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...(A) Except as set forth in section 1746.03 of the Revised Code, before transacting business in this state, a business trust shall file in the office of the secretary of state, on forms prescribed by the secretary of state, a report containing the following information: (1) A list of the names and addresses of its trustees; (2) The address of its principal office; (3) In the case of a foreign business trust, th...

...(A) Before transacting real estate business in this state, a real estate investment trust shall file the following report in the office of the secretary of state, on forms prescribed by the secretary of state: (1) An executed copy of the trust instrument or a true and correct copy of it, certified to be such by a trustee before an official authorized to administer oaths or by a public official in another state in ...

...(A) Each application for a certificate of authority under this chapter shall be verified by an officer or authorized representative of the applicant, shall be in a format prescribed by the superintendent of insurance, and shall set forth or be accompanied by the following: (1) A certified copy of the applicant's articles of incorporation and all amendments to the articles of incorporation; (2) A copy of any r...

...(A) Any partnership that maintains an effective statement of partnership authority under section 1776.33 of the Revised Code shall maintain continuously in this state an agent for service of process on the partnership. The agent shall be one of the following: (1) A natural person who is a resident of this state; (2) A domestic or foreign corporation, nonprofit corporation, limited liability company, partnership,...

...(A)(1) An individual who applies for a license as a surety bail bond agent shall submit an application for the license in a manner prescribed by the superintendent of insurance. The application shall be accompanied by a one-hundred-fifty-dollar fee and a statement that gives the applicant's name, age, residence, present occupation, occupation for the five years next preceding the date of the application, and such oth...

...No person shall act in this state as agent, or otherwise, in receiving or procuring applications for life insurance, nor in any manner aid in transacting the business of any company, partnership, or association incorporated by or organized under the laws of any foreign government, until such company, partnership, or association completes the following acts: (A) Deposits with the superintendent of insurance, for the ...

...No credit services organization, salesperson, agent, or representative of a credit services organization, or independent contractor that sells or attempts to sell the services of a credit services organization shall do any of the following: (A) Charge or receive directly or indirectly from a buyer money or other consideration readily convertible into money until all services the organization has agreed to perform fo...

...(A)(1) Any individual, including a partner in a partnership, may be licensed as a private investigator under a class B license, or as a security guard provider under a class C license, or as a private investigator and a security guard provider under a class A license, if the individual meets all of the following requirements: (a) Has not been adjudicated incompetent for the purpose of holding the license, as provid...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no former or present expert, clerk, or employee of a county auditor, county board of revision, or the tax commissioner, and no former or present deputy, assistant, or agent of the tax commissioner shall divulge, except in the performance of official duties or in any report to the county auditor, the county board of revision, or the tax commissioner, or when call...

...The annual corporation report shall include statements of the following facts as of the date of the beginning of the corporation's annual accounting period that includes the first day of January of the tax year: (A) The name of the corporation; (B) The name of the state or country under the laws of which it is incorporated; (C) The location of its principal office and, in the case of a foreign corporation, the loc...

...(A) If any corporation required to file a report under this chapter fails to file the report within the time prescribed, files an incorrect report, or fails to remit the full amount of the tax due for the period covered by the report, the tax commissioner may make an assessment against the corporation for any deficiency for the period for which the report or tax is due, based upon any information in the commiss...

...(A) If any taxpayer required to file a report under this chapter fails to file the report within the time prescribed, files an incorrect report, or fails to remit the full amount of the tax due for the period covered by the report, the tax commissioner may make an assessment against the taxpayer for any deficiency for the period for which the report or tax is due, based upon any information in the commissioner's poss...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 6111.044 to 6111.047 of the Revised Code, "area of review" means the area of review of an injection well as determined under regulations adopted under the "Safe Drinking Water Act," 88 Stat. 1661 (1974), 42 U.S.C.A. 300(f), as amended, or under rules adopted under this section. (B) This section and sections 6111.044 to 6111.049 of the Revised Code establish a program for reg...

...(A) If any taxpayer required to file a return under section 718.80 to 718.95 of the Revised Code fails to file the return within the time prescribed, files an incorrect return, or fails to remit the full amount of the tax due for the period covered by the return, the tax commissioner may make an assessment against the taxpayer for any deficiency for the period for which the return or tax is due, based upon any inform...

...(A)(1) No operator shall conduct a coal mining operation without a permit for the operation issued by the chief of the division of mineral resources management. (2) All permits issued pursuant to this chapter shall be issued for a term not to exceed five years, except that, if the applicant demonstrates that a specified longer term is reasonably needed to allow the applicant to obtain necessary financing for equipm...

...(A) Any person, singly or jointly with others, and without regard to residence, domicile, or state of incorporation, may form a corporation by signing and filing with the secretary of state articles of incorporation that shall set forth all of the following: (1) The name of the corporation, which shall be in compliance with division (A) of section 1701.05 of the Revised Code; (2) The place in this state where the...

