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...(A) As used in this section, "state of Ohio coupon bond" means property, tangible or intangible, in the form of a coupon bond and its related interest coupons issued by this state prior to 1985 and to which all of the following apply: (1) It has matured, been called and defeased, or otherwise become due and payable. (2) Either the treasurer of state or the trustee bank is the paying agent. (3) The owner has ...

...(A)(1) Regulations for the government of a corporation, the conduct of its affairs, and the management of its property, consistent with law and the articles, may be adopted, amended, or repealed in any of the following ways: (a) Within ninety days after the corporation is formed, by the directors in accordance with division (A)(1) of section 1701.10 of the Revised Code; (b) By the shareholders at a meeting he...

...(A) A corporation may sue and be sued. (B) A corporation may adopt and alter a corporate seal and use the same or a facsimile of the corporate seal, but failure to affix the corporate seal shall not affect the validity of any instrument. (C) At the request or direction of the United States government or any agency of the United States government, a corporation may transact any lawful business in aid of nation...

...(A) As used in this section "security" means scrip issued in lieu of fractional shares, warrants, and rights to purchase or subscribe for shares, and promissory obligations of a corporation in registered form. (B) A corporation shall incur no liability if: (1) In executing and delivering a certificate for shares or other securities of such corporation, whether upon original issue or transfer thereof, or in transfer...

...(A) Pursuant to an agreement of merger or consolidation between the constituent corporations as provided in this section, a domestic or foreign corporation and, if so provided, one or more additional domestic or foreign corporations may be merged into a domestic surviving corporation, or a domestic corporation together with one or more additional domestic or foreign corporations may be consolidated into a new domesti...

...(A) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, pursuant to a written declaration of conversion as provided in this section, a domestic or foreign entity that is not a domestic corporation and is not a nonprofit corporation may be converted into a domestic corporation. The conversion also must be permitted by the chapter of the Revised Code or by the laws under which the converting entity will exist. (B)(1) T...

...(A) Pursuant to an agreement of merger or consolidation between the constituent corporations as provided in this section, a domestic corporation and, if so provided, one or more additional domestic or foreign corporations may be merged into a foreign surviving corporation, or a domestic corporation together with one or more additional domestic or foreign corporations may be consolidated into a new foreign corporation...

...(A) A corporation that has given notice under division (A) of section 1701.87 of the Revised Code may reject, in whole or in part, any matured claim made by a claimant by sending notice of the rejection by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, to the claimant within ninety days after receipt of the claim and at least thirty days before the expiration of the five-year period specified in divisi...

...(A) Except as provided in sections 1701.01 to 1701.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the provisions of said sections shall apply only to domestic corporations, and except as otherwise provided in this section, the provisions of said sections shall apply to all domestic corporations, whether formed under said sections or under previous laws of this state. (B) Special provisions in the Revised Code for the organizat...

...(A) Unless another form of notice is required by the articles, the regulations, the bylaws, or by applicable law, any notice required by this chapter shall be in writing and shall be delivered personally or sent by telegram, by the use of authorized communications equipment, or by United States mail, express mail, or courier service, with postage or fees prepaid. (B) In computing the period of time for the giving of...

...(A) A corporation may sue and be sued. (B) A corporation may adopt and alter a corporate seal and use it or a facsimile of it, but failure to affix the corporate seal shall not affect the validity of any instrument. (C) Unless otherwise provided in the articles, a corporation may take property of any description, or any interest in property, by gift, devise, or bequest. (D) Subject to limitations prescribed b...

...(A) A corporation may be dissolved voluntarily in the manner provided in this section. (B) A resolution of dissolution for a corporation shall set forth: (1) That the corporation elects to be dissolved; (2) Any additional provision deemed necessary with respect to the proposed dissolution and winding up. (C) The directors may adopt a resolution of dissolution in the following cases: (1) When the corporation...

...(A) Except as provided in sections 1702.01 to 1702.58 of the Revised Code, the provisions of those sections shall apply only to domestic corporations, and except as otherwise provided in this section, the provisions of those sections shall apply to all domestic corporations, whether formed under those sections or under previous laws of this state. (B) Special provisions in the Revised Code for the organization, cond...

...(A) If the laws of the United States prohibit, preempt, or otherwise eliminate the licensing requirement of sections 1703.01 to 1703.31 of the Revised Code with respect to a corporation that is a bank, savings bank, or savings and loan association chartered under the laws of the United States, the main office of which is located in another state, the bank, savings bank, or savings and loan association shall no...

...Any person intending to organize a corporation under the laws of another state, or any foreign corporation intending to transact business in this state or intending to change its name, may file in the office of the secretary of state, in writing and on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, an application for the exclusive use of a name to be used by that proposed or existing foreign corporation. If the secret...

