the court. (B)(1) The court of common pleas of any county may determine that, for the efficient operation of the court, additional funds are required to computerize the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas and, upon that determination, authorize and direct the clerk of the court of common pleas to charge an additional fee, not to exceed ten dollars, on the filing of each cause of action or appeal, on the filing, docketing, and endorsing of each certificate of judgment, or on the docketing and indexing of each aid in execution or petition to vacate, revive, or modify a judgment under divisions (A), (P), (Q), (T), and (U) of section 2303.20 of the Revised Code. Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, all moneys collected under division (B)(1) of this section shall be paid to the county treasurer to be disbursed, upon an order of the court of common pleas and subject to appropriation by the board of county commissioners, in an amount no greater than the actual cost to the court of procuring and maintaining computer systems for the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas. (2) If the court of common pleas of a county makes the determination described in division (B)(1) of this section, the board of county commissioners of that county may issue one or more general obligation bonds for the purpose of procuring and maintaining the computer systems for the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas. In addition to the purposes stated in division (B)(1) of this section for which the moneys collected under that division may be expended, the moneys additionally may be expended to pay debt charges on and financing costs related to any general obligation bonds issued pursuant to division (B)(2) of this section as they become due. General obligation bonds issued pursuant to division (B)(2) of this section are Chapter 133. securities. (C) Prior to January 1, 1993, and on and after January 1,
2003, the court of common pleas shall collect the sum of
four
dollars as additional filing fees in each new civil action or
proceeding for the charitable public purpose of providing
financial assistance to legal aid societies that operate within
the state. From January 1, 1993, through December 31,
2002, the
court of common pleas shall collect the sum of fifteen dollars as
additional filing fees in each new civil action or proceeding for
the charitable public purpose of providing financial assistance
to legal aid societies that operate within the state. This
division does not apply to proceedings concerning annulments,
dissolutions of marriage, divorces, legal separation, spousal
support, marital property or separate property distribution,
support, or other domestic relations matters; to a juvenile
division of a court of common pleas; to a probate division of a
court of common pleas, except that the additional filing fees
shall apply to name change, guardianship, and adoption
proceedings; or to an execution on a judgment, proceeding in aid
of execution, or other post-judgment proceeding arising out of a
civil action. The filing fees required to be collected under
this division shall be in addition to any other filing fees
imposed in the action or proceeding and shall be collected at the
time of the filing of the action or proceeding. The court shall
not waive the payment of the additional filing fees in a new
civil action or proceeding unless the court waives the advanced
payment of all filing fees in the action or proceeding. All such
moneys COLLECTED DURING A MONTH shall be transmitted on OR
BEFORE the The court may retain up to one per cent of the moneys it collects under this division to cover administrative costs, including the hiring of any additional personnel necessary to implement this division. (D) On and after the thirtieth day after Sec. 2743.70. (A)(1) The court, in which any person is convicted of or pleads guilty to any offense other than a traffic offense that is not a moving violation, shall impose the following sum as costs in the case in addition to any other court costs that the court is required by law to impose upon the offender: (a) Thirty dollars, if the offense is a felony; (b) Nine dollars, if the offense is a misdemeanor. The court shall not waive the payment of the thirty or nine dollars court costs, unless the court determines that the offender is indigent and waives the payment of all court costs imposed upon the indigent offender. All such moneys shall be transmitted on the first business day of each month by the clerk of the court to the treasurer of state and deposited by the treasurer in the reparations fund. (2) The juvenile court in which a child is found to be a delinquent child or a juvenile traffic offender for an act which, if committed by an adult, would be an offense other than a traffic offense that is not a moving violation, shall impose the following sum as costs in the case in addition to any other court costs that the court is required or permitted by law to impose upon the delinquent child or juvenile traffic offender: (a) Thirty dollars, if the act, if committed by an adult, would be a felony; (b) Nine dollars, if the act, if committed by an adult, would be a misdemeanor. The thirty or nine dollars court costs shall be collected
in all cases unless the court determines the juvenile is indigent
and waives the payment of all court costs, or enters an order on
its journal stating that it has determined that the juvenile is
indigent, that no other court costs are to be taxed in the case,
and that the payment of the thirty or nine dollars court costs is
waived. All such moneys COLLECTED DURING A MONTH shall be transmitted
on OR BEFORE the (B) Whenever a person is charged with any offense other
than a traffic offense that is not a moving violation and posts
bail pursuant to sections 2937.22 to 2937.46 of the Revised Code,
Criminal Rule 46, or Traffic Rule 4, the court shall add to the
amount of the bail the thirty or nine dollars required to be paid
by division (A)(1) of this section. The thirty or nine dollars
shall be retained by the clerk of the court until the person is
convicted, pleads guilty, forfeits bail, is found not guilty, or
has the charges (C) No person shall be placed or held in jail for failing to pay the additional thirty or nine dollars court costs or bail that are required to be paid by this section. (D) As used in this section: (1) "Moving violation" means any violation of any statute or ordinance, other than section 4513.263 of the Revised Code or an ordinance that is substantially equivalent to that section, that regulates the operation of vehicles, streetcars, or trackless trolleys on highways or streets or that regulates size or load limitations or fitness requirements of vehicles. "Moving violation" does not include the violation of any statute or ordinance that regulates pedestrians or the parking of vehicles. (2) "Bail" means cash, a check, a money order, a credit
card, or any other form of money that is posted by or for an
offender pursuant to sections 2937.22 to 2937.46 of the Revised
Code, Criminal Rule 46, or Traffic Rule 4 to prevent the offender
from being placed or held in a detention facility, as defined in
section 2921.01 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 2949.091. (A)(1) The court, in which any person is
convicted of or pleads guilty to any offense other than a traffic
offense that is not a moving violation, shall impose the sum of
eleven dollars as costs in the case in addition to any other
court costs that the court is required by law to impose upon the
offender. All such moneys COLLECTED DURING A MONTH shall be
transmitted on OR BEFORE the (2) The juvenile court, in which a child is found to be a
delinquent child or a juvenile traffic offender for an act which,
if committed by an adult, would be an offense other than a
traffic offense that is not a moving violation, shall impose the
sum of eleven dollars as costs in the case in addition to any
other court costs that the court is required or permitted by law
to impose upon the delinquent child or juvenile traffic offender.
All such moneys COLLECTED DURING A MONTH shall be transmitted on OR
BEFORE the (B) Whenever a person is charged with any offense other
than a traffic offense that is not a moving violation and posts
bail, the court shall add to the amount of the bail the eleven
dollars required to be paid by division (A)(1) of this section.
The eleven dollars shall be retained by the clerk of the court
until the person is convicted, pleads guilty, forfeits bail, is
found not guilty, or has the charges (C) No person shall be placed or held in a detention facility for failing to pay the additional eleven dollars court costs or bail that are required to be paid by this section. (D) As used in this section: (1) "Moving violation" and "bail" have the same meanings as in section 2743.70 of the Revised Code. (2) "Detention facility" has the same meaning as in
section 2921.01 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3109.14. As used in this section, "birth record" and "certification of birth" have the meanings given in section 3705.01 of the Revised Code. The director of health, a person authorized by the
director, a local commissioner of health, or a local registrar of
vital statistics shall charge and collect for each copy of a
birth record and for each certification of birth a fee of two
dollars, and for each copy of a death record a fee of two
dollars, in addition to the fee imposed by section 3705.24 or any
other section of the Revised Code. A local commissioner of
health or a local registrar of vital statistics may retain an
amount of each additional fee Upon the filing for a divorce decree under section 3105.10
or a decree of dissolution under section 3105.65 of the Revised
Code, a court of common pleas shall charge and collect a fee of
ten dollars in addition to any other court costs or fees. The
county clerk of courts may retain an amount of each additional
fee The additional fees collected, but not retained, under this
section during each month shall be forwarded not later than the
The treasurer of state shall invest the moneys in the fund,
and all earnings resulting from investment of the fund shall be
credited to the fund, except that actual administrative costs
incurred by the treasurer of state in administering the fund may
be deducted from the earnings resulting from investments. The
amount that may be deducted shall not exceed three per cent of
the total amount of fees credited to the fund in each fiscal
year, except that the children's trust fund board may approve an
amount for actual administrative costs exceeding three per cent
but not exceeding four per cent of such amount. The balance of
the investment earnings shall be credited to the fund. Moneys
credited to the fund shall be used only for the purposes
described in sections 3109.17 and 3109.18 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3316.03. (A) The auditor of state shall declare a school district to be in a state of fiscal watch if the auditor of state determines that division (A)(1), (2), or (3) of this section applies to the school district: (1) All of the following conditions are satisfied with respect to the school district: (a) An operating deficit has been certified for the current fiscal year by the auditor of state under section 3313.483 of the Revised Code, and the certified operating deficit exceeds eight per cent of the school district's general fund revenue for the preceding fiscal year; (b) The unencumbered cash balance in the school district's general fund at the close of the preceding fiscal year, less any advances of property taxes, was less than eight per cent of the expenditures made from the general fund for the preceding fiscal year; (c) A majority of the voting electors have not voted in favor of levying a tax under section 5705.194 or 5705.21 or Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code that the auditor of state expects will raise enough additional revenue in the next succeeding fiscal year that divisions (A)(1)(a) and (b) of this section will not apply to the district in such next succeeding fiscal year. (2) The school district has outstanding securities issued under division (A)(4) of section 3316.06 of the Revised Code and its financial planning and supervision commission has been terminated under section 3316.16 of the Revised Code. (3) The school district has received an advancement under section 3316.20 of the Revised Code. (B) The auditor of state, after consulting with the superintendent of public instruction, shall issue an order declaring a school district to be in a state of fiscal emergency if the auditor of state determines that division (B)(1), (2), (3), or (4) of this section applies to the school district: (1) All of the following conditions are satisfied with respect to the school district: (a) The board of education of the school district is not able to demonstrate, to the auditor of state's satisfaction, the district's ability to repay outstanding loans received pursuant to section 3313.483 of the Revised Code or to repay securities issued pursuant to section 133.301 of the Revised Code in accordance with applicable repayment schedules unless the board requests additional loans under section 133.301 of the Revised Code in an aggregate principal amount exceeding fifty per cent of the sum of the following: (i) The aggregate original principal amount of loans received in the preceding fiscal year under section 3313.483 of the Revised Code; (ii) The aggregate amount borrowed by the district under section 133.301 of the Revised Code, excluding any additional amount borrowed as authorized under division (C) of that section. (b) An operating deficit has been certified for the
current fiscal year by the auditor of state under section
3313.483 of the Revised Code, and the certified
operating deficit exceeds fifteen per cent of the school
district's general fund revenue for the preceding fiscal year.
