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...No owners, officers, member of a board or committee, or other person shall construct, erect, build, or equip an opera house, hall, theater, church, schoolhouse, college, academy, seminary, infirmary, sanitarium, children's home, hospital, medical institute, asylum, memorial building, armory, assembly hall, or other building used for the assemblage or betterment of people in any municipal corporation, county, or towns...

...No owner, or person having the control as an officer or member of a board or committee or otherwise of any opera house, hall, theater, church, schoolhouse, college, academy, seminary, infirmary, sanitarium, children's home, hospital, medical institute, asylum, memorial building, armory, assembly hall, or other building for the assemblage or betterment of people shall fail to obey any order of the state fire mar...

...No architect, engineer, builder, plumber, carpenter, mason, contractor, subcontractor, foreman, or employee shall violate or assist in the violation of Chapters 3781. and 3791. of the Revised Code or rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto or of any order issued thereunder. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars.

...(A) As used in this section, "place of public assembly" means: (1) Enclosed theatres, except the lobby; opera houses; auditoriums; classrooms; elevators; rooms in which persons are confined as a matter of health care, including but not limited to a hospital room and a room in a residential care facility serving as the residence of a person living in such residential care facility; (2) All buildings and other encl...

... for approval for any new construction, improvement, alteration, repair, painting, decorating, or other modification of any buildings or structures subject to sections 3781.06 to 3781.18 and 3791.04 of the Revised Code if the proposed work does not involve technical design analysis, as defined by rule adopted by the board of building standards. (B) No owner shall proceed with the construction, erection, altera...

...(A) The board of building standards shall maintain a current list of individuals certified under section 3781.105 of the Revised Code and shall ensure that municipal, township, or county building departments certified under division (E) of section 3781.10 of the Revised Code have a current copy of the list. (B) The rules adopted under section 3791.04 of the Revised Code by the board of building standards or the legi...

...If a building department certified under section 3781.10 of the Revised Code does not have personnel in its full-time employ who are certified by the board of building standards to do plan and specification review, plans and specifications submitted to the building department shall be examined by the approved building official and shall be approved by the official if the plans and specifications conform with the Ohi...

...No owner, lessee, agent, factor, architect, or contractor engaged in and having supervision or charge of the building, erection, or construction of a block, building, or structure, shall neglect or refuse to place or have placed upon the joists of each story thereof, as soon as joists are in position, counter floors of such quality and strength as to render perfectly safe the going to and from thereon of all me...

...No person shall employ or direct another to do or perform labor in erecting, repairing, altering, or painting a house, building, or other structure, and knowingly or negligently furnish, erect, or cause to be furnished for erection for and in the performance of said labor, unsuitable or improper scaffolding, hoists, stays, ladders, or other mechanical contrivances which will not give proper protection to the life and...

...(A) The superintendent of industrial compliance shall establish such reasonable inspection fee schedules as the superintendent determines necessary or desirable relating to the inspection of all plans and specifications submitted for approval to the division of industrial compliance, and all industrialized units inspected at the point of origin and at the construction site of the building. The inspection fee schedule...

...sulted in conditions that endanger the public health, welfare, safety, or morals; provided, that such conditions include, but are not limited to, the presence of defective or deteriorated electrical wiring, heating apparatus, and gas connections, or of unprotected gasoline storage tanks, piping, and valves, or any combination of the foregoing; and provided further that the casual and intermittent use of a serv...

...(A) When a municipal corporation or county enters and repairs or removes an abandoned service station and its appurtenances and restores the property as provided in division (E) or (G) of section 3791.12 of the Revised Code, it may bring an action to recover the costs of repair or removal and restoration, plus the costs of the suit. The owner of the property and any lessee, other than a person leasing and opera...

...(A) As used in this section "refuse container" means only that type of refuse container which is self-dumping by means of a specially designed front, side, or rear loading vehicle. (B) The board of building standards shall adopt by rule safety standards in compliance with regulations adopted by the federal consumer product safety commission on June 13, 1977 (Federal Register Vol. 42, No. 113, pp. 30296-30302), to re...

...(A) Whoever violates division (D) of section 3791.21 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor, and each day the violation continues constitutes a separate offense. (B) Whoever violates this chapter or any rule adopted or order issued pursuant to it that relates to the construction, alteration, or repair of any building, and the violation is not detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of any p...

...No individual authorized to administer a vaccine shall administer to a minor a COVID-19 vaccine without first obtaining written permission from the minor's parent or legal guardian.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Public school" means any of the following: a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district; community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code; STEM school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code; or college-preparatory boarding school established under Chapter 3328. of the Revised Code. (2) "State institution of higher education...

