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...(A) No person shall do any of the following: (1) Procure or attempt to procure a certificate of title to an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle, or pass or attempt to pass a certificate of title or any assignment of a certificate of title to an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle, or in any other manner gain or attempt to gain ownership to an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehi...

...(A)(1) Chapter 1309. of the Revised Code does not permit or require the deposit, filing, or other record of a security interest covering an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle, except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section. (2) Chapter 1309. of the Revised Code applies to a security interest in an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle held as inventory, as defined in sectio...

...If the application for a certificate of title refers to an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle last previously registered in another state, the application shall be accompanied by a physical inspection certificate issued by the department of public safety verifying the make, year, series or model, if any, body type, and manufacturer's identification number of the off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicl...

...(A)(1) No minor under eighteen years of age shall purchase or otherwise acquire an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle and obtain a certificate of title for the motorcycle or vehicle unless the application for the certificate of title is accompanied by a form prescribed by the registrar of motor vehicles that is signed by a parent of the minor, the minor's guardian, or other person having custody of the min...

...Any railroad company may maintain and operate, or construct, maintain, and operate, a railroad, with such main tracks, sidetracks, turnouts, offices, depots, roundhouses, machine shops, water tanks, telegraph lines, and other necessary appliances, as it deems necessary, between the points named in its articles of incorporation, commencing at or within, and extending to or into any municipal corporation or place named...

...Upon any railroad in this state, electricity may be used as a motive power in the propulsion of cars. Before a line of poles and wires may be constructed through or along the streets, alleys, or public grounds of a municipal corporation, plans of the construction must be submitted to and approved by its legislative authority.

...Any railroad company owning or operating a railroad in this state may own, control, operate, or manage motor vehicles for the purpose of transporting persons or property, or both, upon the public highways for hire, subject to Chapters 4921. and 4923. of the Revised Code. Any railroad company may also own and operate equipment for and engage in the business of aerial transportation. Any railroad company may acqu...

...When a terminus named in the articles of incorporation of a railroad company is a county upon the line or boundary of the state, the president and board of directors of the company, upon the location of the railroad in that county, shall make and acknowledge a certificate definitely fixing the location in such county and file it with the secretary of state.

...By a resolution adopted by a majority of its board of directors, at a meeting duly called for the purpose, with the written consent of three fourths in interest of its stockholders, a railroad company may change the line of railroad, or any part thereof, and either of the proposed termini, of its railroad. No change shall be made which will involve the abandonment of any part of the railroad, either partly or complet...

...When the company referred to in section 4961.05 of the Revised Code has issued its mortgage bonds for the construction of its railroad, the record of the mortgage securing them, in each county through or into which the changed line of the railroad passes, is as effectual to create a lien upon the changed line of railroad and upon the property of the company as if the mortgage contained a complete description of the c...

...When a railroad company, the line of whose railroad has not been finally located in whole or in part, finds it necessary, in order to avoid dangerous or difficult curves, grades, or dangerous or unsubstantial grounds or foundations, or for other reasonable cause, to pass through a county not named in the articles of incorporation, or to avoid passing into or through a county named in them, other than a county in whic...

...When, under section 4961.07 of the Revised Code, a railroad company's line of railroad is diverted from a county named in the articles of incorporation, such company is liable to any person owning land in the county for damages caused by the change or diversion. All subscribers to the capital stock of the company on the line of that part of its railroad so changed shall be released from all obligation to pay their su...

...For the purpose of avoiding annoyance to public travel, dangerous or difficult curves or grades, or unsafe or unsubstantial grounds or foundations, or when the roadbed has been injured or destroyed by the current of a river, watercourse, or other unavoidable or reasonable cause, a railroad company may change the location or grade of any portion of its railroad, but shall not depart from the general route prescribed i...

...For the purpose of making any change provided by section 4961.09 of the Revised Code, the railroad company shall have all rights, powers, and privileges to enter upon and appropriate lands in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...When the location is changed, as provided by section 4961.09 of the Revised Code, after the railroad has been used for transportation of persons and property, the railroad company is liable for all damages occasioned by the change to the owner of the land upon which the railroad was first constructed.

...A railroad company may construct branches from the main line of railroad to municipal corporations or places within the limits of a county through or into which its railroad passes or to a connection with any railroad within this state, or to any coal or other mine, stone-quarry, plastic-clay, pottery-clay, and fire clay pits or banks, marl beds, sand or gravel pits or banks, asphalt deposits, slag banks, or ore or s...

...A railroad company, domestic or foreign, or municipal corporation which owns or operates a railroad may enter upon any land for the purpose of examining and surveying its railroad line, and may appropriate so much of such land as is necessary for its railroad including necessary sidetracks, depots, workshops, roundhouses, and water-stations, material for construction, except timber, a right of way over adjacent lands...