In determining the amount of an operating deficit under division
(B)(1)(b) of this section, the
auditor of state shall credit toward the amount of that deficit
only the amount that may be borrowed from the spending reserve
balance as determined under section 133.301 and division
(c) A majority of the voting electors have not voted in favor of levying a tax under section 5705.194 or 5705.21 or Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code that the auditor of state expects will raise enough additional revenue in the next succeeding fiscal year that divisions (A)(1)(a) and (b) of this section will not apply to the district in such next succeeding fiscal year. (d) The school district is one that, at the time of the auditor of state's determination under this section, had a total student count of more than ten thousand students as most recently determined by the department of education pursuant to section 3317.03 of the Revised Code. (2) The school district board fails, pursuant to section 3316.04 of the Revised Code, to submit a plan acceptable to the state superintendent of public instruction within one hundred twenty days of the auditor of state's declaration under division (A) of this section; (3) A declaration of fiscal emergency is required by division (D) of section 3316.04 of the Revised Code; (4) The school district has received more than one advancement under section 3316.20 of the Revised Code within a two-year period, or has received only one such advancement but also has an operating deficit as described in division (B)(1)(b) of this section. (C) In making the determinations under this section, the auditor of state may use financial reports required under section 117.43 of the Revised Code; tax budgets, certificates of estimated resources and amendments thereof, annual appropriating measures and spending plans, and any other documents or information prepared pursuant to Chapter 5705. of the Revised Code; and any other documents, records, or information available to the auditor of state that indicate the conditions described in divisions (A) and (B) of this section. (D) The auditor of state shall certify the action taken under division (A) or (B) of this section to the board of education of the school district, the director of budget and management, the mayor or county auditor who could be required to act pursuant to division (B)(1) of section 3316.05 of the Revised Code, and to the superintendent of public instruction. (E) A determination by the auditor of state under this section
that a fiscal emergency condition does not exist is final and conclusive and
not appealable. A determination by the auditor of state under this section
that a fiscal emergency exists is final, except that the board of education of
the school district affected by such a determination may appeal the
determination of the existence of a fiscal emergency condition to the court of
appeals having territorial jurisdiction over the school district. The appeal
shall be heard expeditiously by the court of appeals and for good cause shown
shall take precedence over all other civil matters except earlier matters of
the same character. Notice of such appeal must be filed with the auditor of
state and such court within thirty days after certification by the auditor of
state to the board of education of the school district provided for in
division (D) of this section. In such appeal, determinations of the
auditor of state shall be presumed to be valid and the board of education
shall have the burden of proving, by clear and convincing evidence, that each
of the determinations made by the auditor of state as to the existence of a
fiscal emergency condition under this section was in error. If the board of
education fails, upon presentation of its case, to prove by clear and
convincing evidence that each such determination by the auditor of state was
in error, the court shall dismiss the appeal. The board of education and the
auditor of state may introduce any evidence relevant to the existence or
nonexistence of such fiscal emergency conditions. The pendency of any such
appeal shall not affect or impede the operations of this chapter; no
restraining order, temporary injunction, or other similar restraint upon
actions consistent with this chapter shall be imposed by the court or any
court pending determination of such appeal; and all things may be done under
this chapter that may be done regardless of the pendency of any such appeal.
Any action taken or contract executed pursuant to this chapter during the
pendency of such appeal is valid and enforceable among all parties,
notwithstanding the decision in such appeal. If the court of appeals reverses
the determination of the existence of a fiscal emergency condition by the
auditor of state, the determination no longer has any
effect, and any procedures
undertaken as a result of the determination shall be terminated.
Sec. 5705.12. In addition to the funds provided for by sections 5705.09
Sec. Sec. 5705.13. (A) EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR A BOARD OF EDUCATION UNDER DIVISION (H) OF SECTION 5705.29 of the Revised Code, A TAXING AUTHORITY OF A SUBDIVISION, BY RESOLUTION OR ORDINANCE, MAY ESTABLISH A RESERVE BALANCE ACCOUNT TO ACCUMULATE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE RESOURCES FOR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES: (1) TO STABILIZE SUBDIVISION BUDGETS AGAINST CYCLICAL CHANGES IN REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES; (2) EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY THIS SECTION, TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT OF CLAIMS UNDER A SELF-INSURANCE PROGRAM FOR THE SUBDIVISION, IF THE SUBDIVISION IS PERMITTED BY LAW TO ESTABLISH SUCH A PROGRAM; (3) TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT OF CLAIMS UNDER A RETROSPECTIVE RATINGS PLAN FOR WORKERS' COMPENSATION. THE ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A RESERVE BALANCE ACCOUNT SHALL STATE THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE RESERVE BALANCE ACCOUNT IS ESTABLISHED, THE FUND IN WHICH THE ACCOUNT IS TO BE ESTABLISHED, AND THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY TO BE RESERVED IN THE ACCOUNT. A SUBDIVISION THAT PARTICIPATES IN A RISK-SHARING POOL, BY WHICH GOVERNMENTS POOL RISKS AND FUNDS AND SHARE IN THE COSTS OF LOSSES, SHALL NOT ESTABLISH A RESERVE BALANCE ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE SELF-INSURANCE FOR THE SUBDIVISION. A TAXING AUTHORITY OF A SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT HAVE MORE THAN THREE RESERVE BALANCE ACCOUNTS AT ANY TIME. NOT MORE THAN ONE RESERVE BALANCE ACCOUNT MAY BE ESTABLISHED FOR EACH OF THE PURPOSES PERMITTED UNDER THIS SECTION. MONEY TO THE CREDIT OF A RESERVE BALANCE ACCOUNT MAY BE EXPENDED ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE ACCOUNT WAS ESTABLISHED. A RESERVE BALANCE ACCOUNT ESTABLISHED FOR THE PURPOSE DESCRIBED IN DIVISION (A)(1) OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE ESTABLISHED IN THE GENERAL FUND OF THE SUBDIVISION, AND THE AMOUNT OF MONEY TO BE RESERVED IN THAT ACCOUNT IN ANY FISCAL YEAR SHALL NOT EXCEED FIVE PER CENT OF THE GENERAL FUND REVENUE FOR THE PRECEDING FISCAL YEAR. SUBJECT TO DIVISION (G) OF SECTION 5705.29 OF THE REVISED CODE, ANY RESERVE BALANCE IN AN ACCOUNT ESTABLISHED UNDER DIVISION (A)(1) OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED PART OF THE UNENCUMBERED BALANCE OR REVENUE OF THE SUBDIVISION UNDER DIVISION (A) OF SECTION 5705.35 OR DIVISION (A)(1) OF SECTION 5705.36 of the Revised Code. AT ANY TIME, A TAXING AUTHORITY OF A SUBDIVISION, BY RESOLUTION OR ORDINANCE, MAY REDUCE OR ELIMINATE THE RESERVE BALANCE IN A RESERVE BALANCE ACCOUNT ESTABLISHED FOR THE PURPOSE DESCRIBED IN DIVISION (A)(1) OF THIS SECTION. A RESERVE BALANCE ACCOUNT ESTABLISHED FOR THE PURPOSE DESCRIBED IN DIVISION (A)(2) OR (3) OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE ESTABLISHED IN THE GENERAL FUND OF THE SUBDIVISION OR BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SEPARATE INTERNAL SERVICE FUND ESTABLISHED TO ACCOUNT FOR THE OPERATION OF THE SELF-INSURANCE OR RETROSPECTIVE RATINGS PLAN PROGRAM, AND SHALL BE BASED ON SOUND ACTUARIAL PRINCIPLES. THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY IN A RESERVE BALANCE ACCOUNT FOR SELF-INSURANCE MAY BE EXPRESSED IN DOLLARS OR AS THE AMOUNT DETERMINED TO REPRESENT AN ADEQUATE RESERVE ACCORDING TO SOUND ACTUARIAL PRINCIPLES. A TAXING AUTHORITY OF A SUBDIVISION, BY RESOLUTION OR ORDINANCE, MAY RESCIND A RESERVE BALANCE ACCOUNT ESTABLISHED UNDER THIS DIVISION. IF A RESERVE BALANCE ACCOUNT IS RESCINDED, MONEY THAT HAS ACCUMULATED IN THE ACCOUNT SHALL BE TRANSFERRED TO THE FUND OR FUNDS FROM WHICH THE MONEY ORIGINALLY WAS TRANSFERRED. (B) A TAXING AUTHORITY OF A SUBDIVISION, BY RESOLUTION OR ORDINANCE, MAY ESTABLISH A SPECIAL REVENUE FUND FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACCUMULATING RESOURCES FOR THE PAYMENT OF ACCUMULATED SICK LEAVE AND VACATION LEAVE, AND FOR PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAKING COMPENSATORY TIME OFF, UPON THE TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT OR THE RETIREMENT OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE SUBDIVISION. THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUND MAY ALSO ACCUMULATE RESOURCES FOR PAYMENT OF SALARIES DURING ANY FISCAL YEAR WHEN THE NUMBER OF PAY PERIODS EXCEEDS THE USUAL AND CUSTOMARY NUMBER OF PAY PERIODS. NOTWITHSTANDING SECTIONS 5705.14, 5705.15, AND 5705.16 of the Revised Code, THE TAXING AUTHORITY, BY RESOLUTION OR ORDINANCE, MAY TRANSFER MONEY TO THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUND FROM ANY OTHER FUND OF THE SUBDIVISION FROM WHICH SUCH PAYMENTS MAY LAWFULLY BE MADE. THE TAXING AUTHORITY, BY RESOLUTION OR ORDINANCE, MAY RESCIND A SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ESTABLISHED UNDER THIS DIVISION. IF A SPECIAL REVENUE FUND IS RESCINDED, MONEY THAT HAS ACCUMULATED IN THE FUND SHALL BE TRANSFERRED TO THE FUND OR FUNDS FROM WHICH THE MONEY ORIGINALLY WAS TRANSFERRED. (C) A TAXING AUTHORITY OF A SUBDIVISION, BY RESOLUTION OR ORDINANCE, MAY ESTABLISH A CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACCUMULATING RESOURCES FOR THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, OR IMPROVEMENT OF FIXED ASSETS OF THE SUBDIVISION. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "FIXED ASSETS" INCLUDES MOTOR VEHICLES. MORE THAN ONE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND MAY BE ESTABLISHED AND MAY EXIST AT ANY TIME. THE ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL IDENTIFY THE SOURCE OF THE MONEY TO BE USED TO ACQUIRE, CONSTRUCT, OR IMPROVE THE FIXED ASSETS IDENTIFIED IN THE RESOLUTION OR ORDINANCE, THE AMOUNT OF MONEY TO BE ACCUMULATED FOR THAT PURPOSE, THE PERIOD OF TIME OVER WHICH THAT AMOUNT IS TO BE ACCUMULATED, AND THE FIXED ASSETS THAT THE TAXING AUTHORITY INTENDS TO ACQUIRE, CONSTRUCT, OR IMPROVE WITH THE MONEY TO BE ACCUMULATED IN THE FUND. A TAXING AUTHORITY OF A SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT ACCUMULATE MONEY IN A CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND FOR MORE THAN FIVE YEARS AFTER THE RESOLUTION OR ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE FUND IS ADOPTED. IF THE SUBDIVISION HAS NOT ENTERED INTO A CONTRACT FOR THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, OR IMPROVEMENT OF FIXED ASSETS FOR WHICH MONEY WAS ACCUMULATED IN SUCH A FUND BEFORE THE END OF THAT FIVE-YEAR PERIOD, THE FISCAL OFFICER OF THE SUBDIVISION SHALL TRANSFER ALL MONEY IN THE FUND TO THE FUND OR FUNDS FROM WHICH THAT MONEY ORIGINALLY WAS TRANSFERRED OR THE FUND THAT ORIGINALLY WAS INTENDED TO RECEIVE THE MONEY. A TAXING AUTHORITY OF A SUBDIVISION, BY RESOLUTION OR ORDINANCE, MAY RESCIND A CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND. IF A CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND IS RESCINDED, MONEY THAT HAS ACCUMULATED IN THE FUND SHALL BE TRANSFERRED TO THE FUND OR FUNDS FROM WHICH THE MONEY ORIGINALLY WAS TRANSFERRED. NOTWITHSTANDING SECTIONS 5705.14, 5705.15, AND 5705.16 of the Revised Code, THE TAXING AUTHORITY OF A SUBDIVISION, BY RESOLUTION OR ORDINANCE, MAY TRANSFER MONEY TO THE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND FROM ANY OTHER FUND OF THE SUBDIVISION THAT MAY LAWFULLY BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACQUIRING, CONSTRUCTING, OR IMPROVING THE FIXED ASSETS IDENTIFIED IN THE RESOLUTION OR ORDINANCE. Sec. 5705.131. A TAXING AUTHORITY OF A SUBDIVISION MAY ESTABLISH A
NONEXPENDABLE TRUST FUND FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECEIVING DONATIONS OR
CONTRIBUTIONS THAT THE DONOR OR CONTRIBUTOR REQUIRES TO BE MAINTAINED
INTACT. THE PRINCIPAL OF SUCH FUND MAY BE INVESTED,
AND THE INVESTMENT EARNINGS ON THE PRINCIPAL SHALL BE CREDITED TO THE FUND.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THE FUND, AND ANY ADDITIONS TO PRINCIPAL ARISING FROM
SOURCES
OTHER THAN THE REINVESTMENT OF INVESTMENT EARNINGS ARISING FROM THE FUND,
SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED PART OF THE UNENCUMBERED BALANCE OR REVENUE OF THE
SUBDIVISION UNDER DIVISION (A) OF SECTION 5705.35 OR DIVISION
(A)(1) OF SECTION 5705.36 of the Revised Code. ONLY
INVESTMENT EARNINGS ARISING FROM INVESTMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL OR INVESTMENT OF
SUCH ADDITIONS TO PRINCIPAL MAY BE CONSIDERED AN UNENCUMBERED BALANCE OR
REVENUE OF THE SUBDIVISION UNDER THAT DIVISION.
Sec. 5705.29. The tax budget shall present the following information in such detail as is prescribed by the auditor of state, unless an alternative form of the budget is permitted under section 5705.281 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) A statement of the necessary current operating expenses for the ensuing fiscal year for each department and division of the subdivision, classified as to personal services and other expenses, and the fund from which such expenditures are to be made. Except in the case of a school district, this estimate may include a contingent expense not designated for any particular purpose, and not to exceed three per cent of the total amount of appropriations for current expenses. In the case of a school district, this estimate may include a contingent expense not designated for any particular purpose and not to exceed thirteen per cent of the total amount of appropriations for current expenses. (2) A statement of the expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year necessary for permanent improvements, exclusive of any expense to be paid from bond issues, classified as to the improvements contemplated by the subdivision and the fund from which such expenditures are to be made; (3) The amounts required for the payment of final judgments; (4) A statement of expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year necessary for any purpose for which a special levy is authorized, and the fund from which such expenditures are to be made; (5) Comparative statements, so far as possible, in parallel columns of corresponding items of expenditures for the current fiscal year and the two preceding fiscal years. (B)(1) An estimate of receipts from other sources than the general property tax during the ensuing fiscal year, which shall include an estimate of unencumbered balances at the end of the current fiscal year, and the funds to which such estimated receipts are credited; (2) The amount each fund requires from the general property tax, which shall be the difference between the contemplated expenditure from the fund and the estimated receipts, as provided in this section. The section of the Revised Code under which the tax is authorized shall be set forth. (3) Comparative statements, so far as possible, in parallel columns of taxes and other revenues for the current fiscal year and the two preceding fiscal years. (C)(1) The amount required for debt charges; (2) The estimated receipts from sources other than the tax levy for payment of such debt charges, including the proceeds of refunding bonds to be issued to refund bonds maturing in the next succeeding fiscal year; (3) The net amount for which a tax levy shall be made, classified as to bonds authorized and issued prior to January 1, 1922, and those authorized and issued subsequent to such date, and as to what portion of the levy will be within and what in excess of the ten-mill limitation. (D) An estimate of amounts from taxes authorized to be levied in excess of the ten-mill limitation on the tax rate, and the fund to which such amounts will be credited, together with the sections of the Revised Code under which each such tax is exempted from all limitations on the tax rate. (E)(1) A board of education may include in its budget for the fiscal year in which a levy proposed under section 5705.194, 5705.21, or 5705.213, or the original levy under section 5705.212 of the Revised Code is first extended on the tax list and duplicate an estimate of expenditures to be known as a voluntary contingency reserve balance, which shall not be greater than twenty-five per cent of the total amount of the levy estimated to be available for appropriation in such year. (2) A board of education may include in its budget for the fiscal year following the year in which a levy proposed under section 5705.194, 5705.21, or 5705.213, or the original levy under section 5705.212 of the Revised Code is first extended on the tax list and duplicate an estimate of expenditures to be known as a voluntary contingency reserve balance, which shall not be greater than twenty per cent of the amount of the levy estimated to be available for appropriation in such year. (3) Except as provided in division (E)(4) of this section, the full amount of any reserve balance the board includes in its budget shall be retained by the county auditor and county treasurer out of the first semiannual settlement of taxes until the beginning of the next succeeding fiscal year, and thereupon, with the depository interest apportioned thereto, it shall be turned over to the board of education, to be used for the purposes of such fiscal year. (4) A board of education (F)(1)
(2) For the purposes of computing a school district's spending reserve balance for a fiscal year, the designated percentage shall be as follows:
(2) Beginning with the fiscal year ending in 1999 and
continuing each
fiscal year until the balance in the (3) The balance in the (4) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in Chapter
4117. of the Revised Code, the requirements of division (5) Notwithstanding division Sec. 5705.35. (A) The certification of the budget
commission to the taxing authority of each subdivision or taxing
unit, as set forth in section 5705.34 of the Revised Code, shall
show the various funds of such subdivisions other than funds to
be created by transfer and shall be filed by the county budget
commission with such taxing authority on or before the first day
of March in the case of school districts and on or before the
first day of September in each year in the case of all other
taxing authorities. There shall be set forth on the credit side
of each fund the estimated unencumbered balances and receipts,
and if a tax is to be levied for such fund, the estimated revenue
to be derived therefrom, the rate of the levy, and what portion
thereof is within, and what in excess of, the ten-mill tax
limitation, and on the debit side, the total appropriations that
may be made therefrom. SUBJECT TO DIVISION (G) OF SECTION 5705.29
OF THE REVISED CODE, ANY RESERVE BALANCE IN AN ACCOUNT
ESTABLISHED
UNDER SECTION 5705.13 of the Revised Code FOR THE PURPOSE DESCRIBED IN DIVISION
(A)(1) OF THAT SECTION, AND THE PRINCIPAL OF A NONEXPENDABLE TRUST
FUND
ESTABLISHED UNDER SECTION 5705.131 of the Revised Code AND ANY ADDITIONS TO PRINCIPAL
ARISING FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN THE REINVESTMENT OF INVESTMENT EARNINGS
ARISING FROM THAT FUND, ARE NOT UNENCUMBERED BALANCES FOR THE PURPOSES OF
THIS
SECTION. There shall be attached (B)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(2) of
this section, revenues from real property taxes scheduled to be
settled on or before the tenth day of August and the fifteenth
day of February of a fiscal year under divisions (A) AND (C)
(2) Revenues available for appropriation by a school
district during a fiscal year may include amounts borrowed in
that fiscal year under section 133.301 of the Revised Code in
anticipation of the collection of taxes that are to be included
in the settlements made under divisions (C) and (D) of section
321.24 of the Revised Code in the ensuing fiscal year.
