130th Ohio General Assembly
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Sub. S. B. No. 148  As Reported by the House Local and Municipal Government and Urban Revitalization Committee
As Reported by the House Local and Municipal Government and Urban Revitalization Committee

126th General Assembly
Regular Session
2005-2006
Sub. S. B. No. 148


Senators Hottinger, Grendell, Carey, Spada 

Representatives Wolpert, Domenick 



A BILL
To amend sections 317.09 and 317.32 of the Revised Code to authorize a county recorder to use electronic or magnetic mediums for recording federal tax and other federal liens and to request the disposal of paper versions of those recorded documents, and to require a county recorder to charge and collect a per-image fee equivalent to the per-page photocopy fee when a nonpaper form of photocopying is used.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 317.09 and 317.32 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 317.09.  (A)(1) Notices of liens for internal revenue taxes, of liens arising under section 107 of the "Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980," 94 Stat. 2781, 42 U.S.C.A. 9607, as amended, and of any other lien in favor of the United States, as provided in the statutes of the United States or in any regulation adopted under those statutes, certificates discharging the liens, and certificates of release of the liens shall be filed for record, by mail or otherwise, in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the property subject to the lien is situated. If a duplicate copy of a notice of a lien or a certificate of discharge or release of a lien is provided, the recorder shall endorse on the copy the date and hour that the notice or certificate was received for filing and recording and shall return the copy, by mail or otherwise, to the district director of the internal revenue service of the Ohio district from which the notice or certificate originated, the regional administrator of the region of the United States environmental protection agency from which the notice or certificate originated, or the other official of the United States who originated the notice or certificate, whichever is applicable.
(2) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, when a notice of a lien in favor of the United States is filed, the recorder shall enter it in a book or an electronic or magnetic medium known as the "federal tax and other federal lien index," in alphabetical order, showing on one line the name and residence of the person named in the notice, the serial number or other identifying number of the notice, and the total amount of the lien. The Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the recorder shall file and keep all original notices of liens in numerical order. When Except as provided in division (C) of this section, when a certificate of discharge or release of any lien in favor of the United States is issued by the proper official of the United States, or the official's delegate, and is filed for record in the office of the recorder in which the original notice of the lien is filed, the recorder shall enter the certificate with the date of filing in the federal tax and other federal lien index on the line on which the notice of the lien so discharged or released is entered and permanently attach the original certificate of discharge or release to the original notice of the lien.
(B) If a county recorder records all instruments in two sets of record books pursuant to division (C) of section 317.08 of the Revised Code, notices of liens in favor of the United States and certificates discharging or releasing those liens that are filed with the recorder shall be recorded in the "official records" set of books.
(C) A county recorder may use any nonpaper electronic or magnetic medium specified in section 9.01 of the Revised Code to record the notices of liens and the certificates of discharge or release of liens covered by this section. If any of those mediums is used, an "original notice," for purposes of this section, shall mean the notice as originally recorded by the nonpaper electronic or magnetic medium, and the recorder, instead of permanently attaching an original certificate of discharge or release to the original notice, shall otherwise clearly indicate on the original notice that it has been discharged or released by the particular certificate. If such a recorder wishes to dispose of paper versions of the notices and certificates covered by this section because they are no longer needed in that format, the recorder shall request the county records commission to revise the county's schedule of records retention and disposal in accordance with section 149.38 of the Revised Code to provide for the disposal of those paper records.
(D) The county recorder shall receive a fee of five dollars for filing and indexing each notice of a lien filed pursuant to this section and shall receive a fee of three dollars for filing and indexing a certificate of discharge or release of the lien. The fees provided for in this division shall be collected at the time that the notice or certificate is presented in the office of the recorder.
Sec. 317.32.  The county recorder shall charge and collect the following fees, to include base fees for the recorder's services and housing trust fund fees, collected pursuant to section 317.36 of the Revised Code:
