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...(A) There is hereby created the broadcast educational media commission as an independent agency to advance education and accelerate the learning of the citizens of this state through public educational broadcasting services. The commission shall provide leadership and support in extending the knowledge of the citizens of this state by promoting access to and use of educational broadcasting services, including educati...

...(A) The broadcast educational media commission shall appoint an executive director, who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. The executive director shall have no authority other than that provided by law or delegated to the executive director by the commission. The executive director shall do all of the following: (1) Direct the administration of all programs of the commission; (2) Provide leadersh...

...(A) The broadcast educational media commission may perform any act necessary to carry out the functions of this chapter, including any of the following: (1) Promote accessibility through broadcasting services of educational products aligned with the statewide academic standards, adopted by the state board pursuant to section 3301.079 of the Revised Code, for school districts, community schools, and other enti...

...(A) The affiliates services fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The broadcast educational media commission shall deposit any money it receives for services provided to affiliates to the credit of the fund, including: (1) Reimbursements for services provided to stations; (2) Charges levied for maintenance of telecommunications, broadcasting, or transmission equipment; (3) Contract or grant payments f...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Educational television or radio" means television or radio programs which serve the educational needs of the community and which meet the requirements of the federal communications commission for noncommercial educational television or radio. (B) "Educational telecommunications network" means a system of connected educational television, radio, or radio reading service facilities an...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "One unit" means a minimum of one hundred twenty hours of course instruction, except that for a laboratory course, "one unit" means a minimum of one hundred fifty hours of course instruction. (2) "One-half unit" means a minimum of sixty hours of course instruction, except that for physical education courses, "one-half unit" means a minimum of one hundred twenty hours of course i...

...For the purpose of providing revenue with which to meet the needs of the state, for the use of the general revenue fund of the state, for the purpose of securing a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state, for the purpose of affording revenues, in addition to those from general property taxes, permitted under constitutional limitations, and from other sources, for the support of local gove...

...opt rules establishing requirements for reporting or providing the names and amounts of extremely hazardous substances or hazardous chemicals produced, used, or stored at facilities within its emergency planning district; for the reporting or providing of information regarding locations where those substances or chemicals are stored at those facilities; or for the reporting of releases of extremely hazardous substanc...

...users of such information by a consumer reporting agency, as defined in the "Fair Credit Reporting Act," 84 Stat. 1114, 1129 (1970), 15 U.S.C. 1681a(f), or as hereafter amended, including but not limited to gathering, organizing, analyzing, recording, and furnishing such information by any oral, written, graphic, or electronic medium; (j) Providing debt collection services by any oral, written, graphic, or electro...

...(A) There is hereby created in the division of financial institutions a banking commission which shall consist of nine members. The deputy superintendent for banks shall be a member of the commission and its chairperson. The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint the remaining eight members. (B) After the second Monday in January of each year, the governor shall appoint two members. Terms...

...(A) The banking commission shall hold regular meetings at the times and places it fixes, and shall meet at any time on call of the deputy superintendent for banks upon two days' notice unless the commission by resolution provides for a shorter notice. (B) A majority of the full commission constitutes a quorum, and action taken by a majority of those present at a meeting at which there is a quorum constitutes the act...

...The banking commission shall do all of the following: (A) Make recommendations to the deputy superintendent for banks and the superintendent of financial institutions on the business of banking; (B) Consider and make recommendations on any matter the superintendent or deputy superintendent submits to the commission for that purpose; (C) Pass upon and determine any matter the superintendent or deputy superintendent...

...Neither the deputy superintendent for banks nor any other member of the banking commission is liable, in any civil or criminal action or proceeding, for any mistake of judgment or discretion in any action taken, or in any omission made, by the member in good faith.

...The board of commissioners of the sinking fund shall be composed of the governor, treasurer of state, auditor of state, secretary of state, and the attorney general. The auditor of state shall be president, and the secretary of state shall be secretary of the board. The board may appoint a clerk who shall be paid from the sinking fund.

...When due, the board of commissioners of the sinking fund shall pay the interest on the bonded debt of the state, the certificates of bonded debt, and at all times preserve the good faith and credit of the state.

...If the principal of, or interest on, the bonded debt of the state is about to become due and the money in the state treasury to the credit of the sinking fund is insufficient for the payment thereof, the commissioners of the sinking fund shall file with the director of budget and management a written notice of the amount of the deficiency. The director shall obtain sufficient funds to eliminate the deficiency by mean...

...The sinking fund of the state shall consist of the proceeds of sales of lands appropriated by congress for the support of schools or for ministerial purposes, except as otherwise provided by law, the proceeds of any sale of public works or of any part thereof, except as otherwise provided by law, and the moneys raised by taxation as required by Section 7 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution.

...Funds belonging to the sinking fund shall be applied to the payment of the principal and interest of the bonded debt of the state, and to the expenses of such payment.

...Interest on the bonded debt of the state shall be paid to the owner of bonds or certificates evidencing such debt, or to such owner's agent, attorney, or legal representative.

...The board of commissioners of the sinking fund, at periods, previous to and near the time when any portion of the bonded debt of the state becomes payable, according to the terms expressed upon the face of the certificates thereof and in accordance with law, shall issue certificates of the bonded debt of the state of such numbers and in such amount as will be sufficient from the proceeds thereof to redeem so much of ...

...The books, records, documents, accounts, vouchers, and the business of the board of commissioners of the sinking fund, and everything belonging or appertaining thereto, shall at all times be subject to examination by any committee or commission appointed by the general assembly, or by either branch thereof, or by the governor, or treasurer of state, in person, or any person appointed by them, or either of them. When ...

...The commissioners of the sinking fund shall, in order to comply with the requirements of Section 11, Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, semiannually make a full and detailed report of their proceedings to the governor and to the general assembly, to include the following: (A) The principal amount of obligations issued and sold during the semiannual period under authority of Sections 1, 2, and 2a to 2i, inclusive, of A...

...(A) The secretary of state may appoint and commission as notaries public as many persons who meet the qualifications of division (B) of this section as the secretary of state considers necessary. (B) In order for a person to qualify to be appointed and commissioned as a notary public, except as provided in division (F) of this section, the person shall demonstrate to the secretary of state that the person satisfie...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Acknowledgment" means a declaration by an individual before a notary public that the individual has signed a record for the purpose stated in the record, and if the record is signed in a representative capacity, that the individual signed the record with proper authority and signed it as the act of the individual or entity identified in the record. (B) "Criminal records check" has th...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(4) of section 147.01 of the Revised Code, no person shall be appointed as a notary public unless that person has completed an educational program related to the requirements of this chapter and passed a test demonstrating knowledge of such requirements. (2) The secretary of state may authorize that such a program be completed online. (B) The secretary of state shall adopt, ...