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...(A) As used in this section, "stillborn" has the same meaning as in section 124.136 of the Revised Code. (B) Each full-time permanent and part-time permanent employee whose salary or wage is paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management shall be granted three days of bereavement leave with pay due to the death of a member of the employee's immediate family. (C) Except as provided in division...

...(A) An appointing authority may, in its discretion, place an employee on administrative leave with pay. Administrative leave with pay is to be used only in circumstances where the health or safety of an employee or of any person or property entrusted to the employee's care could be adversely affected. Compensation for administrative leave with pay shall be equal to the employee's base rate of pay. The length of ad...

...The director of administrative services may establish an employee exchange program for employees whose salary or wage is paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management. The director of administrative services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to provide for the administration of the program.

...As used in this section, "retirement" means disability or service retirement under any state or municipal retirement system in this state. (A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(3) of this section, an employee of a state college or university may elect, at the time of retirement from active service and with ten or more years of service with the state or any of its political subdivisions, to be paid in cash for on...

...(A) As used in this section, "paid leave" means sick leave, personal leave, or vacation leave. (B) The director of administrative services may establish a program under which an employee paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management may donate that employee's accrued but unused paid leave to another employee paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management who has no accrue...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Exempt employee" has the same meaning as in section 124.152 of the Revised Code. (2) "Fiscal emergency" means a fiscal emergency declared by the governor under section 126.05 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of administrative services may establish a voluntary cost savings program for exempt employees. (C) The director of administrative services shall establis...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Exempt employee" means a permanent full-time or permanent part-time county, township, or municipal corporation employee who is not subject to a collective bargaining agreement between a public employer and an exclusive representative. (2) "Fiscal emergency" means any of the following: (a) A fiscal emergency declared by the governor under section 126.05 of the Revised Code. (...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Exempt employee" means a permanent full-time or permanent part-time county employee, township, or municipal corporation who is not subject to a collective bargaining agreement between a public employer and an exclusive representative. (2) "Fiscal emergency" means any of the following: (a) A fiscal emergency declared by the governor under section 126.05 of the Revised Code. ...

...(A) The mayor or other chief appointing authority of each city in the state shall appoint three persons, one for a term of two years, one for a term of four years, and one for a term of six years, who shall constitute the municipal civil service commission of that city and of the city school district and city health district in which that city is located. Each alternate year thereafter the mayor or other chief ap...

...No person shall be eligible to receive an original appointment to a police department, as a police officer, subject to the civil service laws of this state, unless the person has reached the age of twenty-one and has, not more than one hundred twenty days prior to the date of such appointment, passed a physical examination, given by a licensed physician, a physician assistant, a clinical nurse specialist, a certified...

...Notwithstanding section 124.41 of the Revised Code, the appointing authority of a municipal corporation that has been incorporated pursuant to Chapter 707, of the Revised Code may grant an original appointment to a police department, as a policewoman or policeman, to a person who was employed on the date of incorporation as a full-time police officer of a township all or part of which was included in the corporation ...

...No person shall be eligible to receive an original appointment as a firefighter in a fire department, subject to the civil service laws of this state, unless the person has reached the age of eighteen and has, not more than one hundred twenty days prior to receiving such appointment, passed a physical examination, given by a licensed physician, a physician assistant, a clinical nurse specialist, a certified nur...

...Separate examinations shall be given and separate eligibility lists maintained by municipal and civil service township civil service commissions for original appointments to and promotions in fire and police departments in cities and civil service townships. No person may be transferred from one list to the other. Appointments and promotions in the departments shall be only from the separate eligible lists maintained...

...No positions above the rank of patrol officer in the police department shall be filled by original appointment. Vacancies in positions above the rank of patrol officer in a police department shall be filled by promotion from among persons holding positions in a rank lower than the position to be filled. No position above the rank of patrol officer in a police department shall be filled by any person unless th...

...Vacancies in positions above the rank of regular fire fighter in a fire department shall be filled by competitive promotional examinations, and promotions shall be by successive ranks as provided in this section and sections 124.46 to 124.49 of the Revised Code. Positions in which those vacancies occur shall be called promoted ranks. When a vacancy occurs in the promoted rank immediately above the rank of regular...

...The names of the examinees who have passed the examination shall be placed on the eligible list in accordance with their grades. The examinee receiving the highest grade shall be placed first on the list. If two or more examinees receive the same grade, seniority in the fire department service shall determine the order of their names. The person having the highest position on the list shall be appointed in the c...

...Within any rank, the municipal council or board of trustees of a civil service township may establish such special positions having special duties with preferential pay as the council or board deems necessary, but the holding of any such special positions shall not establish eligibility to the next higher rank to the exclusion of other persons in the same rank who do not hold such special positions. No special positi...

