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...The department of development shall do the following: (A) Maintain a continuing evaluation of the sources available for the retention, development, or expansion of industrial and commercial facilities in this state through both public and private agencies; (B) Assist public and private agencies in obtaining information necessary to evaluate the desirability of the retention, construction, or expansion of industrial...

...(A) The director of development may, to carry out the purposes of division (E) of section 122.04 of the Revised Code: (1) Establish offices in foreign countries as the director considers appropriate and enter into leases of real property, buildings, and office space that are appropriate for these offices; (2) Appoint personnel, who shall be in the unclassified civil services, necessary to operate such offices...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the international trade cooperative projects fund. The fund shall consist of all of the following: (A) Moneys received from private and nonprofit organizations involved in cooperative agreements related to import/export and direct foreign investment activities; (B) Cash transfers from other state agencies or any state or local government to encourage, promote,...

...The department of development shall: (A) Assemble, analyze, and make available to governmental agencies and the public, information relative to the human, natural, and economic resources and economic needs of the state; (B) Prepare and maintain, in cooperation with departments and agencies of the state, comprehensive plans and recommendations for promotion of more desirable patterns of growth and development of the...

...An eligible applicant shall provide all of the following on the annual competitive process application: (A) Contact information for the eligible applicant; (B) A legal description of the property for which the grant is requested; (C) A summary of the proposed eligible project that includes all of the following: (1) A general description of the eligible project, including individuals, organizations, or other ...

...If the controlling board approves a grant for an eligible project pursuant to the annual competitive process or the discretionary process, the director of development shall enter into an agreement with the eligible applicant to provide the grant for the project. The agreement shall be executed prior to the payment or disbursement of any funds under the grant and shall contain the following provisions: (A) A d...

...The department of development and the executive committees of district public works integrating committees shall apply the following factors to eligible projects under the annual competitive process to determine a priority order for the eligible projects subject to that process: (A) The potential economic impact of the eligible project; (B) The potential impact of the eligible project on economic distress; (C) The...

...As used in this section and in sections 122.121 and 122.122 of the Revised Code: (A) "Endorsing county" means a county that contains a site selected by a site selection organization for one or more games. (B) "Endorsing municipality" means a municipal corporation that contains a site selected by a site selection organization for one or more games. (C) "Game support contract" means a joinder undertaking, joinder...

...(A) A local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county that has entered into a joinder undertaking with a site selection organization may apply to the director of development services, on a form and in the manner prescribed by the director, for a grant from the sports event grant fund created under section 122.122 of the Revised Code with respect to a game to which either of the following appli...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the sports event grant fund, which shall consist of money appropriated to the fund. Money in the fund shall be used solely to make grants to a local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county under section 122.121 of the Revised Code. Except for amounts refunded under division (E) of section 122.121 of the Revised Code, money may not be credited o...

...As used in sections 122.13 to 122.136 of the Revised Code: (A) "Closing" means the permanent cessation of operations at an establishment that employs at least twenty-five persons. (B) "Employee-owned corporation" means a business operation that is controlled by a board of directors that is selected by the shareholders on a basis of one vote per shareholder and in which the management rights are represented by votin...

...The director of development shall do all of the following: (A) Develop, collect, and disseminate information useful to individuals and organizations throughout the state in undertaking or promoting the establishment and successful operation of employee-owned corporations; (B) Assist in the evaluation of the feasibility and economic vitality of employee-owned corporation proposals received in the employee ownership ...

...As used in this section and sections 122.151 to 122.156 of the Revised Code: (A) "Affiliate" means a person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another person. For the purposes of this division, a person is "controlled by" another person if the controlling person holds, directly or indirectly, the majority voting or ownership ...

...(A) For purposes of this section: (1) "Vacant commercial space" means space that has been unoccupied and available for use in a trade or business for the twelve months immediately preceding the lease or purchase date described in division (B) of this section, located in either of the following: (a) A building, seventy-five per cent or more of the square footage of which has been unoccupied and available for u...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Low-income individual" has the same meaning as "low-income person" in section 5101.311 of the Revised Code. (2) "Microcredential" has the same meaning as in section 122.178 of the Revised Code. (3) "OhioMeansJobs web site" has the same meaning as in section 6301.01 of the Revised Code. (4) "Partially unemployed" and "totally unemployed" have the same meanings as in sectio...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Fiscal year" means the fiscal year of this state as specified in section 9.34 of the Revised Code. (2) "Individual microcredential assistance program" means the individual microcredential assistance program created under section 122.1710 of the Revised Code. (3) "Microcredential" has the same meaning as in section 122.178 of the Revised Code. (4) "State institution of higher ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Facility" means all real property and interests in real property owned by either of the following: (a) A landlord and leased to a tenant pursuant to a project that is the subject of an agreement under this section; (b) The United States or any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States. (2) "Full-time employee" has the same meaning as under section 122.17 of the ...

...As used in sections 122.19 to 122.22 of the Revised Code: (A) "Distressed area" has the same meaning as in section 122.16 of the Revised Code. (B) "Eligible applicant" means any of the following that are designated by the legislative authority of a county, township, or municipal corporation as provided in division (B)(1) of section 122.22 of the Revised Code: (1) A port authority as defined in division (A) o...

...(A) The urban and rural initiative grant program is hereby created to promote economic development and improve the economic welfare of the people of the state, which shall be accomplished by the department of development awarding grants to eligible applicants for use in an eligible area for any of the following purposes: (1) Land acquisition; (2) Infrastructure improvements; (3) Voluntary actions undertaken on pro...

...In administering the urban and rural initiative grant program created under section 122.20 of the Revised Code, the director of development shall do all of the following: (A) Designate, within three months after the publication of each decennial census by the United States census bureau, the entities that constitute the eligible areas in this state; (B) Adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised...

...As used in sections 122.23 to 122.27 of the Revised Code: (A) "Distressed area" means a county with a population of less than one hundred twenty-five thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census published by the United States census bureau that meets at least two of the following criteria: (1) Its average rate of unemployment, during the most recent five-year period for which local area unempl...

...As used in sections 122.28 and 122.30 to 122.36 of the Revised Code: (A) "New technology" means the development through science or research of methods, processes, and procedures, including but not limited to those involving the processing and utilization of coal, for practical application in industrial or agribusiness situations. (B) "Industrial research" means study and investigation in giving new shapes, n...

...(A) The Ohio river commission is created within the department of development to develop and promote economic development, marine cargo terminal operations, and travel and tourism on the Ohio river and its tributaries. The commission consists of the following members: (1) The director of development, or the director's designee, who shall serve as chairperson of the commission; (2) The director of transportation, ...

...(A) There is hereby created in the development services agency the steel futures program, for the purpose of preserving and improving the existing industrial base of the state, improving the economy of the state by providing employment, increased productivity, and ensuring continued technological development consistent with these goals, and maintaining a high standard of living for the people of this state. The steel...

...As used in sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 of the Revised Code: (A) "Financial institution" means any banking corporation, trust company, insurance company, savings and loan association, building and loan association, or corporation, partnership, federal lending agency, foundation, or other institution engaged in lending or investing funds for industrial or business purposes. (B) "Project" means any real...