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...As used in Chapters 1101. to 1127. of the Revised Code, unless the context requires otherwise: (A) "Affiliate" has the same meaning as in division (A)(1) of section 1109.53 of the Revised Code and includes a subsidiary of a bank. (B) "Bank" or "banking corporation" means an entity that solicits, receives, or accepts money or its equivalent for deposit as a business, whether the deposit is made by check or is eviden...

...It is hereby declared to be the purpose of the general assembly in enacting Chapters 1101. to 1127. of the Revised Code to do all of the following: (A) Delegate to the division of financial institutions rule-making power and administrative discretion, subject to Chapters 1101. to 1127. of the Revised Code, to assure the supervision and regulation of banks chartered under the laws of this state may be flexible and re...

...(A) To qualify as a director, each person elected or appointed to the board of directors shall, within sixty days after election or appointment, take and subscribe an oath to diligently and honestly perform the duties of a director and to not knowingly violate or permit to be violated any federal banking law or any provision of Chapters 1101. to 1127. of the Revised Code. (B) Promptly upon execution, and within sixt...

...(A) No state bank may extend credit to any of its executive officers, directors, or principal shareholders, or to any of their related interests, except as authorized by this section and, with respect to executive officers, as authorized by section 1109.24 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) A state bank may extend credit to any of its executive officers, directors, or principal shareholders, or to any of their related inte...

...(A) A state bank may purchase, acquire by lease, or otherwise invest in the real estate and interests in real estate the board of directors considers necessary or convenient for transaction of the bank's business, including by ownership of an entity having as its exclusive authority the ownership and management of the bank's real estate interests. (B) A state bank may invest an amount equal to the greater of the ban...

...In addition to the specific investments authorized in this chapter, a state bank may also invest, in the aggregate, no more than ten per cent of its assets in the common or preferred stock, obligations, or other securities of any corporations, as authorized by the bank's board of directors.

...(A) In addition to the other loan and investment authority provided for banks in Chapter 1109. of the Revised Code, but subject to all other provisions of the Revised Code, a state bank may invest up to fifteen per cent of its total assets in loans or investments authorized by the bank's board of directors. (B) If a loan or other investment is authorized under more than one section of Chapter 1109. of the Revised Co...

...(A) A state bank may invest, in the aggregate, twenty-five per cent of its assets in the stock, obligations, and other securities of bank subsidiary corporations and bank service corporations. (B) A state bank shall obtain the approval of the superintendent of financial institutions prior to investing in, acquiring, or establishing a bank subsidiary corporation or bank service corporation, or performing any new acti...

...As used in sections 111.41 to 111.99 of the Revised Code: (A) "Application assistant" means an employee or volunteer at an agency or organization that serves victims of domestic violence, menacing by stalking, human trafficking, trafficking in persons, rape, or sexual battery who has received training and certification from the secretary of state to help individuals complete applications to be program participants....

...(A) A program participant may request that a governmental entity, other than a board of elections, use the address designated by the secretary of state as the program participant's address. Except as otherwise provided in division (F) of this section and in section 111.44 of the Revised Code, if the program participant requests that a governmental entity use that address, the governmental entity shall accept that add...

...(A) The secretary of state shall cancel the certification of a program participant if any of the following are true: (1) The program participant's application contained one or more false statements. (2) The program participant has filed a written, notarized request with the secretary of state, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, asking to cease being a program participant. (3) The program participan...

...Each member of the governing board of a family trust company shall take and subscribe an oath that the member will administer the affairs of the family trust company diligently and honestly and that the member will not knowingly or willfully permit noncompliance with or violation of any of the laws relating to family trust companies.

...(A) Five or more natural persons, at least one of whom is a resident of this state, may, with the approval of the superintendent of financial institutions, incorporate a stock state bank. (B) The persons proposing to incorporate a stock state bank shall apply for approval of the proposed bank by submitting the application prescribed by the superintendent, which application shall include all of the following: (1) Th...

...(A) After the secretary of state has filed the articles of incorporation and certificate of approval of the superintendent of financial institutions, the incorporators, or a majority of them, shall order books to be opened for subscription to the stock state bank's shares. An installment of not less than ten per cent of the subscription price of each share shall be payable at the time of making the subscription, and ...

...(A) Each stock state bank shall keep correct and complete books and records of account, together with records of the proceedings, including minutes of any meetings, of its incorporators, shareholders, directors, and committees of the directors, and records of its shareholders showing their names and addresses and the number and class of shares issued or transferred of record to or by them from time to time. (B) Upon...

... of the resulting bank, and all duties, trusts, obligations, and liabilities of the predecessor bank shall continue in the bank resulting from the conversion.

...(A) In the event of a power failure, fire, act of God, riot, strike, robbery or attempted robbery, epidemic, interruption of communication facilities, or any other reason the superintendent of financial institutions approves, or in the event of the declaration of the existence of an emergency by the governor or another person lawfully exercising the power and duties of the office of governor, an officer of a bank, de...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Financial institution regulatory authority" includes a regulator of a business activity in which a bank or trust company is engaged, or has applied to engage in, to the extent that the regulator has jurisdiction over a bank or trust company engaged in that business activity. A bank or trust company is engaged in a business activity, and a regulator of that business activity has jurisdic...

...(A) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code, if any regulation, rule, interpretation, procedure, or guideline of the office of the comptroller of the currency, federal deposit insurance corporation, federal reserve board, consumer financial protection bureau, national credit union administration, or any other bank regulatory authority of the United States, or the bank regulatory authority of any other state...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in section 1121.101 of the Revised Code, as often as the superintendent of financial institutions considers necessary, but at least once each twenty-four-month cycle, the superintendent, or any deputy or examiner appointed by the superintendent for that purpose, shall thoroughly examine the records and affairs of each state bank. The examination shall include a review of all of the f...

...(A) The banking commission shall hold regular meetings at the times and places it fixes, and shall meet at any time on call of the deputy superintendent for banks upon two days' notice unless the commission by resolution provides for a shorter notice. (B) A majority of the full commission constitutes a quorum, and action taken by a majority of those present at a meeting at which there is a quorum constitutes the act...

...The superintendent of financial institutions may take possession of the property and business of a state bank if the superintendent finds any one or more of the following conditions: (A) The bank is in an unsafe or unsound condition to continue the business of banking. (B) The bank is insolvent, in that it has ceased to pay its debts in the ordinary course of business, it is incapable of paying its debts as they ma...

...(A) The Ohio ABLE savings program trust fund is hereby created, which shall be in the custody of the treasurer of state but shall not be part of the state treasury. The fund shall be used if the treasurer of state elects to accept deposits from contributors rather than have deposits sent directly to a program manager. The fund shall consist of any moneys deposited by contributors in accordance with sections 113.50 to...

...As used in sections 113.70 to 113.77 of the Revised Code: (A) "Expenditure" means a payment, distribution, loan, advance, reimbursement, deposit, or gift of money from a state entity to any supplier. (B) "Political subdivision" means a county, city, village, public library, township, park district, school district, regional water and sewer district, or regional transit authority. (C) "Public library" means a li...

...Any designee of the auditor of state may serve on any board or commission of which the auditor of state is a member by law.