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...(A) The requirement in division (C) of section 121.22 of the Revised Code that a member of a public body be present in person at a meeting open to the public in order to be part of a quorum or to vote does not apply to the board of directors of a port authority if the board holds the meeting by interactive video conference or by teleconference in the following manner: (1) The board establishes a primary meeting lo...

...ficate, or firm registration, any other services involving the use of accounting or auditing skills as established by rules adopted by the accountancy board. (B) "Public accounting firm" means a sole proprietorship, a partnership, a limited liability company, a professional association, a corporation-for-profit, or any other business organization that is engaged in the practice of public accounting in this state. ...

...The accountancy board shall register as a public accountant any person who meets all the following requirements: (A) The person is a resident of this state or has a place of business in this state. (B) The person has attained the age of eighteen years. (C) The person holds a baccalaureate or higher degree conferred by a college or university recognized by the board, with a concentration in accounting, or with w...

...he privileges to offer or render attest services in this state or to use a CPA title or designation in this state of an individual who holds a foreign certificate. (C) If the board levies a fine against or suspends the certificate of a person or registration of a person or firm for a violation of division (A)(2) or (4) of this section, it may waive all or any portion of the fine or suspension if the holder of the ...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the certified public accountant education assistance fund, which shall consist of all money transferred to it pursuant to section 4743.05 of the Revised Code and all investment earnings of the fund. (B) The accountancy board shall enter into a contract with an Ohio-based statewide membership organization representing certified public accountants in this state to us...

...rson who performs labor or who provides services pursuant to a construction contract may offer or provide architectural services in connection with the person's own labor or services if all of the following apply: (1) The architectural services are provided and performed by an architect registered under this chapter or by a firm holding a certificate of authorization granted pursuant to this chapter through either d...

...ion, or association providing architect services pursuant to this chapter. "Architect" does not include a landscape architect registered under this chapter. (B)(1)(a) "Commercial real estate" means any parcel of real estate in this state other than real estate containing or intended to contain one-to-four residential units. (b) "Commercial real estate" includes any improvement made to or with regard to such a p...

... who enters into a written contract for services to be provided with regard to any interest in commercial real estate has a lien on that interest. (2) The lien shall be effective only if the contract for services is in writing and is signed by the architect and the owner of the interest in commercial real estate. (B)(1) Only the architect named in the contract shall have a lien pursuant to this section. (2) A ...

...(c) of this section; (3) The following services as they relate to the practice of landscape architecture: (a) Construction observation; (b) Project coordination and review of technical submissions, plans, and construction documents; (c) Collaboration with architects and professional engineers in the design of streets, highways, bridges, buildings, and structures with respect to the functional and aesthetic r...

...ny person performing labor or providing services pursuant to a construction contract may offer or provide landscape architectural services in connection with the person's other labor or services if all of the following apply: (1) The person employs a landscape architect registered under sections 4703.30 to 4703.49 of the Revised Code or enters into a contract with a firm, partnership, association, limited liability ...

...(A) Any individual desiring to be registered as a landscape architect may apply in writing to the Ohio landscape architects board in the manner prescribed by the board. (B) Except as provided in section 4703.35 of the Revised Code, each application shall include, or be accompanied by, evidence given under oath or affirmation and satisfactory to the board that the applicant possesses the qualifications prescribed by...

...r in providing landscape architectural services. (B) No registrant or certificate holder shall do either of the following: (1) Affix the registrant's or certificate holder's signature to plans, drawings, specifications, or other professional documents that have not been prepared by the registrant or certificate holder or under the registrant's or certificate holder's immediate and responsible direction; (2) ...

... who enters into a written contract for services to be provided with regard to any interest in commercial real estate has a lien on that interest. (2) The lien shall be effective only if the contract for services is in writing and is signed by the landscape architect and the owner of the interest in commercial real estate. (B)(1) Only the landscape architect named in the contract shall have a lien pursuant to thi...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Disciplinary counsel" means the disciplinary counsel appointed by the board of commissioners on grievances and discipline of the supreme court under the Rules for the Government of the Bar of Ohio. (2) "Certified grievance committee" means a duly constituted and organized committee of the Ohio state bar association or of one or more local bar associations of the state that co...

...(A) All of the following apply to an interest-bearing trust account established under authority of section 4705.09 of the Revised Code: (1) All funds in the account shall be subject to withdrawal upon request and without delay, or as soon as is permitted by federal law; (2) The rate of interest payable on the account shall not be less than the rate paid by the depository institution to regular, nonattorney deposi...

...(A) No person licensed under this chapter shall advertise, offer for sale, or sell real or personal property by absolute auction unless all of the following apply: (1) One of the following applies: (a) Except for current tax obligations, easements, or restrictions of record of the seller, there are no liens or encumbrances on the property in favor of any other person. (b) Every holder of a lien or encumbrance, by ...

