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...Sections 1723.01 to 1723.02 of the Revised Code do not confer power to appropriate any portion of, or confer any right in, any street, alley, highway, or other public way or land situated within any municipal corporation without such municipal corporation's consent.

...No reservoirs for the storage or transportation of water shall be constructed by any company described in section 1723.01 of the Revised Code, within the corporate limits of any municipal corporation or within any public park, and all excavations made by such company, except reservoirs for storage and transportation of water, shall be well filled, and kept well filled, by it.

...A company described in section 1723.01 of the Revised Code may transport, store, insure, and ship natural gas, petroleum, coal or its derivatives, or water, and may transport and store water for the purpose of furnishing it to engineers employed in developing for petroleum, or to engineers employed in the production and transportation of petroleum; and for such purpose such company may lay down, construct, and mainta...

...by purchase or otherwise, and hold such real and personal estate, and may erect or purchase the necessary buildings and machinery for carrying on the business, including all the necessary equipment and appendages of the business, such as tubing, pumps, tanks, telegraph apparatus, and engines, as may be necessary to transport oils, coal or its derivatives, or water through tubes and pipes.

...With respect to the transporting by it of natural gas, petroleum, coal or its derivatives, water, and electricity, a company described in section 1723.01 of the Revised Code is a common carrier and is subject to the duties and liabilities of a common carrier under the laws of this state. A company described in section 1723.01 of the Revised Code includes any firm, partnership, voluntary association, joint-stock asso...

... invested, reinvested, or operated by a trustee or trustees for the benefit and profit of persons who are or may become the holders of transferable certificates of beneficial interest, issued pursuant to the provisions of the trust instrument, such transferability being either restricted or unrestricted, which trust intends to comply or has at any time complied or intended to comply with sections 856, 857, and 858 of...

...hat holds an estate or interest in real property in this state on the effective date of this section may continue to transact real estate business in this state if it fully complies with section 1747.03 of the Revised Code within one year after the effective date of this section and may dispose of the estate or interest within one year after the effective date of this section. However, nothing contained in sections 1...

...t 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 whose office an executed copy is on file; (2) A list of the names and addresses of its trustees; (3) The address of its principal office; (4) In the case of a foreign real estate investment trust, the address of its principal office within this state, if any; (5) The bu...

...A trust instrument may be amended in the manner specified in it or in any manner that is valid under the common or statutory law applicable to the trust created under it. However, no amendment adopted subsequent to the initial filings required by section 1747.03 of the Revised Code is legally effective in this state until an executed or certified true and correct copy of the amendment has been filed in the office of...

...ality thereof; (7) To elect or appoint trustees, officers, and agents of the trust for the period of time the trust instrument or bylaws provides, to define the authority and duties of such trustees, officers, and agents, and to adopt and operate employee and officer benefit plans; (8) To make and alter bylaws not inconsistent with law or with its trust instrument for regulating the government of the trust and for ...

...e, or in the name of one or more of its trustees, or in the name of one or more of its nominees. A conveyance to a real estate investment trust in its business name shall recite that the grantee is a real estate investment trust, and the estate or interest so acquired can be conveyed by the trust only in its business name. Any estate or interest in real property taken, held, or disposed of by a real estate investment...

...Real estate investment trusts are subject to all applicable provisions of law, rules of procedure, and rules of court, now in effect or hereafter enacted, relating to domestic or foreign corporations, with regard to service of process.

...A certificate of beneficial interest is a security subject to Chapter 1707. of the Revised Code.

...terminated at any time by action of the trustees or by the vote of a specified percentage in interest of the beneficial owners thereof.

...opy of a resolution duly adopted by its trustees declaring its intention to withdraw, accompanied by the fee specified in division (T) of section 111.16 of the Revised Code. Such real estate investment trust then ceases and is without authority to transact real estate business in this state, except as necessary for its conclusion.

... transacted real estate business or has property or a place of business, by the attorney general or the prosecuting attorney. If such action is brought by the attorney general, such forfeiture shall on collection be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund. If brought by the prosecuting attorney, one-half of such forfeiture shall on collection be paid to the treasurer of the county in wh...

...title to any estate or interest in real property taken, held, or disposed of by such trust. No real estate investment trust that should have been so authorized, nor any persons on its behalf shall maintain any action in any court of this state until it has obtained such authority by filing with the secretary of state as required by division (B) or (C) of this section, paying the fee associated with the filing, and fu...

...No person knowingly shall prepare, make, assist in preparing or making, or procure or advise the preparing or making of any false or fraudulent filings required or permitted by sections 1747.01 to 1747.13 of the Revised Code.

...Whoever violates section 1747.13 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars.

... one of the next of kin, may appoint a trustee to take possession and charge of the property of the person, other than the property with respect to which the person has made provision by written instrument designating an agent or attorney in fact. The application shall be filed in the county in which the person last resided or if the person's last known residence was outside this state, the application may be ...

...The probate court, before appointing a trustee for an absentee, shall cause notice of the filing of the application under section 2119.01 of the Revised Code and of the time and place of hearing on the application to be published once a week for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county and shall cause copies of the notice to be mailed to the spouse and next of kin of the absent...

...following: (1) Take possession of the property of the absentee wherever situated within the state; (2) Collect all debts due to the absentee; (3) Retain and invest the estate in accordance with Chapters 2113. to 2125. of the Revised Code. (B) The trustee may pay that part or all of the income or principal of the estate as the court, from time to time, may direct for the maintenance and support of the absente...

...ortgaging, leasing, or sale of the real property of an absentee in the same manner as provided by sections 2127.01 to 2127.43 of the Revised Code for sales of real property by executors and administrators. The probate court, upon notice to the spouse and any other persons and in the manner that the court directs, may order all or any part of the personal property to be sold.

...inate the trust and order all remaining property returned. If an executor, administrator, or guardian is appointed for the estate of the absentee, the court shall order the trustee to file a final account and on settlement of the account shall terminate the trust and order all of the property remaining in the possession or under the control of the trustee to be delivered to the fiduciary entitled to the propert...

...mony of witnesses may be taken: (A) By affidavit; (B) By deposition; (C) By oral examination.