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...A person who inspects the installation of or witnesses the testing of any nonflammable medical gas and vacuum piping system shall be certified to do so pursuant to division (E) of section 3781.10 of the Revised Code.

...s designed to carry persons to its contract capacity. (C) "Freight elevator" means an elevator normally used for carrying freight and on which only the operator and employees in the pursuit of their duties, by the permission of the employer, are allowed to ride. (D) "Gravity elevator" means an elevator utilizing gravity to move. (E) "General inspector" means a state inspector examined and hired to inspect eleva...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Employ" means to permit or suffer to work. (B) "Employer" means the state, its political subdivisions, and every person who employs any individual. (C) "Enforcement official" means the director of commerce or the director's authorized representative, the director of education and workforce or the director's authorized representative, any school attendance officer, any probation ...

...fessional motion picture star, or as an actor or performer in motion pictures or in radio or television productions in accordance with the rules adopted pursuant to division (A) of section 4109.05 of the Revised Code; (4) The participation, without remuneration of a minor and with the consent of a parent or guardian, in a performance given by a church, school, or academy, or at a concert or entertainment given sol...

...ol" refers to either a school the child actually attends or a school he is required to attend pursuant to Chapter 3321. of the Revised Code.

...(A) The administrator of the bureau of employment services shall designate enforcement officials to enforce this chapter. (B) An enforcement official, upon discovery of a violation of this chapter and after notice to the employer, shall make a complaint against the offending employer in any court of competent jurisdiction. (C) Enforcement officials shall make complaint by filing a complaint before a court having co...

...(A) Whoever violates section 4109.04, division (C) of section 4109.07, division (A), (B), or (D) of section 4109.08, section 4109.11, or division (B) of section 4109.12 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (B) Whoever violates section 4109.05 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (C) Whoever violates section 4109.03, division (A), (B), or (D) of section 4109.07, or s...

...k. (2) "Employer" means the state of Ohio, its instrumentalities, and its political subdivisions and their instrumentalities, any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, or any person or group of persons, acting in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee, but does not include either of the following: (a) An employer whose annual gross volume of sales made for business d...

...ge rate differential determined by any factor other than race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry. (C) No employer shall reduce the wage rate of any employee in order to comply with this section. (D) The director of commerce shall carry out, administer, and enforce this section. Any employee discriminated against in violation of this section may sue in any court of competent jurisdiction to rec...

...22 of the Revised Code. (9) "Place of public accommodation" means any inn, restaurant, eating house, barbershop, public conveyance by air, land, or water, theater, store, other place for the sale of merchandise, or any other place of public accommodation or amusement of which the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges are available to the public. (10) "Housing accommodations" includes any building ...

...t shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any educational institution to discriminate against any individual on account of any disability: (A) In admission or assignment to any academic program, course of study, internship, or class offered by the institution; (B) In permitting participation in any activity that is sponsored by the institution or that takes place on property owned, operated, or controlled ...

...ined under the "Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988," 102 Stat. 1623, 42 U.S.C. 3607, as amended, to be specifically designed and operated to assist elderly persons; (2) Housing accommodations intended for and solely occupied by persons who are sixty-two years of age or older; (3) Housing accommodations intended and operated for occupancy by at least one person who is fifty-five years of age or older per unit, as...

...ss at all reasonable times to premises, records, documents, individuals, and other evidence or possible sources of evidence and may examine, record, and copy the premises, records, documents, and other evidence or possible sources of evidence and take and record the testimony or statements of the individuals as reasonably necessary for the furtherance of the hearing or investigation. In investigations, the commission...

...iated and enter that disposition on the records of the commission. If the commission fails to effect the elimination of an unlawful discriminatory practice by informal methods of conference, conciliation, and persuasion, or by alternative dispute resolution under this section and to obtain voluntary compliance with this chapter, the commission shall issue and cause to be served upon any person, including the responde...

...mmission determines that the case is of public importance.

...y wherein the unlawful discriminatory practice which is the subject of the commission's order was committed or wherein any respondent required in the order to cease and desist from an unlawful discriminatory practice or to take affirmative action resides or transacts business. (B) Such proceedings shall be initiated by the filing of a petition in court as provided in division (A) of this section and the service of a...

...t in a manner that is accessible to the public, a notice to be prepared or approved by the commission that shall set forth excerpts of this chapter and other relevant information that the commission deems necessary to explain this chapter.

...ommission, its employees, and files and records under its control, and to discharge any duty imposed upon it by law. The expense of these acquisitions shall be audited and paid for in the same manner as other state expenses. (4) Establish the overall policy and management of the commission in accordance with this chapter; (5) Follow all state procurement requirements; (6) Implement the policies and plans of ...

...es of discrimination against a place of public accommodation. (F) As used in this section: (1) "Accessibility law" means division (G) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code as that division applies to a person with a disability or any federal law that ensures accessibility to services, programs, places of public accommodation, public conveyance and modes of transportation, streets, highways, sidewalks, walkways, ...

... and management; the chairperson of the Ohio civil rights commission, the administrator of the bureau of workers' compensation, the executive director of the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency, and an additional member of the governor's cabinet appointed by the governor. The new African immigrants commission, by rule, may designate other state officers or their representatives to be members of the cou...

...In all actions described in section 4113.03 of the Revised code the negligence of a fellow servant of the employee is not a defense where the injury or death was in any way caused or contributed to by any of the following causes: (A) Any defect or unsafe condition in the ways, works, boats, wharves, plant, machinery, appliances, or tools, except simple tools, in any way connected with or in any way used in the busin...

...al services because that employee, when acting as a volunteer firefighter or a volunteer provider of emergency medical services, is absent from or late to the employee's employment in order to respond to an emergency prior to the time the employee is to report to work. An employer may charge any time that an employee who is a volunteer firefighter or a volunteer provider of emergency medical services loses from emplo...

...of the Revised Code and also includes a public agency or any other legal entity. (D) "Peace officer" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. (E) "Political subdivision" has the same meaning as in division (F) of section 2744.01 of the Revised Code. (F) "Prosecuting authority" means the prosecuting attorney of a county or the director of law, village solicitor, or similar chief legal officer...

...t is void and unenforceable as against public policy. (2) This section shall not be construed as impairing or affecting, in any way, the terms and conditions of any contract, invoice, purchase order, or any other agreement between a contractor and a subcontractor or a material supplier or between a subcontractor and another subcontractor, a material supplier, a lower tier subcontractor, or a lower tier materia...

...nd is void and unenforceable as against public policy. (B) Any provision of a construction contract, agreement, or understanding, or specification or other documentation that is made a part of a construction contract, agreement, or understanding, that waives any pending or asserted claim on the basis of final payment made from one person to another for the construction contract, agreement, or understanding, is void ...