(A) For recording and indexing an instrument when the photocopy or any similar process is employed, a base fee of fourteen dollars for the first two pages and a housing trust fund fee of fourteen dollars for the first two pages, and a base fee of four dollars and a housing trust fund fee of four dollars for each subsequent page, size eight and one-half inches by fourteen inches, or fraction of a page, including the caption page, of such instrument;
(B) For certifying a photocopy from the record previously recorded, a base fee of one dollar and a housing trust fund fee of one dollar per page, size eight and one-half inches by fourteen inches, or fraction of a page; for each certification where the recorder's seal is required, except as to instruments issued by the armed forces of the United States, a base fee of fifty cents and a housing trust fund fee of fifty cents;
(C) For manual or typewritten recording of assignment or satisfaction of mortgage or lease or any other marginal entry, a base fee of four dollars and a housing trust fund fee of four dollars;
(D) For entering any marginal reference by separate recorded instrument, a base fee of two dollars and a housing trust fund fee of two dollars for each marginal reference set out in that instrument, in addition to the fees set forth in division (A) of this section;
(E) For indexing in the real estate mortgage records, pursuant to section 1309.519 of the Revised Code, financing statements covering crops growing or to be grown, timber to be cut, minerals or the like, including oil and gas, accounts subject to section 1309.301 of the Revised Code, or fixture filings made pursuant to section 1309.334 of the Revised Code, a base fee of two dollars and a housing trust fund fee of two dollars for each name indexed;
(F) For recording manually any plat not exceeding six lines, a base fee of two dollars and a housing trust fund fee of two dollars, and for each additional line, a base fee of ten cents and a housing trust fund fee of ten cents;
(G) For filing zoning resolutions, including text and maps, in the office of the recorder as required under sections 303.11 and 519.11 of the Revised Code, a base fee of fifty dollars and a housing trust fund fee of fifty dollars, regardless of the size or length of the resolutions;
(H) For filing zoning amendments, including text and maps, in the office of the recorder as required under sections 303.12 and 519.12 of the Revised Code, a base fee of ten dollars and a housing trust fund fee of ten dollars for the first page and a base fee of four dollars and a housing trust fund fee of four dollars for each additional page;
(I) For photocopying a document, other than at the time of recording and indexing as provided for in division (A) of this section, a base fee of one dollar and a housing trust fund fee of one dollar per page, size eight and one-half inches by fourteen inches, or fraction thereof of a page, or, if a nonpaper method of photocopying a document is permitted, a base fee of one dollar and a housing trust fund fee of one dollar per image equivalent to a page of that size, regardless of whether the requester provides the equipment and other resources necessary to produce the form of imaging;
(J) For local facsimile transmission of a document, a base fee of one dollar and a housing trust fund fee of one dollar per page, size eight and one-half inches by fourteen inches, or fraction thereof of a page; for long distance facsimile transmission of a document, a base fee of two dollars and a housing trust fund fee of two dollars per page, size eight and one-half inches by fourteen inches, or fraction thereof of a page;
(K) For recording a declaration executed pursuant to section 2133.02 of the Revised Code or a durable power of attorney for health care executed pursuant to section 1337.12 of the Revised Code, or both a declaration and a durable power of attorney for health care, a base fee of at least fourteen dollars but not more than twenty dollars and a housing trust fund fee of at least fourteen dollars but not more than twenty dollars.
In any county in which the recorder employs the photostatic or any similar process for recording maps, plats, or prints, the recorder shall determine, charge, and collect for the recording or rerecording of any map, plat, or print, a base fee of five cents and a housing trust fund fee of five cents per square inch, for each square inch of the map, plat, or print filed for that recording or rerecording, with a minimum base fee of twenty dollars and a minimum housing trust fund fee of twenty dollars; and for certifying a copy from the record, a base fee of two cents and a housing trust fund fee of two cents per square inch of the record, with a minimum base fee of two dollars and a minimum housing trust fund fee of two dollars.
The fees provided in this section shall be paid upon the presentation of the instruments for record or, upon the application for any certified copy of the record, or upon a request for photocopying under division (I) of this section, except that the payment of fees associated with the filing and recording of, or the copying of, notices of internal revenue tax liens and notices of other liens in favor of the United States as described in division (A) of section 317.09 of the Revised Code and certificates of discharge or release of those liens, shall be governed by that section 317.09 of the Revised Code, and the payment of fees for providing copies of instruments conveying or extinguishing agricultural easements to the office of farmland preservation in the department of agriculture under division (H) of section 5301.691 of the Revised Code shall be governed by that division.
Section 2. That existing sections 317.09 and 317.32 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
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