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...As used in sections 1333.91 to 1333.94 of the Revised Code: (A) "Pyramid promotional scheme" means any plan or operation by which individuals pay consideration for the chance or opportunity to receive compensation that is derived primarily from recruiting other individuals into the plan or operation rather than from the sale of products or services to ultimate users or from the consumption or use of products or serv...

...As used in sections 1334.01 to 1334.15 of the Revised Code: (A) "Seller" means a person who sells or leases a business opportunity plan. (B) "Purchaser" means a person to whom a business opportunity plan is sold or leased. (C) "Broker" means a person, other than a seller, who sells or leases, offers for sale or lease, or arranges for the sale or lease of a business opportunity plan for a commission, fee, or ...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Affiliate" means any of the following: (1) A person who directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote, twenty per cent or more of the outstanding voting securities of the debtor, other than a person who holds the securities in either of the following manners: (a) As a fiduciary or agent without sole discretionary power to vote the securities; (b) Solely to secure...

...As used in sections 1337.11 to 1337.17 of the Revised Code: (A) "Adult" means a person who is eighteen years of age or older. (B) "Attending physician" means the physician to whom a principal or the family of a principal has assigned primary responsibility for the treatment or care of the principal or, if the responsibility has not been assigned, the physician who has accepted that responsibility. (C) "Comfort ...

...As used in sections 1337.21 to 1337.64 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agent" means a person granted authority to act for a principal under a power of attorney, whether denominated an agent, attorney in fact, or otherwise. "Agent" includes an original agent, coagent, successor agent, and a person to which an agent's authority is delegated. (B) "Durable," with respect to a power of attorney, means not terminated by...

...As used in sections 1345.01 to 1345.13 of the Revised Code: (A) "Consumer transaction" means a sale, lease, assignment, award by chance, or other transfer of an item of goods, a service, a franchise, or an intangible, to an individual for purposes that are primarily personal, family, or household, or solicitation to supply any of these things. "Consumer transaction" does not include transactions between persons, d...

...As used in sections 1345.21 to 1345.28 of the Revised Code: (A) "Home solicitation sale" means a sale of consumer goods or services in which the seller or a person acting for the seller engages in a personal solicitation of the sale at a residence of the buyer, including solicitations in response to or following an invitation by the buyer, and the buyer's agreement or offer to purchase is there given to the seller ...

...As used in sections 1345.41 to 1345.50 of the Revised Code: (A) "Prepaid entertainment contract" means a contract under which the buyer of a service pays for or becomes obligated to pay for service prior to the buyer's receipt of or enjoyment of any or all of the service and that is a contract for: (1) Dance studio lessons, which include related services and instruction in ballroom or other types of dancing, and le...

...As used in sections 1345.61 to 1345.68 of the Revised Code: (A) "Contract for invention development services" means a contract by which an invention developer undertakes invention development services for a customer. (B) "Customer" means any person who enters into a contract for invention development services regarding an invention, except any person, other than an individual, who purchases invention development se...

...As used in sections 1345.71 to 1345.78 of the Revised Code: (A) "Consumer" means any of the following: (1) The purchaser, other than for purposes of resale, of a motor vehicle; (2) Any lessee of a motor vehicle in a contractual arrangement under which a charge is made for the use of the vehicle at a periodic rate for a term of thirty days or more, and title to the vehicle is in the name of a person other than the ...

...As used in sections 1345.90 to 1345.95 of the Revised Code: (A) "Assistive device" means a product designed and intended to be used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of an individual with a disability in seeing, hearing, speaking, walking, breathing, performing manual tasks, learning, working, or self-care. "Assistive device" includes a wheelchair, motorized scooter, assistive listening d...

...As used in this section and sections 1346.05 to 1346.10 of the Revised Code: (A) "Brand family" means all styles of cigarettes sold under the same trademark and differentiated from one another by means of additional modifiers or descriptors, including, but not limited to, "menthol," "lights," "kings," and "100s." "Brand family" includes cigarettes sold under any brand name (whether that name is used alone or in con...

