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...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Peace officer" means a sheriff, deputy sheriff, marshal, deputy marshal, member of the organized police department of a municipal corporation, or township constable, who is employed by a political subdivision of this state; a member of a police force employed by a metropolitan housing authority under division (D) of section 3735.31 of the Revised Code; a member of a police for...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Lawfully issued" means adopted, issued, or rendered in accordance with the United States constitution, the constitution of a state, and the applicable statutes, rules, regulations, and ordinances of the United States, a state, and the political subdivisions of a state. (2) "State" means a state of the United States, including without limitation, the state legislature, the highest c...

...(A) No person, with purpose to commit or to promote or facilitate the commission of aggravated murder, murder, kidnapping, abduction, compelling prostitution, promoting prostitution, trafficking in persons, aggravated arson, arson, aggravated robbery, robbery, aggravated burglary, burglary, trespassing in a habitation when a person is present or likely to be present, engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, corrupt...

...The director of administrative services shall establish the state information technology investment board within the department of administrative services. The board shall consist of representatives from various state elective offices and state agencies, including the office of budget and management. The board shall identify and recommend to the state chief information officer opportunities for consolidation an...

...(A) A security interest attaches to collateral when it becomes enforceable against the debtor with respect to the collateral, unless an agreement expressly postpones the time of attachment. (B) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (C) to (I) of this section, a security interest is enforceable against the debtor and third parties with respect to the collateral only if: (1) Value has been given; (2) The d...

...(A) A security interest in investment property, deposit accounts, letter-of-credit rights, electronic chattel paper, or electronic documents may be perfected by control of the collateral under section 1307.106, 1309.104, 1309.105, 1309.106, or 1309.107 of the Revised Code. (B) A security interest in deposit accounts, electronic chattel paper, letter-of-credit rights, or electronic documents is perfected by co...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, priority between conflicting security interests and agricultural liens in the same collateral shall be determined according to the following rules: (1) Conflicting perfected security interests and agricultural liens rank according to priority in time of filing or perfection. Priority dates from the earlier of the time a filing covering the collateral is first made or...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the state land royalty fund consisting of money credited to it under section 155.33 of the Revised Code. Any investment proceeds earned on money in the fund shall be credited to the fund. (B)(1) A state agency is entitled to receive from the fund the amount that the state agency contributed and a share of the investment earnings of the fund in an amount that is equi...

...(A) No person, purposely or knowingly, and when purpose or knowledge is sufficient culpability for the commission of an offense, shall engage in conduct that, if successful, would constitute or result in the offense. (B) It is no defense to a charge under this section that, in retrospect, commission of the offense that was the object of the attempt was either factually or legally impossible under the attendant circ...

...(A) No person, acting with the kind of culpability required for the commission of an offense, shall do any of the following: (1) Solicit or procure another to commit the offense; (2) Aid or abet another in committing the offense; (3) Conspire with another to commit the offense in violation of section 2923.01 of the Revised Code; (4) Cause an innocent or irresponsible person to commit the offense. (B) It is no de...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Compensation" means money, thing of value, or financial benefit. "Compensation" does not include bail, fines, or court costs. (2) "Critical infrastructure facility" has the same meaning as in section 2911.21 of the Revised Code. (3) "Organization" has the same meaning as in section 2901.23 of the Revised Code. (B) No organization shall knowingly direct, authorize, facilitate,...

...eceipts therefrom, for purposes of this definition, shall be those estimated by the fiscal officer, except that those receipts may include, without limitation, payments made and to be made to the subdivision under leases or agreements in effect at the time the estimate is made. In the case of an operation, improvements, or enterprise, system, project, or category of improvements without at least a six-month history o...

