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...As used in sections 2923.41 to 2923.44 of the Revised Code: (A) "Criminal gang" means an ongoing formal or informal organization, association, or group of three or more persons to which all of the following apply: (1) It has as one of its primary activities the commission of one or more of the offenses listed in division (B) of this section. (2) It has a common name or one or more common, identifying signs, ...

...(A) No person who actively participates in a criminal gang, with knowledge that the criminal gang engages in or has engaged in a pattern of criminal gang activity, shall purposely promote, further, or assist any criminal conduct, as defined in division (C) of section 2923.41 of the Revised Code, or shall purposely commit or engage in any act that constitutes criminal conduct, as defined in division (C) of secti...

...Any building, premises, or real estate, including vacant land, that is used or occupied by a criminal gang on more than two occasions within a one-year period to engage in a pattern of criminal gang activity constitutes a nuisance subject to abatement pursuant to sections 3767.01 to 3767.11 of the Revised Code.

...(A) If a person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of section 2923.42 of the Revised Code, or a juvenile is found by a juvenile court to be a delinquent child for an act that is a violation of section 2923.42 of the Revised Code, and derives profits or other proceeds from the offense or act, the court that imposes sentence or an order of disposition upon the offender or delinquent child, in lieu of...

... As used in this chapter: (A) "Administer," "controlled substance," "controlled substance analog," "dispense," "distribute," "hypodermic," "manufacturer," "official written order," "person," "pharmacist," "pharmacy," "sale," "schedule I," "schedule II," "schedule III," "schedule IV," "schedule V," and "wholesaler" have the same meanings as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Drug of abuse" and "person ...

... (A) No person shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) By force, threat, or deception, administer to another or induce or cause another to use a controlled substance; (2) By any means, administer or furnish to another or induce or cause another to use a controlled substance with purpose to cause serious physical harm to the other person, or with purpose to cause the other person to become a person with drug ...

... (A) No person shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Sell or offer to sell a controlled substance or a controlled substance analog; (2) Prepare for shipment, ship, transport, deliver, prepare for distribution, or distribute a controlled substance or a controlled substance analog, when the offender knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the controlled substance or a controlled substance analog is int...

... (A) No person shall knowingly cultivate marihuana or knowingly manufacture or otherwise engage in any part of the production of a controlled substance. (B) This section does not apply to any person listed in division (B)(1), (2), or (3) of section 2925.03 of the Revised Code to the extent and under the circumstances described in those divisions. (C)(1) Whoever commits a violation of division (A) of this section ...

...The superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation shall recommend cooperative policies for the coordination of the law enforcement work and crime prevention activities of all state and local agencies and officials having law enforcement duties to promote cooperation between such agencies and officials, to secure effective and efficient law enforcement, to eliminate duplication of work, and...

... (A) No person shall knowingly assemble or possess one or more chemicals that may be used to manufacture a controlled substance in schedule I or II with the intent to manufacture a controlled substance in schedule I or II in violation of section 2925.04 of the Revised Code. (B) In a prosecution under this section, it is not necessary to allege or prove that the offender assembled or possessed all chemicals necessar...

...The sheriff, chief of police, or other person in charge of each prison, workhouse, or state correctional institution shall send to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation, on forms furnished by the superintendent of the bureau, any fingerprint impressions and other descriptive measurements that the superintendent may require. The information shall be filed, classified, and preserved by the bureau.

... (A) No person shall knowingly provide money or other items of value to another person with the purpose that the recipient of the money or items of value use them to obtain any controlled substance for the purpose of violating section 2925.04 of the Revised Code or for the purpose of selling or offering to sell the controlled substance in the following amount: (1) If the drug to be sold or offered for sale is any c...

... (A) No person shall knowingly administer to a human being, or prescribe or dispense for administration to a human being, any anabolic steroid not approved by the United States food and drug administration for administration to human beings. (B) This section does not apply to any person listed in division (B)(1), (2), or (3) of section 2925.03 of the Revised Code to the extent and under the circumstances described ...

... (A) No person shall administer, dispense, distribute, manufacture, possess, sell, or use any drug, other than a controlled substance, that is not approved by the United States food and drug administration, or the United States department of agriculture, unless one of the following applies: (1) The United States food and drug administration has approved an application for investigational use in accordance with the "...

... (A) As used in this section, "minor," "missing child," and "missing children" have the same meanings as in section 2901.30 of the Revised Code. (B) There is hereby created within the office of the attorney general the missing children clearinghouse. The attorney general shall administer the clearinghouse. The clearinghouse is established as a central repository of information to coordinate and improve the availab...

... (A) The attorney general, with assistance from the bureau of criminal identification and investigation, annually shall publish statistical data on violations of section 2905.32 of the Revised Code. The first annual publication of this data shall occur one year after the effective date of this section. (B) Each state agency and each agency of each political subdivision that investigates violations of section 2...

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "Law enforcement official or agency" means any of the following that has jurisdiction over the applicable local or state police officer listed in division (A)(2)(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), or (g) of this section that corresponds with the respective division (A)(1)(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), or (g) of this section: (a) A county sheriff; (b) A village marshal; (c) The organ...

