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...To permit a proper defense by the Ohio insurance guaranty association of all pending causes of action, all proceedings in which an insolvent insurer is a party or is obligated to defend a party in any court in this state shall be stayed for six months, and such additional time thereafter as may be determined by the court in which the proceedings are pending or with jurisdiction over the proceedings, from the date the...

...fire district which has a three platoon system the members of which work twenty-four consecutive hours immediately followed by forty-eight consecutive hours off duty, but the provisions relating to the two weeks' leave of absence do apply. "Full-time paid firemen" as used in this section does not include volunteer firemen, or firemen who work part-time.

...rance to provide such; (b) Pensions on retirement or death or insurance to provide such; (c) Compensation for injuries or illnesses resulting from occupational activities if it is in addition to that coverage required by Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code; (d) Supplemental unemployment benefits that are in addition to those required by Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code; (e) Life insurance; (f) Disabili...

...The obligation of a contractor or subcontractor to make payment in accordance with the prevailing wage determinations of the director of commerce, insofar as Chapter 4115. of the Revised Code is concerned, may be discharged by the making of payments in cash, by the making of contributions of a type referred to in division (E)(2) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code or by the assumption of an enforceable commitment ...

...No public authority shall subdivide a public improvement project into component parts or projects, the cost of which is fairly estimated to be less than the threshold levels set forth in division (B) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code, unless the projects are conceptually separate and unrelated to each other, or encompass independent and unrelated needs of the public authority.

...l adjust the threshold levels for which public improvement projects are subject to sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code as set forth in divisions (B)(3) and (4) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code. The director shall adjust those amounts according to the average increase or decrease for each of the two years immediately preceding the adjustment as set forth in the construction cost index published...

...(A)(1) Every public authority authorized to contract for or construct with its own forces a public improvement, before advertising for bids or undertaking such construction with its own forces, shall have the director of commerce determine the prevailing rates of wages of mechanics and laborers in accordance with section 4115.05 of the Revised Code for the class of work called for by the public improvement, in ...

...tor or subcontractor shall furnish each employee not covered by a collective bargaining agreement or understanding between employers and bona fide organizations of labor with individual written notification of the job classification to which the employee is assigned, the prevailing wage determined to be applicable to that classification, separated into the hourly rate of pay and the fringe payments, and the ide...

...In all cases where any public authority fixes a prevailing rate of wages under section 4115.04 of the Revised Code, and the work is done by contract, the contract executed between the public authority and the successful bidder shall contain a provision requiring the successful bidder and all his subcontractors to pay a rate of wages which shall not be less than the rate of wages so fixed. The successful bidder and a...

...n does not apply where the employer and employee enter into an agreement in writing at the beginning of any term of employment covering deductions for food, sleeping accommodations, or other similar item, provided such agreement is submitted by the employer to the public authority fixing the rate of wages and is approved by such public authority as fair and reasonable. All contractors or subcontractors falling withi...

...irst payment of wages is payable to any employee of any contractor or subcontractor, designate and appoint one of its own employees to serve as the prevailing wage coordinator during the life of the contract. The duties of the coordinator shall include: (1) Setting up and maintaining, available for public inspection including inspection by interested parties or affected employees, files of payroll reports and affida...

...No public official, authorized to contract for or construct with the official's own forces a public improvement, shall fail, before advertising for bids or undertaking such construction with those forces, to have the director of commerce determine the prevailing rates of wages of mechanics and laborers for the class of work called for by the public improvement in the locality where the work is to be performed, as pro...

...No member of a public board, commission, or other public authority authorized to contract for or construct with its own forces a public improvement, shall vote for the award of any contract for the construction of such improvement, or vote for the disbursement of any funds on account of the construction of such public improvement, unless such public authority has first had the director of commerce determine the preva...

...ode, or suffer, permit, or require any employee to work for less than the rate of wages so fixed, or violate the provisions of section 4115.07 of the Revised Code. Any employee upon any public improvement, except an employee to whom or on behalf of whom restitution is made pursuant to division (C) of section 4115.13 of the Revised Code, who is paid less than the fixed rate of wages applicable thereto may recov...

...the director that are held in trust for employees to whom prevailing wages are due and owing. The director shall make disbursements from the fund in accordance with this chapter to employees affected by violations of this chapter. If the director determines that any funds in the prevailing wage custodial fund are not returnable to employees as required under this section, then the director shall certify to the ...

...Employers who have not established a plan, by a labor agreement or otherwise, for the provision of wages as defined in division (E)(2) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code shall pay the prevailing rates of wages in full in cash.

...prosecution, completion, or repair of a public improvement financed in whole or in part by any public authority.

...acting directly or indirectly with any public authority for the construction of a public improvement or from performing any work on the same as provided in section 4115.133 of the Revised Code. A contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor may appeal the decision, within sixty days after the decision, to the court of common pleas of the county in which the first hearing involving the...

...ctor of commerce may, upon request by a public authority or by a person having a contract with a public authority, cause to be made such investigation and hearing as the director deems necessary and render a decision embodying the director's findings and conclusions. Unless finally reversed on appeal to the courts, the decision of the director shall form the basis for decision of any complaint on the same facts filed...

...In any investigation undertaken by the director of commerce pursuant to sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, the director, a designated representative, or hearing examiner may administer oaths, take and cause to be taken depositions of witnesses, issue subpoenas, and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, accounts, payrolls, documents, records, and testimony relating to an...

...racting directly or indirectly with any public authority for the construction of a public improvement or from performing any work on the same as a contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor for a period of one year from the date of the expiration of the applicable period for filing an appeal, or if appealed, from the date of the final judgment of a court. If the contractor, subcontractor, ...

...If it is found that a person, public authority, or prevailing wage coordinator has not complied with sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, the director of commerce shall give notice thereof in writing to such person or public authority pursuant to section 4115.15 of the Revised Code. Sufficient time shall be allowed for compliance therewith as the director deems necessary not to exceed thirty days from the...

...evailing rate of wages, the contracting public authority or the director may, upon written notice to the contractor or subcontractor and the sureties of the contractor or subcontractor, and after hearing held pursuant to section 4115.13 of the Revised Code, order work halted on the part of the contract for which less than the prevailing rate of wages has been paid, until the defaulting contractor has filed with the d...

...The complaint may make the contracting public authority a party to the action, but not the director. Contemporaneous with service of the complaint, the interested party shall deliver a copy of the complaint to the director. Upon receipt thereof, the director shall cease investigating or otherwise acting upon the complaint filed pursuant to division (A) of this section. The court in which the complaint is filed...

...n two years after the completion of the public improvement upon which the violation is alleged to have occurred or be barred from further administrative action under this chapter.