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...A port authority may charge, alter, and collect rentals or other charges for the use or services of any port authority facility and contract in the manner provided by this section with one or more persons, one or more governmental agencies, or any combination thereof, desiring the use or services of the facility, and fix the terms, conditions, rentals, or other charges for the use or services. If the services a...

...rement board of the state public school employees retirement system, of the retirement board of the public employees retirement system, and of domestic life insurance companies and domestic insurance companies other than life, and shall be acceptable as security for the deposit of public moneys.

...Whenever any action is proposed with respect to the vacation, dedication, narrowing, or widening of any street, avenue, alley, road, or highway, which is located within one-half mile of any navigable waters within the jurisdiction of a port authority, created in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4582. of the Revised Code, notice of the pendency of any such proceeding shall be given to such port authority. Suc...

...A port authority shall be exempt from and shall not be required to pay any taxes on property, both real and personal, or any combination thereof, belonging to any port authority that is used exclusively for any authorized purpose. This exemption shall not apply to any property occupied and used during a tax year by a person who is a lessee of the property as of the tax lien date for that tax year under a written leas...

...(A) Sections 4582.01 to 4582.20 of the Revised Code apply exclusively to a port authority in existence on July 9, 1982, unless the subdivision or subdivisions that created the port authority act pursuant to division (B) of this section. (B) The subdivision or subdivisions that created a port authority in existence on July 9, 1982, may adopt a resolution or ordinance to permit the port authority to operate under sect...

...Sections 4582.21 to 4582.59 of the Revised Code apply exclusively to a port authority created after July 9, 1982, and to a port authority in existence on July 9, 1982, if the subdivision or subdivisions that created the port authority adopt a resolution or ordinance permitted under division (B) of section 4582.201 of the Revised Code but have not adopted a resolution or ordinance under division (C) of that section to...

...As used in sections 4582.22 to 4582.59 of the Revised Code: (A) "Port authority" means a body corporate and politic created pursuant to the authority of section 4582.22 of the Revised Code. (B) "Authorized purposes" or "purpose" means either of the following: (1) Activities that enhance, foster, aid, provide, or promote transportation, economic development, housing, recreation, education, governmental operations, ...

...(A) Any municipal corporation, township, or county not included in a port authority in existence on December 16, 1964, may create, or any combination of a municipal corporation, municipal corporations, township, townships, county, or counties, no one of which has been included in a port authority in existence on December 16, 1964, may create, and any of the foregoing together with any other political subdivision or s...

...The board of directors of a port authority created under section 4582.22 of the Revised Code may contract with the prosecuting attorney of a county, as provided in section 309.09 of the Revised Code, to obtain legal services from the prosecuting attorney.

...(A) Any municipal corporation, township, county, or other political subdivision creating or participating in the creation of a port authority in accordance with section 4582.22 of the Revised Code may appropriate and expend public funds to finance or subsidize the operation and authorized purposes of the port authority. (B) Subject to making due provisions for payment and performance of its obligations, a port autho...

...After a port authority has been created, any municipal corporation, township, county, or other political subdivision, acting by ordinance or resolution, which is contiguous to any municipal corporation, township, county, or other political subdivision which participated in the creation of such port authority or to any municipal corporation, township, county, or other political subdivision which proposes to join the p...

...the board of directors may determine as compensation for services as director and reimbursement for reasonable expenses in the performance of official duties.

...In addition to any immunity from civil liability that is conferred upon a director by any other provision of the Revised Code or by decisions of Ohio or federal courts, no member of the board of directors of a port authority shall be personally liable for any monetary damages that arise from actions taken in the performance of his official duties, except for acts or omissions that are not in good faith or that involv...

...ations, duties, and compensation of any employees and enter into contracts for any professional services it may require to conduct the business of the port authority and may appoint an advisory board, which shall serve without compensation. Any employee may be suspended or dismissed, and any contract for professional services may be terminated at any time by the port authority. (B) A port authority may provide for t...

...oing types of insurance or coverage for employees and their families, issued by an insurance company duly authorized to do business in this state. (B) A port authority also may procure and pay all or any part of the cost of a plan of group hospitalization, surgical, major medical, or sickness and accident insurance with a health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority under Chapter 1751. of the Revis...

