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...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Employer" includes a person that is a related member to or of an employer. (2) "Professional athlete" means an athlete who performs services in a professional athletic event for wages or other remuneration. (3) "Professional entertainer" means a person who performs services in the professional performing arts for wages or other remuneration on a per-event basis. (4) "Public figur...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Affiliated group of corporations" means an affiliated group as defined in section 1504 of the Internal Revenue Code, except that, if such a group includes at least one incumbent local exchange carrier that is primarily engaged in the business of providing local exchange telephone service in this state, the affiliated group shall not include any incumbent local exchange carrier that ...

...If a term used in sections 718.80 to 718.95 of the Revised Code that is not otherwise defined in this chapter is used in a comparable context in both the laws of the United States relating to federal income tax and in Title LVII of the Revised Code and the use is not consistent, then the use of the term in the laws of the United States relating to federal income tax shall have control over the use of the term in Titl...

...As used in this chapter: (A)(1) "Police department" means the police department of a municipal corporation. (2) "Member of a police department" means any of the following: (a) Any person who receives an original appointment as a full-time regular police officer in a police department from a duly established civil service eligible list or pursuant to section 124.411 of the Revised Code, or who is described in s...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 742.211 to 742.214 of the Revised Code: (1) "Full-time service" has the meaning established by rule of the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund. (2) "Military service credit" means credit for service in the armed forces of the United States purchased or obtained from the fund, the Cincinnati retirement system, or a non-uniform retirement system. (...

...(A) As used in this section, "transferred service credit" means service credit purchased or obtained under section 145.295, 145.2913, 3307.761, 3307.765, 3309.73, or 3309.731 of the Revised Code prior to the date a member commenced the employment covered by the Ohio police and fire pension fund for which the member is currently contributing to the fund. (B) A member of the Ohio police and fire pension fund who is in...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this division, each person who on September 9, 1988, is receiving a pension or benefit of less than five thousand dollars annually under division (A) or (B) of section 742.37 of the Revised Code on the basis of disability or service of twenty-five years or more, under division (C)(1) of that section, or under division (C)(2) or (5) of former section 742.37 of the Revised Code shall...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "POW/MIA flag" means the flag that depicts the profile of a prisoner of war against the background of a prisoner of war camp watchtower. (2) "Public building" means the principal municipal building of each municipal corporation, the principal county building in the county seat of each county, and the state house in Columbus. (3) "Transportation facilities" has the meaning defined i...

...(A) As used in this section: "Political subdivision" has the meaning defined in sections 2744.01 and 3905.36 of the Revised Code. For purposes of this section, "political subdivision" includes municipal corporations as defined in section 5705.01 of the Revised Code. "County board" means a county board of developmental disabilities. (B) Political subdivisions and county boards that provide health care benefits for ...

...(A) Each application for a permit to install or permit to operate a concentrated animal feeding facility that is submitted by an applicant who has not owned or operated a concentrated animal feeding facility in this state for at least two of the five years immediately preceding the submission of the application shall be accompanied by all of the following: (1) A listing of all animal feeding facilities that the app...

...(A)(1) The director of agriculture shall establish a program to monitor and regulate hemp cultivation and processing in this state. Under the program, the director shall issue hemp cultivation licenses and hemp processing licenses in accordance with rules adopted under section 928.03 of the Revised Code. (2) As authorized by the director, the department of agriculture or a university may cultivate or process hemp w...

...(A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, the director of agriculture may assess a civil penalty against a person that violates section 939.08 of the Revised Code. The director may impose a civil penalty only if the director affords the person an opportunity for an adjudication hearing under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to challenge the director's determination that the person violated section 939.0...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 955.01 of the Revised Code, a board of county commissioners by resolution may increase dog and kennel registration fees in the county. The amount of the fees shall not exceed an amount that the board, in its discretion, estimates is needed to pay all expenses for the administration of this chapter. Such a resolution shall be adopted not earlier than the first day of February and not later ...

...(A) It is the intent of the general assembly that an agency shall expire by operation of sunset review law, sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code, four years more or less after the effective date of the act that established the agency. Unless renewed in accordance with division (E) of this section: (1) An agency created during an even-numbered general assembly expires at the end of the thirty-first day of...

...In addition to its duties under section 103.14 of the Revised Code, the legislative service commission shall, in accordance with this section, review all bills assigned to a committee of the general assembly, complete the appropriate local impact statements required by this section, and compile and distribute these statements as required by division (D) of this section. (A) Subject to division (F) of this section, ...

...(A) As used in this section, "rare disease" means a disease or condition that affects fewer than 200,000 people living in the United States. (B) There is hereby created the rare disease advisory council. The purpose of the council is to advise the general assembly regarding research, diagnosis, and treatment efforts related to rare diseases across the state. (C) The council shall consist of the following thirty...

...(A) As used in this section, "board or commission" means any of the following: (1) The accountancy board; (2) The architects board; (3) The state cosmetology and barber board; (4) The board of embalmers and funeral directors; (5) The board of executives of long-term services and supports; (6) The crematory review board; (7) The motor vehicle dealers board; (8) The motor vehicle repair board; (9) The motor ve...

...Upon the receipt of a written request by any officer or employee, the attorney general, except as provided in section 109.362 of the Revised Code, except under the circumstances described in division (E) of section 120.06 of the Revised Code, and except for civil actions in which the state is the plaintiff, shall represent and defend the officer or employee in any civil action instituted against the officer or employ...

...(A)(1) Each year, any of the following persons who are authorized to carry firearms in the course of their official duties shall complete successfully a firearms requalification program approved by the executive director of the Ohio peace officer training commission in accordance with rules adopted by the attorney general pursuant to section 109.743 of the Revised Code: any peace officer, sheriff, chief of police of ...

...(A) The name of a state bank: (1) Shall include either of the following: (a) "Bank," "banking," "company," or "co."; (b) "Savings," "loan," "savings and loan," "building and loan," or "thrift." (2) May include the word "state," "federal," "association," or, if approved by the superintendent of financial institutions, another term; (3) Shall not, as determined by the superintendent, be likely to mislead the publi...

...(A) A bank may receive money on deposit and may establish the terms and conditions of each deposit contract. A bank may receive demand deposits subject to withdrawal or to payment upon the depositor's check, order, or other authorization. (B) At the time of opening a deposit account, a bank shall provide the depositor a statement containing the existing terms and conditions of the deposit contract. The statement may...

...(A) Notwithstanding division (E)(2) of section 3509.03 and division (E)(2) of section 3511.02 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state may mail unsolicited applications for absent voter's ballots to electors for a general election if all of the following apply: (1) The general assembly appropriates funds to the controlling board for that particular mailing; (2) The secretary of state submits a request to the c...

...(A) A person to whom all of the following applies may apply to the secretary of state with the assistance of an application assistant to become a participant in the address confidentiality program, in which an address designated by the secretary of state serves as the person's address or the address of the minor, incompetent, or ward on whose behalf the person is applying: (1) The applicant is an adult who is apply...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Charitable trust" means a charitable remainder annuity trust as defined in section 664(d) of the Internal Revenue Code, a charitable remainder unitrust as defined in section 664(d) of the Internal Revenue Code, a charitable lead or other split interest trust subject to the governing instrument requirements of section 508(e) of the Internal Revenue Code, a pooled income fund as defined i...

...(A) Upon the conclusion of the investigation required under section 1112.07 of the Revised Code, the superintendent of financial institutions shall issue a license to the applicant if the superintendent finds that all of the following conditions are met: (1) The applicant is organized as a corporation or limited liability company under the laws of this state. (2) The articles of incorporation or articles of organiz...