Sec. 5705.36. (A)(1) On or about the first day of each fiscal year, the fiscal officer of each subdivision and other taxing unit shall certify to the county auditor the total amount from all sources available for expenditures from each fund set up in the tax budget or, if adoption of a tax budget was waived under section 5705.281 of the Revised Code, from each fund created by or on behalf of the taxing authority. The amount certified shall include any UNENCUMBERED balances that existed at the end of the preceding year, EXCLUDING ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: (a) SUBJECT TO DIVISION (G) OF SECTION 5705.29 OF THE REVISED CODE, ANY RESERVE BALANCE IN AN ACCOUNT ESTABLISHED UNDER SECTION 5705.13 of the Revised Code FOR THE PURPOSE DESCRIBED IN DIVISION (A)(1) OF THAT SECTION; (b) THE PRINCIPAL OF A NONEXPENDABLE TRUST FUND ESTABLISHED UNDER SECTION 5705.131 of the Revised Code AND ANY ADDITIONS TO PRINCIPAL ARISING FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN THE REINVESTMENT OF INVESTMENT EARNINGS ARISING FROM THAT FUND. A school district's certification shall separately show the
amount of any notes and unpaid and outstanding expenses on the
preceding thirtieth day of June that are to be paid from property
taxes that are to be settled during the current fiscal year under
divisions (C) and (D) of section 321.24 of the Revised Code, and
the amount of any spending reserve available for appropriation
during the current fiscal year under section 133.301 of the
Revised Code. The budget commission, taking into consideration
the balances and revenues to be derived from taxation and other
sources, shall revise its estimate of the amounts that will be
credited to each fund from such sources, and shall certify to the
taxing authority of each subdivision an amended official
certificate of estimated resources.
(4) UPON A DETERMINATION BY THE FISCAL OFFICER OF A SUBDIVISION THAT THE REVENUE TO BE COLLECTED BY THE SUBDIVISION WILL BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT INCLUDED IN AN OFFICIAL CERTIFICATE AND THAT THE AMOUNT OF THE DEFICIENCY WILL REDUCE AVAILABLE RESOURCES BELOW THE LEVEL OF CURRENT APPROPRIATIONS, THE FISCAL OFFICER SHALL CERTIFY THE AMOUNT OF THE DEFICIENCY TO THE COMMISSION, AND THE COMMISSION SHALL CERTIFY AN AMENDED CERTIFICATE REFLECTING THE DEFICIENCY. (5) The total appropriations made during the fiscal year from any fund shall not exceed the amount set forth as available for expenditure from such fund in the official certificate of estimated resources, or any amendment thereof, certified prior to the making of the appropriation or supplemental appropriation. (B) At the time of settlement of taxes against which notes
have been issued under section 133.301 or division (D) of section
133.10 of the Revised Code and at the time a tax duplicate is
delivered pursuant to section 319.28 or 319.29 of the Revised
Code, the county auditor shall determine whether the total amount
to be distributed to each school district from such settlement or
duplicate, when combined with the amounts to be distributed from
any subsequent settlement, will increase or decrease the amount
available for appropriation during the current fiscal year from
any fund. The county auditor shall certify this finding to the budget
commission, which shall certify an amended official certificate reflecting
the finding or certify to the school district that no amended
certificate needs to be issued.
Sec. 5705.38. (A) This division does not apply to school district appropriation measures. On or about the first day of each year, the taxing authority of each subdivision or other taxing unit shall pass an appropriation measure, and thereafter during the year it may pass any supplemental appropriation measures as it finds necessary, based on the revised tax budget and the official certificate of estimated resources or amendments of the certificate. If adoption of a tax budget was waived under section 5705.281 of the Revised Code, appropriation measures shall be based on the official certificate of estimated resources. If it desires to postpone the passage of the annual appropriation measure until an amended certificate is received based on the actual balances, it may pass a temporary appropriation measure for meeting the ordinary expenses of the taxing unit until no later than the first day of April of the current year, and the appropriations made in the temporary measure shall be chargeable to the appropriations in the annual appropriation measure for that fiscal year when passed. (B) A board of education shall pass its annual
appropriation measure by the first day of October. If, by the
first day of October, a board has not received either the amended
certificates of estimated resources required by division (B) of
section 5705.36 of the Revised Code or certifications that no
amended certificates need be issued, the adoption of the annual
appropriation measure shall be delayed until the amended
certificates or certifications are received. Prior to the
passage of the annual appropriation measure, the board may pass a
temporary appropriation measure for meeting the ordinary expenses
of the district until it passes an annual appropriation measure,
and appropriations made in the temporary measure shall be
chargeable to the appropriations in the annual appropriation
measure for that fiscal year when passed. During the fiscal year
and after the passage of the annual appropriation measure, a
district may pass any supplemental appropriation measures as it
finds necessary, based on the revised tax budget and the official
certificate of estimated resources or amendments of the
certificate. The annual appropriation measure, and any temporary or
supplemental appropriation measure, shall provide for the reservation of a
sufficient amount of money for the budget reserve fund as required under
division (C) Appropriation measures shall be classified so as to
set forth separately the amounts appropriated for each office,
department, and division, and, within each, the amount
appropriated for personal services. In the case of a municipal
university, the board of directors of which have assumed, in the
manner provided by law, custody and control of the funds of the
university, funds shall be appropriated as a lump sum for the use
of the university.
Sec. 5705.41. No subdivision or taxing unit shall: (A) Make any appropriation of money except as provided in Chapter 5705. of the Revised Code; provided, that the authorization of a bond issue shall be deemed to be an appropriation of the proceeds of the bond issue for the purpose for which such bonds were issued, but no expenditure shall be made from any bond fund until first authorized by the taxing authority; (B) Make any expenditure of money unless it has been appropriated as provided in such chapter; (C) Make any expenditure of money except by a proper warrant drawn against an appropriate fund; (D)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (D)(2) of this section, make any contract or give any order involving the expenditure of money unless there is attached thereto a certificate of the fiscal officer of the subdivision that the amount required to meet the obligation or, in the case of a continuing contract to be performed in whole or in part in an ensuing fiscal year, the amount required to meet the obligation in the fiscal year in which the contract is made, has been lawfully appropriated for such purpose and is in the treasury or in process of collection to the credit of an appropriate fund free from any previous encumbrances. This certificate need be signed only by the subdivision's fiscal officer. Every such contract made without such a certificate shall be void, and no warrant shall be issued in payment of any amount due thereon. If no certificate is furnished as required, upon receipt by the taxing authority of the subdivision or taxing unit of a certificate of the fiscal officer stating that there was at the time of the making of such contract or order and at the time of the execution of such certificate a sufficient sum appropriated for the purpose of such contract and in the treasury or in process of collection to the credit of an appropriate fund free from any previous encumbrances, such taxing authority may authorize the drawing of a warrant in payment of amounts due upon such contract, but such resolution or ordinance shall be passed within thirty days from the receipt of such certificate; provided that, if the amount involved is less than one hundred dollars in the case of counties or one thousand dollars in the case of all other subdivisions or taxing units, the fiscal officer may authorize it to be paid without such affirmation of the taxing authority of the subdivision or taxing unit, if such expenditure is otherwise valid. (2) Annually, the board of county commissioners may adopt a resolution exempting for the current fiscal year county purchases of seven hundred fifty dollars or less from the requirement of division (D)(1) of this section that a certificate be attached to any contract or order involving the expenditure of money. The resolution shall state the dollar amount that is exempted from the certificate requirement and whether the exemption applies to all purchases, to one or more specific classes of purchases, or to the purchase of one or more specific items. Prior to the adoption of the resolution, the board shall give written notice to the county auditor that it intends to adopt the resolution. The notice shall state the dollar amount that is proposed to be exempted and whether the exemption would apply to all purchases, to one or more specific classes of purchases, or to the purchase of one or more specific items. The county auditor may review and comment on the proposal, and shall send any comments to the board within fifteen days after receiving the notice. The board shall wait at least fifteen days after giving the notice to the auditor before adopting the resolution. A person authorized to make a county purchase in a county that has adopted such a resolution shall prepare and file with the county auditor, within three business days after incurring an obligation not requiring a certificate, a written document specifying the purpose and amount of the expenditure, the date of the purchase, the name of the vendor, and such additional information as the auditor of state may prescribe. (3) Upon certification by the auditor or other chief fiscal officer that a certain sum of money, not in excess of five thousand dollars, has been lawfully appropriated, authorized, or directed for a certain purpose and is in the treasury or in the process of collection to the credit of a specific line-item appropriation account in a certain fund free from previous and then outstanding obligations or certifications, then for such purpose and from such line-item appropriation account in such fund, over a period not exceeding three months and not extending beyond the end of the fiscal year, expenditures may be made, orders for payment issued, and contracts or obligations calling for or requiring the payment of money made and assumed; provided, that the aggregate sum of money included in and called for by such expenditures, orders, contracts, and obligations shall not exceed the sum so certified. Such a certification need be signed only by the fiscal officer of the subdivision or the taxing district and may, but need not, be limited to a specific vendor. An itemized statement of obligations incurred and expenditures made under such certificate shall be rendered to the auditor or other chief fiscal officer before another such certificate may be issued, and not more than one such certificate shall be outstanding at a time. In addition to providing the certification for expenditures
of five thousand dollars or less as provided in this division, a
In any case in which a contract is entered into upon a per unit basis, the head of the department, board, or commission for the benefit of which the contract is made shall make an estimate of the total amount to become due upon such contract, which estimate shall be certified in writing to the fiscal officer of the subdivision. Such a contract may be entered into if the appropriation covers such estimate, or so much thereof as may be due during the current year. In such a case the certificate of the fiscal officer based upon the estimate shall be a sufficient compliance with the law requiring a certificate. Any certificate of the fiscal officer attached to a contract shall be binding upon the political subdivision as to the facts set forth therein. Upon request of any person receiving an order or entering into a contract with any political subdivision, the certificate of the fiscal officer shall be attached to such order or contract. "Contract" as used in this section excludes current payrolls of regular employees and officers. Taxes and other revenue in process of collection, or the proceeds to be derived from authorized bonds, notes, or certificates of indebtedness sold and in process of delivery, shall for the purpose of this section be deemed in the treasury or in process of collection and in the appropriate fund. This section applies neither to the investment of sinking funds by the trustees of such funds, nor to investments made under sections 731.56 to 731.59 of the Revised Code. No district authority shall, in transacting its own
affairs, do any of the things prohibited to a subdivision by this
section, but the appropriation referred to shall become the
appropriation by the district authority, and the fiscal officer
referred to shall mean the fiscal officer of the district
authority.