...(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) or (3) of this section, the area of jurisdiction of a port authority created in accordance with section 4582.22 of the Revised Code shall include all of the territory of the political subdivision or subdivisions creating it and, if the port authority owns or leases a railroad line or airport, the territory on which the railroad's line, terminals, and related faci...

..., or common carrier, for the payment of compensation, if any, at the sole cost of the port authority, provided that: (a) If any restoration or duplication proposed to be made under this section involves a relocation of the property or facilities, the new facilities and location shall be of at least comparable utilitarian value and effectiveness and shall not impair the ability of the public utility, cable operator,...

...(A) The board of directors of a port authority shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, a plan for any future development, construction, and improvement of the maritime facilities of the port authority, including such maps, profiles, and other data and descriptions as may be necessary to set forth the location and character of the work to be undertaken by the port authority and a then-current good faith ...

...The board of directors, from time to time after the adoption of an official plan for the maritime facilities of the port authority, shall have the power to modify, amend, or extend the plan, provided that prior to the making of any modification, amendment, or extension of the plan, the board shall cause notice by publication to be given and shall conduct a hearing, all as provided in section 4582.32 o...

...A plan and any modification, amendment or extension of the plan, when adopted by the board of directors after notice and hearing under section 4582.32 or 4582.33 of the Revised Code shall be final and conclusive and its validity shall be conclusively presumed.

...The port authority shall foster and encourage the participation of private enterprise in the development of the port facilities to the fullest extent it considers practicable in the interest of limiting the necessity of construction and operation of the facilities by the port authority.

...Nothing contained in sections 4582.25 to 4582.59 of the Revised Code shall: (A) Impair the provisions of law or ordinance directing the payment of revenues derived from public property into sinking funds or dedicating those revenues to specific purposes; (B) Impair the powers of any county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision to develop or improve port and terminal facilities except as restricted ...

...The legislative authority of any municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision or taxing district, may convey or lease to or from, lease with an option to purchase, or exchange with, any port authority or any port authority may convey or lease to or from, lease with an option to purchase, or exchange with, a municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other ...

...The board of directors of a port authority created in accordance with section 4582.22 of the Revised Code shall annually prepare a budget for the port authority. Rents and charges received by the port authority shall be used for the general expenses of the port authority and to pay interest, amortization, and retirement charges on money borrowed. If there remains, at the end of any calendar year, any surplus of such...

...Upon the affirmative vote in a primary or general election of at least a majority of the qualified electors within the port authority voting at an election held for the purpose, the port authority may levy upon the property within its jurisdiction a tax, for all purposes including bond debt charges, not in excess of one mill annually on the total value of all property as listed and assessed for taxation for any perio...

...(A) An elevator contractor shall notify the division of industrial compliance within the department of commerce when there are no licensed elevator mechanics available to provide conveyance services and may request that the division issue temporary elevator mechanic's licenses to individuals certified by the licensed elevator contractor to have an acceptable combination of documented experience and education to provi...

...Licensees shall ensure that installation, service, and maintenance of a conveyance is performed in accordance with state and local law and with generally accepted standards referenced in such laws or related rules. When any material alteration is made to a conveyance, the licensees involved shall ensure that the conveyance adheres to the appropriate conveyance standard for the alteration.

... in any one occurrence; (3) Workers' compensation insurance coverage. (B) Such proof of insurance shall be delivered to the division before or at the time of the issuance or renewal of a license. (C) If any policy required under this section is materially altered or canceled, the elevator contractor covered by the policy shall give notice of the material alteration or cancellation to the division at least ten...

...(A) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the superintendent of industrial compliance shall adopt rules pertaining to all of the following: (1) The issuance and renewal of elevator mechanic's licenses and elevator contractor's licenses; (2) The list of disqualifying offenses required under division (B) of section 9.79 of the Revised Code. (B) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, t...

...embers of the board shall serve without salary, but shall be reimbursed for all expenses necessary in the performance of their duties. (F)(1) The governor shall appoint one of the members to serve as chair of the board. (2) A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum. (3) The chair shall be the deciding vote in the event of a tie vote. (G)(1) The board shall meet and organize within ten days after t...

