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...(A) Except as permitted by this section, or when required by federal law, no person or government entity shall solicit, release, disclose, receive, use, or knowingly permit or participate in the use of any information regarding an individual receiving assistance pursuant to a community services division program under sections 122.66 to 122.702 of the Revised Code for any purpose not directly related to the admi...

...The 9-1-1 program office may do all of the following: (A) Expend funds from the 9-1-1 program fund for the purposes of 9-1-1 public education; (B) Coordinate, adopt, and communicate all necessary technical and operational standards and requirements to ensure an effective model for a statewide interconnected 9-1-1 system; (C) Collect and distribute data from and to public safety answering points, service prov...

...(A) The data described in section 128.22 of the Revised Code shall be protected in accordance with applicable provisions of the Revised Code. Charges, terms, and conditions for the disclosure or use of that data provided by public safety answering points, service providers, and emergency service providers for the purpose of 9-1-1 shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the steering committee. (B) Data and informat...

...(A)(1) A telephone company, the state highway patrol as described in division (I) of section 128.03 of the Revised Code, and each subdivision or regional council of governments operating one or more public safety answering points for a countywide system providing wireless 9-1-1, shall provide the steering committee and the tax commissioner with such information as the steering committee and tax commissioner request f...

...(A) With regard to state agency use of electronic records or electronic signatures, the department of administrative services, in consultation with the state archivist, shall adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code setting forth all of the following: (1) The minimum requirements for the method of creation, maintenance, and security of electronic records and electronic signatures; (2) If el...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in section 4123.37, section 5703.061, and division (K) of section 4123.511 of the Revised Code, whenever any amount is payable to the state, the officer, employee, or agent responsible for administering the law under which the amount is payable shall immediately proceed to collect the amount or cause the amount to be collected and shall pay the amount into the state treasury or into t...

...(A) Each application for a money transmitter license shall be in the form prescribed by the superintendent of financial institutions and accompanied by an application fee established in section 1315.13 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The superintendent shall approve or deny every application for a license under this section within one hundred eighty days after the date that the superintendent accepts the application as ...

...(A) The superintendent of financial institutions shall report semiannually to the governor and the general assembly on the operations of the division of financial institutions with respect to the following: (1) Enforcement actions instituted by the superintendent for a violation of or failure to comply with any provision of sections 1321.35 to 1321.48 of the Revised Code, and the final dispositions of each...

...(A) Every registrant shall keep records pertaining to loans made under sections 1321.51 to 1321.60 of the Revised Code. Such records shall be segregated from records pertaining to transactions that are not subject to these sections of the Revised Code. Every registrant shall preserve records pertaining to loans made under sections 1321.51 to 1321.60 of the Revised Code for at least two years after making the final en...

...(A) As used in this section, "remote location" means the home of an employee or other location selected by the employee that is not a licensed place of business. (B) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, nothing in sections 1321.62 to 1321.702 of the Revised Code shall be construed to interfere with the ability of a licensee's employee to work from a remote location, provided the licens...

...ortgage banker license, mortgage broker certificate of registration, or mortgage loan originator license, or any comparable authority, revoked in any governmental jurisdiction; (b) That the organization or institution and its owners, officers, or partners identified in division (A)(2) of this section have not been convicted of, or pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to, any of the following in a domestic, foreign, or ...

...No employee of another, who in the course and within the scope of his employment receives any confidential matter or information, shall knowingly, without the consent of his employer, furnish or disclose such matter or information to any person not privileged to acquire it.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Agency of a political subdivision" means each organized body, office, or agency established by a political subdivision for the exercise of any function of the political subdivision, except that "agency of a political subdivision" does not include an agency that is a covered entity as defined in 45 C.F.R. 160.103, as amended. (2)(a) "Breach of the security of the system" means unaut...

...(A) As used in this section: (1)(a) "Breach of the security of the system" means unauthorized access to and acquisition of computerized data that compromises the security or confidentiality of personal information owned or licensed by a person and that causes, reasonably is believed to have caused, or reasonably is believed will cause a material risk of identity theft or other fraud to the person or property of a re...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Business" means any limited liability company, limited liability partnership, corporation, sole proprietorship, association, state institution of higher education as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, private college as defined in section 3365.01 of the Revised Code, or other group, however organized and whether operating for profit or not for profit, including a financial...

