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...The director of development services shall administer the following programs: (A) The industrial technology and enterprise development grant program, to provide capital to acquire, construct, enlarge, improve, or equip and to sell, lease, exchange, and otherwise dispose of property, structures, equipment, and facilities within the state. Such funding may be made to enterprises that propose to develop new pro...

...rpose of procuring or improving real or personal property, or both, for the establishment, location, or expansion of industrial, distribution, commercial, or research facilities in the state, and to community improvement corporations and Ohio development corporations for the purpose of loaning funds to other corporations, partnerships, and persons for the purpose of procuring or improving real or personal prope...

...rpose of procuring or improving real or personal property, or both, for the establishment, location, or expansion of industrial, distribution, commercial, or research facilities in the state, and for the purpose of contract financing, and to community development corporations that predominantly benefit minority business enterprises or are located in a census tract that has a population that is sixty per cent or more ...

...rpose of procuring or improving real or personal property, or both, for the establishment, location, or expansion of industrial, distribution, commercial, or research facilities in the state, if the director determines, in the director's sole discretion, that all of the following apply: (1) The project is economically sound and will benefit the people of the state by increasing opportunities for employment, by stre...

...submitting the lowest and best bid is a foreign corporation, the secretary of state has certified that the corporation is authorized to do business in this state, until, if the builder submitting the lowest and best bid is a person nonresident of this state, the person has filed with the secretary of state a power of attorney designating the secretary of state as its agent for the purpose of accepting service of summ...

...(A) As used in this section, "state agency" or "agency" does not include the general assembly or any legislative agency, any court or judicial agency, the secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, or attorney general and their respective offices. (B) The Ohio geographically referenced information program council shall develop and annually update a real property management plan. E...

...e used in cellular telephone service or personal communications service, a network radio access line, or any functional or competitive equivalent of such a radio-telephone communications or network radio access line. (2) Nothing in this chapter applies to paging or any service that cannot be used to call or contact 9-1-1. (G) "Wireless service provider" means any of the following that provides wireless service ...

...Adequate compliance with commercial contract [UCC 7-509] Whether a document of title is adequate to fulfill the obligations of a contract for sale, a contract for lease, or the conditions of a letter of credit is determined by sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, 1305.01 to 1305.16, and 1310.01 to 1310.78 of the Revised Code.

...rm, that creates a security interest in personal property or fixtures by contract; (2) An agricultural lien; (3) A sale of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes; (4) A consignment; (5) A security interest arising under section 1302.42 or 1302.49, division (C) of section 1302.85, or division (E) of section 1310.54 of the Revised Code, as provided in section 1309.110 of the Revised Code;...

...(A) A lease contract imposes an obligation on each party that the other party's expectation of receiving due performance will not be impaired. (B) If reasonable grounds for insecurity arise with respect to the performance of either party, the insecure party may demand in writing adequate assurance of due performance. Until the insecure party receives that assurance, if commercially reasonable, the insecure party may...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in sections 1310.01 to 1310.78 of the Revised Code, the lease agreement may include rights and remedies for default in addition to or in substitution for those provided in sections 1310.01 to 1310.78 of the Revised Code and may limit or alter the measure of damages recoverable under those sections. (B) Resort to a remedy provided under sections 1310.01 to 1310.78 of the Revised Code ...

...(A) Subject to the provisions of section 1310.56 of the Revised Code on default in installment lease contracts, if the goods or the tender or delivery of the goods fail in any respect to conform to the lease contract, the lessee may reject or accept the goods or accept any commercial unit or units and reject the rest of the goods. (B) A rejection of goods is ineffective unless it is within a reasonable time after th...

...(A) After default by the lessee under a lease contract of the type described in division (A) or (C)(1) of section 1310.69 of the Revised Code or, if agreed, after other default by the lessee, the lessor may do both of the following: (1) Identify to the lease contract conforming goods not already identified if, at the time the lessor learned of the default, they were in the lessor's or the supplier's possession or co...

...prospective transferee, where known, by personal delivery or by certified mail, commercial carrier service, or any other method that includes written evidence of receipt. (C) Initial leases, lease renewals, and expansions of the space leased shall be treated as separate leases for purposes of division (B)(5) of this section.

...curred for purposes that are primarily personal, family, or household. (2) "Commitment to pay attorneys' fees" means an obligation to pay attorneys' fees that arises in connection with the enforcement of a contract of indebtedness. (3) "Maturity of the debt" includes maturity upon default or otherwise. (B) If a contract of indebtedness includes a commitment to pay attorneys' fees, and if the contract is enfor...

...ither be audited or be accompanied by a sworn statement signed by one of the seller's officers, directors, trustees, or general or limited partners, attesting to the truthfulness and accuracy of the financial statement to the best of the signatory's knowledge and belief. (b) An unexecuted copy of the entire agreement selling or leasing the business opportunity plan.

