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...A timber dealer desiring to adopt a trade-mark under section 981.01 of the Revised Code may do so by executing in writing in form and effect as follows: "Trade-mark. Notice is hereby given that I (we) have adopted the following trade-mark, to be used in my (our) business as a timber dealer, to-wit: -- (Here insert the letters, words or figures, etc., constituting the trade-mark, or if it is any device other than le...

...(A) There is hereby created the Ohio expositions commission, which shall consist of the following fifteen members: nine members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate; the director of development, the director of natural resources, and the director of agriculture, or their designated representatives, who shall be ex officio members with voting rights of the commission; the dean of the col...

...(A) As used in the Revised Code, "insurance rating agency" means A.M. Best Rating Services, Inc., Demotech, Inc., or a rating agency certified or approved by a national entity that engages in an approval process that includes all of the following: (1) A requirement for the rating agency to register and provide an annual updated filing; (2) Record retention requirements; (3) Financial reporting requirements; (4)...

...(A) As used in this section, "capitol square" has the same meaning as in section 105.41 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint a sergeant at arms for the house of representatives. (2) The speaker of the house of representatives shall adopt a policy specifying the minimum continuing training required for a person to maintain employment as house sergeant at arms or an as...

...The chairman of a standing or select committee, or a subcommittee thereof, of the general assembly, or of either house thereof, authorized to send for persons and papers, may subpoena witnesses in any part of the state to appear before such committee or subcommittee at a time and place designated in the subpoena, to testify concerning matters of inquiry committed to the committee or subcommittee and may require the p...

...If the subpoena referred to in section 101.41 of the Revised Code is issued by a joint committee or a subcommittee thereof, it may be delivered to the sergeant at arms of either house as the chairman determines; if it is issued by a committee of one house, or a subcommittee of such committee, it shall be directed to the sergeant at arms of such house; but in either case it may be directed to the sheriff of any county...

...As used in this section, "published" means to produce an electronic record that is accessible to the public. The daily journals of the senate and house of representatives shall be printed or published daily during each session of the general assembly. The composition used in printing or publishing the daily journals shall be retained for use in printing the final journals. The final journals and appendixes of the s...

...(A) As used in sections 101.62 to 101.65 of the Revised Code: (1) "Individual" means a natural person. (2) Except as provided in divisions (A)(3) and (4) of this section, "least restrictive regulation," "occupational license," and "occupational licensing board" have the meanings defined in section 4798.01 of the Revised Code. (3) On and after the effective date of this amendment, "occupational license" means al...

...(A) No legislative agent or employer shall knowingly fail to register as required under section 101.72 of the Revised Code. (B) No legislative agent or employer shall knowingly fail to keep a receipt or maintain a record that section 101.73 of the Revised Code requires the person to keep or maintain. (C) No person shall knowingly fail to file a statement that section 101.73 or 101.74 of the Revised Code requires th...

...(A) The joint legislative ethics committee shall keep on file the statements required by sections 101.72, 101.73, and 101.74 of the Revised Code. Those statements are public records and open to public inspection, and the joint committee shall computerize them so that the information contained in them is readily accessible to the general public. The joint committee shall provide copies of the statements to the general...

...As used in sections 101.90 to 101.99 of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" and "compensation" have the same meanings as in section 101.70 of the Revised Code. (B) "Expenditure" means any of the following that is made to, at the request of, for the benefit of, or on behalf of a state retirement system, a member of the board of a state retirement system, a state retirement system investment official, or an employee of a ...

...(A) No person shall knowingly fail to register as required under section 101.92 of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall knowingly fail to keep a receipt or maintain a record that section 101.93 of the Revised Code requires the person to keep or maintain. (C) No person shall knowingly fail to file a statement that section 101.93 or 101.94 of the Revised Code requires the person to file. (D) No person shall knowing...

...(A)(1) No present or former public official or employee shall, during public employment or service or for twelve months thereafter, represent a client or act in a representative capacity for any person on any matter in which the public official or employee personally participated as a public official or employee through decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation, the rendering of advice, investigation, or other ...

...The Ohio legislative service commission shall: (A) Conduct research, make investigations, and secure information or data on any subject and make reports thereon to the general assembly; (B) Ascertain facts and make reports concerning the state budget, the revenues and expenditures of the state, and of the organization and functions of the state, its departments, subdivisions, and agencies; (C) Make surveys, invest...

...(A) As used in sections 103.41 to 103.415 of the Revised Code: (1) "JMOC" means the joint medicaid oversight committee created under this section. (2) "State and local government medicaid agency" means all of the following: (a) The department of medicaid; (b) Each state agency and political subdivision with which the department of medicaid contracts under section 5162.35 of the Revised Code to have the state ...

...(A) If a bill or resolution introduced in the general assembly appears to affect the revenues or expenditures of the courts of Ohio, to increase or decrease the workload or caseload of judges or members of their staffs, or to affect case disposition, the Ohio judicial conference may prepare a judicial impact statement of the bill or resolution on its own initiative or at the request of any member of the general assem...

...An agency may not adopt a proposed rule or revised proposed rule or file it in final form unless the proposed rule has been filed with the joint committee on agency rule review under division (D) of section 111.15 or division (C) of section 119.03 of the Revised Code and the time for the joint committee to review the proposed rule and for the adoption of an invalidating concurrent resolution has expired without adopt...

...A judge of a court of record, state officer, county officer, militia officer, or judge of a county court, shall be ineligible to perform any duty pertaining to his office until he presents to the proper officer a legal certificate of his election or appointment, and receives from the governor a commission to fill such office.

...The governor may appoint an authenticating officer and delegate to such officer power to sign for the governor any document except enrolled bills enacted by the general assembly, nominations to be submitted to the senate for confirmation, clemency actions, interstate compacts, and agreements with the federal government, which document, to have legal effect, requires the governor's signature and which is of a class wh...

...elephone number shall be connected to a recording device at its answering point.) The office shall create a web site that enables a person to offer comments electronically. The web site also shall provide notification to the public of any draft or existing rule that may have an adverse impact on businesses, which notification shall include copies of the draft or existing rule and the business impact analysis of...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the attorney general reimbursement fund that shall be used for the expenses of the office of the attorney general in providing legal services and other services on behalf of the state or any agency or officer thereof. (B)(1) All amounts received as reimbursement for legal services and other services that have been rendered by the office of the attorney general to t...

...The clerk of each court of common pleas or the judge of the probate division thereof, and of each court of appeals shall furnish copies of papers and such information as to the records and files of his office relating to charitable trusts as the attorney general may require.

...(A) As used in this section and in section 109.35 of the Revised Code: (1) "Fair market value" means the price that the assets being transferred would bring in a competitive and open market under a fair sale with the buyer and seller acting prudently, knowledgeably, and in their own best interest and a reasonable time being allowed for exposure in the market. (2) "Nonprofit health care entity" means any of the foll...

...(A) Not later than sixty days after receipt of a notice and other documents required by section 109.34 of the Revised Code, the attorney general shall approve or disapprove the proposed transaction, except that the attorney general for good cause may extend this period an additional ninety days. (B) In determining whether to approve or disapprove a proposed transaction, the attorney general shall consider: (1) Whet...

...(A) If an organization or entity uses a volunteer in a position in which the person on a regular basis has unsupervised access to a child and if the volunteer has been subjected to a criminal records check performed by the bureau of criminal identification and investigation pursuant to section 109.57, section 109.572, or rules adopted under division (E) of section 109.57 of the Revised Code, the organization or entit...