...(A) A covered entity seeking an affirmative defense under sections 1354.01 to 1354.05 of the Revised Code shall do one of the following: (1) Create, maintain, and comply with a written cybersecurity program that contains administrative, technical, and physical safeguards for the protection of personal information and that reasonably conforms to an industry recognized cybersecurity framework, as described in secti...

...(A) Except for the name of a sandbox participant and overview of a sandbox participant's novel financial product or service, records that are submitted to or obtained by the superintendent of financial institutions or an applicable agency pursuant to this chapter are not public records for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall not be disclosed except in accordance with this section. The name of...

...(A)(1) As used in this division, "personal history record" means information maintained by the public employees retirement board on an individual who is a member, former member, contributor, former contributor, retirant, or beneficiary that includes the address, telephone number, social security number, record of contributions, correspondence with the public employees retirement system, or other information the...

...(A)(1) As used in this division, "personal history record" means information maintained by the Ohio public employees deferred compensation board on an individual who is a participating employee or continuing member that includes the address, telephone number, social security number, record of contributions, records of benefits, correspondence with the Ohio public employees deferred compensation program, or other ...

...(A) Except as provided in sections 9.833, 2744.081, and 3345.203 of the Revised Code, any governmental entity or agency and any nonprofit corporation or association, except a corporation organized pursuant to Chapter 1719. of the Revised Code prior to January 1, 1980 or organized pursuant to Chapter 3941. of the Revised Code, that enters into a contract or other agreement with the federal government, a unit of state ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Abused child" has the same meaning as in section 2151.031 of the Revised Code. (2) "Confidential law enforcement investigatory record" has the same meaning as in section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (3) "Law enforcement agency" means a municipal or township police department, the office of a sheriff, the state highway patrol, federal law enforcement, a county prosecuting attor...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the chief of the division of forestry, an employee of the division of forestry, the supervisors of a soil and water conservation district, an employee of a district, and a contractor of the division or a district shall not disclose either of the following: (1) Information, including data from geographic information systems and global positioning systems, provid...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the director of natural resources, an employee of the department of natural resources, the supervisors of a soil and water conservation district, an employee of a district, and a contractor of the department or a district shall not disclose either of the following: (1) Information, including data from geographic information systems and global positioning...

...(A) As used in this section, "person who is or will be aggrieved or adversely affected" means a person with a direct economic or property interest that is or will be adversely affected by an order or rule issued or adopted by the chief of the division of water resources under this chapter. (B) The chief shall issue a proposed order indicating the chief's intent to issue a final order prior to issuing a final order ...

...(A) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, the division of parks and watercraft, in consultation with the department of public safety, shall adopt rules regarding the security of ports on waterways in this state and the facilities associated with those ports. The rules shall include but not be limited to provisions that do the following: (1) Designate the ports, located in whole or in par...

...Within thirty days after the next succeeding regular meeting, the veterans service commission shall act upon any petition presented as provided by section 5901.18 of the Revised Code, and, if true, it shall issue an order to maintain a dignified burial site with the agreement of the petitioners, or direct the removal of the remains of the deceased veteran or veterans to the cemetery designated in the petition, within...

...Upon the completion of the burial or removal and reinterment of a deceased veteran, the persons having charge thereof shall make an itemized statement, and shall verify and file such statement with the veterans service commission, which shall, at the next regular meeting, act upon such expense account and file it with the county auditor forthwith, at which time it shall become a charge upon the county in which the in...

...If it becomes necessary to purchase additional plots of ground in any cemetery in which a veterans plot has been filled with graves to its capacity, sections 5901.16 to 5901.24 of the Revised Code do not prevent the purchase of such additional plots.

...The board of county commissioners, the board of townships trustees, or the legislative authority of a municipal corporation may enter into contracts with cemetery associations providing for the purchase and maintenance, in cemeteries within the county, of plots of ground for the burial of deceased veterans and the deceased spouses of veterans. Any such purchase may be made either by cash or by installment payments. T...

...Any veterans plot owned or maintained by any county, township, or municipal corporation shall be open for the burial of the body of any deceased veteran on application by a relative of the decedent or other proper person responsible for the disposition of the remains to the county, township, or municipal corporation owning or maintaining the plot.