...(A) If an order of relief has been entered pursuant to the federal Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. 101, as amended, or if a plan of reorganization has been confirmed by the decree or order of a court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to the provisions of any other applicable statute of the United States relating to reorganization of corporations, a corporation may put into effect and carry out any decrees and orders of t...

...(A) Pursuant to an agreement of merger or consolidation between the constituent corporations as provided in this section, a domestic or foreign corporation and, if so provided, one or more additional domestic or foreign corporations may be merged into a domestic surviving corporation, or a domestic corporation together with one or more additional domestic or foreign corporations may be consolidated into a new domesti...

...(A) If the constituent entities in a merger or consolidation include entities that are not corporations, section 1701.78 of the Revised Code does not apply. If the constituent entities in a merger or consolidation include entities that are not corporations, the constituent entities may be merged into a domestic surviving corporation or may be consolidated into a new domestic corporation pursuant to an agreement of me...

...(A) A corporation may be dissolved voluntarily in the manner provided in this section, provided the provisions of Chapter 1704. of the Revised Code do not prevent the dissolution from being effected. (B) A resolution of dissolution for a corporation shall set forth that the corporation elects to be dissolved. The resolution also may include any of the following: (1) The date on which the certificate of dissolutio...

...(A) A corporation may be dissolved judicially and its affairs wound up: (1) By an order of the supreme court or of a court of appeals in an action in quo warranto brought as provided by sections 2733.02 to 2733.39 of the Revised Code, in which event the court may order the affairs of the corporation to be wound up by its directors as in the case of voluntary dissolution, or by proceedings in, and under the or...

...(A) Any person, singly or jointly with others, and without regard to residence, domicile, or state of incorporation, may form a corporation by signing and filing with the secretary of state articles of incorporation, which shall set forth the following: (1) The name of the corporation; (2) The place in this state where the principal office of the corporation is to be located; (3) The purpose or purposes for which ...

...(A) A corporation may be dissolved voluntarily in the manner provided in this section. (B) A resolution of dissolution for a corporation shall set forth: (1) That the corporation elects to be dissolved; (2) Any additional provision deemed necessary with respect to the proposed dissolution and winding up. (C) The directors may adopt a resolution of dissolution in the following cases: (1) When the corporation...

...(A) When a corporation is dissolved voluntarily or when the articles of a corporation have been canceled or when the period of existence of a corporation specified in its articles has expired, the corporation shall cease to carry on its activities and shall do only such acts as are required to wind up its affairs, or to obtain reinstatement of the articles in accordance with section 1702.06, 1702.59, or 1724.06 of th...

...(A) A corporation may be dissolved judicially and its affairs wound up: (1) By an order of the supreme court or of a court of appeals in an action in quo warranto brought as provided by sections 2733.02 to 2733.39 of the Revised Code, in which event the court may order the affairs of the corporation to be wound up by its directors as in the case of voluntary dissolution, or by proceedings in, and under the order of,...

...e or local government, or any agency or political subdivision of a state or local government. (2) "Liability" does not include personal risk liability or an employer's liability with respect to its employees other than legal liability under the "Employers' Liability Act," 53 Stat. 1404, (1939) 45 U.S.C.A. 51, as amended. (F) "Personal risk liability" means liability for damages because of injury to any person, dama...

...en the laws of this state or any of its political subdivisions require any person to obtain liability insurance as a condition of licensure, approval, permission, or other authorization, the insurance may be obtained from a risk retention group as defined in division (J) of section 3960.01 of the Revised Code, if the public agency administering those laws has made a determination that the protection of the Ohio insur...

... (B) "Employer" means the state, its political subdivisions, and every person who employs any individual. (C) "Enforcement official" means the director of commerce or the director's authorized representative, the director of education and workforce or the director's authorized representative, any school attendance officer, any probation officer, the director of health or the director of health's authorized repr...

... of Article II, Ohio Constitution. No political subdivision shall establish a minimum wage rate different from the wage rate required under this section. As used in this section, "employee" has the same meaning as in section 4111.14 of the Revised Code.

...A) No employer, including the state and political subdivisions thereof, shall discriminate in the payment of wages on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry by paying wages to any employee at a rate less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to another employee for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are p...

...ies of the United States, a state, or a political subdivision of a state; (f) Fail or refuse to provide an applicant for credit a written statement of the specific reasons for rejection of the application if requested in writing by the applicant within sixty days of the rejection. The creditor shall provide the written statement of the specific reason for rejection within thirty days after receipt of a request of t...

...than three of whom shall be of the same political party, to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, one of whom shall be designated by the governor as chairman. At least one member shall be at least sixty years of age. Terms of office shall be for five years, commencing on the twenty-ninth day of July and ending on the twenty-eighth day of July. Each member shall hold office from the...

