Township zoning and the county building code in Central Ohio

Outside Ohio's cities and villages a house meets two sets of rules: zoning, adopted by a township or a county under the Ohio Revised Code, and a building code, enforced by a building department the state certifies. This page reads what Ohio's township zoning chapter, 519, and its county rural zoning chapter, 303, grant and withhold in the statutes' own words, dates each Central Ohio township's zoning by its own record, and sets out what each county's building department says it enforces, with Franklin County's bound code read in its own text. It never says which office or rule any one house answers to.

Last updated September 2026 · The Ohio Revised Code's chapters 303, 307 and 519 at codes.ohio.gov, two Ohio Attorney General opinions, the County Commissioners Association of Ohio's handbook, the Ohio Board of Building Standards' 2023 certification list and its map, seven counties' own pages and lists, the townships' own zoning resolutions and Franklin County's bound building code were read September 2026 · No prices on this page; the Estimate Builder carries those · Part of the knowledge base

Two sets of rules, and what an address does not settle

Outside Ohio's cities and villages, zoning and the building code come from separate grants of power in the Ohio Revised Code. Chapter 519 lets a township's trustees zone its unincorporated territory, chapter 303 lets county commissioners zone the same ground, and sections 307.37 and 307.38 let a county adopt building regulations and put an inspector over them. Every statement below names its record.

A mailing address does not name the jurisdiction. A house whose address carries a city's name may stand in a township, and that township may zone for itself, be zoned by its county, or appear on its county's list with no zoning. This page never says which office or rule any one house answers to. The permit offices are named place by place on the permit offices page, the codes and certified departments are dated on the which-code page, and what a bathroom project asks in the way of a permit is on the permit page.

What Ohio lets a township zone, in the statute's words

Section 519.02 of the Ohio Revised Code, in the version in force since June 30, 2023, lets a board of township trustees regulate by resolution, in accordance with a comprehensive plan, the location, height, bulk, number of stories and size of buildings in the township's unincorporated territory. It reaches the share of a lot a building may cover, setback building lines, the sizes of yards, courts and other open spaces, the density of population, and the uses of buildings and land for trade, industry, residence and recreation.

The section lets the trustees divide that territory into districts or zones, and requires the rules to be uniform for each class or kind of building or use throughout a district. It grants control of the height, bulk, number of stories and size of buildings twice: in the interest of the public health and safety for all property, and in the interest of the general welfare for nonresidential property only. It lets a township set reasonable landscaping standards and architectural standards, and excludes exterior building materials from those architectural standards; the County Commissioners Association of Ohio's comparison notes list the same exception.

The purposes have changed. A 1985 Ohio Attorney General opinion, No. 85-053, quoted township zoning's purpose as "promoting the public health, safety, and morals". The County Commissioners Association of Ohio records that House Bill 148 later removed the morals purpose and added convenience, comfort, prosperity and general welfare. The association's handbook gives that act two effective dates, November 5, 2004 in its chapter text and November 5, 2005 in its comparison notes; the version list for section 519.02 at codes.ohio.gov begins at August 17, 2006 and settles neither.

Chapter 303 is the county parallel. Section 303.02 lets a board of county commissioners regulate the same matters, in the same words, in the county's unincorporated territory. Section 303.11 puts no county zoning into effect in any township unless a majority of that township's vote favors it, so a county plan takes effect only in the townships that approved it, a vote the association's handbook calls township by township.

What the two chapters leave outside zoning

Section 519.21, in force since March 20, 2026, says the township chapter confers no power to prohibit the use of land for agricultural purposes or farm buildings on that land, and that no zoning certificate is required for such a building. It carries exceptions for lots of one acre or less, and for lots greater than one acre but not greater than five acres, in platted subdivisions and in areas of fifteen or more lots approved under section 711.131. Section 519.01 defines agriculture in a list that includes farming, ranching, aquaculture, apiculture, horticulture, viticulture, animal and poultry husbandry, dairy production, field crops, nursery stock, timber and pasturage.

Section 303.21 gives the county chapter the same exemption, conferring no power on a county rural zoning commission, the county commissioners or a board of zoning appeals to prohibit the agricultural use of land or farm buildings on it. Section 519.211 gives township trustees and boards of zoning appeals no power over the buildings, structures or land of any public utility or railroad used for its business, with separate rules for telecommunications towers in residential districts. Section 519.212 likewise withholds from a township the power to prohibit a permanently sited manufactured home in any district where a single-family home is permitted; what it leaves the township is on the page on manufactured homes and trailer parks. Where county zoning reached a township first, section 519.22, carried at codes.ohio.gov in a single version effective October 1, 1953, gives the county's resolution precedence unless the township's voters choose to replace it with a township plan.

