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Section 2137.17 | Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National commerce Act.

...natures in Global and National Commerce Act," 1 5 U.S.C. 7001 et seq., but does not modify, limit, or supersede 15 U.S.C. 7001(c) or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in 15 U.S.C. 7003(b).

Section 2137.18 | Severability.

...If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.

Section 2305.01 | Jurisdiction in civil cases - trial transfer.

...all not have jurisdiction, in any tort action to which the amounts apply, to award punitive or exemplary damages that exceed the amounts set forth in section 2315.21 of the Revised Code. The court of common pleas shall not have jurisdiction in any tort action to which the limits apply to enter judgment on an award of compensatory damages for noneconomic loss in excess of the limits set forth in section 2315.18...

Section 2305.011 | Standing of nature or ecosystem.

...h their physical environments, all interacting and linked together as a system through nutrient cycles and energy flows in a particular unit of space. (B) Nature or any ecosystem does not have standing to participate in or bring an action in any court of common pleas. (C)(1) No person, on behalf of or representing nature or an ecosystem, shall bring an action in any court of common pleas. (2) No person shall br...

Section 2305.02 | Wrongful imprisonment claim.

...he county where the underlying criminal action was initiated has exclusive, original jurisdiction to hear and determine an action or proceeding that is commenced by an individual who satisfies divisions (A)(1) to (5) of section 2743.48 of the Revised Code and that seeks a determination by the court that an error in procedure of the type described in division (A)(5) of that section occurred, that the offense of which...

Section 2305.03 | Lapse of time a bar.

...ation is prescribed by statute, a civil action may be commenced only within the period prescribed in sections 2305.04 to 2305.22 of the Revised Code. If interposed by proper plea by a party to an action mentioned in any of those sections, lapse of time shall be a bar to the action. (B) No tort action, as defined in section 2305.236 of the Revised Code, that is based upon a cause of action that accrued in any other ...

Section 2305.04 | Recovery of real estate.

...An action to recover the title to or possession of real property shall be brought within twenty-one years after the cause of action accrued, but if a person entitled to bring the action is, at the time the cause of action accrues, within the age of minority or of unsound mind, the person, after the expiration of twenty-one years from the time the cause of action accrues, may bring the action within ten years after th...

Section 2305.041 | Action for breach of oil or gas lease or license.

...section 5301.09 of the Revised Code, an action alleging breach of any express or implied provision of the lease or license concerning the calculation or payment of royalties shall be brought within the time period that is specified in section 1302.98 of the Revised Code. An action alleging a breach with respect to any other issue that the lease or license involves shall be brought within the time period specified in ...

Section 2305.05 | Real estate dedicated to public uses.

...ey, inlot, or outlot is a part of the tract of land so laid out by the original proprietors, the public easement therein shall be extinguished and the right of such municipal corporation, the citizens thereof, or other persons, and the legislative authority of such municipal corporation and the legal authorities thereof, to use, control, or occupy so much of such street or alley as has been fenced, used, possessed, a...

Section 2305.06 | Contract in writing.

...10, and 2305.04 of the Revised Code, an action upon a specialty or an agreement, contract, or promise in writing shall be brought within six years after the cause of action accrued.

Section 2305.07 | Contract not in writing; statutory liability; consumer transactions.

...301 and 1302.98 of the Revised Code, an action upon a contract not in writing, express or implied, shall be brought within four years after the cause of action accrued. (B) An action upon a liability created by statute other than a forfeiture or penalty shall be brought within six years after the cause of action accrued. (C) Except as provided in sections 1303.16, 1345.10, and 2305.04 of the Revised Code, and not...

Section 2305.08 | Partial payment.

... made upon any demand founded on a contract, or a written acknowledgment thereof, or a promise to pay it has been made and signed by the party to be charged, an action may be brought thereon within the time limited by sections 2305.06 and 2305.07 of the Revised Code, after such payment, acknowledgment, or promise.

Section 2305.09 | Four years - certain torts.

...or in division (C) of this section, an action for any of the following causes shall be brought within four years after the cause thereof accrued: (A) For trespassing upon real property; (B) For the recovery of personal property, or for taking or detaining it; (C) For relief on the ground of fraud, except when the cause of action is a violation of section 2913.49 of the Revised Code, in which case the action ...

Section 2305.091 | Asbestos actions by school districts.