...Whenever a vacancy occurs in a promoted rank in a fire department and no eligible list for that rank exists, the appointing authority shall certify the fact to the civil service commission. The civil service commission, within sixty days of the vacancy, shall conduct a competitive promotional examination. After the examination has been held, an eligible list shall be established, and the civil service commissio...

...All promotional appointments in a fire department may be for a probationary period to be fixed by the rules of the civil service commission and not to exceed six months. No promotion shall be deemed final until the appointee has satisfactorily served his probationary period. At the end of the probationary period the appointing authority shall transmit to the civil service commission a record of the employee's service...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, by ordinance, adopt a plan granting an increase in salary for authorized educational achievement attained prior to original appointment or during service by a policeman or fireman. Such a plan shall define the areas of education which qualify, set standards, and shall be applied uniformly among members of the police or fire department. Such areas of education ...

...Any person holding an office or position under the classified service in a fire department or a police department who is separated therefrom due to injury or physical disability incurred in the performance of duty shall be reinstated immediately, or one suffering injury or physical disability incurred other than in the performance of duty may be reinstated, upon filing with the chief of the fire department or the chi...

...In any city which by action of its legislative authority establishes the position of secretary of police or the position of secretary of fire, neither such position, if filled by a member of the uniform rank by assignment, shall be subject to competitive examination, notwithstanding section 124.44 of the Revised Code. The status within the uniform ranks of such member while so serving in such assignment shall remain ...

...In any city with a population of seven hundred thousand or more as shown by the last federal census, which by action of the legislative authority establishes within the police department a unit assigned to the control of traffic, a member of the police department of said city who is appointed the head of such unit by whatever title designated, shall not be subject to competitive examination, notwithstanding section 1...

...In any city which, by action of its legislative authority, establishes the position of superintendent of buildings or the position of superintendent of fire equipment, and appoints to either position a member of the uniform rank by assignment, such member is not subject to competitive examination, notwithstanding section 124.44 of the Revised Code. The status within the uniform ranks of such member while so serving i...

...Where a municipal civil service commission serves a city school district whose territory is located in more than one city, the board of education of such district shall, by resolution, appropriate each year, to be paid into the treasury of the municipal civil service commission's city, an amount sufficient to meet the portion of the board of education's cost of civil service administration. The amount shall be mutual...

...The definition of "magistrate" set forth in section 2931.01 of the Revised Code, and the definition of "peace officer," "prosecutor," and "offense" set forth in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code applies to Chapter 2938 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 2950. of the Revised Code, upon the issuance of an order by a court under section 2953.57 of the Revised Code directing that all official records pertaining to a case be sealed and that the proceedings in the case be deemed not to have occurred: (1) Every law enforcement officer possessing records or reports pertaining to the case that are the officer's specific investig...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Aggregate original principal amount" means the aggregate of the initial offering prices to the public of college savings bonds, exclusive of accrued interest, if any. "Aggregate original principal amount" does not mean the aggregate accreted amount payable at maturity or redemption of such bonds. (B) "Beneficiary" means: (1) An individual designated by the purchaser under a tuition pa...

...event that more than one body meets the definitions set forth in divisions (F)(1) to (4) of this section, "organizational board of commissioners" means the organizational board of commissioners with which the original petition was filed or another body meeting the definitions set forth in divisions (F)(1) to (4) of this section appointed in a resolution adopted by the organizational board of commissioners with which ...

...In addition to the specifications established in section 3715.602 of the Revised Code, food is misbranded within the meaning of sections 3715.01, 3715.02, 3715.022, and 3715.52 to 3715.72 of the Revised Code, if: (A) Its labeling is false or misleading in any particular. (B) It is offered for sale under the name of another food. (C) Its container is so made, formed, or filled as to be misleading. (D) It is a...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Advertising" means any written, electronic, or printed communication or any communication by means of recorded telephone messages or transmitted on radio, television, the internet, or similar communications media, including, but not limited to, film strips, motion pictures, and videos, that is published, disseminated, circulated, or placed directly or indirectly before the public in t...

...er insurer is an insurer that meets the definitions set forth in section 3956.01 of the Revised Code, and any insurer or health insuring corporation that would have met these definitions, if it had been in effect at the time of such contribution. (J) Division (I) of this section does not apply if a member insurer has contributed funds pursuant to that division and has offset those contributions against its premiu...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Real estate broker" includes any person, partnership, association, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or corporation, foreign or domestic, who for another, whether pursuant to a power of attorney or otherwise, and who for a fee, commission, or other valuable consideration, or with the intention, or in the expectation, or upon the promise of receiving or collecti...