How a township comes to zone

Section 519.03 requires the trustees first to pass a resolution declaring their intention to proceed, which they may do on their own initiative and must do when petitioned by voters equal to at least eight percent of the vote for governor in the area. Section 519.11 then sends the plan to the electors of the unincorporated area and puts no zoning regulations into effect unless a majority of the vote cast favors it. An approved resolution takes immediate effect when the board of elections certifies the vote, and the trustees must file its text and maps with the county recorder within five working days.

Later amendments need no township-wide vote to begin. Section 519.12, as amended effective September 23, 2026 by House Bill 479, lets them be started by the township zoning commission, by the trustees, or by an application from owners or lessees of property in the affected area, followed by a public hearing. The County Commissioners Association of Ohio says amendments are still subject to submission to the electors through a referendum procedure the statute sets out, and since September 30, 2025 the statute has carried an exception: an amendment for property involved in a megaproject, as the Revised Code defines one, takes effect immediately on adoption and is exempt from that referendum.

Section 519.16 lets the trustees set up a system of zoning certificates and a township zoning inspector, and allows the township fiscal officer to serve as zoning inspector. Section 519.17, carried at codes.ohio.gov in a single version effective October 1, 1953, bars anyone from building, enlarging or structurally altering a building in a zoned township without a zoning certificate where the resolution requires one, and bars issuing a certificate unless the plans comply with the zoning regulations.

What the record dates: 1947, 1953 and 1957

The year 1947 rests here on one publisher. The County Commissioners Association of Ohio's County Commissioners Handbook, in its chapter 86 on county zoning, says the General Assembly authorized counties to zone in 1947 and that the authority of townships to zone also dates from 1947. The 1947 act itself was not read for this page.

The Revised Code's own record at codes.ohio.gov reaches back only to October 1, 1953, the effective date of House Bill 1 of the 100th General Assembly, the earliest version it lists for township zoning sections 519.16, 519.17 and 519.22.

The earliest change to the township zoning law that a government record dates came four years later. An Ohio Attorney General opinion of April 20, 1960, No. 1279, written for Delaware County's prosecuting attorney, says the amendment to chapter 519 that took effect September 17, 1957, Amended Senate Bill 403 of the 102nd General Assembly, "had the effect of abolishing all existing township zoning commissions". From that date, the opinion says, a township could have only one zoning commission, made up of five residents of its unincorporated territory. Some townships' own records carry older dates, set out below.

Who zones the townships, county by county

Each county's own page or list says which townships the county zones, which zone themselves, and which it lists without zoning. The houses themselves are counted on the Delaware, Licking and Fairfield counties page and the Union, Madison and Pickaway counties page.

Franklin County. The county's Zoning Division enforces the Franklin County Zoning Resolution, whose current effective date its zoning page gives as February 20, 2026, while seven townships, Blendon, Jackson, Jefferson, Perry, Plain, Prairie and Washington, administer their own zoning. The county's building permit page sends applicants in Brown, Clinton, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Mifflin, Norwich, Pleasant, Sharon and Truro townships to its Economic Development and Planning Department for zoning compliance, and Norwich Township's own page says all zoning issues in its unincorporated area fall under the county's zoning department. The county says a certificate of zoning compliance is required before changing the use of buildings or land, before extending, erecting or altering a structure, and before disturbing an acre or more of land.

Delaware County. The county runs county zoning in Marlboro, Radnor and Thompson townships under a resolution that took effect October 11, 2000 and was amended in 2023. The Delaware County Regional Planning Commission lists a zoning officer for each of the other zoned townships and one county zoning officer, working from the Building Safety office, for those three, and Delaware County Building Safety publishes their zoning forms, among them a zoning permit application and a claim of agricultural exemption. Washington Township appears in neither the planning commission's zoning table nor its officers list, and the record read does not show its status.

Fairfield County. There is no countywide zoning. The county's regional planning commission says eleven of its thirteen unincorporated townships have adopted zoning, and that Clear Creek and Madison townships do not have zoning in effect at this time.