...t or of the United States environmental protection agency, the Ohio environmental protection agency, or the industrial commission who has conducted an inspection for asbestos or who has received test data concerning asbestos located in a building or other structure that is owned by the board of education, that asbestos or materials that contain asbestos in any building or other structure that is owned by the board of...

Section 2305.10 | Bodily injury or injury to personal property.

...division (C) or (E) of this section, an action based on a product liability claim and an action for bodily injury or injuring personal property shall be brought within two years after the cause of action accrues. Except as provided in divisions (B)(1), (2), (3), (4), and (5) of this section, a cause of action accrues under this division when the injury or loss to person or property occurs. (B)(1) For purposes of div...

Section 2305.101 | Limitation of actions against Dalkon Shield claimants trust.

...rginia, Richmond division, may bring an action in this state against the Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust for bodily injury or wrongful death caused by the effects of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device, within one year from the date of the certification by the United States district court or the United States bankruptcy court for the eastern district of Virginia, Richmond division, of the right of that claimant to pr...

Section 2305.11 | Time limitations for bringing certain actions.

...(A) An action for libel, slander, malicious prosecution, or false imprisonment, an action for malpractice other than an action upon a medical, dental, optometric, or chiropractic claim, an action for legal malpractice against an attorney or a law firm or legal professional association, or an action upon a statute for a penalty or forfeiture shall be commenced within one year after the cause of action accrued, provide...

Section 2305.111 | Assault or battery actions - childhood sexual abuse.

... any of the following apply: (i) The actor is the victim's natural parent, adoptive parent, or stepparent or the guardian, custodian, or person in loco parentis of the victim. (ii) The victim is in custody of law or a patient in a hospital or other institution, and the actor has supervisory or disciplinary authority over the victim. (iii) The actor is a teacher, administrator, coach, or other person in autho...

Section 2305.112 | Actions based on identity fraud.

...A civil action brought pursuant to division (A) of section 2307.60 of the Revised Code when the person filing the action is injured in person or property by a violation of division (B), (D), or (E) of section 2913.49 of the Revised Code shall be commenced within five years from the date on which the identity of the offender was discovered or reasonably should have been discovered.

Section 2305.113 | Medical malpractice actions.

...anionship, care, assistance, attention, protection, advice, guidance, counsel, instruction, training, or education, or any other intangible loss that was sustained by the parent, guardian, custodian, or spouse; (b) Expenditures of the parent, guardian, custodian, or spouse for medical, dental, optometric, or chiropractic care or treatment, for rehabilitation services, or for other care, treatment, services, produc...

Section 2305.114 | Partial birth feticide actions.

...A civil action pursuant to section 2307.53 of the Revised Code for partial birth feticide or dismemberment feticide shall be commenced within one year after the commission of the offense.

Section 2305.115 | Assault or battery actions against mental health professional based on sexual conduct or contact.

...ded in division (C) of this section, an action for assault or battery shall be brought within two years after the cause of action accrues, except as provided in division (B) of this section, if all of the following apply regarding the action, the cause of the action, and the parties to the action: (1) The action is brought against a mental health professional. (2) The assault or battery claim asserted in the action...

Section 2305.116 | No cause of action for failure to perform abortion.

...(A) No person has a civil action or may receive an award of damages in a civil action, and no other person shall be liable in a civil action, upon a medical claim that because of an act or omission by the other person the person was not aborted. (B) No person has a civil action or may receive an award of damages in a civil action, and no other person shall be liable in a civil action, upon a medical claim that becau...

Section 2305.117 | Action upon a legal malpractice claim.

... otherwise provided in this section, an action upon a legal malpractice claim against an attorney or a law firm or legal professional association shall be commenced within one year after the cause of action accrued. (B) Except as to persons within the age of minority or of unsound mind as provided by section 2305.16 of the Revised Code, and except as provided in divisions (C) and (D) of this section, both of the fol...

Section 2305.118 | Action for an assisted reproduction procedure performed without consent.

...ded in division (C) of this section, an action under section 4731.861 or 4731.864 of the Revised Code for an assisted reproduction procedure performed without consent shall be brought within ten years after the procedure was performed. (C)(1) An action that would otherwise be barred under division (B) of this section, may be brought not later than five years after the latest any of the following occurs: (a) The d...

Section 135.141 | Municipal corporation may invest interim moneys in linked deposits.

