Ohio Revised Code Search

...In a proceeding, evidence of a record or signature may not be excluded solely because it is in electronic form.

...(A) This section and section 1306.18 of the Revised Code apply to the attribution of electronic records and electronic signatures among parties that are not state agencies. (B) For purposes of this section and section 1306.18 of the Revised Code, the commercial reasonableness of a security procedure is to be determined by a court. In making this determination, both of the following apply: (1) A security procedure e...

...Negotiable and nonnegotiable document of title [UCC 7-104] (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, a document of title is negotiable if by its terms the goods are to be delivered to bearer or to the order of a named person. (B) A document of title other than one described in division (A) of this section is nonnegotiable. A bill of lading that states that the goods are consigned to a...

...Duty of care; contractual limitation of warehouse's liability [UCC 7-204] (A) A warehouse is liable for damages for loss of or injury to the goods caused by its failure to exercise care with regard to the goods that a reasonably careful person would exercise under similar circumstances. Unless otherwise agreed, the warehouse is not liable for damages that could not have been avoided by the exercise of that ca...

...Liability for nonreceipt or misdescription; "said to contain"; "shipper's weight, load, and count"; improper handling [UCC 7-301] (A) A consignee of a nonnegotiable bill of lading which has given value in good faith, or a holder to which a negotiable bill has been duly negotiated, relying upon the description of the goods in the bill or upon the date shown in the bill, may recover from the issuer damages caus...

...(A) In this chapter: (1) "Adverse claim" means a claim that a claimant has a property interest in a financial asset and that it is a violation of the rights of the claimant for another person to hold, transfer, or deal with the financial asset. (2) "Bearer form," as applied to a certificated security, means a form in which the security is payable to the bearer of the security certificate according to its term...

...(A) The local law of the issuer's jurisdiction, as specified in division (D) of this section, governs: (1) The validity of a security; (2) The rights and duties of the issuer with respect to registration of transfer; (3) The effectiveness of registration of transfer by the issuer; (4) Whether the issuer owes any duties to an adverse claimant to a security; and (5) Whether an adverse claim can be asserted against...

...A contract or modification of a contract for the sale or purchase of a security is enforceable whether or not there is a writing signed or record authenticated by a party against whom enforcement is sought, even if the contract or modification is not capable of performance within one year of its making.

...(A) A secured party has control of a deposit account if: (1) The secured party is the bank with which the deposit account is maintained; (2) The debtor, secured party, and bank have agreed in an authenticated record that the bank will comply with instructions originated by the secured party directing disposition of the funds in the deposit account without further consent by the debtor; or (3) The secured party bec...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, this section applies if: (1) There is no outstanding secured obligation; and (2) The secured party is not committed to make advances, incur obligations, or otherwise give value. (B) Within ten days after receiving an authenticated demand by the debtor, a secured party shall send to an account debtor that has received notification of an assignment to...

... made generally available in a filing, recording, or registration system as a condition or result of the security interest's obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor with respect to the collateral. If division (B) of this section does not apply, the debtor is located in the District of Columbia. (D) A person that ceases to exist, have a residence, or have a place of business continues to be locate...

...Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of section 1309.340 of the Revised Code, and unless the bank otherwise agrees in an authenticated record, a bank's rights and duties with respect to a deposit account maintained with the bank are not terminated, suspended, or modified by: (A) The creation, attachment, or perfection of a security interest in the deposit account; (B) The bank's knowledge of the security in...

...(A) A financing statement that substantially satisfies the requirements of sections 1309.501 to 1309.527 of the Revised Code is effective, even if it has minor errors or omissions, unless the errors or omissions make the financing statement seriously misleading. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, a financing statement that fails sufficiently to provide the name of the debtor in accord...

...A person may file an initial financing statement or a continuation statement under this section if: (A) The secured party of record authorizes the filing; and (B) The filing is necessary under this section: (1) To continue the effectiveness of a financing statement filed before July 1, 2001; or (2) To perfect or continue the perfection of a security interest.

...Before the release and discharge provided in section 131.18 of the Revised Code is effected, the board of county commissioners, board of township trustees, legislative authority of the municipal corporation or board of education shall find that the treasurer or clerk was entrusted by law with the care of public funds, and that the loss thereof was not occasioned by his fault or negligence, and an entry of such findi...

...(A) Every person who performs any labor or work upon or furnishes material for digging, drilling, boring, operating, completing, or repairing, any well drilled or constructed for the production of oil or gas or any injection well which furthers the production of oil and gas or which disposes of waste products generated by oil and gas operations, or for altering, repairing, or constructing any oil derrick, oil tank, o...

...Any person performing labor or work or furnishing material for the erection of a new building or structure upon land to which the person contracting for the erection has no legal title or to which the title is defective, has a lien therefor upon the building or structure, and the forfeiture or surrender of any title, claim of title, or equitable interest by the contracting person to the land does not defeat the lien ...

...(A)(1) The owner, part owner, lessee, mortgagee, or any other person with an interest in real property upon which a lien has been taken, or any original contractor or subcontractor who has provided a bond, cash deposit, general obligation of any state government or of the United States government, obligation insured by an agency of the United States government, or other reasonable security in accordance with division...

...(A) An agricultural producer or handler who perfects a lien within sixty days after the date of delivery, or first delivery if there was a series of deliveries under the contract, of the agricultural product has priority over all liens, claims, or encumbrances except wage and salary claims of workers who have no ownership interest in the business of the agricultural product handler, warehouse's liens as provide...

... for value acquired rights prior to the recording of an affidavit for lien pursuant to section 1311.73 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Before perfecting a lien that arises under section 1311.72 of the Revised Code for an abandoned aircraft, the director of a public-use airport shall search the appropriate records of the airport and contact both of the following entities to determine the name and address of the last registered owner: (1) The federal aviation administration's aircraft registration branch; (2) The office of aviation. (B)(1) W...

...(A) Any lien claimant who files an affidavit pursuant to section 1311.73 of the Revised Code shall serve to the owner of the aircraft that is subject to the lien, or to his agent, a copy of the affidavit within thirty days after filing the affidavit with the United States federal aviation administration. The lien claimant shall mail the copy of the affidavit by certified mail, or if the copy of the affidavit is retur...

...All valid mechanic's liens, arising pursuant to and perfected in accordance with Chapter 1311. of the Revised Code, and all prior recorded liens and mortgages have priority over a broker's lien perfected pursuant to section 1311.87 of the Revised Code.

...Any broker that asserts or records a spurious or materially inaccurate broker's lien under this section or fails to release or acknowledge release or satisfaction of a broker's lien in compliance with this section, is liable for damages incurred by any person who has a legal or equitable interest in the lien property.

...Sections 1313.01 to 1313.59, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not take away or limit the jurisdiction of any court of record in which an action to foreclose a mortgage, to quiet title, or in any way to affect the title to or possession of all or part of the real property assigned is pending, at date of an assignment for the benefit of creditors. In such action the assignee may be made a party, with right to defend, ...