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...As used in sections 191.01 to 191.45 of the Revised Code: (A) "Affiliate" means a person or entity under common ownership or control with, or a participant in a joint venture, partnership, consortium, or similar business arrangement with, another person or entity pertaining to the provision of broadband service. (B) "Broadband expansion program authority" means the entity created under section 122.403 of the Re...

...(A) As provided in this chapter, any judge of a county or municipal court or a court of common pleas, within the judge's proper area of jurisdiction, may inquire about persons who make unlawful and forcible entry into lands or tenements and detain them, and about persons who make a lawful and peaceable entry into lands or tenements and hold them unlawfully and by force. If, upon the inquiry, it is found that an unlaw...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Genocide" means an internationally recognized crime where the following acts are committed against a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group's members with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the group: (1) Killing; (2) Causing serious bodily or mental harm; (3) Deliberately inflicting life conditions calculated to bring about physical destruction, in whole or in par...

...As used in sections 2105.31 to 2105.40 of the Revised Code: (A) "Co-owners with right of survivorship" includes joint tenants, tenants by the entireties, and other co-owners of property or accounts held under circumstances that entitle one or more individuals to the whole of the property or account on the death of the other individual or individuals. (B) "Governing instrument" means a deed, will, trust, insurance o...

...As used in sections 2108.02 to 2108.35 of the Revised Code: (A) "Adult" means an individual who is at least eighteen years of age. (B) "Agent" means an individual who is either of the following: (1) The principal's attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care; (2) Expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on the principal's behalf by any other record signed by the principal. (C)...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 2108.37 and 2108.38 of the Revised Code: (1) "Auxiliary aid or service" means an aid or service that is used to provide information to an individual with a cognitive, developmental, intellectual, neurological, or physical disability and is available in a format or manner that allows the individual to easily understand the information. An auxiliary aid or service may include t...

...An individual is dead if the individual has sustained either irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or irreversible cessation of all functions of the brain, including the brain stem, as determined in accordance with accepted medical standards. If the respiratory and circulatory functions of a person are being artificially sustained, under accepted medical standards a determination...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 2108.62 and 2108.63 of the Revised Code: (1) "Health care institution" means a hospital registered as such under section 3701.07 of the Revised Code or a freestanding birthing center. (2) "Health care professional" means a physician authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery; a registered nurse, ...

...As used in Chapters 2101. to 2131. of the Revised Code: (A) "Guardian," other than a guardian under sections 5905.01 to 5905.19 of the Revised Code, means any person, association, or corporation appointed by the probate court to have the care and management of the person, the estate, or both of an incompetent or minor. When applicable, "guardian" includes, but is not limited to, a limited guardian, an interim guardi...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Adult" means an individual who is eighteen years of age or older. (B) "Guardian" has the same meaning as in section 2111.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Guardian of the person" means a person appointed by the court to make decisions regarding the support, care, education, health, and welfare of a ward. "Guardian of the person" does not include a guardian ad litem. (D) "Guardian of...

...As used in sections 2113.85 to 2113.90 of the Revised Code: (A) "Estate" means the gross estate of a decedent who is domiciled in this state, as determined for federal estate tax purposes under Subtitle B of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, 26 U.S.C. 2001, as amended, for Ohio estate tax purposes under Chapter 5731. of the Revised Code, and for estate tax purposes of any other jurisdiction that imposes a ta...

...(A) Except as provided otherwise in this chapter, all of the proceedings for the probate of the decedent's will, if any, and all the proceedings, domiciliary or ancillary, for the administration of the decedent's estate that are set forth in the Revised Code for use upon the death of a decedent, shall upon the signing of the decree of presumed death be instituted and carried on in the same manner as if the pres...

...As used in sections 2131.03 to 2131.036 of the Revised Code: (A) "Disability" has the same meaning as in the "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990," 42 U.S.C. 12102; (B) "Supportive services" means any service provided through a program or agency at the federal, state, or local level that is intended to assist a person with a disability with day-to-day responsibilities and activities, including those associate...

