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...(A) The department of development shall develop and promote plans and programs designed to assure that state resources are efficiently used, economic growth is properly balanced, community growth is developed in an orderly manner, and local governments are coordinated with each other and the state, and for such purposes may do all of the following: (1) Serve as a clearinghouse for information, data, and other mater...

...The department of development shall: (A) Assemble, analyze, and make available to governmental agencies and the public, information relative to the human, natural, and economic resources and economic needs of the state; (B) Prepare and maintain, in cooperation with departments and agencies of the state, comprehensive plans and recommendations for promotion of more desirable patterns of growth and development of the...

...As used in this section and in sections 122.121 and 122.122 of the Revised Code: (A) "Endorsing county" means a county that contains a site selected by a site selection organization for one or more games. (B) "Endorsing municipality" means a municipal corporation that contains a site selected by a site selection organization for one or more games. (C) "Game support contract" means a joinder undertaking, joinder...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Payroll" means the total taxable income paid by the employer during the employer's taxable year, or during the calendar year that includes the employer's tax period, to each employee or each home-based employee employed in the project to the extent such payroll is not used to determine the credit under section 122.171 of the Revised Code. "Payroll" excludes amounts paid before the...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Capital investment project" means a plan of investment at a project site for the acquisition, construction, renovation, or repair of buildings, machinery, or equipment, or for capitalized costs of basic research and new product development determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, but does not include any of the following: (a) Payments made for the...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Capital investment project" means a plan of investment at a project site for the acquisition, construction, renovation, expansion, replacement, or repair of a computer data center or of computer data center equipment, but does not include any of the following: (a) Project costs paid before a date determined by the tax credit authority for each capital investment project; (b) Pa...

...As used in sections 122.40 to 122.4077 of the Revised Code: (A) "Application" means an application made under section 122.4013 of the Revised Code for a program grant. (B) "Broadband funding gap" means the difference between the total amount of money a broadband provider calculates is necessary to construct the last mile of a specific broadband network and the total amount of money that the provider has determi...

...The director of development, with controlling board approval, may lend funds to any county, municipal corporation, or township or any other political subdivision of the state for the purpose of expediting the creation, location, or expansion of industrial, distribution, commercial, or research facilities in the state by the construction or installation of streets, sidewalks, storm sewers, sanitary sewers and sewage d...

...All revenue bonds issued under sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are lawful investments of banks, building and loan and savings and loan associations, deposit guarantee associations, trust companies, trustees, fiduciaries, trustees or other officers having charge of sinking or bond retirement funds of municipal corporations and other subdivisions of this state, and of domesti...

...As used in sections 122.60 to 122.605 of the Revised Code: (A) "Capital access loan" means a loan made by a participating financial institution to an eligible business that may be secured by a deposit of money from the fund into the participating financial institution's program reserve account. (B) "Eligible business" means a for-profit business entity, or a nonprofit entity, that had total annual sales in its mo...

...(A) As used in this section and section 122.6512 of the Revised Code: (1) "Brownfield" means an abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial, commercial, or institutional property where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by known or potential releases of hazardous substances or petroleum. (2) "Lead entity" means a county, township, municipal corporation, port authority, conservancy district, park district ...

...(A) Prior to designating a new community action agency or rescinding a community action agency's designation, the community services division shall: (1) Determine whether a community action agency is in compliance with section 122.69 of the Revised Code; (2) Consult with the chief elected officials of political subdivisions located within a community action agency's service area, and, in designating a new com...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Eligible applicant" means a person or a political subdivision. (2) "Eligible project" means a project that, upon completion, will be a site and facility primarily intended for commercial, industrial, or manufacturing use. "Eligible projects" do not include sites and facilities intended primarily for residential, retail, or government use. (3) "Person" has the same meaning as...

...Each state agency and any county, township, or municipal corporation owning, leasing, or controlling the operation of parking spaces for use by its employees may provide preferential parking for those vehicles used in carpools, vanpools, and buspools. The department of administrative services shall coordinate the efforts of the state agencies in providing preferential parking for such vehicles.

...wnship, municipal corporation, board of education of any school district, or any other body corporate and politic that is responsible for government activities in a geographic area smaller than that of the state. (6) "State funded" means funded in whole or in part through appropriation by the general assembly or through the use of any guarantee provided by this state. (7) "State institution of higher education" has...

...eater, and the provision of training or education in these arts; (2) The presentation or making available, in museums or other indoor or outdoor facilities, of principles of science and their development, use, or application in business, industry, or commerce or of the history, heritage, development, presentation, and uses of the arts described in division (A)(1) of this section and of transportation; (3) The prese...

...(A) The state personnel board of review shall exercise the following powers and perform the following duties: (1) Hear appeals, as provided by law, of employees in the classified state service from final decisions of appointing authorities or the director of administrative services relative to reduction in pay or position, job abolishments, layoff, suspension, discharge, assignment or reassignment to a new or diff...

...No person shall be appointed, removed, transferred, laid off, suspended, reinstated, promoted, or reduced as an officer or employee in the civil service, in any manner or by any means other than those prescribed in this chapter, and the rules of the director of administrative services for positions in the service of the state or the municipal or civil service township civil service commission within their respe...

...(A) The tenure of every officer or employee in the classified service of the state and the counties, civil service townships, cities, city health districts, general health districts, and city school districts of the state, holding a position under this chapter, shall be during good behavior and efficient service. No officer or employee shall be reduced in pay or position, fined, suspended, or removed, or have the off...

...(A) If an employee in the classified or unclassified civil service becomes aware in the course of employment of a violation of state or federal statutes, rules, or regulations or the misuse of public resources, and the employee's supervisor or appointing authority has authority to correct the violation or misuse, the employee may file a written report identifying the violation or misuse with the supervisor or ...

... public schools or any state supported educational institution when such public employee or teacher advocates or willfully retains membership in an organization which advocates overthrow of the government of the United States or of the state, by force, violence or other unlawful means. The procedure for the termination of a contract of a teacher under the provisions of this section shall be in the manner set ...

...ity; (C) Any employee of any board of education for whom sick leave is not provided by section 3319.141 of the Revised Code, provided that the employee is not a substitute, adult education instructor who is scheduled to work the full-time equivalent of less than one hundred twenty days per school year, or a person who is employed on an as-needed, seasonal, or intermittent basis. Employees may use sick leave, upon...

...As used in this section, "retirement" means disability or service retirement under any state or municipal retirement system in this state. (A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(3) of this section, an employee of a state college or university may elect, at the time of retirement from active service and with ten or more years of service with the state or any of its political subdivisions, to be paid in cash for on...

...Separate examinations shall be given and separate eligibility lists maintained by municipal and civil service township civil service commissions for original appointments to and promotions in fire and police departments in cities and civil service townships. No person may be transferred from one list to the other. Appointments and promotions in the departments shall be only from the separate eligible lists maintained...

...Within any rank, the municipal council or board of trustees of a civil service township may establish such special positions having special duties with preferential pay as the council or board deems necessary, but the holding of any such special positions shall not establish eligibility to the next higher rank to the exclusion of other persons in the same rank who do not hold such special positions. No special positi...