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...The executive director of the regional arts and cultural district shall be the fiscal officer of the district and the custodian of its funds and records, and shall assist the board of trustees in such manner as it directs. Before receiving any moneys, the executive director shall furnish bond in an amount determined by the board with surety satisfactory to it. The executive director shall deposit all funds received ...

...The board of trustees of a regional arts and cultural district or any officer or employee designated by such board may make any contract for the purchase of supplies or material or for labor for any work, under the supervision of the board, the cost of which shall not exceed ten thousand dollars. When an expenditure, other than for the acquisition of real estate, the discharge of noncontractual claims, personal...

...The board of trustees of a regional arts and cultural district may enter into such contracts or other arrangements with the United States government or any department thereof, with the state government of this or any other state, with counties, municipal corporations, townships, or other governmental agencies created by or under the authority of the laws of this state or any other state, with persons, and with public...

...All employees of a regional arts and cultural district shall be considered public employees within the meaning of section 145.01 of the Revised Code and its employees shall be subject to Chapter 145. of the Revised Code.

...A regional arts and cultural district may procure and pay all or any part of the cost of group hospitalization, surgical, major medical, or sickness and accident insurance or a combination of any of the foregoing for the employees of the district and their immediate dependents, whether issued by an insurance company or a health insuring corporation duly authorized to do business in this state.

...The board of county commissioners of any county, the legislative authority of any municipal corporation, and the board of township trustees of any township, included within a regional arts and cultural district may appropriate annually, from moneys to the credit of the general fund of the county, the municipal corporation, or the township and not otherwise appropriated, that portion of the expense of the district to ...

...(A) Upon the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the qualified electors within the territory of a regional arts and cultural district voting on the question at an election held for the purpose, the district may levy upon the property within its territory a tax outside the ten-mill limitation to provide funds for any one or more of the purposes set forth in this section as specified in such question, not in exc...

...From the funds available therefor from a tax levy authorized under section 3381.16 or, if applicable, sections 5743.021, 5743.321, 5743.511, 5743.621, and 5743.631 of the Revised Code, a regional arts and cultural district by action of its board of trustees shall make annual grants to support the operating or capital expenses of such of the arts or cultural organizations located within the territory of the district a...

...The legislative authority of any municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision or taxing district, may convey or lease to, or exchange with, any regional arts and cultural district or any district may convey or lease to, or exchange with, a municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision, taxing district, or any arts or cultural organ...

...A regional arts and cultural district created under this chapter shall be exempt from and shall not be required to pay any taxes on property, both real and personal, belonging to any such district, which is used exclusively for any public purpose; provided, such exemption shall not apply to any property belonging to any district while a private enterprise, other than an arts or cultural organization, is a lessee of s...

...A regional arts and cultural district may cooperate with other governmental agencies of this state, or of the United States, to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

...Subject to making due provisions for the payment and performance of its obligation, the resolution or ordinance creating a regional arts and cultural district may provide for its dissolution under circumstances described therein, or a district may be dissolved by its board of trustees with the consent of the subdivision or subdivisions creating such district. In the event of dissolution the properties of the distric...

... or nonprofit corporation primarily for educational, scientific, aesthetic, historic, or preservation purposes and that acquires, owns, cares for, exhibits, studies, archives, or catalogs property. "Museum" includes, but is not limited to, historical societies, historic sites or landmarks, parks, monuments, libraries, arboreta, and zoos. (C) "Property" means any tangible, nonliving object in a museum's possession th...

...(A) Property on loan to a museum other than pursuant to a written agreement shall be considered to be abandoned, and title to the property shall vest in the museum, free from all claims of the owner and of all persons claiming under the owner, if all of the following apply: (1) The property has been held by the museum within the state for at least seven years and, during that time, it remained unclaimed. (2) The mu...

...(A) A museum shall send notice of abandonment of property or termination of a loan by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the owner of the property at the owner's last known address as shown by the records of the museum. If the museum has no address on record, or the museum does not receive written proof of receipt of the notice within thirty days after the date the notice was mailed, the museum shall publis...

...(A) Unless there is a written loan agreement to the contrary, a museum may apply conservation measures to property on loan to the museum without notice to the owner or the owner's permission, if such measures are necessary to protect the property on loan or other property in the custody of the museum or if the property on loan is a hazard to the health and safety of the museum staff or the public, and if either of th...

...Upon accepting property on loan, a museum shall provide a written summary of the provisions of this chapter to the owner of the property.

...The owner of any property on loan to a museum shall promptly notify the museum in writing of any change of the owner's address or change in ownership of the property.

...Any property that, on or after the effective date of this section, is delivered to a museum or left on museum property, is not solicited by the museum, is from an unknown source, and might reasonably be assumed to have been intended as a gift to the museum, shall conclusively be presumed to be a gift to the museum, if there is no claim of ownership to the property within ninety days after the museum receives or...

...The provisions of this chapter may be varied by written agreement of the parties.

...(A) Property on loan to a museum shall not escheat to the state under any applicable escheat law, but shall pass to the museum under the provisions of this chapter. (B) This chapter does not apply to property interests other than those specifically described in this chapter.

...A museum that acquires title to property in accordance with this chapter passes good title when transferring that property with the intent to pass title.