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...Educational programs of the Ohio university college of osteopathic medicine shall emphasize the training of osteopathic doctors who will engage in the family practice of medicine. The college shall encourage its graduates to practice medicine in those areas of the state where the greatest need exists for osteopathic physicians. Eighty per cent of the students enrolled at any time in the college shall be either Ohio r...

...There is hereby created a university branch, which shall be known as the Ohio university Ironton branch and which shall consist of the educational institution formerly known as the Ohio university academic center. Upon the creation of the Ohio university Ironton branch, the branch shall in good faith consider cooperative agreements with other institutions of higher education in counties contiguous to Lawrence county...

...The boards of trustees of Bowling Green state university and Kent state university, respectively, may create, establish, provide for, and maintain a college of liberal arts, a college of education, and a college of business administration, and include the instruction appropriate to the awarding of graduate and other degrees. On the recommendation of the faculty, the board may confer such honorary and academic degree...

...The board of trustees of Central state university shall take, keep, and maintain exclusive authority, direction, supervision, and control over the operations and conduct of such university, so as to assure for said university the best attainable results with the aid secured to it from the state. The board shall provide courses of study in accordance with the standards of the department of education and workforce, ...

...No sectarian influence, direction, or interference in the management or conduct of the affairs or education of the Central state university shall be permitted by its board of trustees; but its benefits shall be open to all applicants of good moral character and within the limitations of age determined by the board.

...The board of trustees of each state institution of higher education as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code shall adopt a textbook selection policy for faculty to follow in selecting and assigning textbooks and other instructional materials for use in courses offered by the institution. The policy shall include faculty responsibilities and actions faculty may take in selecting and assigning textbooks and o...

...No state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, shall charge an additional fee to a student for an employee of the university, or an entity contracting with the institution, to complete any academic activity associated with regular coursework, including grading student assignments.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Ohio resident" means a resident of this state under rules adopted by the chancellor of higher education under section 3333.31 of the Revised Code. (2) "State university" has the same meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. (B) Each state university shall endeavor to avoid prioritizing the admission of an applicant who is not an Ohio resident over an applicant who is...

...(A) As used in this section, "state college or university" means any state university or college defined in division (A)(1) of section 3345.12 of the Revised Code, and any other institution of higher education defined in division (A)(2) of that section. (B) All rights to and interests in discoveries, inventions, or patents which result from research or investigation conducted in any experiment station, bureau, labor...

...(A) The board of trustees of a state university, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, may adopt a policy to permit a student organization that is registered with the university to use the university's master and subsidiary logos for any of the organization's activities, materials, publications, or web sites that are not otherwise sanctioned by the university. The board of trustees shall make the policy...

...(A) The board of trustees of a state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code and in accordance with its fiduciary duties described under sections 3345.05, 3354.10, 3357.10, and 3358.06 of the Revised Code, shall make investment decisions with the sole purpose of maximizing the return on its investments. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, no board of ...

...The board of trustees of any state university, medical university, technical college, state community college, community college, or the board of trustees or managing authority of any university branch may establish and administer a faculty improvement program, under which any full-time faculty member with at least seven academic years of teaching service at the college, university, or branch may be granted pro...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "State university or college" has the same meaning as in division (A)(1) of section 3345.32 of the Revised Code. (2) "Armed forces" has the same meaning as in section 3313.471 of the Revised Code. (3) "State or federal government" means the United States government, the state of Ohio, or any other state or any agency, armed forces unit, or other institution of the United States gov...

...(A) As used in this section, "state university" has the same meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. (B) Beginning two years after the effective date of this section, and every two years thereafter, each state university shall review the university's student records to identify any student to whom all of the following apply: (1) The student disenrolled from the state university within the five years i...

...A state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, shall accept and provide credit for coursework in the same manner across all instructional models, except in the case of courses that require in-person observations and experiences, such as laboratories and clinicals, which may necessitate instruction through an in-person component rather than online instruction.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "State university or college" has the same meaning as in division (A)(1) of section 3345.12 of the Revised Code. (2)(a) "The actual loss of the person who is awarded the damages" includes all of the following: (i) All wages, salaries, or other compensation lost by an injured person as a result of the injury, including wages, salaries, or other compensation lost as of the date of a ...

...Not later than December 31, 2014, and continuing thereafter, each state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, shall provide a student who is either a veteran or a service member with priority for course registration.

...Not later than December 31, 2014, the board of trustees or managing authority of each state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, shall establish an appeals procedure for students who are veterans or service members for resolving disputes regarding the awarding of college credit for military experience.

