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...A company described in section 1723.01 of the Revised Code may take, by purchase or otherwise, and hold such real and personal estate, and may erect or purchase the necessary buildings and machinery for carrying on the business, including all the necessary equipment and appendages of the business, such as tubing, pumps, tanks, telegraph apparatus, and engines, as may be necessary to transport oils, coal or its deriva...

... of the Revised Code includes any firm, partnership, voluntary association, joint-stock association, company, or corporation, wherever organized or incorporated, when engaged in the business of transporting petroleum through tubing, pipes, or conduits as a common carrier.

...poration is being organized, but not limited to the purposes described in division (B)(2) of this section; (b) Efficiently holding and managing vacant, abandoned, or tax-foreclosed real property pending its reclamation, rehabilitation, and reutilization; (c) Assisting governmental entities and other nonprofit or for-profit persons to assemble, clear, and clear the title of property described in thi...

...(A) After the articles of incorporation have been filed, and at the first meeting of the board of directors of a county land reutilization corporation, the board shall adopt regulations for the government of the corporation, the conduct of its affairs, and the management of its property, consistent with law and the articles. The content of the regulations shall be governed by section 1702.11 of the Revised Code...

...A county that elects under section 5722.02 of the Revised Code to adopt and implement the procedures set forth in sections 5722.02 to 5722.15 of the Revised Code may organize a county land reutilization corporation under this chapter and Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code for the purpose of exercising the powers granted to a county under Chapter 5722. of the Revised Code. The county treasurer of the county for the ben...

...Each community improvement corporation shall prepare an annual financial report that conforms to rules prescribed by the auditor of state pursuant to section 117.20 of the Revised Code, that is prepared according to generally accepted accounting principles, and that is certified by the board of directors of the corporation or its treasurer or other chief fiscal officer to the best knowledge and belief of those person...

...If any community improvement corporation fails to prepare an annual financial report as required by section 1724.05 of the Revised Code and to file that report with the auditor of state within ninety days of the time prescribed for that filing by that section, or if the auditor of state determines by applying the standards applicable to a public office under section 117.41 of the Revised Code that any community impro...

...Except as provided in section 703.376 of the Revised Code, in the event of voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation, or failure to reinstate the articles after cancellation of the community improvement corporation, any remaining assets shall be applied as follows: (A) In the case of an economic development corporation, to such civic projects or public charitable purposes in the community or area as may be...

...The provisions of Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code are applicable to corporations organized under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code to the extent they are not inconsistent herewith.

...Any corporation organized prior to August 17, 1961 and having similar purposes may be brought under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code by the required vote of its members or shareholders adopting amended articles of incorporation. Said amended articles of incorporation shall provide for a change in the corporate title and powers in conformity with Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code and shall contain a statement that th...

...(A) A community improvement corporation may be designated: (1) By a county, one or more townships, one or more municipal corporations, two or more adjoining counties, or any combination of the foregoing as the agency of each such political subdivision for the industrial, commercial, distribution, and research development in such political subdivision when the legislative authority of such political subdivisio...

...(A) When a community improvement corporation is acting as an agent of a political subdivision designated pursuant to section 1724.10 of the Revised Code and at all times as a county land reutilization corporation, both of the following apply: (1) Any financial and proprietary information, including trade secrets, submitted by or on behalf of an entity to the community improvement corporation in connection with the...

...The board of directors of a community improvement corporation in which all or a part of a downtown redevelopment district is located may accept contributions from the municipal corporation that created the district pursuant to division (E)(2) of section 5709.45 of the Revised Code. The board shall use all such contributions to promote the downtown redevelopment district to potential business patrons, to recruit busin...

...The officers of an incorporated board of trade, chamber of commerce, merchants' exchange, or other kindred association shall consist of a president, two vice-presidents, a treasurer, and a secretary, all of whom shall be members of the association and be engaged in business at, or residents of, the municipal corporation in which it is established. They shall be elected by ballot at the annual meeting of the associati...

...An incorporated board of trade, chamber of commerce, merchants' exchange, or other kindred association may establish and appoint committees of reference and arbitration and committees of appeals, which committees shall be governed by such rules as are prescribed in the association's rules or bylaws for the settlement of such matters of reference as are submitted voluntarily for arbitration by members of the associati...

...An incorporated board of trade, chamber of commerce, merchants' exchange, or other kindred association may require from its officers, whether elected or appointed, sufficient bonds for the faithful discharge of their duties and trusts, which bonds shall be conditioned and made payable as prescribed by the association's bylaws and may be sued on, the money thereby collected to be held for the use of the party injured ...

...Every inspector, gauger, weigher, or measurer appointed by an incorporated board of trade, chamber of commerce, merchants' exchange, or other kindred association shall be recognized as a legally appointed officer, for the duties pertaining to his position, in the city and county in which the association is located, and shall be subject to all the laws relating thereto. The certificate of such appointee as to his off...

...An incorporated board of trade, chamber of commerce, merchants' exchange, or other kindred association may purchase or lease suitable grounds and erect thereon such buildings as its board of directors deems proper for its interest. It may lease any portion of such building which is not occupied by or needed for its immediate use. It may, by a two-thirds favorable vote of its board, sell and convey its real estate. It...

...Any board of trade, chamber of commerce, merchants' exchange, or other kindred association organized in this state may avail itself of the privileges and powers, in whole or in part, conferred by section 1725.01 to 1725.04 of the Revised Code, by making a certificate of its adoption of those sections, under its seal, attested by the signatures of any authorized officer, which certificate shall be filed in the office ...

...ed, which shall include but need not be limited to, the following: to promote, aid, and through the united efforts of the institutions and corporations which shall from time to time become members or shareholders, develop and advance the industrial and business prosperity of the state or any section thereof; to encourage any industry; to stimulate and help expand all kinds of business ventures which tend to promote t...

...When the articles of incorporation or any amendment or amendments thereof, are filed in the office of the secretary of state under section 1726.02 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state shall submit them to the attorney general for examination. If such articles, or any amendment or amendments thereof, are found by him to be in accordance with Chapter 1726. of the Revised Code, and not inconsistent with the const...

... (C) To make loans to any person, firm, partnership, corporation, joint stock company, association, or trust, and to establish and regulate the terms and conditions with respect to any such loans and the charges for interest and services connected therewith; provided, the corporation shall not approve any application for a loan unless and until the person applying for said loan shows that he has applied for the loan ...

...Any financial institution may request membership in a corporation incorporated under Chapter 1726. of the Revised Code by making application to the board of directors of the corporation on a form and in such manner as said board of directors may require, and membership shall become effective upon acceptance of such application by said board. Upon written notice given to the corporation, one year in advance, a member ...

...Each shareholder shall have one vote, in person or by proxy, for each share of capital stock held by him, and each member shall have one vote, in person or by proxy, except that any member having a loan limit of more than one thousand dollars shall have one additional vote, in person or by proxy, for each additional one thousand dollars which such member is authorized to have outstanding on loans to a corporation inc...

...The board of directors of a corporation incorporated under Chapter 1726. of the Revised Code shall be of such number in multiples of three as shall be determined in the first instance by the incorporators and thereafter by the shareholders and shall be elected in the first instance by the incorporators, and thereafter at each annual meeting of the corporation, or, if no annual meeting is held in any year at the time ...