...(A) The elevator safety review board may suspend or revoke a license issued pursuant to this chapter or subject the licensee to civil penalty if the board determines that one or more of the following applies to the licensee: (1) The licensee has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a crime of moral turpitude or disqualifying offense as those terms are defined in section 4776.10 of the Revised Code and the list ad...

...(A)(1) Any individual may request an investigation into an alleged violation of this chapter by giving notice to the elevator safety review board of a potential violation or danger. (2) Such notice shall be in writing, shall set forth with reasonable particularity the grounds for the notice, and shall be signed by the individual making the request. (3) On the request of any individual signing the notice, the indi...

...All money collected under this chapter shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the industrial compliance operating fund created under section 121.084 of the Revised Code.

...Whoever recklessly violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be fined not more than one thousand five hundred dollars, sentenced to a jail term not exceeding thirty days, or both.

...As used in sections 4937.01 to 4937.05 of the Revised Code: (A) "Hazard" has the same meaning as in section 5502.21 of the Revised Code. (B) "Member agency" means the state agency of which a member of the utility radiological safety board is an officer. (C) "Nuclear electric facility" means any facility operated by a nuclear electric utility using nuclear energy to produce electricity and any facility for the s...

...d and their designees shall not receive compensation from the board, but shall receive all ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in performance of board business, including actual travel expenses. All such expenses shall be paid by the agency of which the individual board member or designee is an officer or employee. (F) The attorney general is the board's legal advisor, but shall designate, subject to the board'...

...e of its duties, any officer, agent, or employee of a nuclear electric utility or nuclear electric utility holding company or any other person regarding a nuclear electric facility or utility or a nuclear electric facility incident, and may compel the attendance of such witness for the purpose of the examination. The board may examine all books, contracts, records, documents, and papers of any person and, by subpoena...

...(A) The utility radiological safety board may: (1) Conduct any investigations, examinations, or studies requested by the governor or which it considers necessary or appropriate to carry out its responsibilities or duties under sections 4937.01 to 4937.05 of the Revised Code. (2) Formulate a recommendation regarding whether the governor should enter into any agreement with the federal nuclear regulatory commission p...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, the utility radiological safety board may apportion among and assess against each nuclear electric utility in this state against which an assessment may be made under section 4905.10 of the Revised Code an amount no greater than the maximums specified in the applicable main operating appropriations act. The assessment shall be made in proportion to the intrastate gross rec...

...(A) The department of public safety shall administer and enforce the laws relating to the registration, licensing, sale, and operation of motor vehicles and the laws pertaining to the licensing of drivers of motor vehicles. The department shall compile, analyze, and publish statistics relative to motor vehicle accidents and the causes of them, prepare and conduct educational programs for the purpose of promoting sa...

...lowing members, who shall serve without compensation: (a) The secretary of state; (b) State and local government officials, appointed by the director, who have homeland security or emergency management responsibilities and who represent first responders; (c) Any other members appointed by the director.

...All expenditures for the administration and enforcement of motor vehicle and traffic laws by the department of public safety shall be paid out of moneys derived from fees, excises, or license taxes relating to registration, operation, or use of vehicles on public highways or to fuels used for propelling such vehicles as provided in Section 5a of Article XII, Ohio Constitution.

...(A) There is hereby created in the department of public safety a division of homeland security. (B) The division shall do all of the following: (1) Coordinate all homeland security activities of all state agencies and be the liaison between state agencies and local entities for the purposes of communicating homeland security funding and policy initiatives; (2) Collect, analyze, maintain, and disseminate informatio...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Amateur radio service" means the amateur service, the amateur-satellite service, and the radio amateur civil emergency service as provided for under 47 C.F.R. part 97. (2) "Amateur station" means a station in an amateur radio service consisting of the apparatus necessary for carrying on radio communications. (3) "Legislative authority" means the following: (a) With respect t...

...There is hereby created in the department of public safety, a driver's license examination section. The director of public safety may appoint necessary driver's license examiners and clerical personnel necessary to carry out the duties assigned under this section. The examiners shall be citizens of the United States and residents of the state and shall have such additional qualifications as the director presc...

