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...ngaged in business as motor vehicle repair operators in a manner corresponding to the provisions of this chapter. This chapter does not preempt any local law adopted or enacted prior to December 18, 1997, for motor vehicle collision repair operators or the effective date of this amendment for motor vehicle window tint operators, or that may require registration or licensure as a component of imposing additional ...

...ode has occurred, the motor vehicle repair board, in addition to any other action it may take or any other penalty imposed pursuant to this chapter, may impose an administrative fine on the person or entity that committed the violation in an amount of not more than one thousand dollars on a first offense. On each subsequent offense, the board may impose an administrative fine of not less than one thousand doll...

...The director of transportation shall make a map in outline and profile, and plans, specifications, profiles, and estimates covering proposed projects. When completed the director shall indorse upon such maps, profiles, plans, specifications, and estimates of quantities his approval of the same and cause one copy thereof to be placed on file in his office and another in the office of the district deputy director of tr...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 5517.01 of the Revised Code, the director of transportation may establish a program to expedite the sale and construction of special projects by combining the design and construction elements of projects for transportation facilities as defined in section 5501.01 of the Revised Code into a single contract. The director shall prepare and distribute a scope of work document upon which the bi...

...(A) As used in this section, "indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract" means a contract for an unspecified quantity, within stated limits, of supplies or services that will be delivered by the awarded bidder over a defined period. (B) Notwithstanding section 5517.01 of the Revised Code, the director of transportation may enter into indefinite delivery indefinite quantity construction contracts for highway ...

...petitive bidding with maintenance or repair work by employing labor, purchasing materials, and furnishing equipment, if the total estimated cost of the completed operation, or series of connected operations, does not exceed the following, as adjusted under division (B)(2) of this section: (a) Thirty thousand dollars per centerline mile of highway, exclusive of structures and highway traffic signals; (b) Sixty tho...

...(A)(1) The director of transportation may proceed without competitive bidding by employing labor, purchasing materials, and furnishing equipment to do any of the following work: (a) Replace any single span bridge in its substantial entirety or widen any single span bridge, including necessary modifications to accommodate widening the existing substructure and wing walls. The director shall proceed under division (...

...vert to be constructed, improved, or repaired, select the most practicable direct detour route over existing highways and cause detour signs to be placed and maintained along that route. The director shall, before the closing to traffic of the highway, bridge, or culvert to be constructed, improved, or repaired, place in passable condition for traffic the detour route so selected and marked by the director and main...

...The director of transportation shall repair all substantial damage done to county and township roads or to streets in municipal corporations resulting from the transportation of materials or equipment over such roads for use in constructing, reconstructing, or repairing, either by force account or contract, any road, street, or highway project of the department. Temporary repairs on such roads made necessary by reaso...

...(A) Whenever any proposed project of the department of transportation includes the construction of a sound barrier, the director of transportation shall notify the appropriate local legislative authority of the proposed construction. The director shall conduct at least one public hearing on the proposed sound barrier in the county in which it is to be located. Once a week for two successive weeks, the director ...

...(A) If not already present, the department of transportation shall install signs and other traffic control devices designed to slow down the flow of traffic in construction and similar work zones. The signs and devices may include arrow boards, channelizing devices, temporary raise pavement markers, portable changeable message signs, temporary traffic barriers, screens, rumble strips, and any other signs or devices t...

...(A) As used in this section, "start date" means one of the following, as applicable: (1) The date that the department of transportation will advertise for competitive bids related to the chip sealing or fog sealing of an asphalt surface on a state highway project; (2) The date that the department will begin chip sealing or fog sealing an asphalt surface on a state highway project through force account in accordan...

...(A) In the maintenance and repair of roads, the board of township trustees may proceed either by contract or force account, but, unless the exemption specified in division (C) of this section applies, if the board wishes to proceed by force account, it first shall cause the county engineer to complete the force account assessment form developed by the auditor of state under section 117.16 of the Revised Code. Except ...

...After the board of township trustees has decided to proceed with a road improvement, it shall advertise for bids once, not later than two weeks prior to the date fixed for the letting of contracts, using at least one of the following methods: (A) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation within the township; (B) On the official public notice web site established under section 125.182 o...

...No contract for any road improvement shall be awarded at a price more than ten per cent in excess of the estimated cost. The bids received shall be opened at the time stated in the notice. If no bids are made that equal one hundred ten per cent of the estimate or less, the board of township trustees shall either readvertise based upon the original estimate, or request an amended estimate from the county engineer, who...

...Before entering into a contract, the board of township trustees shall require a bond indemnifying the township against damages that may be suffered by failure to perform the contract according to the contract's provisions and in accordance with the specifications for the improvement. The township fiscal officer shall not draw a warrant in favor of any contractor for estimates, on account of a contract let under s...

...(A) In case of an unforeseen contingency not contemplated by a road improvement contract, allowances for extra work may be made by a board of township trustees, but the board must first enter into a new contract in writing for the extra work. If the estimate for extra work is less than twenty-five thousand dollars for any particular line item listed in the new contract and the overall total estimate for the extra wor...