...(A) Not later than seventy-two hours after the end of an auction, a person licensed under this chapter shall deposit in one or more trust or escrow accounts all money received from the sale of an owner's or consignee's personal property at auction unless the licensee pays the money to the owner or consignee immediately after the end of the auction. (B) For purposes of this section, a person licensed under this chap...

...(A) The department of agriculture may grant an auctioneer's license to an individual who is determined to be qualified by the department. Each individual who applies for an auctioneer's license shall furnish to the department, on forms provided by the department, satisfactory proof that the applicant: (1) Has attained the age of at least eighteen years; (2) Has successfully completed a course of study in auctione...

...(A) No corporation, limited liability company, general or limited partnership, or unincorporated association shall act or hold itself out as an auctioneer without a valid auctioneer's license issued under this section. (B) The department of agriculture may grant an auctioneer's license to a corporation, limited liability company, general or limited partnership, or unincorporated association that is determined to b...

...(A)(1) Each person to whom the department issues an auctioneer's license or auction firm license shall pay a licensure fee. Those licenses are biennial and expire in accordance with the schedule established in division (A)(2) of this section. If such a license is issued during the first year of a biennium, the licensee shall pay a fee in the amount of two hundred dollars. If the license is issued during the second ye...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, each application for a license issued under this chapter shall be accompanied by proof of financial responsibility in the form of either an irrevocable letter of credit or a cash bond or a surety bond in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars. If the applicant gives a surety bond, the bond shall be executed by a surety company authorized to do business in th...

...(A) An auctioneer license or auction firm license is automatically suspended if the following apply, as applicable: (1) The director of agriculture determines that a licensed auctioneer has failed to complete the continuing education requirements established under section 4707.101 of the Revised Code. (2) The director determines the auction firm manager of a licensed auction firm has failed to complete the contin...

...eive consignments or to provide auction services shall indicate in the advertisement the name of the auction firm. In addition, an advertisement of an auction of consignments or an advertisement by an auction firm of an auction for which the auction firm will provide auction services shall comply with divisions (A) and (D) of this section. (C) If an auction to be advertised is an absolute auction, all advertisement...

...(A) After receipt of an application that is filed under section 4707.261 of the Revised Code and that satisfies the requirements established under that section, a court of common pleas shall issue an order directing the director of agriculture to make payment from the auction recovery fund to an applicant who satisfies the criteria established under this section. The payment shall consist of an amount that is equal t...

...As used in this chapter: (A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, "the practice of barbering" means any one or more of the following when performed upon the head, neck, or face for cosmetic purposes and when performed upon the public for pay, free, or otherwise: (a) Shaving the face, shaving around the vicinity of the ears and neckline, or trimming facial hair; (b) Cutting or styling hair; ...

...xification, non-intensive and intensive outpatient services, medication-assisted treatment, peer support, residential services, recovery housing residences pursuant to section 340.034 of the Revised Code, and multiple paths to recovery such as twelve-step approaches. The services and supports shall be made available in the service district of each board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, except a...

...ollowing outpatient services: (a) Nonintensive; (b) Intensive, such as partial hospitalization and assertive community treatment; (c) Withdrawal management; (d) Emergency and crisis. (7) Where appropriate, at least the following inpatient services: (a) Psychiatric care; (b) Medically managed alcohol or drug treatment. (8) At least all of the following recovery supports: (a) Peer support; ...

...g court or by the parole board. (Q) "Intensive probation supervision" means a requirement that an offender maintain frequent contact with a person appointed by the court, or by the parole board pursuant to section 2967.28 of the Revised Code, to supervise the offender while the offender is seeking or maintaining necessary employment and participating in training, education, and treatment programs as required in th...

...halfway house setting, and an intensive outpatient or outpatient level of care.

... (4) Assertive community treatment and intensive home-based mental health services. (C) The department of medicaid shall enter into a separate contract with the department of mental health and addiction services under section 5162.35 of the Revised Code with regard to the mental health services the medicaid program covers pursuant to this section.

...e; (b) The program provides intensive outpatient treatment or a higher level of care, or another level of care if specified in rules adopted under section 4758.20 of the Revised Code; (c) The program meets other requirements specified in rules adopted under that section. (4) Have at least one thousand hours of compensated work experience as a chemical dependency counselor assistant; (5) Provide to the chemica...

...The director of the legislative service commission shall arrange with the proper officials of the Ohio state university, the Ohio history connection, the supreme court law library, and the Ohio state library, for the use of general books and references in their custody, and the proper officials of the Ohio state university, the Ohio history connection, and the Ohio state library are hereby directed to lend to the com...

...(A) The director of the legislative service commission shall be the codifier of the rules of the administrative agencies of the state. In accordance with sections 149.21 to 149.27 of the Revised Code, the commission is the official publisher of the Ohio administrative code. (B) The director, considering the objectives of uniform codification and the principles of legal drafting, shall publish a rule drafting manual...

...The "Register of Ohio" is an electronic publication that functions as a gazette to which members of the public may readily resort for notice of and information about rule-making processes. The director of the legislative service commission shall publish the register. The register is to include all rule-making documents that are required by statute to be published in the register. The director shall display the regist...

...The director of the legislative service commission may request an agency to provide the director with assistance that is within the agency's competence and that is reasonably necessary to ensure the director's successful, efficient, and timely electronic publication of the register of Ohio.

...The director of the legislative service commission shall establish and maintain, and enhance and improve, an electronic rule-filing system connecting: (A) The legislative service commission, the joint committee on agency rule review, and the secretary of state; (B) The governor, the senate and house of representatives, and the clerks of the senate and house of representatives; (C) Each agency that files rules and ...

...If there is an expected or unexpected shut down of the whole or part of the electronic rule-filing system, such as for maintenance or because of hardware or software failure, the director of the legislative service commission may temporarily authorize an agency that is required to file rules and other rule-making and rule-related documents exclusively in electronic form nevertheless to file rules and other rule-makin...

...If a rule currently in effect is obsolete because the rule was adopted by an agency that is no longer in existence and jurisdiction over the rule has not been transferred to another agency, and if that status is verified by the executive director of the joint committee on agency rule review, the executive director shall prepare, for consideration of the joint committee, a motion that the director of the legislative s...

...There is hereby created, in the legislative branch of government, the Ohio legislative service commission consisting of fourteen members as follows: six members shall be members of the senate appointed by the president of the senate, not more than four of whom shall be members of the same political party; six members shall be members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house of representat...

...The Ohio legislative service commission may appoint committees consisting of members of the general assembly and such citizens having special knowledge on a particular subject as the commission may determine, to study and report on assigned subjects. At least one member of the commission shall be a member of each committee. No committee study or report shall be published by the commission until such study or report ...

...The Ohio legislative service commission shall: (A) Conduct research, make investigations, and secure information or data on any subject and make reports thereon to the general assembly; (B) Ascertain facts and make reports concerning the state budget, the revenues and expenditures of the state, and of the organization and functions of the state, its departments, subdivisions, and agencies; (C) Make surveys, inv...

...The director of the legislative service commission shall be the codifier of the laws of the state. When an act of a general and permanent nature passed by the general assembly becomes a law and is filed with the secretary of state, such director shall examine the same and if there is no sectional numbering on the act or if such numbering is not in conformity with the Revised Code, the director shall give such section...

...(A) If a bill introduced in the general assembly appears to affect the revenues or expenditures of the state, a county, municipal corporation, township, school district, or other governmental entity of the state, the Ohio legislative budget office of the Ohio legislative service commission shall, before the bill is recommended for passage by the house committee or the senate committee of the general assembly to which...

...(A) As used in this section, "committee" means any standing or select committee of the general assembly or of either house of the general assembly. (B) Within five days after the effective date of this section, the legislative service commission shall meet to determine whether divisions (C) and (D) of this section should be implemented. If the commission determines that divisions (C) and (D) of this section should b...

...In addition to its duties under section 103.14 of the Revised Code, the legislative service commission shall, in accordance with this section, review all bills assigned to a committee of the general assembly, complete the appropriate local impact statements required by this section, and compile and distribute these statements as required by division (D) of this section. (A) Subject to division (F) of this section, ...

...ice; (2) Any required coverage for the services of specific health care providers; (3) Any requirement that an insurer or health insuring corporation offer coverage to specific individuals or groups; (4) Any requirement that an insurer or health insuring corporation offer specific medical or health-related services, treatments, medications, or practices to existing insureds or enrollees; (5) Any required exp...

...(A) The chairperson of a standing committee of either house of the general assembly may, at any time, request the director of the legislative service commission to review any bill that is assigned to the chairperson's committee in order to determine whether the bill includes a mandated benefit. The director shall review the bill and notify the chairperson of the director's determination. If the director deter...

...In performing an independent healthcare actuarial review of a mandated benefit, the actuary or actuaries retained by the director of the legislative service commission shall consult with professionals knowledgeable in matters related to the performance of an actuarial review of a mandated benefit and shall consider the results of any professionally acceptable controlled trial and any other relevant research specific...

...At the close of each second regular session of the general assembly, the clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives shall deliver to the director of the Ohio legislative service commission copies of all bills, joint resolutions, important petitions, memorials, and other legislative documents passed or presented during each session of the general assembly.

...The Ohio legislative service commission or any committee thereof when so authorized by the commission is empowered to hold public hearings, at such times and places within the state as may be determined advisable or necessary to accomplish the purposes and intent of sections 103.11 to 103.22 of the Revised Code.