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...(A) A contract for the construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction of a public improvement entered into on or after April 16, 1993, shall be deemed to include the provisions contained in division (B) of this section. (B)(1) In regard to any bond filed by the contractor for the work contracted, the contracting authority, in its sole discretion, may reduce the bond required by twenty-five pe...

...(A)(1)(a) If a professional design firm provides work, services, studies, planning, surveys, or preparatory work in connection with a public improvement, a public authority may require, via a provision in a public improvement contract or subcontract, that the professional design firm indemnify the public authority and its officers and employees for liabilities the public authority, officer, or employee incurs for the...

...(A) As used in this section, "public improvement" means any of the following: (1) A road, bridge, highway, street, or tunnel; (2) A waste water treatment system or water supply system; (3) A solid waste disposal facility or a storm water and sanitary collection, storage, and treatment facility; (4) Any structure or work constructed by a state agency or by another person on behalf of a state agency pursuant to a c...

...(A) Whoever violates section 153.58 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars. (B) A person who purchases or provides steel products in violation of division (A) of section 153.011 of the Revised Code shall pay a civil penalty equal to one and one-half times the purchase price of the steel products purchased or provided in violation of that section.

...Nothing in this chapter applies to activities that are permitted and regulated under Chapter 1514. of the Revised Code.

...Under the direction of the superintendent in charge of a mine, the mine foreman shall carry out this chapter and Chapters 1561., 1563., and 1567. of the Revised Code, see that the regulations prescribed for each class of workmen under his charge are carried out, and see that any deviations from any of them are promptly adjusted. This section does not prohibit the mine foreman from delegating any of his duties, exce...

...Unless the miner or loader has the required qualifications, the mine foreman, or the person whom he delegates as overseer, shall supervise the work of such miner or loader as to the manner in which he performs his duties, and shall instruct him concerning all things relating to his safety, and shall further instruct such miner or loader not to handle or use any explosives, except in the mine foreman's or overseer...

...The operator of each mine who is an employer as defined in section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, or any mine with three or more workers, shall employ a certified mine foreperson. In gaseous underground mines, only a holder of a mine foreperson of gaseous mines certificate that contains a notation by the chief of the division of mineral resources management showing the holder to be at least twenty-three years of...

...The operator of a mine shall keep on file a copy of the certificate of each mine foreperson, foreperson, and fire boss in the operator's employ or under the operator's control. Such certificate shall be exhibited to the chief of the division of mineral resources management, or any deputy mine inspector, upon demand. No operator of a mine shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.

...(A) In emergencies arising at a mine because of accident, death, illness, or any other cause, an operator may appoint noncertificate persons as forepersons and fire bosses to act until certified forepersons and fire bosses satisfactory to the operator can be secured. Such appointee may not serve in such capacity for a period longer than six months or until such time thereafter as an examination is held for such certi...

...The superintendent in charge of a mine shall direct the mine foreperson in such manner as is necessary to secure compliance with this chapter and Chapters 1561., 1563., and 1567. and section 1509.18 of the Revised Code. The superintendent may act as mine foreperson, but if the superintendent does so act regularly, the superintendent shall obtain a certificate from the chief of the division of mineral resources ...

...If a person certified by the chief of the division of mineral resources management purposely violates the mining laws, the person's certificate may be revoked by the chief after investigation and a hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. No person whose license, certificate, or similar authority to perform any certifiable mining duties in another state is suspended or revoked by that state shal...

...A deputy mine inspector shall investigate the employment of miners in and about the mines in his district, and if he finds any minors employed in violation of section 1565.10 of the Revised Code, he shall make a complaint thereof to the juvenile court, or any other court having competent jurisdiction, against the employer of such minors.

...No person shall be employed in or around a mine until he has attained the age of eighteen years. No person shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.

...The miners employed in a mine may appoint two of their number to act as a safety committee to inspect, not more often than once each month, the mine and the machinery connected therewith, and to measure the ventilating current. The operator may accompany such committee, or appoint two or more persons for that purpose. The operator shall afford every necessary facility for making such inspection and measurement, but t...

...When a loss of life is occasioned by accident in any mine, the operator thereof shall forthwith give notice thereof to the chief of the division of mineral resources management, and to the deputy mine inspector in charge of the district. Such notice shall be given by telephone or electronic format. The operator of such mine shall, within twenty-four hours after such accident causing loss of life, send a written repor...

...In case of an injury to person or property, occasioned by a violation of this chapter and Chapters 1561., 1563., and 1567., and section 1509.18 of the Revised Code, or any failure to comply with those chapters or that section, by any operator of a mine, a right of action shall accrue to the person injured, for any direct damage the person injured has sustained thereby. In case of loss of life by reason of such ...

...Each person who performs labor in opening or developing any mine, mining, or labor connected therewith, has a lien upon all the property of the person, firm, or corporation owning, constructing, or operating such mine, for the full value of such labor, upon the same terms as mechanics' liens are secured and enforced.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "EMT-basic," "EMT-I," "paramedic," and "emergency medical service organization" have the same meanings as in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "First aid provider" includes a mine medical responder, an EMT-basic, an EMT-I, a paramedic, or an employee at a surface coal mine who has satisfied the training requirements established in division (D)(1) of this section. (3) "Min...

...Motormen and trip riders shall use care in handling the locomotive and cars, and shall see that the signal or marker is used for the purpose as provided. Motormen and trip riders shall be governed by the speed provided for in sections 1567.39, 1567.40, and 1567.41 of the Revised Code in handling cars. No person shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.

...No person shall work by himself as a miner in a coal mine without having produced satisfactory evidence to the mine foreman of such mine that he has worked at least one year with, or as, a practical coal miner. This section applies only to mines generating methane, other gas, or combustible matter. No mine foreman of a coal mine shall permit anyone to mine coal in such mine until such person is qualified, unless he...

...On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the chief of the division of mineral resources management shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a certificate issued pursuant to this chapter.

...Whoever knowingly violates any section of this chapter is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Persona" means an individual's name, voice, signature, photograph, image, likeness, or distinctive appearance, if any of these aspects have commercial value. (B) "Commercial purpose" means the use of or reference to an aspect of an individual's persona in any of the following manners: (1) On or in connection with a place, product, merchandise, goods, services, or other commercial acti...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person shall not use any aspect of an individual's persona for a commercial purpose: (1) During the individual's lifetime; (2) For a period of sixty years after the date of the individual's death; or (3) For a period of ten years after the date of death of a deceased member of the Ohio national guard or the armed forces of the United S...