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...(A) After a declaration of conversion is approved, both of the following apply: (1) A converting limited liability company shall deliver to the secretary of state for filing a certificate of conversion. The certificate of conversion shall be signed as provided in division (A) of section 1706.17 of the Revised Code and shall include all of the following: (a) A statement that the converting limited liability compan...

...(A) A person shall not voluntarily dissociate as a member associated with a series. (B) A person's dissociation from a series is wrongful only if one of the following applies: (1) The person's dissociation is in breach of an express provision of the operating agreement. (2) The person is expelled as a member associated with the series by determination of a tribunal under division (E) of section 1706.765 of the ...

...A person is dissociated as a member associated with a series when any of the following occurs: (A) An event stated in the operating agreement as causing the person's dissociation from the series occurs. (B) The person is dissociated as a member of the limited liability company pursuant to section 1706.411 of the Revised Code. (C) The person is expelled as a member associated with that series pursuant to the ope...

...A series is dissolved and its activities and affairs shall be wound up upon the first to occur of the following: (A) The dissolution of the limited liability company under section 1706.47 of the Revised Code; (B) An event or circumstance that the operating agreement states causes dissolution of the series; (C) The consent of all of the members associated with the series; (D) The passage of ninety days after t...

...(A) Subject to division (C) of section 1706.769 of the Revised Code, after dissolution of a series, the remaining members associated with the series, if any, and if none, a person appointed by all holders of the membership interest last assigned by the last person to have been a member associated with the series, may wind up the series' activities. (B) The appropriate tribunal may order supervision of the winding u...

...(A) A dissolved series may dispose of any known claims against it by following the procedures described in division (B) of this section, at any time after the effective date of the dissolution of the series. (B) A dissolved series may give notice of the dissolution in a record to the holder of any known claim. The notice shall do all of the following: (1) Identify the limited liability company and the dissolved s...

...(A) For the purpose of preventing manipulative practices by a person who makes a proposal, or publicly discloses the intention or possibility of making a proposal, to acquire control of a corporation formed under the laws of this state, any profit realized, directly or indirectly, from the disposition of any equity securities of a corporation by a person who, within eighteen months before disposition directly or indi...

...No portal operator that is not also a licensed dealer shall do any of the following: (A) Offer investment advice or recommendations, or solicit the purchase or sale of securities. For purposes of this division, a portal operator shall not be considered to be offering investment advice or recommendations merely because it selects, or may perform due diligence with respect to, issuers or offerings to be listed or mer...

...(A) Each portal operator shall maintain and preserve, for a period of at least five years from either the date of the closing or date of the termination of the securities offering, all of the following: (1) The name of each issuer whose securities have been listed on its OhioInvests portal and the full name, residential address, social security number, date of birth, and copy of a state-issued identification of all...

...(A) As used in this section, "affiliated party" means any of the following: (1) Any predecessor to the issuer; (2) Any affiliated issuer; (3) Any director, executive officer, other officer participating in the offering, general partner, or managing member of the issuer; (4) Any beneficial owner of twenty per cent or more of the issuer's outstanding voting equity securities, calculated on the basis of voting p...

...(A) The transactions enumerated in section 1707.06 of the Revised Code may be consummated on compliance with this section and section 1707.11 of the Revised Code. (B) A description, verified either by the oath of the individual filing it or of any individual having knowledge of the facts, shall be filed with the division of securities by the issuer, or by a majority of the incorporators of the issuer prior to...

...(A)(1) All securities, except those enumerated in section 1707.02 of the Revised Code and those that are the subject matter of a transaction permitted by section 1707.03, 1707.04, or 1707.06 of the Revised Code, shall be qualified in the manner provided by this section before being sold in this state. (2) Applications for qualification, on forms prescribed by the division of securities, shall be made in writing ei...

