Ohio Revised Code Search

...n (D)(3) of this section ; (5)(a) Safeguard the electronic journal and all other notarial records by doing all of the following: (i) Not allowing the electronic journal to be used by another notary; (ii) Creating the audio-video recording required under division (D)(3) of this section in a tamper-evident electronic format complying with the rules of the secretary of state adopted under section 147.62 of the Re...

...(A)(1) As used in this division, "personal history record" means information maintained by the public employees retirement board on an individual who is a participating employee or continuing member that includes the address, telephone number, social security number, record of contributions, records of benefits, correspondence with the Ohio public employees deferred compensation program, or other information the boar...

...(A) Simultaneously with the filing of an application for a permit or significant revision of an existing permit under section 1513.07 of the Revised Code, the applicant shall submit to the chief of the division of mineral resources management a copy of the applicant's advertisement of the ownership, precise location, and boundaries of the land to be affected. At the time of submission, the advertisement shall be plac...

... course, a tanker ship, tanker truck or rail tanker but does not apply to Water that is used in the Basin or a Great Lake watershed to manufacture or produce a Product that is then transferred out of the Basin or watershed. Divert has a corresponding meaning. Environmentally Sound and Economically Feasible Water Conservation Measures mean those measures, methods, technologies or practices for efficient water use an...

...Any county or counties and any municipal corporation or municipal corporations may enter into an agreement providing for the joint construction, acquisition, or improvement of any public work, public building, or other permanent improvement benefiting the parties thereto and providing for the joint management, occupancy, maintenance, and repair thereof. Any such agreement shall be approved by resolution or ordinance ...

...Obligations issued under this chapter are lawful investments for banks, societies for savings, savings and loan associations, deposit guarantee associations, trust companies, trustees, fiduciaries, insurance companies, including domestic for life and domestic not for life, trustees or other officers having charge of sinking and bond retirement or other special funds of political subdivisions and taxing districts of t...

...cked canoe and a racing canoe. "Coast guard approved" means bearing an approval number assigned by the United States coast guard. "Conditional approval" means a personal flotation device approval that has one or more conditions with which the user must comply in order for the device to be considered appropriate for meeting the requirements for personal flotation devices for the vessel on which it is being used. ...

...(A) An application for a certificate of title shall be sworn to before a notary public or other officer empowered to administer oaths by the lawful owner or purchaser of the watercraft or outboard motor and shall contain the following information in the form and together with any other information that the chief of the division of parks and watercraft may require: (1) Name, address, and social security number or emp...

...(A) When the clerk of a court of common pleas issues a physical certificate of title for a watercraft or outboard motor, the clerk shall issue it over the clerk's official seal. All physical certificates of title to watercraft or outboard motors shall contain the information required in the application for them as prescribed by section 1548.07 of the Revised Code, as well as spaces for the dates of notation and cance...

...As used in this chapter: "Bonds" means bonds, notes, or other forms of evidences of obligation issued in temporary or definitive form, including notes issued in anticipation of the issuance of bonds and renewal notes. The funding of bond anticipation notes with bonds or renewal notes and the exchange of definitive bonds for temporary bonds are not subject to section 165.07 of the Revised Code. "Bond proceedings" ...

...e planning and installation of streets, roads, alleys, water supply and distribution facilities, storm and sanitary sewage collection and disposal facilities, and other necessary appurtenances to a project; (J) Purchase fire and extended coverage and liability insurance for a project, insurance protecting the issuer and its officers and employees against liability for damage to property or injury to or death of pers...

...Bonds issued under this chapter are lawful investments of banks, societies for savings, savings and loan associations, deposit guarantee associations, trust companies, trustees, fiduciaries, insurance companies, including domestic for life and domestic not for life, trustees or other officers having charge of sinking and bond retirement or other special funds of political subdivisions and taxing districts of this sta...

...(A)(1) Every holder of unclaimed funds and, when requested, every person that could be the holder of unclaimed funds, under this chapter shall report to the director of commerce with respect to the unclaimed funds as provided in this section. The report shall be verified. (2) With respect to items of unclaimed funds each having a value of fifty dollars or more, the report required under division (A)(1) of this sect...

...As used in sections 1701.01 to 1701.98 of the Revised Code, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Corporation" or "domestic corporation" means a corporation for profit formed under the laws of this state. (B) "Foreign corporation" means a corporation for profit formed under the laws of another state, and "foreign entity" means an entity formed under the laws of another state. (C) "State" means the United ...

...(A)(1) A corporation may be formed under this chapter for any purpose or combination of purposes for which individuals lawfully may associate themselves, except that, if the Revised Code contains special provisions pertaining to the formation of any designated type of corporation other than a professional association, as defined in section 1785.01 of the Revised Code, a corporation of that type shall be formed in acc...

...(A) Except where the law, the articles, or the regulations require action to be authorized or taken by shareholders, all of the authority of a corporation shall be exercised by or under the direction of its directors. For their own government, the directors may adopt bylaws that are not inconsistent with the articles or the regulations. The selection of a time frame for the achievement of corporate goals shall be the...