...If it is desired to bury the body or cremated remains of any deceased veteran in any cemetery not having a burial plot as provided by section 5901.22 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners, any board of township trustees, or the legislative authority of any municipal corporation in the county in which the cemetery is situated may purchase a space for the grave of the veteran or the veteran's cremated ...

...The board of county commissioners shall require the veterans service commission, upon application and with the approval of the family or friends of the deceased, to contract, at a fair and reasonable price, with the funeral director selected by the family or friends, and cause to be interred or cremated in a decent and respectable manner the body of any veteran, or the parent, spouse, or surviving spouse of any such ...

...Pursuant to section 5901.25 of the Revised Code, the veterans service commission shall use the forms of contracts prescribed by sections 5901.25 to 5901.32 of the Revised Code, and abide by the regulations provided by such sections. The commission shall see that funeral directors furnish all items specified in the contract, that when the benefits of such sections are claimed the entire amount to be contributed by the...

...Before assuming the charge and expense of any burial or cremation, the veterans service commission, pursuant to section 5901.25 of the Revised Code, shall satisfy itself, beyond a reasonable doubt, by careful inquiry, that the family of the deceased is unable, for want of means, to defray the expenses of the burial or cremation, or that the family may be deprived of means actually necessary for its immediate support....

...ns, the manager of the home may, upon a certificate signed by the attending physician of the home, certify as to the death of the inmate to the board of county commissioners of the county from which the parent, spouse, or surviving spouse was admitted to the home, and the board shall proceed as provided in section 5901.32 of the Revised Code.

...The funeral director employed to perform the service described by section 5901.25 of the Revised Code shall use the blanks provided by this section, specifying what the funeral director is to furnish for the service. The contract shall be signed by the funeral director and a copy thereof left with the veterans service commission with which it is made. Such contract shall read as follows: "I ________________, funera...

...The funeral director shall present the itemized bill and contract, as approved by the veterans service commission, to the county auditor, upon printed blanks furnished by the auditor, and make an oath that the funeral director has honestly and faithfully performed the contract, that the bill and contract attached is a true copy of the one left with the parties who engaged the funeral director's services, and that the...

...If a saving of money is effected by reason of the loan of automobiles, ownership of a cemetery lot, or other items mentioned in the bill of expenses under section 5901.30 of the Revised Code, the amount of such saving shall remain in the general fund of the county. If it appears that life insurance or any additional funds are coming to the family of the deceased, the veterans service commission shall withhold its sig...

...Upon securing the report and statement of expenses as provided by section 5901.27 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall transcribe in a book to be kept for that purpose, all the facts contained in the report concerning a deceased veteran, and shall certify the expenses thus incurred to the county auditor, who shall draw a warrant for those expenses upon the county treasurer, to be paid from the...

...The board of county commissioners shall, upon the petition of any five veterans of any township or municipal corporation in its county, procure for and furnish to the petitioners a suitable and durable marker for the grave of each veteran buried in the limits of the township or municipal corporation. The name of the veteran and the company, regiment, or other command in which he served may be inscribed upon the marke...

...The board of county commissioners shall provide for the proper care of the graves of all veterans, and of confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines who are buried in lots used exclusively for the benefit of veterans and confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in cemeteries or burying grounds.

...For the purpose of enabling counties or municipal corporations to aid and facilitate the construction of veterans' facilities operated by the United States department of veterans affairs as a public works project of the government of the United States, the board of county commissioners of any county or the legislative authority of any municipal corporation may acquire lands by purchase or deed of gift for the purpose...

...In any county having a cemetery or part of it set apart for the burial of veterans, or containing a monument erected to their memory, or containing monuments and memorials erected by private or public expense to the memory of veterans, the board of county commissioners shall care for and properly preserve that portion of the cemetery so set apart for the burial of such veterans, and shall care for and properly preser...

...(A) No person who is not a veteran, an active-duty member of the armed forces of the United States, or the spouse, surviving spouse, dependent parent, minor child, or ward of a veteran or an active-duty member of the armed forces of the United States shall knowingly represent that the person is a veteran, an active-duty member of the armed forces of the United States, or the spouse, surviving spouse, dependent parent...

