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...(A) Pursuant to the general assembly's authority to establish a minimum wage under Section 34 of Article II, Ohio Constitution, this section is in implementation of Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution. In implementing Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution, the general assembly hereby finds that the purpose of Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution, is to: (1) Ensure that Ohio employees, as defi...

...(A) No employer, including the state and political subdivisions thereof, shall discriminate in the payment of wages on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry by paying wages to any employee at a rate less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to another employee for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are ...

...(A) Whoever violates division (A) or (D) of section 4111.13 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates division (B) or (C) of section 4111.13 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (C) Whoever violates section 4111.17 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

...(A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Person" includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, and other organized groups of persons. "Person" also includes, but is not limited to, any owner, lessor, assignor, builder, manager, broker, salesperson, appraiser, agent, employee, lending institution, and the state ...

...It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice: (A) For any employer, because of the race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry of any person, to discharge without just cause, to refuse to hire, or otherwise to discriminate against that person with respect to hire, tenure, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, or any matter directly or indirectly related to...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Credit" means the right granted by a creditor to a person to defer payment of a debt, to incur debt and defer its payment, or to purchase property or services and defer payment for the property or services. (2) "Creditor" means any person who regularly extends, renews, or continues credit, any person who regularly arranges for the extension, renewal, or continuation of credit, o...

...As used in this section, "educational institution" means a state university or college, state-assisted institution of higher education, nonprofit educational institution described in Chapter 1713. of the Revised Code, or institution registered under Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any educational institution to discriminate against any individual on account of a...

...The decision of Fisher v. Peters, 249 F.3d 433 (6th Cir. 2001), which held that if a person's civilian job is inherently military, the person must pursue military, rather than civilian, channels when pursuing employment discrimination claims, shall be applied when construing the prohibitions contained in this chapter against discrimination on the basis of a person's military status.

...(A) Nothing in division (H) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code shall bar any religious or denominational institution or organization, or any nonprofit charitable or educational organization that is operated, supervised, or controlled by or in connection with a religious organization, from limiting the sale, rental, or occupancy of housing accommodations that it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose...

...There is hereby created the Ohio civil rights commission to consist of five members, not more than three of whom shall be of the same political party, to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, one of whom shall be designated by the governor as chairman. At least one member shall be at least sixty years of age. Terms of office shall be for five years, commencing on the twenty-ninth d...

...(A) The commission shall do all of the following: (1) Establish and maintain a principal office in the city of Columbus and any other offices within the state that it considers necessary; (2) Appoint an executive director who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission and be its principal administrative officer. The executive director shall be paid a salary fixed pursuant to Chapter 124. of the Revised Code....

...(A)(1) With the exception of unlawful discriminatory practices relating to employment, the commission, as provided in this section, shall prevent any person from engaging in unlawful discriminatory practices. (2) The commission may at any time attempt to resolve allegations of unlawful discriminatory practices other than allegations concerning unlawful discriminatory practices relating to employment by the use of a...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Complainant" means a person who files a charge under this section. (2) "Respondent" means a person who is the subject of a charge filed under this section. (B) The Ohio civil rights commission, as provided in this section, shall prevent any person from engaging in unlawful discriminatory practices relating to employment. The commission may at any time attempt to resolve allegat...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, and except as provided in division (D)(2) of section 4112.14 of the Revised Code, a person alleging an unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment in violation of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code may bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction. (B)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(2) of this section, a person may file a civil a...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Tangible employment action" means an action resulting in a significant change in employment status, such as hiring, firing, failing to promote, reassignment with significantly different responsibilities, or a decision causing a significant change in benefits. (2) "Hostile work environment sexual harassment claim" means a charge filed pursuant to section 4112.051 of the Revised Co...

...(A)(1) Aggrieved persons may enforce the rights granted by division (H) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code by filing a civil action in the court of common pleas of the county in which the alleged unlawful discriminatory practice occurred within one year after it allegedly occurred. Upon application by an aggrieved person, upon a proper showing, and under circumstances that it considers just, a court of common ple...

...Whenever the Ohio civil rights commission has reasonable cause to believe that any person or persons are engaged in a pattern or practice of resistance to a person or persons' full enjoyment of the rights granted by division (H) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code, or that any group of persons has been denied any of the rights granted by that division and the denial raises an issue of public importance, the commis...

