Ohio Code 140.08 – Exemption from taxes
(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section, all hospital facilities purchased, acquired, constructed, or owned by a public hospital agency, or financed in whole or in part by obligations issued by a public hospital agency, and used, or to be used when completed, as hospital facilities, and the income therefrom, are exempt from all taxation within this state, including ad valorem and excise taxes, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, and hospital agencies are exempt from taxes levied under Chapters 5739. and 5741. of the Revised Code. The obligations issued hereafter under section 133.08, 140.06, or 339.15 of the Revised Code or Section 3 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution, to pay costs of hospital facilities or to refund such obligations, and the transfer thereof, and the interest and other income from such obligations, including any profit made on the sale thereof, is free from taxation within the state.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 140.08
- Hospital agency: means any public hospital agency or any nonprofit hospital agency. See Ohio Code 140.01
- Hospital facilities: means buildings, structures and other improvements, additions thereto and extensions thereof, furnishings, equipment, and real estate and interests in real estate, used or to be used for or in connection with one or more hospitals, emergency, intensive, intermediate, extended, long-term, or self-care facilities, diagnostic and treatment and out-patient facilities, facilities related to programs for home health services, clinics, laboratories, public health centers, research facilities, and rehabilitation facilities, for or pertaining to diagnosis, treatment, care, or rehabilitation of persons who are sick, ill, injured, infirm, or impairedor who have disabilities, or the prevention, detection, and control of disease, and also includes education, training, and food service facilities for health professions personnel, housing facilities for such personnel and their families, and parking and service facilities in connection with any of the foregoing; and includes any one, part of, or any combination of the foregoing; and further includes site improvements, utilities, machinery, facilities, furnishings, and any separate or connected buildings, structures, improvements, sites, utilities, facilities, or equipment to be used in, or in connection with the operation or maintenance of, or supplementing or otherwise related to the services or facilities to be provided by, any one or more of such hospital facilities. See Ohio Code 140.01
- Independent living facility: means any self-care facility or other housing facility designed or used as a residence for elderly persons. See Ohio Code 140.01
- Obligations: means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness or obligation, including interest coupons pertaining thereto, issued or issuable by a public hospital agency to pay costs of hospital facilities. See Ohio Code 140.01
- Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
(B)(1) Division (A) of this section does not exempt independent living facilities from taxes levied on property or taxes levied under Chapters 5739. and 5741. of the Revised Code. If an independent living facility or part of such facility becomes on or after January 10, 1991, a nursing home, residential care facility, or residential facility described in division (M)(4) of section 140.01 of the Revised Code, that part of the independent living facility that is a nursing home, residential care facility, or residential facility described in division (M)(4) of section 140.01 of the Revised Code is exempt from taxation subject to division (B)(2) of this section on and after the date it becomes a nursing home, residential care facility, or residential facility described in division (M)(4) of section 140.01 of the Revised Code.
(2) Division (A) of this section exempts nursing homes, residential care facilities, and residential facilities described in division (M)(4) of section 140.01 of the Revised Code from taxes levied on property and taxes levied under Chapters 5739. and 5741. of the Revised Code only until all obligations issued to finance such homes or facilities, or all refunding or series of refundings of those obligations, are redeemed or otherwise retired.