...(A)(1) Upon the adoption of any amendment or amended articles, a certificate containing a copy of the resolution adopting the amendment or amended articles, a statement of the manner of its adoption, and, in the case of adoption of the resolution by the incorporators or directors, a statement of the basis for such adoption, shall be filed with the secretary of state, and thereupon the articles shall be amended ...

...(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,...

...As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Corporation," "domestic corporation," "foreign corporation," "state," "articles," "shareholder," "person," "principal office," "express terms," "treasury shares," "parent corporation," "parent," "subsidiary corporation," "subsidiary," "combination," "transferee corporation," "majority share acquisition," "acquiring corporation," "voting shar...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Articles of organization" means the articles of organization described in section 1706.16 of the Revised Code, and those articles of organization as amended or restated. (B) "Assignment" means a transfer, conveyance, deed, bill of sale, lease, mortgage, security interest, encumbrance, gift, or transfer by operation of law. (C) "Constituent limited liability company" means a constit...

...(A) "Exempt," as used in this section, means exempt from sections 1707.08 to 1707.11 and 1707.39 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, the following securities are exempt, if the issuer or guarantor has the power of taxation or assessment for the purpose of paying the obligation represented by the security, or is in specific terms empowered by the laws of the state of i...

...As used in sections 1707.05 to 1707.058 of the Revised Code: (A) "OhioInvests issuer" means an entity organized under the laws of this state, other than a general partnership, that meets all of the following requirements: (1) The entity satisfies the requirements of 17 C.F.R. 230.147A. (2) The entity meets at least one of the following conditions: (a) The principal office of the entity is located in this stat...

...No portal operator that is not also a licensed dealer shall do any of the following: (A) Offer investment advice or recommendations, or solicit the purchase or sale of securities. For purposes of this division, a portal operator shall not be considered to be offering investment advice or recommendations merely because it selects, or may perform due diligence with respect to, issuers or offerings to be listed or mer...

...(A) The transactions enumerated in section 1707.06 of the Revised Code may be consummated on compliance with this section and section 1707.11 of the Revised Code. (B) A description, verified either by the oath of the individual filing it or of any individual having knowledge of the facts, shall be filed with the division of securities by the issuer, or by a majority of the incorporators of the issuer prior to...

...(A)(1) All securities, except those enumerated in section 1707.02 of the Revised Code and those that are the subject matter of a transaction permitted by section 1707.03, 1707.04, or 1707.06 of the Revised Code, shall be qualified in the manner provided by this section before being sold in this state. (2) Applications for qualification, on forms prescribed by the division of securities, shall be made in writing ei...

...nts in a consolidation or merger of railroad companies pursuant to section 4967.04 of the Revised Code is entitled to relief as a dissenting shareholder under section 1701.85 of the Revised Code.

...Upon the consummation of any consolidation or merger, all the rights, privileges, and franchises of each of the companies, parties to the agreement of consolidation or merger, and all its property, debts due on account of subscriptions for stock, and other things in action, are to be deemed transferred to and vested in, or remain vested in, such new or surviving company without further act or deed. All property, righ...

...A consolidated railroad company created by or existing under the laws of this state, or of this state and any other state, may take, hold, pledge, or otherwise dispose of, under such terms and agreements as the board of directors of such company prescribes, the stock and bonds of any other company acquired upon any consolidation or merger or received by virtue of any purchase, lease, or operating contract. Such compa...

...When a consolidated railroad company described in section 4967.13 of the Revised Code is in possession of or operating in connection with or extension of its own railroad, any other railroad in this state or any other state, under purchase, conveyance, lease, contract, or agreement, such company may take a surrender or transfer of the whole or a part of the capital stock of the company conveying, leasing, or owning s...

...the common seal of the consolidated railroad company to which such surrender or transfer was made, the estate, property, rights, privileges, and franchises of the company whose stock was so surrendered or transferred vests in and is held and enjoyed by such consolidated company as fully and entirely, without change or diminution, as they before were held and enjoyed and shall be managed and controlled by the board of...

... Code do not relieve a consolidated railroad company from paying the fee provided by section 111.16 of the Revised Code in case a corporation files a certificate for an increase of its capital stock. The rights of a stockholder not surrendering or transferring his stock are not affected, nor are existing liabilities or the rights of creditors of the company whose stock has been so surrendered or transferred affected,...

...convenient after a consolidation of railroad companies resulting in the formation of a new company, the new company shall establish a principal office at some point in this state on the line of its railroad, but may change it at pleasure. Public notice of such establishment or change shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the state, and by filing a written notice thereof with the secre...

...That part of the railroad of a consolidated or surviving railroad company located in this state, and all its real and personal property in this state, shall be listed for taxation and taxed in the same manner as the railroad and property of other railroad companies in this state. To ascertain the proportion of the rolling machinery subject to taxation here, the officer listing it shall ascertain the value of all the ...

