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...As used in sections 113.70 to 113.77 of the Revised Code: (A) "Expenditure" means a payment, distribution, loan, advance, reimbursement, deposit, or gift of money from a state entity to any supplier. (B) "Political subdivision" means a county, city, village, public library, township, park district, school district, regional water and sewer district, or regional transit authority. (C) "Public library" means a li...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Color of office" means actually, purportedly, or allegedly done under any law, ordinance, resolution, order, or other pretension to official right, power, or authority. (B) "Public accountant" means any person who is authorized by Chapter 4701. of the Revised Code to use the designation of certified public accountant or who was registered prior to January 1, 1971, as a public acc...

...(A)(1) The auditor of state shall establish and maintain a system for the reporting of fraud, including misuse and misappropriation of public money, by any public office or public official. The system shall allow Ohio residents and the employees of any public office to make anonymous complaints through a toll-free telephone number, the auditor of state's web site, or the United States mail to the auditor of state's o...

...As used in this chapter: (A) Advance tax payment notes means the notes authorized by section 118.24 of the Revised Code. (B) Appropriation measure means any appropriation measure, amendment of an appropriation measure, or supplement to an appropriation measure of a municipal corporation, county, or township referred to in sections 5705.38 and 5705.40 of the Revised Code and any other action of a municipal corporati...

...As used in sections 118.19 to 118.25 of the Revised Code: (A) "Debt service" means the principal of and interest and any call premium on debt obligations payable or required to be deposited for such payment at various times. (B) "Fiscal agent" means any one or more of the treasurer of state, county auditor, banks, trust companies, or other financial institutions authorized to exercise trust powers in the state, des...

...As used in sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) "Agency" means, except as limited by this division, any official, board, or commission having authority to promulgate rules or make adjudications in the civil service commission, the division of liquor control, the department of taxation, the industrial commission, the bureau of workers' compensation, the functions of any administrative or executive ...

...The attorney general shall adopt a rule pursuant to this chapter that defines the term "net worth" for purposes of sections 119.092 and 2335.39 of the Revised Code. The definition shall be designed to permit agencies and courts to apply identical principles in determining whether a party to an adjudication hearing, civil action or appeal of a civil action, or appeal of an adjudication order pursuant to section 119.12...

...As used in sections 120.51 to 120.55 of the Revised Code: (A) "Legal aid society" means a nonprofit corporation that satisfies all of the following: (1) It is chartered to provide general legal services to the poor, it is incorporated and operated exclusively in this state, its primary purpose or function is to provide civil legal services, without charge, to indigents, and, in addition to providing civil legal ser...

...As used in sections 121.01 to 121.20 of the Revised Code: (A) "Department" means the several departments of state administration enumerated in section 121.02 of the Revised Code. (B) "Division" means a part of a department established as provided in section 121.07 of the Revised Code for the convenient performance of one or more of the functions committed to a department. (C) "Departments, offices, and insti...

...As used in sections 121.30 to 121.34 of the Revised Code, "Spanish-speaking people" means persons who possess any of the following characteristics: (A) Use Spanish as their primary language; (B) Regard themselves as or are regarded in their community as being of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central American, South American, Spanish, or other Spanish-speaking origin or descent.

...As used in sections 121.41 to 121.50 of the Revised Code: (A) "Appropriate ethics commission" has the same meaning as in section 102.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Appropriate licensing agency" means a public or private entity that is responsible for licensing, certifying, or registering persons who are engaged in a particular vocation. (C) "Person" has the same meaning as in section 1.59 of the Revised Code a...

...As used in sections 121.60 to 121.69 of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" and "compensation" have the same meanings as in section 101.70 of the Revised Code. (B) "Expenditure" means any of the following that is made to, at the request of, for the benefit of, or on behalf of an elected executive official, the director of a department created under section 121.02 of the Revised Code, an executive agency official, ...

...As used in sections 121.71 to 121.75 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agency" means an "agency" as defined in section 111.15 or 119.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Rule" means a new rule or an amendment to an existing rule. "Rule" includes an appendix to a rule.

...(A) As used in the Revised Code, the "development services agency" means the department of development and the "director of development services" means the director of development. Whenever the development services agency or director of development services is referred to or designated in any statute, rule, contract, grant, or other document, the reference or designation shall be deemed to refer to the department of ...

...As used in sections 122.085 to 122.0820 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) "Allowable costs" includes costs related to the following: (a) Acquisition of land and buildings; (b) Building construction; (c) Making improvements to land and buildings, including the following: (i) Expanding, reconstructing, rehabilitating, remodeling, renovating, enlarging, modernizing, equipping, and furnishing buildings and structure...

...As used in this section and in sections 122.121 and 122.122 of the Revised Code: (A) "Endorsing county" means a county that contains a site selected by a site selection organization for one or more games. (B) "Endorsing municipality" means a municipal corporation that contains a site selected by a site selection organization for one or more games. (C) "Game support contract" means a joinder undertaking, joinder...

...As used in sections 122.13 to 122.136 of the Revised Code: (A) "Closing" means the permanent cessation of operations at an establishment that employs at least twenty-five persons. (B) "Employee-owned corporation" means a business operation that is controlled by a board of directors that is selected by the shareholders on a basis of one vote per shareholder and in which the management rights are represented by votin...

...As used in this section and sections 122.151 to 122.156 of the Revised Code: (A) "Affiliate" means a person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another person. For the purposes of this division, a person is "controlled by" another person if the controlling person holds, directly or indirectly, the majority voting or ownership ...

...As used in sections 122.19 to 122.22 of the Revised Code: (A) "Distressed area" has the same meaning as in section 122.16 of the Revised Code. (B) "Eligible applicant" means any of the following that are designated by the legislative authority of a county, township, or municipal corporation as provided in division (B)(1) of section 122.22 of the Revised Code: (1) A port authority as defined in division (A) o...

...In administering the urban and rural initiative grant program created under section 122.20 of the Revised Code, the director of development shall do all of the following: (A) Designate, within three months after the publication of each decennial census by the United States census bureau, the entities that constitute the eligible areas in this state; (B) Adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised...

...As used in sections 122.23 to 122.27 of the Revised Code: (A) "Distressed area" means a county with a population of less than one hundred twenty-five thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census published by the United States census bureau that meets at least two of the following criteria: (1) Its average rate of unemployment, during the most recent five-year period for which local area unempl...

...As used in sections 122.28 and 122.30 to 122.36 of the Revised Code: (A) "New technology" means the development through science or research of methods, processes, and procedures, including but not limited to those involving the processing and utilization of coal, for practical application in industrial or agribusiness situations. (B) "Industrial research" means study and investigation in giving new shapes, n...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Small business enterprise" means any person with a principal place of business or research in the state, who meets the definition of a "small business concern" as defined in 13 C.F.R. 121.7 (a), as amended. (2) "Eligible educational institution" means any educational institution that disseminates information, conducts educational or technical seminars and meetings, or provides othe...

...As used in sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 of the Revised Code: (A) "Financial institution" means any banking corporation, trust company, insurance company, savings and loan association, building and loan association, or corporation, partnership, federal lending agency, foundation, or other institution engaged in lending or investing funds for industrial or business purposes. (B) "Project" means any real...

...As used in sections 122.40 to 122.4077 of the Revised Code: (A) "Application" means an application made under section 122.4013 of the Revised Code for a program grant. (B) "Broadband funding gap" means the difference between the total amount of money a broadband provider calculates is necessary to construct the last mile of a specific broadband network and the total amount of money that the provider has determi...