Ohio Revised Code
Chapter 5309 | Registration of Land Titles
Section 5309.09 | Contents of Application.

Effective: March 30, 1999
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 83 - 122nd General Assembly
The application to register the title to land or to any interest in land shall be signed and sworn to by each applicant or by an authorized person for each applicant. In addition to any other appropriate, relevant, and material matter, the application shall set forth substantially all of the following:
(A) The full name, age, place of residence, and post-office address of the applicant or owner, the full name, place of residence, and post-office address of any person acting on behalf of the applicant or owner, the name of the applicant or owner as it appears in the muniments of title, whether the applicant or owner is now married or single and, if married, the full name of the applicant's or owner's spouse, whether the applicant or owner has been previously married and, if so, when and by what means the marriage relation was terminated and, if by divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment, when, where, and by what court the divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment was granted, and what interest in or lien upon the land described in the application a former spouse has; if the application is by a guardian or trustee, the name of the guardian or trustee, how, when, where, and by what court the guardian or trustee was appointed, the full name, nature of disability, and post-office address of the ward, and with whom the ward resides; or if made by a corporation, the names and addresses of its president, secretary, and managing officers, when and where it was incorporated, and its principal place of doing business;
(B) An accurate and full description of the land as it appears in the muniments of title of the applicant or owner, if it is there so described, or otherwise a pertinent description from which the land can be definitely and accurately located; and, in all cases, an accurate plat of the land that is drawn to a scale and shows the lines, corners, monuments, courses and distances, streets, public ways or places, highways, private ways, and adjoining lands with names of owners, streams, and other important objects connected with those lands;
(C) A description of the buildings and improvements on the land;
(D) The applicant's or owner's interest in the land, buildings, and improvements and the source of the applicant's or owner's title;
(E) For what purpose the land, buildings, or improvements are occupied or used and, if occupied or used by any person other than the applicant or owner, the name, place of residence, and post-office address of each occupant or user and what interest each occupant or user has or claims in the land, buildings, or improvements;
(F) The nature, amount, date, maturity, and volume and page of record of all apparent or real liens, charges, and encumbrances of any kind on the land, buildings, or improvements or any part of the land, buildings, or improvements, including, but not limited to, mortgages, deeds of trust as security, mechanics' liens, judgments, decrees, and executions, home and foreign, the name, place of residence, and post-office address of each holder of the liens, charges, and encumbrances and of each person shown by the records or known to at any time have had an interest in any of the liens, charges, or encumbrances, and which of the apparent liens, charges, and encumbrances are clouds upon the applicant's or owner's title; and the style, docket number, and character of all suits pending by or against the applicant or owner or any of the applicant's or owner's predecessors in title in any court of record, the judgments in which might affect in any way the title of the applicant or owner to, or might become liens upon, the lands described in the application. On and after the effective date of this amendment, an application shall not set forth pursuant to this division any restrictive covenant that appears to apply to the land, buildings, or improvements or any part of the land, buildings, or improvements, if any inclusion of the restrictive covenant in a transfer, rental, or lease of housing accommodations, any honoring or exercising of the restrictive covenant, or any attempt to honor or exercise the restrictive covenant constitutes an unlawful discriminatory practice under division (H)(9) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code.
(G) Whether any other person to the knowledge or information of the applicant or owner or as shown by the records has or claims any interest in the lands, buildings, or improvements, either in law or equity, apparent or real, or in possession, remainder, reversion, expectancy, or otherwise; the name, place of residence, and post-office address of each person of that nature and the nature of the apparent or real interest so held or claimed; and which of those apparent interests are clouds upon the applicant's or owner's title. On and after the effective date of this amendment, an application shall not set forth pursuant to this division any restrictive covenant that appears to apply to the land, buildings, or improvements or any part of the land, buildings, or improvements, if any inclusion of the restrictive covenant in a transfer, rental, or lease of housing accommodations, any honoring or exercising of the restrictive covenant, or any attempt to honor or exercise the restrictive covenant constitutes an unlawful discriminatory practice under division (H)(9) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code.
(H) The name, place of residence, and post-office address of each owner and of each occupant of the adjoining lands so far as shown by the records and so far as the applicant or owner, upon diligent inquiry and research, is able to ascertain, and the extent and character of those adjoining lands;
(I) If this state, any political subdivision of the state, any public authority, or any public body corporate will in any way be affected by a decree of the probate court determining or ordering the title of the applicant or owner to be registered, the state, political subdivision, public authority, or public body corporate shall be made a defendant to the application, and proper allegations shall be made as to its interest in the case.
(J) If the applicant or owner desires to have the boundaries of any street, public way, private way, or highway adjacent to or located within the land determined, a statement to that effect, describing the street, public way, private way, or highway, the proper public authority having charge and control of that street, public way, or highway, and the persons interested in that private way. The proper public authorities and interested persons shall be made defendants to the application and, as applicable, their places of residence and post-office addresses shall be given.
(K) Any further statements and allegations that are required by this chapter or Chapter 5310. of the Revised Code or that may be required by general or special rule or order of the court in which the application is filed;
(L) Any other material facts within the knowledge or information of the applicant or owner relating to the title or possession of the lands, buildings, or improvements, to any estate in the lands, buildings, or improvements, or to any lien, charge, or encumbrance on the land, buildings, or improvements. On and after the effective date of this amendment, an application shall not set forth pursuant to this division any restrictive covenant that appears to apply to the land, buildings, or improvements, if any inclusion of the restrictive covenant in a transfer, rental, or lease of housing accommodations, any honoring or exercising of the restrictive covenant, or any attempt to honor or exercise the restrictive covenant constitutes an unlawful discriminatory practice under division (H)(9) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code.
(M) A prayer that all persons mentioned in the application, whether by name or other designation, and all other persons may be made and treated as defendants to the application and properly brought before the court, that the title of the applicant or owner may be settled and determined, that all clouds may be removed from the title, that the title may be ordered to be registered as set out in the application, and that all lesser or other estates and interests in and all liens, charges, and encumbrances upon the land or any part of the land may be settled and determined by the court and, subject to division (B) of section 5309.24 of the Revised Code, may be ordered to be registered.

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