Elected Officials information.

Each Ohio county organized under the general statutory law has eleven elected officials consisting of three county commissioners and an auditor, treasurer, prosecuting attorney, clerk of courts of common pleas, engineer, coroner, recorder and sheriff. There is no chief executive officer; each elected official possesses some executive authority.

COUNTY ENGINEER

The county engineer is the county's surveyor and civil engineer. The primary duty of the county engineer is to plan, design, construct, and maintain the county road system, including county bridges, The engineer also has responsibility for township bridges and for bridges within municipalities on through routes. Unlike most other county elected
officials offices, the engineer is primarily funded with dedicated motor vehicle license and gasoline taxes.

The engineer is also responsible for maintaining the auditor's tax maps including reviewing deeds, land transfers, lot splits, and annexation petitions for proper boundary descriptions.

In addition, information from property surveys and surveying monumentation is also filed with the engineer. These functions are paid from the general fund.

The engineer also serves as the engineer for all townships, and in some counties provides assistance to the planning commission, building
regulation department, zoning commission, or may be appointed as the county sanitary engineer by the county commissioners. In many counties the engineer spends considerable time on drainage improvement projects under Ohio's petition ditch law.