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...In responding to registrations or petitions for enforcement of two or more child-support orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor and different individual obligees, at least one of which was issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country, a tribunal of this state shall enforce those orders in the same manner as if the orders had been issued by a tribunal of this state.

...A tribunal of this state shall credit amounts collected for a particular period pursuant to any child-support order against the amounts owed for the same period under any other child-support order for support of the same child issued by a tribunal of this state, another state, or a foreign country.

...A tribunal of this state exercising personal jurisdiction over a nonresident in a proceeding under this chapter, under other law of this state relating to a support order, or recognizing a foreign support order may receive evidence from outside this state pursuant to section 3115.316 of the Revised Code, communicate with a tribunal outside this state pursuant to section 3115.317 of the Revised Code, and obtain discov...

...(A) A tribunal of this state issuing a spousal-support order consistent with the law of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the spousal-support order throughout the existence of the support obligation. (B) A tribunal of this state may not modify a spousal-support order issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over that order under th...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, sections 3115.301 to 3115.319 of the Revised Code apply to all proceedings under this chapter. (B) An individual petitioner or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized under this chapter by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribuna...

...A minor parent, or a guardian or other legal representative of a minor parent, may maintain a proceeding on behalf of or for the benefit of the minor's child.

...Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a responding tribunal of this state shall do both of the following: (A) Apply the procedural and substantive law generally applicable to similar proceedings originating in this state and may exercise all powers and provide all remedies available in those proceedings; (B) Determine the duty of support and the amount payable in accordance with the law and support guidelin...

...onding tribunal is unknown, the state information agency of the responding state with a request that they be forwarded to the appropriate tribunal and that receipt be acknowledged. (B) If requested by the responding tribunal, a tribunal of this state shall issue a certificate or other document and make findings required by the law of the responding state. If the responding tribunal is in a foreign country, upon requ...

...Order an obligor to keep the tribunal informed of the obligor's current residential address, electronic-mail address, telephone number, employer, address of employment, and telephone number at the place of employment; (9) Issue a capias for an obligor who has failed after proper notice to appear at a hearing ordered by the tribunal and enter the capias in any local and state computer systems for criminal warrants; ...

...If a petition or comparable pleading is received by an inappropriate tribunal or support enforcement agency of this state, the tribunal or support enforcement agency shall forward the pleading and accompanying documents to an appropriate tribunal or support enforcement agency of this state or another state and notify the petitioner where and when the pleading was sent.

...sonable effort to obtain all relevant information, including information as to income and property of the parties; (4) Within two days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, after receipt of notice in a record from an initiating, responding, or registering tribunal, send a copy of the notice to the petitioner; (5) Within two days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, after receipt of ...

...e department may order the agency to perform its duties under this chapter or may provide those services directly to the individual. (B) The department of job and family services may determine that a foreign country has established a reciprocal arrangement for child support with this state and take appropriate action for notification of the determination.

...An individual may employ private counsel to represent the individual in proceedings authorized by this chapter.

... job and family services is the state information agency under this chapter. (B) The state information agency shall do all of the following: (1) Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this state that have jurisdiction under this chapter and any support enforcement agencies in this state and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state; (2) Maintain a r...

...y disclosure of specific identifying information, that information must be sealed and may not be disclosed to the other party or the public. After a hearing in which a tribunal takes into consideration the health, safety, or liberty of the party or child, the tribunal may order disclosure of information that the tribunal determines to be in the interest of justice.

...(A) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs. (B) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this state may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney's fees, other costs, and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee's witnesses. The tribunal may not assess fees, costs, or expenses against the obligee or the support enfo...

...(A) Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding under this chapter before a responding tribunal, whether in person, by private attorney, or through services provided by the support enforcement agency, does not confer personal jurisdiction over the petitioner in another proceeding. (B) A petitioner is not amenable to service of civil process while physically present in this state to participate in a proceeding unde...

...A party whose parentage of a child has been previously determined by or pursuant to law may not plead nonparentage as a defense to a proceeding under this chapter.