...The legislative authority of each city having a board of park commissioners may establish a city planning commission of seven members, consisting of the mayor, the director of public service, the president of the board of park commissioners, two citizens of the municipal corporation, and two public members who shall serve without compensation and shall be appointed by the mayor for terms of six years each, except tha...

...The planning commission established under section 713.01 of the Revised Code shall make plans and maps of the whole or any portion of the municipal corporation, and of any land outside thereof, which, in the opinion of the commission, is related to the planning of the municipal corporation, and make changes in such plans or maps when it deems it advisable. Such maps or plans shall show the commission's recommendation...

...The planning commission of a municipal corporation shall be the platting commission thereof, and all the powers and duties provided by sections 735.17 to 735.26, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall, upon the appointment of a municipal planning commission under section 713.01 of the Revised Code, be transferred to it.

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may authorize the planning commission to control the height, design, and location of buildings.

...The planning commission may control, appoint, or employ such architects, engineers, and other professional service, and may appoint such clerks, draughtsmen, and other subordinates as are necessary for the performance of its functions. The expenditures for such service and employments shall be within the amounts appropriated for such persons by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, and such legislat...

...The planning commission of any municipal corporation may frame and adopt a plan for dividing the municipal corporation or any portion thereof into zones or districts, representing the recommendations of the commission, in the interest of the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity, or general welfare, for the limitations and regulation of the height, bulk, and location, including percentage of lot occ...

...e dealer a manufacturer's or importer's certificate executed in accordance with this section and with such assignments on it as are necessary to show title in the name of the purchaser. No dealer shall purchase or acquire a new watercraft or outboard motor without obtaining from the seller the manufacturer's or importer's certificate. A manufacturer's or importer's certificate of the origin of a watercraft or outboa...

...(A)(1) Application for a certificate of title for a watercraft or outboard motor shall be made upon a form prescribed by the chief of the division of parks and watercraft and shall be sworn to before a notary public or other officer empowered to administer oaths. The application shall be filed with the clerk of any court of common pleas. An application for a certificate of title may be filed electronically by any ele...

...to the effect that an application for a certificate of title to a watercraft or outboard motor shall be "sworn to" or shall be "sworn to before a notary public or other officer empowered to administer oaths," that requirement shall apply only in the case of a transfer of a watercraft or outboard motor between parties in the course of a sale by a person other than a registered watercraft dealer, as defined in section ...

...(A) An application for a certificate of title shall be sworn to before a notary public or other officer empowered to administer oaths by the lawful owner or purchaser of the watercraft or outboard motor and shall contain the following information in the form and together with any other information that the chief of the division of parks and watercraft may require: (1) Name, address, and social security number or emp...

...atercraft or outboard motor for which a certificate of title is required under this chapter and that one or both of them owns. Two persons who establish joint ownership with right of survivorship in a watercraft or outboard motor in accordance with section 2131.12 of the Revised Code may terminate the joint ownership with right of survivorship by applying for a title in accordance with this chapter.

...atercraft or outboard motor for which a certificate of title is required under this chapter may establish ownership of the watercraft or outboard motor that is transferable on death by designating the watercraft or outboard motor in beneficiary form in accordance with section 2131.13 of the Revised Code. Any person who establishes ownership of a watercraft or outboard motor that is transferable on death in accordance...

...court of common pleas issues a physical certificate of title for a watercraft or outboard motor, the clerk shall issue it over the clerk's official seal. All physical certificates of title to watercraft or outboard motors shall contain the information required in the application for them as prescribed by section 1548.07 of the Revised Code, as well as spaces for the dates of notation and cancellation of each lien, mo...

...court of common pleas issues a physical certificate of title, the clerk shall issue the certificate of title on a form and in a manner prescribed by the chief of the division of parks and watercraft. The clerk shall file a copy of the physical evidence for the creation of the certificate of title in a manner prescribed by the chief of the division. A clerk may retain digital images of documents used as evidence for i...

...en dollars for each duplicate copy of a certificate of title. The clerk shall retain that entire fee. (2) Fifteen dollars for each certificate of title, which shall include any notation or indication of any lien or security interest on a certificate of title and any memorandum certificate of title or non-negotiable evidence of ownership requested at the time the certificate of title is issued. The clerk shall retain...

