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...As used in this chapter, unless other meaning is clearly indicated in the context: (A) "Gas storage reservoir" or "storage reservoir" or "reservoir" means a continuous area of a subterranean porous sand or rock stratum or strata, any part of which or of the protective area of which, is within a coal bearing township, into which gas is or may be injected for the purpose of storing it therein and removing it th...

...(A) The general assembly finds that in order to enhance the economic opportunities available to and improve the economic welfare of all the people of the state, and to maintain and enhance the competitiveness of the Ohio economy, it is necessary to ensure that the people of the state will continue to have access to high-value jobs in technology, and that, to facilitate such continued access, it is necessary to provid...

...of the Revised Code does not constitute engaging in the business of insurance and is not subject to the insurance laws of this state. (2)(a) Acquire, establish, manage, or operate a separate business entity, including a corporation, company, organization, partnership, or trust, and utilize its unencumbered reserve funds in the acquisition, establishment, management, or operation of the business entity to the extent...

...(A) After notice and an opportunity for a hearing conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code and except as provided in division (B) of this section, the director of commerce shall revoke or refuse to issue or renew a certificate of registration if the director finds either of the following: (1) During the immediately preceding ten-year period, the person violated division (A) of section 169.16 on...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Qualified nonprofit corporation" means a nonprofit corporation that is established under this chapter and to which all of the following apply: (a) The nonprofit corporation is a tax-exempt charitable organization; (b) The nonprofit corporation has other organizations as members, and at least twenty of its members are tax-exempt charitable organizations; (c) The nonprofit corporat...

...Sections 1703.01 to 1703.31 of the Revised Code do not apply to corporations engaged in this state solely in interstate commerce, including the installation, demonstration, or repair of machinery or equipment sold by them in interstate commerce, by engineers, or by employees especially experienced as to such machinery or equipment, as part thereof; to credit unions, title guarantee and trust companies, bond investmen...

...(A) At any time after the three-year period described in section 1704.02 of the Revised Code, the issuing public corporation may engage in a Chapter 1704. transaction, provided that if the Chapter 1704. transaction is of a type described in section 1701.76, 1701.78, 1701.79, 1701.80, 1701.801, 1701.802, or 1701.86 of the Revised Code, there is compliance with the provisions of that section, and provided that at least...

...(A) The law of the state or other jurisdiction under which a foreign limited liability company is formed governs all of the following: (1) The organization and internal affairs of the foreign limited liability company; (2) The liability of a member as a member for the debts, obligations, or other liabilities of the foreign limited liability company or a series thereof; (3) The authority of the members and agent...

...(A) No person who makes or opposes a control bid to offerees in this state shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Make any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; (2) Engage in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fr...

...B) Every professional solicitor, before engaging in any solicitation, shall register with the attorney general. Applications for registration or renewal of registration shall be in writing, under oath, and in the form prescribed by the attorney general, and shall be accompanied by a fee in the amount of two hundred dollars. Any corporation, partnership, association, or other entity that intends to act as a profession...

...on for a charitable purpose or prior to engaging in any charitable sales promotion; (5) Misleading any person in any manner in the belief, or making or using any representation to any person that implies, that the organization on whose behalf a solicitation or charitable sales promotion is being conducted is a charitable organization or that the proceeds of the solicitation or charitable sales promotion will be use...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Agricultural cooperative" means a cooperative to which all of the following apply: (1) The cooperative engages in any activity in connection with the propagation, raising, producing, harvesting, storing, drying, handling, processing, or marketing of agricultural products; procuring equipment and supplies or providing services for producers and others; bargaining; and any activity...

...(A) The senior management officials of a credit union may terminate the membership of, or some or all services to, a member of the credit union, if the member does any of the following: (1) Causes a loss to the credit union; (2) Commits fraud or any similar misdeed against the credit union or against any person on the premises of the credit union; (3) Engages in inappropriate behavior involving another person, ...

...(A)(1) Whenever, in the opinion of the superintendent of credit unions, any director, officer, committee member, employee, agent, or other person participating in the conduct of the affairs of a credit union has committed any violation of law or rule, or of a cease-and-desist order, or has engaged or participated in any unsafe or unsound practice in connection with the credit union, or has committed or engaged in any...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance, after notice and opportunity for hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may impose a fine upon a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program, a third-party administrator, or other entity after finding either of the following: (1) The arrangement, third-party administrator, or other entity, through the acts of its officers, ...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance may suspend or revoke any certificate of authority issued to a health insuring corporation under this chapter if the superintendent finds that: (1) The health insuring corporation is operating in contravention of its articles of incorporation, its health care plan or plans, or in a manner contrary to that described in and reasonably inferred from any other information submi...

...(A)(1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the rate of wages payable for the various occupations covered by sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code to persons employed on a project who are not any of the following shall be determined according to this section: (a) Qualified volunteers; (b) Persons required to participate in a work activity, developmental activity, or alternative work a...

...(A) A credit union share guaranty corporation may be established, licensed, and operated in compliance with this chapter. (B)(1) A credit union share guaranty corporation may be organized as a corporation under this chapter. Chapter 1701. or 1702. of the Revised Code, to the extent either is applicable and not in conflict with this chapter and those chapters of Title XXXIX of the Revised Code specified in division (...

...ring to commit, or has engaged in or is engaging in complicity in the commission of, organized criminal activity.

...(A) A partnership is an entity distinct from its partners. (B) A limited liability partnership continues to be the same entity that existed before the filing of a statement of qualification under section 1776.81 of the Revised Code. (C) Except as otherwise provided in the Revised Code or the partnership agreement, a partnership formed under this chapter has authority to engage in any activity in which a domes...

...A partner is dissociated from a partnership upon the occurrence of any of the following events: (A) The partnership has notice of the partner's express will to withdraw as a partner, on the date of the notice or on a later date the partner specifies; (B) The happening of an event agreed to in the partnership agreement as causing the partner's dissociation; (C) The partner's expulsion pursuant to the partnersh...

...(A) The law under which a foreign limited liability partnership is formed governs relations among the partners and between the partners and the partnership and the liability of partners for obligations of the partnership. (B) A foreign limited liability partnership may not be denied a statement of foreign qualification by reason of any difference between the law under which the partnership was formed and the l...

...(A) A municipal judge during the judge's term of office shall be a qualified elector and a resident of the territory of the court to which the judge is elected or appointed. A municipal judge shall have been admitted to the practice of law in this state for at least one year preceding appointment or the commencement of the judge's term and, for a total of at least six years preceding appointment or the commencement o...

...(A) A county court judge, at the time of filing a nominating petition for the office or at the time of appointment to the office and during the judge's term of office, shall be a qualified elector and a resident of the county court district in which the judge is elected or appointed. A county court judge does not have to be a resident of an area of separate jurisdiction in the county court district to which the judge...

...nited States or the national guard are engaging or have engaged in combat. (B) A probate judge shall not charge, or collect from, the estate of a decedent who died while in active service as a member of the armed forces of the United States or the national guard any of the following fees if the death occurred while the decedent was serving in a combat zone or as a result of wounds, disease, or injury incurr...