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...The following forms illustrate the character of the procedure contemplated by this chapter, and if substantially complied with, those things being changed which should be changed to meet the requirements of the particular case, such procedure shall be held to meet the requirements of this chapter. (A) Form of Notice of Hearing on the Petition: "To All Persons Interested: Public Notice is Hereby Given: (1) Tha...

...(A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Sanitary facilities" means sanitary sewers, force mains, lift or pumping stations, and facilities for the treatment, disposal, impoundment, or storage of wastes; equipment and furnishings; and all required appurtenances and necessary real estate and interests in real estate. (2) "Drainage" or "waters" means flows from rainfall or otherwise produced by, or resulting from, th...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Beneficial use" means a use of water, including the method of diversion, storage, transportation, treatment, and application, that is reasonable and consistent with the public interest in the proper utilization of water resources, including, without limitation, domestic, agricultural, industrial, power, municipal, navigational, fish and wildlife, and recreational uses. (B) "Governmenta...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Governmental agency" means a department, division, or other unit of state government, a municipal corporation, county, township, and other political subdivision, or any other public corporation or agency, the United States or any agency thereof, and any agency, commission, or authority established pursuant to an interstate compact or agreement. (B) "Person" means any individual, firm, ...

...The director of job and family services shall administer the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, the former "Workforce Investment Act of 1998," 112 Stat. 936, Pub. L. No. 105-220, as amended, and the "Wagner-Peyser Act," 48 Stat. 113 (1933), 29 U.S.C.A. 49, as amended, and the funds received pursuant to those acts. In administering those acts and funds received pursuant to those acts, the director shall assist ...

...(A) As used in this section, "public or private institution" means any of the following: (1) A state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code; (2) A private, nonprofit institution in this state holding a certificate of authorization pursuant to Chapter 1713. of the Revised Code; (3) An Ohio technical center that provides adult technical education services as recogni...

...(A) Villages may voluntarily dissolve upon the petition to the legislative authority of the village, or, in the alternative, to the board of elections of the county in which the largest portion of the population of the village resides as provided in division (B)(1) of this section, of at least thirty per cent of the electors thereof, to be determined by the number voting at the last regular municipal election, and by...

...(A) As used in this section, "condition for the dissolution of a village" means any of the following: (1) The village has been declared to be in a fiscal emergency under Chapter 118. of the Revised Code and has been in fiscal emergency for at least three consecutive years with little or no improvement on the conditions that caused the fiscal emergency declaration. (2) The village has failed to properly follow app...

...(A) The legislative authority of one municipal corporation, by ordinance or resolution, and the board of township trustees of one or more townships, by resolution, may enter into annexation agreements under this section. (B) An annexation agreement may be entered into for any period of time and may be amended at any time in the same manner as it was initially authorized. (C) Annexation agreements may provide for an...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Contracting parties" means one or more municipal corporations, one or more townships, and, under division (D) of this section, one or more counties that have entered into a contract under this section to create a joint economic development district. (2) "District" means a joint economic development district created under this section. (3) "Contract for utility services" means a...

...(A)(1) An individual is presumed to be domiciled in a municipal corporation for all or part of a taxable year if the individual was domiciled in the municipal corporation on the last day of the immediately preceding taxable year or if the tax administrator reasonably concludes that the individual is domiciled in the municipal corporation for all or part of the taxable year. (2) An individual may rebut the presumptio...

...(A) Division (B) of this section applies to any of the following individuals: (1) An employee in the service of a municipal corporation or regional council of government; (2) A prospective employee for a position in the service of a municipal corporation or regional council of government; (3) A contractor of a municipal corporation or regional council of government. (B) If an individual described in division ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Nonqualified deferred compensation plan" means a compensation plan described in section 3121(v)(2)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code. (2)(a) Except as provided in division (A)(2)(b) of this section, "qualifying loss" means the excess, if any, of the total amount of compensation the payment of which is deferred pursuant to a nonqualified deferred compensation plan over the total a...

...If a term used in sections 718.80 to 718.95 of the Revised Code that is not otherwise defined in this chapter is used in a comparable context in both the laws of the United States relating to federal income tax and in Title LVII of the Revised Code and the use is not consistent, then the use of the term in the laws of the United States relating to federal income tax shall have control over the use of the term in Titl...

...It is a sufficient defense to any suit or prosecution under an ordinance, to show that no publication or posting was made as required by sections 731.21 to 731.24, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in this section, "fiscal officer" means the city auditor, city treasurer, village fiscal officer, village clerk-treasurer, village clerk, and, in the case of a municipal corporation having a charter that designates an officer who, by virtue of the charter, has duties and functions similar to those of the city or village officers referred to in this section, the officer so designated by the charter. (B) ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Occupy or use," with respect to a public way, means to create parking spaces and install, repair, maintain, replace, and operate parking meters or other similar devices for the purpose of providing on-street parking. (2) "Public agency" includes any county, municipal corporation, port authority, regional transit authority, airport authority, or transportation improvement dist...

...(A) No person shall knowingly fail to file a complete and accurate campaign finance statement or independent expenditure statement in accordance with section 742.042 of the Revised Code. (B) No person, during the course of a person seeking nomination for, and during any campaign for, election to the board of trustees of the police and fire pension fund, shall knowingly and with intent to affect the nomination or the...

...The board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, employ and fix the compensation of employees, and adopt rules for the proper administration and management of the fund. Effective ninety days after September 15, 2004, the board of trustees may not employ a state retirement system investment officer, as defined in section 1707....

...(A) The members of the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall be the trustees of the funds created by section 742.59 of the Revised Code. The board shall have full power to invest the funds. The board and other fiduciaries shall discharge their duties with respect to the funds solely in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries; for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits to par...

...(A) The board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall have prepared triennially by or under the supervision of an actuary an actuarial valuation of the pension assets, liabilities, and funding requirements of the Ohio police and fire pension fund as established pursuant to sections 742.01 to 742.61 of the Revised Code. The actuary shall complete the valuation in accordance with actuarial stan...

...The board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall adopt rules for the management of the fund and for the disbursement of benefits and pensions as set forth in this section and section 742.39 of the Revised Code. Any payment of a benefit or pension under this section is subject to the provisions of section 742.461 of the Revised Code. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, no pension o...

...(A) On application for retirement as provided in section 742.37 or 742.39 of the Revised Code, a member of the fund may elect to receive a retirement allowance payable throughout the member's life, or may elect, on the application for retirement, to receive the actuarial equivalent of the member's retirement allowance in a lesser amount payable for life and continuing after death to a surviving designated beneficiar...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, as used in this section, "eligible person" means a person who meets both of the following conditions: (a) The person is receiving an annual pension or benefit under division (A), (B), or (C) of section 742.37 or division (C)(2), (3), (4), or (5) of former section 742.37 of the Revised Code based on an award made prior to July 24, 1986. (b) The person has...

...Whenever the limits established by section 415 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 415, as amended, are raised, the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall increase the amount of the pension, benefit, or allowance of any person whose pension, benefit, or allowance payable under section 742.37, 742.3716, 742.3717, or 742.39 of the Revised Code was limited by the...