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...(A) There is hereby created the attorney general court order and settlement fund, which shall be part of the state treasury. (B) The fund shall consist of money collected or received by the office of the attorney general, on behalf of the state of Ohio or an agency or officer thereof, as a result of an order or judgment of a court or a settlement or other compromise of claims, for transfer to the appropriate fund ...

...(A) If the state of Ohio or any agency or officer of the state is named in an order or judgment of a court or a settlement or compromise of claims as the recipient of any money to be collected or received by the office of the attorney general under section 109.111 of the Revised Code, the office shall notify the director of budget and management and the director of the legislative service commission of the amount of ...

...(A) The large settlements and awards fund is created in the state treasury. (B) The fund shall consist of: (1) The proceeds of an award, adjudication, settlement, or compromise of claims collected or received by the office of the attorney general under division (B)(2) of section 109.112 of the Revised Code; (2) Investment earnings on money in the fund. (C) Pursuant to Ohio Constitution, Article II, Section 22...

...The attorney general, when so requested, shall give legal advice to a state officer, board, commission, the warden of a state correctional institution, the superintendent, trustees, or directors of a benevolent institution of the state, and the trustees of the Ohio state university, in all matters relating to their official duties.

...Prior to the acquisition by the state of any right, title, or interest in real property, except highway rights-of-way, evidence of such right, title, or interest shall be submitted to the attorney general for his review and opinion. Such evidence shall be that customarily and generally used in the community in which the real property is situated and may consist of, but not be limited to, attorneys' opinions of titl...

...(A) The attorney general may review for form, content, and legality and provide legal advice concerning any proposed entertainment or sponsorship contracts of the Ohio expositions commission that the commission provides as required by section 991.03 of the Revised Code. (B) The commission shall reimburse the attorney general for all legal expenses associated with reviewing proposed entertainment or sponsorship contr...

...When so required by resolution, the attorney general shall give his written opinion on questions of law to either house of the general assembly.

...When requested by them, the attorney general shall advise the prosecuting attorneys of the several counties respecting their duties in all complaints, suits, and controversies in which the state is, or may be a party, and shall advise the township law director of a township that has adopted a limited home rule government under Chapter 504. of the Revised Code.

...The attorney general shall prepare suitable forms of contracts, obligations, and other like instruments of writing for the use of state officers, when requested by the governor, secretary of state, auditor of state, or treasurer of state.

...The attorney general may prosecute an action, information, or other proceeding in behalf of the state, or in which the state is interested, except prosecutions by indictment, in the proper court of Franklin county, or of any other county in which one or more of the defendants reside or may be found. No civil action, unless elsewhere specially provided, shall be commenced in Franklin county, if one or more of the defe...

...In all cases instituted by the attorney general under sections 109.01 to 109.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the writ may be sent by mail to the sheriff of any county, and returned by him in like manner. For such service, the sheriff shall be allowed the same mileage and fees as if the writ had been issued from the court of common pleas or the court of appeals of his county, and made returnable thereto.

...If a writ or mesne process in proceedings in quo warranto is returned "not found" by the sheriff of the county in which the company is authorized by law to have its place of business, the clerk of the court in which the information or other proceeding is filed shall issue a notice of the filing and substance thereof, and cause it to be published once a week for six consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in and of...

...No undertaking or security is required on behalf of the state or an officer thereof, in the prosecution or defense of any action, writ, or proceeding. In an action, writ, or proceeding it is not necessary to verify the pleadings on the part of the state or any officer thereof.

...Upon motion of the attorney general, embodying a statement that the public interests require it, a civil action, brought or prosecuted by him on behalf of the state, or an officer, board, or commission thereof, or an action in which the state is a party, shall be taken out of its order upon the docket and assigned for trial at as early a day as practicable.

...The attorney general shall pay all moneys collected or received by the attorney general on behalf of the state into the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund.

...The attorney general shall keep a register of all actions, demands, complaints, writs, informations, and other proceedings, prosecuted or defended by him, noting therein the proceedings under each, and a register of all official opinions in writing given by him. He shall deliver to his successor the registers, papers, documents, books, and other property belonging to his office .

...As used in sections 109.23 to 109.33 of the Revised Code: (A) "Charitable trust" means any fiduciary relationship with respect to property arising under the law of this state or of another jurisdiction as a result of a manifestation of intention to create it, and subjecting the person by whom the property is held to fiduciary duties to deal with the property within this state for any charitable, religious, or educat...