...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...

... purposes that are primarily other than personal, family, or household. (3) "Natural gas service" means the sale of natural gas, exclusive of any distribution or ancillary service. (4) "Public telecommunications service" means the transmission by electromagnetic or other means, other than by a telephone company as defined in section 4927.01 of the Revised Code, of signs, signals, writings, images, sounds, messages,...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Treasurer" does not include the treasurer of state, and "governing board" does not include the state board of deposit. (2) "Other obligations" includes notes whether or not issued in anticipation of the issuance of bonds. (B) The treasurer or governing board may invest or deposit any part or all of the interim moneys. The following classifications of obligations shall be eli...

...ical rating organizations and issued by foreign nations diplomatically recognized by the United States government. All interest and principal shall be denominated and payable in United States funds. The investments made under division (A)(10) of this section shall not exceed in the aggregate two per cent of a county's total average portfolio. The investing authority shall invest under division (A)(10) of this sect...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Wilderness area" means a contiguous area of relatively undeveloped state-owned land administered by the division of forestry and consisting of not less than five thousand acres or of sufficient size as to make practicable its preservation and use in an unimpaired condition that either has retained its natural character and influence or has been substantially restored to a nea...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Well" means any borehole, whether drilled or bored, within the state for production, extraction, or injection of any gas or liquid mineral, excluding potable water to be used as such, but including natural or artificial brines and oil field waters. "Well" includes a stratigraphic well. (B) "Oil" means crude petroleum oil and all other hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, that are p...

...n which the reclaimed land is located a statement that shall contain an itemized accounting of the grant paid under section 1513.31 of the Revised Code or an itemized record of the state's expenses incurred in reclaiming the land under section 1513.32 of the Revised Code. The statement shall constitute a notice of lien and operate as of the date of delivery as a lien on the land reclaimed in the amount of the grant m...

...(A) The director of natural resources may appropriate real property in accordance with Chapter 163. of the Revised Code for the purpose of administering this chapter. (B)(1) The director shall operate and maintain all canals and canal reservoirs owned by the state except those canals that are operated by the Ohio history connection on July 1, 1989. (2) On behalf of the director, the division of parks and watercraft...

...As used in this chapter and Chapter 1533. of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" means a person as defined in section 1.59 of the Revised Code or a company; an employee, agent, or officer of such a person or company; a combination of individuals; the state; a political subdivision of the state; an interstate body created by a compact; or the federal government or a department, agency, or instrumentality of it. (B) "...

...ised Code, computed upon the basis of a statement to be filed annually on or before the first day of March by the association with the superintendent of insurance in the form prescribed by the superintendent.

...(A) The Ohio fair plan underwriting association by action of its board of governors, with the approval of the superintendent of insurance, is authorized to enter into a contract with the Ohio mine subsidence insurance underwriting association to provide administrative and claims adjusting services required by it. Such contract shall provide indemnification by the Ohio mine subsidence insurance underwriting associatio...

...The superintendent of insurance may, at any time, require any property insurer to furnish him with such information as he finds necessary in order to determine whether such insurer is complying with sections 3929.41 to 3929.49 of the Revised Code.

...e on owner-occupied dwellings providing personal multi-peril property and liability coverages commonly known as homeowners insurance. (E) "Mine subsidence coverage" means the limits and type of coverage as defined by the mine subsidence insurance governing board in the coverage form and approved by the superintendent. (F) "Farm insurance" means insurance providing property coverage on farm dwelling buildings. (G) ...

...(A) The Ohio mine subsidence insurance underwriting association is hereby created, consisting of all insurers authorized to write and engaged in writing within the state, on a direct basis, basic property insurance or any component thereof in multi-peril policies, to operate in accordance with the plan of operation adopted pursuant to section 3929.53 of the Revised Code. Every such insurer shall be a member of the as...

...There is hereby created the mine subsidence insurance fund, which shall be administered by the mine subsidence insurance governing board for the purpose of making available insurance coverage against mine subsidence as to any structure within this state. All of the following apply to the fund: (A) The moneys in the fund shall be derived from premiums for reinsurance assumed by the mine subsidence insurance underwri...

...The mine subsidence insurance governing board shall submit to the superintendent of insurance, for his approval, a proposed plan of operation for the economical, fair, and nondiscriminatory administration of the mine subsidence insurance fund under sections 3929.50 to 3929.61 of the Revised Code. If the superintendent of insurance disapproves the proposed plan of operation, the governing board shall, within fifteen d...

...The auditor of state shall, at least once each year, audit the affairs of the mine subsidence insurance fund in order to ascertain its financial condition and ability to fulfill its obligations, whether the mine subsidence insurance underwriting association in managing the fund has complied with the law relating to the fund, and the equity of the association's plans and dealings with its subscribers. The auditor sha...

