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...(A) If, after an obligation is expressed or a loss is incurred in a foreign money, the country issuing or adopting that money substitutes a new money in place of that money, the obligation or the loss is treated as if expressed or incurred in the new money at the rate of conversion the issuing country establishes for the payment of like obligations or losses denominated in the former money. (B) If substitution under...

...Unless displaced by particular provisions of sections 2337.01 to 2337.15 of the Revised Code, the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant, and the law relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, bankruptcy, or other validating or invalidating causes, supplement these sections.

...Sections 2337.01 to 2337.15 of the Revised Code shall be applied and construed to effectuate the general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of these sections among states enacting it.

...Sections 2337.01 to 2337.14 of the Revised Code may be cited as the "Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act."

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) or (C) of this section, sections 2710.01 to 2710.10 of the Revised Code apply to a mediation under any of the following circumstances: (1) The mediation parties are required to mediate by statute or court or administrative agency rule or referred to mediation by a court, administrative agency, or arbitrator. (2) The mediation parties and the mediator agree to mediate...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in section 2710.05 of the Revised Code, a mediation communication is privileged as provided in division (B) of this section and is not subject to discovery or admissible in evidence in a proceeding unless waived or precluded as provided in section 2710.04 of the Revised Code. (B) In a proceeding, the following privileges apply: (1) A mediation party may refuse to disclose, and may p...

...(A) A privilege under section 2710.03 of the Revised Code may be waived in a record or orally during a proceeding if it is expressly waived by all mediation parties and by whichever of the following is applicable: (1) In the case of the privilege of a mediator, it is expressly waived by the mediator. (2) In the case of the privilege of a nonparty participant, it is expressly waived by the nonparty participant. (B)...

...(A) There is no privilege under section 2710.03 of the Revised Code for a mediation communication to which any of the following applies: (1) The mediation communication is contained in a written agreement evidenced by a record signed by all parties to the agreement. (2) The mediation communication is available to the public under section 149.43 of the Revised Code or made during a session of a mediation that is ope...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and section 3109.052 of the Revised Code, a mediator shall not make a report, assessment, evaluation, recommendation, finding, or other communication regarding a mediation to a court, department, agency, or officer of this state or its political subdivisions that may make a ruling on the dispute that is the subject of the mediation. (B) A mediator may dis...

...Except as provided in sections 121.22 and 149.43 of the Revised Code, mediation communications are confidential to the extent agreed by the parties or provided by other sections of the Revised Code or rules adopted under any section of the Revised Code.

...(A) Before accepting a mediation, an individual who is requested to serve as a mediator shall do both of the following: (1) Make an inquiry that is reasonable under the circumstances to determine whether there are any known facts that a reasonable individual would consider likely to affect the impartiality of the mediator, including a financial or personal interest in the outcome of the mediation and an existing or ...

...An attorney or other individual designated by a party may accompany the party to and participate in a mediation. A waiver of participation given before the mediation may be rescinded. A mediator may withdraw as mediator at any time.

...Sections 2710.01 to 2710.10 of the Revised Code may modify, limit, or supersede the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq., but sections 2710.01 to 2710.10 of the Revised Code shall not modify, limit, or supersede section 101(c) of that act or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in section 103(b) of that act.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Goods or services" does not include the creation, dissemination, exhibition, or advertisement, or a similar promotion, of a dramatic, literary, musical, political, journalistic, or artistic work. (2) "Governmental unit" means the government of the United States, the state, a political subdivision of the state, or any department, agency, board, commission, or other instrumentality...

...Not later than sixty days after a party is served with a complaint, cross-claim, counterclaim, third-party claim, or other pleading that asserts a cause of action to which this chapter applies, the party may file a motion for expedited relief to dismiss the civil action or claim. The court may extend the sixty-day period to file the motion for expedited relief for good cause shown.

...(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, if a motion for expedited relief is filed under section 2747.02 of the Revised Code, the court shall stay all other proceedings in the action between the moving party and responding party, including discovery and any other pending hearing or motion. (2) Upon request by the moving party, the court may stay a hearing or motion involving another party in the action,...

...(A)(1) The court shall conduct a hearing not later than sixty days after the filing of a motion for expedited relief, unless the court orders a later hearing to allow for limited discovery under section 2747.03 of the Revised Code or delays the hearing for other good cause. (2) If the court orders a later hearing to allow for limited discovery, the court shall conduct the hearing not later than sixty days after the...

...(A) If the court grants a motion for expedited relief under section 2747.04 of the Revised Code, the court shall award reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, and other reasonable litigation expenses to the moving party. The court shall not fail to award, or reduce an award of, attorney's fees, court costs, and other reasonable litigation expenses under this division on the grounds that the representation of the mov...

