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...other evidence of indebtedness from the action and hear the disputed account, bill, or other evidence of indebtedness on its own merits in a separate action. The court shall charge the filing fee of the separate action to the losing party.

...ter 1751. of the Revised Code; (e) Any public officer or judicial officer acting under order of a court; (f) Any licensee as defined either in section 1321.01 or 1321.71 of the Revised Code, any registrant as defined in section 1321.51 of the Revised Code, or any person registered as a mortgage lender under Chapter 1322. of the Revised Code; (g) Any public utility; (h) Any person registered to sell interment righ...

...(A) If a collection agency has been designated to collect on a check, negotiable order of withdrawal, share draft, or other negotiable instrument that has been returned or dishonored for any reason, the collection agency may charge and receive check collection charges of not more than thirty dollars or ten per cent of the face amount of the instrument, whichever is greater, and may charge and receive any charge impos...

... containing information related to transactions or experiences between the subject and the person making the report; (c) An authorization or approval of a specific extension of credit directly or indirectly by the issuer of a credit card or similar device; (d) Any report in which a person that has been requested by a third party to make a specific extension of credit directly or indirectly to the subject conveys ...

...d payments will be made when due. (8) "Actuarial method" means the method of allocating payments made on a loan between the principal amount and interest whereby a payment is applied first to the accumulated interest and the remainder to the unpaid principal amount. (9) "Applicable charge" means the amount of interest attributable to each monthly installment period of the loan contract. The applicable charge is com...

... of lending money, credit, or choses in action in amounts of five thousand dollars or less, or exact, contract for, or receive, directly or indirectly, on or in connection with any such loan, any interest and charges that in the aggregate are greater than the interest and charges that the lender would be permitted to charge for a loan of money if the lender were not a licensee, without first having obtained a license...

...Application for a license shall be in writing, under oath, and in the form prescribed by the division of financial institutions, and shall contain the name and address of the applicant, and, if the applicant is a partnership or association, of every member thereof, and, if a corporation, of each officer and director thereof; also the approximate location where the business is to be conducted and such further relevant...

...ial institutions shall investigate the facts concerning the applicant and the requirements provided for in divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section. The division shall approve the application and issue and deliver a license to the applicant if the division finds both of the following: (1) That the financial responsibility, experience, and general fitness of the applicant and of the members thereof, if the applica...

...Each license shall state the address at which the business is to be conducted and shall state fully the name of the licensee. Each license shall be kept conspicuously posted in the place of business of the licensee and is not transferable or assignable. Each license shall remain in effect until surrendered, revoked, or suspended under section 1321.08 or 3123.47 of the Revised Code. Every licensee shall each year pa...

...Not more than one place of business shall be maintained under the same license issued under sections 1321.01 to 1321.05 of the Revised Code, but the division of financial institutions may issue additional licenses to the same licensee upon compliance with such sections. No change in the place of business of a licensee to a location outside the original municipal corporation shall be permitted under the same license....

...de, whether or not the person claims to act under such sections. For the purpose of this section, any person who advertises, solicits, or holds self out as willing to make, find, or arrange for another person to make loan transactions in the amount or of the value of five thousand dollars or less, is presumed to be engaged in the business described in the first paragraph of section 1321.02 of the Revised Code...

...o the licensee stating the contemplated action and the grounds therefor, and upon reasonable opportunity to be heard, suspend or revoke any license issued by the division if it finds that: (1) The licensee is in default in the payment of the annual license fee or assessment prescribed in section 1321.20 of the Revised Code or has failed to comply with any order of the division made and entered under division (A) of ...

...ity" includes a regulator of a business activity in which a licensee is engaged, or has applied to engage in, to the extent that the regulator has jurisdiction over a licensee engaged in that business activity. A licensee is engaged in a business activity, and a regulator of that business activity has jurisdiction over the licensee, whether the licensee conducts the activity directly or a subsidiary or affiliate of t...

...including books, papers, documents, and records pertaining thereto or so much thereof as the court finds reasonably necessary to prevent further violations of sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code, through or by means of the use of said property and business. Such receiver, when appointed and qualified, has such powers and duties as to custody, collection, administration, winding up, and liquidation of the ...

...No licensee or other person subject to sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code shall advertise, display, distribute, or broadcast or cause or permit to be advertised, displayed, distributed, or broadcast, any false, misleading, or deceptive statement or representation with regard to the rates, terms, or conditions for loans made under those sections. The division of financial institutions shall require that c...