...(A) The attorney general, in cooperation with any law enforcement agency, may issue an identity fraud passport to a person who is a victim in this state of identity fraud or identity fraud against an elderly person or disabled adult and has filed a police report with any law enforcement agency citing that the person is a victim of a violation of section 2913.49 of the Revised Code. Once a police report of that nature...

... (A) No person shall knowingly obtain, possess, or use a controlled substance or a controlled substance analog. (B)(1) This section does not apply to any of the following: (a) Manufacturers, licensed health professionals authorized to prescribe drugs, pharmacists, owners of pharmacies, and other persons whose conduct was in accordance with Chapters 3719., 4715., 4723., 4729., 4730., 4731., 4741., and 4772. of t...

... (A) No person shall knowingly make, obtain, possess, or use any instrument, article, or thing the customary and primary purpose of which is for the administration or use of a dangerous drug, other than marihuana, when the instrument involved is a hypodermic or syringe, whether or not of crude or extemporized manufacture or assembly, and the instrument, article, or thing involved has been used by the offender to unla...

... (A) No person who is the owner, operator, or person in charge of a locomotive, watercraft, aircraft, or other vehicle, as defined in division (A) of section 4501.01 of the Revised Code, shall knowingly permit the vehicle to be used for the commission of a felony drug abuse offense. (B) No person who is the owner, lessee, or occupant, or who has custody, control, or supervision, of premises or real estate, includin...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Commutation," "pardon," "prisoner," and "state correctional institution" have the same meanings as in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Individual's present legal status" means whichever of the following circumstances apply on the thirty-first day of December of the calendar year covered by a capital case status report described in divisions (B) and (C) of this section to a...

... (A) As used in this section, "drug paraphernalia" means any equipment, product, or material of any kind that is used by the offender, intended by the offender for use, or designed for use, in propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhalin...

...As used in Chapters 1101. to 1127. of the Revised Code, unless the context requires otherwise: (A) "Affiliate" has the same meaning as in division (A)(1) of section 1109.53 of the Revised Code and includes a subsidiary of a bank. (B) "Bank" or "banking corporation" means an entity that solicits, receives, or accepts money or its equivalent for deposit as a business, whether the deposit is made by check or is eviden...

... (A) As used in this section, "drug paraphernalia" has the same meaning as in section 2925.14 of the Revised Code. (B) In determining if any equipment, product, or material is drug paraphernalia, a court or law enforcement officer shall consider, in addition to other relevant factors, all factors identified in division (B) of section 2925.14 of the Revised Code. (C) No person shall knowingly use, or possess with ...

...(A)(1) A state bank's board of directors shall meet monthly unless the bank's code of regulations provides for a different frequency of meetings, which shall not be less than quarterly. (2) Division (A)(1) of this section does not prohibit either of the following: (a) A state bank's board of directors meeting more frequently than required by division (A)(1) of this section or the bank's code of regulations; (b) Th...

...If any claim not clearly consistent with the terms of any applicable authority on file with a bank is made to any deposit, safe deposit box, property held in safekeeping, security, obligation, or other property in the bank's possession or control, in whole or in part, by any person, including any depositor, individual, or group of individuals, whether or not authorized to draw on or exercise any right or control with...

... (A) No person, by deception, shall procure the administration of, a prescription for, or the dispensing of, a dangerous drug or shall possess an uncompleted preprinted prescription blank used for writing a prescription for a dangerous drug. (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of deception to obtain a dangerous drug. The penalty for the offense shall be determined as follows: (1) If the person possesses a...

... (A) No person shall knowingly make a false statement in any prescription, order, report, or record required by Chapter 3719. or 4729. of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall intentionally make, utter, or sell, or knowingly possess any of the following that is a false or forged: (1) Prescription; (2) Uncompleted preprinted prescription blank used for writing a prescription; (3) Official written order; (4) ...

...(A) No person shall knowingly adulterate or alter any dangerous drug or substitute any dangerous drug with another substance. (B) No person shall knowingly adulterate or alter any package or receptacle containing any dangerous drug or substitute any package or receptacle containing any dangerous drug with another package or receptacle. (C) Divisions (A) and (B) of this section do not apply to manufacturers, practit...

...(A) A state bank may invest in any of the following: (1) Bonds, bills, notes, or other debt securities of the United States or for which the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged for payment of principal and interest; (2) Bonds, notes, or other debt securities issued by this state, or any state of the United States, that are the direct obligation of the issuer and for which the full faith and credit...

...To the extent permitted by and subject to any limitations and restrictions the superintendent of financial institutions may impose, a state bank may underwrite and deal in investments in the form of bonds, notes, debentures, or other debt securities that are any of the following: (A) The direct obligation of or guaranteed by the United States; (B) The direct obligation of or guaranteed by any state of the United St...

...(A) The secretary of state, by rule, shall establish, and prescribe guidelines and fees for the use of, an expedited filing service that provides, at the option of the person making a filing, expeditious processing of any filing with the secretary of state under Chapter 1309. or 1329. or Title XVII of the Revised Code. (B) The secretary of state may adopt rules establishing, and prescribing guidelines and fees f...

