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What must an Ohio landlord disclose to a tenant, and what must the lease say?

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Ohio requires almost nothing of a landlord at signing: every written residential lease must carry the owner's and the agent's name and address, and that is the whole of the general disclosure law.

Cited to R.C. Chapter 5321 (Landlords and Tenants) §§ 5321.01–5321.20 and 17 more cited sources · Verified September 13, 2026

An oral tenancy gets the same information in a written notice when occupancy begins, and a college or university lease must set out its termination conditions and hearing procedures. Ohio requires no written lease, no copy of the signed lease, no move-in condition report, no tenant-rights statement or pamphlet, and no flood, mold, bed-bug, radon, methamphetamine or asbestos disclosure. Its lead law is a registry and an evacuation notice after a state order, not a disclosure to a tenant. A landlord who leaves the identity block out pays no fine but loses the right to be noticed before the tenant uses the repair remedies and rent escrow. Six kinds of lease clause are not recognized, including any attorney-fee clause in either direction, so an Ohio landlord has no route to attorney's fees at all. Local governments are broadly preempted from regulating what the chapter regulates.

Ohio lease disclosures at a glance

Which law governs Chapter 5321 of the Revised Code, the Landlords and Tenants chapter, is the single body of residential landlord-tenant law in Ohio; unlike several states there is no older general chapter running beside it for dwellings. It defines a rental agreement as any agreement or lease, written or oral, and it is strikingly sparse on disclosure — the word does not appear anywhere in its 22 sections. The identity duty sits at section 5321.18, the prohibited-clause roster at section 5321.13, unconscionability at section 5321.14 and the preemption at section 5321.19. Three other bodies matter at the edges: chapter 3742 and its rules carry Ohio's lead registry and the orders behind it; section 5302.30 and the Director of Commerce's form carry the property disclosure form, which is a transfer document and not a lease document; and the manufactured-home chapters are a separate regime, expressly carved out of residential premises. The statute of frauds is in chapter 1335 and electronic signing in chapter 1306.
Who is covered Statewide, with the reach set by what counts as residential premises. The definition includes a dwelling unit owned or operated by a college or university, and excludes ten categories: prisons, jails, workhouses and other places of incarceration or correction, including halfway houses and community-control residences; hospitals and similar medical institutions and residential care homes; tourist homes, hotels, motels, recreational vehicle parks, recreation camps and similar facilities where the circumstances indicate transient occupancy; elementary and secondary boarding schools where room and board is inside the tuition; orphanages and similar institutions; farm residences furnished with at least two acres for agricultural production by an occupant; dwelling units in manufactured home parks, which have their own chapter; occupancy by a condominium unit owner; licensed single-room-occupancy facilities owned or operated by a charitable organization where occupancy is under sixty days or is part of a listed rehabilitation, shelter or runaway program; and charitable emergency shelters for transient occupants. The definitions were last amended on October 3, 2023. The student-lease content rule reaches only a dwelling unit owned or operated by a college or university let to a student tenant whose agreement depends on student status.
Written lease, copy and signature rules

No statute requires a residential lease to be in writing beyond the statute of frauds, so an oral tenancy is lawful. No statute requires the landlord to give the tenant a copy of the lease.

No Ohio statute requires a residential lease to be in writing: the chapter defines a rental agreement as any agreement or lease, written or oral, and supplies a written-notice fallback for the one lease-content duty it imposes. A lease that cannot be performed within a year needs a writing signed by the party to be charged. There is no duty to give the tenant a copy of the signed lease, no deadline for one, and no translation, plain-language, type-size or placement rule anywhere in the chapter — the words conspicuous, bold, point type and translation do not appear in it, and neither does the word disclosure. The chapter's own stance is the opposite of prescriptive: a landlord and tenant may include any terms and conditions in a rental agreement that are not inconsistent with the chapter or with any other rule of law.

