Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 715.04

All municipal corporations may compound or release, in whole or in part, any debt, obligation, judgment, or claim, due the municipal corporation from a bank in process of liquidation or operating under a conservatorship. Where a member of the legislative authority is personally interested as a stockholder in such bank, the legislative authority of such municipal corporation shall enter upon its records a statement of the facts and the reasons for such compounding or release.