...Unless the context otherwise requires, as used in sections 2133.01 to 2133.15 of the Revised Code: (A) "Adult" means an individual who is eighteen years of age or older. (B) "Attending physician" means the physician to whom a declarant or other patient, or the family of a declarant or other patient, has assigned primary responsibility for the treatment or care of the declarant or other patient, or, if the respons...

...As used in sections 2133.21 to 2133.26 of the Revised Code, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (A) "Attending physician" means the physician to whom a person, or the family of a person, has assigned primary responsibility for the treatment or care of the person or, if the person or the person's family has not assigned that responsibility, the physician who has accepted that responsibility. (B) "Declarat...

...As used in sections 2135.01 to 2135.15 of the Revised Code: (A) "Adult" means a person who is eighteen years of age or older. (B) "Capacity to consent to mental health treatment decisions" means the functional ability to understand information about the risks of, benefits of, and alternatives to the proposed mental health treatment, to rationally use that information, to appreciate how that information applies to...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Account" means an arrangement under a terms-of-service agreement in which a custodian carries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores a digital asset of the user or provides goods or services to the user. (B) "Agent" means a person granted authority to act for a principal under a power of attorney, whether denominated as agent, attorney in fact, or otherwise. (C) "Carries" means en...

...(A) As used in the Revised Code: (1) "Juvenile court" means whichever of the following is applicable that has jurisdiction under this chapter and Chapter 2152. of the Revised Code: (a) The division of the court of common pleas specified in section 2101.022 or 2301.03 of the Revised Code as having jurisdiction under this chapter and Chapter 2152. of the Revised Code or as being the juvenile division or the juven...

...As used in sections 2151.356 to 2151.358 of the Revised Code: (A) "Expunge" means to destroy, delete, and erase a record, as appropriate for the record's physical or electronic form or characteristic, so that the record is permanently irretrievable. (B) "Seal a record" means to remove a record from the main file of similar records and to secure it in a separate file that contains only sealed records accessible only...

...As used in sections 2151.3515 to 2151.3533 of the Revised Code: (A) "Emergency medical service organization," "emergency medical technician-basic," "emergency medical technician-intermediate," "first responder," and "paramedic" have the same meanings as in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Emergency medical service worker" means a first responder, emergency medical technician-basic, emergency medical te...

...(A) As used in sections 2151.4116 to 2151.4122 of the Revised Code: (1) "Kinship caregiver" has the same meaning as used in section 5101.85 of the Revised Code. (2) "Search technology" means any locate-and-research tool, search engine, electronic database, or social media search tool available to a public children services agency or a private child placing agency.

...As used in sections 2151.426 to 2151.428 of the Revised Code: (A) "Children's advocacy center" means a center operated by participating entities within a county or two or more contiguous counties to perform functions and activities and provide services, in accordance with the interagency agreement entered into under section 2151.428 of the Revised Code, regarding reports received under section 2151.421 of the Revise...

...As used in sections 2151.46 to 2151.4610 of the Revised Code: (A) "Community organization" means an organization that provides services, including recreation, mental health care, and academic support, for a child placed in foster care. (B) "Emergency department" includes a hospital emergency department and freestanding emergency department. (C) "Freestanding emergency department" has the same meaning as in sect...

...upervision issues arise. Article II -- Definitions As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires a different construction: (A) "Bylaws" means those bylaws established by the interstate commission for its governance or for directing or controlling its actions or conduct. (B) "Compact administrator" means the individual in each compacting state appointed pursuant to the terms of this compact who is r...

...(A) As used in sections 2151.57 to 2151.59 of the Revised Code: (1) "Interstate compact for juveniles" means the interstate compact for juveniles ratified, enacted into law, and entered into by this state pursuant to section 2151.56 of the Revised Code. (2) "Bylaws," "commissioner," "compact administrator," and "interstate commission for juveniles" have the same meanings as in section 2151.56 of the Revised C...