Statute of frauds: No action may be brought on a contract or sale of land, or an interest in or concerning it, or on an agreement that is not to be performed within one year of its making, unless the agreement or a memorandum or note of it is in writing and signed by the party to be charged (section 1335.05). A separate section requires a deed or a signed note in writing for the assignment or grant of any lease, estate or interest in land (section 1335.04). The three-year figure people quote is not a writing rule: section 5301.08 only exempts a lease for a term not exceeding three years from being acknowledged or recorded.

Electronic leases and signatures: Ohio's electronic transactions act applies to residential leases with no carve-out: a record or signature may not be denied legal effect solely because it is electronic, an electronic record satisfies a requirement that a record be in writing, and an electronic signature satisfies a signature requirement. The only excluded transactions are wills, codicils and testamentary trusts and most of the commercial code. The landlord-tenant chapter says nothing about electronic records, notices or delivery, so the general rule governs.
Owner and agent identity

Yes — a statute requires the landlord to disclose the owner's or managing agent's identity to the tenant, in the lease or in a separate writing.

Every written residential rental agreement in Ohio must contain the name and address of the owner and the name and address of the owner's agent, if there is one — both, not either. Where the owner or the agent is a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, association, trust or other entity, the address must be its principal place of business in the county where the property sits, or, if it has none there, its principal place of business in Ohio, and it must include the name of the person in charge. This is a lease-content rule rather than a separate-writing rule, and it cannot be satisfied by posting. Where the tenancy is oral, the landlord must instead deliver a written notice carrying the same information at the commencement of the term of occupancy. No telephone number is required. There is no duty to keep the information current, no successor clause and no notice on a sale. The consequence of leaving it out is procedural rather than financial and it is a real one: the tenant's obligations to give the landlord written notice of a condition needing repair, and the notice that accompanies a rent deposit with the clerk of court, are waived, so the repair remedies and rent escrow open to the tenant without the landlord being noticed first. No fine, no damages figure, no agency by operation of law and no bar on eviction follow. Ohio has no statewide landlord or rental registration producing a tenant notice; the lead-safe rental unit registry is a public list with nothing owed to a tenant, and it is described in the hazard table.
Required statements and lease text

No general statement or document is prescribed, but the statutes or rules fix some of what the lease must say, listed here.

Ohio prescribes no statement of tenant rights, no summary of the law, no agency form, no pamphlet and no general lease wording — and no notice telling the tenant the landlord-tenant chapter exists. The chapter contains no reference to a summary, a pamphlet, a brochure or a handbook, and no rule in the administrative code prescribes a residential-lease disclosure document or text outside the manufactured-home-park rules. The one form the state does prescribe, the residential property disclosure form, belongs to a transfer of property and never reaches an ordinary tenancy. There is also no consumer-protection route into a lease: the Supreme Court of Ohio has held that the Consumer Sales Practices Act does not apply to residential lease transactions, so a generic consumer disclosure rule cannot be borrowed to fill the gap. Two things must nevertheless appear in an Ohio lease, and they are listed below.

Lease contents the statutes or rules address, each in the circumstance it names:

• The name and address of the owner and of the owner's agent, in every written residential rental agreement, with an entity's address pinned to its principal place of business in the county where the property sits and the name of the person in charge (section 5321.18, division A).

• In a lease of a dwelling unit owned or operated by a college or university to a student tenant: the conditions under which the agreement may be terminated and the institution's notice and hearing procedures, which a college must follow before ending a student tenant's agreement early (section 5321.031). The section states no penalty.
Move-in condition report

No.

Ohio has no move-in condition statement, inventory, checklist or walk-through duty, and no rule supplies one; the words checklist, inventory and walk-through do not appear in the landlord-tenant chapter. Ohio's deposit machinery does not depend on a move-in record, and the precondition it does impose runs against the tenant: deductions must be itemized and identified in a written notice delivered with the balance within 30 days after the rental agreement ends and possession is delivered, but the tenant must give the landlord a forwarding or new address in writing, and a tenant who does not is not entitled to the damages and attorney's fees the deposit section otherwise provides. That is the deposits page.
Hazard disclosures

No in-force state hazard disclosure duty applies at signing beyond the federal lead-paint rule. Also on the books: lead-safe residential rental unit registry — a registry or certificate owed to the state, with no disclosure to the tenant; and notice to occupants after a lead use-prohibition order — a notice fired by an event during the tenancy, not a signing disclosure; no state duty exists for mold, bed bugs, radon, methamphetamine, asbestos, or any other hazard.

