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...In order to encourage and expedite the acquisition of real property by agreements with owners, to avoid litigation and relieve congestion in the courts, to assure consistent treatment for owners in the many state and federally assisted programs, and to promote public confidence in public land acquisition practices, heads of acquiring agencies shall do or ensure the acquisition satisfies all of the following: (A) The...

...(A) For any lawful purpose, including, without limitation, the determination of the shareholders who are entitled: (1) to receive notice of or to vote at a meeting of shareholders; (2) to receive payment of any dividend or distribution; (3) to receive or exercise rights of purchase of or subscription for, or exchange or conversion of, shares or other securities, subject to contract rights with respect to the shares o...

...(A) The incorporators, the directors, and the shareholders, in the cases where they are respectively authorized to adopt an amendment to the articles, may, in addition thereto or in lieu thereof, adopt amended articles by the same action or vote as that required to adopt the amendment. (B) The directors may adopt amended articles to consolidate the original articles and all previously adopted amendments to the...

...opy of an amendment or amended articles changing the name of a corporation or its principal office in this state, certified by the secretary of state, may be filed for record in the office of the county recorder of any county in this state, and for such recording, the county recorder shall charge and collect the same fee as provided for in division (A)(1) of section 317.32 of the Revised Code. The copy shall be...

...(A) If an order of relief has been entered pursuant to the federal Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. 101, as amended, or if a plan of reorganization has been confirmed by the decree or order of a court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to the provisions of any other applicable statute of the United States relating to reorganization of corporations, a corporation may put into effect and carry out any decrees and orders of t...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and section 1702.521 of the Revised Code: (1) The number of directors as fixed by the articles or the regulations shall be not less than three or, if not so fixed, the number shall be three, except that if there are only one or two members of the corporation, the number of directors may be less than three but not less than the number of members. (2)(a) Subjec...

...(A) Except where the law, the articles, or the regulations require that action be otherwise authorized or taken, all of the authority of a corporation shall be exercised by or under the direction of its directors. For their own government, the directors may adopt bylaws that are not inconsistent with the articles or the regulations. (B) A director shall perform the director's duties as a director, including the du...

...(A) Each limited liability company and foreign limited liability company that has an effective registration as a foreign limited liability company under section 1706.511 of the Revised Code shall maintain continuously in this state an agent for service of process on the company. The agent shall be one of the following: (1) A natural person who is a resident of this state; (2) A domestic or foreign corporation, no...

...(A)(1) If a partnership licensed as a dealer is terminated under the laws of the state where the partnership is organized, or by death, resignation, withdrawal, or addition of a general partner, the license of the partnership shall be automatically extended for a period of thirty days after the termination. The license of the partnership and the licenses of its salespersons may be transferred to the successor p...

...The Ohio retirement study council shall: (A) Make an impartial review from time to time of all laws governing the administration and financing of the pension and retirement funds under Chapters 145., 146., 742., 3307., 3309., and 5505. of the Revised Code and recommend to the general assembly any changes it may find desirable with respect to the allowances and benefits, sound financing of the cost of benefits, the p...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Special improvement district" means a special improvement district organized under this chapter. (B) "Church" means a fellowship of believers, congregation, society, corporation, convention, or association that is formed primarily or exclusively for religious purposes and that is not formed for the private profit of any person. (C) "Church property" means property that is descri...

...The board of trustees of a corporation incorporated to create, hold, and manage a college endowment fund, the articles of incorporation of which provide that the fund may be applied to any object not inconsistent with the purposes of education different from that particularly specified therein, may apply to the court of common pleas in the county in which the corporation is located for permission to make such change,...

...(A) No person shall act as a fund-raising counsel unless the person first has complied with the requirements of this chapter and any rules adopted under this chapter. (B) Any fund-raising counsel that at any time has custody of contributions from a solicitation shall do all of the following: (1) Not later than ninety days after a solicitation campaign has been completed and on the anniversary of the commencement ...

...(A) No professional solicitor shall engage in any solicitation unless it has complied with the requirements of this chapter and any rules adopted under this chapter. (B) Every professional solicitor, before engaging in any solicitation, shall register with the attorney general. Applications for registration or renewal of registration shall be in writing, under oath, and in the form prescribed by the attorney genera...

...(A) The improvements made in the development or redevelopment of a blighted area pursuant to Chapter 1728. of the Revised Code are hereby declared to be a public purpose, and, except as otherwise provided in this division, not more than seventy-five per cent of the assessed valuation of such improvements may be exempted from taxation. With the approval under this division of the board of education of the city, local,...

...(A) A director shall perform the duties of a director, including duties as a member of any committee of the directors upon which the director serves, in good faith, in a manner the director reasonably believes to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the association, and with the care that an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would use under similar circumstances. In performing these duties, a dire...

...(A) The department of aging shall designate regions to be served by regional long-term care ombudsman programs. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, the state long-term care ombudsman shall designate regional programs in accordance with criteria established by the department of aging in rules which the department shall adopt under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The criteria shall incl...

...(A) The state long-term care ombudsman shall do all of the following: (1) Appoint a staff and direct and administer the work of the staff; (2) Oversee the performance and operation of the office of the state long-term care ombudsman program, including the operation of regional long-term care ombudsman programs; (3) Establish and maintain a statewide uniform reporting system to collect and analyze information relat...

...An action or proceeding against an unincorporated nonprofit association does not abate merely because of a change in its members or managers.

...(A) Except when the law or the governing principles require that action be otherwise authorized or taken, all of the authority of an unincorporated nonprofit association shall be exercised by or under the direction of its manager or managers. (B) The only fiduciary duties a manager owes to the association are the duties set forth in this division. The duties of a manager are to act in good faith, in a manner ...

...(A) Any changes in a health insuring corporation's solicitation document shall be filed with the superintendent of insurance thirty days prior to use for informational purposes, and shall comply with the requirements of this section. If the superintendent finds that any solicitation document fails to comply with the requirements of this section, the superintendent may disapprove any solicitation document or re...

...(A) As used in this section, "genetic screening or testing" means a laboratory test of a person's genes or chromosomes for genotypes, mutations, or chromosomal changes, including carrier status, that are linked to physical or mental disorders or impairments, or that indicate a susceptibility to illness, disease, or other disorders, whether physical or mental, which test is a direct test for genotypes, mutations, or c...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Emergency medical condition" means a medical condition that manifests itself by such acute symptoms of sufficient severity, including severe pain, that a prudent layperson with an average knowledge of health and medicine could reasonably expect the absence of immediate medical attention to result in any of the following: (a) Placing the health of the individual or, with respect to ...

...(A)(1) A credit union share guaranty corporation shall establish and maintain a guarantee fund. The fund shall be maintained at a normal operating level as defined by the board of directors of the corporation and approved by the superintendent of insurance, except that the normal operating level shall at all times be no less than one per cent of the aggregate share capital of participating credit unions, irrespective...

...(A) A partnership may become a limited liability partnership pursuant to this section. (B) Any terms and conditions by which a partnership becomes a limited liability partnership shall be approved by the vote necessary to amend the partnership agreement except when the partnership agreement expressly considers obligations to contribute to the partnership, in which case the required vote is the vote necessary ...