...(A) Each person that is not organized under the laws of this state, that is not licensed under section 1703.03 of the Revised Code, or that does not have its principal place of business in this state, shall submit to the division of securities an irrevocable consent to service of process, as described in division (B) of this section, in connection with any of the following: (1) Filings to claim any of the exemptio...

...(A) Except for offering materials filed with the division of securities in connection with exempt transactions under divisions (Q) and (W) of section 1707.03 of the Revised Code, all applications and other papers filed with the division shall be open to inspection at all reasonable times, except for unreasonable or improper purposes. (B) Information obtained by the division through any offering materials filed with...

...(A) No person shall act as a dealer, unless the person is licensed as a dealer by the division of securities, except when at least one of the following cases applies: (1) When the person is transacting business through or with a licensed dealer; (2) When the securities are the subject matter of one or more transactions enumerated in divisions (B) to (L), (O) to (R), and (U) to (Y) of section 1707.03, or in section ...

...Whenever it appears to the division of securities, from its files, upon complaint, or otherwise, that any person has engaged in, is engaged in, or is about to engage in any practice declared to be illegal or prohibited by this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter by the division, or defined as fraudulent in this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter by the division, or any other deceptive scheme or pract...

...(A) There is hereby created in the division of securities a position to be known as attorney-inspector, which shall be held only by an attorney at law. The duties of this position are to investigate and report upon all complaints and alleged violations of this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter by the division and to represent the division in prosecutions and other matters arising from such complaints and al...

...(A)(1) No person shall engage in any act or practice that violates division (A), (B), or (C) of section 1707.14 of the Revised Code, and no salesperson shall sell securities in this state without being licensed pursuant to section 1707.16 of the Revised Code. (2) No person shall engage in any act or practice that violates division (A) of section 1707.141 or section 1707.161 of the Revised Code. (3) No person shal...

...The principal executive officer of the division of securities shall be the commissioner of securities, who shall be appointed by the director of commerce. The commissioner of securities shall enforce all the laws and administrative rules enacted or adopted to regulate the sale of bonds, stocks, and other securities and to prevent fraud in such sales. The commissioner also shall enforce all the laws and administrativ...

...(A) As used in this section and section 1707.471 of the Revised Code: (1) "Claimant" means a person that files an application for restitution assistance on behalf of a victim. (2) "Final order" means a final administrative order issued by the division of securities or a final court order in a civil or criminal proceeding initiated by the division. (3) "Victim" means a purchaser identified in a final order that ...

...(A) A person that is eligible for a restitution assistance award under section 1707.47 of the Revised Code may submit an application for restitution assistance to the division in a manner and form prescribed by the division of securities. (B) To receive a restitution assistance award, the claimant shall submit an application to the division within one hundred eighty days after the date of the final order. The divis...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Eligible adult" means either of the following: (a) A person sixty years of age or older; (b) A person eligible to receive protective services pursuant to sections 5101.60 to 5101.71 of the Revised Code. (2) "Financial exploitation" means either of the following: (a) The wrongful or unauthorized taking, withholding, directing, appropriation, or use of money, assets, or prope...

...(A) As used in this section, "violation" means a violation of any provision of this chapter in connection with the sale of securities under sections 1707.05 to 1707.058 of the Revised Code where the filing is made pursuant to division (K) of section 1707.051 of the Revised Code and the securities are sold through an OhioInvests portal. (B)(1) If the division of securities finds, after notice and opportunity for a h...

...Whoever commits any act described in division (A) of section 1707.042 or section 1707.44 of the Revised Code is guilty of a violation of sections 1707.01 to 1707.50 of the Revised Code and the following apply to the offender: (A) If the value of the funds or securities involved in the offense or the loss to the victim is less than one thousand dollars, the offender is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree, and the...

...As used in sections 1709.01 to 1709.11 of the Revised Code, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Beneficiary form" means a registration of a security that indicates the present owner of the security and the intention of the present owner regarding the person who will become the owner of the security upon the death of the present owner. (B) "Devisee" means any person designated in a will to receive a disposit...