Licking County. The county planning department's undated page says the county has 25 townships, of which 19 are zoned and 6 are not. The map that sentence describes is served as an image whose file name carries 1999, and it colors Eden, Fallsbury, Hanover, Hopewell, Mary Ann and Perry townships as unzoned; the county's own page for each of those six links no zoning resolution, while the page for each of the other nineteen links one. That is what the county's 1999-named map and its township pages show, not a record that those six have no zoning today.

Union County. The county's zoning officials list, last revised July 21, 2026, names a zoning official for thirteen townships, Allen, Claibourne, Darby, Dover, Jerome, Leesburg, Liberty, Millcreek, Paris, Taylor, Union, Washington and York. It does not list Jackson Township, and does not say whether Jackson Township has zoning.

Pickaway County. The building department's undated list and the Development and Planning office's list revised April 5, 2024 name a township zoning inspector for fourteen of the county's fifteen townships and say Saltcreek Township has no zoning. The county's planning commission says it provides recommendations to rural township zoning commissions on amendments to their zoning resolutions, the advisory role chapter 519 gives a county planning commission.

Madison County. The county's planning and zoning page says its zoning resolution is enacted as permitted by chapter 303, and lists a new resolution effective August 26, 2026, whose cover reads As Adopted July 28, 2026. Its section 1.03(d) says it does not apply to townships that have approved their own zoning under sections 519.02 to 519.25. When the county first zoned, and in which townships, was not found in the record read.

Each township's zoning date, by its own record

Each date below comes from the township's own record, or from the Delaware County Regional Planning Commission's table where that is the only one. A current resolution's date is not a first-zoning date, so one column gives the record's own words for what the date marks, and the last says whose record it is. Townships with no date in a record read are left out rather than guessed, and so are Union, Pickaway and Madison counties' townships, for which no township zoning date was established.

In Delaware County the planning commission's table agrees with the township's own resolution for Porter, Harlem, Berlin, Kingston and Orange townships, though the commission formats and hosts those documents, so the two records are not wholly independent. Genoa Township's own zoning history carries the oldest township date read for this page: its initial resolution, adopted by the trustees on October 22, 1951 for the land east of Tussic Street Road, was upheld by the voters at the general election of November 6, 1951; a resolution for the west followed in 1956, and a combined resolution was adopted October 20, 1987, effective November 19, 1987. The table gives October 22, 1951; the 1956 and 1987 dates rest on the township alone.

Two townships' own records disagree with the table, and this page chooses neither. Concord Township's resolution carries two 1955 dates of its own, Adopted January, 1955 on its cover and a prior resolution adopted on November 8, 1955 in its section 30.03, where the table gives January 25, 2016 and no Concord document read records any action in 2016. Liberty Township's cover reads adopted by the trustees November 8, 1955, where the table gives November 1995, and the cover's list of amendments shows no action in 1995. The seven table-only townships' current resolutions print only their current effective dates, so those dates rest on the planning commission alone.

In Franklin County, the record read does not say whether Jackson Township's 1983 resolution replaced an earlier one. Blendon Township's site refused the request, and Prairie Township's and Washington Township's pages give no adoption date. Berne Township's current text in Fairfield County calls itself a comprehensive amendment to the 1971 resolution. Three Fairfield County resolutions give only the date of the current text, which is not a first-zoning date: Hocking Township's adopted August 27, 2001, Rushcreek Township's adopted April 2, 2007, and Richland Township's effective February 2008. So do three in Licking County: St. Albans Township's adopted October 2, 1996, Harrison Township's June 1, 1998, and Granville Township's April 24, 2024, whose zoning map dates from June 2, 1987.

The county building departments, by sections 307.37 and 307.38

Section 307.37, in force since April 9, 2025, lets a county regulation, code or amendment be adopted only after a public hearing at not fewer than two regular or special sessions of the board of county commissioners. It also lets the commissioners adopt, by resolution, an existing structures code for the repair and continued maintenance of structures in the unincorporated area, so long as it does not conflict with the state residential code. It lets a county review a proposed house's effects on surface and subsurface drainage before a building permit is issued, and says subsurface drainage in that review does not include a household sewage treatment system.

Section 307.38, carried at codes.ohio.gov in a single version effective May 27, 2005, under House Bill 175 of the 125th General Assembly, lets the commissioners create the position of county building inspector to enforce county regulations and the state codes, or give those duties to an existing county officer certified under section 3781.10. It lets a county and a city or village contract so that one enforces the other's building regulations, and for the state codes only where the enforcing body is certified. What each county's own page says its department does follows; the same offices, place by place, are named on the permit offices page.

