Please supply information on residential rental property registration.

Ohio Revised Code Section 5323.02, recently enacted by the State Legislature, requires the owners of residential rental property to file with the county auditor of the county in which the property is located the residential property address, residential property permanent parcel number, and year the unit(s) were built (if dwelling units are leased or otherwise rented to tenants) together with the residential property owner name, address, and phone number.

Per county duty auditor, Mike Miller, this Ohio law went into effect September 28, 2006. There were notices in the newspapers advising that the subject properties need to be registered with the county Auditor's office. Non-compliance may result in a fine. It has not been determined what entity will enforce the law. Currently the auditor's office does not have this obligation.

Forms are available at the auditor's office or from their website or download it here. Stark County REIA has previously provided a copy of the form in the October 2006 issue of The Tenet. When filling out the form, please note the following:

1. If the property is owned by more than one person, all persons must be listed.
2. All owners' addresses must be included. Post Office boxes are acceptable.
3. All owners' are to supply at least one phone number for each owner.
4. Don't forget to include the parcle number.

As of this writing, if forms have not been submitted but are processed shortly, it is unlikely that fines will be imposed even though the ten (10) day grace period has passed since the effective date of September 28, 2006.