Ohio Revised Code Search

...As used in this chapter: (A)(1) "Charitable organization" means either of the following: (a) Any person that is determined by the internal revenue service to be a tax exempt organization pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; (b) Any person that is or holds itself out to be established for any benevolent, philanthropic, patriotic, educational, humane, scientific, public health, environmenta...

...(A) A small employer health care alliance may do any of the following: (1) Negotiate and enter into agreements with one or more insurers for the insurers to offer and provide one or more health benefit plans to small employers for their employees and retirees, and the dependents and members of the families of such employees and retirees, which coverage may be made available to enrolled small employers without regar...

...(A) Upon the filing of a motion for an order of attachment pursuant to section 2715.03 of the Revised Code, the plaintiff shall file with the clerk of the court a praecipe instructing the clerk to issue to the defendant against whom the motion was filed a notice of the proceeding. Upon receipt of the praecipe, the clerk shall issue the notice which shall be in substantially the following form: "(Name and Address of...

...(A) Upon the filing of a motion for attachment, a court may issue an order of attachment without issuing notice to the defendant against whom the motion was filed and without conducting a hearing if the court finds that there is probable cause to support the motion and that the plaintiff that filed the motion for attachment will suffer irreparable injury if the order is delayed until the defendant against whom the mo...

...(A) Upon the filing of a proceeding in garnishment of property, other than personal earnings, under section 2716.11 of the Revised Code, the court shall cause the matter to be set for hearing within twelve days after that filing. (B) Upon the scheduling of a hearing relative to a proceeding in garnishment of property, other than personal earnings, under division (A) of this section, the clerk of the court immediate...

...Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Revised Code or rules of a court to the contrary, in an action against a political subdivision to recover damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property caused by an act or omission in connection with a governmental or proprietary function: (A) Punitive or exemplary damages shall not be awarded. (B)(1) If a claimant receives or is entitled to receive benef...

...(A) No person, with purpose to defraud or knowing that the person is facilitating a fraud, shall do any of the following: (1) Receive workers' compensation benefits to which the person is not entitled; (2) Make or present or cause to be made or presented a false or misleading statement with the purpose to secure payment for goods or services rendered under Chapter 4121., 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revise...

...(A) This section applies to members of the public employees retirement system except that in any circumstance in which either section 2929.192 or 2929.193 of the Revised Code applies this section does not apply. (B) If an offender is being sentenced for a felony offense that was the cause of a physical or mental disability in the offender and was committed on or after the effective date of this section while ...

...(A) An individual who becomes a member of the state teachers retirement system on or after the date on which the state teachers retirement board establishes an STRS defined contribution plan shall make an election under this section. Not later than one hundred eighty days after the date on which employment begins, the individual shall elect to participate either in the STRS defined benefit plan or one of the STRS def...

...The state teachers retirement board may establish a death benefit plan providing for a lump sum payment to eligible beneficiaries, in addition to the lump sum payment made under section 3307.661 of the Revised Code, on the death of a person receiving an allowance or benefit pursuant to this chapter. Any plan established under this section shall be administered separately from any other benefit or plan governed by thi...

...(A) If a person is paid any benefit or payment by the state teachers retirement system under the plans described in section 3307.031 of the Revised Code or under section 3307.371 of the Revised Code to which the person is not entitled, the benefit shall be repaid to the system by the person. If the person fails to make the repayment, the system shall withhold the amount due from any benefit due the person or th...

...(A) All elections for employee or retirant members of the school employees retirement board shall be held under the direction of the board in accordance with rules adopted under section 3309.075 of the Revised Code. (B) Any member of the school employees retirement system, other than a disability benefit recipient, shall be eligible to be nominated for election as an employee member of the board who has been ...

...(A) As used in this section and in section 3309.45 of the Revised Code: (1) "Child" means a biological or legally adopted child of a deceased member. If a court hearing for an interlocutory decree for adoption was held prior to the member's death, "child" includes the child who was the subject of the hearing notwithstanding the fact that the final decree of adoption, adjudging the surviving spouse as the adop...

...(A) If the conditions described in division (B) of section 3309.74 of the Revised Code are met, a member of the school employees retirement system who is not receiving a pension or benefit from the school employees retirement system is eligible to obtain credit for service as a member of the Cincinnati retirement system under this section. (B) A member of the school employees retirement system who has contributions ...

... policy of insurance, as defined by the superintendent of insurance by rule; (f) Coverage under a plan through medicare, medicaid, or the federal employees benefit program; (g) Any coverage issued under Chapter 55 of Title 10 of the United States Code and any coverage issued as a supplement to that coverage. (2) "Health plan issuer" means an entity subject to the insurance laws and rules of this state, or subje...

...e) Any other medical condition that the superintendent of insurance may approve for a particular policy filing. (5) Any other qualifying event that the superintendent may approve for a particular policy filing.

...r form is developed or approved by the superintendent. (4) The disclosure document under division (A)(1) of this section shall contain the following language: "All medical, financial, or personal information solicited or obtained by a viatical settlement provider or viatical settlement broker about an insured, including the insured's identity or the identity of family members, a spouse, or a significant other ...

... to (H) of this section, subject to the superintendent finding all of the following: (a) The issuance of the policy is not contrary to the best interest of the public. (b) The issuance of the policy would result in economies of acquisition or administration. (c) The policy provides benefits that are reasonable in relation to the premiums charged. (2) An insurer shall not offer group life insurance in this state u...

...ficates, and incontestability. (D) The superintendent of insurance may require from any society or association, by examination or otherwise, such information as will enable the superintendent to determine whether the society or association is exempt from the requirements of this chapter. (E) Societies that, pursuant to division (A) of this section, are exempt from the requirements of this chapter shall also be exem...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Cost-sharing" means the cost to an individual insured under a health benefit plan according to any coverage limit, copayment, coinsurance, deductible, or other out-of-pocket expense requirements imposed by the plan. (2) "Health benefit plan" and "health plan issuer" have the same meanings as in section 3922.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Pharmacy audit" has the same meaning as in...

...No agreement by an employee to pay any portion of the contribution or other payment required to be made by his employer under sections 4141.01 to 4141.46, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is valid. No employer shall make a deduction for such purposes from the remuneration or salary of any individual in this employ. Such sections do not affect the validity of private voluntary arrangements or plans by which employees i...

...Any person may file a petition with the township fiscal officer requesting the board of township trustees to relocate underground any overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment on streets or rights-of-way and designated private streets in an unincorporated area of the township. The petition shall specify the metes and bounds of the area to be included in the underground relocation project and any desig...

...(A) Effective July 1, 1981, each person eligible to receive an age and service or disability pension, allowance, or benefit pursuant to Chapter 5505. of the Revised Code, that was based upon an award made effective before October 1, 1974, shall have the person's monthly pension increased by five per cent of the first five thousand dollars of the annual pension, allowance, or benefit. (B) Effective July 1, 1981, eac...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Person" includes individuals, receivers, assignees, trustees in bankruptcy, estates, firms, partnerships, associations, joint-stock companies, joint ventures, clubs, societies, corporations, business trusts, governments, and combinations of individuals of any form. (B) "Storage" means and includes any keeping or retention in this state for use or other consumption in this state. ...

...Except as otherwise expressly provided or clearly appearing from the context, any term used in this chapter that is not otherwise defined in this section has the same meaning as when used in a comparable context in the laws of the United States relating to federal income taxes or if not used in a comparable context in those laws, has the same meaning as in section 5733.40 of the Revised Code. Any reference in this ch...