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...No title guarantee and trust company shall do business until it has deposited with the superintendent of insurance fifty thousand dollars, in securities permitted by sections 3925.05, 3925.06, and 3925.08 of the Revised Code. The superintendent shall hold such securities deposited with the treasurer of state as security for the faithful performance of all guarantees entered into and all trusts accepted by such compan...

...All companies doing the business of guaranteeing titles to real property shall comply with sections 1735.01 to 1735.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Financial assistance" means grants, loans, loan guarantees, an equity position in a project, or loan subsidies. (B) "Grant" means funding the department of development or the Ohio housing finance agency provides for which the relevant agency does not require repayment. (C) "Housing" means housing for owner-occupancy and multifamily rental housing. (D) "Housing for owner-occupancy...

...(A) The low- and moderate-income housing trust fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund consists of all appropriations made to the fund, housing trust fund fees collected by county recorders pursuant to section 317.36 of the Revised Code and deposited into the fund pursuant to section 319.63 of the Revised Code, and all grants, gifts, loan repayments, and contributions of money made from any source to t...

...(A) The department of development and the Ohio housing finance agency shall each develop programs under which, in accordance with rules adopted under this section, they may make grants, loans, loan guarantees, and loan subsidies to counties, municipal corporations, townships, local housing authorities, and nonprofit organizations and may make loans, loan guarantees, and loan subsidies to private developers and privat...

...(A) The department of development shall make an annual determination of the median income for persons in each county. (B) The director of development shall determine appropriate income limits for identifying or classifying low- and moderate-income persons for the purposes of sections 174.01 to 174.07 of the Revised Code. In making the determination, the director shall take into consideration the amount of income ava...

...(A) Annually, the department of development shall submit a report to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives describing the activities of the department under sections 174.01 to 174.07 of the Revised Code during the previous state fiscal year. (B) Annually, the Ohio housing finance agency shall submit a report to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of repres...

...(A) There is hereby created the housing trust fund advisory committee. The committee consists of the following seven members, appointed by the governor, with advice and consent of the Senate, who possess knowledge and experience with respect to the housing needs of low- and moderate-income persons: (1) One member to represent lenders; (2) One member to represent affordable housing developers; (3) One member to re...

...The department of development, on its own and on the behalf of the Ohio housing finance agency and the Ohio department of aging, shall obtain controlling board approval prior to making any grant, loan, loan guarantee, or loan subsidy greater than fifty thousand dollars from or allocated from the low- and moderate-income housing trust fund.

...As used in Chapter 1746. of the Revised Code, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Business trust" means an unincorporated business association which is created by a trust instrument, pursuant to common law or enabling legislation, under which property is held, managed, administered, controlled, invested, reinvested, and operated, or under which business or professional activities, as permitted by the laws go...

...A business trust is hereby declared to be a permitted form of association for the conduct of business in this state. A business trust is a separate unincorporated legal entity, not a partnership, joint venture, joint-stock association, agency, or any other form of entity.

...No business trust shall be authorized to transact business in this state unless it complies with section 1746.04 of the Revised Code, except that a business trust that is transacting business in this state on the effective date of this section may continue to transact business in this state without complying with this chapter and, if it makes the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code, shall be deem...

...(A) Except as set forth in section 1746.03 of the Revised Code, before transacting business in this state, a business trust shall file in the office of the secretary of state, on forms prescribed by the secretary of state, a report containing the following information: (1) A list of the names and addresses of its trustees; (2) The address of its principal office; (3) In the case of a foreign business trust, th...

...(A) Any person, singly or jointly with others, and without regard to residence or domicile, may form a business trust by signing a trust instrument which shall set forth: (1) The name of the business trust; (2) The place where the principal office of the business trust is to be located; (3) The purpose or purposes for which the business trust is formed, which may consist of a statement that the purpose, either alo...

...(A) No business trust that has made a filing pursuant to section 1746.04 of the Revised Code may use the words "Incorporated," "Corporation," "Inc.," "Co.," "Partnership," "Ltd.," or derivatives thereof in its name. (B) No business trust formed after the effective date of this chapter that has made a filing pursuant to section 1746.04 of the Revised Code shall assume the name of any corporation established under the...

...A trust instrument may be amended in the manner specified in it or in any manner that is valid under the common or statutory law applicable to the business trust created by the instrument.

...(A) Any individual or entity may be a trustee of a business trust; any trustee may own shares, including all of the shares, of the business trust. (B) Unless otherwise set forth in the trust instrument, and notwithstanding section 1746.13 of the Revised Code, a trustee of a business trust that has made the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code shall be liable to the business trust, its shareholder...