Every state duty and every stated absence, hazard by hazard:

Lead-safe residential rental unit registry — a registry or certificate owed to the state, with no disclosure to the tenant (a statute and an administrative rule). Ohio's lead add-on is a public list, not a disclosure. The director of health maintains a lead-safe residential rental unit registry and may charge nothing to register on it. Any owner may register a unit built after January 1, 1978, a unit a licensed inspector or risk assessor has found lead free, or a pre-1978 unit where the owner has carried out the lead-safe maintenance practices — completing an approved training program, performing an annual visual examination for deteriorated paint and underlying damage on a form the director prescribes, repairing to the federal work-practice standards, taking dust samples afterwards and keeping the record for at least three years, across the interior, all common areas, attached and unattached structures within the lot line and the lot itself. Registration becomes compulsory in one situation: where a unit has been subject to a lead hazard control order, the owner must register it once it passes a clearance examination, unless the director has designated the property as housing for the elderly or senior housing. Nothing in any of this is owed to a tenant. There is no state lead disclosure at signing, no state pamphlet a landlord must hand over, no lead certificate that must go into a lease and no re-disclosure on renewal, and the registry sections state no penalty of their own for failing to register. Threshold: Residential rental units. Registration is compulsory only for a unit that has been subject to a lead hazard control order, and housing the director of health has designated as housing for the elderly or senior housing is exempt from that requirement. The voluntary maintenance-practice route is for units built before January 1, 1978; a unit built after that date, or one a licensed inspector or risk assessor finds lead free, may be registered on proof.

Notice to occupants after a lead use-prohibition order — a notice fired by an event during the tenancy, not a signing disclosure (a statute). Where an owner does not comply with a lead hazard control order, the director of health or the board of health issues an order barring any use of the unit until it passes a clearance examination, and on receiving that order the owner or manager must take appropriate measures to notify each occupant to leave the unit until it passes. The state also posts a sign at the property warning that it is unsafe for human occupation, especially for children under six and pregnant women. Separately, when a lead hazard control order is issued for a building with more than one residential unit, the director or board either delivers a copy of the order to the occupants of each unit or requires the owner or manager to do so. Both duties fire on a state order during the tenancy; neither is a disclosure at signing, and neither section states a penalty of its own. Threshold: A residential unit for which the director of health or a board of health has issued an order prohibiting use after the owner failed to comply with a lead hazard control order. The section states no penalty for a failure.

Mold — no state duty. Ohio has no mold law reaching a landlord: no disclosure, no standard, no booklet and no agency told to write one. The word does not appear in the landlord-tenant chapter, and everywhere else in Ohio law it means something else — a molder's lien, plastics recycling, pesticide and licensing definitions, food-processing sanitation, coatings and workplace safety. Mold in a rental is a repair question under the landlord's statutory duty to keep the premises fit and to comply with housing, building, health and safety codes.

Bed bugs — no state duty. Ohio has no bed-bug law of any kind — no disclosure at signing, no notice to neighboring units, no educational materials duty and no local preemption. The only Ohio provisions using the phrase govern the registration and labeling of bedding and stuffed toys, and the only administrative rule is a university policy about animals on campus. The sixty-day bed-bug notice sometimes attributed to Ohio belongs to another state.

Radon — no state duty. No Ohio landlord owes a tenant anything about radon. Ohio's radon chapter licenses testers, mitigation specialists, mitigation contractors and laboratories and sets standards of conduct for them; another section designates a radon awareness month. One section runs the other way entirely, barring the director of health and the department's contractors from releasing radon information about a particular private residence to anyone but its owner or occupant without consent. The only radon disclosure in Ohio law sits on the property disclosure form used when property is transferred, not leased.

