Ohio Revised Code Search

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Automobile insurance policy" has the same meaning as in section 3937.30 of the Revised Code. (B) "Chauffeured limousine" has the same meaning as in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Digital network" means any online-enabled application, software, web site, or system offered or utilized by a transportation network company that enables the prearrangement of rides with transporta...

...As used in sections 3951.01 to 3951.09, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Lending institution" means a lending institution, as defined in division (L) of section 175.01 of the Revised Code, that is not organized for the purpose of qualifying to do business as a public insurance adjuster in this state, as determined by the superintendent, and that has been engaged in business as a bona fide lending instituti...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Title insurance" means insuring, guaranteeing, or indemnifying owners of real property or others interested in real property against loss or damage suffered by reason of liens or encumbrances upon, defect in, or the unmarketability of the title to the real property, guaranteeing, warranting, or otherwise insuring by a title insurance company the correctness of searches relating to the ...

...As used in sections 3955.01 to 3955.19 of the Revised Code: (A) "Account" means either of the two accounts created by division (B) of section 3955.06 of the Revised Code. (B) "Affiliate" means a person that, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, an insolvent insurer on the thirty-first day of December of the year next preceding the d...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Account" means either of the two accounts created under section 3956.06 of the Revised Code. (B) "Authorized assessment," or "authorized," in the context of assessments, means a resolution by the board of directors has been passed whereby an assessment will be called immediately or in the future from member insurers for a specified amount. An assessment is authorized when the resolut...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Administration fees" means any amount charged a covered person for services rendered. "Administration fees" includes commissions earned or paid by any person relative to services performed by an administrator. (B) "Administrator" means any person who adjusts or settles claims on, residents of this state in connection with life, dental, health, prescription drugs, or disability insur...

...As used in sections 3960.01 to 3960.13 of the Revised Code: (A) "Completed operations liability" means liability arising out of the installation, maintenance, or repair of any product at a site that is not owned or controlled by either a person who performs that work or a person who hires an independent contractor to perform the work. "Completed operations liability" includes liability for activities that are comple...

...As used in sections 3961.01 to 3961.09 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) "Discount medical plan" means a business arrangement or contract in which a person, in exchange for fees, dues, charges, or other consideration, offers access to members to providers of medical services and the right to receive discounted medical services from those providers. (2) "Discount medical plan" does not include any of the following: (a) A...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Affiliate" means any person or entity that has ownership or control of a contracting entity, is owned or controlled by a contracting entity, or is under common ownership or control with a contracting entity. (B) "Basic health care services" has the same meaning as in division (A) of section 1751.01 of the Revised Code, except that it does not include any services listed in that divis...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Affiliated company" means any company in the same corporate system as a parent, or a member organization by virtue of common ownership, control, operation, or management. (B) "Captive insurance company" means any insurer that insures only the risks of its parent or affiliated companies of its parent. "Captive insurance company" includes any protected cell captive insurance compan...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Assuming insurer" has the same meaning as in section 3901.61 of the Revised Code. (B) "Authorized individual" means an individual authorized by the licensee to access nonpublic information held by the licensee and its information systems. (C) "Ceding insurer" has the same meaning as in section 3901.61 of the Revised Code. (D) "Consumer" means an individual who is a resident of th...

...(A) Each licensee shall develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive written information security program based on the licensee's risk assessment. The program shall be commensurate with the size and complexity of the licensee, the nature and scope of the licensee's activities including its use of third-party service providers, and the sensitivity of the nonpublic information used by the licensee or in the license...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Chronic condition" means a condition that can be treated or managed, but not cured. (B) "Congenital anomaly or disorder" means a condition that is present from birth, whether inherited or caused by the environment, which may cause or contribute to illness or disease. (C) "Hereditary disorder" means an abnormality that is genetically transmitted from parent to offspring and may ca...

...As used in sections 4104.01 to 4104.20 and section 4104.99 of the Revised Code: (A) "Board of building standards" or "board" means the board established by section 3781.07 of the Revised Code. (B) "Superintendent" means the superintendent of industrial compliance created by section 121.04 of the Revised Code. (C) "Boiler" means a closed vessel in which water is heated, steam is generated, steam is superheated...

...n 4104.05 of the Revised Code. (B) The definitions and rules adopted by the board for the construction, installation, repair, conservation of energy, and operation of boilers and the construction and repair of pressure vessels and for ascertaining the safe working pressures to be used on such boilers and pressure vessels shall be based upon and follow generally accepted engineering standards, formulae, and pra...

...As used in sections 4104.31 to 4104.37: (A) "Boiler" has the same meaning as in section 4104.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Historical boiler" means a steam boiler of riveted construction that is preserved, restored, or maintained for hobby or demonstration.

...As used in sections 4104.41 to 4104.45 of the Revised Code: (A) "Building services piping" means piping systems and their component parts that are part of a building system and that promote the safe, sanitary, and energy efficient occupancy of a building. "Building services piping" includes, but is not limited to, cold and hot potable water distribution for plumbing fixtures; sanitary lines leading from plumbing fix...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Elevator" means a hoisting and lowering apparatus equipped with a car, cage, or platform which moves on or between permanent rails or guides and serves two or more fixed landings in a building or structure to which section 3781.06 of the Revised Code applies or in a private residence. "Elevator" includes dumb-waiters other than hand-powered dumb-waiters, escalators, manlifts, moving wa...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Employ" means to permit or suffer to work. (B) "Employer" means the state, its political subdivisions, and every person who employs any individual. (C) "Enforcement official" means the director of commerce or the director's authorized representative, the director of education and workforce or the director's authorized representative, any school attendance officer, any probation ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Construction occupation" means employment that consists of the construction, reconstruction, enlargement, alteration, repair, remodeling, renovation, demolition, or painting of a building or other structure, road, bridge, or other work, including preparation of a site for new construction. (2) "Manufacturing occupation" means employment that consists of the mechanical, physical...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Wage" means compensation due to an employee by reason of employment, payable in legal tender of the United States or checks on banks convertible into cash on demand at full face value, subject to the deductions, charges, or allowances permitted by rules of the director of commerce under section 4111.05 of the Revised Code. "Wage" includes an employee's commissions of which the employee'...

...(A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Person" includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, and other organized groups of persons. "Person" also includes, but is not limited to, any owner, lessor, assignor, builder, manager, broker, salesperson, appraiser, agent, employee, lending institution, and the state ...

...(A) No employer, and no physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner, other health care professional, hospital, or laboratory that contracts with the employer to provide medical information pertaining to employees, shall refuse upon written request of an employee, including a former employee, to furnish to the employee or the employee's designated representative a cop...

...As used in sections 4113.51 to 4113.53 of the Revised Code: (A) "Employee" means any person who performs a service for wages or other remuneration for an employer. (B) "Employer" means any person who has one or more employees. "Employer" includes an agent of an employer, the state or any agency or instrumentality of the state, and any municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subd...

...(A)(1) If a subcontractor or material supplier submits an application or request for payment or an invoice for materials to a contractor in sufficient time to allow the contractor to include the application, request, or invoice in the contractor's own pay request submitted to an owner, the contractor, within ten calendar days after receipt of payment from the owner for improvements to property, shall pay to the...