...(A) Any complainant, or respondent claiming to be aggrieved by a final order of the commission, including a refusal to issue a complaint, may obtain judicial review thereof, and the commission may obtain an order of court for the enforcement of its final orders, in a proceeding as provided in this section. Such proceeding shall be brought in the common pleas court of the state within any county wherein the unlawful d...

...(A) The commission, in its discretion, may appeal from an adverse judgment rendered by a court. The appeal shall proceed as in the case of appeals in civil actions as provided in the Rules of Appellate Procedure and, to the extent not in conflict with those rules, Chapter 2505. of the Revised Code. The appeal by the commission shall be taken on questions of law relating to the constitutionality, construction, or inte...

...Every person subject to division (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code shall post in a conspicuous place or places on the person's premises, or on the internet in a manner that is accessible to the public, a notice to be prepared or approved by the commission that shall set forth excerpts of this chapter and other relevant information that the commission deems necessary to explain this cha...

...(A) This chapter shall be construed liberally for the accomplishment of its purposes, and any law inconsistent with any provision of this chapter shall not apply. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be considered to repeal any of the provisions of any law of this state relating to discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, disability, national origin, age, or ancestry....

...The executive director, administrative law judge, compliance officer, each field investigator, field coordinator, mediator, regional director, and supervisor of the Ohio civil rights commission, and any person appointed and commissioned as a notary public in this state, with respect to matters relating to official duties, may administer oaths, take affidavits, and acknowledgements, and attest the execution of any i...

...The attorney general shall conduct all litigation in which the Ohio civil rights commission participates as a party pursuant to Chapter 4112. of the Revised Code.

...(A) No person shall willfully fail or neglect to attend and testify or answer any lawful inquiry or produce records, documents, or other evidence, if in his power to do so, in obedience to a subpoena or lawful order of the Ohio civil rights commission. (B) No person shall, with intent to mislead the commission, make or cause to be made any false entry or statement of fact in any report, account, record, or other doc...

...(A) There is hereby created the commission on African-Americans, which shall consist of not more than fourteen members as follows: the directors or their designees of the departments of health, development, mental health and addiction services, children and youth, and job and family services; the chancellor of higher education or the chancellor's designee; the director of education and workforce; two members of the h...

...On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a license issued pursuant to this chapter.

...(A) Whoever violates division (D) or (F) of section 918.02, division (A) or (B) of section 918.11, or section 918.03, 918.05, 918.06, 918.08, 918.12, 918.24, 918.26, 918.30, or 918.31 of the Revised Code, or any rules adopted under section 918.04, 918.11, or 918.25 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on a second offense and each subsequent offense, such person is guilty of a misdemean...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Horse meat market" means any establishment in which the parts of horses are processed and sold, or exposed or offered for sale at retail for human food other than a horse slaughterhouse. (B) "Establishment" includes all premises where horses or parts thereof are processed and sold, or exposed or offered for sale at retail for human food such as canneries, sausage factories, rendering, ...

...Any person responsible for the operation of any establishment in which horses or parts thereof are processed and sold, exposed, or offered for sale at retail for human food, shall register with the department of agriculture and secure from the director of agriculture a license to operate each separate establishment in which horses or parts thereof are processed and sold, exposed, or offered for sale at retail. No per...

...All horse carcasses, horse meat, and horse meat food products sold, or exposed or offered for sale at retail in this state shall be labeled by the processor thereof to show his name and address and the name of the carcasses, horse meat, and horse meat food product.

...The director of agriculture shall prescribe the wording of a sanitary or wholesomeness inspection stamp used on a horse carcass, horse meat, or horse meat food product or on the covering, wrapper, or container of such commodity when the commodity is intended for human food that is processed, sold, exposed, or offered for sale at retail in the state. The wording of the stamp shall specify that a sanitary inspection or...

...No person shall deface, alter, or remove any slaughterer or processor identification labels, or of any impression made by a horse meat inspection stamp affixed on any horse carcass, horse meat, or on any horse meat food product by any qualified official of the state, by any municipal inspection service, or by any district health inspection service approved by the director of agriculture, so as in any manner to cause ...

...it for human consumption, into feed for animals other than man, tankage, fertilizers, soap, or other nonedible commodities, the court, after entry of the decree and payment of the costs, fees, and expenses, and the posting of a sufficient bond guaranteeing that the detained product shall be so processed, reprocessed, labeled, or branded, may order that custody of the detained carcass, meat, or product be delivered to...

