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...n this state, for personal injury to an employee or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that he was guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery when such negligence was slight and that of the employer greater in comparison. But the damages must be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee. All questions of negligence and contribu...

...No person or company operating a railroad in whole or in part in this state, directly or by or through a representative, shall knowingly suffer or permit a person to run or in any capacity to operate a railroad locomotive on any part of its railroad in this state who is intoxicated or in the habit of becoming intoxicated, or knowingly continue the employment of a person in such capacity after he becomes or is intoxic...

...gulate the hours of employment of their employees that each employee shall have at least eight consecutive hours of rest in each period of twenty-four hours. A railroad company which knowingly violates this section shall forfeit not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars for the first offense, and for any subsequent offense, not less than one thousand nor more than fifteen hundred dollars, to be r...

...No person or company shall operate in this state any electric or street railway car or interurban railroad car unless it is provided at all times during operation with seats for the motorman and conductor. A violation of this section constitutes a violation of it by the president, general manager, general superintendent, or other officer in charge of operation. An offense on any calendar day and as to any car is a s...

...No officer, agent, or employee of a company operating a railroad, except the superintendent, general managing agent, or a receiver of the company, may sell or dispose of worn or scrap metal, iron, brass, or other metal owned by such company. All sales and barter of such scraps or other metals made by any other officer, agent, or employee are void. No such superintendent, managing agent, or receiver shall sell or disp...

...The person, company, or firm to whom is offered for sale, pledge, or trade, worn or used links, pins, journal bearings, or other worn, used, or detached appendages of railroad equipment, or scrap metal of iron, brass, or steel appertaining to such equipment or to a railroad track, before purchasing or dealing in it, shall ascertain whether the ownership thereof is lawfully derived, by bill of sale or otherwise, from ...

...By its proper officer or agent, or by the receiver of such company, a railroad company may claim to be the general owner of and replevy any of the metals or articles mentioned in section 4973.14 of the Revised Code, and metals with which they may have been confused, found in the possession of a person, firm, or company, when there is good reason to believe that such metals or articles were unlawfully taken from such ...

...If a railroad company or its receiver replevies property under section 4973.15 of the Revised Code without reasonable cause to believe that it was unlawfully taken from some company or its receiver, such company or receiver shall be liable to the party entitled to such property in any sum not exceeding double the value of the property so replevied, in addition to such damages as such party sustains thereby.

...(A)(1) Upon the application of any bank; savings and loan association; savings bank; credit union; or association of banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit unions in this state, the secretary of state may appoint and commission any persons that the bank; savings and loan association; savings bank; credit union; or association of banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit un...

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The secretary of state shall not appoint or commission a person as a police officer for a bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or association of banks, savings and loan associations, or credit unions under division (A) of section 4973.17 of the Revised Code; for a railroad company under division ...

...Before entering upon the duties of his office, each policeman appointed under section 4973.17 of the Revised Code shall take and subscribe an oath of office which shall be indorsed on his commission, and said commission with the oath shall be recorded in the office of the secretary of state who shall charge and collect a fee of one dollar for such recording. Policemen so appointed and commissioned shall severally ...

...A company which avails itself of sections 4973.17 and 4973.18 of the Revised Code may make needful regulations to promote the public convenience and safety in and about its depots, stations, and grounds, not inconsistent with law, and print and post such regulations conspicuously upon its depots or station buildings. Policemen appointed under such sections shall enforce and compel obedience to such regulations. The k...

...Except while acting in the discharge of duty as a detective for the railroad, every policeman appointed under section 4973.17 of the Revised Code shall, when on duty, wear in plain view a metallic shield with the word "police" and the name of the railroad for which he is appointed inscribed on it.

...The compensation of policemen appointed or commissioned as provided in section 4973.17 of the Revised Code shall be paid by the company for which they respectively are appointed, and at such rates as are agreed upon by the parties.

...When a company no longer requires the services of a policeman appointed as provided in section 4973.17 of the Revised code, it may file in the office of the secretary of state a notice to that effect signed by its authorized officer, which notice shall be noted by the secretary of state upon the margin of the record where the commission is recorded, and thereupon the power of such policeman shall cease. No charge sh...

...(A) A conductor of any train carrying passengers or of the cars of any interurban railroad carrying passengers, and a ticket agent employed in or about a railroad or interurban railroad station, while on duty on the train or cars, or in or about the station, who has probable cause to believe that a person has committed an offense may detain the person in a reasonable manner and for a reasonable length of time within ...

...conductor may command the assistance of employees of the company, person, or firm owning or operating such railroad or interurban railroad and of the passengers on such train or cars, to assist in such removal. Before removing such passenger, the conductor shall tender to the passenger such proportion of the fare he paid as the distance he then is from the place to which he paid fare bears to the whole distance for w...

...In no case shall the liability of a railroad company for damages caused by the conduct of its conductor be affected by section 4973.23 or 4973.24 of the Revised Code.

...No conductor having charge of a passenger train or of the cars of any interurban railroad carrying passengers within this state shall willfully neglect his duty as required by sections 4973.24 and 4973.25 of the Revised Code, or fail to use all the means in his power to carry out such sections. Whoever violates this section is guilty of negligence of official duty.

...(A) Whoever violates section 4973.12 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than ten nor more than thirty days. (B) Whoever violates section 4973.26 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars.

...The basis upon which compensation or benefits shall be computed, is the amount of work-relief which would have been afforded to the injured person for the calendar week in which the injury or death occurred. In no event shall such compensation exceed the maximum reimbursable relief award established by the state which the claimant would have been entitled to had he not been injured.