...(A) Sections 2747.01 to 2747.06 of the Revised Code apply to a civil action filed or any claim asserted in a civil action on or after the effective date of this section. (B) A court shall broadly construe and apply sections 2747.01 to 2747.06 of the Revised Code to protect the exercise of the right of freedom of speech and of the press, the right to assemble and petition, and the right of association, guaranteed by...

...When a vacancy occurs in the board of county commissioners or in the office of county auditor, county treasurer, prosecuting attorney, clerk of the court of common pleas, sheriff, county recorder, county engineer, or coroner more than forty days before the next general election for state and county officers, the vacancy shall be filled as provided for in divisions (A) and (B) of section 305.02 of the Revised Co...

...The board of county commissioners shall determine its own rules and order of business and cause a journal of its proceedings to be kept. A majority of the members elected to the board shall constitute a quorum to do business. No action of the board shall be valid or binding unless adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members elected to the board.

...The board of county commissioners shall organize on the first Monday of each year, by the election of one of its members as president and one other member as vice-president for terms of one year. The president shall preside at all regular and special sessions of the board. Notwithstanding section 305.05 of the Revised Code, when the president of the board is absent from the county or unable to perform his duties , o...

...There shall be a county executive, who shall be the chief executive officer of the county. He shall be either an elective county executive as provided for in section 302.15 of the Revised Code, or an appointive county executive as provided for in section 302.16 of the Revised Code. In case of the absence or disability of the county executive as determined by the board of county commissioners, his duties shall be per...

...In a county adopting the appointive executive plan, the county executive shall be an elector of the county and appointed by the board of county commissioners. No persons elected to membership on the board of county commissioners shall thereafter be eligible for appointment as county executive until the conclusion of one year after the expiration of the term for which he was elected. The county executive shall be ap...

...The county executive shall be responsible for the proper administration of the affairs of the county placed in his charge, and, by resolution of the board of county commissioners, may serve as the head of any county department created by the board pursuant to sections 302.01 to 302.24, inclusive, of the Revised Code, provided he has the qualifications required by law.

...laces to lay pipes, conduits, manholes, drains, and other necessary fixtures and appliances under the surface thereof, to be used for supplying such municipal corporation and its inhabitants with steam or hot water, or both, for heat or power purposes, or both. In all such grants the municipal corporations shall reserve the right to regulate, at intervals of not less than five years, the prices which the grantee ma...

... necessary and proper therefor, sewers, drains, and ditches, and establish, repair, and regulate water closets and privies.

...ewage disposal works, flushing tunnels, drains, and ditches; (K) Construct free public libraries and reading rooms, and free recreation centers; (L) Establish free public baths and municipal lodging houses; (M) Construct monuments or memorial buildings to commemorate the services of soldiers, sailors, and marines of the state and nation; (N) Provide land for and improve parks, boulevards, and public playgrounds; ...

...make such improvement; (J) For sewers, drains, ditches, public urinals, bathhouses, water closets, and sewage and garbage disposal plants and farms; (K) For natural and artificial gas, electric lighting, heating, and power plants, and for supplying the product thereof; (L) For establishing esplanades, boulevards, parkways, park grounds, and public reservations in, around, and leading to public buildings, and for t...

...s, reservoirs, reservoir sites, sewers, drains, sewage disposal or water purification plants, and water works, for supplying water to itself and its inhabitants or disposing of sewage, may relocate, straighten, change, or cross a road or stream, but shall, without unnecessary delay, place such road or stream in such condition as not to impair its usefulness.

...n of sidewalks, curbs, gutters, sewers, drains, or water lines or by paving, lighting, relocating overhead wires, cables, and appurtenant equipment underground, or treating the surface with dust-laying or preservative substances, sprinkling, sweeping, or cleaning are so situated in relation to each other that in order to complete the improvement thereof in the most practical and economical manner they should be impro...

...ed to improve the boulevard by grading, draining, curbing, paving, repaving, surfacing, resurfacing, or otherwise improving such boulevard, such municipal corporations may apportion the cost of the improvement among themselves in such manner as the legislative authorities thereof agree. The amount agreed to be borne by each municipal corporation may be defrayed out of its general fund, or by the issue of bonds. Wher...

...cipal corporations for the sewering and draining of such municipal corporations or any part thereof, and agree upon the plan and location of such main sewer, the terms on which it shall be constructed and maintained for common use, and the portion of the cost thereof to be paid by each municipal corporation. For this purpose such municipal corporations may jointly appropriate land either within or without their respe...

... reconstruction of any sewer, ditch, or drain and the proceedings for that purpose shall be the same, so far as applicable, as are required for the original construction thereof.

...ueducts, sidewalks, playgrounds sewers, drains, ditches, culverts, ship channels, streams, and watercourses, the lighting, sprinkling, and cleaning of public places, and the construction of public improvements and public works, except those having reference to the department of public safety, or as otherwise provided in Title VII of the Revised Code. The director shall manage municipal water, lighting, heating, powe...