Methamphetamine — no state duty. Ohio requires no methamphetamine disclosure, bars no one from renting a former laboratory, and sets no decontamination or clearance standard for a rental unit. The single statutory reference is a cost-recovery section about unauthorized spills and releases, and the administrative rules using the word are criminal-history and drug-schedule rules.

Asbestos — no state duty. Nothing requires an Ohio landlord to disclose asbestos to a tenant. Ohio's asbestos provisions are about tort litigation procedure, abatement-contractor licensing, construction and demolition debris fees, air permitting, the assessment of asbestos hazards in public buildings, and workers' compensation. Asbestos appears on the property disclosure form used on a transfer, which does not reach an ordinary tenancy.

Pesticide, pool, sprinkler, detector and smoking notices — no state duty. Ohio requires no pesticide-application notice, no pool-safety notice, no fire-sprinkler notice, no smoke-detector or carbon-monoxide acknowledgment, no military-ordnance or noise-zone notice and no smoking-policy disclosure. None of those words appears in the landlord-tenant chapter, and no rule supplies one.
Flood disclosure

No.

Ohio requires no flood disclosure to a tenant — the word flood does not appear in the landlord-tenant chapter at all. Ohio's flood law is floodplain management, and its one flood notice duty belongs to manufactured home park operators and is on that page. The property disclosure form people have in mind is a transfer document: the section applies to a transfer of residential real property by sale, land installment contract, lease with an option to purchase, exchange, or a lease for a term of ninety-nine years renewable forever, and residential real property means property improved by a building with one to four dwelling units. The form goes from the transferor to each prospective transferee as soon as is practicable, is prescribed by the Director of Commerce, and covers the water supply, the sewer system, the condition of the structure, hazardous materials including lead-based paint, asbestos, urea-formaldehyde foam insulation and radon gas, and any material defect within the transferor's actual knowledge. Fourteen categories of transfer are exempt. An ordinary residential tenancy is outside it, and the two lease shapes inside it are the only ones there are.
Disclosures about the property's situation No statutory disclosure of this kind
What need not be disclosed None — no statute says a fact about the property need not or may not be disclosed in a rental, or bars a claim over its non-disclosure.
Utility, fee and payment disclosures No statutory disclosure of this kind
Lease clauses that are void or prohibited

Yes — the statute lists the lease provisions that are void or prohibited.

Ohio's roster sits in one section and runs six lettered divisions, and it is unusual in reaching either party's clauses rather than only clauses against the tenant — the attorney-fee ban and the confession-of-judgment ban both cover any agreement between a landlord and tenant, not just the lease. The chapter-wide anti-waiver in the first division is the backbone: no provision of the chapter may be modified or waived by any agreement, oral or written, with one exception, which is that the landlord may agree to take on a tenant's duty except the duty not to let anyone on the premises commit a drug offense. Two companions extend the roster: a separate section makes a flag-display restriction unenforceable and expressly unconscionable, and the chapter's unconscionability section lets a court refuse to enforce an unconscionable agreement or clause, enforce the rest without it, or limit it, after both parties have had a chance to present evidence about its setting, purpose and effect. That unconscionability section is also the reason the Consumer Sales Practices Act does not reach residential leases: the Supreme Court of Ohio read it as the specific scheme the legislature meant to govern landlord-tenant disputes.

Sanction as the statute states it: The clause simply has no legal effect. Ohio's formula is that the provision shall not be recognized, and for a flag restriction that it is against public policy and unenforceable and is an unconscionable term. There is no higher tier for using a prohibited clause deliberately, no damages multiple, no trigger tied to trying to enforce it and no window to cure. Ohio's money remedies attach to conduct rather than to drafting: actual damages and reasonable fees for retaliation, for an unlawful, unreasonable or harassing entry, for a self-help lockout or utility shut-off, and for a deposit wrongfully withheld.

The listed provisions:

• No provision of the landlord-tenant chapter may be modified or waived by any oral or written agreement, except that the landlord may take on a tenant duty (section 5321.13, division A).

• No warrant of attorney to confess judgment is recognized in any rental agreement, or in any other agreement between a landlord and tenant, for the recovery of rent or damages to the residential premises (section 5321.13, division B).