Delaware County Building Safety's permitting chart, dated June 5, 2025, names Delaware County Building Safety for residential and commercial permitting in all townships, and the Delaware General Health Department as responsible for plumbing permits and inspections for Delaware County, including Ashley, Galena, Ostrander, Powell and Shawnee Hills. The Licking County Building Code Department says it enforces building codes for all residential and commercial projects throughout the majority of Licking County, and its page, last updated January 29, 2026, says an applicant must first obtain a zoning certificate from the local zoning inspector or, in a township without zoning enforcement, approval from the Licking County Health Department.

The Fairfield County Building Department says it issues permits for commercial buildings in the unincorporated areas of the county with the exception of Violet Township, and regulates buildings except residential one-, two- and three-family structures. Its page names township zoning among the other jurisdictions a project may face.

Violet Township in Fairfield County is its own certified building department, on four records. The Ohio Board of Building Standards' residential certification list, its pages stamped August 16, 2023, carries Violet Township (#505) at Pickerington; the Board's jurisdiction map records it as residential and commercial certified; the township says its building department is a "State Certified Department in Residential and Commercial Classification"; and the Fairfield County Building Department names Violet Township as its exception.

Union County's building department lists the steps to a building permit as plan approval from the county, zoning approval from the applicable township or municipality as required, and approval from the Union County Health Department as required. Pickaway County's residential building plan application says other permits may be required, including zoning, and the county building department publishes its list of township zoning inspectors among its forms.

Two records describe Madison County's building department differently, and this page does not join them. Madison County's building page says Madison County contracts with the Village of West Jefferson for the building permit process. The Board of Building Standards' residential certification list, stamped August 16, 2023, carries Madison County (#399) as its own certified department at London, with no sub-departments, and the Board's 2025 map records Madison County as residential and commercial certified.

Franklin County's building code, read in its own text

The Columbus Metropolitan Library's digital collection holds a bound Franklin County Building Code, issued by the Franklin County Board of County Commissioners, whose cover reads Adopted 1988 and Amended 1996. It is not the 1988 text. It holds the Franklin County Administrative Building Code, 1994 Edition, adopted by the commissioners' Resolution 848-94 of August 30, 1994 after public hearings on August 16 and 30, 1994, and a section 101.3 incorporating the 1995 CABO One and Two Family Dwelling Code. The 1988 text, its resolution and the 1996 amending resolution are not in the item.

In that resolution the commissioners wrote that they regulated residential one- and two-family construction in 17 townships in unincorporated Franklin County under the authority of section 307.37. It records that the administrative section of the Franklin County Building Code, adopted 1988, was then 116 pages long, and that the county building department had revised the administrative code, reducing it to 16 pages to conform to the 1992 CABO One and Two Family Code, which the commissioners had adopted on September 7, 1993, by Resolution 871-93, as the Council of American Building Officials One and Two Family Dwelling Code.

Section 101.2 controls the construction, alteration, addition, repair, removal, demolition, location and occupancy of all one- and two-family dwellings and their accessory structures. Section 101.3 incorporated the 1995 CABO code's chapters 2 to 25, leaving out the radon-resistant construction footnote and keeping the stairway section of the 1992 edition, and the 1996 National Electric Code, as the county's text calls it; its publisher, the National Fire Protection Association, titles it the National Electrical Code. Section 101.2.1 made the Franklin County District Board of Health responsible for the Ohio Plumbing Code, the board's own plumbing regulation 703.0, and its 1989 housing maintenance and occupancy regulation. Section 104.1 created a department of building inspection headed by a code official appointed by the Franklin County Commissioners.

Section 106.1 required a permit to build a structure or an addition, to alter a structure beyond normal repairs, to install or alter electrical systems or furnaces, air conditioners and heat pumps, to install an in-ground swimming pool, and to demolish or move a building. Ordinary repairs needed no application under section 106.1.1, but did not include adding, altering, replacing or relocating piping, drainage, sewer lines, vents or electric wiring, the kind of work a bathroom involves. Under section 106.3.1 a homeowner could apply for a mechanical or electrical permit only when the homeowner performed all of the work and signed an affidavit saying so.

