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...No person shall do any of the following: (A) Procure or attempt to procure a certificate of title to a watercraft or outboard motor, or pass or attempt to pass a certificate of title or any assignment of a certificate of title to a watercraft or outboard motor, or in any other manner gain or attempt to gain ownership of a watercraft or outboard motor, knowing or having reason to believe that the watercraft or...

...The operator of any coal mine or the owner of land bearing natural coal deposits immediately upon learning of a fire in any coal seam upon the operator's or owner's property shall report the fire to the chief of the division of mineral resources management. When a coal seam fire is reported to the chief, the chief shall immediately investigate such fire. In the event of a fire in any outcrop of a coal seam or in an ...

...The disclosure document provided to each prospective purchaser through an OhioInvests portal shall contain all of the following: (A) The following information regarding the OhioInvests issuer: (1) The type of entity it is; (2) The address and telephone number of its principal office; (3) Its formation history for the previous five years; (4) The identity of all persons owning more than ten per cent of any c...

...(A) Except for offering materials filed with the division of securities in connection with exempt transactions under divisions (Q) and (W) of section 1707.03 of the Revised Code, all applications and other papers filed with the division shall be open to inspection at all reasonable times, except for unreasonable or improper purposes. (B) Information obtained by the division through any offering materials filed with...

...tate for, and upon proof of any of such offenses such court shall grant an injunction restraining such person and its agents, employees, partners, officers, directors, and shareholders from continuing, engaging in, or doing any acts in furtherance of, such acts, practices, or transactions, and may order such other equitable relief as the facts warrant.

...In any prosecution brought under sections 1707.01 to 1707.50 of the Revised Code, except prosecutions brought for violation of division (A) of section 1707.042 of the Revised Code, the accused shall be deemed to have had knowledge of any matter of fact, where in the exercise of reasonable diligence, the accused should, prior to the alleged commission of the offense in question, have secured such knowledge.

...On the application of a state, county, township, or independent agricultural society, of an industrial association, or of any other association or meeting of citizens for the purpose of promoting social or literary intercourse, a judge of a county court or judge of a municipal court having jurisdiction may appoint a suitable number of special constables to assist in keeping the peace during the time when such society...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Political subdivision" means a county, municipal corporation, or township. (2) "Private college or university" means a college or university that has all of the following characteristics: (a) It is not owned or controlled by the state or any political subdivision of the state. (b) It provides a program of education in residence leading to a baccalaureate degree or provides a prog...

...As used in this chapter: (A)(1) "Charitable organization" means either of the following: (a) Any person that is determined by the internal revenue service to be a tax exempt organization pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; (b) Any person that is or holds itself out to be established for any benevolent, philanthropic, patriotic, educational, humane, scientific, public health, environmenta...

...(A) No person shall act as a fund-raising counsel unless the person first has complied with the requirements of this chapter and any rules adopted under this chapter. (B) Any fund-raising counsel that at any time has custody of contributions from a solicitation shall do all of the following: (1) Not later than ninety days after a solicitation campaign has been completed and on the anniversary of the commencement ...

...(A) No professional solicitor shall engage in any solicitation unless it has complied with the requirements of this chapter and any rules adopted under this chapter. (B) Every professional solicitor, before engaging in any solicitation, shall register with the attorney general. Applications for registration or renewal of registration shall be in writing, under oath, and in the form prescribed by the attorney genera...

...(A) The office of a director becomes vacant if he dies or resigns. Any resignation takes effect immediately or at such other time as the director specifies in a written resignation. (B) The directors shall remove any director and thereby create a vacancy on the board: (1) If, by order of court, he is found to be of unsound mind, or if he is convicted of a felony or any criminal offense involving dishonesty or breac...

...(A) The officers of the credit union shall consist of a president, a secretary, a treasurer, and, if desired, a chairman of the board, a vice chairman of the board, one or more vice-presidents, and such other officers and assistant officers as is provided for in the regulations, bylaws, or by resolution of the board of directors. The officers shall be elected by directors. The chairman and vice chairman of the board ...