...(A) In the administration of any trust which is a "private foundation" as defined in section 509 of the internal revenue code of 1954, a trust for charitable purposes described in section 4947(a)(1) of the internal revenue code of 1954 to the extent that it is treated for federal tax purposes as such a private foundation, or a "split-interest trust" as described in section 4947(a)(2) of the internal revenue code of 1...

...(A) The governing instrument of a trust described in division (A) of section 109.231 of the Revised Code may be amended to permit the trust to acquire the characteristics of a trust described in section 664 (D)(1) or (2) of the internal revenue code of 1954, or to conform to the requirements of, or to obtain benefits available under, section 507, 508, or 509 of the internal revenue code of 1954. Such amendment may be...

...The powers of the attorney general under sections 109.23 to 109.33 of the Revised Code shall be in addition to and not in limitation of his powers held at common law. The attorney general may investigate transactions and relationships of trustees of a charitable trust for the purpose of determining whether the property held for charitable, religious, or educational purposes has been and is being properly administered...

...The attorney general is a necessary party to and shall be served with process or with summons by registered mail in all judicial proceedings, the object of which is to: (A) Terminate a charitable trust or distribute assets; (B) Depart from the objects or purposes of a charitable trust as the same are set forth in the instrument creating the trust, including any proceeding for the application of the doctrine of cy p...

...Except as provided in this section, every charitable trust established or active in this state shall register with the attorney general. The attorney general shall prepare and maintain a register of such charitable trusts. The following are not required to register under this section: (A) Charitable remainder trusts created after July 31, 1969, gifts to which are deductible for federal income, gift, or estate tax p...

...The attorney general shall make such rules subject to the provisions of sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code, as are necessary to administer sections 109.23 to 109.33 of the Revised Code.

...The register established by section 109.26 shall be open to the inspection of any person at such reasonable times and for such legitimate purposes as the attorney general may determine; provided, however, that any investigation of a chairtable trust shall not be open to public inspection.

...The clerk of each court of common pleas or the judge of the probate division thereof, and of each court of appeals shall furnish copies of papers and such information as to the records and files of his office relating to charitable trusts as the attorney general may require.

...all be payable from the treasury of the municipal corporation, township, township park district, county, or school district, or in the case of a joint recreational district or an educational service center, from its general fund. The local authorities of a municipal corporation, county, township, township park district, or school district having power to appropriate money may annually appropriate and cause to be rais...

...nd, except as otherwise provided in the municipal charter or in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, shall give bond in the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, conditioned according to section 733.71 of the Revised Code, and to the approval of the mayor and legislative authority of the municipal corporation.

...Any municipal corporation may provide public cemeteries and crematories for burial or incineration of the dead and regulate public and private cemeteries and crematories. Any cemetery established by a municipal corporation shall register with the division of real estate in the department of commerce pursuant to section 4767.03 of the Revised Code. Any cemetery of that nature is subject to Chapter 4767. and to section...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may provide a place for the interment of the dead outside of the corporate limits, and the police powers of the municipal corporation shall extend to those places.

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation owning a public burial ground or cemetery, whether within or without the municipal corporation, may pass and provide for the enforcement of ordinances necessary to carry into effect sections 759.02 to 759.48, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and may regulate such public burial grounds and cemeteries, the improvement thereof, the burial of the dead therein, define th...

...When a municipal corporation holds land within its limits which has been used as a cemetery or burial ground, in which land interments have been prohibited by the municipal corporation, and it has been decided to remove the bodies interred therein, the legislative authority thereof may sell or otherwise dispose of such land, but the sale or transfer does not give the purchaser possession until the bodies therein inte...

... appointed shall extend until the first municipal election thereafter, and until the officers chosen at such election are qualified and placed in office. Thereafter the mayor shall appoint a board of three trustees as follows: One for a term of six years, one for a term of four years, and one for a term of two years. Biennially thereafter, after each municipal election has been held and the newly elected officers hav...

...The legislative authority of each municipal corporation and the board of township trustees of each township that has united in the establishment and management of a cemetery under section 759.27 of the Revised Code, by an affirmative vote of a majority of each legislative authority and board, may form a union cemetery district comprised of all of the territory within the united municipal corporation and township for ...

...ember of the legislative authorities of municipal corporations and each member of the boards of township trustees shall have one vote in determining all questions. The proceedings of joint meetings shall be recorded by the clerk of the municipal corporation having the greatest number of inhabitants.