...On or after December 31, 2014, no state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, shall charge a student who is a veteran or a service member any fee for the evaluation of, transcription of, or application for college credit for military experience.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Cohort" means a group of students who will complete their bachelor's degree requirements and graduate from a state university at the same time. A cohort may include transfer students and other selected undergraduate student academic programs as determined by the board of trustees of a state university. (2) "Eligible student" means an undergraduate student who: (a) Is enrolle...

...(A) For purposes of this section, "university" includes a state institution of higher education as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code and a university housing commission created under section 3347.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Each university may enter into a lease agreement with a nonpublic vendor to provide housing services in campus housing facilities to students of the university. The lease agreement...

...The board of trustees of a state institution of higher education may contract with an energy or water services company, architect, professional engineer, contractor, or other person experienced in the design and implementation of energy or water conservation measures for a report containing an analysis and recommendations pertaining to the implementation of energy or water conservation measures that would result...

...If the board of trustees of a state institution of higher education wishes to enter into a contract, other than an installment payment contract provided under section 3345.64 of the Revised Code, to implement one or more energy or water saving measures, the board may proceed under the applicable competitive bidding requirements in Chapter 153. or section 3354.16, 3355.12, 3357.16, or 3358.10 of the Revised Code or, ...

...In accordance with this section, the board of trustees of a state institution of higher education may enter into an installment payment contract for the implementation of one or more energy or water saving measures. Any such contract shall be subject to the competitive bidding requirements of Chapter 153. or section 3354.16, 3355.12, 3357.16, or 3358.10 of the Revised Code, as applicable to each such board, exce...

...To enter into a contract under this section pursuant to section 3345.63 or division (B) of section 3345.64 of the Revised Code, a board of trustees of a state institution of higher education shall request proposals from at least three parties for the implementation of energy or water saving measures. Prior to providing any interested party a copy of any such request, the board shall advertise, in a newspaper of gen...

...If the county auditor determines under section 5713.01 of the Revised Code that the construction of a dwelling on a previously vacant parcel of land is now available for use or that an additional dwelling is constructed on a parcel of land and is now available for use, the county auditor, by ordinary mail, shall send to the owner of the dwelling a notice that the applicant may apply for a reduction in taxes und...

...An assessor, from the maps and descriptions furnished him by the county auditor and other sources of information, shall make a correct and pertinent description of each tract and lot of real property in his district. When he deems it necessary to obtain an accurate description of any separate tract or lot in his district, he may require the owner or occupier thereof to furnish such description, with any title papers ...

...(A) As used in this section, "federally subsidized residential rental property" means property to which one or more of the following apply: (1) It is part of a qualified low-income housing project, through its compliance and extended use period, as those terms are defined in section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code, or any other period during which it is similarly restricted under section 42 of the Internal Revenue...

...Each separate parcel of real property shall be valued at its taxable value, excluding the value of the crops, deciduous and evergreen trees, plants, and shrubs growing thereon, and taking into account the diminution in value as the result of the existence of any conservation easement created under sections 5301.67 to 5301.69 of the Revised Code. The price for which such real property would sell at auction or forced s...

...Each separate parcel of real property shall be classified by the county auditor according to its principal, current use. Vacant lots and tracts of land upon which there are no structures or improvements shall be classified in accordance with their location and their highest and best probable legal use. In the case of lands containing or producing minerals, the minerals or any rights to the minerals that are lis...

...On or before the thirty-first day of March, annually, the county auditor shall make a list of petroleum, oil, and natural gas wells, coal and ore mines, limestone quarries, fireclay pits, and works designed for the production of minerals which have been begun or constructed since the last preceding appraisal. If, by reason of the discovery of such minerals, the construction of such works, the commencement of such op...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Oil" means all grades of crude oil. (2) "Gas" means all forms of natural gas. (3) "Well" means an oil or gas well or an oil and gas well. (4) "M.C.F." means one thousand cubic feet. (5) "Commonly metered wells" means two or more wells that share the same meter. (6) "Total production" means the total amount of oil, measured in barrels, and the total amount of gas, measured in M....

...Where the fee of the soil and the minerals, or part of either, of a lot or parcel of land has been previously assessed for taxation in the name of the same person, but the title to the fee of the soil is in one or more persons and the title to such minerals, or any right to the minerals, is in another person, the county auditor shall ascertain the aggregate value of such lot or parcel of land and the minerals or righ...

...(A) The county auditor shall make a list of all real and personal property in the auditor's county that is exempted from taxation. Such list shall show the name of the owner, the value of the property exempted, and a statement in brief form of the ground on which such exemption has been granted. It shall be corrected annually by adding thereto the items of property which have been exempted during the year, and by str...