...tronic mail, or other means to obtain information concerning the laws, the legal effect of a judgment, decree, or order of that tribunal and the status of a proceeding. A tribunal of this state may furnish similar information by similar means to a tribunal outside this state.

...A tribunal of this state may do both of the following: (A) Request a tribunal outside this state to assist in obtaining discovery; (B) Upon request, compel a person over which it has jurisdiction to respond to a discovery order issued by a tribunal outside this state.

... obligor's employer or other payor a conforming income-withholding order or an administrative notice of change of payee, reflecting the redirected payments. (C) The support enforcement agency of this state receiving redirected payments from another state pursuant to a law similar to division (B) of this section shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of the other state a certified statement by the custodian ...

...(A) If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this state with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if either of the following applies: (1) The individual seeking the order resides outside this state. (2) The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this state. (B) The tribunal may issue a temporary ...

...A tribunal of this state authorized to determine parentage of a child may serve as a responding tribunal in a proceeding to determine parentage of a child brought under this chapter or a law or procedure substantially similar to this chapter.

...An income-withholding order issued in another state may be sent by or on behalf of the obligee, or by the support enforcement agency, to the person defined as the obligor's employer or other payor under Chapter 3121. of the Revised Code without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this state.

...If an obligor's employer or other payor receives two or more income-withholding orders with respect to the earnings of the same obligor, the employer or other payor satisfies the terms of the orders if the employer or other payor complies with the law of the state of the obligor's principal place of employment to establish the priorities for withholding and allocating income withheld for two or more child-support obl...

...he public utilities commission, in such form and at such times as the commission requires, such accounts, reports, and information as shall show completely and in detail the entire operation of the public utility in furnishing the unit of its product or service to the public.

...ublic utilities commission shall keep informed of all new construction, extensions, and additions to the property of public utilities, and may prescribe the necessary forms, regulations, and instructions to the officers and employees of such public utilities for the keeping of construction accounts. Such construction accounts shall clearly distinguish all operating expenses and new construction.

...pplication may be granted in a modified form. If the application asks for the abandonment or withdrawal of any main track, main pipe line, gas line, electric light line, water line, sewer line, steam pipe line, pumping station, generating plant, power station, sewage treatment plant, service station, or the service rendered thereby, in such manner as can result in the permanent abandonment of service between an...

... posted on the commission's docketing information system and is accessible through the internet. Every such public utility is required to conform its schedules of rates, tolls, and charges to such arrangement, sliding scale, classification, or other device, and where variable rates are provided for in any such schedule or arrangement, the cost data or factors upon which such rates are based and fixed shall be filed ...

... public utility or railroad corporation formed by the merger or consolidation of two or more corporations exceed the sum of the capital stock of the corporations consolidated or merged, at the par value of such stock, and such sum or any additional sum actually paid in cash. No contract for consolidation or lease shall be capitalized in the stock of any public utility or railroad corporation, and no such corpor...

...ting board shall: (A) Require such information from persons subject to its jurisdiction as it considers necessary to assist in the conduct of hearings and any investigations or studies it may undertake; (B) Conduct any studies or investigations that it considers necessary or appropriate to carry out its responsibilities under this chapter; (C) Adopt rules establishing criteria for evaluating the effects on env...

.... Two copies of such schedules, in such form and places as are accessible for inspection by the public, shall be filed and kept on file in every depot, station, and office of such railroad where passengers or freight are received for transportation.

...l corporation or railroad shall be on a form provided by the commission. Notice of the hearing shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipal corporation in which the crossing at issue is located. The hearing shall be held at a location within the boundaries of the municipal corporation. If, after the hearing, it is the opinion of the commission that ...

...d by a county or railroad shall be on a form provided by the commission. Notice of the hearing shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the crossing at issue is located. The hearing shall be held at a location within the boundaries of the county. If, after the hearing, it is the opinion of the commission that there is not a demonstrable ne...

...o the public utilities commission by a formal complaint. Such complaint shall be made upon blank forms which the commission shall provide upon demand of the claimant. Such complaint shall be verified as petitions in civil actions and may be accompanied by the sworn statements of any witnesses who have knowledge of any fact material to the inquiry. Upon the filing of such complaint the commission shall forthwi...