...Driver's license examiners assigned to the driver's license examination section shall conduct all examinations for driver's licenses as required by sections 4507.01 to 4507.36 of the Revised Code, subject to the rules issued by the registrar of motor vehicles.

...The director of public safety may conduct training schools for prospective driver's license examiners and may establish rules governing the qualifications for admission to such schools and provide for competitive examinations to determine the fitness of such students for prospective examiners, not inconsistent with the rules of the director of administrative services.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Disability" has the same meaning as in section 3304.23 of the Revised Code. (2) "Emergency medical service personnel" and "firefighter" have the same meanings as in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Guardian" has the same meaning as in section 2111.01 of the Revised Code. (4) "Ward" has the same meaning as in section 2111.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The department o...

...(A) The department of public safety, not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section, shall do all of the following: (1) Establish and maintain a state registry, named "Ohio's habitual OVI/OMWI offenders," that contains all of the information specified in divisions (A)(1)(a) and (b) of this section regarding any person who on or after the effective date of this section is convicted in this...

...Every law enforcement agency representing a township, county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision investigating a motor vehicle accident involving a fatality, personal injury, or property damage in an amount greater than one thousand dollars, within five days, shall forward a written report of such accident to the director of public safety on a form, which the director shall adopt subject to s...

...d by the actuary engaged by the school employees retirement board to be the actuarial equivalent of the member's retirement allowance and is approved by the retirement board. (B)(1)(a) Except as provided in divisions (B)(1)(b) and (c) of this section, a member who retires under section 3309.36 or 3309.381 of the Revised Code shall receive a retirement allowance under "plan A," which shall consist of the actua...

...te eight per cent of the contributor's compensation to the employees' savings fund, except that the school employees retirement board may raise the contribution rate to a rate not greater than ten per cent of compensation. The contributions by the direction of the school employees retirement board shall be deducted by the employer from the compensation of each contributor on each payroll of such contributor f...

...mit evidence satisfactory to the school employees retirement board documenting that her resignation was due to pregnancy and that she meets the requirement of division (B) of this section. For each year of service credit purchased under this section: (1) The member shall pay to the retirement system for credit to her accumulated account an amount equal to her retirement contributions for full-time employment for ...

...of this section, a member of the school employees retirement system who resigned due to pregnancy or adoption of a child may purchase service credit for a period following the resignation during which the member did not make contributions under section 3309.47 of the Revised Code, if the member meets both of the following conditions: (1) The member has earned a minimum of one year of service credit subsequent to the...

...An amount determined by multiplying the compensation the member would have received during the leave by the employee contribution rate in effect at that time; (b) An amount determined by multiplying the compensation the member would have received during the leave by the employer contribution rate in effect at that time; (c) Compound interest at a rate determined by the school employees retirement board from the fir...

...l be a certain per cent of the earnable compensation of all employees, and shall be known as the "employer contribution." The rate per cent of such contribution shall be fixed by the actuary on the basis of the actuary's evaluation of the liabilities of the school employees retirement system, but shall not exceed fourteen per cent, and shall be approved by the school employees retirement board. The school employees r...

...l annually determine the minimum annual compensation amount for each member that will be needed to fund the cost of providing future health care benefits under section 3309.69 of the Revised Code. The amount determined by the actuary under this division shall be approved by the board and shall be known as the "minimum compensation amount." (B)(1) The secretary of the school employees retirement board shall annuall...

... or disability benefit from the school employees retirement system, a lump-sum payment of one thousand dollars shall be paid, following completion of an application on a form approved by the school employees retirement board, in the following order of precedence to: (a) The retirant or recipient's designated beneficiary; (b) The retirant or recipient's surviving spouse; (c) The retirant or recipient's childre...

... monthly or at such times as the school employees retirement board requires, an amount certified by the school employees retirement board, which shall be as required by Chapter 3309. of the Revised Code. Payments by school district boards of education to the employers' trust fund of the school employees retirement system may be made from the amounts allocated under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code prior to their ...

...Each employer, before employing any employee to whom this chapter may apply, shall give such person a written statement of the person's duties and obligations under such sections as a condition of employment, which statement shall be prepared and supplied to each employer by the school employees retirement board. Any such appointment or reappointment of any employee, or service upon indefinite tenure, shall be cond...