..., bridges, viaducts, sidewalks, sewers, drains, ditches, culverts, ship channels, streams, and water courses as well as the lighting, sprinkling, and cleaning of all streets, alleys, and public buildings and places. The village administrator shall appoint officers, employees, agents, clerks, and assistants, provided such positions are first authorized by the legislative authority of the village; but such appointment...

..., bridges, viaducts, sidewalks, sewers, drains, ditches, culverts, ship channels, streams, and watercourses. Such commissioner or engineer shall also supervise the lighting, sprinkling, and cleaning of all public places, and shall perform such other duties, consistent with the nature of his office, as the mayor or other chief executive officer requires.

...Every bakery shall be constructed, drained, lighted, ventilated, maintained in a sanitary condition, and screened against flies. Every bakery shall have plumbing and drainage facilities together with approved wash basins, wash sinks, and toilets or water closets, which shall be kept in a sanitary condition. The toilets or water closets shall be in rooms having no direct connection with any room in which bakery produc...

...th the district to discuss the proposed drainage improvement and to determine the proper forms and procedures for filing the petition. (B) The petition shall include all of the following: (1) A statement of the nature of the work for which a petition is filed, including locating, cleaning, removing obstructions from, constructing, reconstructing, straightening, deepening, widening, altering, boxing, tiling, filli...

...(A) A company or person having control or management of any railroad except a scenic railway shall construct and maintain in good repair, or otherwise provide for, on each side of the railroad, along the line of the lands of the company owning or operating it, a fence sufficient to turn stock. If, pursuant to section 4907.08 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission determines that the company or person ha...

...Before operating a railroad, the company or person having control or management of such railroad shall maintain at every point where a public road, street, lane, or highway used by the public crosses such railroad, safe and sufficient crossings, and on each side of such crossings cattle guards sufficient to prevent domestic animals from going upon such railroad. Such company or person shall be liable for all damages ...

...In the case of a railroad in process of construction or a proposed railroad which passes through enclosed land, the company or person having control of the railroad during its construction shall provide suitable crossings for the owner or occupant of each farm, make and keep in repair fences along the line of the railroad through the enclosed fields, and protect crops growing thereon. When the company or person agree...

...Sections 4959.02 to 4959.04 of the Revised Code, relating to fences, do not apply to any case in which compensation for building a fence has been or may be taken into consideration and estimated as a part of the consideration to be paid for the right-of-way, so far as the fence has been or may be settled or paid for. Those sections do not affect, in any manner, any contract or agreement between a railroad company, or...

...If an owner of lands abutting on the line of lands of a company, who is legally bound to build or repair the fence dividing his lands from the lands of the company, fails to build or repair such fence within the time in which he is bound to build or repair it, the company may build or repair such fence and present an itemized account of the cost of labor and materials so expended to such owner for payment. If it is n...

...An owner of land through which a railroad is constructed, and upon which there is a culvert, waterway, or opening through the embankment of the railroad of sufficient height for such purpose, may use such culvert, waterway, or opening, as a stock or cattle way under the track of the railroad so as to permit stock to pass and repass. The landowner shall build and maintain all necessary fences on both sides of the open...

...A company or person having the control and management of a railroad, who fails to comply with any provision of this chapter, shall forfeit and pay, for each day the company or person so fails, a sum not exceeding fifty dollars per day, to be recovered in a civil action in the name of the state for the use of the county in which suit is brought.

...(A) As used in this section, "noxious weed" has the same meaning as in section 5579.04 of the Revised Code. (B) The superintendent or manager of a toll road, railroad, or electric railway shall destroy all brush, briers, burrs, vines, and noxious weeds growing or being cut within the limits of such toll road, railroad, or railway, or within the limits of any right of way belonging to the company owning such toll ro...

...Boards of county commissioners in their respective counties, or in co-operation with any conservancy district which includes all or part of the lands of the county, or in co-operation with the proper authorities of the state or the proper authorities of the United States, may formulate, create, and construct a complete or co-ordinating system of water conservation and flood control, subject to the approval of the pro...

...y file an amendment to a petition for a drainage improvement that expands the length of the proposed improvement, provided that such amendment does not expand the area to be benefited by the proposed improvement. An owner shall file the amendment not more than twenty-one days after the date of the view. Such owner shall not propose an amendment that expands either the area or number of parcels to be benefited by the ...

...he county, to the credit of the general drainage improvement fund or a special fund created for the proposed improvement, and conditioned to pay all costs associated in preparing for the view and first hearing if the petition is not granted or if the petition is for any cause dismissed. (C) The clerk of the board of county commissioners shall release the bond at the expiration of the thirty-day appeal period provid...