Sec. 5709.61. As used in sections 5709.61 to 5709.69 of the Revised Code: (A) "Enterprise zone" or "zone" means any of the following: (1) An area with a single continuous boundary designated in the manner set forth in section 5709.62 or 5709.63 of the Revised Code and certified by the director of development as having a population of at least four thousand according to the best and most recent data available to the director and having at least two of the following characteristics: (a) It is located in a municipal corporation defined by the United States office of management and budget as a central city of a metropolitan statistical area; (b) It is located in a county designated as being in the "Appalachian region" under the "Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965," 79 Stat. 5, 40 App. U.S.C.A. 403, as amended; (c) Its average rate of unemployment, during the most recent twelve-month period for which data are available, is equal to at least one hundred twenty-five per cent of the average rate of unemployment for the state of Ohio for the same period; (d) There is a prevalence of commercial or industrial structures in the area that are vacant or demolished, or are vacant and the taxes charged thereon are delinquent, and certification of the area as an enterprise zone would likely result in the reduction of the rate of vacant or demolished structures or the rate of tax delinquency in the area; (e) The population of all census tracts in the area, according to the federal census of 1990, decreased by at least ten per cent between the years 1970 and 1990; (f) At least fifty-one per cent of the residents of the area have incomes of less than eighty per cent of the median income of residents of the municipal corporation or municipal corporations in which the area is located, as determined in the same manner specified under section 119(b) of the "Housing and Community Development Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 633, 42 U.S.C. 5318, as amended; (g) The area contains structures previously used for industrial purposes but currently not so used due to age, obsolescence, deterioration, relocation of the former occupant's operations, or cessation of operations resulting from unfavorable economic conditions either generally or in a specific economic sector; (h) An area located within one or more adjacent city, local, or exempted village school districts the income-weighted tax capacity of each of which is less than seventy per cent of the average of the income-weighted tax capacity of all city, local, or exempted village school districts in the state according to the most recent data available to the director from the department of taxation. The director of development shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing conditions constituting the characteristics described in divisions (A)(1)(d), (g), and (h) of this section. If an area could not be certified as an enterprise zone unless it satisfied division (A)(1)(g) of this section, the legislative authority may enter into agreements in that zone under section 5709.62, 5709.63, or 5709.632 of the Revised Code only if such agreements result in the development of the facilities described in that division, the parcel of land on which such facilities are situated, or adjacent parcels. The director of development annually shall review all agreements in such zones to determine whether the agreements have resulted in such development; if the director determines that the agreements have not resulted in such development, the director immediately shall revoke certification of the zone and notify the legislative authority of such revocation. Any agreements entered into prior to revocation under this paragraph shall continue in effect for the period provided in the agreement. (2) An area with a single continuous boundary designated in the manner set forth in section 5709.63 of the Revised Code and certified by the director of development as: (a) Being located within a county that contains a population of three hundred thousand or less; (b) Having a population of at least one thousand according to the best and most recent data available to the director; (c) Having at least two of the characteristics described in divisions (A)(1)(b) to (h) of this section. (3) An area with a single continuous boundary designated in the manner set forth under division (A)(1) of section 5709.632 of the Revised Code and certified by the director of development as having a population of at least four thousand, or under division (A)(2) of that section and certified as having a population of at least one thousand, according to the best and most recent data available to the director. (B) "Enterprise" means any form of business organization including, but not limited to, any partnership, sole proprietorship, or corporation, including an S corporation as defined in section 1361 of the Internal Revenue Code and any corporation that is majority work-owned either directly through the ownership of stock or indirectly through participation in an employee stock ownership plan. (C) "Facility" means an enterprise's place of business in a zone, including land, buildings, machinery, equipment, and other materials, except inventory, used in business. "Facility" does not include any portion of an enterprise's place of business used primarily for making retail sales unless the place of business is located in an impacted city as defined in section 1728.01 of the Revised Code. (D) "Vacant facility" means a facility that has been vacant for at least ninety days immediately preceding the date on which an agreement is entered under section 5709.62 or 5709.63 of the Revised Code. (E) "Expand" means to make expenditures to add land, buildings, machinery, equipment, or other materials, except inventory, to a facility that equal at least ten per cent of the market value of the facility prior to such expenditures, as determined for the purposes of local property taxation. (F) "Renovate" means to make expenditures to alter or repair a facility that equal at least fifty per cent of the market value of the facility prior to such expenditures, as determined for the purposes of local property taxation. (G) "Occupy" means to make expenditures to alter or repair a vacant facility equal to at least twenty per cent of the market value of the facility prior to such expenditures, as determined for the purposes of local property taxation. (H) "Project site" means all or any part of a facility that is newly constructed, expanded, renovated, or occupied by an enterprise. (I) "Project" means any undertaking by an enterprise to establish a facility or to improve a project site by expansion, renovation, or occupancy. (J) "Position" means the position of one full-time employee performing a particular set of tasks and duties. (K) "Full-time employee" means an individual who is employed for consideration by an enterprise for at least thirty-five hours a week, or who renders any other standard of service generally accepted by custom or specified by contract as full-time employment. (L) "New employee" means a full-time employee first employed by an enterprise at a facility that is a project site after the enterprise enters an agreement under section 5709.62 or 5709.63 of the Revised Code. "New employee" does not include an employee if, immediately prior to being employed by the enterprise, the employee was employed by an enterprise that is a related member or predecessor enterprise of that enterprise. (M) "Unemployed person" means any person who is totally
unemployed in this state, as that term is defined in division (M)
of section 4141.01 of the Revised Code, for at least ten
consecutive weeks immediately preceding (N) "JTPA eligible employee" means any individual who is eligible for employment or training under the "Job Training Partnership Act," 96 Stat. 1324 (1982), 29 U.S.C. 1501, as amended. (O) "First used in business" means that the property referred to has not been used in business in this state by the enterprise that owns it, or by an enterprise that is a related member or predecessor enterprise of such an enterprise, other than as inventory, prior to being used in business at a facility as the result of a project. (P) "Training program" means any noncredit training program or course of study that is offered by any state college or university; university branch district; community college; technical college; nonprofit college or university certified under section 1713.02 of the Revised Code; school district; joint vocational school district; school registered and authorized to offer programs under section 3332.05 of the Revised Code; an entity administering any federal, state, or local adult education and training program; or any enterprise; and that meets all of the following requirements: (1) It is approved by the director of development; (2) It is established or operated to satisfy the need of a particular industry or enterprise for skilled or semi-skilled employees; (3) An individual is required to complete the course or program before filling a position at a project site. (Q) "Development" means to engage in the process of clearing and grading land, making, installing, or constructing water distribution systems, sewers, sewage collection systems, steam, gas, and electric lines, roads, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, storm drainage facilities, and construction of other facilities or buildings equal to at least fifty per cent of the market value of the facility prior to the expenditures, as determined for the purposes of local property taxation. (R) "Large manufacturing facility" means a single Ohio
facility that employed an average of at least one thousand
individuals (1) A SINGLE OHIO MANUFACTURING FACILITY EMPLOYED AN AVERAGE OF AT LEAST ONE THOUSAND INDIVIDUALS DURING THE FIVE CALENDAR YEARS PRECEDING ENTERING INTO SUCH AN AGREEMENT IF ONE-FIFTH OF THE SUM OF THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES EMPLOYED ON THE HIGHEST EMPLOYMENT DAY DURING EACH OF THE FIVE CALENDAR YEARS EQUALS OR EXCEEDS ONE THOUSAND. (2) THE HIGHEST EMPLOYMENT DAY IS THE DAY OR DAYS DURING A CALENDAR YEAR ON WHICH THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES EMPLOYED AT A SINGLE OHIO MANUFACTURING FACILITY WAS GREATER THAN ON ANY OTHER DAY DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR. (S) "Business cycle" means the cycle of business activity usually regarded as passing through alternating stages of prosperity and depression. (T) "Making retail sales" means the effecting of transactions wherein one party is obligated to pay the price and the other party is obligated to provide a service or to transfer title to or possession of the item sold. (U) "Environmentally contaminated" means that hazardous substances exist at a facility under conditions that have caused or would cause the facility to be identified as contaminated by the state or federal environmental protection agency. These may include facilities located at sites identified in the master sites list or similar database maintained by the state environmental protection agency if the sites have been investigated by the agency and found to be contaminated. (V) "Remediate" means to make expenditures to clean up an environmentally contaminated facility so that it is no longer environmentally contaminated that equal at least ten per cent of the real property market value of the facility prior to such expenditures as determined for the purposes of property taxation. (W) "Related member" has the same meaning as defined in section 5733.042 of the Revised Code without regard to division (B) of that section, except that it is used with respect to an enterprise rather than a taxpayer. (X) "Predecessor enterprise" means an enterprise from which the assets or equity of another enterprise has been transferred, which transfer resulted in the full or partial nonrecognition of gain or loss, or resulted in a carryover basis, both as determined by rule adopted by the tax commissioner. (Y) "Successor enterprise" means an enterprise to which
the assets or equity of another enterprise has been transferred,
which transfer resulted in the full or partial nonrecognition of
gain or loss, or resulted in a carryover basis, both as
determined by rule adopted by the tax commissioner.
