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...A facility to be constructed pursuant to this chapter is a public improvement and a convention facilities authority is a public authority for purposes of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code. All contractors and subcontractors working on such facilities are subject to and shall comply with sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code. A convention facilities authority is a contracting authority for purposes of sect...

...(A)(1) There is hereby created the Ohio elections commission consisting of seven members. Not later than forty-five days after August 24, 1995, the speaker of the house of representatives and the leader in the senate of the political party of which the speaker is a member shall jointly submit to the governor a list of five persons who are affiliated with that political party. Not later than forty-five days after Au...

...(A)(1) Except to carry on activities specified in sections 3517.082, 3517.101, and 3517.1011, division (A)(2) of section 3517.1012, division (B) of section 3517.1013, division (C)(1) of section 3517.1014, and section 3599.031 of the Revised Code and except as provided in divisions (D), (E), and (F) of this section, no corporation, no nonprofit corporation, and no labor organization, directly or indirectly, shall pay ...

...The board of health of a city or general health district shall determine the duties and fix the salaries of its employees. No member of the board shall be appointed as health officer or ward physician. The board of health of any health district may procure and pay all or any part of the cost of group life, hospitalization, surgical, major medical, sickness and accident insurance, or a combination of any of the fore...

... employee or other person, reducing the benefits, pay, or work privileges of the employee or other person, and any other action intended to retaliate against the employee or other person. (B)(1) No person or government entity shall retaliate against a resident who reports or causes to be reported suspected abuse, neglect, exploitation, or misappropriation; indicates an intention to make such a report; provides infor...

...(A) An operator or employee of a business that performs tattooing services, body piercing services, or ear piercing services performed with an ear piercing gun may not be found guilty of a violation of division (A) of section 3730.06 of the Revised Code or any rule adopted under section 3730.10 of the Revised Code in which age is an element of the provisions of the rule, if the board of health or any court of record ...

...onnel policies, salaries, wages, fringe benefits, or other conditions of employment of employees of persons owning or operating solid waste facilities. The director, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt and may amend, suspend, or rescind rules governing the issuance, modification, revocation, suspension, or denial of variances from the director's solid waste rules, including, without limit...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in divisions (A)(6) and (7) of this section, no person shall operate or maintain a solid waste facility without a license issued under this division by the board of health of the health district in which the facility is located or by the director of environmental protection when the health district in which the facility is located is not on the approved list under section 3734.08 of the Revi...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, the owner or operator of a facility or property who conducts an environmental audit of one or more activities at the facility or property has a privilege with respect to both of the following: (1) The contents of an environmental audit report that is based on the audit; (2) The contents of communications between the owner or operator and emplo...

...(A) There is hereby created the emergency response commission consisting of the directors of environmental protection and health, the chairperson of the public utilities commission, the fire marshal, the director of public safety, the director of transportation, the director of natural resources, the superintendent of the highway patrol, and the attorney general as members ex officio, or their designees; notwithst...

...(A) The emergency response commission, by resolution, shall designate emergency planning districts to prepare and implement district chemical emergency response and preparedness plans under this chapter. The commission may designate existing political subdivisions or multijurisdictional planning organizations as districts and may revise its designation of districts as it considers necessary or appropriate. At the req...

...(A) Any person who seeks to review or obtain copies of information submitted to the emergency response commission or a local emergency planning committee under this chapter and rules adopted under it shall submit a written application to the information coordinator of the commission or committee in accordance with the policies and procedures in rules adopted under division (B)(2)(c) of section 3750.02 of the Revised ...

...(A) Subject to the advice and consent of the senate, the governor shall appoint a director of the state lottery commission who shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. The director shall devote full time to the duties of the office and shall hold no other office or employment. The director shall meet all requirements for appointment as a member of the commission and shall, by experience and training, possess mana...

...The executive director of the commission shall appoint the number of professional, technical, and clerical employees that is necessary, in the executive director's reasonable opinion, for conducting internal audits, as an internal auditing department, of the commission. The professional and technical employees so appointed shall be qualified by education, licensing (if relevant), and experience to perform the i...

...(A) Except as provided in division (H) of this section, an applicant for a license as a viatical settlement provider or viatical settlement broker shall submit an application for the license in a manner prescribed by the superintendent of insurance. The application shall be accompanied by a fee established by the superintendent by rule adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (B) A license issue...

...(A)(1) No person shall knowingly or intentionally interfere with the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter or investigations of suspected or actual violations of this chapter. (2) No person in the business of viatical settlements shall knowingly or intentionally permit any person convicted of a felony involving dishonesty or breach of trust to participate in the business of viatical settlements. (...

... equitable adjustment of the premium or benefits, or both, to be made in the event of a misstatement of the age of an insured. The provision shall contain a clear statement of the method of adjustment. (F) A provision requiring that any sum becoming due by reason of the death of the insured be payable to the beneficiary designated by the insured. However, if the policy contains conditions pertaining to family status...

