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...(A) To obtain an appraisal management company license, each applicant shall submit all of the following to the superintendent of real estate and professional licensing: (1) A completed application on a form the superintendent provides; (2) The name of a controlling person who will be the main contact between the appraisal management company and the division of real estate and professional licensing and the real...

...(A) Each person applying for a manufactured housing dealer's license or manufactured housing broker's license shall complete and deliver to the department of commerce, division of real estate, before the first day of April, a separate application for license for each county in which the business of selling or brokering manufactured or mobile homes is to be conducted. The application shall be in the form prescribed by...

...(A) The division of real estate shall deny the application of any person for a license as a manufactured housing dealer or manufactured housing broker and refuse to issue the license if the division finds that any of the following is true of the applicant: (1) The applicant has made any false statement of a material fact in the application. (2) The applicant has not complied with this chapter or the rules adopted...

...(A) A fiduciary may make adjustments between principal and income to offset the shifting of economic interests or tax benefits between income beneficiaries and remainder beneficiaries that arise from any of the following: (1) Elections and decisions, other than those described in division (B) of this section, that the fiduciary makes from time to time regarding tax matters; (2) An income tax or any other tax that i...

...Whenever, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, it is necessary to acquire real estate or any interest in real estate for the acquisition, construction, maintenance, or operation of any water supply facilities authorized by this chapter, or to acquire the right to acquire, construct, maintain, and operate those facilities in and upon any property within or outside of a county sewer district, it may pu...

...(A) In a power of attorney, a principal may nominate a guardian of the principal's person, estate, or both and may nominate a guardian of the person, the estate, or both of one or more of the principal's minor children or incompetent adult children, whether born at the time of the execution of the power of attorney or afterward. The nomination is for consideration by a court if proceedings for the appointment o...

...As used in Chapter 1747. of the Revised Code, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Real estate investment trust" means a trust created by an instrument, pursuant to common law or enabling legislation, under which any estate or interest in real property is held, managed, administered, controlled, invested, reinvested, or operated by a trustee or trustees for the benefit and profit of persons who are or may bec...

...(A) Any real estate investment trust that transacts real estate business in this state without authority shall forfeit not less that one thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars. Such forfeiture shall be recovered in an action in the name of the state brought in the court of common pleas of Franklin county, or in the court of common pleas of any county in which the trust has transacted real estate business...

...No insurance company organized under Chapter 3925. of the Revised Code, shall purchase, hold, or convey real estate, except for the folowing purposes and in the following manner: (A) Real estate requisite for its convenient accommodation in the transaction of its business; (B) Real estate mortgaged to it in good faith, by way of security for loans previously contracted, or for money due; (C) Real estate conveyed t...

...(A) An oil and gas land professional who is not otherwise permitted to engage in the activities described in division (A) of section 4735.01 of the Revised Code may perform such activities, if the oil and gas land professional does all of the following: (1)(a) Registers on an annual basis as an oil and gas land professional with the superintendent of real estate by such date specified and on a form approved by the...

...(A) Application for a license as a real estate broker shall be made to the superintendent of real estate on forms furnished by the superintendent and filed with the superintendent and shall be signed by the applicant or its members or officers. Each application shall state the name of the person applying and the location of the place of business for which the license is desired, and give such other information as the...

...(A)(1) The Ohio real estate commission or the superintendent of real estate may commence, at any time within three years from the date on which an alleged violation of a provision of this or another chapter of the Revised Code occurred, any investigation that relates to the conduct of a licensed real estate broker, real estate salesperson, foreign real estate dealer, or foreign real estate salesperson, that is ...

...(A) Within ten business days after a person files a written complaint against a person certified, registered, or licensed under this chapter with the division of real estate, the superintendent of real estate shall acknowledge receipt of the complaint by sending notice to the certificate holder, registrant, or licensee that includes a copy of the complaint. The acknowledgement to the complainant and the notice to the...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Administrative or clerical tasks" mean the receipt, collection, and distribution of information common for the processing or underwriting of a loan in the mortgage industry, and communication with a consumer to obtain information necessary for the processing or underwriting of a residential mortgage loan, to the extent the communication does not include offering or negotiating loan ra...

...(A) Subject to the limitations of division (C) of this section, every real estate investment trust authorized to transact real estate business in this state has the following general powers: (1) To take, hold, and dispose of any estate or interest in real or personal property; (2) To sue and be sued, complain and defend, in all courts; (3) To transact its business, carry on its operations, and exercise the powers ...

...(A) A person may nominate in a writing, as described in this division, another person to be the guardian of the nominator's person, estate, or both or the guardian of the person, the estate, or both, of one or more of the nominator's minor or incompetent adult children, whether born at the time of the execution of the writing or afterward, subject to notice and a hearing pursuant to section 2111.02 of the Revis...

...As used in sections 4735.51 to 4735.74 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agency" and "agency relationship" mean a relationship in which a licensee represents another person in a real estate transaction. (B) "Agency agreement" means a contract between a licensee and a client in which the client promises to pay the broker a valuable consideration, or agrees that the licensee may receive a valuable consideration from another,...

...(A) There is hereby created the real estate appraiser board, consisting of five members appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate. Four members shall be persons certified or licensed under this chapter, at least two of whom shall hold a state-certified general real estate appraiser certificate, and one of whom shall be an owner, controlling person, or management-level employee of an apprai...

...(A) In engaging in appraisal activities, a person certified, registered, or licensed under this chapter shall comply with the applicable standards prescribed by the board of governors of the federal reserve system, the federal deposit insurance corporation, the comptroller of the currency, the national credit union administration, and the resolution trust corporation in connection with federally related transactions ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Adjusted value" means: (a) In the case of the gross estate, the value of the gross estate as determined pursuant to section 5731.01 of the Revised Code and without regard to this section, reduced by any amounts allowable as a deduction under division (A)(4) of section 5731.16 of the Revised Code; (b) In the case of any real or personal property, the value of the property as determ...

...se the executor or administrator of the estates holds a general partnership interest in both of the partnerships in the executor's or administrator's fiduciary capacities. (D) Divisions (B) and (C) of this section apply to general partnership interests held by executors or administrators in their fiduciary capacities prior to and on or after March 22, 1984. If an appropriate disclosure is made pursuant to division (...

...Municipal corporations may lay out, establish, construct, maintain, and operate within their respective corporate limits, off-street parking facilities for motor vehicles, and in connection therewith and for such purpose may acquire by purchase, gift, devise, exchange, lease, or sublease any existing off-street parking facilities or any real estate or interest therein required for the construction of such parking fac...

...As used in sections 1311.85 to 1311.93 of the Revised Code: (A) "Broker" means an individual, partnership, corporation, or association licensed as a real estate broker pursuant to Chapter 4735. of the Revised Code. (B) "Commercial real estate" means any parcel of real estate in this state other than real estate containing one to four residential units. "Commercial real estate" does not include single-family ...

...(A) Any broker that enters into a written contract for services related to selling, leasing, or conveying any interest in commercial real estate has a lien on that commercial real estate. The lien is effective only if the contract for services is in writing and is signed by the broker or the broker's agent and the owner of the lien property or the owner's agent. (B) Any broker that enters into a written contr...

...(A) After the initial appointment of an administrator or executor of the estate, the probate court shall issue a citation to the surviving spouse, if any is living at the time of the issuance of the citation, to elect whether to exercise the surviving spouse's rights under Chapter 2106. of the Revised Code, including, after the probate of a will, the right to elect to take under the will or under section 2105.0...