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...(A)(1) The Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association shall submit to the superintendent of insurance a plan of operation and any amendments to the plan necessary or suitable to ensure the fair, reasonable, and equitable administration of the association. The plan of operation and any amendments shall become effective upon the written approval of the superintendent, or unless the superintendent has not disap...

...board of directors of the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association, provide the association with a statement of the premiums in this and any other appropriate states for each member insurer; (2) When an impairment is declared and the amount of the impairment is determined, serve a demand upon the impaired insurer to make good the impairment within a reasonable time. Notice to the impaired insurer shall c...

...board of directors of the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association when the superintendent has taken any of the actions set forth in division (A)(1) of this section or has received a report from any other insurance commissioner indicating that any such action has been taken in another state. The report to the board of directors shall contain all significant details of the action taken or the report receive...

...esolutions adopted by the Ohio life and health guaranty association in carrying out its powers and duties under section 3956.08 of the Revised Code. The records shall be made public only upon the termination of a rehabilitation or liquidation proceeding involving the impaired or insolvent insurer, upon the termination of the impairment or insolvency of the member insurer, or upon the order of a court of competent jur...

...The Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association is subject to examination and regulation by the superintendent of insurance. The board of directors shall submit to the superintendent each year, not later than four months after the end of the association's fiscal year, a financial report in a form approved by the superintendent and a report of its activities during the preceding fiscal year.

...The Ohio life and health guaranty association is exempt from payment of all fees and all taxes levied by this state or any of its political subdivisions.

... agents or employees, the Ohio life and health guaranty association or its agents or employees, the board of directors or any member of the board, or the superintendent of insurance or the superintendent's representatives, for any action or omission by them pursuant to the purposes and provisions of this chapter or in the performance of their powers and duties under this chapter. Immunity under this section extends t...

...ing based on default, the Ohio life and health guaranty association may apply to have the judgment set aside by the same court that made the judgment and may defend against the suit on the merits.

...uses the existence of the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association for the purposes of sales, solicitation, or inducement to purchase any form of insurance or other coverage covered by this chapter. (2) As used in division (A)(1) of this section, "person" includes but is not limited to any member insurer or any agent or affiliate of any member insurer. (3) Division (A)(1) of this section does not apply...

...(A) The provisions of this chapter in effect prior to the effective date of this section shall apply to all matters relating to any impaired insurer or insolvent insurer for which the association first became obligated under section 3956.08 of the Revised Code prior to the effective date. (B) The provisions of this chapter in effect on and after the effective date of this section shall apply to all matters relating...

...doing business. (4) The Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association may require a member insurer to report any offset to the association. (B) A member insurer that is exempt from taxes described in division (A) of this section may recoup its assessments by a surcharge on its premiums in a sum reasonably calculated to recoup the assessments over a reasonable period of time, as approved by the superintenden...

...pecialty health care services, or supplemental health care services to enrollees. (G) "Dental care provider" means a dentist licensed under Chapter 4715. of the Revised Code. "Dental care provider" does not include a dental hygienist licensed under Chapter 4715. of the Revised Code. (H) "Edit" means adjusting one or more procedure codes billed by a participating provider on a claim for payment or a practice that...

...der contract with a plan offering supplemental or specialty health care services as a condition of contracting with a plan offering basic health care services; (c) Directly limit a vision care provider's choice of sources and suppliers of vision care materials; (d) Include a provision that prohibits a vision care provider from describing out-of-network options to an enrollee in accordance with division (E)(2) of ...

...(A) Each health care contract shall include all of the following information: (1)(a) Information sufficient for the participating provider to determine the compensation or payment terms for health care services, including all of the following, subject to division (A)(1)(b) of this section: (i) The manner of payment, such as fee-for-service, capitation, or risk; (ii) The fee schedule of procedure codes reasonabl...

...(A)(1) If an amendment to a health care contract is not a material amendment, the contracting entity shall provide the participating provider notice of the amendment at least fifteen days prior to the effective date of the amendment. The contracting entity shall provide all other notices to the participating provider pursuant to the health care contract. (2) A material amendment to a health care contract shall...

...ecialty health care services, or supplemental health care services. (C) No contracting entity shall require a provider to provide any information in addition to the information required by the applicable standard credentialing form described in division (A) of this section in connection with policies, health care contracts, and agreements providing basic health care services, specialty health care servi...

...cialty health care services, or supplemental health care services the provider provided to enrollees starting at the expiration of that ninety-day period until the provider's credentialing application is granted or denied. When the credentialing process of the contracting entity exceeds the ninety-day period, the contracting entity shall select the liability to which the contracting entity is subject and...

