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...As used in sections 1522.10 to 1522.30 of the Revised Code: (A) "Baseline facility" means a facility identified in the baseline report or a facility added to the baseline report under section 1522.16 of the Revised Code. (B) "Baseline facility abandonment" means the voluntary and affirmative termination of a baseline facility's withdrawal and consumptive use capacity as listed in the baseline report. "Baseline fa...

...As used in sections 153.581 and 153.591 of the Revised Code: (A) "Public works contract" means any contract awarded by a contracting authority for the construction, engineering, alteration, or repair of any public building, public highway, or other public work. (B) "Contracting authority" means the state, any township, county, municipal corporation, school board, or other governmental entity empowered to awa...

...As used in sections 153.65 to 153.73 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) "Public authority" means the state, a state institution of higher education as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, a county, township, municipal corporation, school district, or other political subdivision, or any public agency, authority, board, commission, instrumentality, or special purpose district of the state or of a political...

...(A) The chief of the division of wildlife, with the approval of the director of natural resources, may acquire by gift, lease, purchase, or otherwise lands or surface rights upon lands and waters or surface rights upon waters for wild animals, fish or game management, preservation, propagation, and protection, outdoor and nature activities, public fishing and hunting grounds, and flora and fauna preservation. The chi...

...As used in this chapter, "person," "resident," "nonresident," "division rule," "rule," "closed season," "open season," "take or taking," "possession," "bag limit," "transport and transportation," "sell and sale," "whole to include part," "angling," "trotline," "fish," "measurement of fish," "wild birds," "game," "game birds," "nongame birds," "wild quadrupeds," "game quadrupeds," "fur-bearing animals," "wild animals,...

...As used in sections 1533.18 and 1533.181 of the Revised Code: (A) "Premises" means all privately owned lands, ways, and waters, and any buildings and structures thereon, and all privately owned and state-owned lands, ways, and waters leased to a private person, firm, or organization, including any buildings and structures thereon. (B) "Recreational user" means a person to whom permission has been granted, without ...

...As used in sections 1533.83 to 1533.85 of the Revised Code: (A) "Political subdivision" means a municipal corporation, township, county, or other body corporate and politic responsible for governmental activities in a geographic area smaller than that of the state. (B) "Shooting range" means a facility operated for the purpose of shooting with firearms or archery equipment, whether publicly or privately owne...

...As used in sections 1533.86 to 1533.90 of the Revised Code: (A) "Ginseng" means the plant Panax quinquefolius L., also known as Panax quinquefolium L., commonly known as American ginseng. (B) "Wild ginseng" means ginseng that grows in an uncultivated state and in its natural habitat whether the plant occurs naturally from that habitat or was introduced or increased in abundance by sowing ginseng seed or transplanti...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Commission" means the Ohio public facilities commission created in section 151.02 of the Revised Code. (B) "Obligations" means bonds, notes, or other evidences of obligation, including interest coupons pertaining thereto, issued pursuant to Chapter 154. of the Revised Code. (C) "Bond proceedings" means the order or orders, resolution or resolutions, trust agreement, indenture, lease, ...

...me modify other rules, procedures, and definitions for the charge, collection, and transmission of such special fees. Notwithstanding any other provision of law pertaining thereto, the governing boards of the institutions of higher education shall charge, collect, and transmit such special fee in accordance with such rules. (E) There is hereby created the higher education bond service trust fund, which shall b...

...As used in this chapter and Chapter 1547. of the Revised Code: "Canoe" means a paddlecraft that is normally an open, narrow vessel of shallow draft, typically pointed at both ends and propelled by its occupants through the use of paddles while kneeling or sitting on a raised seat, including a flat-backed canoe and a racing canoe. "Coast guard approved" means bearing an approval number assigned by the United State...

...As used in sections 155.30 to 155.36 of the Revised Code: (A) "Formation" means any of the following: (1) The distance from the surface of the land to the top of the Onondaga limestone; (2) The distance from the top of the Onondaga limestone to the bottom of the Queenston formation; (3) The distance from the bottom of the Queenston formation to the basement rock. (B) "Gross landowner royalty" means a royalt...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Governmental agency" means the United States government or any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof; any department, agency, or instrumentality of a state government; any municipal corporation, county, township, board of education, or other political subdivision or any other body corporate and politic of a state; or any agency, commission, or authority established under an in...

