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...(A) As used in this section, "small business" has the same meaning as in section 107.63 of the Revised Code. (B) The LeanOhio office in the department of administrative services shall establish and operate an entrepreneur in residence pilot program. The mission of the entrepreneur in residence pilot program is to provide for better outreach by state government to small businesses, to strengthen coordination and int...

...(A) Any officer, member, or employee of, or consultant to, the general assembly, supreme court, court of appeals, court of claims, any agency of any of these, or any state university or college as defined in division (A)(1) of section 3345.12 of the Revised Code may be reimbursed for actual and necessary traveling and other expenses incurred while attending any gathering, conference, or convention, or while performin...

...(A) Unless otherwise agreed a term for delivery of goods "ex-ship" (which means from the carrying vessel) or in equivalent language is not restricted to a particular ship and requires delivery from a ship which has reached a place at the named port of destination where goods of the kind are usually discharged. (B) Under such a term unless otherwise agreed: (1) the seller must discharge all liens arising out of the ...

...(A) The person to whom an instrument is initially payable is determined by the intent of the person, whether or not authorized to sign the instrument, who signs the instrument as, in the name of, or in behalf of the issuer of the instrument. The instrument is payable to the person intended by the signer even if that person is identified in the instrument by a name or other identification that is not that of the inten...

..."Reacquisition of an instrument" occurs if it is transferred by negotiation or otherwise to a former holder. A former holder who reacquires the instrument may cancel any indorsements made after the reacquirer first became a holder of the instrument. If the cancellation causes the instrument to be payable to the reacquirer or to bearer, the reacquirer may negotiate the instrument. An indorser whose indorsement is canc...

...(A) Except as otherwise stated in this section, the right to enforce the obligation of a party to pay an instrument is subject to all of the following: (1) A defense of the obligor based on any of the following: (a) Infancy of the obligor to the extent it is a defense to a simple contract; (b) Duress, lack of legal capacity, or illegality of the transaction that, under other law, nullifies the obligation of the ob...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Check" means a cashier's check, teller's check, or certified check. (2) "Claimant" means a person who claims the right to receive the amount of a check that was lost, destroyed, or stolen. (3) "Declaration of loss" means a statement made in a record, under penalty of perjury, to the effect that all of the following are true: (a) The declarant lost possession of a check; (b) Th...

...(A) "Alteration" means either of the following: (1) An unauthorized change in an instrument that purports to modify in any respect the obligation of a party. (2) An unauthorized addition of words or numbers or other change to an incomplete instrument relating to the obligation of a party. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, an alteration fraudulently made discharges a party whose obligation is ...

...(A) This section does not apply to cashier's checks or other drafts drawn on the drawer. (B) If an unaccepted draft is dishonored, the drawer is obliged to pay the draft in accordance with either of the following: (1) According to its terms at the time it was issued or, if not issued, at the time it first came into possession of a holder; (2) If the drawer signed an incomplete instrument, according to its terms wh...

...(A) Subject to division (E) of this section, an instrument is paid to the extent payment is made by or on behalf of a party obliged to pay the instrument and to a person entitled to enforce the instrument. (B)(1) Subject to division (E) of this section, a note is paid to the extent payment is made by or on behalf of a party obliged to pay the note to a person that formerly was entitled to enforce the note only if at...

...(A) If tender of payment of an obligation to pay an instrument is made to a person entitled to enforce the instrument, the effect of tender is governed by principles of law applicable to tender of payment under a simple contract. (B) If tender of payment of an obligation to pay an instrument is made to a person entitled to enforce the instrument and the tender is refused, there is discharge, to the extent of the amo...

...Tangible bills of lading in a set [UCC 7-304] (A) Except as customary in international transportation, a tangible bill of lading may not be issued in a set of parts. The issuer is liable for damages caused by violation of this division. (B) If a tangible bill of lading is lawfully issued in a set of parts, each of which contains an identification code and is expressed to be valid only if the goods have not bee...