...ice that is expressly excepted from the definition of a destructive device pursuant to the "Gun Control Act of 1968," 82 Stat. 1213, 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(4), as amended, and regulations issued under that act; (7) Any firearm with an overall length of at least twenty-six inches that is approved for sale by the federal bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives under the "Gun Control Act of 1968," 82 Stat. 1213,...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Restricted firearm" means a firearm that is dangerous ordnance or that is a firearm that any law of this state prohibits the subject person from possessing, having, or carrying. (2) "Qualifying adult" means a person who is all of the following: (a) Twenty-one years of age or older; (b) Not legally prohibited from possessing or receiving a firearm under 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) to ...

...spond to the emergency need. (3) The procedures for the election shall be as provided in section 133.18 of the Revised Code, except that: (a) The form of the ballot shall describe the emergency existing, refer to this division as the authority under which the emergency is declared, and state that the amount of the proposed securities exceeds the limitations prescribed by division (B) of this section; (b) The...

...Whenever the governing board, other than the state board of deposit, is of the opinion that the actual amount of active deposits is insufficient to meet the anticipated demands on such active deposits, it shall direct the treasurer to sell interim money investments or deposits or transfer from the inactive deposits to the active deposits an amount sufficient to meet such demands. The board shall designate in such ord...

...As used in sections 135.31 to 135.40 of the Revised Code: (A) "Active moneys" means an amount of public moneys in public depositories determined to be necessary to meet current demands upon a county treasury, and deposited in any of the following: (1) A commercial account and withdrawable, in whole or in part, on demand; (2) A negotiable order of withdrawal account as authorized in the "Consumer Checking Acc...

...The investment authority shall invest all moneys in the county public library fund that are not distributed due to an appeal of the budget commission's allocation of such fund. Interest earned on such investments shall be credited to the fund and distributed in accordance with section 5747.48 of the Revised Code.

...(A) In addition to the investments specified in section 135.35 of the Revised Code, the investing authority of a county may do all of the following: (1) Invest inactive or public moneys in linked deposits as authorized by resolution adopted pursuant to section 135.80 or 135.801 of the Revised Code; (2) Invest inactive or public moneys in linked deposits as authorized by resolution adopted pursuant to section 135.80...

...Obligations issued under section 133.08, 140.06, or 339.15 of the Revised Code or Section 3 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution, to pay costs of hospital facilities or to refund such obligations are lawful investments for entities enumerated in division (A)(1) of section 133.03 of the Revised Code, and are eligible as security for the repayment of the deposit of public moneys.

...The public employees retirement system shall make no investments through or purchases from, or otherwise do any business with any individual who is, or any partnership, association, or corporation that is owned or controlled by, a person who within the preceding three years was employed by, a board member of, or an officer of the public employees retirement system, or in which a person who within the preceding three ...

...The right of an individual to a pension, an annuity, or a retirement allowance itself, the right of an individual to any optional benefit, any other right accrued or accruing to any individual, under this chapter, or under any municipal retirement system established subject to this chapter under the laws of this state or any charter, the various funds created by this chapter, or under such municipal retirement system...

...(A) The Ohio Ireland trade commission is created. The commission shall study potential means of advancing the following: (1) Bilateral trade and investment between Ohio and Ireland; (2) Policy issues of mutual interest to Ohio and Ireland; (3) Business and academic exchanges between Ohio and Ireland; (4) Mutual economic support between Ohio and Ireland; (5) Mutual investment in the infrastructure of Oh...

...(A) The investment policy established or modified under section 150.03 of the Revised Code shall specify the terms and conditions under which the authority may grant tax credits under section 150.07 of the Revised Code, subject to that section and division (B) of this section, to provide security against lenders' losses. (B) Nothing in this chapter authorizes the providing of security against losses on any bases o...

...(A) No person shall knowingly carry or have, concealed on the person's person or concealed ready at hand, any of the following: (1) A deadly weapon other than a handgun; (2) A handgun other than a dangerous ordnance; (3) A dangerous ordnance. (B) No person who has been issued a concealed handgun license shall do any of the following: (1) If the person is stopped for a law enforcement purpose and is carrying...

