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...(A) If an owner accepts a residential contractor's offer to inspect the residential building, the owner shall notify the contractor of that acceptance within fourteen days. After accepting the offer to inspect, the owner shall allow the contractor reasonable access to the building during normal working hours. The contractor shall inspect the building within fourteen days after the owner accepts the offer. The contrac...

...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...

...Except when the context otherwise requires, as used in sections 1315.01 to 1315.18 of the Revised Code: (A) "Authorized delegate" means a person designated by a licensee under section 1315.11 of the Revised Code to receive, directly or indirectly, money or its equivalent for transmission by the licensee. (B) "Control" means the power, directly or indirectly, to direct the management and policies of a licensee or th...

...(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)(1) After accepting an application for a money transmitter license described in section 1315.03 of the Revised Code, the superintendent of financial institutions shall examine all the facts and circumstances relating to the application. (2) At the applicant's expense, the superintendent may conduct an on-site examination of the applicant's books, records, and operations. If the superintendent requests, the appli...

...(A)(1) In a form satisfactory to the superintendent of financial institutions, each licensee shall provide and maintain a security device of one or more of the types described in division (B) of this section of not less than three hundred thousand dollars or such greater amount as the superintendent finds appropriate but, except pursuant to a supervisory action, not exceeding two million dollars. (2) By control agre...

...(A) A licensee that chooses to conduct money transmission activities in this state through an authorized delegate shall execute an express written contract with the authorized delegate that, at a minimum, sets forth all of the following: (1) The duties and responsibilities of the authorized delegate regarding money or its equivalent received from persons located in this state for transmission by the licensee; (2) T...

...(A) Information leading to, arising from, or obtained in the course of the examination of a licensee or other person conducted pursuant to the authority of sections 1315.01 to 1315.18 of the Revised Code is privileged and confidential. No person, including any person to whom the information is disclosed under the authority of this section, shall disclose information leading to, arising from, or obtained in the course...

...Annually, the superintendent shall establish both of the following: (A) The application fee for an application for a license to transmit money under section 1315.03 of the Revised Code; (B) An annual fee described in division (E) of section 1315.04 of the Revised Code for each licensee to carry on the business of a money transmitter. When establishing the annual fee for each licensee, the superintendent may conside...

...(A) The superintendent of financial institutions may issue and serve a notice of charges and intent to issue a cease and desist order upon a licensee or other person if, in the opinion of the superintendent, either of the following applies to the licensee or other person: (1) The licensee or other person is engaging, has engaged, or, the superintendent has reasonable cause to believe, is about to engage in an unsafe...

...(A) The superintendent of financial institutions may issue and serve a notice of charges and intent to suspend or revoke a licensee's license, if the superintendent finds that any of the following applies: (1) Any fact or condition exists that, if it had existed at the time when the licensee applied for its license, would have been grounds for denying the application. (2) The licensee's net worth becomes inadequate...

...(A) The superintendent of financial institutions may assess civil penalties against a licensee or other person for each day a violation, unsafe or unsound practice, or breach continues as follows: (1) The superintendent may assess a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars per day if the licensee or other person violates any of the following: (a) Any law or rule; (b) Any order issued pursuant to section...

...(A)(1) Upon a licensee's or other person's request for an administrative hearing authorized in section 1315.15, 1315.151, or 1315.152 of the Revised Code, the division of financial institutions shall set a reasonable time, date, and place in this state for the hearing and notify the licensee or other person requesting the hearing. Within ninety days after the hearing, the superintendent of financial institution...

...(A) Upon the filing of an application for an original license to engage in the business of cashing checks, and the payment of the fees for investigation and licensure, the superintendent of financial institutions shall investigate the financial condition and responsibility and general fitness of the applicant. As part of that investigation, the superintendent shall request that the superintendent of the bureau of cri...

...As used in sections 1315.51 to 1315.55 of the Revised Code, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Conduct the business" means engaging in activities regulated under sections 1315.51 to 1315.55 of the Revised Code. (B) "Corrupt activity" has the same meaning as in section 2923 of the Revised Code. (C) "Knowingly" has the same meaning as in section 2901.22 of the Revised Code. (D) "Material" means a statement...

...(A) Whoever violates division (A) or (B) of section 1315.28 or division (E)(2) of section 1315.53 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (B) Whoever violates division (F)(1) of section 1315.53 or division (B) of section 1315.54 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree. (C) Whoever violates division (A) of section 1315.55 of the Revised Code is guilty of money...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Retail installment sale" includes every retail installment contract to sell specific goods, every consumer transaction in which the cash price may be paid in installments over a period of time, and every retail sale of specific goods to any person in which the cash price may be paid in installments over a period of time. "Retail installment sale" does not include a lease-purchase agreem...

...(A) Notwithstanding division (B) of section 1302.92 of the Revised Code and excluding layaway arrangements made pursuant to section 1317.22 of the Revised Code, when a seller justifiably withholds the delivery of specific goods because of the buyer's breach of a layaway arrangement, then both of the following apply: (1) The amount of the liquidated damages to which the seller is entitled shall not exceed the lesser ...

...In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code: (A) The division of financial institutions shall, upon written notice to the licensee stating the contemplated action and the grounds therefor, and upon reasonable opportunity to be heard, suspend or revoke any license issued by the division if it finds that: (1) The licensee is in default in the payment of the annual license fee or assessment prescribed in secti...

...(A) Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Revised Code, a licensee may contract for and receive interest, calculated according to the actuarial method, at a rate or rates not exceeding twenty-eight per cent per year on that portion of the unpaid principal balance of the loan not exceeding one thousand dollars and twenty-two per cent per year on any part of the unpaid principal balance exceeding one thousa...

...As used in sections 1321.35 to 1321.48 of the Revised Code: (A) "Short-term loan" means a loan made pursuant to sections 1321.35 to 1321.48 of the Revised Code. (B) "Superintendent of financial institutions" includes the deputy superintendent for consumer finance as provided in section 1181.21 of the Revised Code. (C) "Interest" means all charges payable directly or indirectly by a borrower to a licensee as a cond...

...(A) Application for an original or renewal license to make short-term loans shall be in writing, under oath, and in the form prescribed by the superintendent of financial institutions, and shall contain the name and address of the applicant, the location where the business of making loans is to be conducted, and any further information as the superintendent requires. At the time of making an application for an origin...

...A licensee may engage in the business of making loans provided that each loan meets all of the following conditions: (A) The total amount of the loan does not exceed one thousand dollars. (B)(1) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, the minimum duration of the loanis ninety-one days and the maximum duration of the loan is one year. (2) The minimum duration of the loan may be less than ninety-one days if the ...

...A licensee may charge, collect, and receive only the following fees and charges in connection with a short-term loan: (A) Interest not exceeding a rate of twenty-eight per cent per annum; (B)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(2) of this section, a monthly maintenance fee that does not exceed the lesser of ten per cent of the originally contracted loan amount or thirty dollars, provided the fee is not ...

...No licensee shall do any of the following: (A) Violate section 1321.36 of the Revised Code; (B) Make a loan that does not comply with section 1321.39 of the Revised Code; (C) Charge, collect, or receive, directly or indirectly, credit insurance premiums, charges for any ancillary product sold, or any additional fees, interest, or charges in connection with a loan, other than fees and charges permitted by section 1...