Ohio § 5739.022

§ 5739.022.

(A) The question of repeal of either a county permissive tax or an increase in the rate

of a county permissive tax that was adopted as an emergency measure pursuant to section 5739.021 or 5739.026 of the Revised Code may be initiated by filing with the board of elections of the county not less than

ninety days before the general election in any year a petition requesting that an

election be held on the question.  The question of repealing an increase in the rate of the county permissive tax shall

be submitted to the electors as a separate question from the repeal of the tax in

effect prior to the increase in the rate.  Any petition filed under this section shall be signed by qualified electors residing

in the county equal in number to ten per cent of those voting for governor at the

most recent gubernatorial election. After determination by it that the petition is valid, the board of elections shall

submit the question to the electors of the county at the next general election.  The election shall be conducted, canvassed, and certified in the same manner as

regular elections for county offices in the county.  The board of elections shall notify the tax commissioner, in writing, of the election

upon determining that the petition is valid.  Notice of the election shall also be published in a newspaper of general circulation

in the district once a week for two consecutive weeks, or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code , prior to the election.  If the board of elections operates and maintains a web site, the board of elections

shall post notice of the election on its web site for thirty days prior to the election.  The notice shall state the purpose, time, and place of the election.  The form of the ballot cast at the election shall be prescribed by the secretary

of state;  however, the ballot question shall read, “shall the tax (or, increase in

the rate of the tax) be retained? Yes No ” The question covered by the petition shall be submitted as a separate proposition,

but it may be printed on the same ballot with any other proposition submitted at the

same election other than the election of officers. (B) If a majority of the qualified electors voting on the question of repeal of either

a county permissive tax or an increase in the rate of a county permissive tax approve

the repeal, the board of elections shall notify the board of county commissioners

and the tax commissioner of the result of the election immediately after the result

has been declared.  The board of county commissioners shall, on the first day of the calendar quarter

following the expiration of sixty-five days after the date the board and the tax commissioner

receive the notice, in the case of a repeal of a county permissive tax, cease to levy

the tax, or, in the case of a repeal of an increase in the rate of a county permissive

tax, levy the tax at the rate at which it was imposed immediately prior to the increase

in rate and cease to levy the increased rate. (C) Upon receipt from a board of elections of a notice of the results of an election

required by division (B) of this section, the tax commissioner shall provide notice

of a tax repeal or rate change in a manner that is reasonably accessible to all affected

vendors.  The commissioner shall provide this notice at least sixty days prior to the effective

date of the rate change.  The commissioner, by rule, may establish the method by which notice will be provided. (D) If a vendor that is registered with the central electronic registration system provided

for in section 5740.05 of the Revised Code makes a sale in this state by printed catalog and the consumer computed the tax on

the sale based on local rates published in the catalog, any tax repealed or rate changed

under this section shall not apply to such a sale until the first day of a calendar

quarter following the expiration of one hundred twenty days from the date of notice

by the tax commissioner pursuant to division (C) of this section.