...(A) All remittance notices sent by a payer, whether written or electronic, shall include both of the following: (1) The name of the payer issuing the payment to the participating provider; (2) The name of the contracting entity through which the payment rate and any discount are claimed, if the contracting entity is different from the payer. (B) Division (A) of this section takes effect March 31, 2009.

...The superintendent of insurance shall adopt any rules necessary for the implementation of this chapter.

...(A) A series of violations of this chapter by any person regulated by the department of insurance under Title XVII or Title XXXIX of the Revised Code that, taken together, constitute a pattern or practice of violating this chapter may be defined as an unfair and deceptive insurance practice under sections 3901.19 to 3901.26 of the Revised Code. (B) The superintendent of insurance may conduct a market conduct ...

...a state agency, or federal agency for health care services provided through a program for medicaid or medicare; (B) A contract for payments made to providers for rendering health care services to claimants pursuant to claims made under Chapter 4121., 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code; (C) An exclusive contract between a health insuring corporation and a single group of providers in a specific geo...

... following: (1) Offer to a provider a health care contract that includes a most favored nation clause; (2) Enter into a health care contract with a provider that includes a most favored nation clause; (3) Amend or renew an existing health care contract previously entered into with a provider so that the contract as amended or renewed adds or continues to include a most favored nation clause. (B) As used in ...

...The state medical board, subject to the approval of the controlling board, may establish fees in excess of the amounts specified in this chapter, except that the fees may not exceed the specified amounts by more than fifty per cent. All fees, penalties, and other funds received by the board under this chapter shall be deposited in accordance with section 4731.24 of the Revised Code.

...In the absence of fraud or bad faith, the state medical board, a current or former board member, an agent of the board, a person formally requested by the board to be the board's representative, or an employee of the board shall not be held liable in damages to any person as the result of any act, omission, proceeding, conduct, or decision related to official duties undertaken or performed pursuant to this chapter. I...

...The state medical board shall comply with section 4776.20 of the Revised Code.

...initial plan, to the director of environmental protection an amended plan and certification for the subsequent ten-year period or longer period on which the district's initial plan was based. If the district's initial plan as approved by the director contained a planning period of fifteen or more years, the district shall submit such an amended plan and certification to the director every five years on or before the ...

...there is a substantial threat to public health or safety or the environment or that the conditions are causing or contributing to air or water pollution or soil contamination. An order issued by the director of environmental protection under division (D)(8) of this section shall include a determination that the amount of the fees not received by a solid waste management district as a result of the order will not adve...

...If no solid waste disposal facilities are located within a county or joint solid waste management district that has entered into, or proposes to enter into, an agreement with another county or joint solid waste management district under section 343.02 of the Revised Code for the joint use of solid waste facilities, the latter district may levy fees under division (B)(2) of section 3734.57 of the Revised Code on the d...

...paying the costs incurred by a board of health in inspecting any solid waste transfer facility located in the district, the solid waste management policy committee of the district established in accordance with section 3734.54 of the Revised Code may levy a fee of not more than fifty cents per ton on the disposal of solid wastes generated within the district that are disposed of at any solid waste disposal facility, ...

...here is a substantial threat to public health or safety or the environment or that the conditions are causing or contributing to air or water pollution or soil contamination. An order issued by the director of environmental protection under this division shall include a determination that the amount of fees not received by a solid waste management district as a result of the order will not adversely impact the ...

...n and for which the director of environmental protection disapproves the initial solid waste management plan of the district under section 3734.55 of the Revised Code on or after October 29, 1993, may continue to levey those fees until the district abolishes them under division (D) of this section, the director issues an order under division (F) of this section requiring the district to cease levying the fees, ...

... shall submit to the director of environmental protection a report containing all of the following information for that preceding quarter: (1) The specific fees levied by the district; (2) Revenues received by the district during the quarter from each of those sources, as applicable; (3) All district planning account balances; (4) The amount and use of revenues spent; (5) A certification statement that...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Recycling" means the process of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating, and reconstituting waste or other discarded materials for the purpose of recovering and reusing the materials. (2) "Automotive shredder residue" means the nonrecyclable residue that is generated as a direct result of processing automobiles, appliances, sheet steel, and other ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal...

...Notwithstanding any section of the Revised Code to the contrary, no solid waste management district shall exempt a public sector commercial licensed hauler from a fee that is charged to private sector commercial licensed haulers by the solid waste management district.

