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...(A) When a county charter petition has been certified to the board of elections pursuant to section 307.94 of the Revised Code, the board shall immediately proceed to determine whether the petition and the signatures on the petition meet the requirements of law, including section 3501.38 of the Revised Code, and to count the number of valid signatures. The board shall note opposite each invalid signature the reason f...

...(A) The board of trustees of a regional airport authority or any officer or employee designated by such board may make without competitive bidding any contract for any purchase, lease, lease with option or agreement to purchase any property, or any construction contract for any work, the cost of which shall not exceed the amount specified in section 9.17 of the Revised Code. Any purchase, lease, lease with option or ...

...Every marriage license shall have printed upon it in prominent type the notice that, unless the person solemnizing the marriage returns a certificate of the solemnized marriage to the probate court that issued the marriage license within thirty days after performing the ceremony, or, if the person solemnizing the marriage is a probate judge who is acting in accordance with section 2101.27 of the Revised Code an...

...(A)(1) A petition for dissolution of marriage shall be signed by both spouses and shall have attached and incorporated a separation agreement agreed to by both spouses. The separation agreement shall provide for a division of all property; spousal support; if there are minor children of the marriage, the allocation of parental rights and responsibilities for the care of the minor children, the designation of a ...

...As used in sections 3107.01 to 3107.20 of the Revised Code: (A) "Adoption" means to create the legal relationship of parent and child between the petitioner and the adopted person, as if the adopted person were a legitimate blood descendant of the petitioner, for all purposes including inheritance and applicability of statutes, documents, and instruments, whether executed before or after the adoption is decreed, an...

...(A) A petition for adoption shall be prepared and filed according to the procedure for commencing an action under the Rules of Civil Procedure. It shall include the following information: (1) The date and place of birth of the person to be adopted, if known; (2) The name of the person to be adopted, if known; (3) The name to be used for the person to be adopted; (4) The date of placement of a minor and the na...

...The department of job and family services shall establish a putative father registry. To register, a putative father must complete a registration form prescribed under section 3107.065 of the Revised Code and submit it to the department. The registration form shall include the putative father's name; the name of the mother of the person he claims as his child; and the address or telephone number at which he wishes to...

...(A) The department of health shall establish a system by which an adopted person or lineal descendant of an adopted person may request that the department mail to the adopted person's biological parent a question that the adopted person or lineal descendant has about the biological parent's medical history if both of the following apply: (1) The adopted person or lineal descendant received a copy of the conte...

...(A) An adopted person age twenty-one or older may submit a request with the department of health for the department to assist the adopted person's birth parent or birth sibling in finding the adopted person's name by adoption pursuant to section 3107.49 of the Revised Code. The adopted person shall submit the request on a form prescribed by the department under section 3107.51 of the Revised Code. If the adopted pers...

...(A) Not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section, the department of health shall prescribe a form with which an adopted person may make a request under division (A) of section 3107.48 of the Revised Code. The form shall require all of the following information: (1) The residence address of the adopted person; (2) The adopted person's name and date of birth as it appears on the adopted person'...

...(A) No court shall issue an order granting parental rights with respect to a child to a person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to rape or sexual battery and has been declared, in an action or proceeding under section 3109.501 or 3109.505 of the Revised Code regarding that child, to be the parent of a child conceived as a result of rape or sexual battery committed by the person. (B) On receipt of a notice...

...(A) A person who creates a power of attorney under section 3109.52 of the Revised Code shall send notice of the creation to the parent of the child who is not the residential parent and legal custodian of the child unless one of the following is the case: (1) The parent is prohibited from receiving a notice of relocation in accordance with section 3109.051 of the Revised Code. (2) The parent's parental rights have ...

...(A) A sheriff shall be elected quadrennially in each county. A sheriff shall hold office for a term of four years, beginning on the first Monday of January next after the sheriff's election. (B) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no person is eligible to be a candidate for sheriff, and no person shall be elected or appointed to the office of sheriff, unless that person meets all of the following requireme...

...The department of job and family services shall prepare an acknowledgment of paternity affidavit that includes in boldface type at the top of the affidavit the rights and responsibilities of and the due process safeguards afforded to a person who acknowledges that he is the natural father of a child, including that if an alleged father acknowledges a parent and child relationship he assumes the parental duty of suppo...

...The office of child support in the department of job and family services shall establish and maintain a birth registry that shall contain all of the following information contained in orders determining the existence of a parent and child relationship and acknowledgments of paternity required to be filed with the office: (A) The names of the parents of the child subject to the order or acknowledgment; (B) The name ...

...(A) Prior to a non-spousal artificial insemination, the physician associated with it shall do the following: (1) Obtain the written consent of the recipient on a form that the physician shall provide. The written consent shall contain all of the following: (a) The name and address of the recipient and, if married, her husband; (b) The name of the physician; (c) The proposed location of the performance of the arti...

...When a person is imprisoned in a workhouse or state correctional institution under sections 3113.01 to 3113.14 of the Revised Code, the name and post-office address of the trustee appointed by the court of common pleas under sections 3113.04 and 3113.07 of the Revised Code shall appear in the mittimus.

...entifying data, including the names and addresses of the persons involved in the domestic dispute and domestic violence problems, that would enable any person to determine the identity of any of the persons involved. (C) The attorney general shall oversee the statistical reporting required pursuant to this section to ensure that it is complete and accurate.

...(A) Upon receipt of an income-withholding order, the obligor's employer or other payor shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor. (B) The employer or other payor shall treat an income-withholding order issued in another state that appears regular on its face as if it had been issued by a tribunal of this state. (C) Except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section and section 3115.503 ...

...When a court computes the amount of child support required to be paid under a court child support order or a child support enforcement agency computes the amount of child support to be paid pursuant to an administrative child support order, all of the following apply: (A) The parents' current and past income and personal earnings shall be verified by electronic means or with suitable documents, including, but not ...

...On written request from the other parent, any person subject to an order issued under section 3109.19 of the Revised Code, or the child support enforcement agency, the employer of a person required to provide health insurance coverage under a child support order shall release to the other parent, person, and the agency all information about the health insurance coverage that is necessary to ensure compliance with se...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Health insurance provider" means: (a) A person authorized to engage in the business of sickness and accident insurance under Title XXXIX of the Revised Code; (b) A person or government entity providing coverage for medical services or items to individuals on a self-insurance basis; (c) A health insuring corporation as defined in section 1751.01 of the Revised Code; (d) A gr...

...A person who receives a notice of medical support enforcement activity under section 3119.35 of the Revised Code may file a written request for an administrative hearing with the child support enforcement agency that issued the notice. The hearing shall address whether a mistake of fact was made in the national medical support notice referred to in the notice issued by the agency. The request must be filed not later ...

...A party to a child support order issued in accordance with section 3119.30 of the Revised Code shall notify any physician, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse practitioner, hospital, or other provider of medical services that provides medical services to the child who is the subject of the child support order of the number of any health insurance or health care policy, contract, or plan that covers the child i...

...If a court or child support enforcement agency that issued or modified a support order, or the agency administering the support order, is required by the Revised Code to issue one or more withholding or deduction notices described in this section or other orders described in this section, the court or agency shall issue one or more of the following types of notices or orders, as appropriate, for payment of the suppor...