...ministrator to the authority under the procedures prescribed under division (B)(6) of section 150.05 of the Revised Code. The program administrator shall provide to the authority an estimate of the amount of tax credits, if any, that are likely, in the administrator's reasonable judgment, to be claimed by a lender during the current and next succeeding state fiscal years. The estimate shall be provided at the ...

...(A) No person shall possess a firearm in any room in which any person is consuming beer or intoxicating liquor in a premises for which a D permit has been issued under Chapter 4303. of the Revised Code or in an open air arena for which a permit of that nature has been issued. (B)(1) This section does not apply to any of the following: (a) An officer, agent, or employee of this or any other state or the United St...

...(A)(1) A person who has obtained the consent of the owners of at least sixty-five per cent of the land area overlying a pool or a part of a pool may submit an application for the operation as a unit of the entire pool or part of the pool to the chief of the division of oil and gas resources management. In calculating the sixty-five per cent, an owner's entire interest in each tract in the proposed unit area, includin...

...The long-term abandoned mine reclamation fund is created in the state treasury. The fund shall be administered by the chief of the division of mineral resources management and consist of grants awarded by the United States secretary of the interior from the federal abandoned mine reclamation fund pursuant to the federal "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act," Pub. L. No. 177-58. All investment earnings of the fund ...

...(A) The wildlife habitat fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of the investment earnings of the wildlife habitat trust fund created in section 1531.32 of the Revised Code; gifts, donations, bequests, and other moneys contributed to the division of wildlife for the purposes of the fund; moneys collected under division (H) of section 1531.06 of the Revised Code; contributions collected u...

...(A) In addition to the definitions provided in section 154.01 of the Revised Code: (1) "Capital facilities" includes, for purposes of this section, storage and parking facilities related to such capital facilities. (2) "Costs of capital facilities" includes, for purposes of this section, the costs of assessing, planning, and altering capital facilities, and the financing thereof, all related direct administr...

...Park district revenue bonds are lawful investments of banks, trust companies, trustees, the boards of trustees of the sinking funds of municipal corporations, school districts, and counties, the administrator of workers' compensation, the state teachers retirement system, the public employees retirement system, and the school employees retirement system, and also are acceptable as security for the deposit of public m...

...Bonds issued under this chapter are lawful investments of banks, societies for savings, savings and loan associations, deposit guarantee associations, trust companies, trustees, fiduciaries, insurance companies, including domestic for life and domestic not for life, trustees or other officers having charge of sinking and bond retirement or other special funds of political subdivisions and taxing districts of this sta...

...There shall be credited to the facilities establishment fund the moneys received by the state from the repayment of loans and recovery on loan guarantees, including interest thereon, made from the facilities establishment fund or from the loan guarantee fund and from the sale, lease, or other disposition of property acquired or constructed from moneys in the facilities establishment fund with moneys derived from the ...

...(A) No person shall knowingly convey, or attempt to convey, a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance into a school safety zone. (B) No person shall knowingly possess a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance in a school safety zone. (C) No person shall knowingly possess an object in a school safety zone if both of the following apply: (1) The object is indistinguishable from a firearm, whether or not the object is ...

...(A) The director of development, with the approval of the controlling board and subject to the other applicable provisions of this chapter, may lend moneys in the innovation Ohio loan fund to persons for the purpose of paying allowable innovation costs of an eligible innovation project if the director determines that: (1) The project is an eligible innovation project and is economically sound. (2) The borrower is u...

...(A) No person shall knowingly convey or attempt to convey a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance into a courthouse or into another building or structure in which a courtroom is located. (B) No person shall knowingly possess or have under the person's control a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance in a courthouse or in another building or structure in which a courtroom is located. (C) This section does not apply to ...