...d of the legislative authorities of the municipal corporations, be admitted to an equal participation with the inhabitants thereof in the rights and privileges in the cemetery, upon such terms as are mutually agreed upon, but the title and control of such cemetery shall continue vested in the municipal corporation.

...he establishment of a union cemetery, a municipal corporation and a township may make use of a public burial ground or cemetery held by the municipal corporation or township, and may make use of any land acquired by dedication, gift, or devise for burial purposes.

...ised Code shall vest in the township or municipal corporation owning the cemetery. The officers making such exchange shall execute, in the name of the township or municipal corporation, conveyances of the property so exchanged. No property shall be acquired by purchase or appropriation unless the money necessary to pay for it is in the cemetery fund. Land so acquired may not be used for burial purposes nor be subjec...

...tees or board of cemetery trustees of a municipal corporation making such sale shall execute in the name of the township or municipal corporation owning such cemetery proper conveyances for the land so sold.

...e. (B) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation owning a public burial ground or cemetery, whether within or without the municipal corporation, may pass and provide for the enforcement of ordinances for the burial, re-interment, or disinterment of the product of a fetal death in that public burial ground or cemetery. (C) With regard to the product of a fetal death, on the request of the mother a...

... shall be credited to such funds as the municipal corporation determines subject to the provisions of any such ordinance or trust agreement, and such investments may be sold at such time as the municipal corporation shall determine.

...If the legislative authority of the municipal corporation finds that the bonds authorized will be insufficient to provide the project to be leased or sold, additional bonds may be authorized and issued in the same manner as the bonds issued under sections 761.01 to 761.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The municipal corporation may issue new bonds to provide funds for the payment of any outstanding bonds, in accor...

...se infraction" means a violation of any municipal zoning code provisions that regulate parking on private property, a motor vehicle service or repair business in residential districts, or signage and other graphics displays, and any municipal ordinance, resolution, or other regulation dealing with the display of house numbers on buildings. (B) "Law enforcement officer" means a law enforcement officer as defined in s...

... the ordinary course of business of the municipal corporation and of the law enforcement agency whose officer issued it, and shall be prima-facie evidence of the facts it contains. (C) When a ticket is issued for a land use infraction and is served under this section, the offender whose act or omission resulted in the infraction for which the ticket was issued is liable for the infraction and for any fine or penalty...

...y, township, or cemetery association; a municipal corporation or the legislative authority, a board, or other officers of a municipal corporation; and a benevolent, educational, or correctional institution, wholly or in part under the control of the state, or the board of directors, trustees, or other officers of the institution may receive by gift, devise, or bequest moneys, lands, or other properties, for their ben...

...gional water and sewer district; (2) A municipal corporation through its director of public service, mayor, city manager, board of trustees of public affairs, village administrator, or other contracting officer, commission, board, or authority as authorized by ordinance of the municipal corporation's legislative authority. (B) A contract entered into pursuant to division (A) of this section shall include provi...

... means the state or a county, township, municipal corporation, school district, or other political subdivision of the state, or any public agency, authority, board, commission, instrumentality, or special district of the state or of a county, township, municipal corporation, school district, or other political subdivision of the state. (2) "Self-insured public authority" means a public authority that has been grante...

...ed on or after July 5, 1987, by: (1) A municipal corporation, the person shall have only prior service within that municipal corporation counted; (2) A township, the person shall have only prior service with a township counted. (C) An employee who has retired in accordance with the provisions of any retirement plan offered by the state and who is employed by the state or any political subdivision of the state on o...

...on. (E) The authorization granted to a municipal corporation under this section shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, the powers and authority granted by state law, the Ohio Constitution, and the provisions of a municipal charter, ordinance, or resolution.

...) "Public building" means the principal municipal building of each municipal corporation, the principal county building in the county seat of each county, and the state house in Columbus. (3) "Transportation facilities" has the meaning defined in section 5501.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The general assembly hereby encourages the display of the POW/MIA flag during normal business hours at each public building. (C) ...

...(a) The state; (b) A county, township, municipal corporation, or any other political subdivision of the state; (c) Any public agency, authority, board, commission, instrumentality, or special district of the state, a county, township, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of the state; (d) Any officer or agent of one of the entities listed in divisions (A)(6)(a) to (c) of this section who is author...