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...As used in sections 1334.01 to 1334.15 of the Revised Code: (A) "Seller" means a person who sells or leases a business opportunity plan. (B) "Purchaser" means a person to whom a business opportunity plan is sold or leased. (C) "Broker" means a person, other than a seller, who sells or leases, offers for sale or lease, or arranges for the sale or lease of a business opportunity plan for a commission, fee, or ...

...me, service mark, advertising, or other commercial symbol, if any, under which the prospective purchaser will be operating, or which identifies the goods or services to be offered, sold, or distributed by the purchaser. (d) All initial payments or a promissory note which must be made by the purchaser to any person in order to begin operation of the business opportunity plan, including, but not limited to, fees, depo...

...In connection with the sale or lease of a business opportunity plan, no seller or broker shall: (A) Make any oral, written, or visual representation to a prospective purchaser concerning potential sales, income, or gross or net profit, unless: (1) The seller possesses data to substantiate the representation and provides the data in writing to the prospective purchaser at least ten business days prior to the executi...

...(A) If, pursuant to division (H) of section 1334.03 of the Revised Code, a seller is required to obtain a surety bond or establish a trust account, the bond or trust account required shall be in favor of the state for the benefit of any purchaser who is damaged by a violation of, or by the seller's breach of an agreement subject to, sections 1334.01 to 1334.15 of the Revised Code. The surety bond shall be issued by a...

...(A) In addition to any other right or remedy available to a purchaser under sections 1334.01 to 1334.15 of the Revised Code, a purchaser has the right to cancel an agreement selling or leasing to the purchaser a business opportunity plan, in accordance with the following conditions: (1) If the seller complies with divisions (A)(7), (B), and (C) of section 1334.06 of the Revised Code, the purchaser may cancel ...

...(A) Every agreement selling or leasing a business opportunity plan shall be in writing and a copy of the executed agreement and all other documents the seller requires the purchaser to sign shall be given to the purchaser at the time they are signed. The agreement shall contain at least the following: (1) The terms and conditions of payment including the initial payment or the promissory note, additional payments, ...

...If by his own inquiries, or as a result of complaints, the attorney general has reasonable cause to believe that a seller or broker has engaged, is engaging, or is threatening to engage in an act or practice that violates sections 1334.01 to 1334.15 of the Revised Code, he may investigate. For this purpose the attorney general may administer oaths, subpoena witnesses, adduce evidence, and require the production of re...

...(A) If the attorney general, by his own inquiries or as a result of complaints has reasonable cause to believe that a person has engaged, is engaging, or threatening to engage in an act or practice that violates sections 1334.01 to 1334.15 of the Revised Code, he may bring any of the following actions: (1) An action to obtain a declaratory judgment that the act or practice violates sections 1334.01 to 1334.15 of the...

...(A) For a violation of sections 1334.01 to 1334.15 of the Revised Code, a purchaser has a cause of action and may seek either or both of the following: (1) In an individual action: (a) Rescind the agreement by giving written notice to the seller within three years of the date of the agreement and recover all sums paid to the seller, less the fair market value, at the time of delivery, of any goods supplied by...

...(A) The courts of common pleas, and municipal or county courts within their respective monetary jurisdiction, have jurisdiction over any seller or broker with respect to any act or practice covered by sections 1334.01 to 1334.15 of the Revised Code, or with respect to any claim arising from the sale or lease of a business opportunity plan subject to such sections. (B) A final judgment against a seller or broke...

...Notwithstanding section 1303.35 of the Revised Code, a purchaser who executes an agreement selling or leasing to him a business opportunity plan or a note in connection with such an agreement may assert as a defense to a claim by a holder in due course, as defined in section 1303.32 of the Revised Code, any defense that the purchaser may assert against the seller of the business opportunity plan.

...reement between a licensor and a single licensee to license a trademark, trade name, service mark, advertising, or other commercial symbol where such license is the only one of its general nature and type to be granted by the licensor with respect to that trademark, trade name, service mark, advertising or other commercial symbol; (E) The transfer of a registered security, as defined by division (B) of section...

...Except for division (H) of section 1334.03 and section 1334.04 of the Revised Code, sections 1334.01 to 1334.15 of the Revised Code do not apply to: (A) Any transaction that complies in all material respects with the trade regulation rule of the federal trade commission, "disclosure requirements and prohibitions concerning franchising," 16 C.F.R. 436.1 et seq., as may be amended from time to time, that is in ...

...In any case arising under section 1334.08 or 1334.09 of the Revised Code, the burden of proving an exemption or exception from section 1334.12 or 1334.13 of the Revised Code is upon the person who claims the exemption or exception.

...(A) The general assembly declares that the offer and sale of business opportunity plans is a matter affected with a public interest. The general assembly further declares that it is the intent of this chapter to protect prospective purchasers of business opportunity plans by requiring that sellers provide the purchasers with the information necessary to make an intelligent decision about the business opportunit...