... (A) As used in this section, "solicit" or "solicitations" means to directly advertise to a person. "Solicit" and "solicitations" do not include either of the following: (1) Communication initiated by a consumer; (2) Advertising or marketing to a person with whom the solicitor has a current or former commercial relationship. (B) Any person other than the federal government, the state, a state agency, or a loc...

... (A) The secretary of state shall cancel the certification of a program participant if any of the following are true: (1) The program participant's application contained one or more false statements. (2) The program participant has filed a written, notarized request with the secretary of state, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, asking to cease being a program participant. (3) The program participa...

... (A) Except for lawful research, clinical, medical, dental, or veterinary purposes, no person, with purpose to induce intoxication or similar physiological effects, shall obtain, possess, or use a harmful intoxicant. (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of abusing harmful intoxicants, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the offender previously has been convicted of a drug abuse offense, abusing harmful int...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in divisions (A)(2) and (G) of this section or as otherwise provided by the instrument creating the trust, a trust company acting as fiduciary under any instrument and having funds of the trust which are to be invested may, in addition to any other investments authorized to a trust company by law, invest them in any of the following: (a) Forms of investments enumerated or described in,...

...Each trust company licensed under this chapter shall file with the superintendent of financial institutions any report the superintendent may require, in the form and manner and containing the information prescribed by the superintendent.

...(A) A family trust company wishing to be licensed under this chapter shall file an application with the superintendent of financial institutions. The application shall be in the form prescribed by the superintendent and shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee of five thousand dollars. (B) Within sixty days after a complete application for a license is filed, the division of financial institutions sha...

... (A) Divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section do not apply to the dispensing or distributing of nitrous oxide. (1) No person shall knowingly dispense or distribute a harmful intoxicant to a person age eighteen or older if the person who dispenses or distributes it knows or has reason to believe that the harmful intoxicant will be used in violation of section 2925.31 of the Revised Code. (2) No person shall knowin...

...(A) As used in this section, "motor vehicle," "street," and "highway" have the same meanings as in section 4511.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Unless authorized under Chapter 3719., 4715., 4729., 4731., 4741., or 4765. of the Revised Code, no person shall possess an open cartridge of nitrous oxide in either of the following circumstances: (1) While operating or being a passenger in or on a motor vehicle on a street, h...

...(A) Upon the conclusion of the investigation required under section 1112.07 of the Revised Code, the superintendent of financial institutions shall issue a license to the applicant if the superintendent finds that all of the following conditions are met: (1) The applicant is organized as a corporation or limited liability company under the laws of this state. (2) The articles of incorporation or articles of organiz...

... Not more than one place of business shall be maintained under the same license issued under this chapter, but the superintendent of financial institutions may issue additional licenses to the same licensee. For every additional place of business in this state, the licensee shall submit an application in the form prescribed by the superintendent and pay a one-time nonrefundable fee of five hundred dollars. For every...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Pure caffeine product" means, subject to division (A)(2) of this section, a product that consists solely or primarily of caffeine and is manufactured into a crystalline, liquid, or powdered form. (2) "Pure caffeine product" does not include any of the following that contains caffeine and is formulated, manufactured, and labeled in accordance with the laws and regulations enforced b...

... (A) No person shall knowingly furnish another a sample drug. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to manufacturers, wholesalers, pharmacists, owners of pharmacies, licensed health professionals authorized to prescribe drugs, and other persons whose conduct is in accordance with Chapters 3719., 4715., 4723., 4725., 4729., 4730., 4731., 4741., and 4772. of the Revised Code. (C)(1) Whoever violates this ...

...(A)¿Each licensed family trust company shall obtain and maintain all of the following: (1) Fidelity bonds in such amounts as it considers advisable, but not less than an aggregate amount of one million dollars, on any active officer, manager, family member acting in a managerial capacity, or employee, whether or not such persons receive a salary or other compensation from the family trust company, to indemnify it ag...

... Each family trust company licensed under this chapter shall file with the superintendent of financial institutions any report the superintendent may require, in the form and manner and containing the information prescribed by the superintendent.

... (A) Not later than eighteen months after a licensed family trust company receives its initial license under this chapter, and as often thereafter as the superintendent of financial institutions considers necessary, but at least once each thirty-six-month cycle, the superintendent, or any deputy or examiner appointed by the superintendent for that purpose, shall thoroughly examine the records and affairs of the lice...

...(A) Five or more natural persons, at least one of whom is a resident of this state, may, with the approval of the superintendent of financial institutions, incorporate a stock state bank. (B) The persons proposing to incorporate a stock state bank shall apply for approval of the proposed bank by submitting the application prescribed by the superintendent, which application shall include all of the following: (1) Th...

...(A) A stock state bank's articles of incorporation shall contain all of the following: (1) The name of the bank; (2) The place in this state where the bank's principal place of business is to be located; (3) The purpose or purposes for which the bank is formed; (4) The maximum number and the par value of shares the bank is authorized to have outstanding and their express terms, if any. The articles of incorporati...