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...As used in sections 122.60 to 122.605 of the Revised Code: (A) "Capital access loan" means a loan made by a participating financial institution to an eligible business that may be secured by a deposit of money from the fund into the participating financial institution's program reserve account. (B) "Eligible business" means a for-profit business entity, or a nonprofit entity, that had total annual sales in its mo...

...As used in sections 122.66 to 122.702 of the Revised Code: (A) "Poverty line" means the official poverty line established by the director of the United States office of management and budget and as revised by the secretary of health and human services in accordance with section 673(2) of the "Community Services Block Grant Act," 95 Stat. 1609, 42 U.S.C.A. 9902. (B) "Low-income person" means a person whose adjust...

...As used in sections 122.71 to 122.83 of the Revised Code: (A) "Financial institution" means any banking corporation, trust company, insurance company, savings and loan association, building and loan association, or corporation, partnership, federal lending agency, foundation, or other institution engaged in lending or investing funds for industrial or business purposes. (B) "Project" means any real or personal pro...

...As used in sections 122.87 to 122.90 of the Revised Code: (A) "Surety company" means a company that is authorized by the department of insurance to issue bonds as surety. (B) "Minority business" means any of the following occupations: (1) Minority construction contractor; (2) Minority seller; (3) Minority service vendor. (C) "Minority construction contractor" means a person who is both a construction cont...

...As used in this section and section 122.951 of the Revised Code: (A) "Commercial or industrial areas" means areas zoned either commercial or industrial by the local zoning authority or an area not zoned, but in which there is located one or more commercial or industrial activities. (B) "Eligible county" means any of the following: (1) A county designated as being in the "Appalachian region" under the "Appalachian ...

...As used in this section and in section 123.281 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 these arts; (2) The presentation or making available, in museu...

...Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, as used in this chapter: (A) "Civil service" includes all offices and positions of trust or employment in the service of the state and in the service of the counties, cities, city health districts, general health districts, and city school districts of the state. (B) "State service" includes all offices and positions in the service of the state and the counties an...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Order" means a copy of a contract or a statement of the nature of a contemplated expenditure, a description of the property or supplies to be purchased or service to be performed, other than a service performed by officers and regular employees of the state, and per diem of the national guard, and the total sum of the expenditure to be made therefor, if the sum is fixed and ascertaine...

...As used in this section and sections 125.092 and 125.093 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agricultural materials" means agricultural-based materials or residues, including plant, animal, and marine materials or residues, used in the manufacture of commercial or industrial nonfood products. (B) "Biobased product" means a product determined by the United States secretary of agriculture to be a commercial or industria...

...As used in sections 125.12 to 125.14 of the Revised Code: (A) "Excess supplies" means any supplies that have a remaining useful life, but that are no longer needed by the agency that possesses them. (B) "Supplies" means all personal property owned by the state, including, but not limited to, equipment and materials. (C) "Surplus supplies" means any supplies no longer having any use to the state, including obsolete...

...As used in sections 125.60 to 125.6012 of the Revised Code: (A) "Community rehabilitation program" means an agency that: (1) Is organized under the laws of the United States or this state such that no part of its net income inures to the benefit of any shareholder or other individual; (2) Is certified as a sheltered workshop, if applicable, by the wage and hour division of the United States department of labor; (...

...As used in sections 125.831 to 125.834 of the Revised Code: (A) "Alternative fuel" means any of the following fuels used in a motor vehicle: (1) E85 blend fuel; (2) Blended biodiesel; (3) Natural gas; (4) Liquefied petroleum gas; (5) Hydrogen; (6) Compressed air; (7) Any power source, including electricity; (8) Any fuel not described in divisions (A)(1) to (7) of this section that the United States ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, any internal audit report produced by the office of internal audit in the office of budget and management and all work papers of the internal audit are confidential and are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code until the final report of an internal audit's findings and recommendations is submitted to the state audit committee, the governor,...

...As used in sections 126.503, 126.504, 126.505, and 126.506 of the Revised Code, "state agency" has the same meaning as in section 1.60 of the Revised Code, but does not include the elected state officers, the general assembly or any legislative agency, a court or any judicial agency, or a state institution of higher education.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "9-1-1 system" means a system through which individuals can request emergency service using the access number 9-1-1. (B) "Basic 9-1-1" means an emergency telephone system to which all of the following apply: (1) The system automatically connects a caller to a designated public safety answering point. (2) Call routing is determined by a central office only. (3) Automatic num...

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (C) and (D) of this section, "negotiable instrument" means an unconditional promise or order to pay a fixed amount of money, with or without interest or other charges described in the promise or order, if it meets all of the following requirements: (1) It is payable to bearer or to order at the time it is issued or first comes into possession of a holder. (2) It is payable on dem...

...As used in sections 1306.01 to 1306.23 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agreement" means the bargain of the parties in fact, as found in their language or inferred from other circumstances and from rules, regulations, and procedures given the effect of agreements under laws otherwise applicable to a particular transaction. (B) "Automated transaction" means a transaction conducted or performed, in whole or in part, by elec...

...Relation of Chapter 1307. of the Revised Code to treaty or statute [UCC 7-103] (A) Sections 1307.101 to 1307.603 of the Revised Code are subject to any treaty or statute of the United States or regulatory statute of this state to the extent the treaty, statute, or regulatory statute is applicable. (B) Sections 1307.101 to 1307.603 of the Revised Code do not modify or repeal any law prescribing the form or con...

...As used in Chapters 113., 117., 123., 124., 125., 126., 127., and 131. of the Revised Code, and any statute that uses the terms in connection with state accounting or budgeting: (A) "Account" means any record, element, or summary in which financial transactions are identified and recorded as debit or credit transactions in order to summarize items of a similar nature or classification. (B) "Accounting procedure...

...As used in sections 1311.01 to 1311.22 of the Revised Code: (A) "Owner," "part owner," or "lessee" includes all the interests either legal or equitable, which such person may have in the real estate upon which the improvements are made, including the interests held by any person under contracts of purchase, whether in writing or otherwise. (B) "Material supplier" includes any person by whom any materials are furnis...

...As used in sections 1311.25 to 1311.32 of the Revised Code: (A) "Public improvement" means any construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, alteration, demolition, or repair of a building, highway, drainage system, water system, road, street, alley, sewer, ditch, sewage disposal plant, water works, and any other structure or work of any nature by a public authority. (B) "Public authority" includes the st...

...As used in sections 1311.39 to 1311.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code, "owner" includes any lessee, receiver, corporation, company, or persons owning, operating, or managing any railroad with whom or in whose behalf contracts as provided in such sections are made.

...As used in sections 1311.71 to 1311.80 of the Revised Code: (A) "Aircraft" has the same meaning as in section 4561.01 of the Revised Code and includes any part or equipment of the aircraft. "Aircraft" includes an abandoned aircraft, unless otherwise specified. (B) "Abandoned aircraft" means an aircraft to which both of the following apply: (1) It is located on the premises of a public-use airport. (2) The own...

...As used in sections 1311.85 to 1311.93 of the Revised Code: (A) "Broker" means an individual, partnership, corporation, or association licensed as a real estate broker pursuant to Chapter 4735. of the Revised Code. (B) "Commercial real estate" means any parcel of real estate in this state other than real estate containing one to four residential units. "Commercial real estate" does not include single-family ...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Construction defect" means a deficiency that arises directly or indirectly out of the construction or the substantial rehabilitation of a residential building. "Substantial rehabilitation" includes the addition of a room and the removal or installation of a wall, partition, or portion of the structural design. (B) "Dwelling action" means any civil action in contract or tort for damages...