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...If a statute uses the term "fire marshal" it is referring to the state fire marshal.

...As used in any statute except section 303.01 or 519.01 of the Revised Code, "agriculture" includes farming; ranching; aquaculture; algaculture meaning the farming of algae; apiculture and related apicultural activities, production of honey, beeswax, honeycomb, and other related products; horticulture; viticulture, winemaking, and related activities; animal husbandry, including, but not limited to, the care and ...

...As used in the Revised Code, "OSU extension" means the cooperative extension service that was established by the "Smith-Lever Act," 38 Stat. 372 (1914), 7 U.S.C. 341 et seq., and is administered in this state by the Ohio state university.

...As used in the Revised Code, unless the context of a section does not permit the following or unless expressly provided otherwise in a section: (A) References to particular county officers, boards, commissions, and authorities mean, in the case of a county that has adopted a charter under Article X, Ohio Constitution, the officer, board, commission, or authority of that county designated by or pursuant to the...

...(A) The state solely shall regulate the business of originating, granting, servicing, and collecting loans and other forms of credit in the state and the manner in which any such business is conducted, and this regulation shall be in lieu of all other regulation of such activities by any municipal corporation or other political subdivision. (B) Any ordinance, resolution, regulation, or other action by a municipal co...

...As used in the Revised Code: (A) "Certified nurse-midwife" means an advanced practice registered nurse who holds a current, valid license issued under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code and is designated as a certified nurse-midwife in accordance with section 4723.42 of the Revised Code and rules adopted by the board of nursing. (B) "Certified nurse practitioner" means an advanced practice registered nurse who holds...

...(A) As used in the Revised Code, "insurance rating agency" means A.M. Best Rating Services, Inc., Demotech, Inc., or a rating agency certified or approved by a national entity that engages in an approval process that includes all of the following: (1) A requirement for the rating agency to register and provide an annual updated filing; (2) Record retention requirements; (3) Financial reporting requirements; (4)...

...(A) This chapter does not affect any security interest which any person, financial institution, or supplier has in the inventory of the dealer or affect a supplier's right to charge back to a dealer's account amounts previously paid or credited as a discount incident to the dealer's purchase of the repurchased inventory. (B) The provisions of this chapter are supplemental to any agreement between the dealer and the ...

...If a supplier fails to repurchase any inventory as required by section 1353.02 of the Revised Code, the dealer may bring a civil action to compel repurchase. If the court finds in favor of the dealer, the court shall order the supplier to repurchase the inventory at its current net price. In addition, the court shall order the supplier to pay to the dealer interest on the current net price of the inventory, computed ...

...This chapter does not apply to any contract entered into before the effective date of this chapter unless it is a continuing contract that has no expiration date.

...(A)(1) No supplier, without good cause, shall terminate, fail to renew, or substantially alter the competitive circumstances of a dealer agreement that is entered into by the supplier and a dealer on or after the effective date of this section or that is a continuing contract with no expiration date. (2) Circumstances that constitute good cause for a supplier to terminate, fail to renew, or substantially alter the...

...Except for section 1563.11 of the Revised Code, nothing in this chapter applies to activities that are permitted and regulated under Chapter 1514. of the Revised Code.

...As used in this chapter and Chapters 1561., 1565., and 1567. of the Revised Code, a gaseous mine is: (A) A mine in which methane has been ignited; (B) A mine in which methane has been detected in any of the open workings thereof by a permissible flame safety lamp; (C) A mine in which one fourth of one per cent or more of methane has been found in a sample of air taken in any of the open workings thereof upon analy...

...The operator of each underground mine shall, in opening a new mine, cause a map of such mine to be made at such time as the second opening required by section 1563.14 of the Revised Code is completed in such mine. Such map shall be made on a scale not less than two hundred feet per inch and shall show: (A) The boundary lines and the names of the owners of the surface of each tract under which excavation is made, and...

...The operator of each underground mine shall have a survey made whenever the workings of the mine have extended four hundred feet in any direction from the point shown on the map by the last survey of such mine, but not more often than once every six months, or whenever such mine is to be abandoned or shut down for a sufficient period of time to make it impossible to survey the working faces as prescribed by this sect...

...Upon the refusal or neglect of the owner, lessee, or agent of the mine to make and file a map or any addition thereto, as required by sections 1563.03, 1563.04, and 1563.42 of the Revised Code, within sixty days after being directed to do so by the chief of the division of mineral resources management, the chief may cause such map or addition thereto to be made in duplicate at the expense of such owner, lessee, or ag...

...For the purpose of making the examinations provided for in this chapter and Chapters 1561., 1565., and 1567. and applicable provisions of Chapter 1509. of the Revised Code, the chief of the division of mineral resources management, and each deputy mine inspector, may enter any mine at a reasonable time, by day or by night, but in such manner as will not necessarily impede the working of the mine, and the owner,...

...Each person owning land adjoining a mine worked for the production of coal, and each person interested in such mine, who has reason to believe that the protection of his interests therein or in the coal on his adjoining land requires it, upon making affidavit to that effect before a judge of a county court or judge of a municipal court or other proper officer, may enter such mine and have an examination or survey of ...

...When the affidavit has been made, and notice given, as provided in section 1563.07 of the Revised Code, upon the application of the person giving notice, the person in charge of the mine shall transport, by the ordinary method for entrance and exit in use at such mine, a surveying party of not more than three persons, furnish them with a competent guide, and supply them with necessary and proper lamps. The person req...

...The person owning or operating a mine shall not hinder or obstruct an examination or survey under section 1563.07 of the Revised Code, if made at a reasonable time, in a reasonable manner, and as provided by law. If the owner or lessee of a mine sustains damage for which compensation should be made because such examination or survey was made at an unreasonable time, or in an improper or unwarranted manner, the perso...

...If the owner, lessee, or agent of a mine refuses to comply with sections 1563.08 and 1563.09 of the Revised Code, the person who makes the application for the survey may recover judgment as upon default, in a court of competent jurisdiction, against the owner, lessee, or agent, in such sum as he declares under oath that he believes to be justly due him for coal belonging to him taken by the owner, lessee, or agent o...

...(A) Unless a permit has been issued by the director of transportation, or the board of county commissioners, or the board of township trustees, or such other public authority that is charged by law with the maintenance of a public road, and the approval of the chief of the division of mineral resources management has been obtained, no person, firm, or corporation, engaged in mining or quarrying any mineral, coal, sto...

...No owner, lessee, or agent shall conduct mining operations within twenty-five feet of any known well, or locate a mine opening within three hundred feet of any well that produces oil or gas unless the owner, lessee, or agent obtains permission in writing from the chief of the division of mineral resources management.

...When a deputy mine inspector considers that the ways and means of egress in any underground mine from the interior working places to the surface are inadequate as a safe and ready means of escape in case of emergency, from danger of fire at any point, or any other cause that may result in the entombment of persons working in the mine, the deputy mine inspector shall give notice in writing to the owner, lessee, or age...

...Except as provided in this section, the operator of an underground coal mine shall not employ, or permit any person to work therein, unless there are at least two openings to every seam worked in such mine, separated by natural strata of not less than one hundred feet in breadth at any point, by which distinct means of ingress and egress are always available to the persons therein employed. Such openings need not bel...