...A railroad company may acquire by purchase or gift lands in the vicinity of the line of its railroad, or through which it passes, so far as is deemed convenient or necessary by the company to secure a right of way, and such as are granted to aid in the construction of its railroad, and hold or convey them, as the board of directors prescribes. Conveyances made by such railroad company may be signed by the president o...

...When any deed executed prior to October 2, 1953 or recorded after such date purporting to transfer title to real estate has been executed by an officer or officers other than the president of such railroad company, as provided by section 4961.15 of the Revised Code, such deed and the recordation thereof shall be deemed to have been properly executed as of October 2, 1953 and shall be valid in all respects. Any person...

...If, in the judgment of the board of directors of any domestic or foreign corporation owning or operating a railroad wholly or partly within this state, it is necessary to use and occupy for an elevated track any portion of any public ground lying within the limits of a municipal corporation and dedicated to the public for use as a public ground, common, landing, or wharf, or for any other public purpose, except all s...

...Before an appropriation under section 4961.16 of the Revised Code may be made, there shall be submitted to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation general plans of the proposed structure showing the manner, character, and location of all supports, any part of which will be upon public ground, common landing, or wharf, and also the vertical and longitudinal clearances between the supports. No right to a...

...When a railroad company desires to extend the line of its railroad beyond either of its previously designated termini, its president and board of directors may submit the question of such extension and change of termini to a meeting of its stockholders, to be called for that purpose by notice published for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper in general circulation in each county through or into which the railroa...

...When it is necessary in the construction, reconstruction, alteration, or improvement of its railroad, or in making additions to or relocating such railroad, to cross a road or a stream of water, a railroad company may divert it from its location or bed, but without unnecessary delay it shall place such road or stream in such condition as not to impair its former usefulness.

...A railroad company may construct its bridges so as to answer the ordinary purposes of travel and business, as well as for railroad purposes, and may demand and receive such rates of toll for the passage of individuals, vehicles of all kinds, or animals, as it fixes, subject to the approval of the board of county commissioners of the county in which such bridge is erected. Rates of toll shall be uniform, shall be pri...

...When it becomes necessary for two or more railroads to cross any of the navigable waters of this state at or near the same point, by drawbridge or swing bridge, the companies or persons owning or controlling such railroads, if practicable, shall use the same bridge and approaches thereto. The right to use any such bridge and its approaches, or other similar structure, so situated and used as to make it necessary for ...

...Upon termination of the conciliation proceedings, the conciliator shall fix the costs of the conciliation and give written notice of the costs to the parties. As used in sections 2712.74 to 2712.90 of the Revised Code, "costs" includes only the following: (A) A reasonable fee to be paid to the conciliator or conciliators; (B) The travel and other reasonable expenses of the conciliator or conciliators; (C) The trav...

...(A) The costs of the conciliation referred to in section 2712.88 of the Revised Code shall be borne equally by the parties unless the settlement agreement provides for a different apportionment. All other expenses incurred by a party shall be borne by that party. (B) No person who serves as a conciliator shall be held liable in an action for damages resulting from any act or omission in the performance of his dutie...

...Neither the request for conciliation, the consent to participate in the conciliation proceedings, the participation in the proceedings, nor the entering into a conciliation agreement or settlement shall be deemed as a consent to the jurisdiction of any court in this state if conciliation fails.

...If, in any arbitral, judicial, or other official proceeding within or without this state, it becomes necessary to classify any provision of this chapter as substantive or procedural within the meanings of those terms in the conflict of laws, all provisions of this chapter relating to the obligation of the parties to arbitrate, to the conduct of arbitral proceedings, and to the validity of arbitral awards shall be cla...

...In a civil action, a defendant can be arrested before judgment only in the manner prescribed by sections 2713.01 to 2713.29, inclusive, of the Revised Code. This section does not apply to proceedings for contempt, nor to actions prosecuted or judgments obtained in the name of the state to recover fines or penalties.

...An order for the arrest of the defendant shall be made by the clerk of the court in which the action is brought, when there is filed in his office an affidavit of the plaintiff, his authorized agent or attorney, made before a judge or clerk of any court of the state, stating the nature of the plaintiff's claim, that it is just, the amount of it as nearly as may be, and establishing one or more of the following parti...

...The order of arrest provided for by section 2713.02 of the Revised Code shall not be issued by the clerk of the court until there is executed, by sufficient sureties of the plaintiff, a bond to the effect that the plaintiff will pay to the defendant all damages, not exceeding double the amount of the plaintiff's claim stated in the affidavit, which he may sustain by reason of the arrest if the order proves to have be...