...(A) Unless otherwise limited by the trust instrument, a business trust that has made the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code has the following general powers: (1) To make contracts, incur liabilities, lend or borrow money and to receive or give security therefor; to sell, mortgage, lease, pledge, exchange, convey, transfer, and otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property and assets; to ...

...(A) A business trust may take, hold, and dispose of any estate or interest in real or personal property in its business name, or in the name of one or more of its trustees, or in the name of one or more of its nominees. A conveyance to a business trust in its business name shall recite that the grantee is a business trust, and the estate or interest so acquired can be conveyed by the business trust only in its busine...

...Business trusts transacting business in this state are subject to all applicable provisions of law, rules of procedure, and rules of court relating to domestic or foreign corporations, with regard to service of process.

...(A) Unless otherwise provided in the trust instrument, shares of beneficial interest need not be evidenced by certificates. (B) For purposes of Title XIII of the Revised Code, shares of beneficial interest, however designated, in a business trust shall be treated as personal property, notwithstanding the nature of the property of which the business trust shall consist, and shall be subject to attachment and executio...

...(A) Liability to third persons for any act, omission, or obligation of a business trust that has made the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code or a trustee or trustees of a business trust when acting in such capacity, shall extend to the whole of the trust estate held by such trustee or trustees, or so much thereof as may be necessary to discharge such liability, but no such liability shall attach...

...Unless otherwise stated in the trust instrument, a business trust that has made the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code has a perpetual period of existence and is not affected by any rule against perpetuities. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed or interpreted to limit, prohibit, or invalidate any provision of a trust instrument providing that such business trust may be terminate...

...Any business trust that has made the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code may withdraw from this state at any time by filing in the office of the secretary of state a verified copy of a resolution duly adopted by its trustees declaring its intention to withdraw and surrender its authority, accompanied by the fee specified in division (T) of section 111.16 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Any business trust that transacts business in this state in violation of this chapter shall forfeit not less than one thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars. Such forfeiture shall be recovered in an action in the name of the state brought in the court of common pleas of Franklin county, or in the court of common pleas of any county in which the business trust has transacted business or has property or a plac...

...rred to and vested in the department of agriculture.

... (A) "Director" means the director of agriculture or the designee of the director of agriculture. (B) "Exhibition" means a display of animals that is open to the public. (C) "National exhibition" means an exhibition where species from fifteen or more states or nations are exhibited. (D) "Nonprofit association" means any corporation, society, partnership, or other organization formed under the laws of this stat...

...(A) The director of agriculture may provide financial assistance to a statewide, multi-state, or national nonprofit livestock association to defray not more than fifty per cent of the rental costs of the Ohio expositions center for purposes of conducting a livestock species exhibition at the center. In order to obtain financial assistance under this division, a nonprofit livestock association shall apply to the di...

...ns a document issued by the director of agriculture that certifies to states and countries receiving the listed product that the product being exported is freely marketed without restriction in the United States. (B) The director may authorize any department of agriculture laboratory to perform a laboratory service for any person, organization, political subdivision, state agency, federal agency, or other entity, w...

...trative support fund. The department of agriculture shall deposit the following moneys received by the department to the credit of the fund: payment for the rental of the department's auditoriums by outside parties and reimbursement for related utility expenses, laboratory fees that are not designated for deposit into another fund, and other miscellaneous moneys that are not designated for deposit into another fund. ...

...ice in the United States department of agriculture. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the director of agriculture has sole and exclusive authority to regulate invasive plant species in this state, including the identification of invasive plant species and establishment of prohibited activities regarding them. The director may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Cod...

...No person, without privilege to do so, shall recklessly cut down, destroy, girdle, or otherwise injure a vine, bush, shrub, sapling, tree, or crop standing or growing on the land of another or upon public land. In addition to the penalty provided in section 901.99 of the Revised Code, whoever violates this section is liable in treble damages for the injury caused.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Agricultural product" means any of the following items that is produced for testing or research in the context of a product development program in conjunction or coordination with a private research facility, a university, or any federal, state, or local governmental agency or that is produced for personal, commercial, pharmaceutical, or educational purposes: field crop or fi...

...(A) As used in this section, "tort action" has the same meaning as in section 2305.35 of the Revised Code. (B) In a tort action, in the absence of willful or wanton misconduct or intentionally tortious conduct, no owner, lessee, renter, or operator of premises that are open to the public for direct access to growing agricultural produce shall be imputed to do either of the following: (1) Extend any assurance to a p...

