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...(A) The Ohio real estate commission is a part of the department of commerce for administrative purposes. The director of commerce is ex officio the executive officer of the commission, or the director may designate any employee of the department as superintendent of real estate and professional licensing to act as executive officer of the commission. The commission and the real estate appraiser board created pursu...

...(A) Upon receipt of a written complaint or upon the superintendent's own motion, the superintendent may investigate any person that has allegedly violated section 4735.02, 4735.023, or 4735.25 of the Revised Code, except that the superintendent shall not initiate an investigation, pursuant to this section, of any person who held a suspended or inactive license under this chapter on the date of the alleged violation. ...

...(A) Each brokerage shall designate at least one affiliated broker to act as the principal broker of the brokerage. Any affiliated broker not so designated shall be an associate broker or management level licensee for that brokerage. (B) A brokerage shall report any change in designation as a principal broker to the superintendent not later than fifteen days after the change occurs. (C) Every principal broker of a...

...(A) Application for a license as a real estate salesperson shall be made to the superintendent of real estate on forms furnished by the superintendent and signed by the applicant. The application shall be in the form prescribed by the superintendent and shall contain such information as is required by this chapter and the rules of the Ohio real estate commission. The application shall be accompanied by the recommenda...

...(A) Every real estate broker licensed under this chapter shall have and maintain a definite place of business in this state. A post office box address is not a definite place of business for purposes of this section. The license of a real estate broker shall be prominently displayed in the office or place of business of the broker, and no license shall authorize the licensee to do business except from the location sp...

...(A) Each license issued under this chapter, shall be valid without further recommendation or examination until it is placed in an inactive or resigned status, is revoked or suspended, or such license expires by operation of law. (B) Except for a licensee who has placed the licensee's license in resigned status pursuant to section 4735.142 of the Revised Code, each licensed broker, brokerage, or salesperson shall f...

...(A) The nonrefundable fees for reactivation or transfer of a license shall be as follows: (1) Reactivation or transfer of a broker's license into or out of a partnership, association, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or corporation or from one partnership, association, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or corporation to another partnership, association, limited liab...

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (B), (C), and (G) of this section, no licensed real estate broker or licensed foreign real estate dealer shall pay a commission, fee, or other compensation for performing any of the acts specified in section 4735.01 of the Revised Code to any person who is not a licensed real estate broker or a licensed real estate salesperson or to any person who is not a licensed foreign re...

...(A)(1) No person, other than an actual bona fide owner selling for the owner's own account in a single transaction and not by way of repeated or successive transactions, or a person excepted from obtaining a license under section 4735.01 of the Revised Code, shall sell, lease, or otherwise deal in this state in any foreign real estate unless the person has qualified the foreign real estate pursuant to this section an...

...(A) An application to act as a foreign real estate dealer shall be in writing and filed with the superintendent of real estate. It shall be in the form the superintendent prescribes and shall contain the following information: (1) The name and address of the applicant; (2) If the applicant is a partnership, unincorporated association, or any similar form of business organization, the names and the residence and...

...(A) An application to act as a foreign real estate salesperson shall be in writing and filed with the superintendent of real estate. It shall be in the form the superintendent prescribes and shall contain the following information: (1) The name and complete residence and business addresses of the applicant; (2) The name of the foreign real estate dealer who is employing the applicant or who intends to employ th...

...As used in sections 4735.51 to 4735.74 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agency" and "agency relationship" mean a relationship in which a licensee represents another person in a real estate transaction. (B) "Agency agreement" means a contract between a licensee and a client in which the client promises to pay the broker a valuable consideration, or agrees that the licensee may receive a valuable consideration from another,...

...In representing any client in an agency or subagency relationship, the licensee shall be a fiduciary of the client and shall use the licensee's best efforts to further the interest of the client including, but not limited to, doing all of the following: (A) Exercising reasonable skill and care in representing the client and carrying out the responsibilities of the agency relationship; (B) Performing the term...

...(A) A licensee shall disclose to any purchaser all material facts of which the licensee has actual knowledge pertaining to the physical condition of the property that the purchaser would not discover by a reasonably diligent inspection, including material defects in the property, environmental contamination, and information that any statute or rule requires be disclosed. For purposes of this division, actual knowledg...

...(A) The brokerage and management level licensees in a brokerage in which there is a dual agency relationship described in section 4735.70 of the Revised Code shall do each of the following: (1) Objectively supervise the affiliated licensees in the fulfillment of their duties and obligations to their respective clients; (2) Refrain from advocating or negotiating on behalf of either the seller or the purchaser; (3) ...

...A scrap metal dealer or bulk merchandise container dealer shall do all of the following with respect to each special purchase article the scrap metal dealer purchases or receives or with respect to each bulk merchandise container a bulk merchandise container dealer purchases or receives that is subject to division (A) of section 4737.012 of the Revised Code: (A) Comply with the requirements of this section in ...

...Sections 4737.04 and 4737.041 of the Revised Code do not apply with respect to any of the following: (A) The donation of articles to nonprofit organizations or to any other person, on the condition that the person donating the articles receives no payment or any other valuable consideration in exchange for or due to donating the articles; (B) The sale or donation of common recycled matter; (C) Sales transacte...

...As used in sections 4737.05 to 4737.12 of the Revised Code: (A) "Junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, trash, waste, batteries, paper, rubber, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous materials, but does not include scrap tires as defined in section 3734.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Junk yard" means an establishment or place of business that is maintained or operated for the purpose o...

...As used in sections 4738.01 to 4738.16 of the Revised Code: (A) "Motor vehicle salvage dealer" means any person who engages in business primarily for the purpose of selling salvage motor vehicle parts and secondarily for the purpose of selling at retail salvage motor vehicles or manufacturing or selling a product of gradable scrap metal. (B) "Salvage motor vehicle" means any motor vehicle which is in a wrecked, dis...

...Each person applying for a motor vehicle salvage dealer license or a salvage motor vehicle auction license or a salvage motor vehicle pool license shall make out and deliver to the registrar of motor vehicles, upon a blank to be furnished by the registrar for that purpose, a separate application for license for each county in which the business is to be conducted. The application for each type of license shall be in ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the registrar of motor vehicles shall deny the application of any person for a license under this chapter and refuse to issue the person a license if the registrar finds that the applicant: (1) Has made false statement of a material fact in the individual's application; (2) Has not complied with sections 4738.01 to 4738.15 of the Revised Code: (3...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "License" means a license the Ohio construction industry licensing board issues to an individual as a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning contractor, refrigeration contractor, electrical contractor, plumbing contractor, or hydronics contractor. (B) "Contractor" means any individual or contracting company that satisfies both of the following: (1) Has responsibility for the ...

...(A) There is hereby created within the department of commerce, the Ohio construction industry licensing board, consisting of seventeen residents of this state. The board shall have an administrative section and three specialty sections: a plumbing and hydronics section, an electrical section, and a heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration section. The director of commerce shall appoint all memb...

...(A) The administrative section of the Ohio construction industry licensing board annually shall elect from among its members a chairperson and other officers as the board, by rule, designates. The chairperson shall preside over meetings of the administrative section or designate another member to preside in the chairperson's absence. The administrative section shall hold at least two regular meetings each year,...

...The administrative section of the Ohio construction industry licensing board is responsible for the administration of this chapter and shall do all of the following: (A) Schedule the contractor examinations each of the other sections of the board directs. Each type of examination shall be held at least four times per year. (B) Select and contract with one or more persons to do all of the following relative to...