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...the inspector general, a complaint that identifies the person making the report and the state officer or state employee who allegedly committed or is committing the wrongful act or omission, describes the wrongful act or omission, and explains how the person reporting knew or came to his reasonable cause to believe that the state officer or state employee committed or is in the process of committing the wrongful act ...

...Development costs" means expenditures paid or incurred by the property owner in completing a certified transformational mixed use development project, including architectural or engineering fees paid or incurred in connection with the project and expenses incurred before the date the project is certified by the tax credit authority under division (C) of this section. In the case of a certified transformational mixed ...

...yroll" means the total taxable income paid by the employer during the employer's taxable year, or during the calendar year that includes the employer's tax period, to each employee or each home-based employee employed in the project to the extent such payroll is not used to determine the credit under section 122.171 of the Revised Code. "Payroll" excludes amounts paid before the day the taxpayer becomes eligible for ...

...acturing equipment grant program to provide grants for new manufacturing machinery and equipment qualifying for the grant under section 122.173 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the grants apply to the taxes imposed by sections 5733.06 and 5747.02 of the Revised Code for taxable years ending on or after July 1, 2005. (2) To claim a grant, a taxpayer satisfying the requirements ...

...rise development grant program, to provide capital to acquire, construct, enlarge, improve, or equip and to sell, lease, exchange, and otherwise dispose of property, structures, equipment, and facilities within the state. Such funding may be made to enterprises that propose to develop new products or technologies when the director finds all of the following factors to be present: (1) The undertaking will bene...

...ed by division (F) of this section if paid to an independent certified public accountant certified, or an accounting firm registered under Chapter 4701. of the Revised Code. "Qualified expenditures" do not include eligible expenditures for which a production company received a tax credit under section 122.85 of the Revised Code. (3) "Certificate owner" means a production company to which a tax credit certificate i...

...ure required by or on behalf of an individual receiving health care benefits provided under section 124.82 of the Revised Code. "Cost-sharing requirement" includes deductibles, coinsurance, copayments, or similar charges. "Cost-sharing requirement" does not include premiums, balance billing amounts for non-network providers, or spending for noncovered services. (2) "Step therapy protocol" has the same meaning as in...

...n for the form and stating whether providing the information sought is required or voluntary, and any penalties that apply to failure to provide the information.

...oth parties are not reviewed by an individual in the ordinary course in forming a contract, performing under an existing contract, or fulfilling an obligation required by the transaction. (C) "Computer program" means a set of statements or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in an information processing system in order to bring about a certain result. (D) "Contract" means the total legal obligation resul...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided by law, any consumer package or commodity in package form introduced or delivered for introduction into or received in intrastate commerce or sold in intrastate commerce shall bear on the outside of the package a definite, plain, and conspicuous declaration, as may be prescribed by rule adopted by the director of agriculture, of any of the following, as applicable: (1) The ide...

...As used in sections 1333.29 to 1333.31 of the Revised Code: (A) "Molder" means any person, including, but not limited to, a tool or die maker, who does either of the following: (1) Fabricates, casts, or otherwise makes, or improves, a die, mold, pattern, or form to produce plastic, metal, paper, china, ceramic, glass, or rubber products; (2) Uses a die, mold, pattern, or form to manufacture, assemble, or otherwise...

...Every home solicitation sale shall be evidenced by a written agreement or offer to purchase in the same language as that principally used in the oral sales presentation and shall contain the name and address of the seller. The seller shall present the writing to the buyer and obtain the buyer's signature to it. The writing shall state the date on which the buyer actually signs. The seller shall leave with the buyer a...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Confidential personal information" means personal information that is not a public record for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (2) "State agency" does not include the courts or any judicial agency, any state-assisted institution of higher education, or any local agency. (B) Each state agency shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code regulating ...

...d the novel financial product falls outside the scope of that license or authorization. (3) A person shall file a separate application for each novel financial product or service sought to be tested. (B) The superintendent shall develop and make publicly available an application form. (1) The application form shall require the applicant to provide all of the following: (a) Evidence that the applicant is subje...

... 145.335 of the Revised Code shall be paid as provided in this section. Unless the member is required by division (C) of this section to select a specified plan of payment, a member may elect a plan of payment as provided in division (B)(1), (2), or (3) of this section. An election shall be made at the time the member makes application for retirement and on a form provided by the public employees retirement board....

...(A) Upon receipt of a fee of two dollars and submission of the electronic duplicate commission request form, a duplicate commission as notary public shall be issued by the secretary of state. (B) Upon receipt of a fee of two dollars and submission of the electronic amendment form for a name change under division (B) of section 147.05 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state shall issue a duplicate commission as ...

...01 of the Revised Code, and who is a resident of this state, may apply to the secretary of state to be authorized to act as an online notary public during the term of that notary public's commission. A state resident commissioned as a notary public qualifies to be an online notary public by paying the fee described in section 147.631 of the Revised Code and submitting to the secretary of state an application in the f...