...When a corporation organized for constructing and conducting a museum for the exhibition and preservation of works of nature and art and for instruction in connection therewith a public hall of any kind, or a park, pond, or rink for skating or other lawful sports, or organized for holding fairs, festivals, public meetings, concerts, or lawful entertainments of any kind, provides in its articles of incorporation that ...

...he investigation and prosecution of any offenses comprising organized criminal activity. (C)(1) If an organized crime task force, either prior to the commencement of or during the course of its investigation of organized criminal activity in a single county or in two or more counties, has reason to believe that the investigation will require it to engage in substantial investigative activities in a particular munici...

...(A) No person, with purpose to corrupt a director, officer, or employee of JobsOhio, shall promise, offer, or give any valuable thing or valuable benefit. (B) No person who is a director, officer, or employee of JobsOhio, either before or after being appointed, qualified, or employed in that capacity, shall knowingly solicit or accept for self or another person any valuable thing or valuable benefit to corrup...

...eceding calendar year that arose out of offenses that occurred in the municipal corporation or township and the total number of civil cases filed in the municipal court during the preceding calendar year in which the address of the majority of the defendants that are designated in the caption of the case and that have addresses within municipal corporations or townships within the territory of the court is within the...

...In addition to other jurisdiction granted a municipal court in the Revised Code, a municipal court has jurisdiction over violations of township resolutions adopted pursuant to section 503.52 or 503.53 or Chapter 504. of the Revised Code. For procedural purposes, a case in which a person is charged with a violation of a township resolution shall be treated as a civil case, except as otherwise provided in the Revised ...

...(A)(1) The municipal court has jurisdiction to hear misdemeanor cases committed within its territory and has jurisdiction over the violation of any ordinance of any municipal corporation within its territory, including exclusive jurisdiction over every civil action concerning a violation of a state traffic law or a municipal traffic ordinance. The municipal court does not have jurisdiction over a violation that is re...

...(A) In Georgetown in Brown county, in Mount Gilead in Morrow county, in any municipal corporation located entirely on an island in Lake Erie, and in all other municipal corporations having a population of more than two hundred, other than Batavia in Clermont county, not being the site of a municipal court nor a place where a judge of the Auglaize county, Crawford county, Jackson county, Miami county, Montgomery count...

...In addition to other jurisdiction granted a county court in the Revised Code, a county court has jurisdiction over violations of township resolutions adopted pursuant to section 503.52 or 503.53 or Chapter 504. of the Revised Code. For procedural purposes, a case in which a person is charged with the violation of a township resolution shall be treated as a civil case, except as otherwise provided in the Revised Code ...

...(A)(1) In addition to other jurisdiction granted a county court in the Revised Code, a county court has jurisdiction of all misdemeanor cases. A county court has jurisdiction to conduct preliminary hearings in felony cases, to bind over alleged felons to the court of common pleas, and to take other action in felony cases as authorized by Criminal Rule 5. (2) A judge of a county court does not have the authority to d...

...(A) Notwithstanding the time-for-service of a summons provision of division (A) of section 1923.06 of the Revised Code, if the complaint described in section 1923.05 of the Revised Code that is filed by a landlord in an action under this chapter states that the landlord seeks a judgment of restitution based on the grounds specified in divisions (A)(6)(a) and (b) of section 1923.02 of the Revised Code, then the clerk ...

...A husband or wife who leaves the other and dwells in adultery will be barred from dower in the real property of the other, unless the offense is condoned by the injured consort.

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, no person who is convicted of, pleads guilty to, or is found not guilty by reason of insanity of a violation of or complicity in the violation of section 2903.01, 2903.02, or 2903.03 of the Revised Code or a violation of division (A) of section 2903.04 of the Revised Code that is not a proximate result of a felony violation of section 2903.06 of the Revised Cod...