...As used in sections 1551.30 to 1551.35 of the Revised Code: (A) "Coal development facility" means any coal resource development, beneficiation, or utilization facility of commercial availability or scale, including, without limitation, any commercial-scale demonstration facility and, when necessary or appropriate to demonstrate the commercial acceptability of a specific technology, up to three installations within t...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Coal research and development" means inquiry, experimentation, or demonstration to advance basic scientific or technical knowledge, or the application, adaptation, or use of existing or newly discovered scientific or technical knowledge, regarding the beneficiation of Ohio coal before combustion, conversion of Ohio coal to other fuels, the control of emissions of sulfur compounds result...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Bond proceedings" means the resolutions, trust agreements, and other agreements, credit enhancement facilities, and amendments and supplements to the foregoing, or any one or more or combination thereof, authorizing, awarding, or providing for the terms and conditions applicable to or providing for the security or liquidity of obligations, and the provisions contained in those obligatio...

...As used in sections 156.01 to 156.05 of the Revised Code: (A) "Avoided capital costs" means a measured reduction in the cost of future equipment or other capital purchases that results from implementation of one or more energy or water conservation measures, when compared to an established baseline for previous such cost. (B) "Energy conservation measure" means an installation or modification of an installation in,...

...As used in this chapter and Chapters 1563., 1565., and 1567. of the Revised Code, and in other sections of the Revised Code relating to the mining law, unless other meaning is clearly apparent in the language and context: (A) "Mine" means an underground or surface excavation or development with or without shafts, slopes, drifts, or tunnels for the extraction of coal, gypsum, asphalt, rock, or other materials contain...

...(A) As used in this section, "tag lines" and "tie-off lines" have the same meanings as in rules adopted under this section. (B) The operator of an underground coal mine shall provide tag lines or tie-off lines for each miner at the mine. The operator shall provide and employees of the mine shall use tag lines or tie-off lines in accordance with requirements and procedures established in rules adopted under th...

...(A) As defined by the United States department of commerce: (1) The "Ohio co-ordinate system of 1927, north zone" is a Lambert conformal conic projection of the Clarke spheroid of 1866, having standard parallels at north latitudes of 40° 26' and 41° 42' along which parallels the scale shall be exact; the origin of co-ordinates is at the intersection of the meridian 82° 30' west of Greenwich and the parallel 39° 40' ...

...As used in this chapter, unless other meaning is clearly indicated in the context: (A) "Gas storage reservoir" or "storage reservoir" or "reservoir" means a continuous area of a subterranean porous sand or rock stratum or strata, any part of which or of the protective area of which, is within a coal bearing township, into which gas is or may be injected for the purpose of storing it therein and removing it th...

...As used in sections 161.01 to 161.29, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and unless otherwise clearly required by the context: (A) "Unavailable" means either that a vacancy in office exists and there is no deputy authorized to exercise all of the powers and discharge the duties of the office, or that the lawful incumbent of the office, including any deputy exercising the powers and discharging the duties of an office b...

...As used in sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code: (A) "Public agency" means any governmental corporation, unit, organization, instrumentality, or officer authorized by law to appropriate property in the courts of this state. (B) "Private agency" means any corporation, firm, partnership, voluntary association, joint-stock association, or company that is not a public agency and that is authorized by law...

...An agency that has met the requirements of sections 163.04 and 163.041 of the Revised Code, may commence proceedings in a proper court by filing a petition for appropriation of each parcel or contiguous parcels in a single common ownership, or interest or right therein. The petition of a private agency shall be verified as in a civil action. All petitions shall contain: (A) A description of each parcel ...

...As used in sections 163.31 to 163.33 of the Revised Code: (A) "Advertising device" includes any legally erected and maintained outdoor sign, display, device, figure, painting, drawing, message, placard, poster, billboard, or other contrivance designed, intended, or used to advertise or to give information in the nature of advertising, or any part of any such contrivance, the advertisement on which is visible from th...