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...This chapter applies only to an owner and a residential contractor who enter into a contract for the construction or the substantial rehabilitation of a residential building.

...Upon entering into a contract for the construction or the substantial rehabilitation of a residential building, a residential contractor shall provide the owner with notice of the contractor's right to offer to resolve any alleged construction defect before the owner may commence a dwelling action or arbitration proceedings against the contractor. The contractor may include the notice in the contract or provide the n...

...(A) No owner shall commence arbitration proceedings or file a dwelling action against a residential contractor unless, at least sixty days before commencing the proceedings or filing the action, the owner provides the contractor with written notice of the construction defect that would be the basis of the arbitration proceedings or the dwelling action. The notice shall be in writing and mailed, sent by telegram, deli...

...(A) A residential contractor shall provide the owner with a good faith written response to any notice provided pursuant to section 1312.04 of the Revised Code. The response shall be provided within twenty-one days after the owner mailed the notice, delivered it by personal delivery, or transmitted it by telegram, facsimile, or electronic mail. In the response, the contractor shall offer to take one of the following a...

...(A) If an owner accepts a residential contractor's offer to inspect the residential building, the owner shall notify the contractor of that acceptance within fourteen days. After accepting the offer to inspect, the owner shall allow the contractor reasonable access to the building during normal working hours. The contractor shall inspect the building within fourteen days after the owner accepts the offer. The contrac...

...Unless otherwise indicated in this chapter, an owner has complied with this chapter and may commence arbitration proceedings or file a dwelling action sixty days after the owner mails, delivers, sends by facsimile transmission or electronic mail, or otherwise provides the residential contractor with a defect notice pursuant to division (A) of section 1312.04 of the Revised Code.

...(A) All applicable statutes of limitation or repose are tolled from the time the owner sends a notice of defect to a contractor pursuant to section 1312.04 of the Revised Code until the owner has complied with this chapter. (B) If an owner files a dwelling action or commences arbitration proceedings without having complied with this chapter, the court or arbitrator shall dismiss that action or those proceedings with...

...When a person, partnership, association, or corporation, makes an assignment to a trustee of property, money, rights, or credits, in trust for the benefit of creditors, within ten days after the delivery of the assignment to him and before disposing of any property so assigned, such assignee shall appear before the probate judge of the county in which the assignor resided at the time of executing the assignment, prod...

...An assignment for the benefit of creditors as provided in section 1313.01 of the Revised Code is effective only from the time of its delivery to the probate judge, and the exact time of such delivery shall be indorsed thereon by the judge, who immediately shall note the filing on the journal of the court. Such assignment may be delivered by the assignor to the judge either before or after its delivery to the assignee...

...If ten days after the execution of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, the original or a copy of it has not been filed in the probate court, or if the assignee named thereon fails for that time to give bond, on application of the assignor, or any of his creditors, the court shall make an order removing such assignee and appoint a trustee in his place. If more than one assignee is named in the assignment, and ...

...An assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors appointed by the probate court, who has qualified, may resign his trust with the consent of the court. In case of the death, removal, or resignation of a sole assignee or trustee, the court shall appoint one or more trustees in his place. If one or more assignees or trustees have not died, resigned, or been removed, the court either may fill the vacancy, or allow t...

...When a creditor of an assignor provided for in section 1313.01 of the Revised Code, files a complaint alleging that the assignees named in the deed of assignment, or the trustees appointed by the probate court, for the benefit of creditors are not suitable persons to administer the trust, or that their administration thereof will not be for the best interests of the creditors and assignor, the court thereupon shall i...

...At an election under section 1313.05 of the Revised Code creditors representing fifty per cent or more of the debts of the assignor, present or represented by attorney, may proceed to the election of trustees for the benefit of creditors, a majority in value of all the debts represented at such meeting being necessary to a choice. The proceedings of the meeting showing what creditors were present, the amount of the ...

...The probate court may remove an assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors, specifying in the order the cause of removal.

...A surety of an assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors, or the executor or administrator of such surety, at any time may make application to the probate court to be released from the bond of such assignee or trustee, by filing his written request therefor with the judge of such court, and giving at least five days' notice, in writing, to such assignee or trustee. If, upon the hearing, the court is of opinion...

...An assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors at any time may make application to the probate court for the release of his sureties, by filing his written request with the judge of such court, and giving at least five days' notice, in writing, to such sureties. If, upon the hearing, the court is of opinion that there is good reason to release said sureties it shall order said assignee or trustee to file an acco...

...If an assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors fails to give new bond, as directed by the probate court, he must be removed and his letters superseded. The original sureties shall not be released until the assignee or trustee gives new bond, but the original sureties are liable for said assignee or trustee's acts only from the time of executing the original bond to the filing and approval by the court of the ...

...When the probate court appoints a trustee for the benefit of creditors, whether in place of an assignee or of a trustee previously appointed, such trustee, within ten days after his appointment, shall give bond or, failing to do so, he may be considered as declining the appointment, and the place shall be filled. When a trustee has given bond, he succeeds to all the rights, powers, and privileges of the preceding ass...

...On the resignation or removal of an assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors, he shall file and settle his account without delay, and on the death of such assignee or trustee, his legal representative must file and settle such account without delay. Immediately after the settlement, the assignee or trustee, or his legal representative, shall pay over to his successor all moneys found due from him to the trust...

...When the probate court appoints a trustee for the benefit of creditors to act in place of the assignee of a debtor, the appointment and qualification of the trustee operates as a conveyance to him of all the property originally assigned to such assignee.

...Each assignee or trustee for the benefit of creditors appointed on the failure of the assignee of a debtor to qualify, within thirty days after giving bond, must give notice of his appointment in some newspaper of general circulation in the county, for three successive weeks.

...Immediately upon the assignee of a debtor giving bond, or if said assignee fails to give bond, then upon the trustee for the benefit of creditors giving bond, the probate court shall appoint three suitable disinterested persons appraisers of the property and assets of the assignor. Such assignee or trustee, within thirty days after giving bond, unless for good cause the court allows a longer time, must make and file...

...If the assignment for the benefit of creditors, includes real property situated without this state, it is not necessary to have it appraised, but the assignee, or trustee appointed, shall sell such real property at public or private sale, and the sale shall be confirmed, if the court finds that it has been made in good faith for a fair price. At the time of filing the inventory as provided in section 1313.15 of the R...

...No assignment for the benefit of creditors shall include or cover any property exempt from levy or sale on execution, or exempt from being applied to the payment of debts by any legal process, unless in the assignment the exemption is expressly waived. No such assignment shall include any property belonging to the wife of the assignor, nor require the assignor to deliver up any of such property.

...Appraisers appointed under section 1313.15 of the Revised Code, shall set off in the way that appraisers of property levied on or attached are required to do, exempt property that has to be selected by the debtor. If the setting off is omitted, at any time after the appraisal and before sale, the court may order it to be done by the appraisers.