Ohio Code 5309.96 – Instruments shall not be taken from office – copies
No record, instrument, paper, or other document required by this chapter or Chapter 5310 of the Revised Code to be filed or kept in the office of the county recorder, including, but not limited to, any registered land record maintained by nonpaper means under division (A) of section 5309.031 of the Revised Code, shall be taken or otherwise caused to be removed from the recorder’s office except by a subpoena duces tecum issued for and served upon the recorder by a court of record. When any record, instrument, paper, or other document is registered, the recorder, on demand and the tendering of the proper fee for it, shall deliver to any person a copy of the record, instrument, paper, or other document with, when applicable, all memoranda, memorials, and notations on it, certified under the recorder’s hand and seal of office. The recorder shall endorse, in writing, across the face of all such copies, in red ink, “copy; no rights conveyed hereby.”
Terms Used In Ohio Code 5309.96
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures; this provision does not affect any law relating to signatures. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Registered land: means any land registered under this chapter and Chapter 5310 of the Revised Code. See Ohio Code 5309.01
- Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
Every copy of original records, instruments, papers, or other documents, certified as provided in this section, shall be received in all cases in place of the original record, instrument, paper, or other document and shall have the same effect in evidence as the original record, instrument, paper, or other document.