Sec. 5733.33. (A) As used in this section: (1) "Manufacturing machinery and equipment" means engines and machinery, and tools and implements, of every kind used, or designed to be used, in refining and manufacturing. (2) "New manufacturing machinery and equipment" means manufacturing machinery and equipment, the original use in this state of which commences with the taxpayer or with a partnership of which the taxpayer is a partner. (3)(a) "Purchase" has the same meaning as in section 179(d)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code. (b) Any purchase, for purposes of this section, is considered to occur at the time the agreement to acquire the property to be purchased becomes binding. (c) Notwithstanding section 179(d) of the Internal Revenue Code, a taxpayer's direct or indirect acquisition of new manufacturing machinery and equipment is not purchased on or after July 1, 1995, if the taxpayer, or a person whose relationship to the taxpayer is described in subparagraphs (A), (B), or (C) of section 179(d)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code, had directly or indirectly entered into a binding agreement to acquire the property at any time prior to July 1, 1995. (4) "Qualifying period" means the period that begins July 1, 1995, and ends December 31, 2000. (5) "County average new manufacturing machinery and equipment investment" means either of the following: (a) The average annual cost of new manufacturing machinery and equipment purchased for use in the county during baseline years, in the case of a taxpayer or partnership that was in existence for more than one year during baseline years. (b) Zero, in the case of a taxpayer or partnership that was not in existence for more than one year during baseline years. (6) "Partnership" includes a limited liability company formed under Chapter 1705. of the Revised Code or under the laws of any other state, provided that the company is not classified for federal income tax purposes as an association taxable as a corporation. (7) "Partner" includes a member of a limited liability company formed under Chapter 1705. of the Revised Code or under the laws of any other state, provided that the company is not classified for federal income tax purposes as an association taxable as a corporation. (8) "Distressed area" means either a municipal corporation that has a population of at least fifty thousand or a county that meets two of the following criteria of economic distress, or a municipal corporation the majority of the population of which is situated in such a county: (a) Its average rate of unemployment, during the most recent five-year period for which data are available, is equal to at least one hundred twenty-five per cent of the average rate of unemployment for the United States for the same period; (b) It has a per capita income equal to or below eighty per cent of the median county per capita income of the United States as determined by the most recently available figures from the United States census bureau; (c)(i) In the case of a municipal corporation, at least twenty per cent of the residents have a total income for the most recent census year that is below the official poverty line; (ii) In the case of a county, in intercensal years, the county has a ratio of transfer payment income to total county income equal to or greater than twenty-five per cent. (9) "Eligible area" means a distressed area, a labor surplus area, an inner city area, or a situational distress area. (10) "Inner city area" means, in a municipal corporation that has a population of at least one hundred thousand and does not meet the criteria of a labor surplus area or a distressed area, targeted investment areas established by the municipal corporation within its boundaries that are comprised of the most recent census block tracts that individually have at least twenty per cent of their population at or below the state poverty level or other census block tracts contiguous to such census block tracts. (11) "Labor surplus area" means an area designated as a labor surplus area by the United States department of labor. (12) "Official poverty line" has the same meaning as in division (A) of section 3923.51 of the Revised Code. (13) "Situational distress area" means a county or a municipal corporation that has experienced or is experiencing a closing or downsizing of a major employer, that will adversely affect the county's or municipal corporation's economy. In order to be designated as a situational distress area for a period not to exceed thirty-six months, the county or municipal corporation may petition the director of development. The petition shall include written documentation that demonstrates all of the following adverse effects on the local economy: (a) The number of jobs lost by the closing or downsizing; (b) The impact that the job loss has on the county's or municipal corporation's unemployment rate as measured by the Ohio bureau of employment services; (c) The annual payroll associated with the job loss; (d) The amount of state and local taxes associated with the job loss; (e) The impact that the closing or downsizing has on the suppliers located in the county or municipal corporation. (14) "Cost" has the same meaning and limitation as in section 179(d)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. (15) "Baseline years" means: (a) Calendar years 1992, 1993, and 1994, with regard to a credit claimed for the purchase during calendar year 1995, 1996, 1997, or 1998 of new manufacturing machinery and equipment; (b) Calendar years 1993, 1994, and 1995, with regard to a credit claimed for the purchase during calendar year 1999 of new manufacturing machinery and equipment; (c) Calendar years 1994, 1995, and 1996, with regard to a credit claimed for the purchase during calendar year 2000 of new manufacturing machinery and equipment. (B)(1) A nonrefundable credit is allowed against
the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code for a
taxpayer that purchases
new manufacturing machinery and equipment during the qualifying
period, provided that the new manufacturing machinery and
equipment (2) The credit is also available to a taxpayer that is a partner in a partnership that purchases new manufacturing machinery and equipment during the qualifying period, provided that the partnership installs the new manufacturing machinery and equipment in this state no later than December 31, 2001. The taxpayer shall determine the credit amount as provided in division (H) of this section. (3)(a) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(3)(b) of this section, a credit may be claimed under this section in excess of one million dollars only if the cost of all manufacturing machinery and equipment owned in this state by the taxpayer claiming the credit on the last day of the calendar year exceeds the cost of all manufacturing machinery and equipment owned in this state by the taxpayer on the first day of that calendar year. As used in division (B)(3)(a) of this section, "calendar year" means the calendar year in which the machinery and equipment for which the credit is claimed was purchased. (b) Division (B)(3)(a) of this section does not apply if the taxpayer claiming the credit applies for and is issued a waiver of the requirement of that division. A taxpayer may apply to the director of the department of development for such a waiver in the manner prescribed by the director, and the director may issue such a waiver if the director determines that granting the credit is necessary to increase or retain employees in this state, and that the credit has not caused relocation of manufacturing machinery and equipment among counties within this state for the primary purpose of qualifying for the credit. (C)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(2) of this section, the credit amount is equal to seven and one-half per cent of the excess of the cost of the new manufacturing machinery and equipment purchased during the calendar year for use in a county over the county average new manufacturing machinery and equipment investment for that county. (2) As used in division (C)(2) of this section, "county excess" means the taxpayer's excess cost for a county as computed under division (C)(1) of this section. For a taxpayer with a county excess, whose purchases included purchases for use in any eligible area in the county, the credit amount is equal to thirteen and one-half per cent of the cost of the new manufacturing machinery and equipment purchased during the calendar year for use in the eligible areas in the county, provided that the cost subject to the thirteen and one-half per cent rate shall not exceed the county excess. If the county excess is greater than the cost of the new manufacturing machinery and equipment purchased during the calendar year for use in eligible areas in the county, the credit amount also shall include an amount equal to seven and one-half per cent of the amount of the difference. (3) If a taxpayer is allowed a credit for purchases of new manufacturing machinery and equipment in more than one county or eligible area, it shall aggregate the amount of those credits each year. (4) The taxpayer shall claim one-seventh of the credit amount for the tax year immediately following the calendar year in which the new manufacturing machinery and equipment is purchased for use in the county by the taxpayer or partnership. One-seventh of the taxpayer credit amount is allowed for each of the six ensuing tax years. Except for carried-forward amounts, the taxpayer is not allowed any credit amount remaining if the new manufacturing machinery and equipment is sold by the taxpayer or partnership or is transferred by the taxpayer or partnership out of the county before the end of the seven-year period. (5)(a) A taxpayer that acquires manufacturing machinery and equipment as a result of a merger with the taxpayer with whom commenced the original use in this state of the manufacturing machinery and equipment, or with a taxpayer that was a partner in a partnership with whom commenced the original use in this state of the manufacturing machinery and equipment, is entitled to any remaining or carried-forward credit amounts to which the taxpayer was entitled. (b) A TAXPAYER THAT ENTERS INTO AN AGREEMENT UNDER DIVISION (C)(3) OF SECTION 5709.62 of the Revised Code AND THAT ACQUIRES MANUFACTURING MACHINERY OR EQUIPMENT AS A RESULT OF PURCHASING A LARGE MANUFACTURING FACILITY, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 5709.61 of the Revised Code, FROM ANOTHER TAXPAYER WITH WHOM COMMENCED THE ORIGINAL USE IN THIS STATE OF THE MANUFACTURING MACHINERY OR EQUIPMENT, AND THAT OPERATES THE LARGE MANUFACTURING FACILITY SO PURCHASED, IS ENTITLED TO ANY REMAINING OR CARRIED-FORWARD CREDIT AMOUNTS TO WHICH THE OTHER TAXPAYER WHO SOLD THE FACILITY WOULD HAVE BEEN ENTITLED UNDER THIS SECTION HAD THE OTHER TAXPAYER NOT SOLD THE MANUFACTURING FACILITY OR EQUIPMENT. (c) New manufacturing machinery and equipment is not considered sold if a pass-through entity transfers to another pass-through entity substantially all of its assets as part of a plan of reorganization under which substantially all gain and loss is not recognized by the pass-through entity that is transferring the new manufacturing machinery and equipment to the transferee and under which the transferee's basis in the new manufacturing machinery and equipment is determined, in whole or in part, by reference to the basis of the pass-through entity which transferred the new manufacturing machinery and equipment to the transferee.
