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...No foreign nonprofit corporation shall exercise its corporate privileges in this state in a continual course of transactions until it has first procured from the secretary of state a certificate authorizing it to do so. Before issuing such certificate, the secretary of state shall require such foreign corporation to file in the secretary of state's office a certificate of good standing or subsistence, setting forth...

...(A) Any foreign corporation may register its corporate name, if its corporate name is available for use under division (D) of section 1703.04 of the Revised Code, by filing in the office of the secretary of state an application, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, that contains the following information: (1) The exact corporate name to be registered; (2) The complete address of the principal office of t...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Business" means every trade, occupation, or profession. (B) "Contribution" means any cash, property, services rendered, promissory note, or other binding obligation to contribute cash or property or to perform services that a member contributes to a limited liability company in the capacity as a member. (C) "Conveyance" means every assignment, lease, mortgage, or encumbrance. (...

...(A) The name of a limited liability company shall contain the words "limited liability company" or the abbreviation "L.L.C.," "LLC," "limited," "ltd.," or "ltd". (B) Except as provided in this section and in sections 1701.75, 1701.78, 1701.82, 1705.36, and 1705.37 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state shall not accept for filing in the secretary of state's office the articles of organization of a limited liab...

...(A)(1) The activities and affairs of the limited liability company shall be under the direction, and subject to the oversight, of its members. (2) The activities and affairs of a series shall be under the direction, and subject to the oversight, of the members associated with the series. (3) Division (A)(1) of this section shall not apply to the activities and affairs of a series. (B)(1) Except as provided in d...

...Each member and agent of a limited liability company shall be fully protected in relying in good faith upon the records of the limited liability company and upon information, opinions, reports, or statements presented by another member or agent of the limited liability company, or by any other person as to matters the member or the agent reasonably believes are within that other person's professional or expert compet...

...(A) An assignment, in whole or in part, of a membership interest: (1) Is permissible; (2)(a) Does not by itself cause a member to cease to be a member of the limited liability company; (b) Does not by itself cause a member to cease to be associated with a series of the limited liability company. (3) Does not by itself cause a dissolution and winding up of the limited liability company, or a series thereof; ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this division, upon reinstatement of a limited liability company's articles or a foreign limited liability company's registration in accordance with section 1706.09 of the Revised Code, the rights and privileges, including all real or personal property rights and credits and all contract and other rights, of the company existing at the time its articles or registration were cancele...

...(A)(1) A limited liability company or foreign limited liability company may appeal a cancellation under division (L) of section 1706.09 of the Revised Code within thirty days after the effective date of the cancellation. The appeal shall be made to one of the following: (a) The court of common pleas of the county in which the street address of the limited liability company or foreign limited liability company's pri...

...A limited liability company is dissolved, and its activities shall be wound up, upon the occurrence of any of the following: (A) An event or circumstance that the operating agreement states causes dissolution; (B) The consent of all the members; (C) A limited liability company with canceled articles has failed to cure the grounds for cancellation for three years or more and any member or person authorized pursu...

...(A) A dissolved limited liability company may dispose of any known claims against it by following the procedures described in division (B) of this section at any time after the effective date of the dissolution of the limited liability company. (B) A dissolved limited liability company may give notice of its dissolution in a record to the holder of any known claim. The notice shall do all of the following: (1) Id...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, both of the following apply: (1) The debts, liabilities, obligations, and expenses incurred, contracted for, or otherwise existing with respect to a series shall be enforceable against the assets of that series only, and shall not be enforceable against the assets of the limited liability company generally or any other series thereof. (2) None of the debts, liabilities...

...(A) A dissolved series may dispose of any known claims against it by following the procedures described in division (B) of this section, at any time after the effective date of the dissolution of the series. (B) A dissolved series may give notice of the dissolution in a record to the holder of any known claim. The notice shall do all of the following: (1) Identify the limited liability company and the dissolved s...

...(A)(1) No control bid for any securities of a subject company shall be made pursuant to a tender offer or request or invitation for tenders until the offeror files with the division of securities the information prescribed in division (A)(2) of this section. The offeror shall deliver a copy of the information specified in division (A)(2) of this section, by personal service, to the subject company at its principal of...

...The division of securities may suspend the registration by description or by qualification of any securities, or the right of any dealers or of the issuer, or of both, to buy, sell, or deal in any particular security whether it is registered, qualified, or exempt or even though transactions in it are registered or exempt, if the division finds that the issuer has violated sections 1707.01 to 1707.50, inclusive, of th...

...In case any person fails to file any statement or report required by sections 1707.01 to 1707.50 of the Revised Code, to obey any subpoena the issuance of which is provided for in those sections, or to produce books, records, or papers, give testimony, or answer questions, as required by those sections, the director of commerce may apply to a court of common pleas of any county for, and upon proof of such failure the...

...If the court of common pleas is satisfied with the sufficiency of the application for a receivership, and of the sufficiency of the proof of substantial violation of sections 1707.01 to 1707.50 of the Revised Code, or of the use of any act, practice, or transaction declared to be illegal or prohibited, or defined as fraudulent by those sections or rules adopted under those sections by the division of securities, to t...

...(A) The board of directors of a county or independent agricultural society shall consist of at least eight members. An employee of the OSU extension shall serve with the board as a nonvoting member. The director of agriculture shall determine the terms of office for members of the board in accordance with rules adopted by the director of agriculture. (B) The board may fill any vacancy on the board caused by death,...

...The treasurer of a county or independent agricultural society, or a person under the supervision of the treasurer, shall collect, account for, record, deposit, and disburse all funds of the society.

...(A) No person shall operate any concession at any fair or exposition conducted by a county or independent agricultural society or by the Ohio expositions commission without first obtaining from the director of agriculture a license to do so under division (B) of this section, nor shall any officer, agent, or employee of a county or independent agricultural society or of the Ohio expositions commission grant a privile...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Online program manager" means an entity that is not an institution of higher education as defined under "The Higher Education Act of 1965," 20 U.S.C. 1001, that enters into an agreement with a private institution of higher education to provide marketing and recruitment services and at least one additional service, including course design, technology, or faculty training, to support...

...The board of trustees of any university or college operating under the patronage of one or more conferences or other religious bodies of any religious denomination, may accept sections 1713.12 to 1713.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by resolution adopted at any regular meeting of the board, and entered upon the record of its proceedings. After such acceptance the board in all respects shall be organized, constitu...

...The alumni composing the alumni association of a university or college referred to in section 1713.12 of the Revised Code may elect as members of the board of trustees of such university or college, as many members of such alumni association as there are members of the class of alumni trustees assigned or apportioned to said alumni association by the board. Such class shall constitute not less than one fifth of the ...

...If a conference or other religious body patronizing a university or college and having a representation in its board of trustees, ceases to exist, or ceases to patronize such university or college, the right of such conference or other religious body to such representation shall cease, and the board shall apportion or distribute the number of trustees in such class to the remaining patronizing conferences or other re...

...For recording the amendment referred to in section 1713.25 of the Revised Code and furnishing certified copies thereof, the secretary of state shall receive a fee of twenty cents per hundred words, to be in no case less than five dollars.