...tory connection of the offer and is considered an agreement by the Ohio history connection to perform those functions in accordance with the terms of the appropriation and the law and to expend the funds only for the purposes for which appropriated. The governor may request on behalf of the Ohio history connection, and the controlling board may release, additional funds to the Ohio history connection for survey, salv...

...(A) The bond provided for in division (C)(1) of section 153.54 of the Revised Code shall be in substantially the following form, and recovery of any claimant thereunder shall be subject to sections 153.01 to 153.60 of the Revised Code, to the same extent as if the provisions of those sections were fully incorporated in the bond form: "KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, the undersigned _____________________...

...th a population under fifty thousand residents in accordance with the most recent federal decennial census. (B) The chief of the division of parks and watercraft shall establish a program for the issuance of permits to property owners who seek to do any of the following: (1) Construct or acquire and maintain a dock on and abutting a state park lake; (2) Mow state park land that is located between a state par...

... a public corporation that has been in widespread use in the past several decades. The acquisition of significant blocks of the securities of a public company in the open market or private transactions in connection with actual or apparent efforts to acquire control has become more common in recent years and has further complicated the impact of tender offers upon a corporation and its shareholders. Numerous Ohio cor...

...t, by amendment to its articles as provided by law, becomes a nonprofit corporation. (B) "Foreign corporation" means a nonprofit corporation formed under the laws of another state. (C) "Nonprofit corporation" means a domestic or foreign corporation that is formed otherwise than for the pecuniary gain or profit of, and whose net earnings or any part of them is not distributable to, its members, directors, offi...

...tion. Pursuant to an agreement of consolidation, one or more domestic or foreign entities may be consolidated into a new domestic corporation. If any constituent entity is formed or organized under the laws of any state other than this state or under any chapter of the Revised Code other than this chapter, the merger or consolidation also must be permitted by the chapter of the Revised Code under which each dom...

...ity of an agreement of merger or consolidation pursuant to section 1702.41 or 1702.411 of the Revised Code, a certificate of merger or consolidation signed by any authorized representative of each constituent entity, shall be filed with the secretary of state. The certificate shall be on a form prescribed by the secretary of state and shall set forth only the information required by this section. (1) The cer...

...notes, all forms of commercial paper, evidences of indebtedness, bonds, debentures, land trust certificates, fee certificates, leasehold certificates, syndicate certificates, endowment certificates, interests in or under profit-sharing or participation agreements, interests in or under oil, gas, or mining leases, preorganization or reorganization subscriptions, preorganization certificates, reorganization certificate...

...insert in any policy of sickness and accident insurance, delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state, any provision required by the laws of the state or the country in which such insurer is domiciled, if such provision is not substantially in conflict with any law of this state. Any domestic insurer may insert in any such policy issued for delivery in another state or foreign country, and governed by the l...

...A policy of sickness and accident insurance issued in violation of sections 3923.01 to 3923.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is valid but shall be construed as provided by such sections, and when any provision in such policy is in conflict with such sections, the rights, duties, and obligations of the insurer, the policyholder, and the beneficiary shall be governed by such sections.

...Industrial sickness and accident insurance is that form of sickness and accident insurance under individual policies for which the premium is payable weekly, and includes any such policy which covers sickness only or accident only. Any insurer authorized to make, transact, or issue sickness and accident insurance in this state may make, transact, or issue industrial sickness and accident insurance in this state. No...

...(A) Sickness and accident insurance on a franchise plan is that form of sickness and accident insurance issued to either of the following: (1) Five or more or, with respect to long-term care or disability income insurance, two or more employees of any corporation, copartnership, or individual employer, or of any governmental corporation or agency or a department thereof; (2) Ten or more or, with respect to lo...

...(A) Group sickness and accident insurance is that form of sickness and accident insurance covering any group of two or more employees, members, or other persons, with or without one or more of their dependents and members of their immediate families. Such insurance may be offered to groups without regard to the purpose or type of group or the occupation of the employees, members, or other persons insured under the po...

...e of enabling cooperative action to provide sickness and accident insurance in accordance with this section. (2) "Insurer" means any insurance company authorized to do the business of sickness and accident insurance in this state. (3) "Insured" means a person covered under a group policy issued pursuant to this section. (B) Any insurer may join with one or more other insurers, in an association, to offer, sell, an...

...e of enabling cooperative action to provide health coverage in accordance with this section. (2) "Insurer" includes any insurance company authorized to do the business of sickness and accident insurance in this state and any health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority under Chapter 1751. of the Revised Code. (3) "Insured" means a person covered under a group policy or contract issued pursuant to ...

...Blanket sickness and accident insurance is that form of sickness and accident insurance covering special groups of persons as enumerated in one of the following divisions: (A) Under a policy issued to any common carrier, which shall be deemed the policyholder, covering a group defined as all persons who may become passengers on such common carrier; (B) Under a policy issued to an employer, who shall be deemed the p...