Where no public sewer or public water was available, sections 106.6.1 and 106.6.2 required the site plan to show the private sewage disposal system, with the soil data the sewage code required, and the private well with its 50-foot sanitary radius. Section 112.2 required the certificate of occupancy to name the edition of the code under which the permit was issued. That record, not the year a house was built, ties a house to a code; the which-code page dates the codes that came after.

What a township zoning certificate is not

A township's zoning certificate is not the building permit. Washington Township in Franklin County says a zoning certificate is required for a shed or other accessory structure, that a building permit may also be required depending on its size, and that building permits and inspections are handled by the Franklin County Building Department. The county's building permit page lists Washington among the townships where an applicant obtains a letter of zoning compliance from its own zoning authority, and lists that letter among what is submitted for a building permit.

A zoning inspector's finding can reach the building code on a farm. Union County's building department says that if the township zoning inspector determines a building's use is agricultural, it is exempt from building code regulations under Revised Code section 3781.061.

The sewage rules are another office's. Section 307.37's drainage review excludes a household sewage treatment system, Franklin County's 1994 code left plumbing to the district board of health, and the Licking, Union and Delaware county records above name a health department for their part. The health districts' rules for septic systems and private wells are on the wells and septic page and are not repeated here.

What the record does not show

No county building department's creation date was found in its own record for Delaware, Licking, Fairfield, Union, Madison or Pickaway County. No township zoning date was established in Union or Pickaway County, and which of Madison County's townships county zoning covers was not established. This page holds no zoning certificate, permit or certificate of occupancy for any house.

Sources

Every figure, date and quotation on this page comes from one of these documents, read on the date given. Where two of them disagree, the page says so.