...solid waste that the director of environmental protection approves for use as alternative daily cover in accordance with rules adopted under section 3734.02 of the Revised Code and that is used as alternative daily cover in accordance with those rules.

...sed Code. (B) The director of environmental protection shall use the fund to pay for the state's removal and remedial actions and long term operation and maintenance costs or applicable cost shares for actions taken under the federal "Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980," 42 U.S.C. 9601, et seq. The director may use money in the fund to enter into contracts and grant agree...

...r "7". (C) When the director of environmental protection considers it appropriate, he may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code listing plastic materials in addition to those listed in divisions (B)(1) to (6) of this section and prescribing a code letter and code number for each of those additional plastic materials. When labeling requirements similar to those established by this section ha...

...ic distributor. (B) "Mercury" means elemental mercury and mercury compounds. (C) "Mercury-added measuring device" means an instrument containing mercury that is designed to measure an amount or quantity of humidity, pressure, temperature, or vacuum or the force of wind, including, but not limited to, anemometers, barometers, flow meters, hydrometers, hygrometers, manometers, sphygmomanometers, and thermometers. (D...

... reduction plan, the director of environmental protection shall consider the recycling or disposal of the mercury or mercury-added measuring device and the implementation of and compliance with the mercury reduction plan as mitigating circumstances for purposes of enforcement of a violation of this section.

...(A)(1) Beginning six months after the effective date of this section, and except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, no manufacturer shall offer a mercury-containing thermometer for sale or distribute a mercury-containing thermometer for promotional purposes in this state unless the sale or distribution of a mercury-containing thermometer is required in order to comply with federal law, a person...

...Beginning six months after the effective date of this section, no person shall offer a mercury-added novelty for sale or distribute such a novelty for promotional purposes in this state unless the only mercury in the mercury-added novelty is a removable button cell battery. Beginning January 1, 2011, no person shall offer any mercury-added novelty for sale or distribute any mercury-added novelty for promotional purpo...

...Beginning one year after the effective date of this section, no person shall offer a mercury-containing thermostat for sale in this state or install a mercury-containing thermostat in this state unless the mercury-containing thermostat is installed in the residence of a visually impaired person or the thermostat is used to sense and control temperatures as a part of a manufacturing process.

...not create a nuisance, hazard to public health or safety, or fire hazard. (B) The rules adopted under this section shall prohibit the owner or operator of a scrap tire collection facility from arranging the transportation or delivery to, or receipt of scrap tires by, any facilities or premises other than any of the following: (1) A scrap tire recovery facility licensed under section 3734.81 of the Revised Code; (2...

...not create a nuisance, hazard to public health or safety, or fire hazard. The rules shall do all of the following: (A) Establish standards governing the location, design, construction, operation, and closure of scrap tire storage facilities, including, without limitation, standards governing facilities for the storage of scrap tires by submergence in a body of water; (B) Specify the criteria that the owner or opera...

...create a nuisance or a hazard to public health or safety or the environment. The rules shall do all of the following: (A) Establish standards governing the location, design, construction, operation, closure, and post-closure care of scrap tire monocell and monofill facilities, including, without limitation, standards governing facilities for the storage or disposal of whole scrap tires by submergence in a body of wa...

...not create a nuisance, hazard to public health or safety, or fire hazard. The rules shall do all of the following: (A) Require that the facilities comply with applicable requirements established under this chapter and Chapters 3704. and 6111. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under those chapters with respect to the management of any other solid wastes or any hazardous waste resulting from the operation of the f...

...The director of environmental protection, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt and may amend or rescind rules governing the transportation of scrap tires and the registration of persons engaged in the transportation of scrap tires. The rules shall do all of the following: (A) Require that, before being issued a registration certificate under section 3734.83 of the Revised Code, a transp...

....81 of the Revised Code to the board of health of the health district in which the facility is located. If the director denies such a registration, he shall include in the order denying it the requirement that the owner or operator cease accepting scrap tires at the facility on the effective date of the order. No person shall fail to comply with this division or an order issued under it. (C) On and after the effec...

....81 of the Revised Code to the board of health of the health district in which the facility is located. If the director denies such a registration or permit application, he shall include in the order denying it the requirement that the owner or operator cease accepting scrap tires at the facility on the effective date of the order. No person shall fail to comply with this division or an order issued under it. (C) O...

....81 of the Revised Code to the board of health of the health district in which the facility is located. If the director denies such a permit application, he shall include in the order denying it the requirement that the owner or operator cease accepting scrap tires at the facility on the effective date of the order. No person shall fail to comply with this division or an order issued under it. (C) On and after the ...