... pleas, upon the surrender of the prior certificate of title or the manufacturer's or importer's certificate, or, when that is not possible, upon presentation of satisfactory proof to the clerk of ownership and rights of possession to the watercraft or outboard motor, and upon payment of the fee prescribed in section 1548.10 of the Revised Code and presentation of an application for certificate of title, may issue to...

...h person mentioned as owner in the last certificate of title, when the watercraft or outboard motor is dismantled, destroyed, or changed in such manner that it loses its character as a watercraft or outboard motor, or changed in such manner that it is not the watercraft or outboard motor described in the certificate of title, shall surrender the certificate of title to a clerk of a court of common pleas, and the cler...

...In the event of a lost or destroyed certificate of title, application shall be made to a clerk of a court of common pleas by the owner of the watercraft or outboard motor, or the holder of a lien on it, for a certified copy of the certificate upon a form prescribed by the chief of the division of parks and watercraft and accompanied by the fee prescribed by section 1548.10 of the Revised Code. The application shall b...

...The chief of the division of parks and watercraft, upon the application of any person and payment of the proper fees, may prepare and furnish title information in such form and subject to such territorial division or other classification as the chief may direct. The chief may search the records of the division of parks and watercraft and make reports thereof, and make photographic copies of the division records and a...

...The chief of the division of parks and watercraft shall enable the public to access watercraft and outboard motor title information via electronic means. No fee shall be charged for this access. The title information that must be so accessible is only the title information that is in an electronic format at the time a person requests this access. The chief shall establish procedures governing this access. The proced...

...shall sign manufacturer's or importer's certificates. The chief of the division of parks and watercraft may require that a certified copy of a list containing the names and the facsimile signatures of the authorized agents be furnished to the chief and be forwarded to each clerk of the court of common pleas in the respective counties within the state, and the chief may prescribe the form of authorization to be used b...

...The clerk of the court of common pleas and his authorized deputies may administer oaths on any application or affidavit required by Chapter 1548. of the Revised Code.

..., the chief learns of the issuance of a certificate of title to such a watercraft or outboard motor, the chief shall immediately notify the rightful owner of the watercraft or outboard motor and the clerk who issued the certificate of title, and if, upon investigation, it appears that the certificate of title was improperly issued, the chief shall immediately cancel it. In the event of the recovery of a stolen or co...

... in this state a watercraft for which a certificate of title is required or a watercraft powered by an outboard motor for which a certificate of title is required without having the certificate, or a valid temporary permit and number, in accordance with this chapter or, if a physical certificate of title has not been issued for it, operate the watercraft or outboard motor in this state knowing that the ownership info...

...g: (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 outboard motor has been stolen; (B) ...

...atercraft or outboard motor for which a certificate of title is required. Any security agreement covering a security interest in a watercraft or outboard motor, if it is accompanied by delivery of a manufacturer's or importer's certificate and followed by actual and continued possession of that certificate by the holder of the instrument, or, in the case of a certificate of title, if a notation of the security agreem...

...y 1, 1964, need not be the subject of a certificate of title until it is mortgaged, sold, or otherwise disposed of.

...The chief of the division of parks and watercraft, after deducting the necessary and actual expenses incurred by the division in administering Chapter 1548. of the Revised Code, shall pay to the treasurer of state to the credit of the waterways safety fund the fees received by the chief under sections 1548.10 and 1548.14 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Whoever violates section 1548.18 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates section 1548.19 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.

... may become the holders of transferable certificates of beneficial interest, issued pursuant to the provisions of the trust instrument, such transferability being either restricted or unrestricted, which trust intends to comply or has at any time complied or intended to comply with sections 856, 857, and 858 of the " Interal Revenue Code of 1954," 68A Stat. 3, 26 U.S.C. 1, as now or hereafter amended. (B) "Domestic ...

...No real estate investment trust shall be authorized to transact real estate business in this state unless it fully complies with section 1747.03 of the Revised Code, except that a real estate investment trust that holds an estate or interest in real property in this state on the effective date of this section may continue to transact real estate business in this state if it fully complies with section 1747.03 of the ...