...The board of township trustees may accept donations of labor or material for a proposed road improvement, and in determining which road shall first be improved it may, when acting by unanimous vote and without a petition, take into consideration the amount of such donations. The board may require the persons donating labor or material to enter into a contract that such labor will be performed and material furnished a...

...The work of road improvement shall be done under the general supervision and direction of the county engineer and he may appoint some competent person to act as inspector during the construction of such improvement. The person appointed as inspector shall receive, for each day actually employed at such work, a sum not to exceed four dollars, to be fixed by the engineer and paid out of any fund available for the const...

...The board of township trustees shall provide the township fiscal officer with a suitable book in which the fiscal officer shall keep a complete record of proceedings for the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, or improvement of public roads. For making the record, the fiscal officer shall receive ten cents for each one hundred words, and, for all other services in connection with keeping the record, the fi...

... fund for dragging, maintenance, and repair of roads, upon all the taxable property of the township outside of any municipal corporation or part thereof, not exceeding, in the aggregate, three mills in any one year upon each dollar of the valuation of such property. Such levies shall be in addition to all other levies authorized for township purposes, and subject only to the limitation upon the combined maximum rate ...

...gnized by the department of veterans affairs or department of defense as service-connected; (2) A person who served in the United States merchant marine, who either served on active duty for reasons other than training or, while serving on active duty for training, incurred a disability recognized by the department of veterans affairs or department of defense as service-connected, and to whom either of the following...

...In each county there shall be a commission known as "the veterans service commission." Except as provided in section 5901.021 of the Revised Code, the commission shall be composed of five residents of the county appointed to five-year terms by a judge of the court of common pleas. At the time of appointment or reappointment to the commission, no commission member appointed under this section shall be an employee of t...

...(A) This section applies only to counties having a population, according to the most recent decennial census, of more than five hundred thousand. (B)(1) In any county that is described in division (A) of this section and in which the veterans service commission submits a budget request under section 5901.11 of the Revised Code for the ensuing fiscal year that exceeds twent...

...The veterans service commission shall select one of its members as president, one as vice-president, and one as secretary. The commission shall meet at least once each month. A judge of the court of common pleas may remove, for cause, any member of the commission appointed under section 5901.02 of the Revised Code, and shall fill vacancies occurring among memberships appointed under that section for the unexpired t...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Agency" and "license" have the same meanings as in section 119.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Crime" has the same meaning as in section 2930.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Health care practitioner" means any of the following: (a) An individual licensed under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery; (b) An individual licensed under Chapter 4723. o...

...(A) As used in this section, "flea market" has the same meaning as in section 3715.52 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Each person that offers new and unused personal property for sale to the general public at a flea market or other location shall maintain, in accordance with division (B) of this section, a record of the person's purchases of that property. For each purchase transaction, the record shall include at leas...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Operator" means any business, entity, or person that operates an online web site, service, or product that has users in this state and that allows those users to do all of the following: (a) Interact socially with other users within the confines of the online web site, service, or product; (b) Construct a public or semipublic profile for the purpose of signing into and using...

...(A)(1) "Cable service provider" has the same meaning as in section 1332.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Cloud service provider" means a third-party company offering a cloud-based platform, infrastructure, application, or storage services. (3) "Direct-to-home satellite service" has the same meaning as in 47 U.S.C. 303, as amended. (4) "Identifying information" means photo identification or public or private transac...

...(A) The attorney general may bring a civil action against an organization that sells, delivers, furnishes, disseminates, provides, exhibits, or presents any material or performance that is obscene or harmful to juveniles on the internet that fails to comply with the requirements under divisions (B)(1) or (2) or (C)(1) or (2) of section 1349.10 of the Revised Code and as a result of that failure a minor gains access t...

...(A) No lending institution, as defined in section 175.01 of the Revised Code, that is affiliated with or authorized to be affiliated with a real estate broker and that provides real estate brokerage services to third parties shall fix or vary the terms and conditions on a mortgage loan or the granting of a mortgage loan on the condition or requirement that the customer of the lending institution use or employ the se...

...(A) No person shall record or cause to be recorded either of the following: (1) A credit card account number of the other party to a transaction, when a check, bill of exchange, or other draft is presented for payment; (2) The telephone number or social security account number of the other party to a transaction, when payment is made by credit card charge agreement, check, bill of exchange, or other draft. (B) Div...

...olation of this section is deemed an unfair or deceptive act or practice in violation of section 1345.02 of the Revised Code. A person injured by a violation of this section has a cause of action and is entitled to the same relief available to a consumer under section 1345.09 of the Revised Code, and all powers and remedies available to the attorney general to enforce sections 1345.01 to 1345.13 of the Revised Code a...

...(A) As used in this section: (1)(a) "Breach of the security of the system" means unauthorized access to and acquisition of computerized data that compromises the security or confidentiality of personal information owned or licensed by a person and that causes, reasonably is believed to have caused, or reasonably is believed will cause a material risk of identity theft or other fraud to the person or property of a re...