...As used in this chapter, except as otherwise provided: (A) "State agency" means the office of any elected state officer and any agency, board, commission, department, division, or educational institution of the state. (B) "Local agency" means any municipal corporation, school district, special purpose district, or township of the state or any elected officer or board, bureau, commission, department, division, insti...

...As used in sections 1349.20 to 1349.22 of the Revised Code: (A) "Banking day" means any day on which the federal reserve bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its functions. (B) "Check" means a negotiable instrument that is drawn on a federally insured bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or savings bank and contains an unconditional order to pay, on demand, a specified sum in...

...As used in sections 1349.25 to 1349.37 of the Revised Code: (A) "Actuarial method" means the method of allocating payments made on a debt between the amount financed and the finance charge pursuant to which a payment is applied first to the accumulated finance charge and any remainder is subtracted from, or any deficiency is added to, the unpaid balance of the amount financed. (B) "Consumer" means a natural person...

...As used in sections 1349.65 to 1349.76 of the Revised Code: (A) "Consumer product" has the same meaning as in section 101 of the "Magnuson-Moss Warranty-Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act," 15 U.S.C. 2301 and 16 C.F.R. 700.1. (B) "High-volume third party seller" means a participant on an online marketplace's platform that is a third party seller and that, in any continuous twelve-month period during the pre...

...As used in this section and section 1349.81 of the Revised Code: (A) "Performing group" means a vocal or instrumental group seeking to use the name of a recording group that previously released a commercial sound recording under the recording group's name. (B) "Recording group" means a vocal or instrumental group that includes at least one member who satisfies both of the following criteria: (1) The member ...

...As used in sections 1349.84 to 1349.86 of the Revised Code: (A) "Ammunition" has the same meaning as in section 2305.401 of the Revised Code and includes any ammunition component. (B) "Assign" or "assignment" refers to a financial institution's policy, process, or practice that labels, links, or otherwise associates a firearms code with a merchant or a payment card transaction in a manner that allows the financi...

...Except as otherwise provided in sections 135.14, 135.143, 135.181, and 135.182 of the Revised Code, as used in sections 135.01 to 135.21 of the Revised Code: (A) "Active deposit" means a public deposit necessary to meet current demands on the treasury, and that is deposited in any of the following: (1) A commercial account that is payable or withdrawable, in whole or in part, on demand; (2) A negotiable orde...

...As used in sections 135.31 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 Acc...

...As used in sections 135.62 to 135.66 of the Revised Code: (A) "Discount interest rate" means an interest rate below the prevailing interest rate that the treasurer of state determines eligible lending institutions are willing to pay to hold linked deposits. (B) "Eligible borrower" means a borrower that has met all the requirements necessary to participate in the adoption linked deposit program under section 135...

...As used in sections 135.70 to 135.71 of the Revised Code: (A) "Closing costs" means a disbursement listed on a closing disclosure for the purchase of a home by an eligible participant. (B) "Closing disclosure" means the statement of receipts and disbursements for a transaction related to real estate, including a statement prescribed under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974, 12 U.S.C. 2601 et seq....

...As used in sections 135.804 to 135.807 of the Revised Code: (A) "Taxes" has the same meaning as in section 323.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Eligible borrower" means a person meeting all of the following: (1) The person is the owner of a homestead that is not charged with more than two years' worth of certified delinquent taxes. (2) The person had total income in the year prior to submitting an application ...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Advertisement" means any written, visual, or oral communication made to a lessee or prospective lessee by means of personal representation, newspaper, magazine, circular, billboard, direct mailing, sign, radio, television, telephone, or other means of communication, that aids, promotes, or assists, directly or indirectly, a lease-purchase agreement. (B) "Cash price" means the price...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Attachments" means equipment designed to be used on or in conjunction with farm machinery or construction equipment. (B) "Current net price" means the price listed in the supplier's price list or catalog in effect at the time the dealer agreement is terminated, less all applicable discounts. (C) "Dealer agreement" means a written or implied contract, sales agreement, or security agre...