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Council introduces ordinance restoring city authority to hold fire‑loss insurance proceeds
Summary
Council introduced Ordinance 2025‑28 to reinsert a fire‑proceeds provision into the Xenia Fire Code so the city can receive insurance funds as security after qualifying fires.
XENIA, Ohio — The Xenia City Council on Oct. 23 sought the introduction of Ordinance 2025‑28 to reinstate a provision in the city code that lets the city hold insurance proceeds as security when a structure fire meets statutory thresholds.
Madam Law Director explained the change is intended to restore language inadvertently removed from the code during a prior property‑maintenance update. “Basically, what Ohio law provides is if there's a fire at a structure and the loss exceeds $5,000, and the total…
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