...(A) No application for real property tax exemption and tax remission shall be filed with, or considered by, the tax commissioner or county auditor in which tax remission is requested for more than three tax years, and the commissioner or auditor shall not remit more than three years' taxes, penalties, and interest. (B) All taxes, penalties, and interest, that have been delinquent for more than three years, ap...

...(A) Whenever the county auditor reenters an item of property to the tax list as provided in section 5713.08 of the Revised Code and there has been no conveyance of the property between separate entities, the auditor shall send notice to the owner of the property e ither by certified mail or, if the auditor has record of an internet identifier of record associated with the owner, by ordinary mail and by that internet ...

...(A) The owner of property appearing on the exempt list shall notify the county auditor, on a form prescribed by the tax commissioner, if the use of the property changes from the use stated on the application for exemption filed for the property. The notification shall be filed with the county auditor on or before the last day of the tax year for which the property's use so changes. Upon receipt of the notification, t...

...The board of county commissioners may designate the county engineer to provide for making, correcting, and keeping up to date a complete set of tax maps of the county, and shall employ the necessary number of assistants. Such maps shall show all original lots and parcels of land, and all divisions, subdivisions, and allotments thereof, with the name of the owner of each original lot or parcel and of each division, su...

...The county engineer shall appoint the necessary draftsmen and fix the salary thereof, subject to the approval of the board of county commissioners. The salaries of the assistants shall be paid out of the county treasury in the same manner as the salaries of other county officers are paid.

...The county auditor shall ascertain from the owner or his agent the amount of the mortgage indebtedness upon each tract and lot in any district. The blanks necessary for the purpose of this section and sections 5713.02 and 5713.03 of the Revised Code shall be furnished by the auditor and paid for by the board of county commissioners out of the county treasury.

...When an original survey, section, tract, or lot has become divided into such small parcels or fractions so that the description of the several parts thereof is indefinite and doubtful, the county auditor when appraising any such survey, section, tract, or lot, or part thereof, shall cause the said section, or such parts thereof as are necessary, to be accurately platted and laid out into such subdivisions as the diff...

...When the assessor has neglected to plat and number the divisions, mentioned in section 5713.13 of the Revised Code or the survey, section, tract, lot, or part thereof, is subdivided after the assessement and appraisal thereof, and the county auditor believes it should be platted and numbered for the purpose of a pertinent description thereof upon his duplicate, the auditor may require the owner or occupier of such se...

...If the owner or occupier of a subdivided survey, section, tract, lot, or part thereof fails to appear when required, and to produce the title papers, or produces them in such manner that the county auditor cannot plat and number said subdivisions without a survey, the auditor may require such owner or occupier to cause such subdivisions to be surveyed, platted, and numbered within twenty days, and to deliver said sur...

...When the title papers are produced to the county auditor, he may plat, allot, and number said subdivisions. The plat made by the auditor shall be recorded upon the records of deeds of the county. After it has been platted and numbered by the auditor, or by the county engineer, it shall be sufficient for all purposes of taxation to enter such subdivisions upon the duplicate by their numbers, as provided by law for se...

...To enable the county auditor to determine the value and location of buildings and other improvements, any person, other than a railroad company or a public utility whose real property is valued for taxation by the tax commissioner, that constructs any building or other improvement costing more than two thousand dollars upon any lot or land within a township or municipal corporation not having a system of building reg...

...When any person lays out a municipal corporation, any addition thereto, or any subdivision of any lot or tract of land before the plat thereof is recorded, he shall present it to the county auditor, who shall assess and return the taxable valuation of each lot or parcel of land described in such plat in the same manner as other such lots or parcels are valued. Thereupon such lots or parcels shall be entered on the ta...

...A county auditor shall correct any clerical errors, as defined in section 319.35 of the Revised Code, that the auditor discovers concerning the name of the owner, valuation, description, or quantity of any tract or lot contained in the list of real property in the county.

...(A) If the county auditor discovers that any building, structure, or tract of land or any lot or part of either, has been omitted from the list of real property, the auditor shall add it to the list, with the name of the owner, and ascertain the taxable value thereof and place it opposite such property. The county auditor shall compute the sum of the simple taxes for the preceding years in which the property was omit...

...The county auditor, if he ascertains that a mistake was made in the valuation of an improvement or betterment of real property or that its valuation was omitted, shall return the correct taxable value, after giving notice to the owner or agent thereof of his intention to do so. Additions made by the auditor pursuant to this section shall be listed upon the grand duplicate of the county and placed in the hands of the...

...As used in sections 5713.22 to 5713.26 of the Revised Code, "forest land" consists of any land bearing a stand of trees which the chief of the division of forestry determines is suitable for classification under such sections.