...ng the investigation and valuation, the form in which the results of the ascertainment of the value of each public utility or railroad shall be submitted, and the classifications of the elements that constitute the ascertained value. Such investigation shall also show the value of the property of every public utility or railroad as a whole, and if such property is in more than one county, the value of its property in...

...h notification of the increase, in such form and by such method as the commission shall prescribe.

... Code. The application shall be in such form and contain such information as the commission prescribes. At the time of filing, the company shall serve a copy of the application upon the chief executive of each municipal corporation, the board of township trustees of each township, and the board of county commissioners of each county in which affected customers are located. A company for which an infrastructure improv...

...ublish notice of such application, in a form approved by the public utilities commission, once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper published and in general circulation throughout the territory in which such public utility operates and directly affected by the matters referred to in said application. The notice shall include instructions for direct electronic access to the application or other documents on...

...evised Code. The refund shall be in the form of a temporary reduction in rates following the final order of the commission, and shall be accomplished in such manner as shall be prescribed by the commission in its final order. The commission shall exercise continuing and exclusive jurisdiction over such refunds. If the public utilities commission has not entered a final order within five hundred forty-five days from...

...e municipal corporation the following information: (A) A report of its property used and useful in rendering the service to be provided; (B) A complete operating statement of the previous fiscal year, showing in detail all its receipts, revenues, and incomes from all sources, all of its operating costs and other expenditures, and any other information the public utility deems applicable; (C) A statement of the inc...

...ype of for-hire motor carrier; (2) The form and type of documents to be filed with the commission; (3) The manner by which documents may be filed with the commission; (4) The timelines for filing documents with the commission. (D) If a certificate, policy, or bond required under division (A) of this section is canceled during its term or lapses for any reason, both of the following apply: (1) All operations ...

...mmission a completed application, on a form prescribed by the commission, that is substantially the same as the application prescribed by the commission pursuant to section 4921.05 of the Revised Code, and includes a certification of all of the following by responsible officials of the applicant: (1) The applicant's workers' compensation coverage is current pursuant to Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. (2) ...

...B) Present each of its customers with information, written in plain and clear language and pursuant to a form prescribed by the public utilities commission, outlining a consumer's rights; (C) Include its certificate number on all advertising, written estimates, and contracts, pursuant to rules adopted by the commission.

...ns, signals, pictures, sounds, or other forms of information installed by or on behalf of a provider upon any pole owned or controlled, in whole or in part, by one or more electric cooperatives. "Broadband provider" has the same meaning as in section 122.40 of the Revised Code. "Electric cooperative" has the same meaning as in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code. "Incremental cost" means pole attachment costs i...

...the Revised Code shall be issued in the form of a final appealable order.

...a telephone directory in any reasonable format, which includes, at the telephone company's option, an internet-accessible database of directory listings, for no additional charge and a listing in that directory, with reasonable accommodations made for private listings, and for a telephone company that no longer offers a printed directory, provision of reasonable customer notice of the available options to obtain dire...

...the system's total useful energy in the form of thermal energy. (41)(a) "Green energy" means any energy generated by using an energy resource that does one or more of the following: (i) Releases reduced air pollutants, thereby reducing cumulative air emissions; (ii) Is more sustainable and reliable relative to some fossil fuels. (b) "Green energy" includes energy generated using the following: (i) Natural g...

...uly affect the transmission entity's performance. For the purpose of division (B)(7) of this section, a "user" is any entity or affiliate of that entity that buys or sells electric energy in the transmission entity's region or in a neighboring region. (8) The transmission entity operates under policies that promote positive performance designed to satisfy the electricity requirements of customers. (9) The transmiss...

...the public utilities commission in such form as the commission shall prescribe by rule under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code, each electric utility that owns nuclear generation facilities located in this state shall demonstrate compliance with decommissioning requirements of the nuclear regulatory commission and public utilities commission and shall demonstrate adequate financing mechanisms to fun...