...(A) A secured party's disposition of collateral after default: (1) Transfers to a transferee for value all of the debtor's rights in the collateral; (2) Discharges the security interest under which the disposition is made; and (3) Discharges any subordinate security interest or other subordinate lien other than the liens specified in division (D) of section 1309.109 of the Revised Code. (B) A transferee who acts ...

...When a loss of public funds, entrusted to a county or municipal corporation treasurer or to a clerk of the court of common pleas, clerk of the court of appeals, clerk of the municipal court, clerk of the county court, judge of the probate court as clerk of such court, judge of the juvenile court as clerk of such court, or to a township or school district treasurer, or a fiscal officer of the board of trustees o...

...(A) A money transmitter that is required to file a report regarding business conducted in this state pursuant to the "Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act," 84 Stat. 1118 (1970), 31 U.S.C.A. 5311 to 5326 and 31 C.F.R. part 103 or 12 C.F.R. 21.11, shall file a duplicate of that report with the attorney general. (B) All persons engaged in a trade or business, who receive more than ten thousand dollars in mo...

...(A) As used in this section and section 1333.41 of the Revised Code, "public or private construction project" means a construction project that is for public or private purposes and that is located, in whole or in part, in this state or another state. (B) If a bailee for hire performs services or provides materials with respect to any personal property of the owner of, or principal contractor associated with, a publ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Service in the uniformed services" means the performance of duty on a voluntary or involuntary basis in a uniformed service under competent authority and includes active duty, active duty for training, initial active duty for training, inactive duty training, full-time national guard duty, and a period for which a person is absent from a position of employment for the purpose of an ...

...(A) As used in this section and in section 145.45 of the Revised Code: (1) "Child" means a biological or legally adopted child of a deceased member. If a court hearing for an interlocutory decree for adoption was held prior to the member's death, "child" includes the child who was the subject of the hearing notwithstanding the fact that the final decree of adoption, adjudging the surviving spouse as the adoptive par...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Public record" means records kept by any public office, including, but not limited to, state, county, city, village, township, and school district units, and records pertaining to the delivery of educational services by an alternative school in this state kept by the nonprofit or for-profit entity operating the alternative school pursuant to section 3313.533 of the Revised Code. "...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the forestry pollution abatement fund, which shall be administered by the chief of the division of forestry. (B) The fund may be used to pay costs incurred under all of the following: (1) Rules adopted under division (A)(3) of section 1503.51 of the Revised Code; (2) Division (B)(2) of section 1503.51 of the Revised Code; (3) Division (A)(3) of section 1503.54 of ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, any person who wishes to recover, alter, salvage, or destroy any abandoned property that is located on, in, or in the immediate vicinity of and associated with a submerged watercraft or aircraft in Lake Erie shall obtain a permit to do so from the director of natural resources that also has been approved by the director of the Ohio history connection. ...

...Rules of the chief of the division of oil and gas resources management may specify practices to be followed in the drilling and treatment of wells, production of oil and gas, and plugging of wells for protection of public health or safety or to prevent damage to natural resources, including specification of the following: (A) Appropriate devices; (B) Minimum distances that wells and other excavations, structures, a...

...(A) Any permit issued under this chapter to conduct coal mining operations shall require that the operations meet all applicable performance standards of this chapter and such other requirements as the chief of the division of mineral resources management shall adopt by rule. General performance standards shall apply to all coal mining and reclamation operations and shall require the operator at a minimum to do all o...

...As used in this section and sections 1513.28, 1513.30, 1513.31, and 1513.32 of the Revised Code, "damage to adjacent property" means physical injury or harm to nearby property caused by the unreclaimed condition of lands mined prior to April 10, 1972, or pursuant to a license issued prior to April 10, 1972, including, without limitation, injury or harm to vegetation on adjacent property, pollution of surface or under...

...The chief of the division of mineral resources management, with the approval of the director of natural resources, may make grants of money from the mining regulation and safety fund created by section 1513.30 of the Revised Code for the payment by the state of up to seventy-five per cent of the reasonable and necessary reclamation expenses incurred by the owner of any unreclaimed land affected by mining before April...