...n as the "public work-relief employees' compensation fund," and all compensation, death benefits, and expenses for medical, nurse, and hospital services, medicine, and funerals, shall be paid out of the fund. Such premiums shall be collected, the moneys of the fund disbursed and the fund maintained, without regard to or reliance upon any other fund mentioned in Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. This section shall ...

...ut of the public work-relief employees' compensation fund by the bureau of workers' compensation in the same manner and amount as is provided in sections 4127.01 to 4127.14 of the Revised Code for other disabilities.

...e to the public work-relief employees' compensation fund the amount of money determined by the administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors. The contributions may be made in whole or in part out of any relief funds or any other available public funds, regardless of the manner in which the funds were raised. The officer of any emp...

...The administrator of workers' compensation, under special circumstances and with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, may adjust the rate of disbursements of compensation of benefits, which shall not in any instance exceed the maximum reimbursable relief award established by the state which the claimant would have been entitled to had the claimant not been injured.

...ncomplying employer shall receive their compensation and benefits as if the premiums had been paid and the employer shall be liable on the same basis as a noncomplying employer under Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code.

...Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code, except sections 4123.512, 4123.62, and 4123.64 of the Revised Code, apply to this chapter.

...e Revised Code apply to all work-relief employees who are injured and to the dependents of such as are killed, whether such injury or death occurred prior to May 17, 1935, or subsequent thereto.

...been approved by the bureau of workers' compensation.

...asurer of state. The bureau of workers' compensation shall make disbursements from the fund to those persons entitled to payment therefrom and in the amounts required pursuant to sections 4131.01 to 4131.06 of the Revised Code. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. The director of natural resources annually may request the administrator of workers' compensation to transfer a portion of ...

...rmined by the administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors. (B) The administrator shall fix and maintain for each class of occupation and type of mining the lowest possible rates of premiums consistent with the maintenance of a solvent fund and the creation and maintenance of a reasonable surplus after providing for payment to mat...

...(A) Upon receipt of an order of compensation issued pursuant to a claim for benefits under the provisions of the federal act, the administrator of workers' compensation shall disburse from the coal-workers pneumoconiosis fund the amounts to the persons as the order directs with respect to any claims insured by a subscriber. (B) No payment shall be made with respect to or from the fund in excess of the amount of the ...

...embers thereof, the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors and the individual members thereof, and the administrator of workers' compensation shall not incur any obligation or liability respecting the collection of premiums, the administration or investment of the fund, or the payment of benefits therefrom.

...he "Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Amendments of 1972," 86 Stat. 1251, 33 U.S.C.A. 901. (B) "Marine industry fund" means the fund created and administered pursuant to sections 4131.11 to 4131.16 of the Revised Code and does not refer, directly or indirectly, to any fund created and administered pursuant to Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. (C) "Premium" means payment to the marine indust...

...rs who apply to the bureau of workers' compensation for permission to subscribe to the fund to insure the payment of benefits required by the federal act. By rule, the administrator of workers' compensation shall establish criteria for the acceptance or rejection of applications by marine industry employers who apply to subscribe to the fund. (B) The marine industry fund shall be in the custody of the treasu...

...rmined by the administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors. (B) The administrator shall fix and maintain for each class of occupation and type of business the lowest possible rates of premiums consistent with the maintenance of a solvent fund and the creation and maintenance of a reasonable surplus after providing for payment to m...

...(A) Upon receipt of an order of compensation issued pursuant to a claim for benefits under the federal act, the bureau of workers' compensation shall disburse from the marine industry fund the amounts to the persons as said order directs with respect to any claims insured by the marine industry fund. (B) The bureau shall disburse from the marine industry fund amounts necessary to pay the costs of any additional requ...

...embers thereof, the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors and the individual members thereof, and the administrator of workers' compensation shall not incur any obligation or liability respecting the collection of premiums, the administration or investment of the fund, or the payment of benefits therefrom.

...required and paid under an unemployment compensation law of any other state, the Virgin Islands, Canada, or of the United States, if the individual performing such service is a resident of this state and the director approves the election of the employer for whom such services are performed; or, if the individual is not a resident of this state but the place from which the service is directed or controlled is in this...

...d Code, shall notify the organization's employees upon hiring that the organization, and the employee's employment with the organization, are exempt from this chapter.

...h the administration of an unemployment compensation law, with any political subdivision of this state, or with any private, nonprofit organization and as a part of any such agreement the director may accept moneys, services, or quarters as a contribution to the employment service account. The director shall maintain labor market information and employment statistics as necessary for the administration of this chapt...

...The director of job and family services shall take affirmative steps to promote the employment competencies and upward mobility of women. The director shall place particular emphasis on education, child care, labor conditions, equality of entrance requirements, and eligibility for promotion. In pursuance thereof, the director shall: (A) Serve as a clearinghouse for information; (B) Assist state and local government...

...No compensation or fee, either directly or indirectly, shall be charged or received from any person seeking employment through a public employment office described in section 4141.04 of the Revised Code. No person shall violate this section.

...(A) The unemployment compensation review commission, by rule, may authorize persons other than ones who are admitted to the practice of law also to appear before the commission in any kind of proceeding as representatives of employers or claimants. The commission may prescribe in any rule so adopted the minimum qualifications for such agents and such minimum standards of practice as are appropriate. Notwithstanding ...

...d thereon and that of a deputy or other employee of the director charged with the duty of keeping the account of the unemployment compensation fund and with the preparation of warrants for the payment of benefits to the persons entitled thereto. Moneys in the clearing and benefit accounts shall not be commingled with other state funds, except as provided in division (C) of this section, but shall be maintained in sep...