• Ohio Legislative Service Commission (codes.ohio.gov), Ohio Revised Code section 519.02, Board of township trustees may regulate location, size and use of buildings and lands in unincorporated territory, effective June 30, 2023; read September 2026.
• County Commissioners Association of Ohio, County Commissioners Handbook, Chapter 86, County Zoning (latest revision November 2006), November 2006; read September 2026.
• Ohio Attorney General, Opinion No. 85-053 (September 17, 1985): township zoning and sediment and stormwater runoff, September 17, 1985; read September 2026.
• Ohio Legislative Service Commission (codes.ohio.gov), Ohio Revised Code section 303.02, effective June 30, 2023; read September 2026.
• Ohio Legislative Service Commission (codes.ohio.gov), Ohio Revised Code section 303.11, effective July 2, 2010; read September 2026.
• Ohio Legislative Service Commission (codes.ohio.gov), Ohio Revised Code section 519.21, effective March 20, 2026; read September 2026.
• Ohio Legislative Service Commission (codes.ohio.gov), Ohio Revised Code section 519.01, Township zoning - agriculture defined, effective June 4, 2012; read September 2026.
• Ohio Legislative Service Commission (codes.ohio.gov), Ohio Revised Code section 303.21, effective August 16, 2016; read September 2026.
• Ohio Legislative Service Commission (codes.ohio.gov), Ohio Revised Code section 519.211, effective September 23, 2008; read September 2026.
• Ohio Legislative Service Commission (codes.ohio.gov), Ohio Revised Code section 519.22, effective October 1, 1953; read September 2026.
• Ohio Legislative Service Commission (codes.ohio.gov), Ohio Revised Code section 519.03, effective August 22, 1995; read September 2026.
• Ohio Legislative Service Commission (codes.ohio.gov), Ohio Revised Code section 519.11, effective July 2, 2010; read September 2026.
• Ohio Legislative Service Commission (codes.ohio.gov), Ohio Revised Code section 519.12, Zoning amendments, effective September 23, 2026 (House Bill 479, 136th General Assembly); read September 24, 2026.
• Ohio Legislative Service Commission (codes.ohio.gov), Ohio Revised Code section 519.16, effective December 20, 2005; read September 2026.
• Ohio Legislative Service Commission (codes.ohio.gov), Ohio Revised Code section 519.17, Zoning certificate required, effective October 1, 1953; read September 2026.
• Ohio Attorney General, Opinion No. 1279 (April 20, 1960): board of township trustees may create only one township zoning commission, April 20, 1960; read September 2026.
• Franklin County, Ohio, Economic Development and Planning Department, Zoning Division, Zoning, undated; read September 2026.
• Franklin County, Ohio, Building Department, Building Permits, undated; read September 2026.
• Norwich Township, Franklin County, Zoning, undated; read September 2026.
• Delaware County, Ohio, County Zoning Commission and Regional Planning Commission, Delaware County Zoning Resolution: Marlboro, Radnor and Thompson Townships, effective October 11, 2000, amended 2023; read September 2026.
• Delaware County Regional Planning Commission, Zoning Officers, undated; read September 2026.
• Delaware County, Ohio, Building Safety, Zoning & Floodplain, undated; read September 2026.
• Delaware County Regional Planning Commission, Zoning Resolutions & Land Use Plans, undated; read September 2026.
• Fairfield County Regional Planning Commission, Township Zoning, undated; read September 2026.
• Licking County, Ohio, Planning and Development, Township & Zoning Info, undated; read September 2026.
• Union County, Ohio, Engineer (Building Department), Zoning Officials List, last revised July 21, 2026; read September 2026.
• Pickaway County, Ohio, Building Department, Pickaway County Zoning Inspectors, undated; read September 2026.
• Pickaway County, Ohio, Development and Planning, Township Zoning Inspectors for Pickaway County, Ohio, revised April 5, 2024; read September 2026.
• Pickaway County, Ohio, Development and Planning, Pickaway County Development & Planning, undated; read September 2026.
• Madison County, Ohio, Planning and Zoning, Madison County Zoning Standards and Regulations, undated; read September 2026.
• Madison County, Ohio, Madison County, Ohio Zoning Resolution, As Adopted July 28, 2026, adopted July 28, 2026; read September 2026.
• Jefferson Township, Franklin County, Zoning Resolution, undated; read September 2026.
• Plain Township, Franklin County, Plain Township Zoning Resolution, revisions effective March 6, 2020; read September 2026.
• Perry Township, Franklin County, Perry Township Zoning Resolution, with amendments through January 3, 2024, amendments through January 3, 2024; read September 2026.
• Jackson Township, Franklin County, Zoning Resolution Chapter 101, General Provisions, undated; read September 2026.
• Genoa Township, Delaware County (hosted by the Delaware County Regional Planning Commission), Genoa Township Zoning Resolution, effective May 14, 2026, effective May 14, 2026; read September 2026.
• Concord Township, Delaware County (hosted by the Delaware County Regional Planning Commission), Concord Township Zoning Resolution, last amended November 13, 2024, last amended November 13, 2024; read September 2026.
• Orange Township, Delaware County (hosted by the Delaware County Regional Planning Commission), Orange Township Zoning Resolution, adopted February 3, 2026, adopted February 3, 2026; read September 2026.
• Liberty Township, Delaware County (hosted by the Delaware County Regional Planning Commission), Liberty Township Zoning Resolution, effective November 15, 2025, effective November 15, 2025; read September 2026.
• Porter Township, Delaware County (hosted by the Delaware County Regional Planning Commission), Porter Township Zoning Resolution, undated, amended 1984, 1991, 1994 and later; read September 2026.
• Harlem Township, Delaware County (hosted by the Delaware County Regional Planning Commission), Harlem Township Zoning Amendment, last revised July 15, 2026, last revised July 15, 2026; read September 2026.
• Berlin Township, Delaware County (hosted by the Delaware County Regional Planning Commission), Berlin Township Zoning Resolution, June 10, 2024, June 10, 2024; read September 2026.
