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...(A) As used in this section, "person who is or will be aggrieved or adversely affected" means a person with a direct economic or property interest that is or will be adversely affected by an order or rule issued or adopted by the chief of the division of water resources under this chapter. (B) The chief shall issue a proposed order indicating the chief's intent to issue a final order prior to issuing a final order ...

...(A) As used in this section, "violation" means a violation of any provision of this chapter in connection with the sale of securities under sections 1707.05 to 1707.058 of the Revised Code where the filing is made pursuant to division (K) of section 1707.051 of the Revised Code and the securities are sold through an OhioInvests portal. (B)(1) If the division of securities finds, after notice and opportunity for a h...

...Each officer and employee of a court of appeals appointed under section 2501.16 of the Revised Code shall receive the compensation that is fixed by the court of appeals and payable from the state treasury upon the certificate of the presiding or administrative judge of the district in which the officer or employee serves. The additional amount of compensation that the clerk of the court of common pleas receives...

...ever such certificate is required for a taxpayer pursuant to any federal law or requirements; (R) Issue, modify, or revoke orders requiring abatement of or prohibiting emissions that violate applicable emission standards or other requirements of this chapter and rules adopted thereunder, or requiring emission control devices or measures in order to comply with applicable emission standards or other requirements of...

...(A)(1) The board of building standards shall formulate and adopt rules governing the erection, construction, repair, alteration, and maintenance of all buildings or classes of buildings specified in section 3781.06 of the Revised Code, including land area incidental to those buildings, the construction of industrialized units, the installation of equipment, and the standards or requirements for materials used in conn...

...(A) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the administrator of the bureau of workers' compensation may deny registration or revoke the registration of a professional employer organization and rescind its status as a coemployer upon a finding that the professional employer organization has done any of the following: (1) Obtained or attempted to obtain registration through misrepresentation, misstatemen...

...(A) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the administrator of the bureau of workers' compensation may deny registration or revoke the registration of an alternate employer organization and rescind its status as an employer upon a finding that the alternate employer organization has done any of the following: (1) Obtained or attempted to obtain registration through misrepresentation, misstatement of ...

...There is hereby created an unemployment compensation review commission consisting of three full-time members appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate. Terms of office shall be staggered and shall be for six years, commencing on the twenty-eighth day of February and ending on the twenty-seventh day of February. Each member shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end o...

...APPEALS (A) APPEAL FILED Any party notified of a determination of benefit rights or a claim for benefits determination may appeal within twenty-one calendar days after the written determination was sent to the party or within an extended period as provided under division (D)(9) of this section. (B) REDETERMINATION Within twenty-one days after receipt of the appeal, the director of job and family services shal...

...(A) Notwithstanding the terms, provisions, or conditions of any agreement, franchise, or waiver, no franchisor shall: (1) In acting or purporting to act under the terms, provisions, or conditions of a franchise or in terminating, canceling, or failing to renew a franchise, fail to act in good faith; (2) Prevent a franchisee from changing administrative or executive management, provided such personnel satisfy reas...

...(A) The board of embalmers and funeral directors, without the necessity for conducting a prior adjudication hearing, may issue a notice of violation to the holder of an embalmer's, funeral director's, funeral home, or embalming facility, or crematory facility license, or a crematory operator permit or a courtesy card permit issued under this chapter who the board finds has committed any of the violations described in...

...sion; 2) Discuss matters specifically exempted from disclosure by federal statute; 3) Discuss trade secrets, commercial, or financial information that is privileged or confidential; 4) Involve accusing a person of a crime, or formally censuring a person; 5) Discuss information of a personal nature where disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy; 6) Discuss investigative ...

...(A) The Ohio home inspector board shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do all of the following: (1) Establish standards to govern the issuance, renewal, suspension, and revocation of licenses, other sanctions that may be imposed for violations of this chapter, the conduct of hearings related to these actions, and the process of reactivating a license; (2) Establish the amount o...

...s than one contiguous acre shall not be exempt from compliance with other provisions of this section or rules adopted under this section. The rules adopted under this section may impose reasonable filing fees for plan review, permit processing, and field inspections. No permit or plan shall be required for a public highway, transportation, or drainage improvement or maintenance project undertaken by a government ag...

...A board of county commissioners or board of township trustees that adopts access management regulations under section 5552.02 of the Revised Code shall include in those regulations the designation of a board to hear and decide appeals when it is alleged that there is error in any order, requirement, decision, or determination made by an administrative official in the enforcement of the regulations. This appellate boa...

...(A) The tax commissioner shall include in the instruction booklet for filing the annual return of personal property taxes a general description of the method by which the tax is assessed and collected and the rights and responsibilities of taxpayers in that process. (B) At or before the commencement of an audit, the tax commissioner shall provide to the taxpayer a written description of the roles of the department o...