• No agreement to pay the landlord's or the tenant's attorney's fees is recognized in any rental agreement for residential premises or in any other agreement between a landlord and tenant (section 5321.13, division C).

• No agreement by a tenant to the exculpation or limitation of any liability of the landlord arising under law, or to indemnify the landlord for that liability or the costs connected with it, is recognized (section 5321.13, division D).

• No rental agreement, and no assignment, conveyance, trust deed or security instrument of the landlord's interest in it, may permit the receipt of rent free of the landlord's statutory obligations to keep the premises fit and in order (section 5321.13, division E).

• No restriction in a rental agreement against, and no other prohibition on, a tenant's display of the flag of the United States, the prisoner-of-war and missing-in-action flag, the state flag, or a service flag approved by the Secretary of Defense; a provision that violates the section is against public policy and unenforceable, and is an unconscionable term (section 5321.131).

• An unconscionable rental agreement or clause, which a court may refuse to enforce, may enforce without the clause, or may limit so as to avoid an unconscionable result, after giving both parties a reasonable opportunity to present evidence about its setting, purpose and effect (section 5321.14).

Expressly permitted: The landlord may agree to take on any duty the chapter imposes on the tenant, except the tenant's duty not to allow anyone on the premises to commit a drug offense (section 5321.13, division F, read with section 5321.05, division A, paragraph 9).
Attorney-fee clauses

A lease clause charging either party's attorney fees to the other is void.

Ohio refuses to recognize any attorney-fee clause in a residential lease, in either direction: no agreement to pay the landlord's or the tenant's attorney's fees is recognized in any rental agreement for residential premises, or in any other agreement between a landlord and tenant — so a settlement or a side letter cannot restore it either. Ohio does not convert a one-way clause into a reciprocal one, and it awards no prevailing-party fees by statute. The practical consequence is the one readers most often get wrong: an Ohio landlord has no route to attorney's fees at all, while a tenant has four, and each of them turns on the landlord's conduct rather than on the lease — retaliation, an unlawful, unreasonable or harassing entry, a self-help lockout or utility shut-off, and a deposit wrongfully withheld.
When, how, and what happens on a failure Ohio is one of the emptiest states in this topic, and its timing is correspondingly simple. At signing, a written lease must carry the owner and agent identity block and, for a college or university lease with a student tenant, the termination conditions and the institution's notice and hearing procedures. Where the tenancy is oral, the identity information goes to the tenant in a written notice at the commencement of the term of occupancy. Everything else fires on an event: a lead hazard control order can require the order itself to be delivered to the occupants of each unit, and a use-prohibition order obliges the owner or manager to notify each occupant to leave. Nothing recurs — there is no annual, renewal, on-update or on-transfer disclosure anywhere in Ohio landlord-tenant law — and nothing requires a signed acknowledgment. The chapter carries no electronic-delivery provision, so the general electronic transactions act governs. The remedies match: the identity duty's sanction is procedural, costing the landlord the right to be noticed before the repair and rent-escrow remedies open; the student-lease content rule and both lead notice duties state no penalty; a prohibited lease clause is simply not recognized. Money in Ohio attaches to conduct, not to a failure to disclose — actual damages and reasonable fees for retaliation, for an unlawful or harassing entry, for a lockout or a utility shut-off, and for a deposit wrongfully withheld, the last of which the tenant forfeits by failing to give a forwarding address in writing. And there is no consumer-protection backstop: the Consumer Sales Practices Act does not reach residential leases, so a tenant's route to an unfair lease term is the chapter's own unconscionability section.