...ayment insurance; insurance under which benefits are payable with or without regard to fault and which is statutorily required to be contained in any liability insurance policy or equivalent self-insurance; a medicare supplement policy of insurance as defined by the superintendent of insurance by rule; coverage under a plan through medicare or the federal employees benefit program; or any coverage issued under Chapte...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 3901.71 of the Revised Code, no public employee benefit plan that provides coverage for prescription drugs shall limit or exclude coverage for any drug approved by the United States food and drug administration on the basis that the drug has not been approved by the United States food and drug administration for the treatment of the particular indication for which the drug has been prescri...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 3901.71 of the Revised Code, no health benefit plan or public employee benefit plan shall deny coverage for the costs of any routine patient care administered to an insured participating in any stage of an eligible cancer clinical trial, if that care would be covered under the plan if the insured was not participating in a clinical trial. (B) T...

... or other obligation for the receipt of benefits that is required by the insurer or other third-party payer providing health coverage to the account holder. The administrator shall keep a record of the amounts disbursed from the account for documented eligible medical expenses and of the dates on which the expenses were incurred. This record shall be made available to any sickness and accident insurer or other third-...

...As used in sections 3951.01 to 3951.09, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Lending institution" means a lending institution, as defined in division (L) of section 175.01 of the Revised Code, that is not organized for the purpose of qualifying to do business as a public insurance adjuster in this state, as determined by the superintendent, and that has been engaged in business as a bona fide lending instituti...

...No employee shall remove, displace, damage, destroy, or carry off any safety device or safeguard furnished or provided for use in any employment or place of employment, or interfere in any way with the use thereof by any other person. No employee shall interfere with the use of any method or process adopted for the protection of any employee in such employment or place of employment, or frequenter of such place of em...

...(A) No private employer shall require any prospective employee or applicant for employment to pay the cost of a medical examination required by the employer as a condition of employment. (B) No public employer or private employer furnishing services to a public employer in accordance with a contract subject to the "Service Contract Act of 1965," 41 U.S.C. 6701 et seq., shall require any employee, prospective employ...

...The employer of an employee whose duties include providing health care or supervising an individual who provides health care may make information available to the employee explaining the employee's duty to make reports pursuant to section 4113.52 of the Revised Code, as well as the employee's opportunity to make reports regarding patient safety pursuant to section 3701.91 of the Revised Code.

...ntentionally misrepresenting the terms, benefits, value, cost, or effective dates of any actual or proposed insurance contract or application for insurance; (6) Having been convicted of or pleaded guilty or no contest to a felony regardless of whether a judgment of conviction has been entered by the court; (7) Having been convicted of or pleaded guilty or no contest to a misdemeanor that involves the misuse or th...

...An exchange shall permit an insurer to offer any health benefit plan that the insurer seeks to offer through the exchange, so long as the health benefit plan in question is a qualified health plan under the Affordable Care Act, as approved by the superintendent of insurance. Nothing in this section shall be construed to allow the superintendent of insurance to impose any additional state certification requireme...

...In respect to insurance issued upon the life of any minor, regardless of the age of the minor at the date of the issuance of said insurance, for the benefit of such minor, or for the benefit of the father, mother, husband, wife, child, brother, or sister of such minor, the insured is not, by reason only of such minority, incompetent to contract for such insurance, or for the surrender of such insurance, or to give a ...

...All contracts of life or endowment insurance or annuities upon the life of any person, or any interest therein, which may hereafter mature and which have been taken out for the benefit of, or made payable by change of beneficiary, transfer, or assignment to, the spouse or children, or any persons dependent upon such person, or an institution or entity described in division (B)(1) of section 3911.09 of the Revised Cod...

...insurance, or in the dividends or other benefits payable thereon, or in any other of the terms and conditions of the contracts it makes. No such company, or any agent thereof, shall make any contract of insurance or agreement as to such contract, other than as plainly expressed in the policy issued thereon. No life insurance company doing business in this state, or any officer, agent, employee, or representative the...

...The nonforfeiture benefit referred to in division (H) of section 3915.05 of the Revised Code shall be available to the owner of the policy in the event of default in premium payments after premiums have been paid for three years, and such benefit shall be a stipulated form of insurance, the net value of which shall be at least equal to the reserve at the date of default on the policy and on any dividend additions the...

... legislature to participate in, and the benefits of, an interstate agreement to establish national uniform consumer protections for the Products subject to this Act; and (ii) the presumption that a Uniform Standard adopted by the Commission provides reasonable protections to consumers of the relevant Product. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Compacting State may, at the time of its enactment of this Compact, prospec...

...The accelerated benefits provided by any policy subject to this chapter are life insurance benefits and are calculated primarily on the basis of mortality risks rather than morbidity risks.

...each membership class, provided that if benefits are provided on the lives of children, the minimum age for adult membership shall be set at not less than fifteen years of age and not greater than twenty-one years of age; (2) The process for admission to membership for each membership class; (3) The rights and privileges of each membership class, provided that only benefit members shall have the right to vote on th...