...on of liquor control, the department of taxation, the industrial commission, the bureau of workers' compensation, the functions of any administrative or executive officer, department, division, bureau, board, or commission of the government of the state specifically made subject to sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code, and the licensing functions of any administrative or executive officer, department, divisi...

...(A) When purchasing equipment, materials, or supplies, the general assembly; the offices of all elected state officers; all departments, boards, offices, commissions, agencies, institutions, including, without limitation, state-supported institutions of higher education, and other instrumentalities of this state; the supreme court; all courts of appeals; and all courts of common pleas, may purchase recycled products ...

...(A) After refund of any license fees as required by section 4749.03 of the Revised Code, the department of public safety shall pay all fees and penalties received pursuant to this chapter to the treasurer of state, to be credited to the private investigator and security guard provider fund, which is hereby created. (B) Moneys received in payment of fines levied pursuant to section 4749.99 of the Revised Code shall b...

...econd only to the lien of real property taxes imposed upon the land. The lien shall not exceed the amount determined by the appraisal to be the increase in the fair market value of the land as a result of the restoration, reclamation, abatement, control, or prevention of the adverse effects of past coal mining practices. No lien shall be filed under division (G) of this section against the property of any person who ...

...The board of executives of long-term services and supports shall administer, or contract with a government or private entity to administer, examinations that an individual must pass to obtain a nursing home administrator license under section 4751.20 of the Revised Code. If the board contracts with a government or private entity to administer the examinations, the contract may authorize the entity to collect and keep...

...(A) A person licensed under this chapter to practice as an independent social worker or a social worker may diagnose and treat mental and emotional disorders, except that a social worker may do so only under the supervision of a psychologist, psychiatrist, licensed professional clinical counselor, independent marriage and family therapist, independent social worker, or registered nurse who holds a master's degr...

...on holds a lien on the vehicle. (P) A taxicab or a vehicle providing transportation network company services that is operated by a transportation network company driver, unless transporting a person under the conditions requiring licensure specified in division (A) of section 4766.04 of the Revised Code. (Q) A vehicle providing transportation services for a private adult day habilitation services company, unless ...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Commission" means the Ohio public facilities commission created in section 151.02 of the Revised Code. (B) "Obligations" means bonds, notes, or other evidences of obligation, including interest coupons pertaining thereto, issued pursuant to Chapter 154. of the Revised Code. (C) "Bond proceedings" means the order or orders, resolution or resolutions, trust agreement, indenture, leas...

... (1) The transportation of persons in taxicabs in the usual taxicab service; (2) The transportation of pupils in school buses operating to or from school sessions or school events; (3) The transportation of farm supplies to the farm or farm products from farm to market or to food fabricating plants; (4) The distribution of newspapers; (5) The transportation of crude petroleum incidental to gathering from we...

...The sounding of a locomotive horn at a private crossing or the failure to sound a locomotive horn at a private crossing is not a basis for a civil action against the railroad company that operated the locomotive, a board of county commissioners, or any local authority, or against the employees or agents of the company, board, or authority.

...(A) A municipal corporation or township may establish within its jurisdiction one or more railroad quiet zones implementing and using one or more supplemental safety measures, through the enactment or adoption, after the effective date of initial regulations adopted pursuant to the "Swift Rail Development Act," Pub. L. No. 103-440, 108 Stat. 4615, 49 U.S.C. 20153, of an ordinance or resolution authorizing each zone a...

...The court of common pleas of a county may appoint: (A) A court interpreter, who shall take an oath of office, hold the position at the will and under the direction of the court, interpret the testimony of witnesses, translate any writing necessary to be translated in court, or in a cause therein, and perform such other services as are required by the court. The interpreter shall, without extra compensation, render ...

...The justices, judges, clerks, and officers of the supreme court, the courts of appeals, the courts of common pleas, and the probate courts shall comply with all requests made by the administrative director of the supreme court for information bearing on the state of the dockets of such courts and such other information as the chief justice of the supreme court may determine to be necessary in order to discharge his l...

... (N) All property of the commission is exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution and no execution or other judicial process may issue against the property. A judgment against the commission may not be a charge or lien upon its property. However, nothing in this section applies to or limits the rights of the holder of bonds or notes to pursue a remedy for the enforcement of a pledge or lien given by t...

...(A) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that it is in the public interest for private corporations or organizations to participate in the providing of rail service through the financing, design, construction, reconstruction, operation, and maintenance by private persons of all or part of a rail system, whether as system owners, lessees from the Ohio rail development commission, or agents for the commission...

...(A) The Ohio rail development commission, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt, and may amend and rescind, rules governing the process whereby a private corporation or organization may apply to the commission for a franchise for all or part of a rail system. The rules also shall establish the financial and technical criteria upon which a franchise is awarded. The criteria may include all o...

