The issue of the Ohio Conveyance Fee has been a hot topic at OLTA. The consensus is that the 50 cents per parcel is a transfer fee payable by the seller. This is according to Ohio law O.R.C. § 319.54 (G) whcih states:

 

The county auditor shall charge
and receive fees as follows:

(2) For the transfer or entry of land, lot, or part of lot,
or the transfer or entry on or after January 1, 2000,
of a used manufactured home or mobile home as de-
fined in section 5739.0210 of the Revised Code, fifty
cents for each transfer or entry, to be paid by the per-
son requiring it;

(3) For receiving statements of value and administer-
ing section 319.202 of the Revised Code, one dollar,
or ten cents for each one hundred dollars or fraction
of one hundred dollars, whichever is greater, of the
value of the real property transferred or, for sales oc-
curring on or after January 1, 2000, the value of the
used manufactured home or used mobile home, as de-
fined in section 5739.0210 of the Revised Code, trans-
ferred, except no fee shall be charged when the trans-
fer is made.

 

Therefore it is to be rolled into line 1203. Scott Stevenson wrote an interesting article on this topic in Title Topic and can be read in full at OLTA.org.

 

Liz