...Whoever violates sections 1334.02 to 1334.06 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...or savings and loan association; (b) A licensee under sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code, or a registrant under sections 1321.51 to 1321.60 of the Revised Code, or a parent company, subsidiary, or affiliate of a licensee or registrant ; (c) A person registered as a mortgage lender under Chapter 1322. of the Revised Code or a parent company, subsidiary, or affiliate of such a person. (3) "Loan agreeme...

...No lease, estate, or interest, either of freehold or term of years, or any uncertain interest of, in, or out of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, shall be assigned or granted except by deed, or note in writing, signed by the party assigning or granting it, or his agent thereunto lawfully authorized, by writing, or by act and operation of law.

...ion shall be brought to charge a person licensed by Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine or surgery, osteopathic medicine or surgery, or podiatric medicine and surgery in this state, upon any promise or agreement relating to a medical prognosis unless the promise or agreement is in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith.

...is section does not apply to any person licensed by the superintendent of insurance to engage in the business of issuing or selling insurance, as defined in division (D) of section 3901.19 of the Revised Code.

...t, estate, trust, or any other legal or commercial entity. (J) "Property" means anything that may be the subject of ownership. (K) "Relative" means an individual related by consanguinity within the third degree as determined by the common law, a spouse, or an individual related to a spouse within the third degree as so determined, and includes an individual in an adoptive relationship within the third degree. (L) ...

...(A)(1) A debtor is insolvent if the sum of the debts of the debtor is greater than all of the assets of the debtor at a fair valuation. (2) A debtor who generally is not paying his debts as they become due is presumed to be insolvent. (B) A partnership is insolvent under division (A)(1) of this section if the sum of the debts of the partnership is greater than the aggregate, at a fair valuation, of all of the asset...

...(A) Value is given for a transfer or an obligation if, in exchange for the transfer or obligation, property is transferred or an antecedent debt is secured or satisfied, but value does not include an unperformed promise made otherwise than in the ordinary course of the business of the promisor to furnish support to the debtor or another person. (B) For the purposes of division (A)(2) of section 1336.04 and division ...

...(A) A transfer made or an obligation incurred by a debtor is fraudulent as to a creditor, whether the claim of the creditor arose before, or within a reasonable time not to exceed four years after, the transfer was made or the obligation was incurred, if the debtor made the transfer or incurred the obligation in either of the following ways: (1) With actual intent to hinder, delay, or defraud any creditor of ...

...(A) A transfer made or an obligation incurred by a debtor is fraudulent as to a creditor whose claim arose before the transfer was made or the obligation was incurred if the debtor made the transfer or incurred the obligation without receiving a reasonably equivalent value in exchange for the transfer or obligation and the debtor was insolvent at that time or the debtor became insolvent as a result of the transfer or...

...When satisfied that it would be for the advantage of the creditors of the assignor, and on written application therefor by three-fourths in number and amount of such creditors, the probate court may order any business carried on by the assignor at the time of the assignment, to be continued by the assignee or trustee. When the court deems it to the advantage of the creditors to discontinue the business, it shall orde...

...The probate court shall order the payment of all encumbrances and liens upon any property sold for the benefit of creditors, or rights and credits collected, out of the proceeds thereof, according to priority.

...When real property to be sold, or which has been contracted to be sold by an assignor prior to the assignment for the benefit of creditors, is encumbered with liens, or when questions in regard to the title, or the dower estate of the wife or widow of the assignor, require a decree to settle them, the assignee may commence a civil action therefor in the court of common pleas or probate court of the proper county, mak...

...The proceeds of all the real property of the assignor sold by court order for the benefit of creditors, after payment of liens, encumbrances and the contingent dower rights and interest of his wife or widow, must be reported to the probate court by the assignee, and disposed of as provided in sections 1313.01 to 1313.59, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...Sections 1313.21 to 1313.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code relating to the wife of the assignor as a party to the proceedings thereunder and her rights by virtue thereof, and also relating to ordering property sold at private sale, and upon terms of credit, apply to proceedings under sections 1313.33 and 1313.34 of the Revised Code.

...Sections 1313.21 to 1313.35 of the Revised Code do not impair the right of a person to an exemption under division (A)(1) of section 2329.66 of the Revised Code, or the mode provided for enforcing the right.

...Sections 1313.01 to 1313.59, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not take away or limit the jurisdiction of any court of record in which an action to foreclose a mortgage, to quiet title, or in any way to affect the title to or possession of all or part of the real property assigned is pending, at date of an assignment for the benefit of creditors. In such action the assignee may be made a party, with right to defend, ...

...When an assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors commences an action, in the court of common pleas or probate court of the proper county, to sell real property, making all persons in interest parties thereto, and at the time fixed for hearing his petition the court is satisfied that all parties in interest have been notified of its pendency, and that such land ought to be sold, if the petition seeks to have i...

...Creditors must present their claims within six months after publication of the notice provided for in section 1313.14 of the Revised Code, unless further time is given by the probate court for their allowance. The assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors shall indorse his allowance or rejection thereon. Persons whose claims are rejected are required to bring suit against such assignee or trustee to enforce su...