...(A) Regardless of when the sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense was committed, if a person is convicted of, pleads guilty to, has been convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense or a person is or has been adjudicated a delinquent child for committing a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense and is classified a juven...

...(A) Whenever a prospective adoptive parent or a person eighteen years of age or older who resides with a prospective adoptive parent has resided in another state within the five-year period immediately prior to the date on which a criminal records check is requested for the person under division (A) of section 2151.86 of the Revised Code, the administrative director of an agency, or attorney, who arranges the adoptio...

...t to have the general assembly levy any taxes or appropriate any funds for the payment of the principal or interest thereon. Such bonds shall be payable solely from the loan repayments the commission receives from the franchisee to which the loan was made. The loan repayments shall be made from revenues that the franchisee receives from the operation of its portion of the rail system and that shall be pledged to repa...

... additional offense. Such animal is not exempt from execution for a fine or costs imposed under this section.

...If an official or a corporate seal is required to be affixed to an instrument in writing, an impression of such seal upon either wax, wafer, or other adhesive substance, or upon the paper or material on which such instrument is written, shall be valid. Private seals are abolished, and the affixing of what has been known as a private seal to an instrument shall not give such instrument additional force or effect, or ...

...As used in this section: (A) "Emergency medical service organization" has the same meaning as in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "State agency" means all departments, boards, offices, commissions, agencies, colleges, universities, institutions, and other instrumentalities of this or another state. In order to obtain the services of ambulance service organizations, to obtain additional services from a...

...(A) The board of trustees of a joint ambulance district shall provide for the employment of such employees as it considers best, and shall fix their compensation. Such employees shall continue in office until removed as provided by sections 733.35 to 733.39 of the Revised Code. To initiate removal proceedings, and for such purpose, the board shall designate a private citizen to investigate the conduct and prepa...

...School district" means any city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district and, in accordance with section 3314.17 of the Revised Code, any community school. As used in division (L) of this section, "school district" also includes any educational service center or other educational entity required to submit data using the system established under this section. (2) "Cost" means any expenditure fo...

...(A) As used in this section, "responsible county grantee" means whichever county grantee, as defined in section 5101.21 of the Revised Code, the director of job and family services and the director of children and youth determine is appropriate to take action against under division (C) of this section. (B) Regardless of whether a family services duty is performed by a county family services agency, private or gove...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided by the law enacted by the general assembly or executive order issued by the governor establishing the Title IV-A program, a Title IV-A program identified under division (A)(4)(c), (d), (e), (f), (g), or (h) of section 5101.80 of the Revised Code shall provide benefits and services that are not "assistance" as defined in 45 C.F.R. 260.31(a) and are benefits and services that 45 C.F.R. ...

...The Ohio child welfare training program may condition a prospective foster caregiver or foster caregiver's enrollment in its preplacement and continuing training provided under divisions (B) and (C) of section 5103.30 of the Revised Code on the availability of space in the training if the prospective foster caregiver or foster caregiver's recommending agency is a private child placing agency or private noncustodial a...

...(A) As used in sections 5103.50 to 5103.55 of the Revised Code, "private, nonprofit therapeutic wilderness camp" has the same meaning as in section 5103.02 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement standards set forth in division (D) of this section and section 5103.54 of the Revised Code that are substantially sim...

...(A) There is hereby established, as a work activity under Ohio works first, the work experience program. A participant of Ohio works first placed in the program shall receive work experience from private and government entities. Participants of Ohio works first assigned to the work experience program are not employees of the department of job and family services or a county department of job and family services. T...

...orporation, or other entity that is tax exempt under section 501(a) and described in section 501(c) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 501. (B) To the extent funds are available and on application by boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, the director of behavioral health may approve state reimbursement of, or state grants for, community construction programs i...

...(A) This section applies to a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, another governmental entity, or a private, nonprofit organization that received a grant or reimbursement under section 5119.42 of the Revised Code for a facility on which the department of behavioral health holds a security interest. (B) A board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, another governmental en...

...ity that is exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(a) and is described in section 501(c) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 501, as amended. (B) "Governmental agency" means a state agency; a municipal corporation, county, township, other political subdivision or special district in this state established by or pursuant to law, or a combination of those political ...

...As used in sections 5121.01 to 5121.21 of the Revised Code: (A) "Resident" means a person admitted to an institution or other facility pursuant to Chapter 5123. of the Revised Code who is under observation or receiving habilitation and care. (B) "Applicable cost" means the rate for support applicable to a resident as specified in this section. The cost for support of residents in institutions under t...

...(A) Every provider agreement with an ICF/IID provider shall do both of the following: (1) Except as provided by division (B) of this section, include any part of the ICF/IID that meets federal and state standards for medicaid certification; (2) Prohibit the provider from doing either of the following: (a) Discriminating against a resident on the basis of race, color, sex, creed, or national origin; (b) Subje...