...The order of arrest provided for by section 2713.02 of the Revised Code may be made to accompany the summons or at any time afterward before judgment.

...With a copy of the affidavit, the order of arrest provided for by section 2713.02 of the Revised Code shall be addressed and delivered to the sheriff, and must specify the names of the parties, the court in which the action is brought, the amount of the plaintiff's claim stated in the affidavit, and require the sheriff to arrest the defendant, hold him in bail in double that sum, and to make return thereof on a day t...

...The return day of the order of arrest provided for by section 2713.02 of the Revised Code, when it is issued at the commencement of a suit, shall be the same as that of the summons. When issued afterward, it shall be fifteen days after its date.

...The sheriff shall execute the order of arrest mentioned in section 2713.02 of the Revised Code by arresting the defendant, and delivering to him a copy thereof and of the affidavit. If the defendant cannot be found before the return day, the plaintiff may have further orders without other affidavits or bond until the defendant is arrested. An order of arrest shall not be issued to any other than the county in which t...

...The defendant, when arrested pursuant to section 2713.07 of the Revised Code, must be committed to the jail of the county and kept in custody until discharged by law.

...Before or after giving bail, the defendant may deposit with the sheriff, or in court, the amount specified in the order of arrest issued pursuant to section 2713.02 of the Revised Code; whereupon the defendant must be discharged, or his bail be released.

...The sheriff shall pay into court the money received by him in lieu of bail under section 2713.09 of the Revised Code. If it is received in vacation, he shall pay it on the first day of the next term; if received during the term, immediately.

...The court shall make proper orders for the safekeeping of money deposited in lieu of bail under section 2713.09 of the Revised Code, and may direct the sheriff to keep it, and after final judgment in the action shall order it to be paid to the party entitled to it according to the result.

...Money deposited with the sheriff as provided in section 2713.09 of the Revised code, or directed by the court to be kept by him, shall be held upon his official responsibility; and he and his sureties shall be liable, and may be proceeded against, for any default in relation thereto as in other cases of delinquency.

...Bail may be given by the defendant on his arrest under section 2713.07 of the Revised Code, or afterward, before judgment. It shall be done by causing sufficient bail to execute a bond to the plaintiff, in the presence of the sheriff, to the effect that, if judgment is rendered in the action against the defendant, such bail will be amenable to the process of the court thereon. The bond, when accepted, shall be return...

...The plaintiff, or his attorney, may object to the bail provided under section 2713.13 of the Revised Code, for insufficiency, within ten days after the bond is given, by serving upon the sheriff a written notice that he does not accept the bail. Failure to serve such notice shall be deemed an acceptance of the bail, and the sheriff is exonerated from liability. When the bond is given after the return of the order of...

...Within ten days after receipt of the notice provided for by section 2713.14 of the Revised Code, the sheriff or the defendant may give to the plaintiff, or his attorney, notice in writing of the justification of the same or other bail before a judge or clerk of the court in which the action is brought, a probate judge, or judge of a county court, at a time, not less than five nor more than ten days thereafter, and a ...

...For the purpose of justification, each of the bail must attend before the proper officer, at the time and place mentioned in the notice of justification provided for by section 2713.15 of the Revised Code, and may be examined on oath touching his sufficiency, in such manner as the officer deems proper. If the officer finds the bail sufficient, he shall indorse his allowance on the bond and file it with the clerk of ...

...After the arrest of the defendant pursuant to section 2713.07 of the Revised Code, if he escapes or is rescued, or bail is not taken or is adjudged insufficient, or a deposit is not made, the sheriff shall be liable as bail; but he may discharge himself from liability by putting in sufficient bail before judgment.

...The return of "not found" upon an execution against the body of the defendant is necessary to fix the liability of the sheriff as bail, which liability shall be the amount of the judgment, interest, and costs. This liability can be enforced only in a separate action against the sheriff, or against him and his sureties on his official bond, as in other cases of delinquency.

...The bail adjudged insufficient by an officer mentioned in section 2713.15 of the Revised Code shall be liable to the sheriff for the damages he sustains by reason of such insufficiency.

...The liability of the bail shall be fixed in the manner provided by law for fixing the liability of the sheriff as bail. The bail can be proceeded against in an action only.

...A surrender of a defendant to the sheriff of the county in which he was arrested, with a delivery of a certified copy of the bond of the bail, whether such surrender is made by the defendant himself or by his bail, discharges the bail. A surrender may be made before the return day of the summons in an action against the bail. The sheriff shall give to the bail a written acknowledgment of the surrender, and hold the d...