...In addition to the investments specified in section 135.14 of the Revised Code, the treasurer or the governing board of a municipal corporation may invest interim moneys in linked deposits as authorized by ordinance adopted pursuant to section 135.80 of the Revised Code.

Section 135.142 | Board of education investment of interim moneys.

... notify the treasurer of state of this fact within twenty-four hours. At any time thereafter the treasurer of state may require collateralization at the rate of one hundred two per cent of any remaining obligation of the entity, with securities authorized for investment under section 135.143 of the Revised Code. The collateral shall be delivered to and held by a custodian acceptable to the treasurer of state, marked ...

Section 135.143 | Investment authority for state interim funds.

...rer of state may invest or execute transactions for any part or all of the interim funds of the state in the following classifications of obligations: (1) United States treasury bills, notes, bonds, or any other obligations or securities issued by the United States treasury or any other obligation guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States; (2) Bonds, notes, debentures, or any other obligation...

Section 135.145 | Redeposit of interim moneys moneys.

...of interim moneys with, or the award of active or inactive deposits to, an eligible public depository described in section 135.03 of the Revised Code and designated pursuant to section 135.12 of the Revised Code, may authorize the public depository to arrange for the redeposit of such public moneys in accordance with the following conditions: (1) The public depository, on or after the date the public moneys are rece...

Section 135.1411 | Municpal corporation environmental, social, personal, or ideology investment prohibition.

...Unless expressly authorized by the laws of this state, the treasurer or the governing board of a municipal corporation shall not do either of the following: (A) Make an investment decision with the primary purpose of influencing any environmental, social, personal, or ideological policy; (B) Permit any person or entity to which the treasurer or governing board delegates the management of the investment of public ...

Section 135.15 | Transferring funds from one classification to another.

... of deposit, is of the opinion that the actual amount of active deposits is insufficient to meet the anticipated demands on such active deposits, it shall direct the treasurer to sell interim money investments or deposits or transfer from the inactive deposits to the active deposits an amount sufficient to meet such demands. The board shall designate in such order the depositories from which withdrawals for such purp...

Section 135.16 | Payment of interest.

...Interest on active deposits shall be paid or credited by the public depository at least quarterly and when the funds are withdrawn, computing the time of payment from the date of deposit. Interest on inactive deposits shall be paid or credited by the public depository to the treasurer according to the terms and conditions of the time certificates of deposit or savings or deposit accounts or when the funds are withdra...

Section 135.17 | Cash reserve.

...Each treasurer may at all times keep in the vaults of his office such amount, as a cash reserve, as is prescribed by the proper governing board, which amount shall not be required to be deposited pursuant to sections 135.01 to 135.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Each treasurer shall deposit or invest all the remaining public moneys in his possession in accordance with sections 135.01 to 135.21, inclusive, of the ...

Section 135.18 | Security for repayment of public moneys.

...trust powers generally, is qualified to act as trustee for the safekeeping of securities, under this section. Any institution mentioned in section 135.03 or 135.32 of the Revised Code that holds a certificate of qualification issued by the superintendent of financial institutions or any institution complying with sections 1111.04, 1111.05, and 1111.06 of the Revised Code, is qualified to act as trustee for the safeke...

Section 135.181 | Optional pledging requirements.

...trust powers generally, is qualified to act as trustee for the safekeeping of securities, under this section. Any institution mentioned in section 135.03 or 135.32 of the Revised Code which holds a certificate of qualification issued by the superintendent of financial institutions or any institution complying with sections 1111.04, 1111.05, and 1111.06 of the Revised Code is qualified to act as trustee for the safeke...

Section 135.182 | Ohio pooled collateral program.

...trust powers generally, is qualified to act as trustee for the safekeeping of securities, under this section. Any institution mentioned in section 135.03 or 135.32 of the Revised Code that holds a certificate of qualification issued by the superintendent of financial institutions or any institution complying with sections 1111.04, 1111.05, and 1111.06 of the Revised Code is qualified to act as trustee for the safekee...

Section 135.19 | Failure of public depository.

...e of loss is due to any investment transaction made pursuant to law or to any risk arising from any investment transaction or investment made pursuant to law.

Section 135.20 | Proportion of deposits in various banks subject to reasonable variation.

...Except as regards initial deposits at the beginning of a period of designation, the requirements of sections 135.01 to 135.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, respecting the proportions in which deposits in more than one public depository of the state or of the same subdivision are to be made and maintained, are subject to such reasonable variations as the exigencies of public business require. Any public depos...

