Ohio Lien Release
The Lien You Are Releasing
Pull your stamped copy of the lien — everything on this page is on it. If the details here do not match the instrument on record, the release does not release it, and no one at the counter will catch that for you.
This instrument says the debt is paid.
Ohio Rev. Code § 1311.20 discharges the lien on satisfaction of the debt. Signing it while money is still owed puts a false statement on the public record and gives away the security you filed to protect. If you have been paid part of it, this is not the document you want — talk to a construction attorney about what is.
Where this gets filed: County Recorder. The county recorder that took the affidavit under § 1311.06. But read § 1311.20 before repeating its second paragraph as a rule: the sentence about recording in the § 1311.06 book at the § 317.32 mortgage-satisfaction fee sits INSIDE the microfilm paragraph and is conditional on that county having elected the § 9.01 process. The first paragraph — the thirty-day duty — says only "to cause the lien to be released," and names no office and no mechanism. Recording with the county recorder is the right practice; the statute does not command it unconditionally.
THIRTY DAYS FROM SATISFACTION — triggered by payment, not by any demand (§ 1311.20) — and also from the lien being "adjudged against him in an action thereon," so a claimant who loses at trial is on the same clock. Liability runs to the OWNER, PART OWNER OR LESSEE for all damages arising from the failure, not exceeding the amount of the lien and costs. No fixed figure and no fee-shifting, but "damages arising therefrom" — a blown closing, a lost draw — can approach the full lien amount without the owner ever asking.