...No proprietor, manager, or person in charge of a meat market, hotel, restaurant, lunchroom, cafeteria, or eating house, industrial, fraternal, educational, or otherwise, in which meals are served to the public, shall therein sell, serve, or use in cooking for consumption by the public, on or off the premises, horse meat or horse meat food products, without posting a sign in a conspicuous place, which shall be white a...

...Any establishment or place where horse meat or horse meat food products are processed, handled, transported, sold, exposed, or offered for sale at retail for human food shall be maintained and operated in a sanitary manner to prevent contamination of the food commodities that might render them unfit for human consumption. If such an establishment is maintained or operated in an unsanitary manner that causes or permit...

...The director of agriculture shall make all necessary investigations pertinent to enforcement of this chapter, and for that purpose shall have access at all reasonable hours to any building, room, vehicle, ship, or other premises in which any horse carcass, horse meat, or horse meat food product is processed, packed, transported, sold, exposed, or offered for sale at retail. No person shall deny access to the director...

...ated by the director; any meat of other animals; or any substance unfit for human food or dangerous to human health. The director may seize and destroy, without compensation to the owner, any unlawful ingredient, chemical, preservative, or product to which any unlawful ingredient has been added.

...No person shall mix horse meat with the parts of any other animal, sell, offer, or expose for sale any such mixture for human consumption within this state. No person shall sell for human consumption the tongue, diaphragm, heart, esophagus, lips, ears, or glands of a horse, nor shall these parts of a horse be included in a horse meat food product intended for human consumption. Any horse carcass, horse meat, or hor...

...Any person who sells at retail any horse carcass or horse meat for human consumption in a lot exceeding five pounds in weight in any one day to any individual shall make and keep for one year from the date of sale a record of each sale including the date of sale, the name and address of the purchaser, and the quantity sold. All such records shall be open for inspection by the director of agriculture during any regula...

...No person responsible for the operation of any establishment is subject to this chapter or rules adopted pursuant thereto, if he operates the establishment under the jurisdiction of the federal inspection service, a district health department inspection service, or a municipal inspection service that has been approved by the director of agriculture and has been designated as an exempted inspection service.

...The responsible head of any federal inspection service, district health department inspection service, or municipal inspection service may make application annually to the director of agriculture for designation of the organization which he represents as being qualified for an exempted inspection service status if he furnishes all pertinent information required by the director. If the director determines that the ap...

...The director of agriculture shall enforce this chapter and, subject to the provisions of Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may adopt such reasonable rules pertaining to commodity labeling, sanitary standards for the processing of horse meat, or the sanitary condition and wholesomeness of horse meat food products intended for human consumption, or otherwise, as are considered necessary to carry this chapter into full ...

...Possession by any person of any horse carcass, dressed horse meat, or any horse meat food product constitutes prima-facie evidence that such commodity is for sale; provided, that this section does not apply to any person who has purchased dressed horse meat or horse meat food products for his personal consumption.

...The attorney general or the prosecuting attorney or city director of law to whom the director of agriculture reports any violation of sections 919.01 to 919.20 of the Revised Code, shall institute prosecution proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction in which the defendant resides, where his licensed place of business is located, or where the violation occurs. This section does not require the director to r...

...The director of agriculture may act in conjunction with the federal food and drug administration in the regulation of the movement and sale of any horse carcass, horse meat, or horse meat food product intended for human food which may affect the health and welfare of this state.

...All registration fees collected under sections 919.01 to 919.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be paid to the director of agriculture and deposited by him with the treasurer of state to the credit of the general revenue fund. Fifty per cent of all fines collected for violations of sections 919.01 to 919.18, inclusive, and section 919.20, of the Revised Code, shall be paid to the treasurer of state to the cre...

...No proprietor of a market shall place horse meat or a horse meat food product, which is intended as a pet or animal food, in a refrigerated compartment with food for human consumption.

...On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a license issued pursuant to this chapter.

...Whoever violates sections 919.01 to 919.20 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...propagation, or other use, by humans or animals. (D) "Aircraft" means any device used or designed for navigation or flight in the air, except a parachute or other device used primarily as safety equipment. (E) "Animal" means all vertebrate and invertebrate species, including, but not limited to, humans and other mammals, birds, fish, and shellfish. (F) "Authorized diagnostic inspection" means a diagnostic inspe...