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...The general assembly finds and declares all of the following for the purposes of sections 1332.21 to 1332.34 of the Revised Code: (A) Video service brings significant daily benefits to this state by providing news, education, and entertainment. (B) This state's economy will be enhanced by investment in new communications and video programming infrastructure, including fiber optic and internet protocol technol...

...(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...

...As used in sections 1333.05 to 1333.07 of the Revised Code: (A) "Theater" means any establishment in which motion 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 "exhi...

...(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 ...

...As used in sections 1333.11 to 1333.21 of the Revised Code: (A) "Cost to the retailer" means the invoice cost of cigarettes to the retailer, or the replacement cost of cigarettes to the retailer within thirty days prior to the date of sale, in the quantity last purchased, whichever is lower, less all trade discounts except customary discounts for cash, to which shall be added the cost of doing business by the retai...

...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 ...

...(A)(1) A molder has a lien on a die, mold, pattern, or form that is in his possession and that belongs to a customer, for the following: (a) The amount due from the customer for plastic, metal, paper, china, ceramic, glass, or rubber fabrication work performed with the die, mold, pattern, or form, or for making or improving the die, mold, pattern, or form; (b) The cost associated with the notification described in ...

...For purposes of sections 1333.32 to 1333.34 of the Revised Code, all of the following apply: (A) "Customer" means a person that causes a moldbuilder to fabricate, cut, cast, or design molds. (B) "Mold" means molds, dies, forms, tools, and parts, for the plastic industry or for the metal forming industry. (C) "Moldbuilder" means a person, including but not limited to, a model maker, patternmaker, die maker, jig and...

...(A) To enforce a moldbuilder's lien attached pursuant to section 1333.33 of the Revised Code, the moldbuilder shall give written notice to the customer and molder stating that a lien is claimed; the amount that the moldbuilder claims is owed for fabrication, repair, or modification of the mold; and a demand for payment. The written notice described in this division shall be given by hand delivery or certified mail, r...

...(A) As used in this section and section 1333.41 of the Revised Code, "public or private construction project" means a construction project that is for public or private purposes and that is located, in whole or in part, in this state or another state. (B) If a bailee for hire performs services or provides materials with respect to any personal property of the owner of, or principal contractor associated with, a publ...

...As used in sections 1333.82 to 1333.87 of the Revised Code: (A) "Alcoholic beverages" means beer and wine as defined in section 4301.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Manufacturer" means a person, whether located in this state or elsewhere, that manufactures or supplies alcoholic beverages to distributors in this state. (C) "Distributor" means a person that sells or distributes alcoholic beverages to retail permit hold...

...Notwithstanding the terms of any franchise, no manufacturer or distributor engaged in the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages, or a subsidiary of any such manufacturer, shall: (A) Fail to act in good faith or without just cause in acting or purporting to act under the terms of a franchise or in cancelling or failing to renew a franchise; (B) Award an additional franchise for the sale of the same bra...

...(A) Whoever violates sections 1333.01 to 1333.04 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (B) Whoever violates section 1333.12 or 1333.71 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (C) Whoever violates section 1333.36 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (D) A prosecuting attorney may file an action to restrain any person found in violatio...

...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 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...

...Sections 1334.01 to 1334.15 of the Revised Code do not apply to: (A) The relationship between an employer and an employee, or among general business partners; (B) Membership in a bona fide cooperative association of producers of agricultural products authorized by section 1 of the "Capper-Volstead Act," 42 Stat. 388 (1922), 7 U.S.C. 291; or an organization, operated on a cooperative basis by and for independ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Commission" means compensation accruing to a person for payment by another person, the rate of which is expressed as a percentage of the dollar amount of orders, sales, or profits. (2) "Principal" means a person who does all of the following: (a) Engages in either of the following: (i) The business of manufacturing, producing, importing, or distributing one or more products for s...

...(A) A transfer or an obligation is not fraudulent under division (A)(1) of section 1336.04 of the Revised Code against a person who took in good faith and for a reasonably equivalent value or against any subsequent transferee or obligee. (B)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, to the extent a transfer is voidable in an action by a creditor or a child support enforcement agency under division (A)(1) of s...

...h such property is situated, before the recording of the real property instrument executed by virtue of such power of attorney. For purposes of this section, a power of attorney that is known to have been recorded the same day, but after, the recording of the real property instrument shall be considered to have been recorded before the real property instrument. If a power of attorney is not recorded before, or is...

...As used in sections 1337.11 to 1337.17 of the Revised Code: (A) "Adult" means a person who is eighteen years of age or older. (B) "Attending physician" means the physician to whom a principal or the family of a principal has assigned primary responsibility for the treatment or care of the principal or, if the responsibility has not been assigned, the physician who has accepted that responsibility. (C) "Comfort ...

...As used in sections 1337.21 to 1337.64 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agent" means a person granted authority to act for a principal under a power of attorney, whether denominated an agent, attorney in fact, or otherwise. "Agent" includes an original agent, coagent, successor agent, and a person to which an agent's authority is delegated. (B) "Durable," with respect to a power of attorney, means not terminated by...

...(A) In a power of attorney, a principal may nominate a guardian of the principal's person, estate, or both and may nominate a guardian of the person, the estate, or both of one or more of the principal's minor children or incompetent adult children, whether born at the time of the execution of the power of attorney or afterward. The nomination is for consideration by a court if proceedings for the appointment o...

...(A) A power of attorney terminates when any of the following occurs: (1) The principal dies; (2) The principal becomes incapacitated, if the power of attorney is not durable; (3) The principal revokes the power of attorney; (4) The power of attorney provides that it terminates; (5) The purpose of the power of attorney is accomplished; (6) The principal revokes the agent's authority or the agent dies, become...

...(A) Notwithstanding provisions in the power of attorney, an agent that has accepted appointment shall do all of the following: (1) Act in accordance with the principal's reasonable expectations to the extent actually known by the agent and, otherwise, in the principal's best interest; (2) Act in good faith; (3) Act only within the scope of authority granted in the power of attorney; (4) Attempt to preserve ...

...Except as otherwise provided in the power of attorney, by executing a power of attorney that incorporates by reference a subject described in sections 1337.45 to 1337.58 of the Revised Code or that grants to an agent authority to do all acts that a principal could do pursuant to division (C) of section 1337.42 of the Revised Code, a principal authorizes the agent, with respect to that subject, to do all of the ...