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...As used in this chapter: (A)(1) "Beneficiary under a trust" means either of the following: (a) Any person that has a present or future beneficial interest in a trust, whether vested or contingent; (b) Any person that, in a capacity other than that of trustee, holds a power of appointment over trust property, but does not include the class of permitted appointees among whom the power holder may appoint. (2) "B...

...As used in sections 5901.01 to 5901.37 of the Revised Code: (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, "veteran" means either of the following: (1) A former member of the armed forces of the United States who served on active military duty and received an honorable discharge or honorable separation, a member of the armed forces of the United States who died on active military duty, or a membe...

...grants awarded under this section; (4) Definitions and standards applicable to determining whether an individual meets the requirements established in division (B) of this section; (5) The process for appealing eligibility determinations; and (6) Any other rules necessary to administer the grant program established in this section. (E) An eligibility determination, a grant approval, or a grant denial made under t...

...As used in this chapter: "Armed forces" means the armed forces of the United States, including the army, navy, air force, marine corps, space force, coast guard, or any reserve components of those forces; the national guard of any state; the commissioned corps of the United States public health service; the merchant marine service during wartime; such other service as may be designated by congress; or the Ohio org...

...As used in sections 5905.01 to 5905.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, or an association. (B) "Veterans' administration" means the veterans' administration, its predecesssors, or successors. (C) "Income" means moneys received from the veterans' administration and revenue or profit from any property wholly or partially acquired therewith. (D) "Estate...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Active duty" means full-time duty in the active military service of the United States or active duty pursuant to an executive order of the president of the United States, an act of the congress of the United States, or a proclamation of the governor. "Active duty" does not include active duty for training, initial active duty for training, or the period of time for which a perso...

...As used in this chapter and section 5919.34 of the Revised Code: (A) "Child" includes natural and adopted children and stepchildren who have not been legally adopted by the veteran parent provided that the relationship between the stepchild and the veteran parent meets the following criteria: (1) The veteran parent is married to the child's natural or adoptive parent at the time application for a scholarship gr...

...As used in Chapters 5911., 5913., 5919., 5920., 5923., and 5924. of the Revised Code: (A) "Unit" means a company, battery, troop, air squadron, band, or detachment. (B) "Organization" means a command composed of two or more units.

...As used in Chapter 5924. of the Revised Code unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Organized militia" means the Ohio national guard, the Ohio naval militia, the Ohio military reserve, and the Ohio cyber reserve. (B) "Officer" means commissioned or warrant officer. (C) "Commissioned officer" includes a commissioned warrant officer. (D) "Commanding officer" includes only commissioned or warrant officers in c...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Publication" or "published" means once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties where the publication is to be made. When a publication is required to be made by a conservancy district or its board of directors, a copy of the publication, certified by the secretary of the conservancy district to have been published in accordance with this division, shall be admitt...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Public water supply facilities," "water supply facilities," "water supply improvement," or "improvement" means, without limiting the generality of those terms, water wells and well fields, springs, lakes, rivers, streams, or other sources of water supply, intakes, pumping stations and equipment, treatment, filtration, or purification plants, force and distribution lines or main...

...As used in sections 6105.01 to 6105.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Water resources" means all waters within a watershed district occurring on the surface in natural or artificial channels, lakes, reservoirs, or impoundments, and in subsurface aquifers, which are available or may be made available to agricultural, industrial, commercial, recreational, public, and domestic users. (B) "Governmental agencies"...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Public water system" means a system for the provision to the public of water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances if the system has at least fifteen service connections or regularly serves at least twenty-five individuals. "Public water system" includes any collection, treatment, storage, and distribution facilities under control of the operator of the s...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Pollution" means the placing of any sewage, sludge, sludge materials, industrial waste, or other wastes in any waters of the state. (B) "Sewage" means any liquid waste containing sludge, sludge materials, or animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution, and may include household wastes as commonly discharged from residences and from commercial, institutional, or similar facil...

...As used in this section and sections 6111.021 to 6111.028 of the Revised Code: (A) "Category 1 wetland," "category 2 wetland," or "category 3 wetland" means a category 1 wetland, category 2 wetland, or category 3 wetland, respectively, as described in rule 3745-1-54 of the Administrative Code, as that rule existed on July 17, 2001, and as determined to be a category 1, category 2, or category 3 wetland, respectively...

... in rules adopted by the director. (7) Definitions of the various classes of injection wells; (8) A determination of the areas of review of injection wells; (9) Other provisions in furtherance of the goals of this section and the "Safe Drinking Water Act," 88 Stat. 1661 (1974), 42 U.S.C.A. 300(f), as amended. The rules adopted under this section shall be consistent with that act and the regulations adopted under i...

...(A) The director of environmental protection shall establish an antidegradation policy applicable to surface waters of the state pursuant to applicable federal laws and regulations. The purpose of the policy shall be to maintain levels of water quality that are currently better than prescribed by applicable standards except in situations when a need to allow a lower level of water quality is demonstrated based on tec...

...As used in sections 6111.31 to 6111.316 of the Revised Code: (A) "Area of mitigation" or "AMIT" means the area of mitigation, as calculated using the formula specified in division (A) of section 6111.313 of the Revised Code, expressed in feet squared. (B) Area of the streamway or "ASW" means the area of the streamway, expressed in feet squared. (C) "DA" means drainage area, expressed in square miles. (D) "Eig...

...As used in sections 6111.50 to 6111.56 of the Revised Code: (A) "Credible data" means scientifically valid chemical, physical, or biological water quality monitoring data concerning surface waters, including qualitative scoring of physical habitat characteristics and the sampling of fish, macroinvertebrates, and water quality, that have been collected by or submitted to the director of environmental protection and t...

...As used in sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 of the Revised Code: (A) "Publication" means once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the counties wherein publication is to be made or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. Publication need not be made on the same day of the week in each of the weeks; but not less than fourteen days, excluding the day of first publicati...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Court of common pleas" or "court" means, unless the context indicates a different meaning or intent, the court of common pleas in which the petition for the organization of a regional water and sewer district is filed. (B) "Political subdivision" includes departments, divisions, authorities, or other units of state governments, watershed districts, soil and water conservatio...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Beneficial use" means a use of water, including the method of diversion, storage, transportation, treatment, and application, that is reasonable and consistent with the public interest in the proper utilization of water resources, including, without limitation, domestic, agricultural, industrial, power, municipal, navigational, fish and wildlife, and recreational uses. (B) "Governmenta...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Governmental agency" means a department, division, or other unit of state government, a municipal corporation, county, township, and other political subdivision, or any other public corporation or agency, the United States or any agency thereof, and any agency, commission, or authority established pursuant to an interstate compact or agreement. (B) "Person" means any individual, firm, ...

...As used in sections 6131.01 to 6131.64 of the Revised Code: (A) "Owner" means any owner of any right, title, estate, or interest in or to any real property and includes persons, partnerships, associations, private corporations, public corporations, boards of township trustees, boards of education of school districts, the mayor or legislative authority of a municipal corporation, the director of any department, offi...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Owner," "person," "public corporation," "land," "benefit," and "improvement" have the same meanings as in section 6131.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Lead county" means the county in which the majority of the initial length of a joint county drainage improvement would be located, as specified in an original petition filed under section 6133.02 of the Revised Code.