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Section 727.01 | Power to Levy and Collect Special Assessments – Methods.

Effective: May 17, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 2 – 134th General Assembly Each municipal corporation shall have special power to levy and collect special assessments. The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may assess upon the abutting, adjacent, and contiguous, or other specially benefited, lots or lands in the municipal corporation, any part of […]

Section 727.011 | Control, Planting, Care, and Maintenance of Shade Trees.

Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly For the purpose of controlling the blight and disease of shade trees within public rights-of-way, and for planting, maintaining, trimming, and removing shade trees in and along the streets of a municipality, the legislative authority of such municipal corporation may establish one […]

Section 727.012 | Constructing, Maintaining, Repairing, Cleaning, and Enclosing of Ditches.

Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly For the purpose of constructing, maintaining, repairing, cleaning, and enclosing ditches, the legislative authority of such municipal corporation may establish one or more districts in the municipality designating the boundaries thereof, and may each year thereafter, by ordinance, designate the district in […]

Section 727.013 | Relocation of Overhead Cables, Wires, and Appurtenant Equipment.

Effective: September 4, 1970 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1017 – 108th General Assembly A municipal corporation may contract with any corporation, company, partnership, association, or person maintaining overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment on a street of the municipal corporation for the relocation of such overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment underground within the limits […]

Section 727.02 | Fixing Value of Lands Not Assessed for Taxation.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly In making a special assessment by percentage of the tax value or by the foot front on lots or lands not subdivided into lots, when such lots or lands are not assessed for taxation, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall […]

Section 727.03 | Limitation on Special Assessments.

Effective: October 9, 1963 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 19 – 105th General Assembly The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall limit all special assessments levied under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to the special benefits conferred upon the property assessed. In no case shall there be levied, under sections 727.01 […]

Section 727.031 | Exemption From Special Assessments – Nonprofit Arts Institutions.

Effective: September 30, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 – 134th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) “Nonprofit arts institution” has the same meaning as in division (G) of section 5709.121 of the Revised Code. (2) “Qualifying real property” means any real property that is located in a county having a population […]

Section 727.04 | Assessments for Repaving of Streets.

Effective: January 1, 1962 Latest Legislation: House Bill 262 – 104th General Assembly When a special assessment is levied under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation for the reimproving of any street within the municipal corporation by paving, for the original paving of which […]

Section 727.05 | Portion of Improvement Cost to Be Paid by Municipal Corporation.

Effective: January 1, 1962 Latest Legislation: House Bill 262 – 104th General Assembly The municipal corporation shall pay such part of the total cost of improvements for which special assessments are levied under sections 727.01 to 727.49, inclusive, of the Revised Code, as the legislative authority thereof deems just, which part shall not be less […]

Section 727.06 | Petition by 60% of Owners of Front Footage for Improvement.

Effective: October 9, 1963 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 19 – 105th General Assembly When a petition subscribed by the owners of sixty per cent of the front footage of property abutting upon a street, alley, public road, place, boulevard, parkway, park entrance, easement, or other public improvement in a municipal corporation, or the owners of […]

Section 727.07 | Change in Grade Assessment.

Effective: January 1, 1962 Latest Legislation: House Bill 262 – 104th General Assembly When a street, alley, public highway, sidewalk, wharf, or landing within a municipal corporation is graded, or pavements are constructed in conformity to grades established by the authorities of the municipal corporation, and the expense of such work is assessed on the […]

Section 727.08 | Determining Total Cost of Public Improvement.

Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly The cost of any public improvement to be paid for directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by funds derived from special assessments may include but not be limited to: (A) The purchase price of real estate or any interest therein […]

Section 727.09 | Special Assessment Proceedings May Include More Than One Improvement.

Effective: September 4, 1970 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1017 – 108th General Assembly When it is determined by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation and is recited in the resolution of necessity adopted under section 727.12 of the Revised Code, that the streets, alleys, easements, or other public places, or parts thereof, to be […]

Section 727.10 | Describing Lots and Lands to Be Charged.

Effective: January 1, 1962 Latest Legislation: House Bill 262 – 104th General Assembly In all proceedings in which lots or lands are to be charged with special assessments to pay any part of the cost of a public improvement, such lots and lands bounding and abutting upon the improvement may be described as all the […]

Section 727.11 | Annual Installment Payment Schedules.

Effective: November 1, 1991 Latest Legislation: House Bill 104 – 119th General Assembly Special assessments for any improvement under this chapter shall be payable in annual installments pursuant to one or more payment schedules authorized by the legislative authority in the resolution of necessity adopted pursuant to section 727.12 of the Revised Code. Except as […]

Section 727.12 | Filing Plans – Resolution of Necessity.

Effective: November 1, 1991 Latest Legislation: House Bill 104 – 119th General Assembly When it is deemed necessary by a municipal corporation to make a public improvement to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessments levied under this chapter, plans, specifications, profiles of the proposed improvement showing the proposed grade of […]

Section 727.14 | Publishing Notice of Certain Special Assessments.

Effective: April 12, 2021 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 259 – 133rd General Assembly (A) In lieu of the procedure provided in section 727.13 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority may provide for notice of the passage of a resolution of necessity providing for the lighting, sprinkling, sweeping, or cleaning of any street, alley, public […]

Section 727.15 | Objection Filed by Owner.

Effective: January 1, 1962 Latest Legislation: House Bill 262 – 104th General Assembly The owner of any lot or parcel of land who objects to the amount or apportionment of, or the assessment against such lot or parcel as set forth in the estimated assessment filed under section 727.12 of the Revised Code, shall file […]

Section 727.16 | Assessment Equalization Board.

Effective: January 1, 1962 Latest Legislation: House Bill 262 – 104th General Assembly In the event the owner of any lot or parcel of land to be assessed objects to the amount or apportionment of the estimated assessment or to the assessment against such lot or parcel, as provided in section 727.15 of the Revised […]