Section 135.21 | Investment earnings apportionment and crediting.

...ther district of which the treasurer is acting as ex officio treasurer, or for any other reason, do not belong in the treasury of the state or subdivision shall, except as provided in section 135.351 of the Revised Code, be apportioned among and credited to the funds to which the principal sums of such deposits or investments belong. All other investment earnings, except as provided in section 135.351 of the Revised...

Section 135.22 | Annual continuing education programs for treasurers.

...surer a registration fee that will meet actual and necessary expenses in connection with the training of the treasurer, including instruction fees, site acquisition costs, and the cost of course materials. Any necessary personal expenses of a treasurer incurred as a result of attending the continuing education courses shall be borne by the subdivision represented by the treasurer. (G) The treasurer of state ma...

Section 135.31 | County depository definitions.

... to 135.40 of the Revised Code: (A) "Active moneys" means an amount of public moneys in public depositories determined to be necessary to meet current demands upon a county treasury, and deposited in any of the following: (1) A commercial account and withdrawable, in whole or in part, on demand; (2) A negotiable order of withdrawal account as authorized in the "Consumer Checking Account Equity Act of 1980," ...

Section 135.32 | Institutions eligible as county public depositories.

...(A) Any national bank, any bank doing business under authority granted by the superintendent of financial institutions, or any bank doing business under authority granted by the regulatory authority of another state of the United States, located in this state, is eligible to become a public depository, subject to sections 135.31 to 135.40 of the Revised Code. No bank shall receive or have on deposit at any one time p...

Section 135.33 | Designating county depositories every four years.

... designating its public depositories of active moneys for the next succeeding four-year period commencing on the date of expiration of the preceding period. At least sixty days before the meeting, the county treasurer shall submit to the board an estimate of the aggregate amount of public moneys that might be available for deposit as active moneys at any one time during the next four-year period. Upon receipt of su...

Section 135.34 | Review of investment procedures semiannually.

...ng authority has failed to invest the inactive moneys of the county as provided by law, or in documented substantial, material, and continuing disregard of the advice or written policies of the county investment advisory committee pursuant to section 135.341 of the Revised Code, the board shall inform, by written notice, the investing authority of its finding. When, at the time of the next succeeding semiannual revie...

Section 135.341 | County investment advisory committee.

... Revised Code. (E) The committee shall act as the investing authority in place of the treasurer for purposes of investing county funds and managing the county portfolio when this authority is transferred to it pursuant to divisions (E)(1) and (F)(2) of section 321.46 of the Revised Code or when ordered to do so by a court pursuant to section 321.47 of the Revised Code. For these purposes, the commi...

Section 135.35 | County inactive moneys.

...nvest any part or all of the county's inactive moneys and shall invest all of the money in the county public library fund when required by section 135.352 of the Revised Code. The following classifications of securities and obligations are eligible for such deposit or investment: (1) United States treasury bills, notes, bonds, or any other obligation or security issued by the United States treasury, any other obli...

Section 135.351 | Crediting interest.

...(A) Except as provided in sections 135.352 and 1545.22 of the Revised Code, all interest earned on money included within the county treasury shall be credited to the general fund of the county. (B) Unless otherwise provided by law, with respect to moneys belonging to another political subdivision, taxing district, or special district that are deposited or invested by the county, the ...

Section 135.352 | County library and local government support fund.

...The investment authority shall invest all moneys in the county public library fund that are not distributed due to an appeal of the budget commission's allocation of such fund. Interest earned on such investments shall be credited to the fund and distributed in accordance with section 5747.48 of the Revised Code.

Section 135.353 | County may invest inactive moneys in linked deposits.

... do all of the following: (1) Invest inactive or public moneys in linked deposits as authorized by resolution adopted pursuant to section 135.80 or 135.801 of the Revised Code; (2) Invest inactive or public moneys in linked deposits as authorized by resolution adopted pursuant to section 135.805 of the Revised Code for a term considered appropriate by the investing authority, but not exceeding fifteen years, which ...

Section 135.354 | Redeposit of inactive moneys.

...Code for the investment or deposit of inactive moneys, the investing authority of a county, upon the deposit of active or inactive moneys with an eligible public depository described in section 135.32 of the Revised Code and selected by the investing authority, may authorize the public depository to arrange for the redeposit of such public moneys in accordance with the following conditions: (1) The public depository...