Ohio Code 6115.03 – Jurisdiction, evidence, forms establishing sanitary district
(A) In any orders of court the words “The court now here finds that it hath jurisdiction of the parties to and of the subject matter of this proceeding” are equivalent to a finding that each jurisdictional fact necessary to confer plenary jurisdiction upon the court, beginning with the proper signing and filing of the initial petition to the date of the order, meets every legal requirement imposed by sections 6115.01 to 6115.79, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 6115.03
- Appraisal: A determination of property value.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
(B) No other evidence of the legal hypothecation of the special tax to the payment of the bonds is required than the passage of a bonding resolution by the board of directors of a sanitary district and the issuance of bonds in accordance therewith.
(C) In the preparation of any assessment or appraisal roll the usual abbreviations employed by engineers, surveyors, and abstractors may be used.
(D) Where properly to describe any parcel of land, it would be necessary to use a long description, the board of appraisers of a sanitary district, after locating the land generally, may refer to the book and page of the public record of any instrument in which the land is described, which reference shall suffice to identify for all the purposes of such sections the land described in the public record so referred to.
(E) It is not necessary in any notice required by such sections to be published to specify the names of the owners of the lands or of the persons interested therein; but any such notice may be addressed “To All Persons Interested” with like effect as though such notice named by name every owner of any lands within the territory specified in the notice and every person interested therein, and every lienor, actual or inchoate.
(F) Every district declared upon hearing to be a sanitary district shall thereupon become a political subdivision and a public corporation of the state, invested with all the powers and privileges conferred upon such districts by such sections.