...ciety are not personally liable for any benefits provided by a society. (B)(1) A person may be indemnified and reimbursed by a society for expenses reasonably incurred by, and liabilities imposed upon, the person in connection with or arising out of any civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative action, suit, or other proceeding, or any threat of such a proceeding, in which the person is involved by reason of...

...(A) In the event a domestic fraternal benefit society has an authorized control level RBC as defined in section 3903.81 of the Revised Code or fails to comply with section 3921.101 of the Revised Code, the society shall present to the superintendent of insurance a plan to protect the interests of the society members not later than forty-five days following such an event. The plan shall provide for the transfer of all...

...billion dollars that provides contract benefits of major medical, medicare supplemental, or long-term care pursuant to division (A)(5) of section 3921.16 of the Revised Code shall reinsure not less than fifty per cent of the risk arising from those contracts if the society's riskbased capital is less than three hundred per cent.

...No money or other benefit, charity, relief, or aid to be paid, provided, or rendered by any fraternal benefit society, shall be liable to attachment, garnishment, or other process, or shall be seized, taken, appropriated, or applied by any legal or equitable process or operation of law to pay any debt or liability of a member or beneficiary, or any other person who may have a right, either before or after payment by ...

...(A) A fraternal benefit society shall hold, invest, and disburse all assets for the use and benefit of the society. No member or beneficiary shall have or acquire individual rights to the assets, or be entitled to any apportionment on the surrender of any part of the assets, except as provided in the benefit contract. (B) A society may create, maintain, invest, disburse, and apply any special fund or funds ne...

...(A) Any fraternal benefit society authorized to transact business in this state shall have and maintain an agent upon whom may be served any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon a society. The agent required under this section may be a natural person residing in this state or a corporation holding a license under the laws of this state that is authorized by its articles of...

...Except for when an expedited request is made under section 3922.09 or 3922.10 of the Revised Code, an independent review organization shall forward upon receipt a copy of any information received from a covered person pursuant to division (D)(1) of section 3922.05 of the Revised Code, as well as any other information received from the covered person, to the health plan issuer. Upon receipt of that information...

...(A) The provisions of this section apply only to standard reviews, which are not expedited and do not involve an experimental or investigational treatment. (B) Within five days after the receipt of a request for an external review that is complete and valid, the health plan issuer shall provide to the assigned independent review organization all documents and information considered in making the adverse benef...

...er policy that offers only supplemental benefits; or coverage provided to individuals who are not residents of this state. (4) "Individual business" includes both individual sickness and accident insurance and sickness and accident insurance made available by insurers in the individual market to individuals, with or without family members or dependents, through group policies issued to one or more associations or en...

...d under such policy to any indemnities, benefits, and rights provided therein. Any policy of sickness and accident insurance may contain a provision for paying not exceeding two hundred dollars as an extended disability benefit upon the insured's death from any cause, which benefit shall not be construed as life insurance. If any such policy contains a provision establishing, as an age limit or otherwise, a date af...

...t insurance as: (1) Provide additional benefits in case of death or dismemberment by accident; (2) Operate to safeguard such policy or contract against lapse, or to give a special surrender value or special benefit or annuity in the event that the insured or annuitant becomes totally and permanently disabled, as defined by the policy, contract, or supplemental contract. Sections 3923.03 to 3923.07, inclusive, of t...

...972, which provides for kidney dialysis benefits, shall be deemed to include such benefits on an equal basis if the dialysis is performed on an out-patient basis. For purposes of this section, "out-patient basis" includes care rendered at any location whether or not at a hospital, upon approval by the attending physician, certified nurse-midwife if authorized as described in section 4723.438 of the Revised Code, clin...

...tion 5121.33 of the Revised Code or the benefits payable for the services under the applicable insurance policy. Insurance benefits for the coverage shall be paid so long as patients and their liable relatives retain their statutory liability pursuant to section 5121.33 of the Revised Code. Only that portion or per cent of the benefits shall be payable that has been assigned, or ordered to be paid, to the state or ot...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Cost-sharing" means the cost to an insured under a policy of sickness and accident insurance or a public employee benefit plan according to any coverage limit, copayment, coinsurance, deductible, or other out-of-pocket expense requirements imposed by the policy or plan. (2) "Drug" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Medication synchronization" mean...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Benzodiazepine" has the same meaning as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Chronic pain" has the same meaning as in section 4731.052 of the Revised Code. (3) "Hospice care program" and "hospice patient" have the same meanings as in section 3712.01 of the Revised Code. (4) "Opioid analgesic" has the same meaning as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (5) "Pre...

...(A) As used in this section and section 3924.032 of the Revised Code: (1) "Health status-related factor" means any of the following: (a) Health status; (b) Medical condition, including both physical and mental illnesses; (c) Claims experience; (d) Receipt of health care; (e) Medical history; (f) Genetic information; (g) Evidence of insurability, including conditions arising out of acts of domestic violence; ...