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...(A) Before it provides or sells video service to one or more subscribers within its video service area or any additional video service area under division (C) of section 1332.25 of the Revised Code, a video service provider shall provide ten days' advance, written notice of that service or additional service to the respective municipal corporation or township and to every person providing video service in all o...

...(A) Consistent with the "Telecommunications Act of 1996," Pub. L. No. 104-104, Title III, Sections 303(a), 110 Stat. 61, 124, 47 U.S.C. 541(a)(3) and to prohibit discriminatory practices against a group of potential residential subscribers, no video service provider shall deny access to video service to any group of potential residential subscribers in its video service area because of the race or income of the...

... provider is unable to obtain access to public and private rights-of-way under reasonable terms and conditions. (2) Developments or buildings are not subject to competition because of existing, exclusive service arrangements. (3) Developments or buildings are inaccessible using reasonable technical solutions under commercially reasonable terms and conditions. (4) A natural disaster prevents compliance. (5) Th...

...(A)(1)(a) If a municipal corporation or township has three or more PEG channels programmed on January 1, 2007, the person providing those channels pursuant to a franchise, competitive video service agreement, ordinance, or resolution or otherwise shall continue to provide those PEG channels, three of which shall be on the person's basic cable service, with the additional PEG channels on the person's basic cable...

...Not later than six months after the effective date of its video service authorization, a video service provider shall carry emergency interrupt service announcements transmitted by local television broadcasters and shall transmit national, state, and local emergency interrupt service announcements as required by 47 C.F.R. 11.11 et seq. or as otherwise required by the federal communications commission.

...(A) Not sooner than forty-five nor later than sixty days after the end of each calendar quarter, a video service provider shall pay a video service provider fee to each municipal corporation and each township in which it offers video service. The fee shall be calculated quarterly by determining the provider's gross revenue for the preceding calendar quarter as described in division (B) of this section and multi...

...(A) At its sole expense and not more often than once per calendar year, a municipal corporation or township may conduct an audit for the purpose of verifying the accuracy of a video service provider's calculation of the video service provider fees it paid to the municipal corporation or township in the audit period. For the purpose of the audit, the video service provider shall make available for inspection, at...

...Nothing in sections 1332.21 to 1332.33 of the Revised Code is intended to be inconsistent with the "Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984," 98 Stat. 2779, 47 U.S.C. 521 to 573.

...No person shall sell or issue a stamp, trading stamp, cash discount stamp, check, ticket, coupon, or other device which entitles the holder thereof, on presentation thereof either singly or in definite number, to receive from the vendor or other person, money, goods, wares, or merchandise, unless each of such stamp, trading stamps, cash discount stamps, checks, tickets, coupons, or other devices has legibly printed o...

...Whoever sells or issues to a person engaged in a trade, business, or profession, a stamp, trading stamp, cash discount stamp, check, ticket, coupon, or other device which entitles the holder thereof, on presentation thereof either singly or in definite number, to receive from the vendor or other person, money, goods, wares, or merchandise, shall redeem them upon presentation, either in goods, wares, merchandise, or m...

...Any person engaging in a trade, business, or profession, who distributes, delivers, or presents to a person dealing with him, in consideration of an article or thing purchased, a stamp, trading stamp, cash discount stamp, check, ticket, coupon, or other device entitling the holder thereof, on the presentation thereof either singly or in definite number, to receive from the person issuing or selling them or from anoth...

...Sections 1333.01 to 1333.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not apply to tickets, coupons, or other vouchers placed by a merchant or manufacturer in or upon packages of goods sold or manufactured by him if such tickets, coupons, or other vouchers are to be redeemed by such merchant or manufacturer.

...pictures are exhibited regularly to the public for a charge. (B) "Distributor" means any person engaged in the business of renting, selling, or licensing motion pictures to exhibitors. (C) "Exhibitor" means any person engaged in the business of operating a theater in this state. (D) "Exhibit" or "exhibition" means showing a motion picture to the public for a charge. (E) "Invitation to bid" means a written or oral...

...(A) No distributor shall engage in blind bidding. (B) No distributor shall condition the granting or execution of a license agreement on a guarantee of a minimum payment to the distributor, if the exhibitor is required by the license agreement to make any payment to the distributor that is based on the attendance or the box office receipts at a theater at which the motion picture is exhibited. (C) No distributor sh...

...(A) If bids are solicited from exhibitors for the purpose of entering into a license agreement, the invitation to bid shall specify: (1) The number and length of runs to which the invitation to bid applies; (2) Whether the invitation to bid applies to a first or subsequent run; (3) The geographic area for each run; (4) The names of all exhibitors who are being given an invitation to bid; (5) The date, hour, and ...

...ection to have an independent certified public accountant certify that the calculation of the wholesaler's cost of doing business has been made in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The commissioner also may request, and upon such a request the wholesaler shall provide, any additional information the commissioner considers necessary during review of the filing. The commissioner shall deny the w...

...No retailer shall, with intent to injure competitors, destroy substantially or lessen competition, advertise, offer to sell, or sell at retail cigarettes at less than cost to the retailer. No wholesaler shall recklessly, with intent to injure competitors or destroy substantially or lessen competition, advertise, offer to sell, or sell at wholesale cigarettes at less than cost to the wholesaler, unless the lower cos...

...When one wholesaler sells cigarettes to another wholesaler, the selling wholesaler shall not be required to include in the selling price the cost to the wholesaler who is the seller, as defined in division (C) of section 1333.11 of the Revised Code. Upon resale to a retailer, the purchasing wholesaler shall be deemed to be the wholesaler and shall be governed by division (C) of section 1333.11 of the Revised Code.

...Sections 1333.11 to 1333.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not apply to sales at retail or sales at wholesale made in any of the following circumstances, provided prior approval of the tax commissioner is obtained: (A) In an isolated transaction and not in the usual course of business; (B) Where cigarettes are advertised, offered for sale, or sold in bona fide clearance sales for the purpose of discontinuing ...

...Any retailer or wholesaler may advertise, offer to sell, or sell cigarettes at a price made in good faith to meet the prices of a competitor who is selling the same article at cost to the competitor as a wholesaler or retailer. A wholesaler may meet the price of a competitor that is less than the cost to the wholesaler only if the competitor's lower cost has been approved by the tax commissioner pursuant to division ...

...Any contract, express or implied, made by any person in violation of sections 1333.11 to 1333.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code is void and no recovery thereon shall be had.

...A court in determining cost to the retailer and cost to the wholesaler shall receive and consider as bearing on the bona fides of such cost, evidence tending to show that any person complained against under sections 1333.11 to 1333.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code purchased cigarettes, with respect to the sale of which complaint is made, at a fictitious price, or upon terms, or in such a manner, or under such invoi...

...In establishing the cost of cigarettes to the retailer or wholesaler, the invoice cost of said cigarettes purchased at a forced, bankrupt, close-out, or other sale outside the ordinary channels of trade, may not be used as a basis for justifying a price lower than one based upon the replacement cost of the cigarettes to the retailer or wholesaler within thirty days prior to the date of sale, in the quantity last purc...

...Where the particular trade, of which the person complained against is a member, has an established cost survey for the trading area in which the offense under section 1333.12 of the Revised Code is committed, that cost survey is competent evidence to be used in proving the cost of the person complained against.

...Any person injured by any violation of sections 1333.11 to 1333.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or any trade association which is representative of such injured person, may maintain an action to prevent, restrain, or enjoin such violation. If in such action a violation is established, the court shall enjoin and restrain or otherwise prohibit such violation and in addition shall assess in favor of the plaintiff an...