...nth, or at such intervals as the school employees retirement board approves, notify the board of removals and withdrawals of employees that have occurred during the month preceding or the period since the period covered by the last notification. Each employer shall keep such records and shall furnish such information and assistance to the school employees retirement board as it requires in the discharge of its duties...

...s deducted by contributor to the school employees retirement system at such time and in such manner as required by the school employees retirement board.

... monthly or at such times as the school employees retirement board designates the contributions required under this chapter. The school employees retirement system after making a record of all such receipts shall pay them to the treasurer of state for use according to this chapter.

...The school employees retirement system shall impose the following penalties, which may be collected in the same manner as described in division (B) of section 3309.51 of the Revised Code: (A) For a failure to transmit contributions withheld from employees not later than the date specified under rules adopted by the school employees retirement board, one hundred dollars per day for each day the employer fails to tran...

...Employers who obtain funds directly by taxation shall levy annually such additional taxes as are required to provide the additional funds necessary to meet the financial requirements imposed upon them by this chapter and said tax shall be placed before and in preference to all other items except for sinking fund or interest purposes.

...ted the contributions deducted from the compensation of contributors as provided by section 3309.47 of the Revised Code, together with the interest credited thereon. Such accumulated contributions refunded upon withdrawal or payable to a beneficiary as provided in this chapter, shall be paid from this fund. Any accumulated contributions forfeited by the failure of a contributor or a beneficiary to claim the same shal...

... this chapter, reference is made to the employees' savings fund, the employers' trust fund, the annuity and pension reserve fund, the guarantee fund, the survivors' benefit fund, the defined contribution fund, or the expense fund, such reference shall be construed to have been made to each as a separate legal entity. This section does not prevent the deposit or investment of all such moneys intermingled for such purp...

...The school employees retirement board shall estimate annually the amount required to defray expenses of administration in the ensuing year and may apportion such expenses among the members. The amount so apportioned in any year shall not exceed three dollars per member. If the amount estimated to be required to meet the expenses of the board exceeds the amounts apportioned by the board, the amount of such excess shal...

...n system votes to merge with the school employees retirement system, the school employees retirement board shall employ an actuary to value the assets and liabilities which will be taken over by the school employees retirement system hereby created in the event of such merger. The actuary so employed shall be an actuary also approved by the employer in whose district the local district pension system is operated, and...

...ally on dates to be fixed by the school employees retirement board. Payments on that part of the accrued liability due to employees in active service in the local district pension system shall be at the same rate per cent of the salaries of such employees as the deficiency contribution rate fixed in section 3309.50 of the Revised Code, and shall be made until the year in which the deficiency contribution payable by ...

...pensions of other members of the school employees retirement system. The amount of the excess of the moneys and securities of the local district pension system over and above the present value of the payments to be made on account of all pensions to the pensioners of the rolls of the local district pension system shall be transferred to the employees' savings fund and shall be credited pro rata to the active employee...

...The right of an individual to a pension, an annuity, or a retirement allowance itself, the right of an individual to any optional benefit, any other right accrued or accruing to any individual under this chapter, the various funds created by section 3309.60 of the Revised Code, and all moneys, investments, and income from moneys and investments are exempt from any state tax, except the tax imposed by section 5747.02 ...

...person pursuant to action of the school employees retirement board vests a right in such person, so long as the person remains the recipient of any of the funds established by section 3309.60 of the Revised Code, to receive such retirement allowance, annuity, pension, or benefit. Such right shall also be vested with equal effect in the recipient of a grant heretofore made from any of the funds named in section 3309.6...

...ritten notice of waiver with the school employees retirement board. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, such waiver shall remain in effect until the first day of the month following his death or the filing of his written cancellation of such waiver with the school employees retirement board. It is further provided that any amount so waived shall be forever forfeited. (B) If a beneficiary waives in w...

...Any person receiving from the school employees retirement system an allowance, annuity, pension, or benefit may authorize the system to make deductions therefrom for the payment of dues and other membership fees to any retirement association or other organization composed primarily of retired public employees or retired public employees and their spouses if the association or organization adopts a resolution approvin...