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...to require the disclosure of clients of attorneys or persons licensed under section 4732.12 of the Revised Code or patients of persons licensed under section 4731.14 of the Revised Code. This division shall not be construed to require a person filing the statement who derives income from a business or profession to disclose the individual items of income that constitute the gross income of the business or profession....

...n of service, no former commissioner or attorney examiner of the public utilities commission shall represent a public utility, as defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code, or act in a representative capacity on behalf of such a utility before any state board, commission, or agency. (3) For twenty-four months after the conclusion of employment or service, no former public official or employee who personally pa...

...tion of employment, if the member is a public employee, does not involve a substantial and material exercise of administrative discretion in the formulation of public policy, expenditure of public funds, enforcement of laws and rules of the state or a county or city, or execution of other public trusts. (B) No member of the general assembly shall vote on any legislation that the member knows is then being actively...

...ch he is an officer or employee. (D) A public official who is appointed to a nonelective office or a public employee shall be exempted from division (A), (B), or (C) of this section if both of the following apply: (1) The agency to which the official or employee wants to sell the goods or services, or before which the matter that involves the rendering of his services is pending, is an agency other than the one wit...

...There is hereby created the Ohio ethics commission consisting of six members, three of whom shall be members of each of the two major political parties, to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Within thirty days of the effective date of this section, the governor shall make initial appointments to the commission. Of the initial appointments made to the commission, one shall be for ...

...apers, or documents were presented at a public hearing, except as provided in section 102.06 of the Revised Code. No person shall divulge information that appears on a disclosure statement and is required to be kept confidential under division (B) of section 102.02 of the Revised Code.

...nders an advisory opinion that has been publicly sought and that relates to a special set of circumstances involving ethics, conflicts of interest, or financial disclosure under Chapter 102. or section 2921.42 or 2921.43 of the Revised Code, the person to whom the opinion was directed or who was similarly situated may reasonably rely upon such opinion and shall be immune from criminal prosecutions, civil suits, or ac...

...hority, of the name and position of the public official and the date of appointment. The person shall acknowledge receipt of the financial disclosure form in writing. (C) The public agency or appointing authority that employs, appoints, or promotes any public official or employee who, as a result of such employment, appointment, or promotion, is required to file a financial disclosure statement by section 102.02 of ...

...ibit the person from participating in a public contract with any public agency in this state for a period of two years if recommended by the agency by whom the offending public official or employee was employed. (2) The court may order the person to pay an additional fine equal to the amount of any thing of value given in violation of division (F) of section 102.03 of the Revised Code. (E) Upon application of the...

...The attorney general shall be elected quadrennially, and shall hold his office for a term of four years. The term of office of the attorney general shall commence on the second Monday of January next after his election.

...The attorney general is the chief law officer for the state and all its departments and shall be provided with adequate office space in Columbus. Except as provided in division (E) of section 120.06 and in sections 101.55, 107.13, and 3517.152 to 3517.157 of the Revised Code, no state officer or board, or head of a department or institution of the state shall employ, or be represented by, other counsel or attorneys a...

...The attorney general may appoint a first assistant attorney general, a chief counsel, and assistant attorneys general, each of whom shall be an attorney at law, to serve for the term for which the attorney general is elected, unless sooner discharged by him, and each shall perform such duties, not otherwise provided by law, as are assigned him by the attorney general.

...During the absence or disability of the attorney general, or when so directed by the attorney general, including all the rights, privileges, and powers conferred upon the attorney general by sections 2939.10, 2939.11, and 2939.17 of the Revised Code, the first assistant attorney general shall perform the duties of the attorney general.

...The attorney general may appoint such employees as are necessary.

...discharge of the duties of office, the attorney general shall give a bond to the state in the sum of five thousand dollars, with a surety authorized to do business in the state, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of the office of attorney general. Such bond and the oath of office shall be deposited with and kept by the secretary of state in the secretary of state's office. The first assista...

...section 120.06 of the Revised Code, the attorney general may appoint special counsel to represent the state in civil actions, criminal prosecutions, or other proceedings in which the state is a party or directly interested. The special counsel shall be paid for their services from funds appropriated by the general assembly for that purpose.

...The attorney general may appoint and authorize special counsel to represent the state and any political subdivision in connection with all claims of whatsoever nature which are certified to the attorney general for collection under any law or which the attorney general is authorized to collect. Such special counsel shall be paid for their services from funds collected by them in an amount approved by the attorney g...

...er cent of all amounts collected by the attorney general, whether by employees or agents of the attorney general or by special counsel pursuant to section 109.08 of the Revised Code, on claims certified in accordance with section 131.02 of the Revised Code, shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the attorney general claims fund, which is hereby created. The attorney general, after consultation with th...

...The attorney general shall appoint one or more problem resolution officers from among the employees of the office of the attorney general. These officers shall receive and review inquiries and complaints concerning collections made pursuant to Chapters 5733., 5739., 5741., 5747., and 5751. of the Revised Code regarding which the taxpayer has been unable to obtain satisfactory information after several attempts to co...

...When so directed, the attorney general shall bring an action on the official bond of a delinquent officer, and shall also prosecute any officer for an offense against the revenue laws of the state that come to his knowledge. Such action may be brought by him in the court of common pleas of Franklin county, or of any county in which one or more defendants reside, or can be summoned.

...The attorney general may prosecute a proceeding in quo warranto in the supreme court of the state, the court of appeals of Franklin county, or the court of appeals of any county wherein a defendant company has a place of business, or the officers or persons made defendants reside or may be found.

...ereby created in the state treasury the attorney general reimbursement fund that shall be used for the expenses of the office of the attorney general in providing legal services and other services on behalf of the state or any agency or officer thereof. (B)(1) All amounts received as reimbursement for legal services and other services that have been rendered by the office of the attorney general to the state or an...

...(A) There is hereby created the attorney general court order and settlement fund, which shall be part of the state treasury. (B) The fund shall consist of money collected or received by the office of the attorney general, on behalf of the state of Ohio or an agency or officer thereof, as a result of an order or judgment of a court or a settlement or other compromise of claims, for transfer to the appropriate fund ...

...lected or received by the office of the attorney general under section 109.111 of the Revised Code, the office shall notify the director of budget and management and the director of the legislative service commission of the amount of money at issue and the terms of the order, judgment, settlement, or compromise and any applicable federal or state law. (B)(1) For amounts awarded, adjudged, settled upon, or compromi...

...lected or received by the office of the attorney general under division (B)(2) of section 109.112 of the Revised Code; (2) Investment earnings on money in the fund. (C) Pursuant to Ohio Constitution, Article II, Section 22, a specific appropriation shall be made by law before any money may be drawn from this fund. (D) Appropriations made from this fund shall be consistent with applicable federal or state law.