Can cities add their own rules Ohio has one of the broadest express preemptions in this topic. No political subdivision may enact, adopt, renew, maintain, enforce or continue in existence any charter provision, ordinance, resolution, rule or other measure that conflicts with the landlord-tenant chapter, or that regulates the rights and obligations of parties to a rental agreement that are regulated by that chapter, and the section says in terms that this includes imposing or requiring rent control or rent stabilization. A companion section adds eleven legislative findings about rent control and declares the chapter a statewide and comprehensive enactment regulating all aspects of the landlord-tenant relationship. Three things are expressly left to local government: housing, building, health and safety codes, and the local ordinances the chapter itself makes the landlord comply with; rent charged for premises the subdivision itself owns or operates; and plans using voluntary incentives or agreements to increase or maintain the supply or improve the quality of rental housing, including tax abatements, tax-credit financing, bonds, loans and grants. One boundary is worth stating plainly rather than overstating: the second half of the preemption reaches subjects that are regulated by the chapter, and the chapter regulates almost no disclosure, so whether a local disclosure ordinance is caught is not settled by the text alone — the findings section cuts the other way. No Ohio city's own lease packet is carried on this page.
How state law refers to the federal rules Ohio law points at federal law in three places in and around this topic, none of them a lead disclosure. The landlord-tenant chapter's duty list requires the landlord to comply with the rights of tenants under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act — a state obligation defined wholly by reference to a federal act. The lead-safe maintenance practices behind the state registry require repairs to be made in accordance with the work practice standards the federal environmental agency has established. And the lead abatement tax credit counts relocation costs incurred to achieve occupant protection as the federal housing rules describe it. Ohio's own lead duties, the registry and the notice to occupants after a use-prohibition order, are state creations with no federal counterpart.
Changes already signed into law No signed act is waiting beyond any not-yet-in-force duty already stated on this page
Leading court decisions Heritage Hills, Ltd. v. Deacon, 49 Ohio St.3d 80, 551 N.E.2d 125 (Supreme Court of Ohio; 1990; residential setting; bears on the topic as a whole): Held, on a residential apartment lease clause making the tenant responsible for all unexplained damage to the unit, that the Consumer Sales Practices Act does not apply to residential lease transactions. The court relied on the uniform act's own commentary excluding land transactions as matters for specialized legislation, on the General Assembly's rejection of a bill that would have brought leases of real property inside a consumer transaction, and on the landlord-tenant chapter's unconscionability section as the scheme meant to govern these disputes. The decision matters on this page because it closes the route by which a general consumer disclosure rule could reach an Ohio lease; an appellate decision of December 13, 2024 applied it without limiting it.