...As used in sections 2923.124 to 2923.1213 of the Revised Code: (A) "Application form" means the application form prescribed pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 109.731 of the Revised Code and includes a copy of that form. (B) "Competency certification" and "competency certificate" mean a document of the type described in division (B)(3) of section 2923.125 of the Revised Code. (C) "Detention facility" has...

...ying the license in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the Ohio peace officer training commission pursuant to section 109.731 of the Revised Code. (b) If a sheriff denies an application under this section because the applicant does not satisfy the criteria described in division (D)(1) of this section, the sheriff shall specify the grounds for the denial in a written notice to the applicant. The applicant m...

...cordance with the agency's policies and procedures and if the person, with respect to the person's service with that agency, satisfies all of the following: (i) The person retired in good standing from service as a peace officer with the public agency, and the retirement was not for reasons of mental instability. (ii) Before retiring from service as a peace officer with that agency, the person was authorized to...

... bureau's existing challenge and review procedures; (2) If division (A)(1) of this section does not apply, by using the existing challenge and review procedure of the sheriff who denied the application or, if the sheriff does not have a challenge and review procedure, by using the challenge and review procedure prescribed by the bureau of criminal identification and investigation pursuant to division (B) of thi...

...(A)(1)(a) If a licensee holding a valid concealed handgun license is arrested for or otherwise charged with an offense described in division (D)(1)(d) of section 2923.125 of the Revised Code or with a violation of section 2923.15 of the Revised Code or becomes subject to a temporary protection order or to a protection order issued by a court of another state that is substantially equivalent to a temporary protection ...

...(A)(1) If a sheriff, the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation, the employees of the bureau, the Ohio peace officer training commission, or the employees of the commission make a good faith effort in performing the duties imposed upon the sheriff, the superintendent, the bureau's employees, the commission, or the commission's employees by sections 109.731, 311.41, and 2923.124 to 2...

...(A) A business entity, property owner, or public or private employer may not establish, maintain, or enforce a policy or rule that prohibits or has the effect of prohibiting a person who has been issued a valid concealed handgun license from transporting or storing a firearm or ammunition when both of the following conditions are met: (1) Each firearm and all of the ammunition remains inside the person's privately o...

...(A) No person shall alter a concealed handgun license or create a fictitious document that purports to be a license of that nature. (B) No person, except in the performance of official duties, shall possess a concealed handgun license that was issued and that has been revoked or suspended. (C) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of falsification of a concealed handgun license, a felony of ...

...Each person, board, or entity that owns or controls any place or premises identified in division (B) of section 2923.126 of the Revised Code as a place into which a valid license does not authorize the licensee to carry a concealed handgun, or a designee of such a person, board, or entity, shall post in one or more conspicuous locations in the premises a sign that contains a statement in substantially the following f...

...the same restrictions, and to all other procedures, duties, and sanctions, that apply to a person who carries a license issued under section 2923.125 of the Revised Code, other than the license renewal procedures set forth in that section. (D) A sheriff who issues a concealed handgun license on a temporary emergency basis under this section shall not require a person seeking to carry a concealed handgun in accordan...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, an establishment serving the public may not prohibit or restrict a law enforcement officer or investigator who is carrying validating identification from carrying a weapon on the premises that the officer or investigator is authorized to carry, regardless of whether the officer or investigator is acting within the scope of that officer's or investigator's duties while car...

...(A) Unless relieved from disability under operation of law or legal process, no person shall knowingly acquire, have, carry, or use any firearm or dangerous ordnance, if any of the following apply: (1) The person is a fugitive from justice. (2) The person is under indictment for or has been convicted of any felony offense of violence or has been adjudicated a delinquent child for the commission of an offense that...

...(A) "Detention" and "detention facility" have the same meanings as in section 2921.01 of the Revised Code. (B) No person under detention at a detention facility shall possess a deadly weapon. (C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of possession of a deadly weapon while under detention. (1) If the offender, at the time of the commission of the offense, was under detention as an alleged or adjudicated delinquen...