Opinions
Opinions
Requested by: Portage County Prosecuting Attorney
The transfer of money from the county general fund to an "elections revenue fund" is not authorized unless it is approved by a county board of commissioners' resolution.
Requested by: Trumbull County Prosecuting Attorney
Prevailing-wage law does not attach to enterprise-zone agreements under R.C. 5709.631, or community-reinvestment-area agreements under R.C. 3735.671, because neither constitutes a public authority undertaking or contracting for a public improvement pursuant to R.C. 4115.03, et seq.
Requested by: Ottawa County Prosecuting Attorney
One who is not a candidate for office may serve simultaneously as village mayor and as deputy director of the board of elections within the same county, provided that he/she abstains from activities relating to ballot issues for the village in which the village mayor serves.
Requested by: Guernsey County Prosecuting Attorney
A county recorder and a county auditor must accept valid deeds for recording or transfer that are presented to their respective offices by shipment through the United States Postal Service.
Requested by: Delaware County Prosecuting Attorney
A county-run EMS organization can provide previously scheduled services that require ventilation, oxygenation, cardiac monitoring, and the administration of medications (or other services described in 4765.37, 4765.38, and 4765.39) so long as the service is performed by an EMT. A county-run EMS organization located in a county with a population greater than 40,000 may not provide patient transport services that do not require services described in R.C. 4765.35, 4765.37, 4765.38, and 4765.39.
Requested by: Licking County Prosecuting Attorney
Due to an impermissible conflict of interest, a person may not serve simultaneously as a county treasurer and as a member of a municipal civil service commission when the two positions are within the same county.
Requested by: Erie County Prosecuting Attorney
An examination of the responsibilities of a county auditor relative to a line item appropriation amount for county employee salaries, and particularly whether any potential liability may arise for issuing a warrant in violation of R.C. 5705.45 and R.C. 319.16.
Requested by: Monroe County Prosecuting Attorney
Under specific conditions, a board of county commissioners has authority to execute leases of county-owned property for the purpose of construction and use of a Class II saltwater injection well involving disposal.
Requested by: Ashtabula County Prosecuting Attorney
The opinion examines whether collections from tax foreclosures and forfeited land sales may be distributed to county land banks. The opinion contains three conclusions: 1) A board of county commissioners may authorize that up to 5% of delinquent taxes and assessments collected from a vacant land sale or tax foreclosures, conducted pursuant to R.C. 5721.18 and 5721.19, may be paid to county land banks, 2) delinquent taxes and assessments from forfeited lands sales cannot, pursuant to R.C. 5723.18, be paid to a county land bank, and 3) the phrase “collections of delinquent real property, personal property, and manufactured and mobile home taxes and assessments,” as used in R.C. 321.261(B) includes collections from forfeited land sales.
Requested by: Mahoning County Prosecuting Attorney
The proceeds from the sale of real property that is titled in the name of a board of county commissioners, and that was purchased, maintained, renovated, repaired and improved through the years by a county board of developmental disabilities' levy funds, may be placed by the board of county commissioners in a separate fund to be used only for construction, equipment, furnishing, maintenance, or repair of the county buildings and the acquisition of sites.