...Public employer" means the state or any political subdivision of the state, including, without limitation, any municipal corporation, county, township, school district, state institution of higher learning, any public or special district, or any state agency, authority, commission, board, or other public employer. (B) Where a collective bargaining agreement between an employer and a labor organization contains a suc...

...ty, township, school district, or other political subdivision, or any agency or instrumentality of any of those entities. (2) "Employee retirement plan" means an employee retirement plan described in section 401(k) or 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code or a payroll deduction individual retirement account plan described in section 408 or 408A of the Internal Revenue Code. (3) "Internal Revenue Code" means the "Inte...

...rd, or commission of the state, or any political subdivision of the state, or any institution supported in whole or in part by public funds, authorized to enter into a contract for the construction of a public improvement or to construct a public improvement by the direct employment of labor. "Public authority" shall not mean any municipal corporation that has adopted a charter under sections three and seven o...

...Public employer" means the state or any political subdivision of the state located entirely within the state, including, without limitation, any municipal corporation with a population of at least five thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census; county; township with a population of at least five thousand in the unincorporated area of the township according to the most recent federal decennial cen...

...three members shall belong to the same political party. A member of the state employment relations board during the member's period of service shall hold no other public office or public or private employment and shall allow no other responsibilities to interfere or conflict with the member's duties as a full-time state employment relations board member. Of the initial appointments made to the state employment...

...e state or any agency thereof, and any political subdivision of the state, and may enter into any contract with any such public or private source in connection therewith to be held for, used for, and applied to only the purposes for which such grants are made and contracts are entered into, all subject to and in accordance with the purposes of this chapter. Any money received from the grants, gifts, contributi...

...ers of the public, each of a different political party, who are appointed by the governor. The nominating council shall make recommendations to the governor for the appointment of members to the industrial commission as provided in section 4121.02 of the Revised Code. (B) In making the appointments, the governor shall select the members representing employees from a list of eight names submitted by ...

...evidence and not promoted by personal, political, racial, or religious discrimination shall be accepted as a fact justifying the action taken by the administrator or commission. (B) The administrator and the commission shall jointly adopt, in the form of a rule, a code of ethics for all employees of the bureau and the commission and post copies of the rule in a conspicuous place in every bureau and commission of...

...chool district, and hospital owned by a political subdivision or subdivisions other than the state; (b) Every person, firm, professional employer organization, alternate employer organization, and private corporation, including any public service corporation, that (i) has in service one or more employees or shared employees regularly in the same business or in or about the same establishment under any contract of h...

...y institution or agency thereof, or any political subdivision thereof, including a county, township, or municipal corporation, in time of emergency shall be entitled to all the benefits of Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. Any payments made from the state insurance fund pursuant to this section shall be charged to the surplus fund as created by division (B) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code, in order to encoura...

...r, be in the employment of the state or political subdivision for purposes of sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 of the Revised Code, and every emergency management worker or, in case of death, his dependents shall be entitled to the benefits payable on account of total disability, loss of member, or death as accorded by such sections to employees covered by its provisions. No payment for such disability, loss of member, or...

...members of the board may be of the same political party. Of the two members originally appointed by the governor pursuant to this section, one shall serve an initial term of two years and one an initial term of four years. Thereafter, terms of office of the two members are for four years, each term ending on the same date as the original date of appointment. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to ...

...tor shall classify hospitals owned by a political subdivision or subdivisions as a group and merit rate each individual hospital according to its individual accident experience as provided in the rules of the administrator. A children's home or other such public institution, or any other public activity maintained and operated by two or more counties or parts of counties, shall be considered as a county for the purp...

...citor associated with that firm, or any political action committee controlled by that firm or controlled by an investment management professional of that firm based on criteria that are more restrictive than the restrictions described in divisions (Y) and (Z) of section 3517.13 of the Revised Code.

...hall be paid to the general fund of the political subdivision where the case is prosecuted. (B) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules governing treatment of employers found in violation of division (A) of this section. The rules shall cover enforcement and prosecution procedures and methods and grou...

...ant would be entitled to recover from a political subdivision, notwithstanding any limitations contained in Chapter 2744. of the Revised Code; (3) Amounts recoverable from an intentional tort action. (J) If a claimant's claim against a third party is for wrongful death or the claim involves any minor beneficiaries, amounts allocated under this section are subject to the approval of probate court. (K) Except as oth...

...that are provided by this state or any political subdivision and based on employment, shared employees under a professional employer organization agreement shall be considered employees solely of the client employer. (1) A client employer shall be entitled to the benefit of any tax credit, economic incentive, or similar benefit arising as the result of the client employer's employment of shared employees. If ...

...ment entered into with the state or any political subdivision, a client employer's status or certification as a small, minority-owned, disadvantaged, or woman-owned business enterprise or as a historically underutilized business shall not be affected as a result of the client employer entering into a professional employer organization agreement or using the services of a professional employer organization.