(e) DIVISION(C)(5)(b) OF THIS SECTION APPLIES ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT THE TAXPAYER THAT SOLD THE MANUFACTURING MACHINERY OR EQUIPMENT, UPON REQUEST, TIMELY PROVIDES TO THE TAX COMMISSIONER ANY INFORMATION THAT THE TAX COMMISSIONER CONSIDERS TO BE NECESSARY TO ASCERTAIN ANY REMAINING OR CARRIED-FORWARD AMOUNTS TO WHICH THE TAXPAYER THAT SOLD THE FACILITY WOULD HAVE BEEN ENTITLED UNDER THIS SECTION HAD THE TAXPAYER NOT SOLD THE MANUFACTURING MACHINERY OR EQUIPMENT. NOTHING IN DIVISION(C)(5)(b) OR (e) OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO ALLOW A TAXPAYER TO CLAIM ANY CREDIT AMOUNT WITH RESPECT TO THE ACQUIRED MANUFACTURING MACHINERY OR EQUIPMENT THAT IS GREATER THAN THE AMOUNT THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE TO THE OTHER TAXPAYER THAT SOLD THE MANUFACTURING MACHINERY OR EQUIPMENT HAD THE OTHER TAXPAYER NOT SOLD THE MANUFACTURING MACHINERY OR EQUIPMENT. (D) The taxpayer shall claim the credit in the order required under section 5733.98 of the Revised Code. Each year, any credit amount in excess of the tax due under section 5733.06 of the Revised Code after allowing for any other credits that precede the credit under this section in that order may be carried forward for three tax years. (E) A taxpayer purchasing new manufacturing machinery and equipment and intending to claim the credit shall file, with the department of development, a notice of intent to claim the credit on a form prescribed by the department of development. The department of development shall inform the tax commissioner of the notice of intent to claim the credit. (F) The director of development shall annually certify, by the first day of January of each year during the qualifying period, the eligible areas for the tax credit for the calendar year that includes that first day of January. The director shall send a copy of the certification to the tax commissioner. (G) New manufacturing machinery and equipment for which a taxpayer claims the credit under section 5733.31, 5733.311, 5747.26, or 5747.261 of the Revised Code shall not be considered new manufacturing machinery and equipment for purposes of the credit under this section. (H)(1) With regard to a taxpayer that is a partner in a partnership, the county average new manufacturing machinery and equipment investment shall be determined based on the number of years, if any, the partnership was in existence during baseline years. In determining the county average new manufacturing machinery and equipment investment, the excess of the cost of new manufacturing machinery and equipment purchased during the calendar year, and all other amounts necessary to calculate the credit allowed by this section, the taxpayer shall include the taxpayer's distributive share of the cost of new manufacturing machinery and equipment purchased by a partnership in which the corporation had a direct or indirect investment during the calendar year prior to the first day of a tax year for which the taxpayer is claiming the credit. These determinations and calculations shall be made for the taxpayer's calendar year during which the partnership made the purchase. (2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or disallow
pass-through treatment of a pass-through entity's income,
deductions, credits, or other amounts necessary to compute the
tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code and the credits allowed by
this chapter.
Sec. 5747.51. (A) Within ten days after the fifteenth day of July of each year, the tax commissioner shall make and certify to the county auditor of each county an estimate of the amount of the local government fund to be allocated to the undivided local government fund of each county for the ensuing calendar year and the estimated amount to be received by the undivided local government fund of each county from the taxes levied pursuant to section 5707.03 of the Revised Code for the ensuing calendar year. (B) At each annual regular session of the county budget commission convened pursuant to section 5705.27 of the Revised Code, each auditor shall present to the commission the certificate of the commissioner, the annual tax budget and estimates, and the records showing the action of the commission in its last preceding regular session. The estimates shown on the certificate of the commissioner of the amount to be allocated from the local government fund and the amount to be received from taxes levied pursuant to section 5707.03 of the Revised Code shall be combined into one total comprising the estimate of the undivided local government fund of the county. The commission, after extending to the representatives of each subdivision an opportunity to be heard, under oath administered by any member of the commission, and considering all the facts and information presented to it by the auditor, shall determine the amount of the undivided local government fund needed by and to be apportioned to each subdivision for current operating expenses, as shown in the tax budget of the subdivision. This determination shall be made pursuant to divisions (C) to (I) of this section, unless the commission has provided for a formula pursuant to section 5747.53 of the Revised Code. Nothing in this section prevents the budget commission, for the purpose of apportioning the undivided local government fund, from inquiring into the claimed needs of any subdivision as stated in its tax budget, or from adjusting claimed needs to reflect actual needs. For the purposes of this section, "current operating expenses" means the lawful expenditures of a subdivision, except those for permanent improvements and except payments for interest, sinking fund, and retirement of bonds, notes, and certificates of indebtedness of the subdivision. (C) The commission shall determine the combined total of the estimated expenditures, including transfers, from the general fund and any special funds other than special funds established for road and bridge; street construction, maintenance, and repair; state highway improvement; and gas, water, sewer, and electric public utilities operated by a subdivision, as shown in the subdivision's tax budget for the ensuing calendar year. (D) From the combined total of expenditures calculated pursuant to division (C) of this section, the commission shall deduct the following expenditures, if included in these funds in the tax budget: (1) Expenditures for permanent improvements as defined in division (E) of section 5705.01 of the Revised Code; (2) In the case of counties and townships, transfers to the road and bridge fund, and in the case of municipalities, transfers to the street construction, maintenance, and repair fund and the state highway improvement fund; (3) Expenditures for the payment of debt charges; (4) Expenditures for the payment of judgments. (E) In addition to the deductions made pursuant to division (D) of this section, revenues accruing to the general fund and any special fund considered under division (C) of this section from the following sources shall be deducted from the combined total of expenditures calculated pursuant to division (C) of this section: (1) Taxes levied within the ten-mill limitation, as defined in section 5705.02 of the Revised Code; (2) The budget commission allocation of estimated county library and local government support fund revenues to be distributed pursuant to section 5747.48 of the Revised Code; (3) Estimated unencumbered balances as shown on the tax budget as of the thirty-first day of December of the current year in the general fund, but not any estimated balance in any special fund considered in division (C) of this section; (4) Revenue, including transfers, shown in the general fund and any special funds other than special funds established for road and bridge; street construction, maintenance, and repair; state highway improvement; and gas, water, sewer, and electric public utilities, from all other sources except those that a subdivision receives from an additional tax or service charge voted by its electorate or receives from special assessment or revenue bond collection. For the purposes of this division, where the charter of a municipal corporation prohibits the levy of an income tax, an income tax levied by the legislative authority of such municipal corporation pursuant to an amendment of the charter of that municipal corporation to authorize such a levy represents an additional tax voted by the electorate of that municipal corporation. For the purposes of this division, any measure adopted by a board of county commissioners pursuant to section 322.02, 324.02, 4504.02, or 5739.021 of the Revised Code, including those measures upheld by the electorate in a referendum conducted pursuant to section 322.021, 324.021, 4504.021, or 5739.022 of the Revised Code, shall not be considered an additional tax voted by the electorate.
