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...No automatic tabulating equipment shall be approved by the board of voting systems examiners or certified by the secretary of state, or be purchased, rented, or otherwise acquired, or used, unless it has been or is capable of being manufactured for use and distribution beyond a prototype and can be set by election officials, to examine ballots and to count votes accurately for each candidate, question, and issue, exc...

...The board of elections of each county shall provide uniformed services or overseas absent voter's ballots for use at each election. Such ballots for general or primary elections shall be prescribed on the seventieth day before the day of such elections and shall be the same as provided for absent voters in section 3509.01 of the Revised Code.

...When mailing unsealed identification envelopes and unsealed return envelopes to persons, the board of elections shall insert a sheet of waxed paper or other appropriate insert between the gummed flap and the back of each of such envelopes to minimize the possibility that the flap may become firmly stuck to the back of the envelope by reason of moisture, humid atmosphere, or other conditions to which they may be subje...

...(A) A board of elections shall accept and process federal write-in absentee ballots for all elections for office and for all ballot questions and issues as required under "The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act," Pub. L. No. 99-410, 100 Stat. 924, 42 U.S.C. 1973ff, et seq., as amended. (B) A uniformed services or overseas voter may use the declaration accompanying a federal write-in absentee b...

...The form of declaration of candidacy and petition of a person desiring to be a candidate for a party nomination or a candidate for election to an office or position to be voted for at a primary election shall be substantially as follows: "DECLARATION OF CANDIDACY PARTY PRIMARY ELECTION I, ___________________________ (Name of Candidate), the undersigned, hereby declare under penalty of election falsification that ...

...The names of the candidates in each group of two or more candidates seeking the same nomination or election at a primary election, except delegates and alternates to the national convention of a political party, shall be rotated and printed as provided in section 3505.03 of the Revised Code, except that no indication of membership in or affiliation with a political party shall be printed after or under the candidate'...

... indirectly, the overthrow, by force or violence, of our local, state, or national government or which carries on a program of sedition or treason by radio, speech, or press or which has in any manner any connection with any foreign government or power or which in any manner has any connection with any group or organization so connected or so advocating the overthrow, by force or violence, of our local, state, or nat...

...As used in this section, "hotel" and "transient guests" have the same meanings as in section 5739.01 of the Revised Code. A resolution creating a lake facilities authority under section 353.02 of the Revised Code, or any amendments or supplements thereto, may authorize the authority to levy an excise tax on transactions by which lodging in a hotel is or is to be furnished to transient guests to pay any costs author...

...(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 ...

...(A) No person shall do any of the following: (1) By force, fraud, or other improper means, obtain or attempt to obtain possession of the ballots, ballot boxes, or pollbooks; (2) Recklessly destroy any property used in the conduct of elections; (3) Attempt to intimidate an election officer, or prevent an election official from performing the official's duties; (4) Knowingly tear down, remove, or destroy any of the...

...Within one month after the subscription books of a stock insurance company are filled, as provided in section 3925.02 of the Revised Code, and after the articles of incorporation of a stock insurance company are filed with the secretary of state, a majority of subscribers to the voting stock shall hold a meeting for the election of not less than five nor more than twenty-one directors. The number of directors may b...

...A domestic mutual company has legal existence, subject to the limitations prescribed in sections 3941.01 to 3941.34 of the Revised Code, from the filing of its articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The original incorporators may fix and call the first meeting and adopt bylaws which thereupon shall be filed with the superintendent of insurance, and may elect the first officers and directors who shall...

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (D) of this section, the legislative power of each city shall be vested in, and exercised by, a legislative authority, composed of not fewer than seven members, four of whom shall be elected by wards and three of whom shall be elected by electors of the city at large. For the first twenty thousand inhabitants in any city, in addition to the original five thousand, there sha...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) or (C) of this section, the legislative power of each village shall be vested in, and exercised by, a legislative authority, composed of six members, who shall be elected by the electors of the village at large, for terms of four years. At the municipal election held in the year 1961 two members shall be elected for terms of two years and four members shall be el...

...An ordinance passed pursuant to section 745.06 of the Revised Code shall not take effect until submitted to the electors of the municipal corporation, at a special or general election held in the municipal corporation at such time as the legislative authority determines, and approved by a majority of the electors voting on it. The ordinance shall be passed by an affirmative vote of not less than a majority of t...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Pork" means the flesh of a porcine animal. (2) "Pork product" means a product produced or processed in whole or in part from pork. (3) "Producer" means a person who raises porcine animals in this state for sale in commerce. (B) The pork marketing program is established to promote the sale of pork and pork products. However, the pork marketing program shall not operate unles...

...(A) Except where the Revised Code, the articles of incorporation, or the code of regulations require action to be authorized or taken by shareholders or members, all of the authority of a state bank shall be exercised by or under the direction of the bank's board of directors. The board of directors shall consist of not less than five directors. (B) Unless the articles of incorporation or the code of regulations pro...

...(A)(1) Of the directors on the board of directors of a state bank: (a) A majority of the directors shall be outside directors. However, in the case of a stock state bank, if eighty per cent or more of any class of the bank's voting shares are owned by a company, a majority of the directors may be officers or directors of one or more affiliates of the bank. (b) For purposes of this section, anyone who is not an empl...

...(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...

...Each officer and employee of a state bank, prior to the discharge of the officer's or employee's duties, shall be covered by an individual, schedule, or blanket fidelity bond in favor of the bank, with terms and issuing insurer approved by the board of directors. The amount of the bond shall be set by the board of directors, and shall be reasonable given the size of the bank and nature of its business. The board of d...

...For its own governance, the board of directors may adopt bylaws not inconsistent with the law of this state, the articles of incorporation, or the code of regulations. Without limiting their generality, the bylaws may include provisions with respect to: (A) The time and place of holding, the manner of and authority for calling, giving notice of, and conducting meetings of the board of directors; (B) The appointment...

...(A)(1) A state bank's board of directors shall meet monthly unless the bank's code of regulations provides for a different frequency of meetings, which shall not be less than quarterly. (2) Division (A)(1) of this section does not prohibit either of the following: (a) A state bank's board of directors meeting more frequently than required by division (A)(1) of this section or the bank's code of regulations; (b) Th...

...(A) Once elected or appointed, a director may be removed as follows: (1) By the board of directors or the superintendent of financial institutions if any of the following applies: (a) The director has filed for relief or is a debtor in a case filed under Title XI of the United States Code; (b) A court has determined the director is incompetent; (c) The director has been removed in accordance with federal law. (2...

...(A) A director, officer, employee, or other institution-affiliated party of a bank shall not be personally and individually liable for direct or indirect damages the bank, its shareholders or members, or any other person sustains in consequence of a violation of or failure to comply with any provision of Chapters 1101. to 1127. of the Revised Code or the rules adopted under those chapters, including any civil money p...

...There is hereby created a controlling board consisting of all of the following: (A) The director of budget and management or an employee of the office of budget and management designated by the director; (B) The chairperson or vice-chairperson of the finance-appropriations committee of the house of representatives, as designated by the speaker; (C) The chairperson or vice-chairperson of the finance committee o...