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...(A) Any public authority planning to contract for professional design services or design-build services may adopt, amend, or rescind rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, to implement sections 153.66 to 153.70 of the Revised Code. (B) Sections 153.66 to 153.70 of the Revised Code do not apply to any of the following: (1) Any project with an estimated professional design fee of twenty-five ...

...tracted for design-build services by a public authority may do either of the following: (A) Perform design, construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction work pursuant to such contract; (B) Perform professional design services when contracted by a public authority for design-build services even if the design-build firm is not a professional design firm.

...services or design-build services by a public authority prevail in the event of any conflict with any other provision of this chapter.

...eration, repair, or reconstruction of a public improvement entered into on or after April 16, 1993, shall be deemed to include the provisions contained in division (B) of this section. (B)(1) In regard to any bond filed by the contractor for the work contracted, the contracting authority, in its sole discretion, may reduce the bond required by twenty-five per cent of the total amount of the bond after at leas...

... damages, or loss, including reasonable attorney's fees, costs, and expenses. (4) "Professional design firm," "professional design services," and "public authority" have the same meanings as in section 153.65 of the Revised Code. (5) "Public improvement contract" has the same meaning as in section 153.03 of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in this section, "public improvement" means any of the following: (1) A road, bridge, highway, street, or tunnel; (2) A waste water treatment system or water supply system; (3) A solid waste disposal facility or a storm water and sanitary collection, storage, and treatment facility; (4) Any structure or work constructed by a state agency or by another person on behalf of a state agency pursuant to a c...

...(A) Whoever violates section 153.58 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars. (B) A person who purchases or provides steel products in violation of division (A) of section 153.011 of the Revised Code shall pay a civil penalty equal to one and one-half times the purchase price of the steel products purchased or provided in violation of that section.

...entifies the individual. (D) "Right of publicity" means the property right in an individual's persona to use the individual's persona for a commercial purpose. (E) "Trier of fact" means the jury or, in a nonjury action, the court. (F) "Written consent" includes written, electronic, digital, or any other verifiable means of authorization. (G) "Institution of higher education" means a state institution of higher ed...

...de who owns the individual's right of publicity. (2) The name of the individual whose persona is used was the name of a business entity or a trade name at the time of the individual's death. (C) Subject to the terms of any agreement between a person specified in section 2741.05 of the Revised Code and a person to whom that person grants consent to use an individual's right of publicity, a ...

...nly to the following: (A) The right of publicity in the persona of an individual whose domicile or residence is in this state on or after the effective date of this section; (B) The right of publicity in the persona of an individual who died on or after January 1, 1998, and whose domicile or residence was in this state on the date of the individual's death.

...The right of publicity in an individual's persona is freely transferable and descendible, in whole or in part, by any of the following means: (A) Contract; (B) License; (C) Gift; (D) Trust; (E) Will; (F) Operation of the laws of intestate succession applicable to the state administering the majority of the real and personal property of an individual who died intestate, regardless of whether that state recognize...

...g an aspect of an individual's right of publicity, only the following persons may grant consent to use an individual's persona for a commercial purpose: (1) A person or persons, including the individual whose right of publicity is at issue, who collectively own more than fifty per cent of the individual's right of publicity, subject to the terms of any other licenses regarding that right of publicity; (2) A person,...

...on's costs of collection and reasonable attorney's fees.

...) Award the prevailing party reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, and reasonable expenses associated with the civil action; (2) Award treble damages against a party identified in division (E) of section 2741.02 of the Revised Code who has knowledge of the unauthorized use of the persona as prohibited by section 2741.02 of the Revised Code; (3) Order temporary or permanent injunctive relief; (4) Order the impou...

...The remedies provided for in this chapter are in addition to any other remedies provided for by state or federal statute or common law.

...ting of an event or topic of general or public interest; (4) The use of the persona of an individual solely in the individual's role as a member of the public if the individual is not named or otherwise singled out as an individual; (5) A use of an individual's persona by an institution of higher education if all of the following apply: (a) The individual is or was a student at, or a member of the faculty or staff...

...Whoever violates division (A)(3) of section 2741.02 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. A criminal penalty imposed under this section is cumulative to a civil remedy under Chapter 2741. of the Revised Code.

...r the Ohio Constitution, on a matter of public concern. (C) This chapter does not apply to any of the following: (1) A legal action against a governmental unit or an employee or agent of the governmental unit who was acting or purporting to act in an official capacity; (2) An enforcement action that is brought in the name of a governmental unit to protect against an imminent threat to public health or safety; ...

...Not later than sixty days after a party is served with a complaint, cross-claim, counterclaim, third-party claim, or other pleading that asserts a cause of action to which this chapter applies, the party may file a motion for expedited relief to dismiss the civil action or claim. The court may extend the sixty-day period to file the motion for expedited relief for good cause shown.

...o protect against an imminent threat to public health or safety.

...the motion for the purpose of obtaining attorney's fees, court costs, and other litigation expenses under section 2747.05 of the Revised Code. (2) A voluntary dismissal with prejudice of a responding party's cause of action, or part of a cause of action, that is the subject of a motion for expedited relief establishes that the moving party prevailed on the motion for the purpose of awarding attorney's fees, court c...

... Code, the court shall award reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, and other reasonable litigation expenses to the moving party. The court shall not fail to award, or reduce an award of, attorney's fees, court costs, and other reasonable litigation expenses under this division on the grounds that the representation of the moving party was undertaken on a pro bono or contingent basis. (B) If the court denies a mo...

...(A) Sections 2747.01 to 2747.06 of the Revised Code apply to a civil action filed or any claim asserted in a civil action on or after the effective date of this section. (B) A court shall broadly construe and apply sections 2747.01 to 2747.06 of the Revised Code to protect the exercise of the right of freedom of speech and of the press, the right to assemble and petition, and the right of association, guaranteed by...

...(A) No person shall knowingly engage in conduct designed to urge or incite another to commit any offense of violence, when either of the following apply: (1) The conduct takes place under circumstances that create a clear and present danger that any offense of violence will be committed; (2) The conduct proximately results in the commission of any offense of violence. (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of...

...(A) No person shall participate with four or more others in a course of disorderly conduct in violation of section 2917.11 of the Revised Code: (1) With purpose to commit or facilitate the commission of a felony; (2) With purpose to commit or facilitate the commission of any offense of violence; (3) When the offender or any participant to the knowledge of the offender has on or about the offender's or participant'...