...Whenever the department or director of mental retardation and developmental disabilities is referred to or designated in any statute, rule, contract, grant, or other document, the reference or designation is deemed to refer to the department or director of developmental disabilities, as the case may be. Whenever "mental retardation" or any derivation of that term is referred to or designated in any statute, rule, c...

...Except as otherwise expressly provided or clearly appearing from the context, any term used in this chapter that is not otherwise defined in this section has the same meaning as when used in a comparable context in the laws of the United States relating to federal income taxes or if not used in a comparable context in those laws, has the same meaning as in section 5733.40 of the Revised Code. Any reference in this ch...

...If a term used in sections 718.80 to 718.95 of the Revised Code that is not otherwise defined in this chapter is used in a comparable context in both the laws of the United States relating to federal income tax and in Title LVII of the Revised Code and the use is not consistent, then the use of the term in the laws of the United States relating to federal income tax shall have control over the use of the term in Titl...

... 742.10 of the Revised Code, establish definitions of "terminal pay" and "salary" that differ from those in divisions (K) and (L) of section 742.01 of the Revised Code. In establishing the definitions, the board may use elements of the compensation provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code and the Internal Revenue Code form W-2, as those provisions are interpreted by the internal revenue service of...

...As used in any statute, unless another definition is provided in that statute or a related statute: (A) "Child" includes child by adoption. (B) "Oath" includes affirmation, and "swear" includes affirm. (C) "Person" includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. (D) "Population" means that shown by the most recent regular federal census. (E) "Property" means rea...

...For purposes of this section and sections 1109.54, 1109.55, and 1109.56 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) "Affiliate" means any of the following: (a) A company that controls the state bank and any other company controlled by the company that controls the state bank; (b) A bank subsidiary of the state bank; (c) A company that is controlled directly or indirectly, by a trust or otherwise, by or for the benefit of shareho...

...The inspector general shall do all of the following: (A) Investigate the management and operation of state agencies on his own initiative in order to determine whether wrongful acts and omissions have been committed or are being committed by state officers or state employees; (B) Receive complaints under section 121.46 of the Revised Code alleging wrongful acts and omissions, determine whether the information conta...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Ohio qualified opportunity fund" means a qualified opportunity fund that holds one hundred per cent of its invested assets in qualified opportunity zone property situated in an Ohio opportunity zone. In the case of qualified opportunity zone property that is qualified opportunity zone stock or qualified opportunity zone partnership interest, the stock or interest is situated in...

...1. of the Revised Code contains general definitions and general principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this chapter.

...1. of the Revised Code contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout sections 1304.01 to 1304.40 of the Revised Code.

...As used in sections 1315.51 to 1315.55 of the Revised Code, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Conduct the business" means engaging in activities regulated under sections 1315.51 to 1315.55 of the Revised Code. (B) "Corrupt activity" has the same meaning as in section 2923 of the Revised Code. (C) "Knowingly" has the same meaning as in section 2901.22 of the Revised Code. (D) "Material" means a statement...

...As used in this chapter, in sections 9.95, 9.96, and 2151.655 of the Revised Code, in other sections of the Revised Code that make reference to this chapter unless the context does not permit, and in related proceedings, unless otherwise expressly provided: (A) "Acquisition" as applied to real or personal property includes, among other forms of acquisition, acquisition by exercise of a purchase option, and acquisit...

...As used in sections 1331.01 to 1331.14 of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" includes corporations, partnerships, and associations existing under or authorized by any state or territory of the United States, and solely for the purpose of the definition of division (C) of this section, a foreign governmental entity. (B) "Public office" means any state agency, public institution, political subdivision, or other organized...

...For purposes of sections 1333.32 to 1333.34 of the Revised Code, all of the following apply: (A) "Customer" means a person that causes a moldbuilder to fabricate, cut, cast, or design molds. (B) "Mold" means molds, dies, forms, tools, and parts, for the plastic industry or for the metal forming industry. (C) "Moldbuilder" means a person, including but not limited to, a model maker, patternmaker, die maker, jig and...

...section 145.01 of the Revised Code, the definitions of that section are applicable to this chapter only to any extent necessary to fully understand the provisions of this chapter. Reference may also be had to Chapters 742., 3305., 3307., 3309., and 5505. of the Revised Code for that purpose.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Public record" means records kept by any public office, including, but not limited to, state, county, city, village, township, and school district units, and records pertaining to the delivery of educational services by an alternative school in this state kept by the nonprofit or for-profit entity operating the alternative school pursuant to section 3313.533 of the Revised Code. "...

...RCES COMPACT ARTICLE 1 SHORT TITLE, DEFINITIONS, PURPOSES AND DURATION Section 1.1. Short Title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact." Section 1.2. Definitions. For the purposes of this Compact, and of any supplemental or concurring legislation enacted pursuant thereto, except as may be otherwise required by the context: Adaptive ...