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...(A) If a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program contracts with a third-party administrator that is not an employee of the arrangement, it shall enter into a written agreement. The agreement is subject to review and approval by the superintendent of insurance in accordance with this section. (B) The agreement may provide both of the following: (1) The right of substitution of ...

...A trustee, officer, or third-party administrator of a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program that receives, collects, disburses, or invests money in connection with the activities of the arrangement is a fiduciary as defined in the "Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 829, 29 U.S.C.A. 1001, as amended.

...A multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program shall contract only with a third-party administrator that meets all of the following conditions: (A) The third-party administrator has and maintains a fidelity bond as required by the "Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 829, 29 U.S.C.A. 1001, as amended. (B) The third-party administrator has and maintains errors...

...(A) For the purpose of determining whether a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program has violated any provision of the Revised Code or any rule adopted by the superintendent of insurance, a member or its employees are deemed "insureds" or "policyholders" as used in Title XXXIX of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, no multiple employer welfare ar...

...(A) No multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program shall do any of the following: (1) Refuse, without just cause, to pay proper claims arising under coverage provided by the arrangement; (2) Compel, without just cause, employee claimants of members or other persons entitled to the proceeds of the coverage to accept less than the amount due them; (3) Compel, without just cause, em...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance, after notice and opportunity for hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may impose a fine upon a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program, a third-party administrator, or other entity after finding either of the following: (1) The arrangement, third-party administrator, or other entity, through the acts of its officers, ...

...All rules adopted by the superintendent of insurance pursuant to sections 1739.01 to 1739.22 of the Revised Code shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

...No insurance agent, broker, or other person shall advertise, solicit, negotiate, collect a premium on, or sell any enrollment in, a group self-insurance program in this state, unless the multiple employer welfare arrangement has a valid certificate of authority from the superintendent of insurance.

...(A) Whoever violates division (B) of section 1739.02 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates division (D) of section 1739.02 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree. (C) Whoever violates section 1739.27 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree on a first offense and a felony of the fifth degree on each subsequent offense. ...

...When a corporation organized under the laws of this state and having a capital stock, including museum, park, pond, or rink companies, is organized for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a building any part of which is intended to be occupied by two or more incorporated companies not having a capital stock, including incorporated religious, scientific, and beneficial associations, as a lodge room, chapel, or reg...

...A corporation organized as a common carrier company may: (A) Make all contracts lawful for natural persons to make for the carriage of persons and for the storage, forwarding, carriage, and delivery of property, but subject to the liabilities of natural person; (B) Lease, hold, and operate any line of railway and its appendages, before or after its completion, owned by a municipal corporation of this state, any rai...

...Any association organized for the purpose of preserving and protecting bodies of deceased persons before burial may take, by purchase, devise, or gift, and may hold and convey, real estate not exceeding one acre of land, and may erect thereon suitable buildings and construct and maintain vaults and such other appliances as are necessary to carry out its objects. Such property shall be exempt from execution, from tax...

...A corporation designated as a home for aged and indigent persons, in addition to other property which it is allowed by law to hold, may take by purchase, gift, or devise, and may hold, use, dispose of, and convey, any property convenient for the use of the corporation or for the investment of its funds. No part of such property or of the income thereof shall be used for any purpose other than providing a suitable asy...

...Any corporation organized for the purpose of providing a home for deaf persons may enter into a contract with the board of county commissioners of any county, or with the proper officers of any municipal infirmary, for the care and maintenance in such home of any deaf person who is an inmate of the county home or of such municipal infirmary, or who is entitled to admission thereto. In every such case the county home ...

...Any incorporated association having for its purpose the preservation of public parks and memorial sites may acquire and hold in perpetuity, for memorial purposes for the free use and benefit of the public, any real estate in this state which is the site or scene of any battle or other engagement in behalf of or in defense of the government of the United States or of this state or which has been used or set apart for ...

...Any incorporated association or society maintained by and operating on behalf of the state for the preservation of historic or prehistoric sites or monuments, the exploration, examination, improvement, or preservation of such sites or monuments for educational, scientific, or memorial purposes, or the collecting of relics or artifacts therefrom and the placing of such relics or artifacts in a public museum, may acqui...

...A company or association organized as an elevator company may purchase and hold real and personal estate; may erect, purchase, and own the necessary buildings, offices, and machinery for carrying on the business of receiving, storing, delivering, and forwarding grain of all kinds; and may add to and connect with this the business of a general storage warehouse or forwarders of all kinds of produce and merchandi...

...When a company organized for the purpose of propagating fish and establishing fisheries in this state acquires the right to use any stream, canal, or reservoir from the owner of the land adjoining thereto, for the establishment of a fishery to be owned, maintained, and used for the purpose of propagating fish, no person shall fish from such stream, canal, or reservoir without first obtaining authority from such compa...

...When a corporation organized for constructing and conducting a museum for the exhibition and preservation of works of nature and art and for instruction in connection therewith a public hall of any kind, or a park, pond, or rink for skating or other lawful sports, or organized for holding fairs, festivals, public meetings, concerts, or lawful entertainments of any kind, provides in its articles of incorporation that ...

...Any corporation may be organized and chartered for the purpose of establishing, operating, and maintaining a foreign-trade zone within this state under the act of June 18, 1934, 48 Stat. 998, 19 U.S.C.A. 81A, as amended or reenacted, and may apply to the board created under that act for a grant of the privilege of establishing, operating, and maintaining such a zone. If the application is granted, the corporation may...

...(A) Principles of law and equity supplement this chapter unless displaced by a particular provision of this chapter. (B) A statute in this state governing a particular type of unincorporated nonprofit association prevails over an inconsistent provision in this chapter to the extent of the inconsistency. (C) This chapter supplements all regulatory laws that are applicable to nonprofit organizations operating ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the law of this state governs all unincorporated nonprofit associations formed or operating in this state. (B) Unless the governing principles of an unincorporated nonprofit association specify a different jurisdiction, the law of the jurisdiction in which the association has its main place of activities governs the internal affairs of the ass...

...All of the following apply to an unincorporated nonprofit association: (A) It is a legal entity distinct from its members and managers. (B) It has perpetual duration unless its governing principles specify otherwise. (C) It has the same powers as an individual to do all things necessary or convenient to carry on its activities. (D) It may engage in profit-making activities, but any profits from those activi...

...An unincorporated nonprofit association may acquire, hold, encumber, or transfer in its name an estate or interest in real or personal property. An unincorporated nonprofit association may be a legatee, a devisee, or a beneficiary of a trust or contract. All property acquired by an unincorporated nonprofit association by purchase, gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise shall be the absolute property of the associa...

...A debt, obligation, or other liability of an unincorporated nonprofit association, whether arising in contract, tort, or otherwise, is solely the debt, obligation, or other liability of the association and does not become the debt, obligation, or other liability of a member or manager solely because the member acts as a member or the manager acts as a manager. A person's status as a member or a manager of an u...