Section 5310.34. Relevant evidence of costs and benefits of maintaining land registration system

Evidence relevant to the costs and benefits of maintaining a land registration system in a county includes, but is not limited to, evidence with regard to the following:

(A) The monetary cost to a landowner of initially registering land in the county;

(B) The monetary cost to a landowner or other person of registering subsequent conveyances and encumbrances in the county, as compared to the monetary cost to a landowner or other person of traditionally recording a conveyance or encumbrance in the county;

(C) The monetary cost to the county of maintaining separate sets of records, one for land registration and one for traditional recordation;

(D) The monetary cost to the county of winding up land registration if a resolution of abolition were implemented;

(E) The frequency with which land registration is used in the county, as compared to the frequency with which traditional recordation is used in the county;

(F) The time and steps required to initially register land in the county;

(G) The time and steps required to register a subsequent conveyance or encumbrance under the land registration system, as compared to the time and steps required to record a conveyance or encumbrance under the traditional recordation system;

(H) The number of officers and employees required to administer both the land registration system and the traditional recordation system in the county, and the number of officers and employees that would be needed if the land registration system were abolished in the county;

(I) The degree to which the county's officers and employees who process land conveyances are familiar with, and knowledgeable about, the land registration system, and the degree to which the county's officers and employees who process land conveyances are familiar with, and knowledgeable about, the traditional recordation system;

(J) The county recorder's ability, as an officer having duties that are principally ministerial in nature, to properly carry out his duties under Chapter 5309. and sections 5310.01 to 5310.21 of the Revised Code;

(K) Instances of misfilings as between the land registration and traditional recordation systems;

(L) Liabilities for fraud, negligence, omission, mistake, or misfeasance that have been incurred by the county recorder or his deputies, any examiner of titles, or any of the recorder's assistants or clerks in connection with the land registration and traditional recordation systems;

(M) The advantages commonly cited by proponents of land registration, and the degree to which operation of the county's land registration system has achieved those advantages;

(N) The disadvantages commonly cited by opponents of land registration, and the degree to which operation of the county's land registration system has borne out those disadvantages;

(O) The degree to which other devices, such as quiet title actions, marketable title statutes, and title insurance, have tended to make the claimed advantages of land registration superfluous in the county;

(P) The level of popular support among the county's landowners for the county's land registration system, and reasons such landowners state for supporting or opposing the county's land registration system;

(Q) The importance to the county's landowners of the conclusive effect of a certificate of title, and of the conclusive right to possession afforded by land registration, as opposed to risk of ouster and risk of acquisition of rights by prescription or adverse possession under the traditional recordation system;

(R) The degree to which the land registration and traditional recordation systems respectively lend themselves to microfilming and data processing.

Effective Date: 02-28-1991