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...) As used in this section: (1) "Political subdivision" means a county, municipal corporation, or township. (2) "Private college or university" means a college or university that has all of the following characteristics: (a) It is not owned or controlled by the state or any political subdivision of the state. (b) It provides a program of education in residence leading to a baccalaureate degree or provides a progra...

... fine arts, law, medicine, nursing, social work, theology, and other recognized academic and professional fields of study, and awards degrees for fulfilling requirements of academic work beyond high school. (2) "On-campus student housing" means a dormitory or other student residence that is owned or operated by or located on the campus of a nonprofit institution of higher education. (3) "Parent" means either parent...

... including full-time training duty, annual training duty, and active state duty for members of the national guard. (A) Each institution of higher education that holds a certificate of authorization issued under this chapter shall grant a student a military leave of absence from the institution while the student is serving on active duty, and for one year after the conclusion of that service, if the student is a memb...

...13.41, or 1713.42 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Alliance" or "small employer health care alliance" means an existing or newly created organization that has been granted a certificate of authority by the superintendent of insurance under section 1731.021 of the Revised Code and that is either of the following: (1) A chamber of commerce, trade association, professional organization, or any other organization that has all of the follow...

...ed and declared that the provision of health care to employees and retirees in this state and to their dependents and families is of paramount public importance to the economic and general welfare of the people of the state, that rising costs of health care have made it difficult for small employers to provide for health care benefits, that the creation of alliances of small employers to bargain with insurers better ...

...ganization, on or after July 1, 1996, shall sponsor an alliance health care program without first obtaining a certificate of authority from the superintendent of insurance. (B) Application for a certificate of authority to sponsor an alliance program shall be made by an organization in writing and in the form prescribed by the superintendent. (C) The superintendent shall, within ninety days after receipt of an appl...

...nsurance under sections 3901.19 to 3901.26 of the Revised Code. (4) Nothing in division (D)(1) or (2) of this section shall be construed as inhibiting or preventing an alliance from adopting, imposing, and enforcing rules, conditions, limitations, or restrictions that are based on factors other than the health status of employees or their dependents or the size of the small employer for the purpose of determining w...

...(A) An agreement between an alliance and an insurer referred to in division (B) of section 1731.01 of the Revised Code shall contain at least the following: (1) A provision requiring the insurer to offer and sell to small employers served or to be served by an alliance one or more health benefit plan options for coverage of their eligible employees and the eligible dependents and members of the families of the eligi...

...If a qualified alliance, or an alliance that, based upon evidence of interest satisfactory to the superintendent of insurance, will be a qualified alliance within a reasonable time, submits a request for a proposal on a health benefit plan to at least three insurers and does not receive at least one reasonably responsive proposal within ninety days from the date the last such request is submitted, the superintendent,...

...(A) No health benefit plan offered or provided by an insurer to a small employer under a qualified alliance program is subject to any law that does any of the following: (1) Inhibits the insurer from selectively contracting with providers or groups of providers with respect to health care service or benefits; (2) Imposes any restrictions on the ability of the insurer to negotiate with providers regarding the level ...

...es received by an insurer from or on behalf of an enrolled small employer and eligible employees or retirees under a health benefit plan provided by the insurer under a qualified alliance program shall not be considered "premiums received" or "premium rate payments received" for purposes of division (A) of section 5725.18 and division (A) of section 5729.03 of the Revised Code, and are exempt from any other tax or ex...

... or other charges paid by an enrolled small employer to an insurer for health benefit plan coverage under a qualified alliance program are fully deductible in determining taxes payable by such small employer in this state on or measured by net income. Without limiting the foregoing: (A) With respect to such a small employer that is subject to the income tax imposed by section 5747.02 of the Revised Code, such premiu...

...ned in this chapter is intended to or shall inhibit or prevent the application of the provisions of Chapter 3924. of the Revised Code to any health benefit plan or insurer to which they would otherwise apply in the absence of this chapter, except as otherwise specified in divisions (B) and (C) of this section or unless such application conflicts with the provisions of section 1731.05 of the Revised Code. (B) An ins...

...ral Revenue Code of 1954," 68A Stat. 3, 26 U.S.C. 1, as now or hereafter amended. (B) "Domestic real estate investment trust" means a real estate investment trust organized in this state. (C) "Foreign real estate investment trust" means a real estate investment trust organized in another state. (D) "State" means the United States, any state, territory, insular possession, or other political subdivision of the Unit...

...No real estate investment trust shall be authorized to transact real estate business in this state unless it fully complies with section 1747.03 of the Revised Code, except that a real estate investment trust that holds an estate or interest in real property in this state on the effective date of this section may continue to transact real estate business in this state if it fully complies with section 1747.03 of the ...

...(A) Before transacting real estate business in this state, a real estate investment trust shall file the following report in the office of the secretary of state, on forms prescribed by the secretary of state: (1) An executed copy of the trust instrument or a true and correct copy of it, certified to be such by a trustee before an official authorized to administer oaths or by a public official in another state in ...

...ecified in it or in any manner that is valid under the common or statutory law applicable to the trust created under it. However, no amendment adopted subsequent to the initial filings required by section 1747.03 of the Revised Code is legally effective in this state until an executed or certified true and correct copy of the amendment has been filed in the office of the secretary of state accompanied by the fee sp...

...f 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 granted by this chapter in any s...

...(A) A real estate investment trust may take, hold, and dispose of any estate or interest in real property in its business name, or in the name of one or more of its trustees, or in the name of one or more of its nominees. A conveyance to a real estate investment trust in its business name shall recite that the grantee is a real estate investment trust, and the estate or interest so acquired can be conveyed by the tru...

...Real estate investment trusts are subject to all applicable provisions of law, rules of procedure, and rules of court, now in effect or hereafter enacted, relating to domestic or foreign corporations, with regard to service of process.

...A certificate of beneficial interest is a security subject to Chapter 1707. of the Revised Code.

...ise stated in the trust instrument, a real estate investment trust authorized to transact real estate business in this state has a perpetual period of existence and is not affected by any rule against perpetuities. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed or interpreted to limit, prohibit, or invalidate any provision of a trust instrument providing that such real estate investment trust may be terminated ...

...Any domestic or foreign real estate investment trust authorized to transact real estate business in this state may surrender its authority at any time by filing in the office of the secretary of state a verified copy of a resolution duly adopted by its trustees declaring its intention to withdraw, accompanied by the fee specified in division (T) of section 111.16 of the Revised Code. Such real estate investment tru...

...(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...