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Ohio Lease Disclosure Laws & Required Lease Terms (verified September 13, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/lease-disclosures/ohio/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Everything above is cited in the citations section below.

Ohio hazard disclosures at a glance

No row below is an in-force state duty to disclose, hand over, attach or post a hazard notice; the federal lead-paint rule still applies to housing built before 1978. Each row's full text, trigger, threshold and remedy are in the table above.

Hazard Status When Form Prescribed document
Lead-safe residential rental unit registry Registration only — — —
Notice to occupants after a lead use-prohibition order Event-driven notice only — Not specified —
Mold None — — —
Bed bugs None — — —
Radon None — — —
Methamphetamine None — — —
Asbestos None — — —
Pesticide, pool, sprinkler, detector and smoking notices None — — —

Federal rules that apply in every state

The federal layer for the lease-disclosures topic, carried once for the whole site. Every row names who it binds: most federal lease attachments bind only a landlord who takes a voucher or holds HUD-assisted or HUD-insured property, and the one rule that binds every landlord (the lead-paint disclosure rule) is a floor that state law may add to. No state record restates these rows; a state record says only where its own law references or extends them. Each row below says who it binds before it says what it requires. The full text of each row, with its citations, is on the 50-state page.

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Ohio lease disclosures

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

Does Ohio require a landlord to give the tenant a written statement of tenant rights?
No general statement or document is prescribed, but the statutes or rules fix some of what the lease must say, listed here. Ohio prescribes no statement of tenant rights, no summary of the law, no agency form, no pamphlet and no general lease wording — and no notice telling the tenant the landlord-tenant chapter exists.
Does an Ohio landlord have to disclose the owner's name and address?
Yes — a statute requires the landlord to disclose the owner's or managing agent's identity to the tenant, in the lease or in a separate writing. Every written residential rental agreement in Ohio must contain the name and address of the owner and the name and address of the owner's agent, if there is one — both, not either.
Is a move-in inspection checklist required in Ohio?
No. Ohio has no move-in condition statement, inventory, checklist or walk-through duty, and no rule supplies one; the words checklist, inventory and walk-through do not appear in the landlord-tenant chapter. Ohio's deposit machinery does not depend on a move-in record, and the precondition it does impose runs against the tenant: deductions must be itemized and identified in a written notice delivered with the balance within 30 days after the rental agreement ends and possession is delivered, but the tenant must give the landlord a forwarding or new address in writing, and a tenant who does not is not entitled to the damages and attorney's fees the deposit section otherwise provides.
What hazards must an Ohio landlord disclose to a tenant?
No in-force state hazard disclosure duty applies at signing beyond the federal lead-paint rule. Also on the books: lead-safe residential rental unit registry — a registry or certificate owed to the state, with no disclosure to the tenant; and notice to occupants after a lead use-prohibition order — a notice fired by an event during the tenancy, not a signing disclosure; no state duty exists for mold, bed bugs, radon, methamphetamine, asbestos, or any other hazard.
Does Ohio require flood disclosure to renters?
No. Ohio requires no flood disclosure to a tenant — the word flood does not appear in the landlord-tenant chapter at all. Ohio's flood law is floodplain management, and its one flood notice duty belongs to manufactured home park operators and is on that page.
Does Ohio void or prohibit specific lease clauses?
Yes — the statute lists the lease provisions that are void or prohibited. Ohio's roster sits in one section and runs six lettered divisions, and it is unusual in reaching either party's clauses rather than only clauses against the tenant — the attorney-fee ban and the confession-of-judgment ban both cover any agreement between a landlord and tenant, not just the lease.

Citations

How this record was verified: Direct reading of the Ohio Revised Code and the Ohio Administrative Code on Ohio Laws, the state's own host. Chapter 5321, the Landlords and Tenants chapter, was taken whole and read section by section, all 22 sections, with each section's own Effective and Latest Legislation lines recorded; the host carries no edition banner, so currency is per section, and the newest stamps in the chapter are October 3, 2023 for the definitions and two eviction-ground sections and September 23, 2022 for the preemption and findings sections. Chapter 3742, the lead chapter, was taken whole and read. Sections 5302.30, 3723.12, 4735.67, 1335.04, 1335.05, 5301.08, 1306.02 and 1306.06 were read in full, and section 5321.13's per-section page was read for its list of available versions, which shows a single version dating from August 22, 1990. Code-wide keyword searches were run over both codes with every hit enumerated and read: in the Revised Code, radon 23 hits, bed bugs 13, mold 15, asbestos 61, lead-based paint 85, methamphetamine contamination 1, and no results at all for psychologically impacted or stigmatized; in the Administrative Code, radon 27 rules, bedbug 1, mold 43, methamphetamine 9, lead hazard 103, and a residential rental disclosure query returning four rules of which only the manufactured-home-park rule is on point. Administrative Code chapter 3701-81, the lead-safe rental unit registry rules, was taken whole and read; the words tenant, lessee and prospective do not appear in it. On the enactment side, all 103 rows of the 136th General Assembly's acts list were enumerated and each bill's enrolled long title was read from the legislature's own data service, because Ohio's short titles hide section changes; two bills touched sections relied on here, one an appropriations act that amended only lead tax-credit sections and the other a submetering bill that passed both chambers and was vetoed, its veto readable only in the bill's own action history. The full roster of 2,532 measures of the 136th General Assembly was read for pending work, filtered on the legislature's own landlords-and-tenants subject tag and on a keyword pass over every short title, with each candidate's long title and action history read; the 136th General Assembly sits until December 31, 2026, so nothing has died. One decision was read in full, Heritage Hills, Ltd. v. Deacon, 49 Ohio St.3d 80 (1990), from the official reporter text, and its subsequent history was checked on the Supreme Court of Ohio's own reporter site, where an appellate decision of December 13, 2024 applies it without limiting it. Verified September 13, 2026.

What was read to state each absence on this page: