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...(A) No person, partnership, association, or corporation, other than credit unions and associations of such credit unions, to which all credit unions in their respective jurisdictions are eligible, shall use any name or title containing the words "credit union" or represent themselves, in advertising or elsewhere, as conducting business as a credit union. (B) Subject to all of the following, a credit union may adopt ...

...(A) Absent the express written permission of the credit union, no person shall use the name of a credit union in an advertisement, solicitation, promotional, or other material in a way that may mislead another person, or cause another person to be misled, into believing that the person issuing the advertisement, solicitation, promotional, or other material is associated or affiliated with the credit union. (B)(1) W...

...A credit union shall be created, organized, governed, and conducted and its directors and officers shall be chosen, in all respects in the same manner as provided in sections 1701.01 to 1701.99, inclusive, of the Revised Code, for corporations generally, insofar as such manner is not inconsistent with this chapter.

...Whenever the approval of the superintendent of credit unions is required under this chapter, or under an order or supervisory action issued or taken under this chapter, for a person to serve as an organizer, incorporator, director, or executive officer of a credit union, or to otherwise participate in the management of a credit union, the superintendent shall request the superintendent of the bureau of criminal...

...A credit union may, subject to sections 1721.211 and 4717.31 to 4717.38 of the Revised Code, receive and hold on deposit moneys under a preneed funeral contract or preneed cemetery merchandise and services contract.

...(A) As used in this section, "bona fide error" means an unintentional clerical, calculation, computer malfunction or programming, or printing error. (B) A credit union or regulated individual shall not be held civilly liable in any action brought under this chapter or Chapter 1309., 1317., or 1345. of the Revised Code, and shall not be subject to any sanction by the superintendent of financial institutions, if all ...

...(A) Whoever violates section 1733.44 of the Revised Code, or any order of the superintendent issued pursuant to this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (B) Whoever violates division (C) of section 1733.327 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. A person who is convicted of violating such division is also subject to disciplinary action, including dismissal or r...

...A title guarantee and trust company may prepare and furnish abstracts and certificates of title to real estate, and bonds, mortgages, and other securities; guarantee such titles, the validity and the due execution of such securities, and the performance of contracts incident thereto; make loans for itself or as agent or trustee for others, and guarantee the collection of interest and principal of such loans; take cha...

...No title guarantee and trust company shall do business until its capital stock amounts to at least one hundred thousand dollars fully paid up, and until it has complied with section 1735.03 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in such section, such capital shall be invested as the board of directors of such company prescribes.

...No title guarantee and trust company shall do business until it has deposited with the superintendent of insurance fifty thousand dollars, in securities permitted by sections 3925.05, 3925.06, and 3925.08 of the Revised Code. The superintendent shall hold such securities deposited with the treasurer of state as security for the faithful performance of all guarantees entered into and all trusts accepted by such compan...

...All companies doing the business of guaranteeing titles to real property shall comply with sections 1735.01 to 1735.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...As used in sections 1739.01 to 1739.22 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agreement" means a written agreement executed by members of a multiple employer welfare arrangement that establishes an arrangement, provides for its operation, and through which each member agrees to assume and discharge all liability under sections 1739.01 to 1739.22 of the Revised Code relating to or arising out of the operation of the arrangement i...

...(A) The following groups that have been organized and maintained in good faith for a continuous period of five years or more for purposes other than obtaining insurance may establish, maintain, or operate a group self-insurance program under a multiple employer welfare arrangement that is chartered and created in this state under sections 1739.01 to 1739.22 of the Revised Code: (1) A chamber of commerce; (2) A trad...

...(A) No employer shall enter into an agreement to participate in a group self-insurance program unless the multiple employer welfare arrangement has been issued a certificate of authority by the superintendent of insurance. Employers or other organizers that propose to create an arrangement or arrangements and provide benefits through a group self-insurance program or group self-insurance programs shall apply to the s...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance shall examine the application made under section 1739.03 of the Revised Code to determine whether the multiple employer welfare arrangement will be able to comply with sections 1739.01 to 1739.22 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted pursuant to those sections. If the superintendent finds that the arrangement is capable of complying with such sections, he shall issue a certific...

...(A) A multiple employer welfare arrangement that is created pursuant to sections 1739.01 to 1739.22 of the Revised Code and that operates a group self-insurance program may be established only if any of the following applies: (1) The arrangement has and maintains a minimum enrollment of three hundred employees of two or more employers. (2) The arrangement has and maintains a minimum enrollment of three hundred ...

...(A) No certificate shall be furnished by any multiple employer welfare arrangement in connection with, or pursuant to any group self-insurance program, nor shall any endorsement, rider, or application that becomes or is designated to become a part of any certificate be used until all of the following have been filed by the arrangement with the superintendent of insurance: (1) The form of the certificate, endorsement...

... vision care; coverage under a one-time-limited-duration policy that is less than twelve months; coverage issued as a supplement to liability insurance; insurance arising out of workers' compensation or similar law; automobile medical payment insurance; or insurance under which benefits are payable with or without regard to fault and which is statutorily required to be contained in any liability insurance policy or e...

...(A)(1) Unless otherwise stated in the agreement, a member may elect to terminate voluntarily its participation in a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program by giving no less than thirty days' written notice to the arrangement. Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the voluntary termination shall be approved by the board of the arrangement upon a finding that the...

...(A) A multiple employer welfare arrangement created pursuant to sections 1739.01 to 1739.22 of the Revised Code shall be operated by a board of trustees chosen by a majority of the participating members of the arrangement in accordance with sections 1739.01 to 1739.22 of the Revised Code and with the articles and bylaws of the arrangement. (B) The board, in addition to other powers contained in its articles, shall d...

...(A) Each multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program, no later than the thirty-first day of March, shall make and file with the superintendent of insurance an annual report of its affairs and operations during the last preceding calendar year. The report shall be made pursuant to the forms, instructions, and manuals prescribed by the national association of insurance commissioners f...

...The superintendent of insurance, or any person appointed by the superintendent, may examine, as often as the superintendent or the superintendent's appointee considers it necessary, the affairs of a multiple employer welfare arrangement and its members. The arrangement shall pay to the superintendent the expenses incurred by the department of insurance in making an examination authorized under this section. To the...

...In determining the financial capacity of a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program to pay employee welfare benefit obligations promptly and to otherwise meet its obligations under sections 1739.01 to 1739.22 of the Revised Code, the superintendent of insurance may take into consideration all of the following: (A) Maintenance of minimum reserves that are necessary in the exercis...

...(A) The excess loss funding program of a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program shall be filed with the superintendent of insurance. (B) As a condition to the issuance and maintenance of a certificate of authority, a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program shall purchase individual stop-loss insurance from insurers authorized to transact ...

...(A) A multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program shall maintain a minimum surplus of not less than five hundred thousand dollars or such higher amounts of surplus as the superintendent of insurance may establish by rule for the protection of the members and their employees. (B) Except as otherwise provided for in sections 1739.01 to 1739.21 of the Revised Code, the assets of a mul...

...The board of county commissioners may, at the end of each year, make a yearly appropriation to the county humane society from the general fund of the county of such funds as the board deems reasonable. Such funds are to supplement any gifts, funds received from the dog and kennel fund, and any other funds received by the society and are to be used to carry out the activities of the society.

...(A) Annually, a county humane society shall submit enforcement activity reports to the county sheriff. (B) Records of an enforcement activity by a humane society agent are public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code, except that any such records that are confidential law enforcement investigatory records, as defined in division (A)(2) of section 149.43 of the Revised Code, are not public records.

...(A) A probate judge of a county in which a humane society agent operates may revoke the approval of an appointment for just cause, under the procedure established in division (B) of this section. (B)(1) A movant may commence the procedure by filing with the probate court a motion to revoke the appointment, in the form of an affidavit sworn to by the movant, describing the conduct that constitutes just cause for the...

...(A) A humane society may not enter into a written agreement with a person, wherein the humane society agrees not to prosecute the person for an alleged violation of law, unless the proposed agreement has been reviewed and approved by the judge that has presided over the hearing that is required to determine if the officer had probable cause to seize the animal, and which is related to the case that is the subject of ...

...When any person by deed or will grants or devises property and money, or either, to trustees in perpetuity, in trust, stipulating that the principal and income, or any part of the principal and income thereof, is to be used and applied by said trustees and their successors in office for educational, charitable, or benevolent purposes, to be conducted in this state, and when such deed or will provides that the trustee...

...A charitable trust incorporated as provided in section 1719.01 of the Revised Code shall adopt and maintain a code of regulations for its government, and for the administration of the trust, in conformity with the deed or will. Such regulations shall provide for the election or appointment of the trustees of said corporation and their successors, and for the terms of office of such trustees and their successors, so a...

...The officers of a charitable trust incorporated as provided in section 1719.01 of the Revised Code, shall be a president, a vice-president, a treasurer and a secretary. The board may create other offices deemed necessary or designated by such deed or will.

...The board of trustees of a charitable trust incorporated as provided in section 1719.01 of the Revised Code, may accept any subsequent grant or devise of money or property made to it or to such corporation in perpetuity, in trust, the principal or income of which, or any part thereof as may be provided by such grant or devise, is to be used and applied for the purposes for which the original trust was established. In...

...The prosecuting attorney of the county in which a charitable trust incorporated as provided in section 1719.01 of the Revised Code has its general office may examine the accounts and records of such corporation, and may proceed by action in the proper courts to enforce the administration of the trust and the investment and application of its funds and property in accordance with the deed or will creating it. A copy ...

...When, by his will, admitted to probate in this state or elsewhere, a decedent devises or bequeaths his property, or a portion thereof, for charitable uses within this state, or for the establishment and maintenance of an industrial or educational school or institution to be located within this state; when such will provides that the executor shall organize a corporation under the laws of this state to receive such pr...

...The executor or executors, or his or their successors , of a will providing for a charitable trust as specified in section 1719.06 of the Revised Code shall associate with himself or themselves not more than two citizens and residents, other than the persons named in such will, of the county in which the charities are to be administered, or such institution or school located, and he or they and such associates shall ...

...The officials named in a will providing for a charitable trust as specified in section 1719.06 of the Revised Code, the other persons therein named, and, in case the articles are filed by the executor, the not more than two citizens and residents of the county in which the charities are to be administered or the institution or school located who execute and acknowledge them with such executor, shall, upon the filing ...

...Until the estate is finally settled, the board of directors of a charitable trust incorporated as provided in sections 1719.06 to 1719.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may meet in the state of the domicile of the testator.

...The officers of a charitable trust incorporated under sections 1719.06 to 1719.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall consist of a president, a secretary, a treasurer, and such others as the board of directors deems necessary. The president shall be a member of such board.

...The board of directors of a charitable trust incorporated under sections 1719.06 to 1719.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may adopt and change organic rules, regulations, and bylaws.

...The attorney general in his official capacity may bring proceedings in any court of record to enforce a devise or bequest to which section 1719.06 of the Revised Code is applicable, to protect and carry out the purposes named in the will, without waiting for the organization of the corporation.

...Any corporation organized under sections 1719.06 to 1719.12 of the Revised Code may increase or decrease the number of its members, directors, or trustees originally provided for, except that the number shall not be less than three. Any increase or decrease so made shall be authorized by a majority vote of the members present at a meeting called according to the regulations and bylaws of the corporation. No decrease ...

...Whenever, by a will under which any corporation is organized under sections 1719.01 to 1719.13 of the Revised Code, it is provided that the corporation shall be managed by a board of directors or trustees consisting in whole or in part of public officials of any kind, including municipal, county, state, or federal officials, judges, representatives, or senators, and when such testamentary provision for management, ei...

...A company or association incorporated for cemetery purposes may appropriate or otherwise acquire, and may hold, not more than six hundred forty acres of land at any one location, which shall be exempt from execution and from being appropriated for any public purpose, except as otherwise provided in this section. A company or association of that nature may own land at multiple locations, and as many as six hundred for...

...If it is necessary for a cemetery company or association, for cemetery purposes, to acquire lands by appropriation, such proceedings shall be taken therefor as are provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. No lands shall be appropriated until the probate court or court of common pleas is satisfied that suitable premises cannot be obtained by contract upon reasonable terms, and no land...

...Land shall not be appropriated, nor shall a cemetery be located, by an association incorporated for cemetery purposes or by a benevolent or religious society, within one hundred yards of a dwelling house, unless the owner of such dwelling house gives his consent, or unless the entire tract appropriated is a necessary addition to or enlargement of a cemetery already in use. The limit shall not be less than one hundred...

...Sections 1721.02 and 1721.03 of the Revised Code do not apply to a corporation or cemetery association owning a cemetery smaller than four acres and situated within one mile of the corporate limits of a municipal corporation.

...When in the judgment of the officers of a cemetery association it is necessary to secure additional land for the purpose of making an entrance to its ground, or to improve an entrance already made, the officers may apply to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the cemetery is located for the appointment of appraisers. Upon such application being made, such board shall proceed in accordance with se...

... cemetery purposes include, but are not limited to, buildings for crematory facilities, funeral homes, and other buildings intended to produce income for the cemetery company or association. No part of the funds of a cemetery company or association, or of the proceeds of land sold by it, shall ever be divided among its stockholders or lot owners, and all its funds shall be used exclusively for the purposes of the co...

...A cemetery company or association may adopt rules for disposing of and conveying burial lots; but any person not already the owner of a lot in the cemetery may purchase any unsold lot in it, and have such lot conveyed to him by the company or association upon tender of the usual price asked by it for such lots. Burial lots sold by a cemetery company or association shall be used for the sole purpose of interments, s...