• Kingston Township, Delaware County (hosted by the Delaware County Regional Planning Commission), Kingston Township Zoning Resolution, amended effective September 1, 2017, amended effective September 1, 2017; read September 2026.
• Greenfield Township, Fairfield County, Greenfield Township Zoning Code Book, amendments through July 10, 2026; read September 2026.
• Violet Township, Fairfield County (hosted by the Fairfield County Regional Planning Commission), Zoning Code for Violet Township, undated; read September 2026.
• Berne Township, Fairfield County (hosted by the Fairfield County Regional Planning Commission), Berne Township Zoning Resolution, revision date January 2017, revised January 2017; read September 2026.
• Pleasant Township, Fairfield County (hosted by the Fairfield County Regional Planning Commission), Pleasant Township Zoning Code, revised August 5, 2004; read September 2026.
• Liberty Township, Fairfield County (hosted by the Fairfield County Regional Planning Commission), Liberty Township Zoning Resolution, July 2021; read September 2026.
• Walnut Township, Fairfield County (hosted by the Fairfield County Regional Planning Commission), Walnut Township Zoning Resolution, effective June 19, 2015, effective June 19, 2015; read September 2026.
• Union Township, Licking County (hosted by Licking County), Union Township Zoning Resolution, adopted May 18, 1987, most recent amendment 2011; read September 2026.
• Licking Township, Licking County (hosted by Licking County), Licking Township Zoning Resolution, effective June 2, 2010, with amendments, amendments effective October 5, 2023; read September 2026.
• Jersey Township, Licking County (hosted by Licking County), Jersey Township Zoning Resolution, most recent amendment effective October 28, 2015; read September 2026.
• Bennington Township, Licking County (hosted by Licking County), Bennington Township Zoning Resolution, amended and effective December 8, 2025, amended and effective December 8, 2025; read September 2026.
• Liberty Township, Licking County (hosted by Licking County), Liberty Township Zoning Resolution, effective July 29, 2026, effective July 29, 2026; read September 2026.
• Franklin Township, Licking County (hosted by Licking County), Franklin Township Zoning Resolution, effective August 4, 2016, effective August 4, 2016; read September 2026.
• Burlington Township, Licking County (hosted by Licking County), Burlington Township Zoning Resolution, amended through September 27, 2018; read September 2026.
• McKean Township, Licking County (hosted by Licking County), McKean Township Zoning Resolution, 2003 Edition, 2003 edition with later amendments; read September 2026.
• Newark Township, Licking County (hosted by Licking County), Newark Township Zoning Resolution, revised April 1, 2000 and later; read September 2026.
• Bowling Green Township, Licking County (hosted by Licking County), Bowling Green Township Zoning Resolution, effective June 16, 1992; read September 2026.
• Washington Township, Licking County (hosted by Licking County), Washington Township Zoning Resolution, amended January 27, 2026; read September 2026.
• Hocking Township, Fairfield County (hosted by the Fairfield County Regional Planning Commission), Hocking Township Zoning Resolution, amendments adopted March 22, 2022; read September 2026.
• Rushcreek Township, Fairfield County (hosted by the Fairfield County Regional Planning Commission), Rushcreek Township Zoning Resolution, May 2, 2007; read September 2026.
• Richland Township, Fairfield County (hosted by the Fairfield County Regional Planning Commission), Richland Township Zoning Resolution, February 2008; read September 2026.
• St. Albans Township, Licking County (hosted by Licking County), St. Albans Township Zoning Resolution (SAT ZR 2025 v2), 2025; read September 2026.
• Harrison Township, Licking County (hosted by Licking County), Harrison Township Zoning Resolution, amendments through May 23, 2024; read September 2026.
• Granville Township, Licking County (hosted by Licking County), Granville Township Zoning Resolution, effective May 24, 2024, effective May 24, 2024; read September 2026.
• Ohio Legislative Service Commission (codes.ohio.gov), Ohio Revised Code section 307.37, Adoption of county building code, effective April 9, 2025; read September 2026.
• Ohio Legislative Service Commission (codes.ohio.gov), Ohio Revised Code section 307.38, effective May 27, 2005; read September 2026.
• Delaware County, Ohio, Building Safety, Permitting in Delaware County (Other Jurisdictions), dated June 5, 2025; read September 2026.
• Licking County, Ohio, Licking County Building Code Department, last updated January 29, 2026; read September 2026.
• Fairfield County, Ohio, Fairfield County Building Department, undated; read September 2026.
• Ohio Board of Building Standards, Ohio Department of Commerce, Residential Building Department Certification List (page stamps 8/16/2023), pages stamped August 16, 2023; read September 2026.
• Ohio Board of Building Standards (maps.ohio.gov), BBS_Jurisdictions feature service, layer 0, last edited 2025; read September 2026.
• Violet Township, Fairfield County, Ohio, Building Department, undated; read September 2026.
• Union County, Ohio, Engineer (Building Department), Building Dept FAQ, undated; read September 2026.
• Pickaway County, Ohio, Building Department, Residential Building Plan Approval Application, revisions dated July 1, 2026 in its file name; read September 2026.
• Pickaway County, Ohio, Pickaway County Building Department, undated; read September 2026.
• Madison County, Ohio, Madison County Building Information, undated; read September 2026.
• Franklin County Board of County Commissioners, digitized by the Columbus Metropolitan Library, Franklin County Building Code, Adopted 1988, Amended 1996 (with Resolution 848-94), cover 1996; resolution August 30, 1994; read September 2026.
• Washington Township, Franklin County, Zoning FAQ, undated; read September 2026.

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