...No foreign corporation shall transact in this state any business that could not be lawfully transacted by a domestic corporation. Whenever the secretary of state finds that a foreign corporation licensed to transact business in this state is transacting in this state a business that a domestic corporation could not lawfully transact, is transacting business in this state in a corporate name that is not readily distin...

...No foreign nonprofit corporation shall exercise its corporate privileges in this state in a continual course of transactions until it has first procured from the secretary of state a certificate authorizing it to do so. Before issuing such certificate, the secretary of state shall require such foreign corporation to file in the secretary of state's office a certificate of good standing or subsistence, setting forth...

...(A) A limited liability company is a separate legal entity. A limited liability company's status for tax purposes shall not affect its status as a separate legal entity formed under this chapter. (B) A limited liability company has perpetual duration.

...(A) This chapter shall be construed to give maximum effect to the principles of freedom of contract and to the enforceability of operating agreements. (B) Unless displaced by particular provisions of this chapter, principles of law and equity supplement this chapter. (C) Rules that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed shall have no application to this chapter. (D) Sections 1309....

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, both of the following apply: (1) An operating agreement governs relations among the members as members and between the members and the limited liability company. (2) To the extent that an operating agreement does not otherwise provide for a matter described in division (A)(1) of this section, this chapter governs the matter. (B)(1) To th...

...(A) The articles of organization may be amended at any time. (B) The articles of organization may be restated with or without amendment at any time. (C) To amend its articles of organization, a limited liability company shall deliver to the secretary of state for filing, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, a certificate of amendment containing both of the following information: (1) The name and regi...

...(A) Each record authorized or required to be delivered to the secretary of state for filing under this chapter shall meet all of the following requirements: (1) The record shall contain all information required by the law of this state to be contained in the record but, unless otherwise provided by law, shall not be required to contain other information. (2) The record shall be on or in a medium and in such form ...

...(A) The secretary of state, upon request and payment of the requisite fee, shall furnish to any person a certificate of full force and effect for a limited liability company if the records filed in the office of the secretary of state show that the limited liability company has been formed under the laws of this state. A certificate of full force and effect shall state all of the following: (1) The limited liabilit...

...A person named in a filed statement of authority may deliver to the secretary of state for filing on a form prescribed by the secretary of state a statement of denial that does both of the following: (A) States the name and registration number of the limited liability company and the date of filing of the statement of authority to which the statement of denial pertains; (B) Denies the person's authority.

...(A) An assignment, in whole or in part, of a membership interest: (1) Is permissible; (2)(a) Does not by itself cause a member to cease to be a member of the limited liability company; (b) Does not by itself cause a member to cease to be associated with a series of the limited liability company. (3) Does not by itself cause a dissolution and winding up of the limited liability company, or a series thereof; ...

...ent and stop any improper practices or attempts tending to obstruct, intimidate, or interfere with any elector in registering or voting. They shall protect observers against molestation and violence in the performance of their duties, and may eject from the polling place any observer for violation of any provision of Title XXXV of the Revised Code. They shall prevent riots, violence, tumult, or disorder. In th...

...to cast; (5) Solicit or in any manner attempt to influence any elector in casting the elector's vote. (B)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(2) of this section and division (C) of section 3503.23 of the Revised Code, no person who is not an election official, employee, observer, or police officer shall be allowed to enter the polling place during the election, except for the purpose of voting or ...

...t a ballot and for which the individual attempted to cast a provisional ballot. The remade ballot shall be counted for each office, question, and issue for which the individual was eligible to vote. (3) If an individual cast a provisional ballot in a precinct in which the individual is not registered and eligible to vote and in the incorrect polling location for the precinct in which the individual is registered an...

...any such official doubts that a person attempting to vote at a primary election is legally entitled to vote at that election, to challenge the right of that person to vote. The right of a person to vote at a primary election may be challenged upon the following grounds: (1) That the person whose right to vote is challenged is not a legally qualified elector; (2) That the person has received or has been promis...

...he campaign committee of any person who attempts to become a candidate and who, for any reason, does not become certified in accordance with Title XXXV of the Revised Code for placement on the official ballot of a primary, general, or special election to be held in this state, and who, at any time prior to or after an election, receives contributions or makes expenditures, or has given consent for another to receive ...

..., or the treasurer of a transition fund attempted to file by electronic means of transmission the required statement prior to the deadline set forth in the applicable section. (2) The campaign committee, political action committee, political contributing entity, legislative campaign fund, or political party, the individual, partnership, or other entity, the person making disbursements to pay the direct costs of prod...

