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...(A) In order to assist the municipal corporation, county, or township to meet current expenses pending receipt of increased revenues or pending the reduction of operating expenses, or otherwise to meet short-term cash requirements for current expenses of the municipal corporation, county, or township, the treasurer of state may invest moneys in the state treasury by purchasing current revenue notes of the municipal c...

...As used in sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) "Agency" means, except as limited by this division, any official, board, or commission having authority to promulgate rules or make adjudications in the civil service commission, the division of liquor control, the department of taxation, the industrial commission, the bureau of workers' compensation, the functions of any administrative or executive ...

...In the adoption, amendment, or rescission of any rule, an agency shall comply with the following procedure: (A) Reasonable public notice shall be given in the register of Ohio at least thirty days prior to the date set for a hearing, in the form the agency determines. The agency shall file copies of the public notice under division (B) of this section. (The agency gives public notice in the register of Ohio when t...

...(A) The Ohio public defender commission shall appoint the state public defender, who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. (B) The Ohio public defender commission shall establish rules for the conduct of the offices of the county and joint county public defenders and for the conduct of county appointed counsel systems in the state. These rules shall include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) Sta...

...(A) This section shall be liberally construed to require public officials to take official action and to conduct all deliberations upon official business only in open meetings unless the subject matter is specifically excepted by law. (B) As used in this section: (1) "Public body" means any of the following: (a) Any board, commission, committee, council, or similar decision-making body of a state agency, ins...

...(A) As used in this section, "environmental protection" means any of the following: (1) Protection of human health or safety, biological resources, or natural resources by preventing, reducing, or remediating the pollution or degradation of air, land, or water resources or by preventing or limiting the exposure of humans, animals, or plants to pollution; (2) Appropriation or regulation of privately owned property t...

...(A) The department of development shall not be required to issue a tax credit certificate under section 122.152 of the Revised Code if either of the following applies: (1) The credit-eligible capital contribution was made in a program one rural business growth fund that fails to: (a) Invest fifty per cent of its eligible investment authority in growth investments within one year of the closing date; and (b) ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Distressed area" means either a municipal corporation that has a population of at least fifty thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census published by the United States census bureau, or a county, that meets at least two of the following criteria: (a) Its average rate of unemployment, during the most recent five-year period for which local area unemployment s...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Payroll" means the total taxable income paid by the employer during the employer's taxable year, or during the calendar year that includes the employer's tax period, to each employee or each home-based employee employed in the project to the extent such payroll is not used to determine the credit under section 122.171 of the Revised Code. "Payroll" excludes amounts paid before the...

...The broadband expansion program authority shall do the following: (A) Continually examine, and propose updates to, any broadband plan provided by law enacted by the general assembly or executive order issued by the governor; (B) Monitor the Ohio residential broadband expansion grant program, including by doing the following: (1) Tracking the details for annual applications to the program, including: (a) T...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Major economic development project" means a project in this state that is reasonably expected to create, retain, and attract jobs or otherwise improve the economic well-being of the area surrounding the project site and that meets either of the following: (a) The project is reasonably expected to create at least seven hundred new permanent jobs. (b) At least seven hundred milli...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Venture capital operating company" has the same meaning as in 29 C.F.R. 2510.3-101. (2) "Ohio venture capital operating company" means a venture capital operating company certified by the director of development as having met the requirements prescribed by division (B) of this section. A venture capital operating company is an Ohio venture capital operating company only for so lo...

...As used in this section and in sections 123.281 to 123.283, except as otherwise provided in those sections, of the Revised Code: (A) "Culture" means any of the following: (1) Visual, musical, dramatic, graphic, design, and other arts, including, but not limited to, architecture, dance, literature, motion pictures, music, painting, photography, sculpture, and theater, and the provision of training or education in ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in the Revised Code, a state agency wanting to purchase supplies or services shall make the purchase subject to the requirements of an applicable first or second requisite procurement program described in this section, or obtain a determination from the department of administrative services that the purchase is not subject to a first or second requisite procurement program. State agen...

...No state agency shall purchase any supplies or services except as provided in this section and section 127.16 of the Revised Code. When exercising direct purchasing authority the agency shall utilize a selection process that complies with all applicable laws, rules, or regulations of the department of administrative services. (A) A state agency may, without competitive selection, make any purchase of supplies or s...

...(A) A countywide 9-1-1 system receiving a disbursement under section 128.55 of the Revised Code shall provide countywide wireless enhanced 9-1-1 in accordance with this chapter beginning as soon as reasonably possible after receipt of the first disbursement or, if that service is already implemented, shall continue to provide such service. Except as provided in divisions (B), (C), (E), and (F) of this section, a disb...

...(A) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, an action to enforce the obligation of a party to pay a note payable at a definite time shall be brought within six years after the due date or dates stated in the note or, if a due date is accelerated, within six years after the accelerated due date. (B) Except as provided in division (D) or (E) of this section, if demand for payment is made to the maker of a ...

...(A) If the beneficiary's bank credits an account of the beneficiary of a payment order, payment of the bank's obligation under division (A) of section 1304.76 of the Revised Code occurs when and to the extent the beneficiary is notified of the right to withdraw the credit, the bank lawfully applies the credit to a debt of the beneficiary, or funds with respect to the order are otherwise made available to the benefici...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in section 1305.08 of the Revised Code, an issuer shall honor a presentation that, as determined by the standard practice referred to in division (E) of this section, appears on its face strictly to comply with the terms and conditions of the letter of credit. Except as otherwise provided in section 1305.12 of the Revised Code and, unless otherwise agreed with the applicant, an issuer...

...(A) A successor of a beneficiary may consent to amendments, sign and present documents, and receive payment or other items of value in the name of the beneficiary without disclosing its status as a successor. (B) A successor of a beneficiary may consent to amendments, sign and present documents, and receive payment or other items of value in its own name as the disclosed successor of the beneficiary. Except as other...

...(A) As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Accession" means goods that are physically united with other goods in such a manner that the identity of the original goods is not lost. (2)(a) "Account," except as used in "account for," means a right to payment of a monetary obligation, whether or not earned by performance, (i) for property that has been or is to be sold, leased, lice...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (E) of this section, a buyer in the ordinary course of business, other than a person buying farm products from a person engaged in farming operations, takes free of a security interest created by the buyer's seller even if the security interest is perfected and the buyer knows of its existence. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (E) of this section, a buyer of g...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, priority between conflicting security interests and agricultural liens in the same collateral shall be determined according to the following rules: (1) Conflicting perfected security interests and agricultural liens rank according to priority in time of filing or perfection. Priority dates from the earlier of the time a filing covering the collateral is first made or...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B), (E), (F), and (G) of this section, a filed financing statement is effective for a period of five years after the date of filing. (B) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (E), (F), and (G) of this section, an initial financing statement filed in connection with a public-finance transaction or manufactured-home transaction is effective for a period of thir...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (G) of this section, a secured party may accept collateral in full or partial satisfaction of the obligation it secures only if: (1) The debtor consents to the acceptance under division (C) of this section; (2) The secured party, within the time prescribed in division (D) of this section, does not receive a notification of objection to the proposal authenticated by: (a)...