...esting, or housing for the purposes of agriculture. (B) With regard to fire prevention and safety, agriculture and agricultural structures are subject only to the state fire code established in rules adopted under section 3737.82 of the Revised Code and not to any other requirements governing fire prevention and safety.

... preservation within the department of agriculture. The office shall do all of the following: (A) Prepare guidelines and criteria for use in the development of comprehensive local land use plans that encourage the efficient use of public infrastructure and the preservation of farmland; (B) Establish a farmland preservation program to coordinate and assist local farmland preservation initiatives; (C) Educate...

...s a beginning farmer by the director of agriculture or a participating land grant college under division (B) of this section or who has received a substantially equivalent certification from the United States department of agriculture. "Beginning farmer" does not include an individual who has previously been certified as a beginning farmer but no longer meets the criteria for certification. (5) "Owner of agricultur...

...is specified by rule of the director of agriculture adopted under section 901.72 of the Revised Code. (B) "Livestock" means any animal generally used for food or in the production of food, including cattle, sheep, goats, rabbits, poultry, swine, and any other animal included by the director by rules adopted under section 901.72 of the Revised Code, alpacas, and llamas. (C) "Sponsor" means any of the following:...

...ers, as follows: (1) The director of agriculture, or the director's designee; (2) The state veterinarian, or the state veterinarian's designee; (3) A representative of the Ohio cattlemen's association, the Ohio purebred dairy cattle association, the Ohio pork producers council, the Ohio poultry association, the Ohio sheep improvement association, the Ohio fair managers association, the Ohio farm bureau feder...

...(A) The director of agriculture, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may adopt rules for the governance and administration of exhibitions, and to provide for related food safety and the health, safety, and welfare of livestock, and may adopt by reference rules adopted by other public or private agencies such as the Ohio farm animal care commission. Rules of the director may specify those grooming, co...

...(A)(1) The director of agriculture may inspect and investigate any matter involving livestock that is not present at an exhibition, but is registered or entered in an exhibition, or raised with the apparent intent of being so registered or entered, when the director reasonably suspects any of the following: (a) There has been a violation of section 901.76 or 2925.09 of the Revised Code or a rule adopted under secti...

...isciplinary action by the department of agriculture for any of the following reasons: (1) The person has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of section 901.76 or 2925.09 of the Revised Code, or has been found by the director of agriculture to have tampered with or sabotaged livestock; (2) The director reasonably suspects that the person's conduct in regard to raising or exhibiting the livestock thr...

...as been disqualified by the director of agriculture under section 901.74 of the Revised Code or has been disqualified from exhibiting livestock by any court having jurisdiction.

... disciplinary action by the director of agriculture under section 901.74 of the Revised Code. (D) This section does not apply to either of the following: (1) Any action taken or activity performed or administered by a licensed veterinarian or in accordance with instructions of a licensed veterinarian if the action or activity was undertaken for accepted medical purposes during the course of a valid veterinarian-cli...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Agricultural production" has the same meaning as in section 929.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Agritourism" means an agriculturally related educational, entertainment, historical, cultural, or recreational activity, including you-pick operations or farm markets, conducted on a farm that allows or invites members of the general public to observe, participate in, or enjoy that activity...

...The director of agriculture may assess the operating funds of the department of agriculture to pay a share of the department's central support and administrative costs. The assessments shall be based on a plan that the director develops. Assessments shall be paid from the funds designated in the plan and credited by means of intrastate transfer voucher to the department of agriculture central support indirect costs f...

...(A) Whoever violates section 901.51 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates section 901.75 or division (C) of section 901.73 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (C) Whoever violates division (A) of section 901.76 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree on a first offense and of a felony of the fourth degree on ea...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Bonds" means bonds, notes, or other forms of evidences of obligation issued in temporary or definitive form, including refunding bonds and notes and bonds and notes issued in anticipation of the issuance of bonds and renewal notes. (B) "Bond proceedings" means the resolution or ordinance or the trust agreement or indenture of mortgage, or combination thereof, authorizing or providing f...

...It is hereby found and determined that agriculture is an essential and indispensable part of the commerce and industry of the state and is of vital importance to the creation and preservation of jobs and employment opportunities and to the improvement of the economic welfare of the people of the state, that agriculture creates, promotes, and is a part of the continuous exchange of goods and services in the state econ...

...Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, is in part implemented by this chapter in furtherance of the public purposes of the state to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities or to improve the economic welfare of the people of the state. Any issuer acting through its issuing authority may in accordance with Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution: (A) Acquire by gift or purchase and hold and ...