Pursuant to R.C. §1907.20, the clerk of the county court shall have the power to and the duty to:
A. take affidavits and issue execution upon any judgment rendered in county court;
B. to issue and sign all writs, process, subpoenas and papers issuing out of the court, and to attach the seal of the court to them;
C. to approve all bonds, sureties recognizances, and undertakings fixed by a judge of the court;
D. to file and safely keep all journals, records, books and papers belonging or pertaining to the court;
E. record its proceedings;
F. keep a book showing all receipts and disbursements, which shall be open for public inspection at all times;
G. prepare and maintain a general index, a docket as prescribed by the court and other records as the court, by rule requires, all of which shall be the public records of the court;
H. receive and collect all costs, fees, fines, penalties, bail and other moneys payable to the office or to any o officer of the court and issue receipts therefor;
I. keep a separate account of all receipts and disbursements in civil and criminal cases;
J. perform all other duties prescribed by rule or order of the court or pursuant to R.C. §1907.20.
The clerk may refuse to accept for filing any pleading or paper submitted for filing by a person who has been found to be a vexatious litigator under R.C.§2323.52 and who has failed to obtain leave to proceed under that section.