...(A)(1) Every insurer that offers basic property and homeowners insurance insuring on a direct basis a structure located in the counties of Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison, Hocking, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lawrence, Mahoning, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Scioto, Stark, Trumbull, Tuscarawas, Vinton, and Washington shall include mine subsidence coverage ...

...All companies authorized to write basic property insurance in this state shall enter into a reinsurance agreement with the Ohio mine subsidence insurance underwriting association in which each company agrees to cede one hundred per cent, up to three hundred thousand dollars, of any subsidence insurance underwritten to the association and, in consideration of the ceding commission retained by the company, agrees to un...

...Thirty per cent of all mine subsidence insurance premiums collected by each insurer for policies delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in a county designated for optional coverage in accordance with division (A)(2) of section 3929.56 of the Revised Code, excluding premiums collected under such policies for mine subsidence insurance coverage which is not reinsured by the mine subsidence insurance underwriting ass...

...Every mine subsidence insurance underwriting association member shall report at times designated by the superintendent of insurance the amounts of mine subsidence insurance premiums collected by such member.

...Except in case of fraud by the company, the Ohio mine subsidence insurance underwriting association shall have no right of recourse against the company.

...As used in sections 3929.62 to 3929.70 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted pursuant to those sections: (A) "Applicant" means any licensed physician, podiatrist, or hospital, as those terms are defined in section 2305.113 of the Revised Code, or any certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner. (B) "Medical liability underwriting association" means a nonprofit unincorpo...

...(A) A medical liability underwriting association for medical liability insurance may be created for one or more classes of insurance by rule of the superintendent of insurance pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code upon a finding by the superintendent that both of the following circumstances exist: (1) A substantial number of applicants for such class or classes of medical liability insurance have not been pl...

...d. The directors are not subject to any personal liability with respect to administration of the fund. (C) Each policyholder of the medical liability underwriting association shall pay to the medical liability underwriting association annually a stabilization reserve fund charge. The charge shall be determined by the directors with the agreement of the board of governors of the medical liability underwriting associa...

...(A) The medical liability underwriting association created under section 3929.63 of the Revised Code may be dissolved, or its operations may be suspended, by rule of the superintendent of insurance adopted pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, upon a finding by the superintendent that the circumstances described in division (A) of section 3929.63 of the Revised Code no longer exist, or if the superintendent f...

...(A)(1) A board of governors consisting of nine members shall govern the medical liability underwriting association. The members shall be appointed by the governor with the advice of the superintendent of insurance. Five shall be selected from insurers licensed to write and writing liability insurance in this state, at least two of which insurers must write medical liability insurance in this state. One shall be a lic...

...(A)(1) Within forty-five days after the creation or a reactivation of the medical liability underwriting association, the board of governors of the medical liability underwriting association shall submit to the superintendent of insurance, for the superintendent's review, a proposed plan of operation consistent with sections 3929.62 to 3929.70 of the Revised Code. The superintendent may adopt this plan by rule promul...

...(A) Any applicant practicing or operating in this state seeking to purchase medical liability insurance being offered by the medical liability underwriting association, on or after the effective date of the medical liability underwriting association's plan of operation, may apply to the medical liability underwriting association for medical liability insurance. The application may be made on behalf of an applicant by...

...The medical liability underwriting association may offer policyholders the option of being liable as a co-insurer on sums paid out by way of settlement or judgment against the policyholder on any claim made under the policy. The medical liability underwriting association has sole authority to settle any claim subject to the co-insurance option without the consent of the insured. The plan of operation shall set forth ...

...(A) A medical liability insurance policy that insures a physician, podiatrist, or advanced practice registered nurse, written by or on behalf of the medical liability underwriting association pursuant to sections 3929.62 to 3929.70 of the Revised Code, may be cancelled only during the term of the policy for one of the following reasons: (1) Nonpayment of premiums; (2) The license of the insured to practice medi...

...ance or the superintendent's authorized representatives and employees, for any action taken by them in the performance of their powers and duties under sections 3929.62 to 3929.70 of the Revised Code. Any reports and communications made in connection with those actions are not public records. (B) With respect to any policy of insurance issued by the medical liability underwriting association, any contract executed b...

...Any insurer or other person aggrieved by any action or decision of the medical liability underwriting association may appeal to the board of governors. The decision of the board of governors may be appealed to the superintendent of insurance within thirty days from the date of the action or the decision. The superintendent shall, after a hearing held upon proper notice, issue an order approving or disapproving the ac...

...A medical liability fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The medical liability fund shall be used for the purposes of funding the medical liability underwriting association that is created in accordance with sections 3929.62 to 3929.70 of the Revised Code or for funding another medical malpractice initiative with the approval of the general assembly.