Ohio Revised Code|Section 307.10 | Procedure for sale, lease, transfer or granting of rights in real property.

                                                
(A) No sale of real property, or lease of real  property used or to be used for the purpose of airports, landing  fields, or air navigational facilities, or parts thereof, as  provided by section 307.09 of the Revised Code shall be made  unless it is authorized by a resolution adopted by a majority of  the board of county commissioners. When a sale of real property as  provided by section 307.09 of the Revised Code is authorized, the  board may either deed the property to the highest responsible  bidder, after advertisement once a week for four consecutive weeks  in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or as provided  in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, or offer the real property  for sale at a public auction, after giving at least thirty days'  notice of the auction by publication in a newspaper of general  circulation in the county. The board may reject any and all bids.  The board may, as it considers best, sell real property pursuant  to this section as an entire tract or in parcels. The board, by  resolution adopted by a majority of the board, may lease real  property, in accordance with division (A) of section 307.09 of the  Revised Code, without advertising for bids. 
(B) The board, by resolution, may transfer real property in  fee simple belonging to the county and not needed for public use  to the United States government, to the state or any department or  agency thereof, to municipal corporations or other political  subdivisions of the state, to the county board of developmental  disabilities, or to a county land reutilization corporation  organized under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code for public  purposes upon the terms and in the manner that it may determine to  be in the best interests of the county, without advertising for  bids. The board shall execute a deed or other proper instrument  when such a transfer is approved.
(C) The board, by resolution adopted by a majority of the  board, may grant leases, rights, or easements to the United States  government, to the state or any department or agency thereof, or  to municipal corporations and other political subdivisions of the  state, or to privately owned electric light and power companies,  natural gas companies, or telephone or telegraph companies for  purposes of rendering their several public utilities services, in  accordance with division (B) of section 307.09 of the Revised  Code, without advertising for bids. When such grant of lease,  right, or easement is authorized, a deed or other proper  instrument therefor shall be executed by the board.