...No licensee shall conduct the business of making loans under sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code, within any office, room, or place of business in which any other business is solicited or engaged in, or in association or conjunction therewith, if the division of financial institutions finds, after hearing, that the other business is of such nature that such conduct tends to conceal evasion of those sectio...

... the Revised Code, a licensee may contract for and receive interest, calculated according to the actuarial method, at a rate or rates not exceeding twenty-eight per cent per year on that portion of the unpaid principal balance of the loan not exceeding one thousand dollars and twenty-two per cent per year on any part of the unpaid principal balance exceeding one thousand dollars. A licensee may contract for an...

...f the Revised Code, a licensee may contract for and receive interest at any rate or rates agreed upon or consented to by the parties to the loan contract or open-end loan agreement, but not exceeding an annual percentage rate of twenty-five per cent.

...de in advance in any amount on any contract of loan at any time, but the licensee may apply the payment first to all interest and charges due up to the date of the payment; (D) Upon repayment of the loan in full, mark plainly every obligation signed by any obligor, or a copy of the signed obligation, "paid" or "canceled" and return it and any pledge to the borrower or, if there are two or more borrowers, to one of t...

... (B) A licensee shall not engage in any act or practice to evade the requirement of division (A) of this section, including by assisting a borrower to obtain a loan on terms that would be prohibited by that division. (C) No licensee shall fail to comply with this section.

...ently or both, under more than one contract of loan at the same time for the purpose or with the result of obtaining a higher rate of interest or greater charges than would otherwise be permitted upon a single loan made under sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code. (B) No licensee shall charge, contract for, or receive, directly or indirectly, interest and charges greater than such licensee would be perm...

...f the Revised Code, a licensee may contract for and receive interest for open-end loans at a rate or rates not exceeding those provided in division (A) of section 1321.13 of the Revised Code and may compute interest in each billing cycle by either of the following methods: (1) By multiplying the daily rate or rates by the daily unpaid balance of the account, in which case the daily rates are determined by dividing t...

...the Revised Code has been charged, contracted for, or received is enforceable in this state and every person participating therein in this state is subject to sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code; provided that this section does not apply to loans legally made in any state under and in accordance with a regulatory loan law similar in principle to such sections. All loan contracts made with residents of thi...

...alleging to be aggrieved by an order or action of the division of financial institutions, within thirty days from the entry of the order complained of, or within sixty days of the action complained of if there is no order, may file a complaint against the superintendent of financial institutions in the court of common pleas of Franklin county. Such complaint may pray for reversal, rescission, or modification of the o...

...the obligation of any pre-existing contract between any licensee and any borrower, nor the right of the licensee to collect principal, interest, and charges as set forth in said obligation.

...The foundation grant fund is hereby created in the state treasury. Money the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth receives from private foundations in support of pilot projects that promote exemplary programs for enhancing the health, safety, and well-being of children and families shall be credited to the fund. The applicable department may expend the money on such projects, ...

...also directly enter into contracts with public entities providing revenue maximization services.

...alendar year; (3) A percentage of the actual amount of the county share of program and administrative expenditures during federal fiscal year 1994 for assistance and services, other than child care, provided under Titles IV-A and IV-F of the "Social Security Act," 49 Stat. 620 (1935), 42 U.S.C. 301, as those titles existed prior to the enactment of the "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Ac...

...section 5101.16 of the Revised Code, of public assistance expenditures. Each January, the board shall appropriate the amount certified by the department and an additional five per cent of that amount. Each June, the board may reappropriate, for any purpose the board determines to be appropriate, the amount appropriated in January that exceeds the total of the amount certified by the department for the last six months...

...Subject to available federal funds and appropriations made by the general assembly, the department of job and family services may, at its sole discretion, use available federal funds to reimburse county expenditures for county administration of the supplemental nutrition assistance program or medicaid (excluding administrative expenditures for transportation services covered by the medicaid program) even though...

...ne or more failures, resulting from the actions or inactions of one or more county family services agencies, to meet a requirement under Title IV-A of the "Social Security Act," 110 Stat. 2113 (1996), 42 U.S.C. 601, as amended. The department may so increase a county's share of public assistance expenditures only to the amount the county's county family services agencies are responsible for the increase in the state'...

...le I or II of the "Economic Opportunity Act of 1964," 78 Stat. 508, 42 U.S.C.A. 2701, as amended, shall not be regarded as income or resources. No payments made under such titles shall be regarded as income or resources of another individual except to the extent that they are made available to the other individual. No grant made to any family under Title III of such act shall be regarded as income or resources in det...