If a COUNTY, TOWNSHIP, OR municipal corporation has created and
maintains a NONEXPENDABLE TRUST fund (F) The total expenditures calculated pursuant to division (C) of this section, less the deductions authorized in divisions (D) and (E) of this section, shall be known as the "relative need" of the subdivision, for the purposes of this section. (G) The budget commission shall total the relative need of all participating subdivisions in the county, and shall compute a relative need factor by dividing the total estimate of the undivided local government fund by the total relative need of all participating subdivisions. (H) The relative need of each subdivision shall be multiplied by the relative need factor to determine the proportionate share of the subdivision in the undivided local government fund of the county; provided, that the maximum proportionate share of a county shall not exceed the following maximum percentages of the total estimate of the undivided local government fund governed by the relationship of the percentage of the population of the county that resides within municipal corporations within the county to the total population of the county as reported in the reports on population in Ohio by the department of development as of the twentieth day of July of the year in which the tax budget is filed with the budget commission:
Where the proportionate share of the county exceeds the limitations established in this division, the budget commission shall adjust the proportionate shares determined pursuant to this division so that the proportionate share of the county does not exceed these limitations, and it shall increase the proportionate shares of all other subdivisions on a pro rata basis. In counties having a population of less than one hundred thousand, not less than ten per cent shall be distributed to the townships therein. (I) The proportionate share of each subdivision in the undivided local government fund determined pursuant to division (H) of this section for any calendar year shall not be less than the product of the average of the percentages of the undivided local government fund of the county as apportioned to that subdivision for the calendar years 1968, 1969, and 1970, multiplied by the total amount of the undivided local government fund of the county apportioned pursuant to former section 5735.23 of the Revised Code for the calendar year 1970. For the purposes of this division, the total apportioned amount for the calendar year 1970 shall be the amount actually allocated to the county in 1970 from the state collected intangible tax as levied by section 5707.03 of the Revised Code and distributed pursuant to section 5725.24 of the Revised Code, plus the amount received by the county in the calendar year 1970 pursuant to division (B)(1) of former section 5739.21 of the Revised Code, and distributed pursuant to former section 5739.22 of the Revised Code. If the total amount of the undivided local government fund for any calendar year is less than the amount of the undivided local government fund apportioned pursuant to former section 5739.23 of the Revised Code for the calendar year 1970, the minimum amount guaranteed to each subdivision for that calendar year pursuant to this division shall be reduced on a basis proportionate to the amount by which the amount of the undivided local government fund for that calendar year is less than the amount of the undivided local government fund apportioned for the calendar year 1970. (J) On the basis of such apportionment, the county auditor shall compute the percentage share of each such subdivision in the undivided local government fund and shall at the same time certify to the tax commissioner the percentage share of the county as a subdivision. No payment shall be made from the undivided local government fund, except in accordance with such percentage shares. Within ten days after the budget commission has made its apportionment, whether conducted pursuant to section 5747.51 or 5747.53 of the Revised Code, the auditor shall publish a list of the subdivisions and the amount each is to receive from the undivided local government fund and the percentage share of each subdivision, in a newspaper or newspapers of countywide circulation, and send a copy of such allocation to the tax commissioner. The county auditor shall also send by certified mail, return receipt requested, a copy of such allocation to the fiscal officer of each subdivision entitled to participate in the allocation of the undivided local government fund of the county. This copy shall constitute the official notice of the commission action referred to in section 5705.37 of the Revised Code. All money received into the treasury of a subdivision from the undivided local government fund in a county treasury shall be paid into the general fund and used for the current operating expenses of the subdivision. If a municipal corporation maintains a municipal university, such municipal university, when the board of trustees so requests the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, shall participate in the money apportioned to such municipal corporation from the total local government fund, however created and constituted, in such amount as requested by the board of trustees, provided such sum does not exceed nine per cent of the total amount paid to the municipal corporation. If any public official fails to maintain the records
required by sections 5747.50 to 5747.55 of the Revised Code Sec. 5747.62. (A) As used in this section and section 5747.63 of the Revised Code, "subdivision" means a municipal corporation, township, park district, or county. (B) At each annual regular session of the county budget commission convened pursuant to section 5705.27 of the Revised Code, each auditor shall present to the commission the certificate of the commissioner, the annual tax budget and estimates, and the records showing the action of the commission in its last preceding regular session. The commission, after extending to the representatives of each subdivision an opportunity to be heard, under oath administered by any member of the commission, and considering all the facts and information presented to it by the auditor, shall determine the amount of the undivided local government revenue assistance fund needed by and to be apportioned to each subdivision for current operating expenses, as shown in the tax budget of the subdivision. This determination shall be made pursuant to divisions (C) to (H) of this section, unless the commission has provided for a formula pursuant to section 5747.63 of the Revised Code. Nothing in this section prevents the budget commission, for the purpose of apportioning the undivided local government revenue assistance fund, from inquiring into the claimed needs of any subdivision as stated in its tax budget, or from adjusting claimed needs to reflect actual needs. For the purposes of this section, "current operating expenses" means the lawful expenditures of a subdivision, except those for permanent improvements and except payments for interest, sinking fund, and retirement of bonds, notes, and certificates of indebtedness of the subdivision. (C) The commission shall determine the combined total of the estimated expenditures, including transfers, from the general fund and any special funds other than special funds established for road and bridge; street construction, maintenance, and repair; state highway improvement; and gas, water, sewer, and electric public utilities operated by a subdivision, as shown in the subdivision's tax budget for the ensuing calendar year. (D) From the combined total of expenditures calculated pursuant to division (C) of this section, the commission shall deduct the following expenditures, if included in these funds in the tax budget: (1) Expenditures for permanent improvements as defined in division (E) of section 5705.01 of the Revised Code; (2) In the case of counties and townships, transfers to the road and bridge fund, and in the case of municipalities, transfers to the street construction, maintenance, and repair fund and the state highway improvement fund; (3) Expenditures for the payment of debt charges; (4) Expenditures for the payment of judgments. (E) In addition to the deductions made pursuant to division (D) of this section, revenues accruing to the general fund and any special fund considered under division (C) of this section from the following sources shall be deducted from the combined total of expenditures calculated pursuant to division (C) of this section: (1) Taxes levied within the ten-mill limitation, as defined in section 5705.02 of the Revised Code; (2) The budget commission allocation of estimated county library and local government support fund revenues to be distributed pursuant to section 5747.48 of the Revised Code; (3) Estimated unencumbered balances as shown on the tax budget as of the thirty-first day of December of the current year in the general fund, but not any estimated balance in any special fund considered in division (C) of this section; (4) Revenue, including transfers, shown in the general fund and any special funds other than special funds established for road and bridge; street construction, maintenance, and repair; state highway improvement; and gas, water, sewer, and electric public utilities, from all other sources except those that a subdivision receives from an additional tax or service charge voted by its electorate or receives from special assessment or revenue bond collection. For the purposes of this division, where the charter of a municipal corporation prohibits the levy of an income tax, an income tax levied by the legislative authority of such municipal corporation pursuant to an amendment of the charter of that municipal corporation to authorize such a levy represents an additional tax voted by the electorate of that municipal corporation. For the purposes of this division, any measure adopted by a board of county commissioners pursuant to section 322.02, 324.02, 4504.02, or 5739.021 of the Revised Code, including those measures upheld by the electorate in a referendum conducted pursuant to section 322.021, 324.021, 4504.021, or 5739.022 of the Revised Code, shall not be considered an additional tax voted by the electorate.
If a COUNTY, TOWNSHIP, OR municipal corporation has created and
maintains a NONEXPENDABLE TRUST fund (F) The total expenditures calculated pursuant to division (C) of this section, less the deductions authorized in divisions (D) and (E) of this section, shall be known as the "relative need" of the subdivision, for the purposes of this section. (G) The budget commission shall total the relative need of all participating subdivisions in the county, and shall compute a relative need factor by dividing the total estimate of the undivided local government revenue assistance fund by the total relative need of all participating subdivisions. (H) The relative need of each subdivision shall be multiplied by the relative need factor to determine the proportionate share of the subdivision in the undivided local government revenue assistance fund of the county, provided that the maximum proportionate share of a county shall not exceed the following maximum percentages of the total estimate of the undivided local government revenue assistance fund governed by the relationship of the percentage of the population of the county that resides within municipal corporations within the county to the total population of the county as reported in the reports on population in Ohio by the department of development as of the twentieth day of July of the year in which the tax budget is filed with the budget commission:
Where the proportionate share of the county exceeds the limitations established in this division, the budget commission shall adjust the proportionate shares determined pursuant to this division so that the proportionate share of the county does not exceed these limitations, and it shall increase the proportionate shares of all other subdivisions on a pro rata basis. In counties having a population of less than one hundred thousand, not less than ten per cent shall be distributed to the townships therein. (I) On the basis of such apportionment, the county auditor shall compute the percentage share of each such subdivision in the undivided local government revenue assistance fund and shall at the same time certify to the tax commissioner the percentage share of the county as a subdivision. No payment shall be made from the undivided local government revenue assistance fund, except in accordance with such percentage shares. Within ten days after the budget commission has made its apportionment, whether conducted pursuant to this section or section 5747.63 of the Revised Code, the auditor shall publish a list of the subdivisions and the amount each is to receive from the undivided local government revenue assistance fund and the percentage share of each subdivision, in a newspaper or newspapers of countywide circulation, and send a copy of such apportionment to the tax commissioner. The county auditor shall also send by certified mail, return receipt requested, a copy of such apportionment to the fiscal officer of each subdivision entitled to participate in the allocation of the undivided local government revenue assistance fund of the county. This copy shall constitute the official notice of the commission action referred to in section 5705.37 of the Revised Code. All money received by a subdivision from the county undivided local government revenue assistance fund shall be paid into the subdivision's general fund and used for current operating expenses. If any public official fails to maintain the records
required by sections 5747.61 to 5747.63 of the Revised Code Section 2. That existing sections 1907.24, 2303.201, 2743.70, 2949.091, 3109.14, 3316.03, 5705.12, 5705.13, 5705.29, 5705.35, 5705.36, 5705.38, 5705.41, 5709.61, 5733.33, 5747.51, and 5747.62 and sections 305.23, 505.83, and 505.831 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed. Section 3. Section 1907.24 of the Revised Code is presented in this act as a composite of the section as amended by Sub. H.B. 423, Am. Sub. H.B. 438, and Sub. H.B. 455 of the 121st General Assembly, with the new language of none of the acts shown in capital letters. This is in recognition of the principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that such amendments are to be harmonized where not substantively irreconcilable and constitutes a legislative finding that such is the resulting version in effect prior to the effective date of this act. Section 4. Sections 3316.03 and 5705.29 of the Revised Code are amended by this act and also by Am. Sub. H.B. 650 of the 122nd General Assembly (effective July 1, 1998). The amendments of Am. Sub. H.B. 650 are included in this act in lower case to confirm the intention to retain them, but are not intended to be effective until July 1, 1998. The amendment by this act to division (H)(5) of section 5705.29 of the Revised Code takes effect at the same time as the Am. Sub. H.B. 650 amendment it affects, or at the earliest time permitted by law, whichever is later. |
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