...ation for any policy of sickness and accident insurance shall not bar the right to recovery thereunder, or be used in evidence at any trial to recover upon such policy, unless it is clearly proved that such false statement is willfully false, that it was fraudulently made, that it materially affects either the acceptance of the risk or the hazard assumed by the insurer, that it induced the insurer to issue the policy...

...atement of, a policy of sickness and accident insurance to insure any other person shall be considered the agent of the insurer and not of the insured in any controversy between the insured or his beneficiary and the insurer issuing or reinstating a policy upon such application or accepting or making a renewal of such policy.

...r doing the business of sickness and accident insurance in this state shall make or permit any unfair discrimination between individuals of substantially the same hazard in the amount of premium rates charged for any policy or contract of such insurance or in the benefits payable thereunder. This section does not prohibit different premium rates, different benefits, or different underwriting procedure for individuals...

...ith the solicitation of sickness and accident insurance any advertising copy, advertising practice, or plan of solicitation which is materially misleading or deceptive. An advertising copy, advertising practice, or plan of solicitation is materially misleading or deceptive if, by implication or otherwise, it transmits information in such manner or of such substance that a prospective applicant for sickness and accide...

...llation provisions of a sickness and accident insurance policy without successively describing the cancellability and the renewability provisions of the policy clearly and with equal prominence or emphasis. (B) Violation of this section is an unfair and deceptive act or practice under section 3923.16 and sections 3901.19 to 3901.22 of the Revised Code. (C) As used in this section, "advertising copy," "advertising p...

...g to its participating policyholders dividends, savings, or unused premium deposits; (C) Any insurer from returning or otherwise abating, in full or in part, the premiums of its policyholders out of surplus accumulated from nonparticipating insurance; (D) The taking of a bona fide obligation, with interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent per annum, in the payment of any premium.

...ven under any policy of sickness and accident insurance, or the furnishing by him of forms for filing proofs of loss, or his acceptance of such proofs, or his investigation of any claim thereunder, shall not operate as a waiver of any of the rights of the insurer in defense of any claim arising under such policy.

...under all policies of sickness and accident insurance are not liable to attachment or other process, or to be taken, appropriated, or applied by any legal or equitable process or by operation of law, either before or after payment of the benefits, to pay any liabilities of the person insured under any such policy to the extent that the benefits are reasonably necessary for the support of the debtor and a...

...ecting the insured against loss where said insured has secured a judgment against a party for bodily injury or death as a result of a motor vehicle accident and where said judgment remains unsatisfied. (3) Any policy of motor vehicle liability insurance with supplementary coverage which insures against the hazards which arise out of a motor vehicle accident as defined in section 4509.01 (J) of the Revised Code. (B)...

...his state any policy of sickness and accident insurance on a form which has been disapproved by the superintendent of insurance or has violated sections 3923.01 to 3923.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or an order of the superintendent made in accordance with such sections, the superintendent may suspend the authority of such insurer to transact business within this state for a period of not more than ninety days....

...9.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Said sections are also applicable to sections 3923.01 to 3923.22 inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...r pursuant to any group sickness and accident insurance policy delivered, issued for delivery, renewed or used, in or outside this state, on or after the effective date of this amendment, July 1, 1980, and notwithstanding any provision of any policy of insurance delivered, issued for delivery, renewed or used, in or outside this state, on or after the effective date of this amendment, July 1, 1980, whenever such poli...

...r pursuant to any group sickness and accident insurance policy delivered, issued, renewed or used, in or outside this state, on or after the effective date of this amendment, July 1, 1980, and notwithstanding any provision of any policy of insurance delivered, issued for delivery, renewed or used, in or outside this state, on or after the effective date of this amendment, July 1, 1980, whenever such policy or certifi...

...r pursuant to any group sickness and accident insurance policy delivered, issued, renewed or used, in or outside this state, on or after the effective date of this amendment, July 1, 1980, and notwithstanding any provision of any policy of insurance delivered, issued for delivery, renewed or used, in or outside this state, on or after the effective date of this amendment, July 1, 1980, whenever such policy or certifi...

...r pursuant to any group sickness and accident insurance policy delivered, issued, renewed, or used, in or outside this state, on or after January 1, 1985, and notwithstanding any provision of any policy of insurance delivered, issued for delivery, renewed, or used, in or outside this state, on or after January 1, 1985, whenever the policy or certificate is subject to the jurisdiction of this state and provides for re...

...r pursuant to any group sickness and accident insurance policy delivered, issued, renewed, or used, in or outside this state, on or after July 20, 1988, and notwithstanding any provision of any policy of insurance delivered, issued for delivery, renewed, or used, in or outside this state, on or after July 20, 1988, whenever the policy or certificate is subject to the jurisdiction of this state and provides for reimbu...

...provision of, any group sickness and accident insurance policy delivered, issued for delivery, renewed, or used in this state on or after January 1, 1972, every policy of sickness and accident insurance delivered, issued for delivery, renewed, or used in this state on or after January 1, 1972, and every multiple employer welfare arrangement offering an insurance program, which provides that coverage of an unmarried d...