...rmal schooling or training completed or attempted by a candidate; a degree, diploma, certificate, scholarship, grant, award, prize, or honor received, earned, or held by a candidate; or the period of time during which a candidate attended any school, college, community technical school, or institution; (3) Make a false statement concerning the professional, occupational, or vocational licenses held by a candidate, ...

...elegate, elector, or other person; (2) Attempt by intimidation, coercion, or other unlawful means to induce such delegate or elector to register or refrain from registering or to vote or refrain from voting at a primary, convention, or election for a particular person, question, or issue; (3) Advance, pay, or cause to be paid or procure or offer to procure money or other valuable thing to or for the use of another,...

...ise, or compensation for influencing or attempting to influence votes through any printing matter, except through matter inserted in such publication as "paid advertisement" and so designated. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a corrupt practice and shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.

...cial returns, or add to or take away or attempt to add to or take away any ballot from those legally polled at such election; (D) Carry away, destroy, or mutilate any registration cards or forms, pollbooks, or other records of any election; (E) Act as an election official in any capacity in an election, except as specifically authorized in his official capacity; (F) In any other way willfully and knowingly or unla...

... in time to be counted; (6) Hinder or attempt to hinder the delivery or counting of such absent voter's ballot; (7) Fail to forward to the appropriate election official an absent voter's ballot application entrusted to that person to so forward; (8) Fail to forward to the appropriate election official an absent voter's ballot application entrusted to that person to so forward within ten days after that applicat...

...to vote in it; (3) Counsel, advise, or attempt to induce an election officer to permit a person to vote, knowing such person is not a qualified elector. (B) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree.

... for registration, registering, or from attempting to vote or voting; or knowingly print or distribute a ballot contrary to law. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.

...aving the polling place, soliciting or attempting, within one hundred feet of the polling place, to influence an elector in casting the elector's vote, or interfering with the registration of voters or casting and counting of the ballots. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...f election, shall unlawfully destroy or attempt to destroy the ballots, or permit such ballots or a ballot box or pollbook used at an election to be destroyed; or destroy, falsify, mark, or write in a name on any such ballot that has been voted. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.

...nowingly or fraudulently act or vote or attempt to impersonate, act, or vote in place of that committeeperson, delegate, or alternate. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...itted at an election; (2) Influence or attempt to influence any voter to cast the voter's ballot for or against any candidate or issue submitted at an election. (B) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...n; (c) The plaintiff made a reasonable attempt to have the defendant submit to HIV testing in accordance with section 3701.242 of the Revised Code, and notified the defendant that the plaintiff would bring an action under this section on the defendant's refusal or failure to be tested, but the defendant has not been tested; (d) Within seven days after the exposure, the plaintiff took an HIV test. In the compla...

...ary sheet, the health care entity shall attempt to obtain the mother's consent to do so, but lack of consent shall not preclude the entity from submitting the summary sheet. (3) For purposes of the review, the director shall have access to confidential information provided to the director under this section or division (I)(4) of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code, and the director shall preserve the confidentialit...

... father is not the man who signed or is attempting to sign an acknowledgment with respect to the child, the local registrar shall not notarize, witness, or send the acknowledgment pursuant to this section. (B) The local registrar of vital statistics shall provide an acknowledgment of paternity affidavit described in division (A) of this section to any person that requests it. (C) The department of health shall ...

... Fraudulently or deceptively obtains or attempts to obtain a license or certificate; (B) Fails at any time to meet the qualifications for a license or certificate; (C) Is violating or threatening to violate any provisions of any of the following: (1) This chapter, Chapters 3704. and 3745. of the Revised Code, or the rules of the director adopted pursuant to those chapters, as those chapters and rules pertain to...

...vised Code if the individual makes any attempt to deceive the program about the individual's criminal record. (D)(1) Each hospice care program or pediatric respite care program shall pay to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation the fee prescribed pursuant to division (C)(3) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code for each criminal records check conducted pursuant to a request made under divisi...

...at is licensed under this chapter shall attempt to remove all solid wastes from construction and demolition debris prior to the disposal of the construction and demolition debris on the working face of the facility. Except as otherwise provided in this division, the existence of solid wastes on the working face of a construction and demolition debris facility does not constitute a violation of this chapter and rules ...

...ation is accessible, make a reasonable attempt to ensure that no individual purchases or receives an amount of pseudoephedrine product or ephedrine product that is greater than either of the following: (i) Three and six tenths grams within a period of a single day; (ii) Nine grams within a period of thirty consecutive days. The maximum amounts specified in divisions (B)(2)(b)(i) and (ii) of this section apply...

...evised Code. No person shall obtain or attempt to obtain, under the exemptions of section 3719.15 of the Revised Code, more than one preparation exempted by the provisions of that section within forty-eight consecutive hours.