Ohio Code 5709.79 – Annual service payments in lieu of taxes
(A) A board of county commissioners that adopts a resolution under section 5709.78 of the Revised Code shall in the resolution require that the owner of the improvement make annual service payments in lieu of taxes to the county treasurer on or before the final dates for payment of real property taxes. Each such payment shall be charged and collected in the same manner and in the same amount as the real property taxes that would have been charged and payable against the improvement if its value were not exempt from taxation. If any reduction in the levies otherwise applicable to the improvement is made by the county budget commission under section 5705.31 of the Revised Code, the amount of the service payment in lieu of taxes shall be calculated as if the reduction in levies had not been made.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 5709.79
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
(B) The county shall not require the owner to make annual service payments in lieu of taxes pursuant to this section after the date on which one of the following occurs:
(1) If bonds or notes were not issued under section 307.082 or 5709.81 of the Revised Code for any public infrastructure improvements benefiting the parcel on which the improvement is located, or for any housing renovations within an incentive district, and if service payments were not pledged pursuant to division (B) of section 5709.81 of the Revised Code, the date the county has collected sufficient money in the applicable account of the redevelopment tax equivalent fund to pay the cost of constructing or repairing the public infrastructure improvements designated in, or the housing renovations authorized by, the resolution adopted under section 5709.78 of the Revised Code;
(2) If service payments were pledged under division (B) of section 5709.81 of the Revised Code to secure payment of any obligation issued to finance the public infrastructure improvement and housing renovations, the date the purposes for which the payments were pledged are paid in full;
(3) If bonds or notes were issued under section 307.082 or 5709.81 of the Revised Code, the date the interest on and principal of such bonds and notes have been paid in full.
(C) Money collected as service payments in lieu of taxes shall be distributed at the same time and in the same manner as real property tax payments. However, subject to division (D) of this section or section 5709.914 of the Revised Code, the entire amount so collected shall be distributed to the county in which the parcel is located. The county treasurer shall maintain a record of the service payments in lieu of taxes made for each parcel. If a parcel upon which moneys are collected as service payments in lieu of taxes is annexed to a municipal corporation, the service payments shall continue to be collected and distributed to the county until the date described in division (B)(1), (2), or (3) of this section.
(D) The county treasurer shall distribute to the appropriate taxing authorities the portion of the annual service payments in lieu of taxes that represents payments required under division (E) of section 5709.78 of the Revised Code.
(E) Nothing in this section or section 5709.78 of the Revised Code affects the taxes levied against that portion of the value of any parcel that is not exempt from taxation.