Ohio Code § 2305.05
Ohio Code § 2305.05. Reproduced from the official Ohio Revised Code, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 2305.05.
If a street or alley, or any part thereof, laid out and shown on the recorded plat
of a municipal corporation, has not been opened to the public use and occupancy of
the citizens thereof, or other persons, and has been enclosed with a fence by the
owners of the inlots, lots, or outlots lying on, adjacent to, or along such street
or alley, or part thereof, and has remained in the open, uninterrupted use, adverse
possession, and occupancy of such owners for the period of twenty-one years, and if
such street, alley, inlot, or outlot is a part of the tract of land so laid out by
the original proprietors, the public easement therein shall be extinguished and the
right of such municipal corporation, the citizens thereof, or other persons, and the
legislative authority of such municipal corporation and the legal authorities thereof,
to use, control, or occupy so much of such street or alley as has been fenced, used,
possessed, and occupied, shall be barred, except to the owners of such inlots or outlots
lying on, adjacent to, or along such streets or alleys who have occupied them in the
manner mentioned in this section.
Source: official Ohio text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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- Citation: Ohio Revised Code § 2305.05
- Jurisdiction: Ohio
- Code: Ohio Revised Code
- Text: transcribed from the official source (verify below)
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