...(A) As used in this section and section 1349.192 of the Revised Code: (1) "Agency of a political subdivision" has the same meaning as in section 1347.12 of the Revised Code. (2) "Business" has the same meaning as in section 1349.19 of the Revised Code. (3) "State agency" has the same meaning as in section 1.60 of the Revised Code. (B) The attorney general may conduct an investigation if the attorney general, base...

...(A)(1) The attorney general shall have the exclusive authority to bring a civil action in a court of common pleas for appropriate relief under this section, including a temporary restraining order, preliminary or permanent injunction, and civil penalties, if it appears that a state agency or an agency of a political subdivision has failed or is failing to comply with section 1347.12 of the Revised Code or that a pers...

...As used in sections 1349.20 to 1349.22 of the Revised Code: (A) "Banking day" means any day on which the federal reserve bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its functions. (B) "Check" means a negotiable instrument that is drawn on a federally insured bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or savings bank and contains an unconditional order to pay, on demand, a specified sum in...

...No escrow or closing agent knowingly shall make, in an escrow transaction, a disbursement from an escrow account on behalf of another person, unless the following conditions are met: (A) The funds necessary for the disbursement: (1) Have been transferred electronically to or deposited into the escrow account of the escrow or closing agent and are immediately available for withdrawal and disbursement; (2) Are in an...

...Nothing in section 1349.21 of the Revised Code prohibits an escrow or closing agent from advancing funds not exceeding one thousand dollars from an escrow account or otherwise on behalf of a party to an escrow transaction for the purpose of paying incidental fees, such as conveyance and recording fees, in order to effect and close the sale, purchase, exchange, transfer, encumbrance, or lease of residential real prope...

...United States department of veterans affairs, or an amount not to exceed one percentage point in indirect mortgage broker compensation paid by any source. (b) "Total loan amount" means the principal of the loan minus points and fees that are included in the principal amount. For transactions under an open end credit plan, "total loan amount" shall be calculated by using the total line of credit allowed under t...

...(A) A creditor shall provide, for each covered loan, both of the following disclosures. The disclosures shall be in conspicuous type size and be in substantially the following form: (1) "You are not required to complete this agreement merely because you have received these disclosures or have signed a loan application." (2) "If you obtain this loan, the lender will have a mortgage on your home. You could lose your ...

...A creditor shall not do any of the following: (A) Make a covered loan that includes any of the following: (1) Terms under which a consumer must pay a prepayment penalty for paying all or part of the principal before the date on which the principal is due. For purposes of division (A)(1) of this section, any method of computing a refund of unearned scheduled interest is a prepayment penalty if it is less favorable t...

...(A) The superintendent of financial institutions shall, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, adopt rules that establish criteria for purposes of qualifying counseling services that provide prepurchase counseling to consumers. (B) Any not-for-profit credit counseling service approved by an agency of the federal government shall be deemed to meet the criteria established by the superintendent under thi...

...If a covered loan transaction includes any term prohibited by section 1349.27 of the Revised Code, the consumer shall have the right to rescind the transaction in accordance with section 129(j) of the "Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act of 1994," 108 Stat. 2190, 15 U.S.C.A. 1639(j), as amended, and the regulations adopted thereunder by the federal reserve board, as amended.

...(A) A person has no liability under section 1349.31 of the Revised Code, and shall not be subject to any sanction by the superintendent of financial institutions, for any failure to comply with section 1349.26 or 1349.27 of the Revised Code, if within sixty days after discovering the error, whether pursuant to the person's own procedures or an examination or investigation by the superintendent under division (A) or (...

...(A)(1) No creditor shall willfully and knowingly fail to comply with section 1349.26 or 1349.27 of the Revised Code. For purposes of division (A)(1) of this section, "willfully and knowingly" has the same meaning as in section 112 of the "Truth in Lending Act," 82 Stat. 146 (1968), 15 U.S.C.A. 1611, as amended. (2) Whoever violates division (A)(1) of this section is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree. (B...

...The purpose of sections 1349.25 to 1349.36 of the Revised Code is to bring Ohio law into conformance with the "Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act of 1994," 108 Stat. 2190, 15 U.S.C.A. 1601 note, as amended, and the regulations and interpretations adopted thereunder by the federal reserve board, in order to facilitate the uniform administration and enforcement of state and federal laws on the regulation of certa...

...(A) Notwithstanding any provision of sections 1349.25 to 1349.36 of the Revised Code, or any rule adopted thereunder, if the "Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act of 1994," 108 Stat. 2190, 15 U.S.C.A. 1601 note, as amended, or any regulation adopted thereunder by the federal reserve board, as amended, is amended or otherwise modified after the effective date of this section, the superintendent of financial insti...

...(A) As often as the superintendent of financial institutions considers it necessary, the superintendent may examine a person's records regarding covered loans. The superintendent may recover from the person any costs incurred in connection with and reasonably related to the examination. (B) The superintendent may investigate alleged failures to comply with sections 1349.25 to 1349.36 of the Revised Code, or any rul...

...The superintendent of financial institutions shall include, as part of the annual report required by section 1181.09 of the Revised Code, the number of complaints received, the number of enforcement actions taken, and any other relevant data regarding covered loans.