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...The directors and trustees of an institute referred to in section 1713.32 of the Revised Code, are not personally liable for debts permitted to be contracted by such section.

...Superintendents of city hospitals, directors or superintendents of city infirmaries, county homes, or other charitable institutions, directors or superintendents of workhouses, founded and supported in whole or in part at public expense, superintendents or managing officers of state benevolent institutions, boards of township trustees, sheriffs, or coroners, in possession of bodies not claimed or identified, or...

...If the body of a deceased person delivered as provided in section 1713.34 of the Revised Code, is subsequently claimed in writing by a relative or other person for private interment at his own expense, it shall be given up to such claimant.

...After the bodies referred to in section 1713.34 of the Revised Code have been subjected to medical or surgical examination or dissection or for the study of embalming, the remains thereof shall be interred, or shall be cremated and the ashes interred, in some suitable place at the expense of the parties in whose keeping the corpse was placed.

...In all cases the officer having a body referred to in section 1713.34 of the Revised Code under his control must notify in writing the relatives of the deceased person.

...The bodies of strangers or travelers, who die in any of the institutions named in section 1713.34 of the Revised Code, shall not be delivered for the purpose of dissection unless the stranger or traveler belongs to that class commonly known as tramps. Bodies delivered as provided in such section shall be used for medical, surgical, and anatomical study only, and within this state.

...A person, association, or company, having unlawful possession of the body of a deceased person shall be jointly and severally liable with any other persons, associations, and companies that have had unlawful possession of such body, in any sum not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, to be recovered at the suit of the personal representative of the deceased in any court of competent jurisdictio...

...No person shall detain a corpse claimed by relatives or friends for interment at their expense.

...No superintendent of a city hospital, city infirmary, county home, workhouse, hospital for persons with mental illnesses, or other charitable institution founded and supported in whole or in part at public expense, coroner, infirmary director, sheriff, or township trustee, shall fail to deliver a body of a deceased person when applied for, in conformity to law, or charge, receive, or accept money or other valuable co...

...No person shall be in possession of a corpse for the purpose of medical, surgical, or anatomical study, except as provided by law.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Political subdivision" means a county, municipal corporation, or township. (2) "Private college or university" means a college or university that has all of the following characteristics: (a) It is not owned or controlled by the state or any political subdivision of the state. (b) It provides a program of education in residence leading to a baccalaureate degree or provides a prog...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Nonprofit institution of higher education" or "institution" means a nonprofit college, university, or other institution that offers instruction in the arts and sciences, business administration, engineering, philosophy, literature, fine arts, law, medicine, nursing, social work, theology, and other recognized academic and professional fields of study, and awards degrees for fulfilli...

...As used in this section, "active duty" means full-time duty in the active military service of the United States, including full-time training duty, annual training duty, and active state duty for members of the national guard. (A) Each institution of higher education that holds a certificate of authorization issued under this chapter shall grant a student a military leave of absence from the institution while the st...

...(A) Whoever violates section 1713.40, 1713.41, or 1713.42 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months.

...Any religious society incorporated in this state, if the act of incorporation prescribes that its public religious services shall be conducted in any language other than English, may decide, by a vote of a majority of its adult members in good and regular standing who speak such prescribed language, whether its public religious services shall be conducted in any other language.

...When a religious or educational corporation or society holds lands within the limits of a municipal corporation which have been used as a cemetery, and interments in such lands have been prohibited by the ordinances of such municipal corporation, the trustees, wardens, vestry, or other officers entrusted with the management of the property of such corporation or society may file a petition in the court of common plea...

...When a religious or benevolent society or association owning real estate used or occupied as a burial place, the title to which real estate is vested in such society or association, or the trustees thereof, desires to transfer such real estate to a cemetery association incorporated under any law of this state, the trustees or other officers entrusted with the management of the affairs of such society or association m...

...When a public burying ground is located on or near a township line and is used by the people of two or more townships for burial purposes, and the title thereto is vested in a religious or benevolent society, such society or the trustees thereof, may convey such burying ground to the boards of township trustees of such townships and their successors in office, jointly; and such boards shall accept it, jointly take po...

...When the title to real estate is vested in trustees for the use of churches or congregations of churches, and owing to its peculiar situation or to the nature of the trust or conditions upon which it is held, such real estate for twenty years has not been claimed by or appropriated to the use of churches or congregations as originally contemplated and such trustees are in doubt as to what disposition to make of it, o...

...When real estate has been purchased by or conveyed to trustees for the use of churches or congregations, as sites for meetinghouses, and such churches or congregations have erected houses of worship thereon, but no power is possessed by such trustees to convey such real estate to such churches or congregations, or to the trustees thereof, such trustees may convey such improved sites to the trustees of such churches o...

...An ecclesiastical society incorporated under the laws of this state connected with a church of Christ located in this state may, by a three-fourths vote of its adult members present and voting at a meeting announced and held for that purpose, assign and transfer to the church with which it is connected, if such church is incorporated under the laws of this state, all the property and trust funds of such society, to b...

...When two or more religious societies, churches, or associations recognizing the same ecclesiastical jurisdiction, form of faith, government, order, and discipline, and incorporated in this state, desire to be consolidated or united as a single corporation, the elders, trustees, deacons, directors, or other known and legal representatives of such societies, churches, or associations may enter into an agreement for suc...

...When two or more religious societies, denominations, or ecclesiastical corporations in this state unanimously form a union in this state, the trustees, deacons, directors, or other proper officers of the new society, denomination, or corporation, at the request of a majority of the members of any of the component societies, denominations, or corporations, may petition the court of common pleas, setting forth the fact...

...Any two or more churches, congregations, or religious societies, whether incorporated or unincorporated, which are self-governing organizations and situated in the same township or municipal corporation, may unite their memberships and properties and continue their identity and common usages or polity in a consolidated corporation formed by an agreement in writing made, acknowledged, and signed by their respective tr...

...An association incorporated for the purpose of receiving and holding donations, bequests, and funds derived from other sources, and disbursing the interest and income arising therefrom as provided in this section, shall hold all such principal sums as a permanent fund. The interest arising from such fund, and the annual income arising from all property held by such association, shall be applied and distributed annual...