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...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...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Financial institution" has the same meaning as in section 5725.01 of the Revised Code. "Financial institution" also includes a credit union and a fiduciary that is not a trust company but that does trust business. (2) "Funeral and burial expenses" means whichever of the following applies: (a) The funeral and burial expenses of the decedent that are included in the bill of a funera...

...(A) Except as otherwise directed by the decedent in the decedent's will, an executor or administrator, without personal liability for losses incurred, may continue the decedent's business during four months next following the date of the appointment of that executor or administrator, unless the probate court directs otherwise, and for any further time that the court may authorize upon a hearing and after notice...

...the sale is to take place; (3) By both forms of advertisement specified in divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section. (B) The advertisement published or posted as described in divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section shall specify generally the property to be sold and the date, place, and terms of the sale. The executor or administrator, if considered in the best interests of the estate, may employ an auctionee...

...(A) The fiduciary may withhold from any property distributable to any person interested in the estate the amount of tax attributable to the person's interest. If the property in possession of the fiduciary and distributable to any person interested in the estate is insufficient to satisfy the proportionate amount of the tax determined to be due from that person, the fiduciary may recover the deficiency from tha...

...(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...

...(A) Before any distribution of personal property is made from the estate of a presumed decedent, the persons entitled to receive such property may in the discretion of the court and as a condition of distribution be required to give bond in the form and amount, with or without sureties, as the court orders, with the condition that if within a three-year period after the decree is entered by the court it is establishe...

...A natural person, adult or minor, referred to in sections 2131.10 and 2131.11 of the Revised Code as the owner, may enter into a written contract with any bank, building and loan or savings and loan association, credit union, or society for savings, authorized to receive money on an investment share certificate, share account, deposit, or stock deposit, and transacting business in this state, whereby the proceeds of ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Motor vehicle" has the same meaning as in section 4505.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Joint ownership with right of survivorship" means a form of ownership of a motor vehicle, all-purpose vehicle, off-highway motorcycle, watercraft, or outboard motor that is established pursuant to this section and pursuant to which the entire interest in the motor vehicle, all-purpose vehicle, off...

...(A)(1) An adult who is of sound mind voluntarily may execute at any time a declaration governing the use or continuation, or the withholding or withdrawal, of life-sustaining treatment. The declaration shall be signed at the end by the declarant or by another individual at the direction of the declarant, state the date of its execution, and either be witnessed as described in division (B)(1) of this section or be ack...

...(A) Subject to division (D) of this section, an attending physician, consulting physician, health care facility, and health care personnel acting under the direction of an attending physician are not subject to criminal prosecution, are not liable in damages in a tort or other civil action, and are not subject to professional disciplinary action for any of the following: (1) Giving effect to a declaration, if the ph...

...also shall approve one or more standard forms of DNR identification to be used throughout this state. (B) The department of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the administration of sections 2133.21 to 2133.26 of the Revised Code. (C) The department of health shall appoint an advisory committee to advise the department in the development of rules under this section. T...

...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...

...If a deceased user consented to or a court directs disclosure of the contents of electronic communications of the user, the custodian shall disclose to the personal representative of the estate of the user the content of an electronic communication sent or received by the user if the personal representative gives the custodian all of the following: (A) A written request for disclosure in physical or electronic form...

...Unless the user prohibited disclosure of digital assets or the court directs otherwise, a custodian shall disclose to the personal representative of the estate of a deceased user a catalogue of electronic communications sent or received by the user and digital assets, other than the content of electronic communications, of the user, if the personal representative gives the custodian all of the following: (A) A writ...

...To the extent a power of attorney expressly grants an agent authority over the content of electronic communications sent or received by the principal and unless directed otherwise by the principal or the court, a custodian shall disclose to the agent the content if the agent gives the custodian all of the following: (A) A written request for disclosure in physical or electronic form; (B) A copy of the power of at...

...Unless otherwise ordered by the court, directed by the principal, or provided by a power of attorney, a custodian shall disclose to an agent with specific authority over digital assets or general authority to act on behalf of a principal a catalogue of electronic communications sent or received by the principal and digital assets, other than the content of electronic communications, of the principal, if the a gent gi...

...Unless otherwise ordered by the court, directed by the user, or provided in a trust, a custodian shall disclose to a trustee that is not an original user of an account the content of an electronic communication sent or received by an original or successor user and carried, maintained, processed, received, or stored by the custodian in the account of the trust, if the trustee gives the custodian all of the following: ...

...Unless otherwise ordered by the court, directed by the user, or provided in a trust, a custodian shall disclose to a trustee that is not an original user of an account a catalogue of electronic communications sent or received by an original or successor user and stored, carried, or maintained by the custodian in an account of the trust and any digital assets, other than the content of electronic communications, in wh...

...(A) After an opportunity for a hearing, the court may grant a guardian access to the digital assets of a ward. (B) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or directed by the user, a custodian shall disclose to a guardian the catalogue of electronic communications sent or received by a ward and any digital assets, other than the content of electronic communications, in which the ward has a right or interest, if the gu...

...(A) The legal duties imposed on a fiduciary charged with managing tangible property apply to the management of digital assets, including all of the following: (1) The duty of care; (2) The duty of loyalty; (3) The duty of confidentiality. (B) All of the following apply to a fiduciary's or designated recipient's authority with respect to a digital asset of a user: (1) Except as otherwise provided in section ...

...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...

...e to the parent who delivered the child forms developed under section 2151.3527 of the Revised Code that are designed to gather medical information concerning the child and the child's parents; (4) If possible, make available to the parent who delivered the child written materials developed under section 2151.3527 of the Revised Code that describe services available to assist parents and newborns; (5) If the ch...

... or any part of the medical information forms made available under division (A)(3) of section 2151.3518 of the Revised Code; (5) Coerce or otherwise try to force the parent to accept the materials made available under division (A)(4) of section 2151.3518 of the Revised Code. (B) Divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section do not apply with respect to a person who delivers or attempts to deliver a child who has suffere...

...sing credentials; (b) Procedures and forms for registration of newborn safety incubator installers. (4) Subject to section 2151.3533 of the Revised Code, operating policies, supervision, and maintenance requirements for an incubator; (5) Procedures to provide emergency care for a child placed into an incubator; (6) Sanitation standards; (7) Costs for registering and regulating incubators and fees to co...