...g the payment as income would be in the public interest; (E) Whether treating the payment as income would be detrimental to any of the programs administered in whole or in part by the department of job and family services and whether such determination would jeopardize the receipt of any federal grant or payment by the state or any receipt of aid under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code.

... shall thereafter be disqualified from acting as an agent or employee or in any other capacity under appointment or employment of any state or county board, commission, or agency.

...nty family services agencies shall take action to recover the cost of the following benefits and services available under programs administered by the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth: (1) Benefits or services provided to any of the following: (a) Persons who were not eligible for the benefits or services but who secured the benefits or services through fraud or misr...

...(A) The director of job and family services shall work with the tax commissioner to collect overpayments of assistance under Chapter 5107., former Chapter 5115., former Chapter 5113., or section 5101.54 of the Revised Code from refunds of state income taxes for taxable year 1992 and thereafter that are payable to the recipients of such overpayments. Any overpayment of assistance, whether obtained by fraud or misrepr...

...s are awarded for workforce development activities included in the agreements. A grant agreement shall establish the terms and conditions governing the accountability for and use of grants provided by the department of job and family services to the grantee for the administration of workforce development activities funded under the "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act," 29 U.S.C. 3101 et seq. (C) The director m...

...e "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act," 29 U.S.C. 3151.

...the rules, the directors shall give the public an opportunity to review and comment on the proposed rules. The rules shall establish methodologies to be used to determine the amount of the grants included in the agreements. The rules also shall establish terms and conditions under which an agreement may be entered into after the first day of a fiscal biennial period. The rules may do any or all of the following: (...

...1.21 of the Revised Code to have a retroactive effective date of the first day of July of an odd-numbered year if both of the following are the case: (A) The agreement is entered into after that date and before the last day of that July. (B) The board of county commissioners requests the retroactive effective date and provides the director good cause satisfactory to the director for the reason the agreement was ...

...l publish in a manner accessible to the public all of the following that concern family services duties for which grants included in grant agreements entered into under section 5101.21 of the Revised Code are awarded: state plans for receipt of federal financial participation, agreements between the department and a federal agency, and executive orders issued by the governor. The department may publish the materials ...

...ces agency or the workforce development activities of a local board, as defined in section 6301.01 of the Revised Code. The directors also may enter into written agreements or contracts with, or issue grants to, private and government entities under which funds are provided for the enhancement or innovation of family services duties or workforce development activities on the state or local level. The directors may...

... youth enters into an agreement or contracts with, or issues a grant to, a religious organization under section 5101.214 of the Revised Code, the religious organization shall comply with section 104 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193).

...The director of job and family services and the director of children and youth, as applicable, may enter into one or more written operational agreements with boards of county commissioners to do one or more of the following regarding family services duties: (A) Provide for the directors to amend or rescind a rule the directors previously adopted; (B) Provide for the directors to modify procedures or establish a...

...The department of job and family services and the department of children and youth, as applicable, may establish performance and other administrative standards for the administration and outcomes of family services duties and determine at intervals the departments decide the degree to which a county family services agency complies with a performance or other administrative standard. The departments may use statistica...

... approval, and comply with a corrective action plan. (B) If a county family services agency fails to develop, submit to the department, or comply with a corrective action plan under division (A) of this section, or the department disapproves the agency's corrective action plan, the department may require the agency to develop, submit to the department for approval, and comply with a corrective action plan that req...

...The director of job and family services or the director of children and youth may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code to implement sections 5101.22 to 5101.222 of the Revised Code. If the director adopts the rules, the director shall adopt the rules as if they were internal management rules.

...services duties or workforce investment activities into the fund. If the director of budget and management determines that the funds identified by the director of job and family services or the director of children and youth are available and appropriate for transfer, the director of budget and management shall make the transfer. Money in the fund shall be used to provide incentive awards under this section.

... youth determine is appropriate to take action against under division (C) of this section. (B) Regardless of whether a family services duty is performed by a county family services agency, private or government entity pursuant to a contract entered into under section 307.982 of the Revised Code or division (C)(2) of section 5153.16 of the Revised Code, or private or government provider of a family service duty, th...

...ent of job and family services may take action under division (C) of this section against the responsible entity, regardless of who performs the workforce development activity, if the department determines any of the following are the case: (1) An entity has failed to comply with the terms and conditions of a grant agreement executed between the department and a local area under section 5101.20 of the Revised Code. ...