...Immediately after the expiration of six months time, within which creditors must present their claims, the assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors must file in the probate court a report of all claims presented to him for allowance, their several amounts, the date from which, and the rate at which they are entitled to interest, specifying claims allowed and those rejected, with the date of allowance or rejec...

...If the assignor or a creditor files in the probate court a written requisition on the assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors to disallow any claims presented which he has not reported as disallowed, and enters into bond to said assignee or trustee in such amount and with such sureties as the court approves, conditioned to pay all the costs and expenses of contesting them by the order of the court, such clai...

...Each person presenting and filing a claim against the estate of the debtor, before it is allowed or any payments made thereon, must make and file an affidavit setting forth that the claim is just and lawful, the consideration thereof, and what counterclaims exist thereto; what collateral or personal security the claimant holds for the claim, or that he has no security. The assignee or trustee for the benefit of credi...

...Taxes of every description assessed against the assignor upon personal property held by him before his assignment for the benefit of creditors must be paid by the assignee or trustee out of the proceeds of the property assigned in preference to any other claims against the assignor.

...Persons who have performed labor in the service of the assignor within twelve months next preceding an assignment for the benefit of creditors, are entitled to receive out of the trust funds, before the paying of other creditors, the full amount of wages due for such labor not exceeding three hundred dollars. This section and section 1313.43 of the Revised Code do not prejudice or affect securities given, or liens ob...

...An assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors must file an account with the probate court at the expiration of eight months from his appointment and qualification, and as often thereafter as the court orders. Such account shall contain a full exhibit of all his doings as such, up to the time of filing, together with the amount of all claims remaining uncollected, and the amount thereof which in his opinion may...

...The probate judge shall cause notice of the filing of accounts by assignees or trustees for the benefit of creditors, and commissioners of insolvents, to be published in some newspaper of the county, specifying when such accounts will be heard, not less than three weeks after the publication of such notice, at which time it shall be competent, for cause, to allow further time to file exceptions to such accounts. The ...

...The probate judge may examine under oath, all assignees or trustees for the benefit of creditors and commissioners of insolvents, touching their accounts. Such judge may reduce such examination to writing, and require such assignee, trustee, or commissioner to sign it. Such examination must be filed with the papers in the case.

...When, on settlement, a balance is shown in the hands of the assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors, subject to distribution among the general creditors, a dividend shall be declared by the probate judge, payable therefrom equally among all the creditors entitled, in proportion to the amount of their respective claims against the assignor, including those disallowed, which the claimant has begun suit to esta...

...Dividends provided for in section 1313.48 of the Revised Code reserved for claims disallowed, or held under advisement, when actions to enforce their allowance have been commenced, shall be held until the actions terminate, when they shall be paid on claims the allowance of which has been ordered. Otherwise, such dividends must be distributed pro rata among other creditors not paid in full, or refunded to the assigno...

...Before a dividend provided for in section 1313.48 of the Revised Code is declared, the assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors may be allowed the following commission upon the amount of the personal estate collected and accounted for by him, and of the proceeds of the real property sold under an order of court for the payment of debts, which must be received in full compensation of all his ordinary services:...

...Such allowance shall be made as the probate court considers just for necessary expense, extraordinary expenses, extraordinary services not required of an assignee for the benefit of creditors in the common course of his duty, and such reasonable counsel fees as were necessary for the proper administration of the assignment, whether performed by the assignee or trustee as attorney, or such other as he employs. No suc...

...The probate judge shall be entitled to the following fees for service performed under sections 1313.01 to 1313.59, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) For hearing and deciding each application, two dollars; (B) For appointing or removing an assignee or trustee, one dollar; (C) For filing assignment, inventory, and schedule, each, ten cents; (D) For filing other papers, each five cents; (E) For other services, th...

...A sale, conveyance, transfer, mortgage, or assignment, made in trust or otherwise by a debtor, and every judgment suffered by him against himself in contemplation of insolvency and with a design to prefer one or more creditors to the exclusion in whole or in part of others, and a sale, conveyance, transfer, mortgage, or assignment made, or judgment procured by him to be rendered, in any manner, with intent to hinder...

...Section 1313.56 of the Revised Code does not apply unless the person to whom such sale, conveyance, transfer, mortgage, or assignment is made, knew of such fraudulent intent on the part of such debtor. Said section does not vitiate or affect any mortgage made in good faith to secure any debt or liability created simultaneously with such mortgage, if such mortgage is filed for record in the county wherein the property...

...Any creditor as to whom any of the acts or things prohibited in sections 1313.56 and 1313.57 of the Revised Code are void, whether the claim of such creditor has matured or will thereafter mature, may commence an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to have such acts or things declared void. Such court shall appoint a trustee or receiver under sections 1313.01 to 1313.59 of the Revised Code, who, upon being du...