To enforce section 5731.39 of the Revised Code, and to administer Chapters 5713. and 4503. of the Revised Code the tax commissioner may appoint agents in the unclassified civil service who shall perform such duties as are prescribed by the commissioner. Such agents shall, as compensation, receive annually eight cents per capita for each full one thousand of the first twenty thousand of the population of the county and two cents per capita for each full one thousand over twenty thousand of the population of the county, as shown by the 2010 federal census, which shall be paid in equal monthly installments from the undivided inheritance or estate tax fund in the county treasury on the warrant of the county auditor or, if the balance of that fund is not sufficient to make such payments, from the county real estate assessment fund pursuant to division (B)(6) of section 325.31 of the Revised Code, any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding. The amount paid to any agent in the unclassified service for all of the duties performed under this section, as directed by the commissioner, shall not exceed three thousand nor be less than twelve hundred dollars in any calendar year.

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Terms Used In Ohio Code 5731.41

  • county: means one of the following:

    (1) The county in which the decedent's estate is administered;

    (2) If no administration of the decedent's estate is being had, the county of residence of the decedent at the time of death;

    (3) If the decedent dies a resident of another state, any county in which any property subject to tax is located. See Ohio Code 5731.01

  • Population: means that shown by the most recent regular federal census. See Ohio Code 1.59

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