...y if a patient's or resident's advocate contracts, as a result of serving as the advocate, an infectious disease other than a foodborne disease. (2) Division (F)(1) of this section does not grant a congregate care setting that is a hospital or health care facility immunity from a claim of negligence or medical malpractice for any care provided to the advocate should the advocate seek treatment at the hospital or fa...

...(A)(1) The department of health shall create a "Never Alone" information sheet that describes all of the duties, prohibitions, requirements, and rights established under section 3792.05 of the Revised Code, including the following: (a) That a congregate care setting is prohibited from denying a patient or resident access to an advocate except as provided in division (D)(2) or (E) of section 3792.05 of the Revised C...

...city or general health district. (8) "Public official" means any officer, employee, or duly authorized agent or representative of a state agency or political subdivision. (9) "State agency" means any organized agency, board, body, commission, department, institution, office, or other entity established by the laws of the state for the exercise of any function of state government. "State agency" does not include a...

... who is employed by an employer, or who contracts with an employer or third person to perform services for an employer, or who otherwise performs services for an employer for compensation or for no compensation. (E) "Employer" means the state or any individual, business, association, political subdivision, or other public or private entity, including a nonprofit entity, that employs or contracts for or accepts the ...

...g Prohibitions. (A) No proprietor of a public place or place of employment, except as permitted in section 3794.03 of this chapter, shall permit smoking in the public place or place of employment or in the areas directly or indirectly under the control of the proprietor immediately adjacent to locations of ingress or egress to the public place or place of employment. (B) A proprietor of a public place or place of ...

...place of employment are not open to the public, are in a freestanding structure occupied solely by the place of employment, and smoke from the place of employment does not migrate into an enclosed area where smoking is prohibited under the provisions of this chapter. (D) Any nursing home, as defined in division (A) of section 3721.10 of the Revised Code, but only to the extent necessary to comply with division (A)...

...erefore, it is in the best interests of public health that smoking of tobacco products be prohibited in public places and places of employment and that there be a uniform statewide minimum standard to protect workers and the public from the health hazards associated with exposure to secondhand smoke from tobacco. The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed so as to further its purposes of protecting ...

...a which does not otherwise qualify as a public place or place of employment may declare such establishment, facility, or outdoor area as a nonsmoking place. Smoking shall be prohibited in any place declared nonsmoking under this section where a sign conforming to the requirements of section 3794.06 is posted.

...02 of this chapter, the proprietor of a public place or place of employment shall comply with the following requirements: (A) "No Smoking" signs or the international "No Smoking" symbol (consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette enclosed in a red circle with a red bar across it) shall be conspicuously posted in every public place and place of employment where smoking is prohibited by this chapt...

...An assignee or financing party shall not be considered an electric distribution utility or person providing electric service by virtue of engaging in the transactions described in sections 4928.23 to 4928.2313 of the Revised Code.

...The public utilities commission shall employ a federal energy advocate to monitor the activities of the federal energy regulatory commission and other federal agencies and to advocate on behalf of the interests of retail electric service consumers in this state. The attorney general shall represent the advocate before the federal energy regulatory commission and other federal agencies. Among other duties assign...

...state on that date shall file with the public utilities commission a plan for the utility's provision of retail electric service in this state during the market development period. This transition plan shall be in such form as the commission shall prescribe by rule adopted under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code and shall include all of the following: (1) A rate unbundling plan that specifie...

...(A) The public utilities commission shall establish reasonable procedures for expedited discovery in any proceeding initiated to consider a transition plan filed under section 4928.31 of the Revised Code. (B) Not later than forty-five days after the date on which an electric utility files a transition plan under section 4928.31 of the Revised Code, any person having a real and substantial interest in the transition...

...t, not later than October 31, 2000, the public utilities commission shall issue a final order approving the transition plan as filed under section 4928.31 of the Revised Code or an order modifying and approving that plan. The order is subject to section 4903.15 of the Revised Code and is subject to review and appeal under chapter 4903. of the Revised Code. (B) If the commission fails to issue, by October 31, 2000, a...

...(A) The public utilities commission shall not approve or prescribe a transition plan under division (A) or (B) of section 4928.33 of the Revised Code unless the commission first makes all of the following determinations: (1) The unbundled components for the electric transmission component of retail electric service, as specified in the utility's rate unbundling plan required by division (A)(1) of section 4928.31 o...

...t be adjusted during that period by the public utilities commission except as otherwise authorized by division (B) of this section or as otherwise authorized by federal law or except to reflect any change in tax law or tax regulation that has a material effect on the electric utility. (B) Efforts shall be made to reach agreements with electric utilities in matters of litigation regarding property valuation issu...