...ompany formed by a consolidation of railroad companies, or against the surviving company in the case of a merger, in the courts of this state for all causes of action, in the same manner as against other companies.

... charge a consolidated or surviving railroad company with a liability of any company party to the consolidation or merger, it is not necessary to produce or prove: (A) The charters of such companies; (B) The laws of the several states under and by virtue of which such consolidation or merger was effected; (C) The original articles of consolidation or merger.

...When two or more railroad companies are owners in common of the whole or a part of a railroad located within this state, and by reason of inequality in the amount of business done on such railroad by each company require a different degree and extent of improvement and development, such companies may enter into any arrangement they agree upon for enlarging, improving, developing, or increasing the facilities of such ...

...r for the division and sale of, the railroad and appurtenances or part thereof so owned in common, either company may file with the public utilities commission a statement, under its seal, of the character and estimated cost of any addition or change in the nature of the roadbed, right of way, main tracks or sidetracks, bridges, culverts, buildings, structures, fixtures, or appurtenances, or any part thereof, of such...

...ner may then have passing over such railroad. If either owner fails or refuses to pay the share of cost due from it on the basis fixed in this section, or within the period fixed by such commission, suit may be entered and judgment taken against that party. Such judgment shall be a valid lien upon the interest in such railroad or part thereof owned jointly of such party in default, and may be sold at public sale as ...

...Sections 4967.21 to 4967.23, inclusive, of the Revised Code, do not imply or confer a right or power of compulsory partition of the joint property against the will of either of the joint owners, but it may be sold upon execution as provided in such sections.

...lusive, of the Revised Code, either railroad company sells or conveys, or suffers to be sold or conveyed, its interest in the railroad or part thereof so owned in common, such company may acquire by purchase or condemnation such land as it needs to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad along and adjacent to such part of its chartered route as was so sold or conveyed, and it shall have and enjoy all rights and f...

...sed Code, apply in case one or more railroad companies or owners in common has leased its interest in the portion of railroad owned in common, and the lessee of such interest may unite with the lessor in the agreement provided for in section 4967.21 of the Revised Code, or with such lessor and owner, be compelled to make or pay for the addition and improvements contemplated in such section.

...n part a roadbed and right of way for a railroad within this state, including those acquired by purchase at judicial sale, which, from lack of means or other cause, is unable to complete the construction of the proposed railroad theron, may sell, assign, and transfer it, or a part thereof, to any other company incorporated under the laws of this state, with authority to construct and operate a railroad over the same ...

... point on, or at a terminus of, the railroad, of which meeting he shall cause at least thirty days' notice to be published in a newspaper published in or in general circulation in each county in which such roadbed and right of way are situated. By a concurrent vote of two thirds in interest of the stock represented at such meeting by the owners thereof, in person or by proxy, the meeting may declare by resolution the...

...No transfer shall be made under section 4969.01 of the Revised Code against the dissent of any stockholder, expressly declared and filed in writing at the meeting provided by section 4969.02 of the Revised Code, without the guaranty of the grantee company that it will issue to him, certificated of its capital stock, equal in amount to his pro rata interest as a stockholder of the grantor, in the amount for which the ...

...on, maintenance, and operation of a railroad thereon, shall pass to and vest in the grantee company, by the execution of the deed referred to by section 4969.01 of the Revised Code, to the same extent as the granting company might or could use, occupy, and enjoy it.

...No contract for the sale of railroad equipment, rolling stock, or other personal property to be used in or about the operation of a railroad, by the terms of which the purchase money, in whole or part, is to be paid in the future, and in which it is stipulated or conditioned that the title to the property sold shall not vest in the vendee, but shall remain in the vendor until the purchase money has been fully paid, i...

... the renting, leasing, or hiring of railroad equipment, rolling stock, or other personal property to be used in or about the operation of a railroad, may stipulate or provide for a conditional sale of the property at the termination of such renting, leasing, or hiring, and may stipulate or provide that the rental reserved as paid, or when paid in full, shall be applied and treated as purchase money. Such contract may...

..., not only to contracts made with a railroad company as vendee or lessee, but also apply to all contracts which may be made with any interurban railroad or street railway company, or other company, corporation, or person as vendee or lessee, by which any such interurban railroad or street railway company, or other corporation, company, or person undertakes to purchase, rent, lease, or hire any railroad, or interurban...

...When a railroad, the whole or part of which lies within this state, has been placed by order of a court in the hands of a receiver who has taken charge of and is operating it for the purpose of carrying passengers, freight, and doing such other things as ordinarily belong to the running and management of railroads, in his official capacity, such receiver may sue or be sued in the courts of this state without leave pr...

...The earnings of a railroad in the hands of a receiver, and all other money which comes into his hands as receiver, shall be applied first to pay: (A) Costs and expenses of the suit in which he was appointed; (B) The expenses of operating and managing the railroad, including materials and supplies procured by him for it; (C) The liabilities incurred by him in such operation and management. Judgments recovered agai...